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... with another quotation from the sweet singer of the South Seas be- cause it seemed to fit the case particularly well : " Life is far better fun than people dream who fall asleep among the chimney stacks and the telegraph wires .
... with another quotation from the sweet singer of the South Seas be- cause it seemed to fit the case particularly well : " Life is far better fun than people dream who fall asleep among the chimney stacks and the telegraph wires .
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The romance of the land was upon me , and while I gazed at the in- scrutable and grotesque features of the effigy , I seemed to hear the war cries of ancient heroes , the Kamehamehas of old , the Kainas , the warriors who fought and ...
The romance of the land was upon me , and while I gazed at the in- scrutable and grotesque features of the effigy , I seemed to hear the war cries of ancient heroes , the Kamehamehas of old , the Kainas , the warriors who fought and ...
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It seemed an aqueous rain- bow it was a violent exposition of the chromatic scale limned in the waters of the bay - deep purples and blues of vary- ing shades , and light greens and reds and scarlets , and the whole seemed like the ...
It seemed an aqueous rain- bow it was a violent exposition of the chromatic scale limned in the waters of the bay - deep purples and blues of vary- ing shades , and light greens and reds and scarlets , and the whole seemed like the ...
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Inanimate objects , or parts of them , seemed to take on human shape . When he attained the valley , even the sun- light had a sinister aspect . Over the field of his former settlement he scoured , and did ...
Inanimate objects , or parts of them , seemed to take on human shape . When he attained the valley , even the sun- light had a sinister aspect . Over the field of his former settlement he scoured , and did ...
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But the chief seemed willing to maintain his compact of friendship with the absent one , and re- peated , " It is well . Lean - face will wear the cord of trees and come take two hands- ful of cows , " by which latter he meant ten .
But the chief seemed willing to maintain his compact of friendship with the absent one , and re- peated , " It is well . Lean - face will wear the cord of trees and come take two hands- ful of cows , " by which latter he meant ten .
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| Title | Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine |
| Editor | Bret Harte |
| Contributor | Making of America Project |
| Publisher | A. Roman 1868-1875, 1909 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2008 |
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