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When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop.

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Shall we have a beautiful, healthy, prolific son, or a deformed, unhealthy, barren son, incapable of loving and understanding us?

— Maria Montessori, Spontaneous Activity in Education
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The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature?

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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She smiled--she had an uncommonly pleasant smile; it reminded me of someone, somewhere, though I could not think who.

— Richard Marsh, Under One Flag
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I knew the poor woman, their mother, in Pen-zephyr for some years; and--to cut a long story short--I privately married her at last, just before she died.

— Walter Besant, Stories of Successful Marriages
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When they were fully recruited, the party started for the San Joaquin, and commenced trapping down the river.

— DeWitt C. Peters, Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
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It was evident that they debated on the propriety of some measure, that nearly concerned the welfare of the travelers.

— James Fenimore Cooper, Last Of The Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757
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He likes to be flattered as if he cherished a belief in higher things, and to have his low ends and baser motives clothed in a similitude of noble enthusiasm.

— George Thomas Stokes, The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2
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The thought thrilled him, and the fierce glow of enthusiasm became an intoxicating ecstasy.

— Francis Lynde, The Quickening
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Indeed, what idea of nationality or love of country could be formed by the privileged classes of Constantinople?

— Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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One year passed in the strange, new country, and a beautiful babe was born to the ancient house of De Strada, but the mother died, and was buried by the clear Lake of the Tulies.

— May Wentworth, Fairy Tales from Gold Lands Volume One
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During the height of the river, when it is swollen by the periodical rains, sixteen feet of water may be found on the bar.

— Edmund Roberts, Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat
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The little fellow gave a violent start, and the mice darted into their cage, as their owner turned guiltily round to gaze with wet and swollen eyes in his interrupter's face.

— George Manville Fenn, Glyn Severn's Schooldays
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He is said to have been especially hated and dreaded by the Sufis, whose Practise he ridiculed, and whose Faith amounts to little more than his own, when stript of the Mysticism and formal recognition of Islamism..

— Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
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The skin is icy cold, white, and insensitive in severe forms of frostbite, and, if not skillfully treated, becomes, later, either swollen and discolored, or shriveled, dry, and black.

— null, The Home Medical Library, Volume 1 (of 6)
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One arm was flung above her head, one leg drawn up under a torn skirt that left the other bare to the knee: a swollen glistening leg with a ragged stocking rolled down about the ankle.

— Edith Wharton, Summer
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He then took her to the railway station, still cheering her with hope, and, when he had kissed her, he put her into the train, which he watched as it passed out of sight, his eyes swollen with tears.

— Guy de Maupassant, Original Short Stories — Volume 13
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Dogs are frequently swollen and inflamed for weeks, after having received the discharge of a skunk.

— Mayne Reid, The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness
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"Thank God for having given you such a mother," said the Bishop to Augustine, when he met him a few days later; "she is one in a thousand."

— Frances Alice Forbes, Life of Saint Monica
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He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust.

— Emily Dickinson, Railway Train
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