stony fingers clasped round my legs, and forehead resting on my knees; and there would I sit, unmov...
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being too large and heavy to carry; eventually I put the fragments into a light sack; and in order ...
felt no actual pain, but only unutterable weariness of body and soul, when feet and legs were numb ...
Robert Louis Stevenson by Walter Raleigh WHEN a popular writer dies, the question it has become th...
story, in whose mind 'the effect of night, of any flowing water, of lighted cities, of the peep of ...
near to death, who is spoken of as groping already with his hands 'on the face of the IMPASSABLE.' ...
has escaped. Much may be made of this idea.' 'The scene of a story or sketch to be laid within the ...
' "Nay," said he, "let be. Y' have played the devil with me, and let that content you." 'The words...
Discharged in several duties and observations of service, first, under the magnanimous King of Denm...
Nuflo cried out after them that they had seen a saint and that some horrible thing would befall the...
with the wild animals she loved, her companions; and having no fear of them, for she did not know t...
"You are right; I must go alone." "Not so, Rima, for where you go, there we must go; only you will ...
the savage Indian, though he sees little to admire in a flower, yet seeing this one would veil his ...
once more under that tree where we first talked, and under the old mora, where you hid yourself and...
dispatching it, which he did apparently without compunction, notwithstanding that the poor brute ha...