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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 again, this time facing your patient. With your eyes closed, imagine your animal mask emerging from the flames. Once again, reach out with your physical hands and take the mask. Place it on your face and imagine the animal shift ...
... once again, this time facing your patient. With your eyes closed, imagine your animal mask emerging from the flames. Once again, reach out with your physical hands and take the mask. Place it on your face and imagine the animal shift ...
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Page 115 - he would die of grief. The general effect of the place was of vitality exhausted, of a body calcined, of romance turned into stone. The still air, the hot sunshine, the white beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the
Page 110 - I would like best to see you marry my cousin. Once before a woman of our race had married an Englishman. She had been happy. English things last forever—English peace, English power, English fidelity. It is a country of much serenity, of order,
Page 355 - WHY have I been brought here, your worships?" I asked, with a great deal of firmness. There were two figures in black, the one beside, the other behind a large black table. I was placed in front of them, between two soldiers, in the
Page 108 - king, had fought against the French, had a price put upon his head by a special proclamation. He had known passion, power, war, exile, and love. He had been thanked by his returned king,
Page 165 - their long knives. They came in a disorderly, shouting mob along the beach, intending this not for an attack, but as a simple demonstration. The sight of the open gate struck them with wonder. The bishop's coach
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Page 349 - of my hair was concealed by the handkerchief bound under my hat; my footsteps echoed loudly under the vault, and I penetrated into the heart of the city. And directly, it seemed to me, I had stepped back three hundred years. I had never seen anything so old; this was the abandoned inheritance of an adventurous race, that seemed to have thrown all its might, all its
Page 404 - Who is it that refuses to drink a glass of brandy?' He asked me what countryman I was, and if I was an American." There were two others from the unfortunate