American Heritage: An Anthology and Interpretive Survey of Our LiteratureLeon Howard Heath, 1955 - American literature |
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... feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders , On a bank lounged the trapper , he was drest mostly in skins , his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck , he held his bride by the hand , She had long eyelashes , her ...
... feet and large thick blankets hanging from their shoulders , On a bank lounged the trapper , he was drest mostly in skins , his luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck , he held his bride by the hand , She had long eyelashes , her ...
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... feet and skeleton - hands , -with crustaceous white growths clinging to them here and there like remnants of integument . These are bodies and limbs of drowned oaks , so long drowned that the shell - scurf is inch - thick upon parts of ...
... feet and skeleton - hands , -with crustaceous white growths clinging to them here and there like remnants of integument . These are bodies and limbs of drowned oaks , so long drowned that the shell - scurf is inch - thick upon parts of ...
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... feet , and she could touch the stone roof with her finger - tips . This was her old idea : a nest in a high cliff , full of sun . All morning long the sun beat upon her cliff , while the ruins on the opposite side of the canyon were in ...
... feet , and she could touch the stone roof with her finger - tips . This was her old idea : a nest in a high cliff , full of sun . All morning long the sun beat upon her cliff , while the ruins on the opposite side of the canyon were in ...
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The New England Brahmins | 3 |
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW | 9 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | 29 |
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