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... believe in children praying - well , women , too , but I rather think God ex- pects men to be more self - reliant . I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles . It seems such cheek . Anyhow ...
... believe in children praying - well , women , too , but I rather think God ex- pects men to be more self - reliant . I don't hold with a man everlastingly bothering the Almighty with his silly troubles . It seems such cheek . Anyhow ...
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... believe them . The originator , it seems , was a certain Schomberg , a big , manly , bearded creature of the Teu- tonic persuasion , with an ungovernable tongue which surely must have worked on a pivot . Whether he was a Lieutenant of ...
... believe them . The originator , it seems , was a certain Schomberg , a big , manly , bearded creature of the Teu- tonic persuasion , with an ungovernable tongue which surely must have worked on a pivot . Whether he was a Lieutenant of ...
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... believe every evil report ; and a good many others who found it simply funny to call Heyst the Spider - behind his back , of course . He was as se- renely unconscious of this as of his several other nick- names . But soon people found ...
... believe every evil report ; and a good many others who found it simply funny to call Heyst the Spider - behind his back , of course . He was as se- renely unconscious of this as of his several other nick- names . But soon people found ...
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... believe it was this visit which put life into the coal idea . Be it as it may , the Tropical Belt Coal Company was born very shortly after Morri- son , the victim of gratitude and his native climate , had gone to join his forefathers in ...
... believe it was this visit which put life into the coal idea . Be it as it may , the Tropical Belt Coal Company was born very shortly after Morri- son , the victim of gratitude and his native climate , had gone to join his forefathers in ...
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... believe this , since for some reason or other he did come out from his retreat for a while . Per- haps it was only to see whether there were any letters for him at the Tesmans . I don't know . No one knows . But this reappearance shows ...
... believe this , since for some reason or other he did come out from his retreat for a while . Per- haps it was only to see whether there were any letters for him at the Tesmans . I don't know . No one knows . But this reappearance shows ...
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