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The elder , John Kendall , is a Titan , who looks able to play at quoits with almost any of our Michigan hills ; a man of might , whose very voice , as he shouts " Haw ! 6 FOREST LIFE .
The elder , John Kendall , is a Titan , who looks able to play at quoits with almost any of our Michigan hills ; a man of might , whose very voice , as he shouts " Haw ! 6 FOREST LIFE .
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... and snapping - turtles , and bunches of grapes , and Tom Rice's head - work , and easy life and enviable impudence , and his own violent but unavailing anger , and the pretty damsel's scornful looks from a jumble of all these things ...
... and snapping - turtles , and bunches of grapes , and Tom Rice's head - work , and easy life and enviable impudence , and his own violent but unavailing anger , and the pretty damsel's scornful looks from a jumble of all these things ...
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... the fascinations of polished life the very comforts and conveniences of the domestic arrangements she would enjoy would cause her to look with cold eyes on her western home , rude and la- borious as that must ever be by comparison .
... the fascinations of polished life the very comforts and conveniences of the domestic arrangements she would enjoy would cause her to look with cold eyes on her western home , rude and la- borious as that must ever be by comparison .
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... to their gay tastes and habits ; so that the eyes and ears of the in- experienced country girl were at once dazzled and delighted , and she learned to look upon elegance as almost synonymous with dashing , and D 2 FOREST LIFE .
... to their gay tastes and habits ; so that the eyes and ears of the in- experienced country girl were at once dazzled and delighted , and she learned to look upon elegance as almost synonymous with dashing , and D 2 FOREST LIFE .
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look upon elegance as almost synonymous with dashing , and to find every thing insipid or vulgar which was characterised by plain- ness and sobriety . No wonder she con- templated with mortified pride the unadorned aspect of things at ...
look upon elegance as almost synonymous with dashing , and to find every thing insipid or vulgar which was characterised by plain- ness and sobriety . No wonder she con- templated with mortified pride the unadorned aspect of things at ...
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| Title | Forest Life, Volume 2 Forest Life, Caroline Matilda Kirkland Volume 2 of Forest life, by the author of 'A new home', Caroline Matilda Kirkland |
| Author | Caroline Matilda Kirkland |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Apr 2006 |
| Length | 484 pages |
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