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... heads I stewed in the juice of Oranges , which , with boiled rice , afforded me a wholsome and delicious supper : I hung the remainder of my broiled fish on the snags of some shrubs over my head . I at last , after reconnoitring my ...
... heads I stewed in the juice of Oranges , which , with boiled rice , afforded me a wholsome and delicious supper : I hung the remainder of my broiled fish on the snags of some shrubs over my head . I at last , after reconnoitring my ...
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... head , is of all places the most dangerous ; because there can be no ampu- tation to save life . There being but one head to a man , and that being the residence of the five senses , it is impossible to live without it . Never- theless ...
... head , is of all places the most dangerous ; because there can be no ampu- tation to save life . There being but one head to a man , and that being the residence of the five senses , it is impossible to live without it . Never- theless ...
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... head . It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper , whose head had been carried away by a cannonball , in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War , and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk , hurrying ...
... head . It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper , whose head had been carried away by a cannonball , in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War , and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk , hurrying ...
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Four Early Travelers and Observers | 1 |
George Alsop 1638post 1666 | 27 |
Of the Situation and Plenty | 34 |
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