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... dead . Today some of them are not only dead but forgotten . Mr. Lounsbury was a well - known scholar ; and when the publishers announced that he was preparing an anthology , he received scores of letters from quillmen asking him to ...
... dead . Today some of them are not only dead but forgotten . Mr. Lounsbury was a well - known scholar ; and when the publishers announced that he was preparing an anthology , he received scores of letters from quillmen asking him to ...
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William Lyon Phelps. the dead are laid out , and every one brings to his own dead any offering which he pleases . At the time of the funeral the bones are placed in chests of cypress wood , which are conveyed on hearses ; there is one ...
William Lyon Phelps. the dead are laid out , and every one brings to his own dead any offering which he pleases . At the time of the funeral the bones are placed in chests of cypress wood , which are conveyed on hearses ; there is one ...
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... dead head a sight to strike any man with dismay . He put his art to a strange use , and one unpar- alleled perhaps in the history of mankind . He illuminated his dead enemy's face to frighten his living foe : the staring eyeballs he ...
... dead head a sight to strike any man with dismay . He put his art to a strange use , and one unpar- alleled perhaps in the history of mankind . He illuminated his dead enemy's face to frighten his living foe : the staring eyeballs he ...
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