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... bear on his icebergs ; the wolf amid the northern snow ; the lion in the desert sand ; the tiger in the jungle ; the orang - outang in the woods ; the pelican in the wilderness ; the rattle - snake in the thick tangled brushwood ; and ...
... bear on his icebergs ; the wolf amid the northern snow ; the lion in the desert sand ; the tiger in the jungle ; the orang - outang in the woods ; the pelican in the wilderness ; the rattle - snake in the thick tangled brushwood ; and ...
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... bear without placing him on an iceberg . In the instant we are with Parry and Ross , near the northern pole ... bears . A thistle growing on the right , a few yards from the lodge , at once took me back to a common , where a shaggy ...
... bear without placing him on an iceberg . In the instant we are with Parry and Ross , near the northern pole ... bears . A thistle growing on the right , a few yards from the lodge , at once took me back to a common , where a shaggy ...
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... bears , brown and black ; and there stands a gentlemanly figure scarcely looking at them . He has seen them before , over and over again ; he has lost the enjoyment of novelty . Poor man ! he is grown too wise to be happy . But here are ...
... bears , brown and black ; and there stands a gentlemanly figure scarcely looking at them . He has seen them before , over and over again ; he has lost the enjoyment of novelty . Poor man ! he is grown too wise to be happy . But here are ...
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... bear in Robinson Crusoe , that Friday made to dance on the bough . The little toddler looks up with an awe - struck face , to ask whether they will bite ; and mamma seems not quite sure that the climb- ing bear will not leap from the ...
... bear in Robinson Crusoe , that Friday made to dance on the bough . The little toddler looks up with an awe - struck face , to ask whether they will bite ; and mamma seems not quite sure that the climb- ing bear will not leap from the ...
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Old Humphrey. The grisly bear must be prodigiously powerful ; what great limbs ! what fearful claws ! Hark ! scarcely can there be a sound in the universe more desolately doleful ! —it is that of the sloth- bear . But I must hasten ...
Old Humphrey. The grisly bear must be prodigiously powerful ; what great limbs ! what fearful claws ! Hark ! scarcely can there be a sound in the universe more desolately doleful ! —it is that of the sloth- bear . But I must hasten ...
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