Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... Will they keep out the noise ? " I ask . ' Certainly ; but it is not for that we use them , it is to keep out the cold . " " The rooms are too warm already ; I have but very little fire . But there is so little air 8 LIFE IN SWEDEN ,
... Will they keep out the noise ? " I ask . ' Certainly ; but it is not for that we use them , it is to keep out the cold . " " The rooms are too warm already ; I have but very little fire . But there is so little air 8 LIFE IN SWEDEN ,
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... cold and let out the heat . The cold will get into the walls and destroy them , and we must pay for that ; and if you let out the heat it will cost us too much . in wood . The walls would get so cold , we should never be able to get ...
... cold and let out the heat . The cold will get into the walls and destroy them , and we must pay for that ; and if you let out the heat it will cost us too much . in wood . The walls would get so cold , we should never be able to get ...
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... cold , dreary winds that had swept over them , had left them changed , indeed , in aspect , but firm , unfallen , more glorious than before- like the suffering , tried , yet stedfast soul of the Christian , giving signs of the strife ...
... cold , dreary winds that had swept over them , had left them changed , indeed , in aspect , but firm , unfallen , more glorious than before- like the suffering , tried , yet stedfast soul of the Christian , giving signs of the strife ...
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... cold of a frosty September had been much greater than that of the end of October . The heat of my rooms I found ... cold - dreading hosts . To - day , however , the 8th day of November , the weather is cold enough to herald the approach ...
... cold of a frosty September had been much greater than that of the end of October . The heat of my rooms I found ... cold - dreading hosts . To - day , however , the 8th day of November , the weather is cold enough to herald the approach ...
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... cold , could meet it with only evening dresses , or at most with their trains turned up on their bare necks ; and I thought how English mammas and nurses would be alarmed at an eight - day - old infant being exposed to the same , and ...
... cold , could meet it with only evening dresses , or at most with their trains turned up on their bare necks ; and I thought how English mammas and nurses would be alarmed at an eight - day - old infant being exposed to the same , and ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.