Harper's Magazine, Volume 128Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1914 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... eyes grew bright again and the color came into his cheeks . He talked to her of his life in Nazareth , of the adventures of his first journey , and of the way he came to be lost . She listened to him intently , as if there were some ...
... eyes grew bright again and the color came into his cheeks . He talked to her of his life in Nazareth , of the adventures of his first journey , and of the way he came to be lost . She listened to him intently , as if there were some ...
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... eyes were black and glow- ing , and she could read and do coarse crocheting without spectacles . All her skin , especially round about the eyes , was yellowish brown and very deeply wrinkled indeed ; a decrepit , senile skin , which ...
... eyes were black and glow- ing , and she could read and do coarse crocheting without spectacles . All her skin , especially round about the eyes , was yellowish brown and very deeply wrinkled indeed ; a decrepit , senile skin , which ...
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... eyes were as restless as his limbs , and seemed ever to be seeking for something upon which they could definitely alight , and not finding it . He performed eructations with the disarming naturalness of a baby . He was tall but not ...
... eyes were as restless as his limbs , and seemed ever to be seeking for something upon which they could definitely alight , and not finding it . He performed eructations with the disarming naturalness of a baby . He was tall but not ...
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... eyes of the toys were the only open ones . But somewhere some- thing was wrong . The instinct of the mother who sleeps with one eye and one ear ever alert could not be mistaken . Some need had called her - urgently . She slipped softly ...
... eyes of the toys were the only open ones . But somewhere some- thing was wrong . The instinct of the mother who sleeps with one eye and one ear ever alert could not be mistaken . Some need had called her - urgently . She slipped softly ...
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... eyes , not envious , not in any way disapproving , but seeming only happy in its beauty . And in the dream there was a shining about them , a brightness that grew and in which the tree grew even brighter ; she thought that she knelt ...
... eyes , not envious , not in any way disapproving , but seeming only happy in its beauty . And in the dream there was a shining about them , a brightness that grew and in which the tree grew even brighter ; she thought that she knelt ...
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Page 489 - ... naked deformity, the doctrine that religious truth is to be tested by numbers, or that the major sects have a right to govern the minor. If religion consists in voluntary acts of individuals, singly or voluntarily associated, and it be proper that public functionaries, as well as their constituents, should discharge their religious duties, let them, like their constituents, do so at their own expense.