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Page 33
... blood . An unusual weight oppressed my breast . I stood , darkened in my place . The image of the maid wandered over my troubled soul . The sprightly harp's melodious voice arose from the string of the bards . My soul melted away in the ...
... blood . An unusual weight oppressed my breast . I stood , darkened in my place . The image of the maid wandered over my troubled soul . The sprightly harp's melodious voice arose from the string of the bards . My soul melted away in the ...
Page 34
... Blood gushed from his panting breast . Tears flowed streaming from mine eyes . I stretched forth my hand to the chief . I proffered gentle words of peace . Faintly he seized my hand . Stranger , ' he said , I willingly die , for my days ...
... Blood gushed from his panting breast . Tears flowed streaming from mine eyes . I stretched forth my hand to the chief . I proffered gentle words of peace . Faintly he seized my hand . Stranger , ' he said , I willingly die , for my days ...
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... blood , or rose in terror on the waves of the main . Dark .. ly sat the gray - haired chief ; yet sorrow dwelt not in his soul . But when the warrior thought on the past , his proud heart heaved against his side . forth flew his sword ...
... blood , or rose in terror on the waves of the main . Dark .. ly sat the gray - haired chief ; yet sorrow dwelt not in his soul . But when the warrior thought on the past , his proud heart heaved against his side . forth flew his sword ...
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... blood of the Incas , taught him in his youth , that he collected the materials of his history . If other nations , then , that had often been overrun by enemies , and hath sent abroad and received colonies , could for many ages preserve ...
... blood of the Incas , taught him in his youth , that he collected the materials of his history . If other nations , then , that had often been overrun by enemies , and hath sent abroad and received colonies , could for many ages preserve ...
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... blood . The small number , as well as the presence of their prince , prevented those divi- sions , which , afterward , sprung forth into so many separate tribes . When the seat of govern- ment was removed to the south , those who re ...
... blood . The small number , as well as the presence of their prince , prevented those divi- sions , which , afterward , sprung forth into so many separate tribes . When the seat of govern- ment was removed to the south , those who re ...
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