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Page 10
... hill ; and it was a good hour's walk , no doubt , for a short - legged Pygmy to journey from head to foot of the Giant . He would lay down his great hand flat on the grass , and challenge the tallest of them to clamber upon it , and ...
... hill ; and it was a good hour's walk , no doubt , for a short - legged Pygmy to journey from head to foot of the Giant . He would lay down his great hand flat on the grass , and challenge the tallest of them to clamber upon it , and ...
Page 13
... hill ; and he beheld something a long way off which made him rub the bright specks of his eyes and look sharper than before . At first he mistook it for a mountain , and wondered how it had grown up so suddenly out of the earth . But ...
... hill ; and he beheld something a long way off which made him rub the bright specks of his eyes and look sharper than before . At first he mistook it for a mountain , and wondered how it had grown up so suddenly out of the earth . But ...
Page 44
... hill An old stone gateway rises To do her honor still . And there , when Bregenz women Sit spinning in the shade , They see in quaint old carving The Charger and the Maid . And when , to guard old Bregenz By gateway , street , and tower ...
... hill An old stone gateway rises To do her honor still . And there , when Bregenz women Sit spinning in the shade , They see in quaint old carving The Charger and the Maid . And when , to guard old Bregenz By gateway , street , and tower ...
Page 69
... hills that in time of drought and heat , when all the country round was nees of burnt up , there was still rain in the little valley ; and its crops were so heavy , and its hay so high , and its apples so red , and its grapes so blue ...
... hills that in time of drought and heat , when all the country round was nees of burnt up , there was still rain in the little valley ; and its crops were so heavy , and its hay so high , and its apples so red , and its grapes so blue ...
Page 90
... hills . He was , moreover , surprised on surmounting them to find that a large glacier , 1 of whose existence , notwithstanding his previous knowledge of the mountains , he had been absolutely ignorant , lay between him and the source ...
... hills . He was , moreover , surprised on surmounting them to find that a large glacier , 1 of whose existence , notwithstanding his previous knowledge of the mountains , he had been absolutely ignorant , lay between him and the source ...
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