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... faroff rocks, theholy hushof early morning hadrested like abenediction upon the scene,as though naturelaid her broad finger over hergreat lips, and waited in reverent silence the advent of the sun. Morning CHAPTER I. ...
... faroff rocks, theholy hushof early morning hadrested like abenediction upon the scene,as though naturelaid her broad finger over hergreat lips, and waited in reverent silence the advent of the sun. Morning CHAPTER I. ...
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... lips: "He stood and measured the earth: and the everlasting mountains were scattered, theperpetual hills—" The sudden, almost simultaneous report of two pistol shots rang outsharply on the cool, calm air, and startled the child ...
... lips: "He stood and measured the earth: and the everlasting mountains were scattered, theperpetual hills—" The sudden, almost simultaneous report of two pistol shots rang outsharply on the cool, calm air, and startled the child ...
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... lips, the child staggered tothespot,andlooked on the prostrate form, he was dead. The hazel eyes stared blankly at the sky, and the hue of lifeand exuberant health still glowed on the full cheek; but theball had enteredthe heart ...
... lips, the child staggered tothespot,andlooked on the prostrate form, he was dead. The hazel eyes stared blankly at the sky, and the hue of lifeand exuberant health still glowed on the full cheek; but theball had enteredthe heart ...
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... lips. She neither wept nor moaned, the shock was too terrible to admit of noisy grief; but completely stunned, shelaymuteand desolate. For the firsttime in herlifeshecould not pray; she wanted to turn away fromthe thoughtof Godand ...
... lips. She neither wept nor moaned, the shock was too terrible to admit of noisy grief; but completely stunned, shelaymuteand desolate. For the firsttime in herlifeshecould not pray; she wanted to turn away fromthe thoughtof Godand ...
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... lips? Wasita decree inthewill and wisdomofourGod, ora fiat from theblind fumbling ofAtheistic Chance, or wasit in accordance with the rigid edictofPantheistic Necessity, that at that instant the cherubim ofdeath swoopeddown,on the ...
... lips? Wasita decree inthewill and wisdomofourGod, ora fiat from theblind fumbling ofAtheistic Chance, or wasit in accordance with the rigid edictofPantheistic Necessity, that at that instant the cherubim ofdeath swoopeddown,on the ...
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