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... forest through which lay the road they had taken . The forest extended some leagues , and sheltered them by its umbrageous recesses from the burning heat of the mid - day sun . Toward the evening , Ricardo was obliged to stop , to rest ...
... forest through which lay the road they had taken . The forest extended some leagues , and sheltered them by its umbrageous recesses from the burning heat of the mid - day sun . Toward the evening , Ricardo was obliged to stop , to rest ...
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... forest , they now began to wind over a moun- tainous tract of country . Ricardo reached the summit of the last of the chain of hills just as the clouds , tinged with the radiant beams of the setting sun , were losing their borrowed ...
... forest , they now began to wind over a moun- tainous tract of country . Ricardo reached the summit of the last of the chain of hills just as the clouds , tinged with the radiant beams of the setting sun , were losing their borrowed ...
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... forest happily came up , at the sight of whom the men who had given her so much alarm slunk away , and un- der covert of the grey mantle of evening escaped . It was under the influence of the terrors excited by this circumstance that ...
... forest happily came up , at the sight of whom the men who had given her so much alarm slunk away , and un- der covert of the grey mantle of evening escaped . It was under the influence of the terrors excited by this circumstance that ...
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... forest , the par- ty , late so melancholy , but now antici- pating future years of joy and happi- ness , set out on their journey , accom- panied by the Count , who , however , had not recovered the tranquillity of his mind , and whose ...
... forest , the par- ty , late so melancholy , but now antici- pating future years of joy and happi- ness , set out on their journey , accom- panied by the Count , who , however , had not recovered the tranquillity of his mind , and whose ...
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... forest ere the gloom of evening should render their journey difficult . The dark mantle of night was swiftly descending on the earth when Ricardo and his party entered the valley . The hapless Signora Bononi was standing at the gate of ...
... forest ere the gloom of evening should render their journey difficult . The dark mantle of night was swiftly descending on the earth when Ricardo and his party entered the valley . The hapless Signora Bononi was standing at the gate of ...
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The Demon of Sicily - A Romance, in Four Volumes - Vol. II, Volume 2 Edward Montague No preview available - 2010 |
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Page 141 - I have seen the walls of Balclutha, but they were desolate. The fire had resounded in the halls; and the voice of the people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook there its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head. Desolate is the dwelling of Moina; silence is in the house of her fathers.