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Clarendon Press, 1895 - 228 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 168 - a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who had lived and suffered death. Her couch was dressed with here and there some winterberries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to favour. " When I die, put near me something
الصفحة 170 - under the influence of chloroform, describe, who see all the operation, but do not feel the knife. This singular condition was not the result of any mental process. The shake annihilated fear, and allowed no sense of horror " in looking round at the beast. This peculiar state is probably produced in all animals killed
الصفحة 93 - an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, draw out without * breaking a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bubble in the air. It can embroider
الصفحة 170 - horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was
الصفحة 168 - finger would have crushed—was stirring nimbly in its cage ; and the strong heart of its child-mistress 6 was mute and motionless for ever ! Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings and fatigues? All gone'. Sorrow was dead, indeed
الصفحة 168 - Yes, the old fireside • had smiled upon that same sweet face ; it had passed like a dream through haunts of misery and care—at the door of the poor schoolmaster on the summer evening, before the furnace-fire upon the cold wet night, at the still bedside of the dying boy
الصفحة 178 - the fair fruits of peace and industry,plundering, ravaging, killing * without law, without justice, merely to gratify an insatiable lust for dominion ? All that I have done to a single district with a hundred followers, you have done to whole nations with a hundred thousand. If I have stripped individuals

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