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Collected Poems of Alexander Pope : The Reader's Library, Volume 12

By: Alexander Pope; Neil Azevedo, Editor

...Book XIII The Fourth Battle Continued, in Which Neptune Assists the Greeks. The Acts of Idomeneus The Iliad: Book XIV Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus The Iliad: Book XV The Fifth Battle, at the Ships; and the Acts of Ajax The Iliad: Book XVI The Sixth Battle: The Acts and Death of Patroclus The Iliad: Book XVII The Seventh Battle, for the Body of Patr...

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Puck of Pooks Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ting of prayers. They were large brown nuts or seeds, and hanging from his girdle with his pen and ink-horn they clashed when he walked. His place was...

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The Second Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

... prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back— For the strength... ...ossed gold; there were nose- rings, armlets, head-bands, finger-rings, and girdles past any counting; there were belts, seven fingers broad, of square...

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The Tragedie of King Lear

By: William Shakespeare

... the waste they are Centaures, though 2568 Women all aboue: but to the Girdle do the Gods inhe-rit, 2569 beneath is all the Fiends. There’s he...

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The Magic Skin

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ng out my ideas as they were wont to hew their rocks. I could at need have girdled my waist with spikes, that physi- cal suffering might quell mental ... ... silken stocking hastily put off to please you last evening, the unclasped girdle that implies a bound- less faith in you. A whole romance lies there ... ...hat implies a bound- less faith in you. A whole romance lies there in that girdle; the woman that it used to protect exists no longer; she is yours, s...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...of foraying hoofs. He glories in his hard- fisted forefathers, of the iron girdle and the handful of oat- meal, who rode so swiftly and lived so spare...

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New Arabian Nights

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... point of self-respect; Villon followed, whistling, with his thumbs in his girdle. “God pity you,” said the lord of Brisetout at the door. “Good-bye, ...

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Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...shipped and gone, I took two guns upon my shoulders, and two pistols in my girdle, and my great sword by my side without a scabbard, and with all the ... ...d charged, as before, between us; I gave Friday one pistol to stick in his girdle, and three guns upon his shoulder, and I took one pis- tol and the o... ...ard, though undermost, wisely quitting the sword, drew the pistol from his girdle, shot the savage through the body, and killed him upon the spot, bef...

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The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner : Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-Inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself, With an Account How He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'D by Pyrates

By: Daniel Defoe

...hipp’d, and gone, I took two Guns upon my Shoulders, and two Pistols at my Girdle, and my great Sword by my Side, without a Scabbard, and with all the... ...d charg’d, as before, between us; I gave Friday one Pistol to stick in his Girdle, and three Guns upon his Shoulder; and I took one Pistol, and the ot... ...aniard, tho’ undermost wisely quitting the Sword, drew the Pistol from his Girdle, shot the Savage through the Body, and kill’d him upon the Spot; bef...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...hers fled the schools, swaggered in the street “with their thumbs in their girdle,” passed the night in riot, and behaved themselves as the worthy for... ...eep him from the dews (serain), and had a sword below it dangling from his girdle. So these three dallied in front of St Benoit, taking their pleasure... ...s three pupils roystering in Paris streets, “with their thumbs under their girdles,” – down sits Master Francis to write his Large T esta- ment, and p... ... with an unmanly sneer. Ladies carried their favourite’s ballades in their girdles.** Margaret of Scotland, all the world knows already, kissed Alain ... ...h the ceremony of a public renunciation of goods; taking off her purse and girdle, she left them on the grave, and thus, by one notable act, cancelled...

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