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... half across the river , called to his master that he could see some Negroes coming down the hills from the interior towards a row of stones or rocks placed a little farther up the winding current , for the conveni- ence of foot ...
... half across the river , called to his master that he could see some Negroes coming down the hills from the interior towards a row of stones or rocks placed a little farther up the winding current , for the conveni- ence of foot ...
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... half way up his legs , he waded onwards to find a spot of higher ground , or an insulated piece of rock that might elevate him above the stream , and with this hope pursued the course of it for above a hundred yards , till he came to a ...
... half way up his legs , he waded onwards to find a spot of higher ground , or an insulated piece of rock that might elevate him above the stream , and with this hope pursued the course of it for above a hundred yards , till he came to a ...
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... half muttered to him- self , half mental , allowed the agitation of his mind ́to subside , like a boisterous ocean rocking itself into repose after a storm , the Missionary had laid HAMEL . 39.
... half muttered to him- self , half mental , allowed the agitation of his mind ́to subside , like a boisterous ocean rocking itself into repose after a storm , the Missionary had laid HAMEL . 39.
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... half a mile of the sea , at Bay , and the strangers said they had been wrecked in a large canoe , with which they had crossed from Cuba ; where , as they farther stated , they had been detained as prisoners by a party of pirates . The ...
... half a mile of the sea , at Bay , and the strangers said they had been wrecked in a large canoe , with which they had crossed from Cuba ; where , as they farther stated , they had been detained as prisoners by a party of pirates . The ...
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... eyes at the moment that this stranger removed from his position ; and seeing a man in the piazza whom she neither knew nor recollected to have seen before , uttered a faint and half - stifled cry as she clung HAMEL . 57.
... eyes at the moment that this stranger removed from his position ; and seeing a man in the piazza whom she neither knew nor recollected to have seen before , uttered a faint and half - stifled cry as she clung HAMEL . 57.
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