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...ed, I felt very much inclined to fly

...ed, I felt very much inclined to fly into a passion and box my valet's ears; but on second thoughts I got quietly up, and on going outside the house was not a little interested by the moving illumination which I beheld. When old Marheyo received his share of the spoils, immediate preparations were made for a midnight banquet; calabashes of poee-poee were filled to the brim; green bread-fru...

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...ill you go in the night? You'd better

...ill you go in the night? You'd better stay!' 'I'd be glad to, but I must go on. It's business, and it can't be helped.' 'Well, warm yourself at least. The samovar is just ready.' 'Warm myself? Yes, I'll do that,' said Vasili Andreevich. 'It won't get darker. The moon will rise and it will be lighter. Let's go in and warm ourselves, Nikita.' 'Well, why not? Let us warm ourselves,' re...

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...amongst 3. or fourescore Hogsheads.

...amongst 3. or fourescore Hogsheads. I haue sounded the verie base string of humility. Sirra, I am sworn brother to a leash of Drawers, and can call them by their names, as Tom, Dicke, and Francis. They take it already vpon their confidence, that though I be but Prince of Wales, yet I am the King of Curtesie: telling me flatly I am no proud Iack like Falstaffe, but a Corinthian, a lad of me...

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...re In hopes that St. Nicholas soon w

...re In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like...

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...ring Strait and the Davis Strait."

...ring Strait and the Davis Strait." "So the southern right whale is still unknown to you. Until now it's the bowhead whale you've hunted, and it won't risk going past the warm waters of the equator." "Oh, professor, what are you feeding me?" the Canadian answered in a tolerably skeptical tone. "I'm feeding you the facts." "By thunder! In '65, just two and a half years ago, I to who...

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