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“A certain miller was much annoyed by a goblin, who used to come and set his mill at work at night when there was no grain to be ground, greatly to the danger of the machinery, so he desired a person to watch. This person, however, always fell asleep, but once woke up from a nap time enough to see the mill in full operation, a bl...
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Jason dinAlt looked unhappily at the two stretchers as they were carried by. \"Are they at it again?\" he asked. Brucco nodded, the scowl permanently ingrained now on his hawklike face. \"We have only one thing to be thankful for. That is—so far at least—they haven\'t used any weapons on each other.\"
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\"A Paradoxical philosopher, carrying to the uttermost length that aphorism of Montesquieu\'s, \'Happy the people whose annals are tiresome,\' has said; \'Happy the people whose annals are vacant.\' In which saying, mad as it looks, may there not still be found some grain of reason? For truly, as it has been written, \'Silence is divin...
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Having left Vienna, we proceeded through the Duchies of Stiria, Carinthia, and Carniola, to Venice. Notwithstanding the mountainous nature of those countries, the roads are remarkably good. They were formed originally at a vast expence of labour to the inhabitants, but in such a durable manner, that it requires[2] no great trouble to ...
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Man, as is evidenced by his teeth, was created graminivorous, as well as carnivorous, and the earliest skull yet found possesses teeth exactly the same as modern man, the carnivorous teeth not being bigger, whilst in many cases the whole of the teeth have been worn down, as if by masticating hard substances, such as parched grain.
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Category： Author：Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Seven horns pavilion is old curtilage" and "seven horns cabinet house", to borrow the family curse this ancient gothic tradition, depicts the pynchon family due to the ancestral thuggery and make the story of the offspring of retribution. Novel depiction of seven Angle cabinet is old curtilage, everywhere is full of symbolic signifi...
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Category： Author：Anthony Trollope
It is said of those who are small and crooked-backed in their bodies, that their minds are equally cross-grained and their tempers as ungainly as their stature. But no one had ever said this of Mary Belton. Her friends, indeed, were very few in number; but those who knew her well loved her as they knew her, and there were three or ...
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