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We are taller , and less fleshy ; more disposed to stoop ; have more prominent features , and faces less full ; arc less ruddy , and more tanned ; have much smaller hands and feet , anti - democratical as it may be ; and are more ...
We are taller , and less fleshy ; more disposed to stoop ; have more prominent features , and faces less full ; arc less ruddy , and more tanned ; have much smaller hands and feet , anti - democratical as it may be ; and are more ...
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The slope of the sides of the vast funnel became momently less and less sharp . The gyrations of the whirl grow gradually less and less violent . By degrees the froth and the rainbow disappeared , and the bottom of the gulf seemed ...
The slope of the sides of the vast funnel became momently less and less sharp . The gyrations of the whirl grow gradually less and less violent . By degrees the froth and the rainbow disappeared , and the bottom of the gulf seemed ...
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At each spontancous tribute rendered by the wayfarers to this black pagod of a fellow — the tribute of a pause and stare , and less frequent an exclamation , -- the motley retinue showed that they took that sort of pride in the evoker ...
At each spontancous tribute rendered by the wayfarers to this black pagod of a fellow — the tribute of a pause and stare , and less frequent an exclamation , -- the motley retinue showed that they took that sort of pride in the evoker ...
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Contents
The Literature of the Colonies and the Revolution | 3 |
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 32 |
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| Title | The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1 The American Tradition in Literature, Sculley Bradley |
| Editor | Sculley Bradley |
| Publisher | Norton, 1957 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 15 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1575 pages |
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