Overland Monthly: Devoted to the Development of the CountryA. Roman and Company, 1906 |
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... work- ing and enjoving their work because they knew they were doing it well and did not care to do anything else . It seemed but a few minutes to Isaac when it was all over , but he saw that these men were of different stuff than his.
... work- ing and enjoving their work because they knew they were doing it well and did not care to do anything else . It seemed but a few minutes to Isaac when it was all over , but he saw that these men were of different stuff than his.
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... seemed to grow out of the tree , or rather the figure absorbed the whole tree . Excepting his gigantic stature , he seemed not unlike a man could look , only in place of two eyes he had one in the middle of his fore- head . Observing my ...
... seemed to grow out of the tree , or rather the figure absorbed the whole tree . Excepting his gigantic stature , he seemed not unlike a man could look , only in place of two eyes he had one in the middle of his fore- head . Observing my ...
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... seemed . thoroughly clean . Of course her skin was an ugly blackish brown , and her coal - black hair , coarse and heavy , and cut squaw fashion across the forehead . The mark of her tribe was on her chin , and was most disfiguring ...
... seemed . thoroughly clean . Of course her skin was an ugly blackish brown , and her coal - black hair , coarse and heavy , and cut squaw fashion across the forehead . The mark of her tribe was on her chin , and was most disfiguring ...
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... seemed worried . Again she would say , " He come soon , " and begin to prepare supper for him . For me she had much admiration , and my fair skin and my hair were always a wonder and delight to her . Once she touched my arm , and said ...
... seemed worried . Again she would say , " He come soon , " and begin to prepare supper for him . For me she had much admiration , and my fair skin and my hair were always a wonder and delight to her . Once she touched my arm , and said ...
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... seemed stilled at noon - tide . June has arrived . A slight mist begins to gather on the mountain slopes , which lose their sharp out- line . A little cloud or two floats in the sky , white and fleecy as a snow- flake . The winds ...
... seemed stilled at noon - tide . June has arrived . A slight mist begins to gather on the mountain slopes , which lose their sharp out- line . A little cloud or two floats in the sky , white and fleecy as a snow- flake . The winds ...
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