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... force the wearer in walking to swing himself heavily round from left to right , and from right to left . In truth , this great edifice of woollen , and cotton , and silk , and silver , and brass , and steel , is not at all fitted for ...
... force the wearer in walking to swing himself heavily round from left to right , and from right to left . In truth , this great edifice of woollen , and cotton , and silk , and silver , and brass , and steel , is not at all fitted for ...
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... forces , " arrived ; he came sleek and fresh from the bath ( for so is the custom of the Ottomans when they start upon a journey ) , and was carefully accoutred at every point . From his thigh to his throat he was laden with arms and ...
... forces , " arrived ; he came sleek and fresh from the bath ( for so is the custom of the Ottomans when they start upon a journey ) , and was carefully accoutred at every point . From his thigh to his throat he was laden with arms and ...
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... force him into a strangely fast shuffling walk , the orthodox pace for the journey . My comrade and I , using Eng- lish saddles , could not easily keep our beasts up to this peculiar amble : besides , we thought it a bore to be followed ...
... force him into a strangely fast shuffling walk , the orthodox pace for the journey . My comrade and I , using Eng- lish saddles , could not easily keep our beasts up to this peculiar amble : besides , we thought it a bore to be followed ...
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... forces the living not merely to remember the dead man , but to follow and bear him company . The Europeans during the prevalence of the plague , if they are forced to venture into the streets , will carefully avoid the touch of every ...
... forces the living not merely to remember the dead man , but to follow and bear him company . The Europeans during the prevalence of the plague , if they are forced to venture into the streets , will carefully avoid the touch of every ...
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... force yourself hardily into the material pres- ence of a mountain or a river , whose name belongs to poetry and ancient religion , rather than to the external world ; your feelings , wound up and kept ready for some sort of half ...
... force yourself hardily into the material pres- ence of a mountain or a river , whose name belongs to poetry and ancient religion , rather than to the external world ; your feelings , wound up and kept ready for some sort of half ...
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