Standard Selections: A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the PlatformRobert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood, Edwin P. Trueblood |
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... seen the city and the whole world sunk in ruins rather than fail of his purpose . For days and days his search was unceasing , and at last he found Lygia , but in making a second attempt to carry her off was severely wounded by the ...
... seen the city and the whole world sunk in ruins rather than fail of his purpose . For days and days his search was unceasing , and at last he found Lygia , but in making a second attempt to carry her off was severely wounded by the ...
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... seen the like of Ursus . The people gazed with the delight of experts at his mighty limbs , as large as tree trunks ; at his breast , as large as two shields joined together , and his arms of a Hercules . He was unarmed , and had ...
... seen the like of Ursus . The people gazed with the delight of experts at his mighty limbs , as large as tree trunks ; at his breast , as large as two shields joined together , and his arms of a Hercules . He was unarmed , and had ...
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... seen such a spectacle . The man's feet sank in the sand to his ankle ; his back was bent like a bow ; his head was hidden between his shoulders ; on his arms the muscles came out so that the skin almost burst from their pressure ; but ...
... seen such a spectacle . The man's feet sank in the sand to his ankle ; his back was bent like a bow ; his head was hidden between his shoulders ; on his arms the muscles came out so that the skin almost burst from their pressure ; but ...
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... seen in a circus before . Voices choking with tears began to demand mercy . Yet Nero halted and hesitated . He would have preferred to see the giant and the maiden rent by the horns of the bull . Nero was alarmed . He understood that to ...
... seen in a circus before . Voices choking with tears began to demand mercy . Yet Nero halted and hesitated . He would have preferred to see the giant and the maiden rent by the horns of the bull . Nero was alarmed . He understood that to ...
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... seen The red flag wave from the city gate , Where the eagles in bronze had been . The Empress , too , had a tear in her eye ; You'd have thought that her fancy had gone back again , For one moment , under the old blue sky , To that old ...
... seen The red flag wave from the city gate , Where the eagles in bronze had been . The Empress , too , had a tear in her eye ; You'd have thought that her fancy had gone back again , For one moment , under the old blue sky , To that old ...
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