Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 176William Blackwood, 1904 - England |
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... moment shrieks aloud With horror ; something clasped me , held me down To stifle and struggle . Oh , my God , my God , Some suffocating nightmare of the sea With human arms had gripped me ! Ay , you know Who that was ! No ; no ; no ...
... moment shrieks aloud With horror ; something clasped me , held me down To stifle and struggle . Oh , my God , my God , Some suffocating nightmare of the sea With human arms had gripped me ! Ay , you know Who that was ! No ; no ; no ...
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... moment the aspect of life had been changed . Ten minutes since , he had been glorying in the risk of a barely saved situation ; now that situa- tion , with its merely social com- plications , had become a matter of small importance ...
... moment the aspect of life had been changed . Ten minutes since , he had been glorying in the risk of a barely saved situation ; now that situa- tion , with its merely social com- plications , had become a matter of small importance ...
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... moment was his , and by sheer with men of his own calibre , he mastery of will he put other had learned his real weight on considerations out of sight . the day of his protest against He forgot Chilcote and for- the Easter adjournment ...
... moment was his , and by sheer with men of his own calibre , he mastery of will he put other had learned his real weight on considerations out of sight . the day of his protest against He forgot Chilcote and for- the Easter adjournment ...
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... moment of triumph and recompense , for the very unconsciousness of his coming doubled its value . He would sit for half an hour with a preoccupied glance , or pos- sibly with keen alert eyes fixed upon the fire , while his ideas sorted ...
... moment of triumph and recompense , for the very unconsciousness of his coming doubled its value . He would sit for half an hour with a preoccupied glance , or pos- sibly with keen alert eyes fixed upon the fire , while his ideas sorted ...
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... moment , his youth had returned to him ; he possessed the knowledge of work done , the sense of present companionship in a world of agreeable things - above all , the steady , quiet conviction of his own capacity . All these things came ...
... moment , his youth had returned to him ; he possessed the knowledge of work done , the sense of present companionship in a world of agreeable things - above all , the steady , quiet conviction of his own capacity . All these things came ...
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