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... Lacy's attachment to this particular cathedral had grown with his growth and strengthened with his years . In his youth he had learnt to love its long deep aisles , its solemn arches , its quaint carvings . During the pauses between the ...
... Lacy's attachment to this particular cathedral had grown with his growth and strengthened with his years . In his youth he had learnt to love its long deep aisles , its solemn arches , its quaint carvings . During the pauses between the ...
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... Lacy , whose health had been gradually declining , died soon after her son had received the sacred rite of confirmation , and for the first time knelt by her side at the altar ; it was not before her trembling lips had pronounced a ...
... Lacy , whose health had been gradually declining , died soon after her son had received the sacred rite of confirmation , and for the first time knelt by her side at the altar ; it was not before her trembling lips had pronounced a ...
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... Lacy's history , it is unnecessary to enter into further details respecting the events of his life , if events they can be called , that chiefly consisted in the casual opportunities vouchsafed to him , of soothing some extra- ordinary ...
... Lacy's history , it is unnecessary to enter into further details respecting the events of his life , if events they can be called , that chiefly consisted in the casual opportunities vouchsafed to him , of soothing some extra- ordinary ...
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... Lacy passed near the place where the stranger still remained in a state of apparent abstraction ; the sound of his approaching footsteps startled her ; she hastily withdrew , and walked rapidly out of the church , and down one of the ...
... Lacy passed near the place where the stranger still remained in a state of apparent abstraction ; the sound of his approaching footsteps startled her ; she hastily withdrew , and walked rapidly out of the church , and down one of the ...
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... Lacy . " Mrs. Rodney , Sir . " " Has she no friends that you know of ? How came she to hear of your lodgings ? " " Why , she stopped ( on a Monday , I think it was ) at the ' Rose , ' and she asked Mr. Chapman if he could tell her of a ...
... Lacy . " Mrs. Rodney , Sir . " " Has she no friends that you know of ? How came she to hear of your lodgings ? " " Why , she stopped ( on a Monday , I think it was ) at the ' Rose , ' and she asked Mr. Chapman if he could tell her of a ...
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Page 89 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Page 87 - O ! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Page 189 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small. Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all.
Page 276 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong to thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 54 - is wife (Not to mention the 'ousemaid an' cook), To come in an' 'ands up an' be still, An' honestly work for my bread, My livin' in that state of life To which it shall please God to call Me!
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Page 27 - I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. [Exit. Knocking within. MACB. Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Page 245 - If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
Page 118 - And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.