A Book of Prose NarrativesChauncey Wetmore Wells Ginn, 1914 - 301 pages |
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... side of a mountain , and breaking what it meets of stones and trees before it , that they went to meet the men of Leinster at Rosnaree on the Boinne . And when Cairbre Niafer and his friends and his men saw them coming , they made ready ...
... side of a mountain , and breaking what it meets of stones and trees before it , that they went to meet the men of Leinster at Rosnaree on the Boinne . And when Cairbre Niafer and his friends and his men saw them coming , they made ready ...
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... side ; and when the men near him heard it their faces whitened , and each one of them went back to his place in the ... sides , and the shouting of young men , and the screams of old men , and the groaning of chariot - fighters , and the ...
... side ; and when the men near him heard it their faces whitened , and each one of them went back to his place in the ... sides , and the shouting of young men , and the screams of old men , and the groaning of chariot - fighters , and the ...
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... side it was as if singed and rubbed ; so there whereas it was rubbed she let cut a little flat space ; and then she took her knife and cut runes on the root , and made them red with her blood , and sang witch- words over them ; then she ...
... side it was as if singed and rubbed ; so there whereas it was rubbed she let cut a little flat space ; and then she took her knife and cut runes on the root , and made them red with her blood , and sang witch- words over them ; then she ...
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... side for men ; but speedy answer there came that none of those who had given up their shares would do aught to ease his task , and they said that Thorbiorn should have to himself both the owning of the island and the onset on Grettir ...
... side for men ; but speedy answer there came that none of those who had given up their shares would do aught to ease his task , and they said that Thorbiorn should have to himself both the owning of the island and the onset on Grettir ...
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... side , so that the man fell asunder , and the body so smitten atwain tumbled over on to Grettir , and for that cause he might not heave aloft the short - sword as speedily as he would , and therewith Thorbiorn Angle thrust him betwixt ...
... side , so that the man fell asunder , and the body so smitten atwain tumbled over on to Grettir , and for that cause he might not heave aloft the short - sword as speedily as he would , and therewith Thorbiorn Angle thrust him betwixt ...
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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 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 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 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 244 - If she lived, doubtless we must have been sometimes in search of each other, at the very same moment, through the mighty labyrinths of London ; perhaps even within a few feet of each other — a barrier no wider in a London street, often amounting in the end to a separation for eternity...
Page 210 - At length, a fresh difference arising between my brother and me, I took upon me to assert my freedom, presuming that he would not venture to produce the new indentures. It was not fair in me to take this advantage, and this I therefore reckon one of the first errata of my life...
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.