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... looked out in the Lagoons of Venice at that wavy floor which in evening seems a sea of glass mingled with fire , and out of which rise temples , and palaces , and churches , and distant silvery Alps , like so many fabrics of dream ...
... looked out in the Lagoons of Venice at that wavy floor which in evening seems a sea of glass mingled with fire , and out of which rise temples , and palaces , and churches , and distant silvery Alps , like so many fabrics of dream ...
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... looked so utterly alone and solitary in that wild , sea - girt island , that one would have as soon expected the sea - waves to rise and walk in , as so many neighbors ; but they had come from neighboring points , crossing the glassy ...
... looked so utterly alone and solitary in that wild , sea - girt island , that one would have as soon expected the sea - waves to rise and walk in , as so many neighbors ; but they had come from neighboring points , crossing the glassy ...
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... looked heavenward , his cheeks wet with tears , but some- thing sublime and immortal shining upward through his blue eyes ; and at the last verse he came forward involuntarily , and stood by his dead , and his voice rose over all the ...
... looked heavenward , his cheeks wet with tears , but some- thing sublime and immortal shining upward through his blue eyes ; and at the last verse he came forward involuntarily , and stood by his dead , and his voice rose over all the ...
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... looked , yet report said that there was good store within of that which men for the most part respect more than anything else ; and , indeed , it proved often when a deed of grace was to be done , - when a woman was suddenly made a ...
... looked , yet report said that there was good store within of that which men for the most part respect more than anything else ; and , indeed , it proved often when a deed of grace was to be done , - when a woman was suddenly made a ...
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... personage , plump and cushiony , revolved. around. her. as. a. humble. satellite . Miss. Roxy. looked. on. Miss Ruey as quite a frisky young thing , though under her. [. - 1 : ample frisette of carroty hair her head might THE PEARL OF ORR'S ...
... personage , plump and cushiony , revolved. around. her. as. a. humble. satellite . Miss. Roxy. looked. on. Miss Ruey as quite a frisky young thing , though under her. [. - 1 : ample frisette of carroty hair her head might THE PEARL OF ORR'S ...
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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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