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... hand , saying that my father was one of his oldest friends , having been class fellows at school and college ; when informed of his death , a gloom again came over him . " I have been , sir , " said he , " many years out of this kingdom ...
... hand , saying that my father was one of his oldest friends , having been class fellows at school and college ; when informed of his death , a gloom again came over him . " I have been , sir , " said he , " many years out of this kingdom ...
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... hands of which indicated that he had but half - an - hour for the execution of any purpose he might have in view . He was a low - sized , square - built man , of great apparent strength , habited in a large out- side 16 IERNE .
... hands of which indicated that he had but half - an - hour for the execution of any purpose he might have in view . He was a low - sized , square - built man , of great apparent strength , habited in a large out- side 16 IERNE .
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... hand to break the rule of the Sassenach tyrant . " " Have you , " said the former person , " the sign and pass - word ? " " I have , " replied the other . " Give them , " said the stranger . The former person then whispered in his ear ...
... hand to break the rule of the Sassenach tyrant . " " Have you , " said the former person , " the sign and pass - word ? " " I have , " replied the other . " Give them , " said the stranger . The former person then whispered in his ear ...
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... hand across the back of the left , he received in return the same sign reversed on the palm of the other's . " Peter M'Finn , I presume ? " said the stranger . " The same , " replied he ; " and you , I sup- pose , are- 19 " A secret ...
... hand across the back of the left , he received in return the same sign reversed on the palm of the other's . " Peter M'Finn , I presume ? " said the stranger . " The same , " replied he ; " and you , I sup- pose , are- 19 " A secret ...
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... hand , and received in return the other . " The Provincial Committee sitting here , " con- tinued the stranger , " will give you further di- rections , and provide you with the funds I have before alluded to . Here also is a pocket ...
... hand , and received in return the other . " The Provincial Committee sitting here , " con- tinued the stranger , " will give you further di- rections , and provide you with the funds I have before alluded to . Here also is a pocket ...
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Page 223 - Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
Page 76 - If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Page 45 - The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 128 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone...
Page 90 - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out.
Page 121 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Page 286 - Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Page 4 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.
Page 223 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 27 - But, see, his face is black, and full of blood ; His eyeballs further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man ; His hair upreared, his nostrils stretched with struggling ; His hands abroad displayed, as one that grasped And tugged for life, and was by strength subdued.