The X Jewel: A Scottish Romance of the Days of James VI.Harper & Brothers, 1896 - 262 páginas |
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... head swimming somewhat with the exertion of running after being cramped in the boat , the voice as of one singing came up to me out of the sea . It came dimly , as from a great distance ; if so I may say , it struggled to me ; but the ...
... head swimming somewhat with the exertion of running after being cramped in the boat , the voice as of one singing came up to me out of the sea . It came dimly , as from a great distance ; if so I may say , it struggled to me ; but the ...
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... could touch me and no more , I looked earnestly in his eyes . " Friend Lundygrange , " said I , " ye are but a poor bungler , and were I not in a hurry I should pull the lugs off your head . It is not for such THE X JEWEL . 7.
... could touch me and no more , I looked earnestly in his eyes . " Friend Lundygrange , " said I , " ye are but a poor bungler , and were I not in a hurry I should pull the lugs off your head . It is not for such THE X JEWEL . 7.
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... head . It is not for such as ye to meddle with things of Estate . They are ticklish enough for those whom God has furnished with brains to their heads ; but they will grind the Laird of Lundygrange and his like to powder . Ye mislike ...
... head . It is not for such as ye to meddle with things of Estate . They are ticklish enough for those whom God has furnished with brains to their heads ; but they will grind the Laird of Lundygrange and his like to powder . Ye mislike ...
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... head at the Fastcastle ; but the reception I met with in Edinburgh fairly took me aback . I came home in the belief that -it might be quietly , and not officially - some honour- able service would be required of me ; and before I had ...
... head at the Fastcastle ; but the reception I met with in Edinburgh fairly took me aback . I came home in the belief that -it might be quietly , and not officially - some honour- able service would be required of me ; and before I had ...
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... head of the table ; " give me the notice . " Having obtained the notice and glanced through it , he tore it into fragments , which he flung into a box provided for rejected supplications and the like idle and unprofitable literature ...
... head of the table ; " give me the notice . " Having obtained the notice and glanced through it , he tore it into fragments , which he flung into a box provided for rejected supplications and the like idle and unprofitable literature ...
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