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... close to one that he formerly lived in at Candahar , the females of which were intimate with his own . A Doorraunee of the neighbourhood of Candahar had a blood - feud with a young man whom he had long vainly watched , in the hope of ...
... close to one that he formerly lived in at Candahar , the females of which were intimate with his own . A Doorraunee of the neighbourhood of Candahar had a blood - feud with a young man whom he had long vainly watched , in the hope of ...
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... close to the island of Circe , dwelt the Sirens , the Hesperides , the Grææ , the Gorgons , and the other beings of fable . " The only inhabitants of the Northern portion of the Earth mentioned by Homer , are the Hellenes and some of ...
... close to the island of Circe , dwelt the Sirens , the Hesperides , the Grææ , the Gorgons , and the other beings of fable . " The only inhabitants of the Northern portion of the Earth mentioned by Homer , are the Hellenes and some of ...
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... close , where the worthless and bad have to meet with the novelists ' retri- bution , and the good have to be rewarded , grave and serious pas- sages predominate . It is to the latter that we are about to direct special notice . To ...
... close , where the worthless and bad have to meet with the novelists ' retri- bution , and the good have to be rewarded , grave and serious pas- sages predominate . It is to the latter that we are about to direct special notice . To ...
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... close to the wall -to undergo new torture . - " For now a vision came before him , as constant and more terrible than that form which he had escaped . Those widely - starting eyes , so lustreless and so glassy , that he had better borne ...
... close to the wall -to undergo new torture . - " For now a vision came before him , as constant and more terrible than that form which he had escaped . Those widely - starting eyes , so lustreless and so glassy , that he had better borne ...
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... expectation that he would return . But no dog appeared , and he resumed his journey . " There are many other details in the picture which represents the close of Sikes's career , who is accidently strangled by D 2 Boz's Oliver Twist . 35.
... expectation that he would return . But no dog appeared , and he resumed his journey . " There are many other details in the picture which represents the close of Sikes's career , who is accidently strangled by D 2 Boz's Oliver Twist . 35.
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