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Pepper Winters. Once. a. Myth. Blurb: “There was a boy once. A boy who wasn't strong enough to save me when I was taken.” There was a girl once. A girl called Tess Snow who sat with me in the dark, waiting to be sold. There was an owner ...
Pepper Winters. Once. a. Myth. Blurb: “There was a boy once. A boy who wasn't strong enough to save me when I was taken.” There was a girl once. A girl called Tess Snow who sat with me in the dark, waiting to be sold. There was an owner ...
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Trucila Mutasa. Once. up. in. a. Garden. Once there was beautiful garden called Eden. It had every beautiful plant of the world and had pretty flowers too. Every animal and creature of the world, big and small, was found in it. The warm ...
Trucila Mutasa. Once. up. in. a. Garden. Once there was beautiful garden called Eden. It had every beautiful plant of the world and had pretty flowers too. Every animal and creature of the world, big and small, was found in it. The warm ...
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... once established , and the stimulus of hope , desire , ambition once imparted , Hindoos would show as strong a liking for the good things of life as other people . The point has long been proved ; for , when the trade with India was once ...
... once established , and the stimulus of hope , desire , ambition once imparted , Hindoos would show as strong a liking for the good things of life as other people . The point has long been proved ; for , when the trade with India was once ...
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... on a raing day! oVER 20 FUN RCTIVITEs, Once Upon a Dinosaur Craft XOnce Upon a Fairy Tale Craft Once Upon a Medieval Craft Once Upon a Pirate Craft Once Upon a Robots and Aliens Craft Once Upon an Animal Craft sk XLerner o. www.lernerbooks.
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... once away from her, as loathsome as I find it to be with her, once away from the school, I feel too far away from home and feel the full brunt of being alone. I want to run. I am all on my own. I'm reeling in the aftermath of my first ...
... once away from her, as loathsome as I find it to be with her, once away from the school, I feel too far away from home and feel the full brunt of being alone. I want to run. I am all on my own. I'm reeling in the aftermath of my first ...
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Page 63 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Page 166 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 192 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Page 154 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 165 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 173 - Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new!
Page 80 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand.
Page 154 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 5 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.
Page 176 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...