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... hour and fifteen minutes ; and it was found that the blood of a sheep which had been killed in half an hour by a cobra , when injected into a healthy sheep , carried enough poison with it to c use death , though not in so short a time ...
... hour and fifteen minutes ; and it was found that the blood of a sheep which had been killed in half an hour by a cobra , when injected into a healthy sheep , carried enough poison with it to c use death , though not in so short a time ...
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... hours ' long . A few years ago , Mr. A. Novello , astronomical day includes the night , and is consequently the ... hour to recall some lesson of endurance , some hopeful sentence , some useful maxim , some scrap of wisdom , some ...
... hours ' long . A few years ago , Mr. A. Novello , astronomical day includes the night , and is consequently the ... hour to recall some lesson of endurance , some hopeful sentence , some useful maxim , some scrap of wisdom , some ...
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... hour or two of each day , and then he returns calm and refreshed to his customary business . Moreover , any kind of ... hours over his composition , until , " use doth breed a habit in a man . " So that if wearied and confused , he ...
... hour or two of each day , and then he returns calm and refreshed to his customary business . Moreover , any kind of ... hours over his composition , until , " use doth breed a habit in a man . " So that if wearied and confused , he ...
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... hour have I stood on the end of the wharf keeping account of cargo while loading up a vessel with peanuts . It was while engaged in loading a large schooner lying off Rufisque , that the following adventure befel me , and one that I ...
... hour have I stood on the end of the wharf keeping account of cargo while loading up a vessel with peanuts . It was while engaged in loading a large schooner lying off Rufisque , that the following adventure befel me , and one that I ...
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... hour ? It must be so , for his father was always punctu- ality itself in all appointments . Yes , that was the reason - they had mistaken the day of his libera- tion . Still he resolved to wait a little time . " Something may have ...
... hour ? It must be so , for his father was always punctu- ality itself in all appointments . Yes , that was the reason - they had mistaken the day of his libera- tion . Still he resolved to wait a little time . " Something may have ...
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Página 62 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Página 148 - Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Página 148 - But the cheerful spring came kindly on, And show'rs began to fall; John Barleycorn got up again, And sore surpris'd them all. The sultry suns of summer came, And he grew thick and strong; His head weel arm'd wi' pointed spears, That no one should him wrong.
Página 165 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottoms are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream.
Página 82 - Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find : Every man will be thy friend Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend ; But if store of crowns be scant, No man will supply thy want. If that one be prodigal, Bountiful they will him call, And with such-like flattering,
Página 61 - Looking back now on that life of toil, I cannot but feel thankful that it formed such a material part of my early education ; and, were it possible, I should like to begin life over again in the same lowly style, and to pass through the same hardy training.
Página 148 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Página 16 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 148 - Nay, not so," Replied the angel. — Abou spoke more low. But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee, then. Write me as one that loves his fellow-men." The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again, with a great wakening light. And showed the names whom love of God had blessed. — And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest!
Página 165 - Often one half of a vessel may be perceived floating in Gulf Stream water, while the other half is in common water of the sea, so sharp is the line and such the want of affinity between those waters, and such too the reluctance, so to speak, on the part of those of the Gulf Stream to mingle with the common water of the sea.