The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with Cursory Observations |
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... Antiquities , .......... Death of a Cynic , .......... Authors , ......... The Sibylline Books , ..................... . .134 ...... 136 ..... 140 ... 142 The Last Day of the Romans , ............... 144 . XIV . Neglected Poets , ...
... Antiquities , .......... Death of a Cynic , .......... Authors , ......... The Sibylline Books , ..................... . .134 ...... 136 ..... 140 ... 142 The Last Day of the Romans , ............... 144 . XIV . Neglected Poets , ...
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... break through the battalion which surrounded them : perhaps they hoped that , in dispersing themselves over the plains which they were crossing , a certain number might escape death . Every means had been taken to CALAMITIES . 29.
... break through the battalion which surrounded them : perhaps they hoped that , in dispersing themselves over the plains which they were crossing , a certain number might escape death . Every means had been taken to CALAMITIES . 29.
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... death . Every means had been taken to prevent this , and the Turks made no attempt to escape . Having reached the sand - hills to the south - west of Jaffa , they were halted near a pool of stagnant water . Then the officer who ...
... death . Every means had been taken to prevent this , and the Turks made no attempt to escape . Having reached the sand - hills to the south - west of Jaffa , they were halted near a pool of stagnant water . Then the officer who ...
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... death even when we have no longer a hope of escaping it , strove to get one behind another , and received in their limbs the blows aimed at the heart , which would at once have terminated their wretched lives . Then was there formed ...
... death even when we have no longer a hope of escaping it , strove to get one behind another , and received in their limbs the blows aimed at the heart , which would at once have terminated their wretched lives . Then was there formed ...
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... death that was to come ; Yet cried they out like vultures , and urged on , As if they would precipitate our fates . Nor stay'd we longer for ' em , but himself Struck the first stroke , and with it fled a life , Which out , it seem'd a ...
... death that was to come ; Yet cried they out like vultures , and urged on , As if they would precipitate our fates . Nor stay'd we longer for ' em , but himself Struck the first stroke , and with it fled a life , Which out , it seem'd a ...
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