Taken Alive: And Other Stories : with an AutobiographyDodd, Mead,, 1889 - 375 pages |
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... strong fancy reproducing the scenes they described . A stirring bit of history moved her deeply . Well do I remember , when a boy , of reading to her a chapter from Motley's " Dutch Republic , " and of witnessing in her flushed cheeks ...
... strong fancy reproducing the scenes they described . A stirring bit of history moved her deeply . Well do I remember , when a boy , of reading to her a chapter from Motley's " Dutch Republic , " and of witnessing in her flushed cheeks ...
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... strong tides are continually making changes in the ice . When told that he might be sent to jail for his defiance of the Fugitive Slave Law , he quietly answered , " I can go to jail . " The thing he could not do was to deny the man's ...
... strong tides are continually making changes in the ice . When told that he might be sent to jail for his defiance of the Fugitive Slave Law , he quietly answered , " I can go to jail . " The thing he could not do was to deny the man's ...
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... strong assertion of individuality . Certainly , if I had my choice , I would rather write a book interesting to the young and to the common people , whom Lincoln said " God must love , since He made so many of them . " The former are ...
... strong assertion of individuality . Certainly , if I had my choice , I would rather write a book interesting to the young and to the common people , whom Lincoln said " God must love , since He made so many of them . " The former are ...
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... strong , resolute face , now elo- quent with deep feeling , was not one upon which a girl I could look with indifference . Clara's words , however , re- vealed the apparent hopelessness of his suit . " It's of no use , Ralph , " she ...
... strong , resolute face , now elo- quent with deep feeling , was not one upon which a girl I could look with indifference . Clara's words , however , re- vealed the apparent hopelessness of his suit . " It's of no use , Ralph , " she ...
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... strong hopeful spirit , and almost before she was aware of it , she too began to hope . Chief of all , his manly tenderness and unbargaining love stole into her heart like a subtle balm ; and responsive love , the most potent of ...
... strong hopeful spirit , and almost before she was aware of it , she too began to hope . Chief of all , his manly tenderness and unbargaining love stole into her heart like a subtle balm ; and responsive love , the most potent of ...
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