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... hope to escape , unless he had the power , with his bare hands , of rending asunder the solid iron walls of his prison . He could not hope for liberty from the relenting mercies of his enemy . His instant death , under any form of ...
... hope to escape , unless he had the power , with his bare hands , of rending asunder the solid iron walls of his prison . He could not hope for liberty from the relenting mercies of his enemy . His instant death , under any form of ...
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... hope- less sorrow . He had taken no food . Not one drop of water had cooled the fever of his parched lips . Sleep had not visited his eyes for six and thirty hours . He was faint with hunger , weary with watching , and with the excess ...
... hope- less sorrow . He had taken no food . Not one drop of water had cooled the fever of his parched lips . Sleep had not visited his eyes for six and thirty hours . He was faint with hunger , weary with watching , and with the excess ...
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... hope of deliverance ; and there is no hope so feeble as not to yield some support to a heart bend- ing under despair . He resolved to watch , during the night , for the signs he had before observed ; and should he again feel the gentle ...
... hope of deliverance ; and there is no hope so feeble as not to yield some support to a heart bend- ing under despair . He resolved to watch , during the night , for the signs he had before observed ; and should he again feel the gentle ...
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... hope he will me , that ministered to his unhallowed purpose ! Miserable wretch , who- e'er thou art , that readest these lines , fall on thy knees , and invoke , as I have done , His sustaining mer- cy , who alone can nerve thee to meet ...
... hope he will me , that ministered to his unhallowed purpose ! Miserable wretch , who- e'er thou art , that readest these lines , fall on thy knees , and invoke , as I have done , His sustaining mer- cy , who alone can nerve thee to meet ...
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... length . But his wasted spirits and oppressed mind no longer struggled within him . hope , and fear shook him no more . Happy if thus revenge had struck He was past its final blow ; for he would have fallen beneath 18 The Iron Shroud .
... length . But his wasted spirits and oppressed mind no longer struggled within him . hope , and fear shook him no more . Happy if thus revenge had struck He was past its final blow ; for he would have fallen beneath 18 The Iron Shroud .
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