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| ... There can't be any number of Injuns here," said the elderly man who appeared to be in command. "We have passed the Pawnees, and there are no other tribes until we cross the great mountains." "Shall I go forward and see, Brother Stangerson," asked one of the band. "And I," " ... |
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| ... would consider the bank the most aristocratic." Valentin burst into a laugh. "My dear fellow, at night all cats are gray! When one derogates there are no degrees." Newman answered nothing for a minute. Then, "I think you will find there are degrees in success," he said with a certain ... |
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| ... the best I can do, isn't it? It's not my fault that we are not all dead now. I can't massacre foreign residents if there are no foreign residents, but I can commit suicide, though, and do it if something happen." There was a long pause, in which the silence ... |
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| ... all the tribes only the Ojibway's art is perfect in paddling a birch canoe. This was a powerful stroke, but harsh and unsteady. "See! there are no feathers on this man's head!" exclaimed the son of the chief. "Hold, warriors, he wears a woman's dress, and I see no weapon. ... |
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| ... day to day on bricks and slates, who had once felt the influence of a scene like this? Who could continue to exist, where there are no cows but the cows on the chimney-pots; nothing redolent of Pan but pan-tiles; no crop but stone crop? Who could bear ... |
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| ... question susceptible of considerable discussion; but it is the popular season. Great care should be taken in the composition of the burning heaps. If there are no old rubbers handy, a length of oilcloth makes a very good substitute. There is, of course, nothing that emits the peculiar flavor of ... |
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| ... meal, will be very much to your advantage." Such an address would be a degradation to the high and lofty profession of Medicine, and there are no such sticklers for the ethics of that profession as some to whom she has been but a bitter and a grudging mother. Dr. ... |
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| ... to Bury. Maybe my Kingdom shall be there." 'So I sailed with Elias to the darkness and the cruelty of Bury in England, where there are no learned men. How can a man be wise if he hate? At Bury I kept his accounts for Elias, and I saw men ... |
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| ... returned, `this very night to make the farmer of our talk.Heaven knows your meaning!she exclaimed. `I know not, neither care; there are no bounds to my desire to please you. Call him made.I will put it in another way,returned Otto. `Did you ever steal?Often!cried ... |
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| ... enterprises. We cannot convince ourselves--in spite of experience after experience--that a human character is never consistent and homogeneous, is always conglomerate, that there are no two traits, however naturally exclusive, which cannot coexist in the same personality, that circumstance is the dominating factor in human action and brings ... |
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| ... One colonel of the Florida regiment told us that one-third of his men had never fired a gun. They live on the ground; there are no rain trenches around the tents, or gutters along the company streets; the latrines are dug to windward of the camp, and all the ... |




