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... told that his condition was inoperable . Then he found a young woman eye surgeon who bravely said she could try the new procedure she had just learned in med school . After all , what did he have to lose ? He was already blind . The ...
... told that his condition was inoperable . Then he found a young woman eye surgeon who bravely said she could try the new procedure she had just learned in med school . After all , what did he have to lose ? He was already blind . The ...
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... told Doyle that he ought to change his rabbit's foot to a side pocket if he wanted his luck to change , Doyle prognosticated on where the bears might be hiding , and simultane- ously on the radio channel two boatmen on Long Island Sound ...
... told Doyle that he ought to change his rabbit's foot to a side pocket if he wanted his luck to change , Doyle prognosticated on where the bears might be hiding , and simultane- ously on the radio channel two boatmen on Long Island Sound ...
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... told the dogs , " You beat the son - of - a - gun ! That's all we wanted . " Between the dogs ' baying , the Choctaw yells , Bob's banging a pole against the tree for the last footage in the camera , there was a terrific racket . I ...
... told the dogs , " You beat the son - of - a - gun ! That's all we wanted . " Between the dogs ' baying , the Choctaw yells , Bob's banging a pole against the tree for the last footage in the camera , there was a terrific racket . I ...
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... told Doyle when we reached them , because kidding the latecomer is traditional in hunting . A week later , we attempted somewhat wistfully to recapitulate these triumphs by taking the dogs to Brownington swamp at dawn again . Lakes of ...
... told Doyle when we reached them , because kidding the latecomer is traditional in hunting . A week later , we attempted somewhat wistfully to recapitulate these triumphs by taking the dogs to Brownington swamp at dawn again . Lakes of ...
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... told me such stories . In the Adirondacks I've also heard some persuasive avowals — one by an old dog - sled driver and trapper , a French Canadian ; another by the owner of a tourist zoo , who was exhibiting a Western cougar . In ...
... told me such stories . In the Adirondacks I've also heard some persuasive avowals — one by an old dog - sled driver and trapper , a French Canadian ; another by the owner of a tourist zoo , who was exhibiting a Western cougar . In ...
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Page 186 - But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18.
Page 191 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heeL...
Page 189 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Page 188 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Page 462 - ... ../Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.
Page 460 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Page 185 - The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Page 443 - ... would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism and perhaps even extinction of the species.
Page 191 - Then the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid...
Page 186 - But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth : but thou shalt utterly destroy them...