Cooper's Novels, Volume 5Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... course , an event like this , in a town of some three or four thousand souls , would be likely to draw a due proportion of the gentler sex to the heights . Most of them contrived to get as near as possible to the aged seaman , in order ...
... course , an event like this , in a town of some three or four thousand souls , would be likely to draw a due proportion of the gentler sex to the heights . Most of them contrived to get as near as possible to the aged seaman , in order ...
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... course , if any girl in Porto Ferrajo could imagine the character of the stranger , it must be Ghita ; and it was on this supposi- tion that she had unwittingly , and , if the truth must be owned , unwillingly , collected around her a ...
... course , if any girl in Porto Ferrajo could imagine the character of the stranger , it must be Ghita ; and it was on this supposi- tion that she had unwittingly , and , if the truth must be owned , unwillingly , collected around her a ...
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... course , hauling to the wind , and then fall- ing off again , like a dolphin at its sports , when the radiance of the pleasure that glowed about her soft blue eyes , rendered the girl perfectly beautiful . But none of these passing ...
... course , hauling to the wind , and then fall- ing off again , like a dolphin at its sports , when the radiance of the pleasure that glowed about her soft blue eyes , rendered the girl perfectly beautiful . But none of these passing ...
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... course once more in the direction of the entrance of the Canal . This drew another shot , which effectually justified the magistrate's eulogy , for it certainly flew as much ahead of the stranger , as the first had flown astern ...
... course once more in the direction of the entrance of the Canal . This drew another shot , which effectually justified the magistrate's eulogy , for it certainly flew as much ahead of the stranger , as the first had flown astern ...
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... course , and this so easily and gracefully , as to render her deviations and inclinations like those of the duck . In her present situation , too , the jigger , which was brailed , and hung festooned from its light yard , ready for use ...
... course , and this so easily and gracefully , as to render her deviations and inclinations like those of the duck . In her present situation , too , the jigger , which was brailed , and hung festooned from its light yard , ready for use ...
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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...