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... turned low . With the same attitude of removal , they cock a glance at what is going on , as if they need only to fly away . Until recently they were also a case of virtue rewarded , at least in the town where I grew up , because ...
... turned low . With the same attitude of removal , they cock a glance at what is going on , as if they need only to fly away . Until recently they were also a case of virtue rewarded , at least in the town where I grew up , because ...
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... turning her head , then sets off like a loping tiger in slow motion , hurdling the jungly lumber , the pea vine and ... turned out to be a wholesaler as well , and once I asked him whether he had any larger turtles to sell . He took me ...
... turning her head , then sets off like a loping tiger in slow motion , hurdling the jungly lumber , the pea vine and ... turned out to be a wholesaler as well , and once I asked him whether he had any larger turtles to sell . He took me ...
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... bought from a famous string of dogs in Olympia , Washington , that destroys a hundred or more bears a year in some of the seed - woods of Weyerhauser . This second hunt turned into the classic variety . As 25 The War in the Woods.
... bought from a famous string of dogs in Olympia , Washington , that destroys a hundred or more bears a year in some of the seed - woods of Weyerhauser . This second hunt turned into the classic variety . As 25 The War in the Woods.
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Essays Edward Hoagland. This second hunt turned into the classic variety . As it grew plain that at last they all were going to be given something to do , the crated dogs howled pathetically to be let loose . Tuffy had struck a fresh ...
Essays Edward Hoagland. This second hunt turned into the classic variety . As it grew plain that at last they all were going to be given something to do , the crated dogs howled pathetically to be let loose . Tuffy had struck a fresh ...
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... turned . We climbed a sunny knoll and waited . He was on a beechnut ridge to the south , croaking like a chicken ; then he en- tered a sugar orchard . Eric and Bob went off to listening posts on crowns of hills around the countryside ...
... turned . We climbed a sunny knoll and waited . He was on a beechnut ridge to the south , croaking like a chicken ; then he en- tered a sugar orchard . Eric and Bob went off to listening posts on crowns of hills around the countryside ...
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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...