Cooper's Novels, Volume 5Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... answered Signor Viti , in a protecting manner , and with an affable smile , " as this is not an affair that is likely to go to the higher courts at Florence , your explanations may be taken as sufficient , and I have no wish to disturb ...
... answered Signor Viti , in a protecting manner , and with an affable smile , " as this is not an affair that is likely to go to the higher courts at Florence , your explanations may be taken as sufficient , and I have no wish to disturb ...
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... answered the magistrate , with a bland smile , and an exulting gesture . " It is well for Europe that the grand duchy is so small , since such troops might prove even more troublesome than the French ! " Ghita , however , paid no ...
... answered the magistrate , with a bland smile , and an exulting gesture . " It is well for Europe that the grand duchy is so small , since such troops might prove even more troublesome than the French ! " Ghita , however , paid no ...
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... answered the magis- trate , gesticulating on a large scale , and opening his eyes by way of accompaniments . " General Bonaparte , he who had been playing the devil in the Milanese , and the states of the Pope , for the last two years ...
... answered the magis- trate , gesticulating on a large scale , and opening his eyes by way of accompaniments . " General Bonaparte , he who had been playing the devil in the Milanese , and the states of the Pope , for the last two years ...
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... answered in a way to satisfy all scruples for the moment . The " From whence came ye ? " asked , how- ever , in an Italian idiom , had been answered by " Inghilterra , touching at Lisbon and Gibraltar , " all regions beyond dis- trust ...
... answered in a way to satisfy all scruples for the moment . The " From whence came ye ? " asked , how- ever , in an Italian idiom , had been answered by " Inghilterra , touching at Lisbon and Gibraltar , " all regions beyond dis- trust ...
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... answered the other , laughing , " friend of mine , if you can tell the precise day when brandy and laces were first smuggled from France into my country , I will answer your question . I think you have never navigated as far north as ...
... answered the other , laughing , " friend of mine , if you can tell the precise day when brandy and laces were first smuggled from France into my country , I will answer your question . I think you have never navigated as far north as ...
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Page 7 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar Comes down upon the waters, all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse ; And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 168 - Returned the Chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : — "Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Page 156 - Wearied, I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 104 - He saw with his own eyes the moon was round, Was also certain that the earth was square, Because he had journey'd fifty miles, and found No sign that it was circular anywhere...