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• Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads

  he pretty valley stretched beyond, The mountains towered above, And (p. 142) near its willow banks I heard The cooing of a dove

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• Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads

  What could I say? We parted, Mad Jack was growing old; I handed him a bank note And all I had in gold. They rode away at sunrise, I went a mile or two, And parting says, "We will meet again; May God watch over you."

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• A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis

  Powers, Melvin

  Another frequent question is: "How do I arouse myself from the self-hypnotic state?" You merely say to yourself that upon counting to five you will open your eyes and wake up feeling fine. Many times the subject falls asleep while giving himself posthypnotic suggestions. This is not undesirable since the suggestions will spill over into the subconscious mind as he goes from consciousness to unconsciousness.

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• Paradise Lost

  Milton, John

  As from the centre thrice to th’ utmost pole. Oh how unlike the place from whence they fell! There the companions of his fall, o’erwhelmed With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire, He soon discerns; and, weltering

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  thickly. “Where do you live?” repeated the constable. The man

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  way through the ring of bystanders. He knelt down promptly

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  them at once, taking the other footpath. When they stopped he stopped too. They talked for a

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  He began to puff at his pipe, no doubt arranging his opinion in his mind.

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  there was something queer ... there was something uncanny about him.

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis.

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• Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

  Melville, Herman

  You had almost thought I had been his wife.

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind

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• Dubliners

  Joyce, James

  There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.

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• Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

  Melville, Herman

  and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.

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• Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

  Melville, Herman

  come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.

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• The best British short stories of 1922

  She was passionately fond of reading. She was not fond of talking.

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