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... heart ; the hands sometimes folded and gently sinking in front of the body . Example .- " I humbly thank your Grace ! " - DEFIANCE . When ( 1. ) it anticipates being attacked , braces itself in the attitude of resistance , inclining ...
... heart ; the hands sometimes folded and gently sinking in front of the body . Example .- " I humbly thank your Grace ! " - DEFIANCE . When ( 1. ) it anticipates being attacked , braces itself in the attitude of resistance , inclining ...
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... heart . If the friend who embraced in prosperity's glow , With a smile for each joy and a tear for each woe , Should betray thee when sorrows like clouds are arrayed , " Look aloft ! " to the friendship which never can fade . Should the ...
... heart . If the friend who embraced in prosperity's glow , With a smile for each joy and a tear for each woe , Should betray thee when sorrows like clouds are arrayed , " Look aloft ! " to the friendship which never can fade . Should the ...
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... heart was hot within him , Like a living coal his heart was . But the ruler of the West - Wind Blew the fragments backward from him , With the breathing of his nostrils , With the tempest of his anger , Blew them back at his assailant ...
... heart was hot within him , Like a living coal his heart was . But the ruler of the West - Wind Blew the fragments backward from him , With the breathing of his nostrils , With the tempest of his anger , Blew them back at his assailant ...
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... heart and a soul , To look on thy greatness And list to its roll , To think how that heart In cold ashes shall be , While the voice of Eternity Rises from thee ! Yes ! where are the cities . Of Thebes and of Tyre ? · Swept from the ...
... heart and a soul , To look on thy greatness And list to its roll , To think how that heart In cold ashes shall be , While the voice of Eternity Rises from thee ! Yes ! where are the cities . Of Thebes and of Tyre ? · Swept from the ...
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... hearts , we will wait for the September gales to have done with their equinoctial fury , and then we will embark ; we ... heart - loved homes . And so the throng streamed along from Berlin , from Paris , from the Orient , converging upon ...
... hearts , we will wait for the September gales to have done with their equinoctial fury , and then we will embark ; we ... heart - loved homes . And so the throng streamed along from Berlin , from Paris , from the Orient , converging upon ...
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