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... wind with considerable force , and is always the strongest in frosty weather , and the weakest in long - continued rains . There is another blowing cave found in the Cumberland Mountains , and along with the wind there issues also a ...
... wind with considerable force , and is always the strongest in frosty weather , and the weakest in long - continued rains . There is another blowing cave found in the Cumberland Mountains , and along with the wind there issues also a ...
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... winds ceased their melan- choly song , and went somewhere else , far away from Johnnie's home , perhaps to the mountains , or woods , there to wail forth . their dismal strains . The rain no longer pattered upon the window - panes , or ...
... winds ceased their melan- choly song , and went somewhere else , far away from Johnnie's home , perhaps to the mountains , or woods , there to wail forth . their dismal strains . The rain no longer pattered upon the window - panes , or ...
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... windy weather , which seemed enough to carry away his slender frame . " I saw , " said Boswell , who was present , " a mere shrimp mount upon the table , and as I listened he grew and grew until the shrimp became a whale . " He was ...
... windy weather , which seemed enough to carry away his slender frame . " I saw , " said Boswell , who was present , " a mere shrimp mount upon the table , and as I listened he grew and grew until the shrimp became a whale . " He was ...
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... wind , at times tinted with all the colours of the rain- bow . When the weather is very calm , this beautiful mist rises to a great height into the air , becoming less a little at a time till it is no longer perceivable . There is ...
... wind , at times tinted with all the colours of the rain- bow . When the weather is very calm , this beautiful mist rises to a great height into the air , becoming less a little at a time till it is no longer perceivable . There is ...
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... winds from the west . The land is a dead level , the only elevation on the coast being Camperdown , off which was fought a great naval battle between an English fleet , under Lord Duncan , and a Dutch fleet , commanded by Admiral De ...
... winds from the west . The land is a dead level , the only elevation on the coast being Camperdown , off which was fought a great naval battle between an English fleet , under Lord Duncan , and a Dutch fleet , commanded by Admiral De ...
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Page 130 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
Page 135 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Page 153 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 114 - The heavens declare the glory of God ; and the firmament showeth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 181 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 18 - What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned ? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
Page 113 - And God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also.
Page 2 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
Page 10 - Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
Page 74 - And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand...