Grey craigs, or 'Auld lang syne'.J. Nisbet, 1880 - 275 pages |
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... seemed to have implanted in their nature a love of fair play and downright - heartedness in word and deed , which caused them to speak as they believed , and to act as they spoke . Independent , for in general they were well to do in ...
... seemed to have implanted in their nature a love of fair play and downright - heartedness in word and deed , which caused them to speak as they believed , and to act as they spoke . Independent , for in general they were well to do in ...
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... seemed tempted to lift a stone and have a shy at some wild bird , or it might be the raven croaking overhead , and he felt it difficult to repress the wish to send the smooth . stone skimming over the surface of the water ; but if he ...
... seemed tempted to lift a stone and have a shy at some wild bird , or it might be the raven croaking overhead , and he felt it difficult to repress the wish to send the smooth . stone skimming over the surface of the water ; but if he ...
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... seemed to hang over the town wrapping in its soft veil of silver the mass of uneven and irregular houses , bringing out beauties of angle and depression as only its soft beams could do , while the sea lay quivering and sparkling in its ...
... seemed to hang over the town wrapping in its soft veil of silver the mass of uneven and irregular houses , bringing out beauties of angle and depression as only its soft beams could do , while the sea lay quivering and sparkling in its ...
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... seemed a strange and an unknown world to Effie - the one Davie now trod - and she tried to gaze into it with eager , puzzled eyes ; tried to compre- hend it , though it was so different from the life in the quiet home of her childhood ...
... seemed a strange and an unknown world to Effie - the one Davie now trod - and she tried to gaze into it with eager , puzzled eyes ; tried to compre- hend it , though it was so different from the life in the quiet home of her childhood ...
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... seemed to suit well the place , being , with a few exceptions , composed of the lowest class of the people ; having haggard , flushed faces , and strongly impregnated breaths , -poor , starved , despairing men , and many of them gloomy ...
... seemed to suit well the place , being , with a few exceptions , composed of the lowest class of the people ; having haggard , flushed faces , and strongly impregnated breaths , -poor , starved , despairing men , and many of them gloomy ...
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