Harper's Magazine, Volume 145Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen Harper & Brothers, 1922 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... stood firm with Alfred . The Irish regiments rallied to them , after a scene like a riot , and marched eastward out of the town , sing- ing Fenian songs . There was all that is not understood , about the dark laughter of that people ...
... stood firm with Alfred . The Irish regiments rallied to them , after a scene like a riot , and marched eastward out of the town , sing- ing Fenian songs . There was all that is not understood , about the dark laughter of that people ...
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... stood a singular erection made appar- ently of two rods . He bent over it and there was the flare of a light ; all March's schoolboy memories woke in him and he knew what it was . It was the stand of a rocket . The confused ...
... stood a singular erection made appar- ently of two rods . He bent over it and there was the flare of a light ; all March's schoolboy memories woke in him and he knew what it was . It was the stand of a rocket . The confused ...
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... stood beside the stand of the rocket . Then another flash lit up the whole ridge . The figure was not there . Before the fires of the rocket had faded from the sky , long before the first gun had sounded from the distant hills , a ...
... stood beside the stand of the rocket . Then another flash lit up the whole ridge . The figure was not there . Before the fires of the rocket had faded from the sky , long before the first gun had sounded from the distant hills , a ...
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... stood up to open a drawer to find a fresh pair of socks he slipped the ring into his trousers pocket and forgot it . As he went out into the alleyway to go forward , the last faint streaks of light were vanishing from the sullen sky ...
... stood up to open a drawer to find a fresh pair of socks he slipped the ring into his trousers pocket and forgot it . As he went out into the alleyway to go forward , the last faint streaks of light were vanishing from the sullen sky ...
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... stood with his hands gripping the top of the dodger , staring hard into the murk , and then he com- prehended . He flinched sideways as a horrible sound smote his ears a whine rising to a muffled shriek as the loosened fall of the big ...
... stood with his hands gripping the top of the dodger , staring hard into the murk , and then he com- prehended . He flinched sideways as a horrible sound smote his ears a whine rising to a muffled shriek as the loosened fall of the big ...
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