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... step ; as he was talking to the coachman about the stowage of his luggage , I caught a glimpse of his face from the strong glare thrown on it by the coach - lamp , and could perceive that , though handsome , it was sharp , thin , and ...
... step ; as he was talking to the coachman about the stowage of his luggage , I caught a glimpse of his face from the strong glare thrown on it by the coach - lamp , and could perceive that , though handsome , it was sharp , thin , and ...
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... step the he had just separated from . person " He is a lost man , " muttered the stranger ; 66 my information was but too true . ' Tis well he has not the despatches , though they could make nothing of them even if they had got them ...
... step the he had just separated from . person " He is a lost man , " muttered the stranger ; 66 my information was but too true . ' Tis well he has not the despatches , though they could make nothing of them even if they had got them ...
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... steps . Some unaccountable feel- ing of despondency , to which he had before been a stranger , seemed to paralyse his movements— a hallucination of some kind seemed to lethar- gize his senses - from which he was not even aroused by the ...
... steps . Some unaccountable feel- ing of despondency , to which he had before been a stranger , seemed to paralyse his movements— a hallucination of some kind seemed to lethar- gize his senses - from which he was not even aroused by the ...
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... experience had in similar cases imparted , enabled him to catch the sound , however muf- fled in the fallen element , of the tread of foot- steps in quick pursuit ; this soon amounted to certainty 26 IERNE . CHAPTER II. ...
... experience had in similar cases imparted , enabled him to catch the sound , however muf- fled in the fallen element , of the tread of foot- steps in quick pursuit ; this soon amounted to certainty 26 IERNE . CHAPTER II. ...
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... steps , and had just time to insert the key into the door and open it , when his pursuer , who had never lost sight of him , rushed on him with the impetuosity of a hawk darting down on its quarry , and with such violence as to ...
... steps , and had just time to insert the key into the door and open it , when his pursuer , who had never lost sight of him , rushed on him with the impetuosity of a hawk darting down on its quarry , and with such violence as to ...
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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.