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... wish to share it with him , his fancy traced some- thing like her ; or , after a long and harassing march in the hob - winds , when he sat lonely in his tent , his servants and cattle around him slumbering out the fervid hours of noon ...
... wish to share it with him , his fancy traced some- thing like her ; or , after a long and harassing march in the hob - winds , when he sat lonely in his tent , his servants and cattle around him slumbering out the fervid hours of noon ...
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... blew , how the ship lay , what was the reckoning , and how many knots were on the log , than they began to wish for dinner ; and before that de- lightful period could arrive , were obliged to throw themselves LIFE IN INDIA . 29.
... blew , how the ship lay , what was the reckoning , and how many knots were on the log , than they began to wish for dinner ; and before that de- lightful period could arrive , were obliged to throw themselves LIFE IN INDIA . 29.
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... wish to entangle Elizabeth Percy in his doubtful fate ? Colonel Howard evidently dreaded it . Was it not more honourable to resist the temp- tation , and suffer in silence ? To determine the point he snatched up his hat , and took the ...
... wish to entangle Elizabeth Percy in his doubtful fate ? Colonel Howard evidently dreaded it . Was it not more honourable to resist the temp- tation , and suffer in silence ? To determine the point he snatched up his hat , and took the ...
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... wish , " she asked herself , as she silently sauntered by her uncle's side , " why should I wish to clog Bently's ardent mind in the discharge of his duty . I am too well acquainted with his noble nature , to suppose that even my love ...
... wish , " she asked herself , as she silently sauntered by her uncle's side , " why should I wish to clog Bently's ardent mind in the discharge of his duty . I am too well acquainted with his noble nature , to suppose that even my love ...
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... wish to make the ladies more comfortable than he sup- posed they could be in the crippled state of the Cumberland , and declined taking the gentlemen or even any part of them , of the score of want of accommodation for so many . Even ...
... wish to make the ladies more comfortable than he sup- posed they could be in the crippled state of the Cumberland , and declined taking the gentlemen or even any part of them , of the score of want of accommodation for so many . Even ...
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acquaintance agreeable amongst amusement anchor appearance Archibald Cary Coolidge attention ayah beautiful Bengal Bently's Bowlow Brahmins cabin Calcutta Captain Bently Captain Kentledge Caroline Owen carriage chaprassy Charlotte charming Colonel Howard crowd Cumberland dance dark dear deck delight dinner Doctor dress Dundas elegant Elizabeth Percy European eyes False Bay fatigue feelings felt Flora Fortescue fortune frigate gave hand happy Harriet Harvard College head heart Hindoo honour hope horses hour India knew light living look ment mind Miss Elizabeth Miss Hume Miss Owen Miss Panton Miss Percy Montressor morning Morris mountains native never night observed party passed pleasure Ponsonby present punkah returned round Russell Russell's sail scene seemed ship silver sticks Simon's Town Sir Robert Marshall sister society soon sooner suffered Sunderbunds taste tears thing thought tion turn walk weather West wind
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Seite 24 - All sadness but despair : now gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past...
Seite 61 - Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime : As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. 'Hearts of oak!
Seite 131 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Seite 56 - ... vows seem sweet in every whisper'd word; and gentle winds and waters near make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, and in the sky the stars are met, and on the wave is deeper blue, and on the leaf a browner hue, and in the heaven that clear obscure, so softly dark and darkly pure, which follows the decline of day, as twilight melts beneath the moon away.
Seite 56 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure, Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
Seite 154 - God will keep a temptation out of their way, or not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able to bear...
Seite 149 - La politesse est l'expression ou l'imitation des vertus sociales ; c'en est l'expression, si elle est vraie, et l'imitation, si elle est fausse ; et les vertus sociales sont celles qui nous rendent utiles et agréables à ceux avec qui nous avons à vivre.