A Book of Prose NarrativesChauncey Wetmore Wells Ginn, 1914 - 301 pages |
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... Thorbiorn Angle , a man of good house , but violent , un- popular , and unscrupulous . This man after trying the obvious ways of persuasion , cajolery , and assassination for getting the island into his hands , at last , with the help ...
... Thorbiorn Angle , a man of good house , but violent , un- popular , and unscrupulous . This man after trying the obvious ways of persuasion , cajolery , and assassination for getting the island into his hands , at last , with the help ...
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... Thorbiorn said that he knew not if that would come to aught ; but the carline answered that he should wot better anon . Now the wind blew landward up the firth , yet the carline's root went in the teeth of the wind , and belike it ...
... Thorbiorn said that he knew not if that would come to aught ; but the carline answered that he should wot better anon . Now the wind blew landward up the firth , yet the carline's root went in the teeth of the wind , and belike it ...
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... Thorbiorn Arnor's son , men said , Of no great deed was afraid , Folk spake of him far and wide ; He forbade me to abide Longer on the lovely earth ; Yet his heart was little worth , Not more safe alone was I , Than when armed he drew a ...
... Thorbiorn Arnor's son , men said , Of no great deed was afraid , Folk spake of him far and wide ; He forbade me to abide Longer on the lovely earth ; Yet his heart was little worth , Not more safe alone was I , Than when armed he drew a ...
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... THORBIORN ANGLE GATHERED FORCE AND SET SAIL FOR DRANGEY Thorbiorn Angle sat this while at home at Woodwick , and was ill - content in that he might not win Grettir ; but when a certain space had passed since the carline had put the ...
... THORBIORN ANGLE GATHERED FORCE AND SET SAIL FOR DRANGEY Thorbiorn Angle sat this while at home at Woodwick , and was ill - content in that he might not win Grettir ; but when a certain space had passed since the carline had put the ...
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... Thorbiorn deemed it might well be that the carline saw further than he had thought she might , and straightway sent up into the country - side for men ; but speedy answer there came that none of those who had given up their shares would ...
... Thorbiorn deemed it might well be that the carline saw further than he had thought she might , and straightway sent up into the country - side for men ; but speedy answer there came that none of those who had given up their shares would ...
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Page 5 - And he answered, I have not troubled Israel ; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalam.
Page 6 - And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name...
Page 5 - And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.
Page 261 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 3 - Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. 31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians...
Page 12 - As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el. And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will take away thy master from thy head to day?
Page 8 - Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him, Elijah casts his mantle upon Elisha.
Page 214 - Second-street, and ask'd for bisket, intending such as we had in Boston; but they, it seems, were not made in Philadelphia. Then I asked for a three-penny loaf, and was told they had none such. So not considering or knowing the difference of money, and the greater cheapness nor the names of his bread, I bade him give me three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great puffy rolls. I was...
Page 8 - Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake In pieces the rocks before the Lord : but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake : " And after the earthquake a .fire : but the Lord was not in the fire : and after the fire a still small voice.
Page 12 - And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him. And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness...