Bainbridge Holme, Volume 2 |
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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE amongst Ann Mather apparition appeared ascend Ashburton asked Bainbridge Holme BOND STREET brother cashier CHAPTER Charlie Charlie's clerk course cried dead dear death Doctor document door doubt draft drawer endeavour exclaimed eyes face fact father favour fear feel ghost Greenhill Crescent Growler Hamfield hand Harrogate heard heir-at-law Hilda housekeeper idea intestacy Kent Keswick knew lady Lawyer live look mansion marriage matter Mayne Reid mind morning mother murder mystery nature never night once opened person Perthshire Prior question Robert Rowlandson Rochester Street Rowland Scene séance seemed seen SHAKESPEARE sister sitting Skiddaw spectre spirit Spiritualists Stiles suppose sure tell terrible testator thing Thomas Kent thought tion Tom's took Trevelyan trouble turned watch Whashton whilst wish woman words Wyboothe young
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Page 240 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body; And, with a sudden vigour., it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 223 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes ; and be ready against the third day : for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.
Page 163 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 257 - Dost thou come here to whine? To outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her, and so will I : And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw Millions of acres on us, till our ground, Singeing his pate against the burning zone, Make Ossa like a wart!
Page 145 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 223 - And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it : whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death : there shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through ; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Page 284 - ... tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 240 - ... effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body.
Page 240 - And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden...