Summer Cruising in the South SeasChatto and Windus, 1873 - 319 páginas |
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... breathe heavily and fountains tinkle within the solitude of your moonlit ivory chambers . Oh , literary death , where is thy sting , while this happy hunting - ground awaits me ! In the singularly expressive tongue of my barbarian ...
... breathe heavily and fountains tinkle within the solitude of your moonlit ivory chambers . Oh , literary death , where is thy sting , while this happy hunting - ground awaits me ! In the singularly expressive tongue of my barbarian ...
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... breathing a long prayer for deliverance . Once a green oasis blossomed before us , —a garden in perfect bloom , girded about with creaming waves ; within its coral cincture pendulous boughs trailed in the glassy waters ; from its hidden ...
... breathing a long prayer for deliverance . Once a green oasis blossomed before us , —a garden in perfect bloom , girded about with creaming waves ; within its coral cincture pendulous boughs trailed in the glassy waters ; from its hidden ...
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... sea into foam ; sometimes a whale blew his long breath close under them . Everywhere was the stir of jubilant life , -every- where but under the tattered awning stretched in the foretop IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP . 21.
... sea into foam ; sometimes a whale blew his long breath close under them . Everywhere was the stir of jubilant life , -every- where but under the tattered awning stretched in the foretop IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP . 21.
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... breathing men ! Then the ghosts staggered to their feet and cried to God for mercy . Then they waved their arms , and beat ... breath failed them ; they sank back in despair , speechless and forsaken . Why did they faint in the hour of ...
... breathing men ! Then the ghosts staggered to their feet and cried to God for mercy . Then they waved their arms , and beat ... breath failed them ; they sank back in despair , speechless and forsaken . Why did they faint in the hour of ...
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... breathing corpse . When he was lifted into the arms of the brave fellows who had gone to his rescue , he said , " Great God ! am I saved ? " as though he couldn't believe it when it was true ; then he fainted , and was nursed through a ...
... breathing corpse . When he was lifted into the arms of the brave fellows who had gone to his rescue , he said , " Great God ! am I saved ? " as though he couldn't believe it when it was true ; then he fainted , and was nursed through a ...
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