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... hair , bronzed , weather - beaten cheeks , and a face deeply lined with the furrows of shrewd thought and anxious care , were points of the portrait that made themselves felt at a glance . By his side sat a young woman of two - and ...
... hair , bronzed , weather - beaten cheeks , and a face deeply lined with the furrows of shrewd thought and anxious care , were points of the portrait that made themselves felt at a glance . By his side sat a young woman of two - and ...
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... hair under a crystal . All his clothing , as well as his hair , was saturated with sea - water , which trickled from time to time , and struck with a leaden and dropping sound into a sullen pool which lay under the table . This was the ...
... hair under a crystal . All his clothing , as well as his hair , was saturated with sea - water , which trickled from time to time , and struck with a leaden and dropping sound into a sullen pool which lay under the table . This was the ...
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... hair , and they that looked beheld his face as it were the face of an angel ; he had gotten a sight of the city whose founda- tion is jasper , and whose every gate is a separate pearl . : CHAPTER IV . THE sea lay like an unbroken mirror ...
... hair , and they that looked beheld his face as it were the face of an angel ; he had gotten a sight of the city whose founda- tion is jasper , and whose every gate is a separate pearl . : CHAPTER IV . THE sea lay like an unbroken mirror ...
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... hair once black , but now well streaked with gray . These ravages of time , however , were concealed by an ample mohair frisette of glossy blackness woven on each side into a heap of stiff little curls , which pushed up her cap border ...
... hair once black , but now well streaked with gray . These ravages of time , however , were concealed by an ample mohair frisette of glossy blackness woven on each side into a heap of stiff little curls , which pushed up her cap border ...
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... hair her head might be seen white with the same snow that had powdered that of her sister . Aunt Ruey had a face much resembling the kind of one you may see , reader , by looking at yourself in the convex side of a silver milk - pitcher ...
... hair her head might be seen white with the same snow that had powdered that of her sister . Aunt Ruey had a face much resembling the kind of one you may see , reader , by looking at yourself in the convex side of a silver milk - pitcher ...
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The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe No preview available - 2015 |
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