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... face of a cherub child I call my own - the lashes are like dark curtains fringing their lids , and the eyes are an exact image of eyes that will haunt me forever they are brilliant and soft , expressive yet mild , winning yet reso- lute ...
... face of a cherub child I call my own - the lashes are like dark curtains fringing their lids , and the eyes are an exact image of eyes that will haunt me forever they are brilliant and soft , expressive yet mild , winning yet reso- lute ...
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... face with such an eager , curious expression . Her nose was long and prominent , her eyes deep set , yet full and piercing . As he entered the door , she muttered between her half - closed teeth , " Yes , he is a lawyer . " She paused a ...
... face with such an eager , curious expression . Her nose was long and prominent , her eyes deep set , yet full and piercing . As he entered the door , she muttered between her half - closed teeth , " Yes , he is a lawyer . " She paused a ...
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... face , " thought Mr. Douglass , wiping his spectacles , as the lady , plainly dressed in black , bent over the document he had requested her to sign and wrote in a firm legible hand , CAROLINE STUART . ' " " 66 There was nothing unusual ...
... face , " thought Mr. Douglass , wiping his spectacles , as the lady , plainly dressed in black , bent over the document he had requested her to sign and wrote in a firm legible hand , CAROLINE STUART . ' " " 66 There was nothing unusual ...
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... face dawned on his ex- pectant vision - but no deponent hath ever said how many papers he did not serve at the right time , or how many small bills he collected on his own account . Mr. Douglass brushed his hair , caressed his whiskers ...
... face dawned on his ex- pectant vision - but no deponent hath ever said how many papers he did not serve at the right time , or how many small bills he collected on his own account . Mr. Douglass brushed his hair , caressed his whiskers ...
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... face was growing paler , but after some more talk about New Orleans , burials , etc. , she suddenly took from under ... face , placed a bottle on the mantlepiece . Child as she was , she noticed her mother's pale face , and wished the ...
... face was growing paler , but after some more talk about New Orleans , burials , etc. , she suddenly took from under ... face , placed a bottle on the mantlepiece . Child as she was , she noticed her mother's pale face , and wished the ...
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Page 158 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 261 - Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind, Sight, riches, healing of the mind, Yea, all I need, in Thee to find, O Lamb of God, I come ! 5 Just as I am, Thou wilt receive, Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve.
Page 275 - Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volleyed and thundered...
Page 252 - In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, Over the brink of it, — Picture it, think of it, Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!
Page 3 - We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits . . so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
Page 256 - The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tears ; And weary hours of woe and pain '. Are promises of happier years.
Page 261 - Just as I am (Thy love unknown Has broken every barrier down), Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone, O Lamb of God, I come...
Page 307 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray ; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven. If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still, of countless price, God will provide for sacrifice.
Page 260 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Page 270 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.