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... head among them . They wear the beard upon the chin , but not upon the upper lip , and allow it to grow to such a length as enables them to champ and chew it when excited by rage , an action which they accompany with spitting it out ...
... head among them . They wear the beard upon the chin , but not upon the upper lip , and allow it to grow to such a length as enables them to champ and chew it when excited by rage , an action which they accompany with spitting it out ...
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... head . A canoe came up , contain- ing ten or twelve Indians , who approached extending their arms , exhibiting ... heads of all their victims , the Indians proceeded to another island , where the women were , which they called Pullan ...
... head . A canoe came up , contain- ing ten or twelve Indians , who approached extending their arms , exhibiting ... heads of all their victims , the Indians proceeded to another island , where the women were , which they called Pullan ...
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... head round to look after my followers , when I was suddenly staggered by a violent and piercing blow about the left shoulder ; and ere the dart had ceased to quiver in its des- tined mark , a loud long yell , such as the savage only can ...
... head round to look after my followers , when I was suddenly staggered by a violent and piercing blow about the left shoulder ; and ere the dart had ceased to quiver in its des- tined mark , a loud long yell , such as the savage only can ...
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... head of the valley , which had excited their hopes and fears from the surrounding precipices . The physical obstacles thus surmounted , the all - important question of Happar or Typee once more arose . The alternative was fearful : " A ...
... head of the valley , which had excited their hopes and fears from the surrounding precipices . The physical obstacles thus surmounted , the all - important question of Happar or Typee once more arose . The alternative was fearful : " A ...
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... head of the house , Marhego by name , was a decrepid old native of " gigantic frame , and once possessed of prodigious per- sonal powers . He was completely in his dotage , but was of a noble and benevolent nature . His son Kory Kory ...
... head of the house , Marhego by name , was a decrepid old native of " gigantic frame , and once possessed of prodigious per- sonal powers . He was completely in his dotage , but was of a noble and benevolent nature . His son Kory Kory ...
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Page 195 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday!
Page 191 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 195 - How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Page 447 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 195 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 193 - And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; So he shall open, and none shall shut; And he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 218 - Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement, but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 371 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 20 - COURAGE!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 194 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...