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... rose on a great wave clear out of the water , and the next second seemed to leap with a desperate plunge into the narrow passage ; for a moment there was a shivering of the masts and the rigging , and she went down and was gone . " They ...
... rose on a great wave clear out of the water , and the next second seemed to leap with a desperate plunge into the narrow passage ; for a moment there was a shivering of the masts and the rigging , and she went down and was gone . " They ...
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... rose and said , " The ordinance of baptism will now be administered . " A few moments more , and on a baby brow had fallen a few drops of water , and the little pilgrim of a new life had been called Mara in the name of the Father , Son ...
... rose and said , " The ordinance of baptism will now be administered . " A few moments more , and on a baby brow had fallen a few drops of water , and the little pilgrim of a new life had been called Mara in the name of the Father , Son ...
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... rose in old " China , " - that strange , wild warble , whose quaintly blended harmonies might have been learned of moaning seas or wailing winds , so strange and grand they rose , full of that intense pathos which rises over every ...
... rose in old " China , " - that strange , wild warble , whose quaintly blended harmonies might have been learned of moaning seas or wailing winds , so strange and grand they rose , full of that intense pathos which rises over every ...
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... rose ferns which autumn had just begun to tinge with yellow and brown . The little knoll where the cottage stood , had on its right hand a tiny bay , where the ocean water made up amid picturesque rocks - shaggy and solemn . Here trees ...
... rose ferns which autumn had just begun to tinge with yellow and brown . The little knoll where the cottage stood , had on its right hand a tiny bay , where the ocean water made up amid picturesque rocks - shaggy and solemn . Here trees ...
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... rose to pay her respects to the " cunning woman of the neighborhood . دو " Well , now , Miss Roxy , I was ' mazin ' afraid you wer'n't a - comin ' . I'd just been an ' got my silk ripped up , and did n't know how to get a step farther ...
... rose to pay her respects to the " cunning woman of the neighborhood . دو " Well , now , Miss Roxy , I was ' mazin ' afraid you wer'n't a - comin ' . I'd just been an ' got my silk ripped up , and did n't know how to get a step farther ...
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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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