The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on FactJ. Bennett, 1831 - 716 էջ |
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... fortune - tellers , and fully believed in their skill : but to see one face to face was a novelty , and inspired her with some degree of fear . She looked undetermined , and was silent . " You will not , then , accept my offer ...
... fortune - tellers , and fully believed in their skill : but to see one face to face was a novelty , and inspired her with some degree of fear . She looked undetermined , and was silent . " You will not , then , accept my offer ...
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... fortune - teller , with a smile full of meaning , " how curious you are grown all of a sudden : —at first you hesitated to hear me at all ; now you want to know everything . Well ! I can tell you more ; but your own hand is not ...
... fortune - teller , with a smile full of meaning , " how curious you are grown all of a sudden : —at first you hesitated to hear me at all ; now you want to know everything . Well ! I can tell you more ; but your own hand is not ...
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... fortune- and quite vain enough to suppose her own fully adequate to any conquest of the kind , -she could think of nothing but the prediction of the fortune- teller , in whose prophetic power she implicitly believed . 66 So , then ...
... fortune- and quite vain enough to suppose her own fully adequate to any conquest of the kind , -she could think of nothing but the prediction of the fortune- teller , in whose prophetic power she implicitly believed . 66 So , then ...
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... fortune . After all , if I should not see him ! -but he is sure to be there -well ! my heart beats at the thoughts of it . " Thus she ran on in her girlish way , agitated by fear , hope , and anxiety ; -at one time building castles in ...
... fortune . After all , if I should not see him ! -but he is sure to be there -well ! my heart beats at the thoughts of it . " Thus she ran on in her girlish way , agitated by fear , hope , and anxiety ; -at one time building castles in ...
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... fortune - teller . Her mind was cast , as it were , upon a sea of doubt , uncertainty , and confusion . Now elevated by hope , now depressed by fear ; passing with the rapidity of lightning , from one image to another of an oppo- site ...
... fortune - teller . Her mind was cast , as it were , upon a sea of doubt , uncertainty , and confusion . Now elevated by hope , now depressed by fear ; passing with the rapidity of lightning , from one image to another of an oppo- site ...
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The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on Fact - Primary Source Edition William Maginn Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2014 |
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Էջ 355 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Էջ 484 - Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Էջ 1 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please: How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I...
Էջ 674 - April next, and that, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, you be taken thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck till you are dead! dead! dead ! And may the Almighty God have mercy on your soul...
Էջ 180 - Tis raging noon ; and, vertical, the Sun Darts on the head direct his forceful rays. O'er heaven and earth, far as the ranging eye Can sweep, a dazzling deluge reigns; and all From pole to pole is undistinguished blaze.
Էջ 439 - Come unto me all ye who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Էջ 643 - EF, one mortal wound, of the depth of four inches, and of the breadth of half an inch ; of which said mortal wound he the said EF then and there instantly died.
Էջ 181 - Welcome, ye shades ! ye bowery thickets, hail ! Ye lofty pines ! ye venerable oaks ! Ye ashes wild, resounding o'er the steep ! Delicious is your shelter to the soul, As to the hunted hart the sallying spring...
Էջ 620 - ... a third liaison with the man who became her deliberate murderer. William Corder was the son of an opulent farmer at Polstead, and having become acquainted with the unfortunate girl Marten the consequence of an illicit intercourse which took place between them, was a child. From that time he became much attached to her, and was a frequent visitor at her father's house. The child died within a short period of its birth, and from the circumstances of its...
Էջ 205 - I received you ; Courted, and sought to raise you to your merits : My house, my table, nay, my fortune too, My very self was yours; you might have...