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http://www.archive.org/download/outline_science_mfs_0807_librivox/outlinesciencev1_03_thomson_64kb.mp3

here the physiological difference does not affect the body as a whole but the reproductive organs or gonads only though more intimate physiology would doubtless discover differences in the blood or in the chemical routine metabolism

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As the floor of the sea in these shallow areas was raised higher and higher, there was a beginning of dry land. The sedentary plants already spoken of were the ancestors of the shore seaweeds.

http://www.archive.org/download/lives_of_twelve_caesars_0810_librivox1/the12caesars_24_suetonius_64kb.mp3

it is certain that he never gave or vouchsafed to allow any one the customary kiss either on entering or departing or even returned a salute and at the inauguration of a work the cut through the isthmus he with a loud voice amidst the assembled multitude uttered a prayer

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Noster Erit. Paean Ille Ekataebeletaes his lyre to harmony. Our Nero strings his arrows o'er the plain, the parthian wings ours call the tuneful Paean, famed in war. The other Phoebus name: the god who shoots afar.

http://www.archive.org/download/adventuresoldmrtoad_1412_librivox/adventuresofoldmrtoad_02_burgess_64kb.mp3

old mr toad filled out his queer music bag under his chin and began to sing again peter watched him now it just happened that old mr toad was facing him

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And so Peter looked down straight into his eyes. He never had looked into Mr Toad's eyes before, and now he just stared and stared, for it came over him that those eyes were very beautiful, very beautiful indeed.

http://www.archive.org/download/principles_political_economy_1812_librivox/principlesofpoliticaleconomy_36_mill_64kb.mp3

but all the cloth being made in the united states and all the wine in spain they are in circumstances to which we have already determined that the law of cost of production is not applicable

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And this was precisely what happened, from eighteen, seventy seven to eighteen, seventy nine now in the above illustration of corn and iron. How can we know whether or not x bushels of corn, the produce of one hundred days, labor in the United States?

http://www.archive.org/download/one_of_28th_1008_librivox/oneofthe28th_18_henty_64kb.mp3

his aid-de-camp leaped off and threw his cloak over him as the cuirassiers came thundering past intent upon overtaking the prussian cavalry they paid no attention to the solitary dismounted man and a few minutes later again passed the spot this time in retreat a fresh party of prussian cavalry having met them

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Rain had fallen for a time during the afternoon of the battle and now, at four o'clock, it again began to come down, heavily, soaking the troops to the skin. This is miserable, Stapleton Ralph said to his friend after the regiment had piled arms on the ground, pointed out to them by the officers of the quartermaster's department.

http://www.archive.org/download/philippics_cicero_0907_librivox2/phillipics_13_cicero_64kb.mp3

for without money he could not have supported an army nor without an army could he have taken your brother prisoner you have praised the execution of paetus and menedemus men who had been presented with the freedom of the city and who were united by ties of hospitality to caesar

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Then, as he was making his way into Gaul, Decimus Brutus opposed him, who preferred being himself surrounded by the waves of the whole war to allowing him either to retreat or advance, and who put Mutina on him as a sort of bridle to his exultation.

http://www.archive.org/download/the_jesus_of_history_1907_librivox/jesusofhistory_08_glover_64kb.mp3

that was how he felt worn out betrayed spat upon rejected we feel that god was more there than ever

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And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem and Jesus was moving on before them and they began to wonder and as they followed they began to be afraid he is moving to Jerusalem with a purpose.

http://www.archive.org/download/appreciations_criticisms_dickens_0809_librivox1/appreciations_04_gkchesterton_64kb.mp3

dickens i say is a case for this primary query whether there was in the first work any clear sign of his higher creative spirit but dickens is much less a case for this query than almost all the other great men of his period

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And with a number of short stories which err on the side of the extravagant and even the superficial journalism, had not then, indeed, sunk to the low level which it has since reached. His sketches of dirty London would not have been dirty enough for the modern imperialist press.

http://www.archive.org/download/windsor_castle_book2_1302_librivox/windsorcastle2_02_ainsworth_64kb.mp3

i am glad to hear it replied mabel and i must own i formed the same opinion myself for the smile he threw upon me was one of the sweetest and kindliest i ever beheld

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A few yards beyond the boathouse, the brook before mentioned emptied its waters into the lake. Gazing with much internal satisfaction at the hut, Wolsey Bade Patch dismount and ascertain whether Mabel was within the buffoon. Obeyed, tried the door and finding it fastened, knocked, but to no purpose.

http://www.archive.org/download/cleopatra_1710_librivox/cleopatra_27_ebers_64kb.mp3

you are thinking said octavianus harshly of one who perhaps would still be among us if with wiser caution cleopatras eyes which hitherto had met the victor's cold gaze with

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Though the youth found her only a mourning widow, ill in body and mind, he was so strongly attracted and deeply moved by her beauty, her brilliant intellect, her grace of bearing her misfortunes and sufferings, that he

http://www.archive.org/download/henrymartyn_1810_librivox/henrymartyn_13_hall_64kb.mp3

devotions md what place is this it is a holy place come in md what advantage will arise from my going in stranger why every body goes md though every body should act senselessly why should i

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A duel. You add the name of Aububeckar to that of Mohammed, so that by your own confession that is added since Mohammed's time. Some of them now suspected and inquired if he were not such an one.

http://www.archive.org/download/understanding_climatic_change_1903_librivox/understandingclimaticchange_03_usgarp_64kb.mp3

the lithosphere which consists of the land masses over the surface of the earth includes the mountains and ocean basins together with the surface rock sediments and soil

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These features change over the longest time scales of all the components of the climatic system, ranging up to the age of the earth itself, the processes of continental drift and sea- floor spreading, which have resulted in mountain building and in changes in the shapes and depths of the oceans.

http://www.archive.org/download/nansherwoodlakeviewhall_1807_librivox/nansherwoodlakeviewhall_10_carr_64kb.mp3

nan declared that was a perfectly ridiculous story laura told us about the food being so poor and scanty and we should not have believed it

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I'm awfully sorry, dear, forgive me, she said, just as though the fault was all hers. Bess broke down and wet nan's shoulder with her angry tears, but they were a relief.

http://www.archive.org/download/amelia1_1311_librivox/amelia_26_fielding_64kb.mp3

answers of the same kind i had from several others but not one penny could i borrow of any for i have been since firmly persuaded that the honest colonel was not content with denying me himself but took effectual means by spreading the secret i had so foolishly trusted him with

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I thought so myself, answered Booth, and yet i know, not on a more strict examination into the matter, why we should be more surprised to see greatness of mind discover itself in one degree or rank of life than in another.

http://www.archive.org/download/vanityfair_version2_1704_librivox/vanityfair_44_thackeray_64kb.mp3

and how mum and stupid his own wife was compared to that brilliant little becky becky had hinted every one of these things herself perhaps but so delicately and gently that you hardly knew when or where

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So you see Molly, the housemaid of a morning, watching a spider in the doorpost lay his thread and laboriously crawl up it until, tired of the sport, she raises her broom and sweeps away the thread and the artificer.

http://www.archive.org/download/uncle_remus_1112_librivox/uncleremusreturns_00_harris_64kb.mp3

it seemed a pity that these delightful tales co frcmtlu lips of the childrercs dear old friend co preface uncle remus should lie forgotten between the pages of a magazine y so they have been brought together in company with some char acter sketches of the old man who recounted them

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The briefs but vivid and amusing glimpses of Uncle Remuss personality contained in the latter may serve as a slight but suggestive background for the tales themselves.

http://www.archive.org/download/pavedwithgold_1607_librivox/pavedwithgold_31_mayhew_64kb.mp3

by three o'clock boxes of linen to the amount of four hundred pounds had already been selected they only retired for a few moments to a private room upstairs to partake of a little lunch of sherry and lobster

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A van had been engaged and whilst the heavy bales were being carted, Monsieur Chose was settling about the payment of them. As usual, he gave a bill at two months for half the amount.

http://www.archive.org/download/abraham_lincoln_a_history_3_1607_librivox/abrahamlincolnahistory3_06_hay_64kb.mp3

we had had high words and had almost come to blows in our discussion over fort sumter thompson was here thompson was a plausible talker and as a last resort having been driven from every other argument advocated the evacuation of the fort on the plea of generosity

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It not only deprecated any expression of regret that the commissioners should suspend negotiations, but roundly denied the right of South Carolina to send any such officials or agents. It stated that the Charleston Forts belonged to the government.

http://www.archive.org/download/oxford_book_american_essays_1211_librivox/oxfordbookofamericanessays_17_various_64kb.mp3

the lines commonly quoted in this connection are those in the epistle to spencer beginning yet yet forgive me o ye sacred few whom late by delaware's green banks i knew

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And then he drops into the depths of the moral subconsciousness from which the clear, clean waters of Walden Pond could not wash him.

http://www.archive.org/download/connecticut_yankee_king_arthurs_court_jg_librivox/yankee_38_twain_64kb.mp3

i was paralyzed i couldn't move i was choking my tongue was petrified they finished blindfolding him they led him under the rope i couldn't shake off that clinging impotence

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Nearing four in the afternoon, the scene was just outside the walls of London. A cool, comfortable, superb day with a brilliant sun, the kind of day to make one want to live, not die.

http://www.archive.org/download/circularstudy_1211_librivox/circularstudy_09_green_64kb.mp3

yet proceeded mr gryce with a somewhat wondering air he must have had a grain of hard sense in his make-up all his contrivances worked he was a mechanical genius as well as a lover of mystery

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Nor did it cease with his death. It followed him to the tomb. Witness the cross we found lying on his bosom. That was the act of another's hand, the result of another's superstition. That shows the presence of a priest or a woman at the moment he died.

http://www.archive.org/download/summatheologica06_1507_librivox/summa_theologica2_06_24_aquinas_64kb.mp3

on the contrary augustine says confessions nine three that god rewards the intention but god rewards a thing because it is good therefore the goodness of the will depends on the intention of the end

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But whoever has a will in opposition to the divine will has an evil will. Therefore, whoever does not conform his will to the divine will as to the thing willed has an evil. Will i answer that?

http://www.archive.org/download/afamilyofnoblemen_1412_librivox/familyofnoblemen_14_saltykov-shchedrin_64kb.mp3

simplicity but after all who knew that the simple soul was destined to so speedy an end one peasant brought yudushka three silver rubles and said here's a little debt i owe pavel vladimirych no writing passed between us here take it

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Since meanness or, to be more exact, a kind of moral hardness, especially when, under the mask of hypocrisy, always inspires a sort of superstitious fear.

http://www.archive.org/download/choice_cookery_1802_librivox/choicecookery_22_owen_64kb.mp3

fill the centre with uncooked rice or flour to keep the shape while baking cut some strips of paste twist them and bend them into the shape of handles bake them very pale when the pastry cases are done empty out the rice remove them from the moulds and fill with the following mixture

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Melt half an ounce of gelatine in as little white stock as possible. Add this to the tomatoes and strain. If not perfectly clear, clarify with white of egg in the usual way, mould and serve with chopped aspic round it. A little grated parmesan may be sometimes sprinkled over it for a change.

http://www.archive.org/download/odysseysofhomer_1511_librivox/odysseys_25_homer_64kb.mp3

in his own house an old sicilian dame liv'd studious to serve his sour age with her cheerful pains then said ulysses to his son and swains

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With purpose to implore Ulysses aid that city racing man in wreak of the adult'rous Phrygian . Retain not you the time- a whole month's date- we spent at sea in hope to instigate in our arrival old Laertes son whom, hardly yet, to our design, we won.

http://www.archive.org/download/crevice_1009_librivox/crevice_19_burns_ostrander_64kb.mp3

but look here the great political boss had shed his bulldozing manner and a shade of unmistakable earnestness not unmixed with anxiety had crept into his tones i'm talking as man to man and i know i can trust your word of honor even if you pretend you won't take mine

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But even as he spoke, his voice ended in a surprised scream of agony which told of strained sinews and ripped tendons, and he fell in a twisted, crumpled heap of quivering inert flesh at the detective's feet.

http://www.archive.org/download/adventuresferdinandcountfathom_1701_librivox/adventuresofferdinandcountfathom_51_smollett_64kb.mp3

for miss biddy was entitled to a fortune of ten thousand pounds provided she should marry with the consent of her parent who was the sole executrix of the father's will

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Had the old lady given the least intimation to our adventurer of the sentiments she entertained in his behalf. His complaisance was of such a pliable texture that he would have quitted his other pursuit and made her the sole object of his attention.

http://www.archive.org/download/octopus_dhd_librivox/octopus_63_norris_64kb.mp3

it was almost as if a caress had been laid softly upon his cheek as if a gentle hand closed upon his here he knew was sympathy here he knew was an infinite capacity for love

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As you see, she answered as he talked. Presley was looking at her intently. Her dignity was a new element in her character and the certain slender effect of her figure, emphasised now by the long folds of the black gown she wore, carried it almost superbly.

http://www.archive.org/download/lourdes_1906_librivox/lourdes_03_zola_64kb.mp3

but my dear you can see for yourself i can't leave this poor woman replied the lady hospitauer and thereupon she pointed to la grivotte who had been attacked by a fit of coughing which shook her frightfully

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It so happened that Pierre intended going to the Eantine carriage to fetch some broth for Marie. Now that she was no longer being jolted, she felt somewhat relieved and had opened her eyes and caused her father to raise her to a sitting posture.

http://www.archive.org/download/private_peck_put_down_rebellion_ab_1804_librivox/putdowntherebellion_15_peck_64kb.mp3

i told him i couldn't eat anything to save me he offered to fry me some bacon and make me a cup of coffee but the thought of bacon and coffee made me wild

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The thought that i should die there alone was too much, and i was about to yell for help when my tent mate, who had been on a scout, came in. He was a big green yankee who had a heart in him as big as a water pail, but he was n't much of a nurse.

http://www.archive.org/download/romance_of_plant_life_1812_librivox/romanceofplantlife_20_elliot_64kb.mp3

they may be blown along for days together the seeds drop out by the way in this country one rarely sees anything of the sort but in the prairies of north america when under cultivation these tumble weeds are a serious and expensive pest

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This showed, as is very often the case, that Darwin was the first to discover a very important point. It is also interesting to find that these ugly little freshwater mud and marsh plants are at home almost everywhere, from the arctic circle to Tierra Del Fuego and from Peru to Japan.

http://www.archive.org/download/seriouscall_1301_librivox/seriouscall_08_law_64kb.mp3

is as good a reason for a charitable life that which is a reason for forgiving one offence is the same reason for forgiving all offences for such charity has nothing to recommend it to-day but what will be the same recommendation of it to-morrow

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If, therefore, a man ceases to forgive his brother because he has forgiven him often, ah'eady. If he excuses himself from forgiving this man because he has forgiven several others, such a one breaks this law of Christ concerning the forgiving one's brother.

http://www.archive.org/download/deerslayer_1103_librivox/deerslayer_05_cooper_64kb.mp3

an inexper'enced one i'll allow like my own but one that has proved true so often ag'in the game big and little that i'll answer for its sarvice ag'in mortals

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It's a duty to turn the other side of the face and take another blow instead of seeking revenge, whereby i understand that s. Enough shouted hurry, that's all i want to prove a man's doctrine. How long would it take to kick a man through the colony, in at one ind and out at the other, on that principle?

http://www.archive.org/download/in_the_irish_brigade_1610_librivox/intheirishbrigade_21_henty_64kb.mp3

i was assured that he was a single man when he went to france however he gave me a list of the principal branches of the kennedy family but there is no hurry about starting to see them and i will certainly wait here till you find your sister which should not be many days for some of callaghan's fellow workmen are almost sure to know where his widow lives

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That proves nothing more than that it is the name by which John O'carroll wished me to be called, and it is as likely as not- indeed a good deal more likely- that it was not the true one.

http://www.archive.org/download/dragon_raven_1007_librivox/dragon_05_henty_64kb.mp3

and may even add to it since you exempt them from service such a band we could train and practise until we could rely upon them to defeat a far larger force of the enemy and they would be available for our crew when we take to the ship

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Edmund could find no reply to this argument. He knew that even the king despaired of ultimately resisting the danish invasion, and after listening to all that the Thanes had to say, he retired with Egbert apart.

http://www.archive.org/download/narrative_of_the_operations_and_recent_discoveries_with_librivox/narrativeoperations_25_belzoni_64kb.mp3

he immediately sent agreeably to my request for the sheik of the bedoweens he inquired after many things and in particular about the sulphur and emerald mines as he thought them extremely interesting to the treasury of the bashaw

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The colour of the materials above that mark is also much lighter than those below, and what would almost determine that there has been water there is that the island has the same mark and on the same level, with that on the banks of the said dry river.

http://www.archive.org/download/newspaper_articles_twain_1011_librivox/articles_118_twain_64kb.mp3

has overtaken me at some quiet curve and gone whizzing car by car around the corner and out of sight in that prolific instant i saw again all the country from the sea of galilee and nazareth clear to jerusalem

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I heard a sort of panting behind me and turned and saw that a tawny youth from the village had overtaken Memdash, a true remnant and representative of his ancestress, the Witchmdash.

http://www.archive.org/download/round_the_red_lamp_1404_librivox/redlamp_10_doyle_64kb.mp3

douglas stone drew a bistoury from his case opened it and felt the keen straight edge with his forefinger then he held the lamp closer to the bed two dark eyes were gazing up at him through the slit in the yashmak they were all iris and the pupil was hardly to be seen

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Douglas Stone took his case of bistouries from a drawer and placed it with a roll of bandage and a compress of lint in his pocket. He must waste no more time. If he were to see Lady Sannox, i am ready, said he pulling on his overcoat. Will you take a glass of wine before you go out into this cold air?

http://www.archive.org/download/truestoriesofcrime_1808_librivox/truestoriesofcrime_03_train_64kb.mp3

and as her son was taking violin lessons induced her to buy it for thirty dollars and in the house of the springers it had quietly remained ever since while lawyers and prosecutors wrangled and thundered and witnesses swore positively to the truth

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But a printed page of questions and answers carries with it no more than a suggestion of the value of testimony, the real significance of which lies in the manner in which it is given: the tone of the voice and the flash of the eye.

http://www.archive.org/download/cheese_1001_librivox/completebookofcheese_23_brown_64kb.mp3

york york curd and cambridge york england a high-grade cream cheese similar to slipcote both

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In or spread on bread . The local name is tome de two Vain Fondu or spiced Fondu, Switzerland.

http://www.archive.org/download/short_hist_scotland_lang_sd_0905_librivox1/shorthistoryofscotland_17_lang_64kb.mp3

at this time james by margaret erskine became the father of james later the regent moray strange tragedies would never have occurred had the king first married margaret erskine who by fifteen thirty six was the wife of douglas of loch

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He is said to have wished for her a divorce, that he might marry her. This could not be. He visited France and on New Year's Day, fifteen thirty seven wedded Madeline, daughter of Francis I. Six months later she died in Scotland.

http://www.archive.org/download/giantkiller_1406_librivox/giantkiller_01_tucker_64kb.mp3

here we are at last said adolphus as the fly stopped at a little green door constantino put his head out of the window no carriage drive he muttered what a mean place it must be

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She's so particular, thinks so many things wrong, is so fond of good books and lectures and that sort of thing depend upon it. She put into Papa's head that we were spoilt and needed some one to keep us in order. And she found out this poor country clergyman.

http://www.archive.org/download/laws_1801_librivox/laws_25_plato_64kb.mp3

any ignoble occupation of which the vulgarity is a matter of reproach to a freeman and should never want to acquire riches by any such means

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Distributions may be proportioned to the value of each person's wealth, and not solely to the virtue of his ancestors or himself, nor yet to the strength and beauty of his person, but also to the measure of his wealth or poverty.

http://www.archive.org/download/industrial_biography_1806_librivox/industrialbiography_07_smiles_64kb.mp3

he was fond of books pictures poetry and music though the indulgence of artistic tastes is not thought becoming in the society to which he belonged

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In the mean time the works at Coalbrookdale had become largely extended. In seventeen, eighty four, when the government of the day proposed to levy a tax on

http://www.archive.org/download/four_weird_tales_1312_librivox/fourweirdtales_03_blackwood_64kb.mp3

the manager wriggled convulsively for the space of a single second and then lay still in death there was not a moment to lose for the door was already broken in and violent hands were at his neck jones put the pistol to his temple and once more pressed the trigger with his finger

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And the cashier never seemed to have an adequate excuse for being there. His movements seemed suddenly of particular interest to others in the office as well, for clerks were always being sent to ask him unnecessary questions.

http://www.archive.org/download/allan_holy_flower_1001_librivox/allanholyflower_17_haggard_64kb.mp3

it was as well that we did so since about twelve o'clock by the light of the moon i saw the door in the wall open gently and the heads of some of the albino women appear through the aperture doubtless they had come to steal away the holy plant they worshipped i sat up coughed and lifted the rifle whereon they fled and returned no more

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Between two stout reeds, a forest spider of the very largest sort had spun a web as big as a lady's open parasol. There, in the midst of this web, of which the bottom strands almost touched the water, sat the spider waiting for its prey, as the crocodiles were waiting on the banks.

http://www.archive.org/download/nicholasnicklebyver3_1502_librivox/nicholasnickleby_34_dickens_64kb.mp3

he had given an address in london had this chap but when it came to the point of course nobody knowed anything about him so i kept the lad out of out of charity suggested ralph drily

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As he thrust his head in at the door, he saw that Ralph had resumed the thoughtful posture into which he had fallen after perusing his nephew's letter, and that he seemed to have been reading it again as he once more held it open in his hand.

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down nor any preparation for the night's comfort been attempted and except for the blazing lights it was as though the apartment had not been entered by anybody for a month all the windows were closed all shades lowered and curtains drawn

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There was a figure seated cross- legged in the middle of the bed. Then, in the perfumed silence, the girl laughed for a full minute. Neither of them moved. No sound had echoed her low laughter, save the deadened pulsations of his own heart.

http://www.archive.org/download/talesofavanishingriver_2002_librivox/talesofavanishingriver_14_reed_64kb.mp3

possibly the reasons that prompted such positive testimony may be best known to herself the prisoner under the whispered advice of young hopkins

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The question under consideration was the identity of this tall, mysterious looking prisoner and that tall, disguised stranger who was unquestionably responsible before the law for the astounding burglary.

http://www.archive.org/download/hyp007_1611_librivox/hyp007_06_various_64kb.mp3

biddy held it out and looked straight before her for a moment at nothing in particular in a kind of stupefied delight

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And as she had never done anything to bring about such results, i call it the good luck of little Lily De Koven that she had been born in a lovely home to kind parents and was growing up with all the most pleasant things of life around her.

http://www.archive.org/download/peccavi_1901_librivox/peccavi_22_hornung_64kb.mp3

oh don't say that said carlton quickly i don't get so many visitors are you the little chap's governess he added yet more quickly to undo the visible effects of his words no im from the hall you know

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She wished it was fair for more reasons than one. It was high time she took Georgie away, and she did not know what Musk would say when he heard where they had been.

http://www.archive.org/download/williamanenglishman_1310_librivox/williamanenglishman_17_hamilton_64kb.mp3

at half-past twelve he knocked off for dinner and was his own master till three then the office again till supper and after supper with good luck till ten with bad luck indefinite overtime

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He felt himself drifting mentally and, to his credit, made efforts to save himself, tried to awaken an interest in the french language, bought a dictionary and phrase- book and attended biweekly classes in a neighboring y m c a hut.

http://www.archive.org/download/sorcery_club_dj_1711_librivox/sorceryclub_13_odonnell_64kb.mp3

whilst the modern sorcery company's hall was filled to overflowing there was every prospect of its prediction being verified the solution of martin and davenports tricks had taken place

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Concentration, he said, and develop your will power, if only by a very little every day. Jump off a stool, to begin with saying to yourself as you do so:

http://www.archive.org/download/fairy-tale_foxes_1704_librivox/foxes_02_johnson_64kb.mp3

whither away so fast reynard he called never mind where reynard cried i m going post-haste on business of life and death jack stood up on his hind legs and laughed till his sides ached it was so funny to see reynard ride post-haste

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Afterward. He was eating him when Reynard the fox happened along. Ah, Reynard said to himself: here is Bruin feasting while i am wandering about hungry. That horse looks good to me. I must contrive to get a taste of him.

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then we shall have to make the best of things answered the girl lightly there is of course the chance that we may be found by some search-party sent out by your uncle and there is the further possibility that we may stumble on some indian camp

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She found it in a quiet little bay beyond a tree- crowned bluff, and in a little time she had beached the clumsy craft and jumped ashore. She anchored the raft to a tree and then looked around.

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louise was both astonished and disappointed but after a little thought she looked after the departing agent with a shrewd smile he's afraid to talk she murmured and that only confirms my suspicions that he knows more than he cares to tell

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Louise was reading in the hammock and merely glanced at the little man who solemnly stumped around to the back door with the three red volumes tucked underneath his arm. He had brought them all along to make his errand look like business.

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he should be like the sun which moves most slowly when it attains its highest elevation we shall better understand the perils of the system the actual adopted if we look forward to some of evils of a the actual evils of the centralized monarchy of the later empire one

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Still, the cry was for more to fill the vacant offices of state, and the press- gang gathered in fresh tax- gatherers, for they were little more from every class.

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but pain in the flesh is only a discomfort of the soul arising from the flesh and a kind of shrinking from its suffering as the pain of the soul which is called sadness is a shrinking from those things which have happened to us in spite of ourselves

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Whoever thinks such punishment either excessive or unjust shows his inability to measure the great iniquity of sinning where sin might so easily have been avoided. For as Abraham's obedience is, with justice, pronounced to be great, because the thing commanded to kill his son was very difficult,

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but he should not escape there was a limit to prudence and to the love of life his plans his hopes the roar of an avenging crowd all faded from his mind

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Nor did he care to longer hide from himself the reason. And with the recollection of the reason his mind reverted to a softer mood. Would he ever see her again? Even the sound of her name pleased him lucile, he whispered sadly.

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this letter seems to throw some light on the hostility of the duke of norfolk to the unfortunate queens his nieces they had evidently espoused the cause of the old duchess agnes in the family

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The duke of Norfolk was despatched by order of the king to make search at the duchess's house at Lambeth for Derham's papers and eflts. Before his arrival, however, the old duchess, with the assistance of the yeoman of her kitchen,

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that fire was fed with substance of the soul and not with holiday stubble that could burn through seven slow years of unadvancing war equal when fields were lost or fields were won with breath of popular applause or blame

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It was a world of statelier movement then than this we fret in. He a denizen of that ideal Rome that made a man for men.

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why you know better than any one franois for he has spent his days almost constantly in your society either hunting or playing mall or tennis yes his days no doubt replied the duke his days-but his nights

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Madame De Sauve was there. Marguerite exchanged a glance with her and was convinced that her husband's mistress had something to tell her. They rode down the rue de L'astruce and entered into the rue Saint Honor.

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isolda when at last she contrived to get a light rapidly ran to the queen's chamber and finding the door shut on the inside began to call loudly on her andre there was no answer though the queen was in the room

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Joan visibly trembled. Her lips moved convulsively, but the conspirators drowned in their noisy talk, the involuntary groan that escaped her in the midst of a general uproar. Robert of Cabane proposed that they should serve generous supplies of the same wine drunk at the royal table to the hungarian guards who were keeping watch at the approaches to the convent.

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cowper defended his persecuted friend with great eloquence and effect and he was warmly supported by many members who had been zealous for the resumption of the irish grants

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An awful interval followed, during which the angry passions of the assembly seemed to be subdued by terror. Some of the leaders of the opposition, men of grave character and of large property-

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and with the rolling baasjes he has got all rounder and rounder and the light that at first came only from under his arms has been rolled right round him till now he is a big ball of light rolling from one side of the sky to the other

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Baasjes must count them next time he sticks them out and see if they are all there. Eight long ones, those are the fingers and two short ones for the thumbs.

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it was obvious in the crowded benches on both sides of the house in the oneness of purpose that insensibly made itself felt through the ranks of the opposition and found definite expression in fraide's stiff figure and tightly shut lips in

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She met his glance but said nothing. Instead of speaking, she smiled at him- a smile that was far more reassuring than any words. A smile that, in a single second, conveyed forgiveness, approbation and a warm, almost tender sense of sympathy and comprehension.

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i did think of it reader i draw no imaginary pictures of southern homes i am telling you the plain truth yet when victims make their escape from the wild beast of slavery northerners consent to act the part of bloodhounds and hunt the poor fugitive back into his den

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My grandmother could not avoid seeing things which excited her suspicions. She was uneasy about me and tried various ways to buy me, but the never- changing answer was always repeated: Linda does not belong to me, she is my daughter's property and i have no legal right to sell her.

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the room then stood empty for a fortnight my landlady began to think she had judged hardly and often wished for such another lodger at last an elderly man of a grave aspect read the bill

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Ch. Mr Rambler, are the changes which have happened le narrow space where my present fortune has fixed my residence, so true it is that amusement and instruction dways at hand for those who have skill and willingness nd them.

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but i leave you to judge whether a young man who has taken to low ways of getting a living can pay for fine cambric handkerchiefs and light kid gloves mrs muscat lowered her blonde eyelashes

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But the rector had subsequently the satisfaction of receiving Mr Sherlock's painstaking production in print, with a dedication to the Reverend Augustus Debarry. A motto from St Chrysostom.

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the general purport of them was mr dana is my friend you can rely upon what he says and if you can be kind to him in any way you will oblige me it was in january eighteen sixty three that chadwick and i went to memphis where we stayed at the gayoso house at that time the swell hotel of the town and the headquarters of several officers

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On March twelfth, Mister Stanton wrote me the following letter: War Department, Washington City, March twelfth eighteen sixty three, dear sir, i inclose you a copy of your order of appointment and the order fixing your compensation, with a letter to Generals Sumner, Grant and Rosecrans and a draft for one thousand dollars.

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they take us to be french pirates answered lord foxham in these most troublesome and degenerate days we cannot keep our own shores of england but our old enemies whom we once chased on sea and land

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Another great wave followed, raised her again and carried her yet farther in, and then a third succeeded and left her far inshore of the more dangerous breakers wedged upon a bank.

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in order to avoid any contact therewith when the ends of the finger forming the blades of the scissors have reached the purse they are opened so as to bring it between them the difficult point is to seize the object with the scissors between the first phalanges for the further the hand is thurst in the more dangerous the operation becomes

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One day he undertook a journey on foot from Trieste to Hamburg to see the world, as he said, and was arrested on the way on the charge of having killed a man by suddenly compressing the carotid arteries with his thumbs, thus bringing about unconsciousness and death.

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i had no apprehension in regard to the minute exacting duties that would devolve upon me as a right-hand companion to my husband's mother for i loved her but i was not sure of my tact or my deftness

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Blankets. Chan King stepped quietly into the room. Feel as comfortable as you look? he asked, and when i nodded drowsily, he touched a box of cakes.

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on the contrary to quote a recent writer the evidence goes to show that the work was done by skilled workmen who were white masons and who built for white people in a prehistoric age

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Which can not be less than two thousand years old and are perhaps more than double that age. As there is no positive knowledge as to when the cliff dwellers flourished, one man's guess on the subject is as good as another's.

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about the only exception i can think of is the electrostatic condenser and you could say that it converts static electricity into a current flow if you wanted to stretch a point on the other hand a condenser isn't usually considered as a power supply

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Bending consultants as a title for a business was a little misleading because of the plural ending of the last word. There was only one consultant and that was Samson Francis.

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gerald she called her smoky black hair floating arotmd her and her arms cutting through the room's blackness gerald suddenly the room was not black it was light with the scandinavian blondness of gerald

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It was not that they were terrible eyes. They were full of the sweet, blue and clear as lakes. It was only that they knew. Those eyes knew, they knew.

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it has been ascertained that the person who was supposed to be sam kaufman was one blackamore the plan to rob the bank was known to the authorities and contrary to the pre-arranged measures for the capture of the outlaws

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This gentleman received an intimation of what was going on and learned definitely the aims of the marshal. In half an hour a message- it matters not what words were employed, they were significant- was sent to Louisville to a friend.

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rising hastily with the spur of such a hope and searching in his dressing-case for one of his mothers remedies for headache so carefully stowed away by her loving hands he took it and throwing ou a light summer-coat prepared to go out for a sudden change preluded by a cloud of dust had sprung up

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They were fresh and green, with his unremitting attention. If they were nothing else, sounds were not so easily mastered. The clatter of horses hoofs, the deep- toned stand over of the groom or the occasional hissing noise that always accompanies grooming operations was an all daylong afiair.

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in short the house in saville row which must have been a very temple of disorder and unrest under the illustrious but dissipated sheridan was cosiness comfort and method idealised

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His brown hair was somewhat tumbled for. While the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva's tresses, Passepartout was familiar with but one of dressing his own. Three strokes of a large tooth comb completed his toilet.

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all the mem bers of the family had approved heartily of the decision of marcus to offer to the village of west barr a public library a town hall a high-school improvement for the cemetery and a soldiers monument on the village green on condition that west barr be afterward known as leicester

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Nor our niece s, if she has a particle of womanly pride and family pride, said William, a woman older than you and a sylvester.

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and a year or two later when the army had claimed him and he stood in the ypres salient in a post of extreme danger he grinned unhappily between the shell-bursts as the night of the meeting came back to him

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It was more himself than his vague remarks that made William flare and see red. His six feet of conceited boyhood propped sprawlingly against the wall. As he listened, he was gripped with a sudden hatred of Jay Blenkinsop, a hatred that had its roots in envy of his physical perfections.

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when once recognised as such a notable passage in one of olive schreiner's works may be quoted in illustration in those days which men reck not of now man when he hungered fed on the flesh of his fellow-man and found it sweet

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And the missionaries tooare they not sent us as food? And what right have you to the name omnivorous? If you restrict your diet in this way, why omnivorous?

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himself in that room standing near the piano to turn her music while the tinkling runs and glib expressionless trills wove in and out a ceaseless nothing

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The humorous portions she gave to the rector's wife, her most intimate friend and the dear son's love expressed therein, she treasured in her heart and was comforted.

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and-and you look surprised his father cautioned sort of as if you failed to comprehend what he's driving at make him repeat then you say

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Your arrangement with Cardigan for use of his mill dock and spur for unloading material from steamer ratified by board but regarded as hold- up if

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one can foresee the day when each unmarried daughter will expect her own card so rapidly is feminine individuality developing each invitation is enclosed in a separate envelope

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A woman may take an out- of- town visitor to any large affair without obtaining permission beforehand, but she will, of course, in speaking to her hostess, express appreciation of the pleasant opportunity thus afforded to her guest.

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i went for the beer and when i returned found the fire burning brightly and a strong sense of smoking from old stapleton's pipe he puffed once or twice more and then commenced his history as follows

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I shies a pot at his head and showed him any thing but my face, for i took to my heels and ran for it as fast as i could. So much for seeing. If i had n't seen, that would n't have happened. So there i was, adrift, and good- bye to Porter.

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time was when you could see that for yourself follow the prisoner in the cart to tyburn and offer him nosegays or pots of

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I believe that is why Ccla the horrible, the dreadful, the gruesome fait toujours passer une heure ou deux for your guignolite. It satisfies his curiosity about an experience.

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the stolen fire of a demigod whose bubbled purple heavenly feet did bruise in crusted vats of vintage when the green flamed into autumn on the samian sod

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Piled melodies of marble that no man has ever reached except in fancy's flights, templing the presence of perpetual ease.

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he was no longer there and he saw her between the firs before she could see him as he realized what her coming back meant

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All of her a woman's love can be. If she gives you everything, how can she give you more? She is not another person. She is part of you. Does one finger of your hand plot against another?

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but binding the bodies of the lyakhs as they came to hand to the tails of horses they let these loose on the plain pursuing them and beating them for some time the infuriated horses flew over hill and hollow through ditch and brook dragging the bodies of the poles all covered with blood and dust along the ground

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White, as fresh- fallen snow upon the mountain- tops would have been crushed to earth and covered with blood and dust . Her lovely body would have been torn to pieces. But Taras, who did not foresee what God prepares for man on the morrow, began to grow drowsy and finally fell asleep.

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he looked at me again as if he expected me to say something more i remained silent he took a letter out of the breast-pocket of his coat and laid it on the table before me-just where the confession had lain before i destroyed it i have had a letter too this morning he said and i valeria have no secrets from you

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My one hope was that he might never see it. My one desire was to hide it from the public view. I looked back at the strange circumstances under which the letter had been discovered. It was all my doing, as the lawyer had said.

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but it isn't a reason it's not as if i'd asked you to go against your conscience your conscience hadn't anything to do with it oh hadn't it i went because you'd no right to ask me not to

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And now a woman's voice started off on its own note and tore the delicate tissue of this sound with a solitary scream. And now a man's voice filled up a pause in the shrill hurrahing with a solitary boom.

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the dislike the king conceived for him was such that he found fault with him about everything the king at last took his departure and the cardinal who had attended him without daring out of respect to take his sunshade to protect him against the heat of the sun which was very great that day was on his return taken ill with fever

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Nevertheless, the king held firm to his resolve, and then the siege of La Rochelle was undertaken with a will. The old duchess of Rohan, Catherine de Parthenay Larcheveque, had shut herself up in La Rochelle with her daughter Anne.

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the other had laid down this law for himself that wherever he came he should appear to come as a sort of light and hope of safety

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A man who, while he was praetor of the city, was driven from the city, was prevented from sitting as judge in legal proceedings when it was he who had restored all law to the republic.

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her place of abode favoured neither health nor mental tranquillity it was one of a row of new houses in a new quarter a year or two ago the site had been an enclosed meadow portion of the land attached to what was once a country mansion

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And in writing to her friend a few days later, Jessica was able to say: i think you may safely stay at Falmouth for the whole winter. You will not be interfered with if you write nicely. I should n't wonder if they would let you keep out of their reach as long as it is necessary.

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but even if he did that could not be for hours yet and in the meantime he would freeze to death for the cold was intense the thermometer being many degrees below zero

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The one chance was that his father, on returning home, would miss him and perhaps come in search of him following the track made by his snow- shoes.

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i can only do what i have to do it is not me that will decide whether walker dies or not at any rate it ain't no use to justify it to you it's natural that you should look upon me as an enemy just now

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She had been standing before him in the moonlight with downcast face. Now she suddenly threw up her head with a gesture that reminded him of the way a drowning man throws up his hands.

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what avails the healing of one wound when there are so many beyond all cure better to let me perish where i fall and reserve your money for the worthier objects whom perhaps hereafter may avail to save

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Something in the disposition of the trees, their great height and rude boughs interlacing, and the awful shadow beneath reminded me of a portion of the windmill wood where Milly and i had often rambled.

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this melting sometimes went by fits and starts and the weather wasn't always changing for the better but there was at least one time when european weather was even better than it is now

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Is mainly set up by playing a hunch, although we can not really demonstrate it- and certainly not in the near East. It would be very strange for food collectors not to have known a great deal about the plants and animals most useful to them.

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did you send peggy for me papa said she in entering yes martha dear i did how are you to-day my dear girl i have not seen you before this morning sit down love sit down

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This conviction of their epidemic idleness, however, in no degree chilled the good girl's desire at once to perform her father's will and benefit a very interesting, though not as she believed, a very industrious mother and son.