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... wind like an English brook and provide a domestic view for the houses which were planned . Most of the painted turtles of Mud Pond , who had been inaccessible as they sunned on their rocks , wound up in boxes in boys ' closets within a ...
... wind like an English brook and provide a domestic view for the houses which were planned . Most of the painted turtles of Mud Pond , who had been inaccessible as they sunned on their rocks , wound up in boxes in boys ' closets within a ...
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... windy . He was very surprised when I tossed him in ; for the first time in our association , I think , he was afraid . He looked afraid as he bobbed about on top of the water , looking up at me from ten feet below . Though we were both ...
... windy . He was very surprised when I tossed him in ; for the first time in our association , I think , he was afraid . He looked afraid as he bobbed about on top of the water , looking up at me from ten feet below . Though we were both ...
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... wind blew loudly in the fellow's face , so that the bear may not have scented him , or may have scented him and waited . At nearly the same instant they saw each other , close up — the bear's head lifting , bloody and aswarm with flies ...
... wind blew loudly in the fellow's face , so that the bear may not have scented him , or may have scented him and waited . At nearly the same instant they saw each other , close up — the bear's head lifting , bloody and aswarm with flies ...
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... wind may have blown down the corn , but it gives him a chance to chat a while and maybe write some insurance . For eighteen years he himself farmed , and he grew up on one . Be- sides , he enjoys people and is a man whose hunting is ...
... wind may have blown down the corn , but it gives him a chance to chat a while and maybe write some insurance . For eighteen years he himself farmed , and he grew up on one . Be- sides , he enjoys people and is a man whose hunting is ...
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... wind and walked lightly and softly , letting the silvery darkness settle around me . The blow - downs were as black as whales ; my feet sank in the moss . Clearly this was as crowded a day as I would ever have , and I knew my real ...
... wind and walked lightly and softly , letting the silvery darkness settle around me . The blow - downs were as black as whales ; my feet sank in the moss . Clearly this was as crowded a day as I would ever have , and I knew my real ...
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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...