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" The corpse of a drowned seaman had been found on the beach about a month previous, some forty yards from where we lay. The hands and feet, miserably contracted, and corrugated into deep folds at every joint, yet swollen to twice their proper size, had... "
My Schools and Schoolmasters: Or, The Story of My Education - Page 81
by Hugh Miller - 1859 - 562 pages
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An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - 1854 - 600 pages
...my companion, bursting into tears, " if it were not for my mother ; but what will my mother say V " Wouldn't care neither," said I, with a heavy heart...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that...
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My Schools and Schoolmasters, Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - 1854 - 572 pages
...head should have been, there ex isted orly a sad mass of rubbish. I had examined the body as voung people are apt to do, a great deal too curiously for my peace ; and, though I had never done the poor nauieleai seaman any harm, I could not have suffered more from him during that melancholy night, had...
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An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - 1855 - 570 pages
...with the decline of evening, almost every meteoric tint of anger, from fiery red to a sombre thnndrous brown, and from sombre brown to doleful black. And...never done the poor nameless seaman any harm, I could not^have suffered more from him* during that melancholy night, had I been his murderer. Sleeping or...
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My Schools and Schoolmasters, Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - 1857 - 550 pages
...examined the body, as young people are apt to do, a great deal too curiously for my peace ; and, thov*) I had never done the poor nameless seaman any harm,...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 4

Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...heavier, now lighter, as the gusto swelled or sank ; and the intermittent patter of the stream 1-t over the deeper cave, now driving against the precipices,...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that...
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Men who Have Risen: A Book for Boys

James Hogg - 1859 - 346 pages
...yet swollen to twice their proper size, had been bleached as white as pieces of alumed sheep- skin; and where the head should have been, there existed...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that...
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Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable ..., Volumes 36-37

1854 - 562 pages
...caves. We could hear, too, the beating rain, now heavier, now lighter, as the gusts swelled or sunk ; and the intermittent patter of the streamlet over...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that...
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Chambers's narrative series of standard reading books, Book 6

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 316 pages
...pieces of alumed sheepskin, and where the head should have been, there existed only a sad mass of decay. I had examined the body, as young people are apt to...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a dose, he would come stalking up the beach, from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers,...
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Works: Schools and schoolmasters; or the story of my education, an autobiography

Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 pages
...the intermittent patter of the streamlet over the deeper cave, now driving against the preci pices, now descending heavily on the stones. My companion...continually before me. Every time I dropped into a doze, he would come stalking up the beach from the spot where he had lain, with his stiff white fingers, that...
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Independent First[-sixth] Reader, Volume 2

James Madison Watson - 1868 - 314 pages
...of alumed sheep-skin ; and where the head should have been, there existed only a sad mass of decay. I had examined the body, as young people are apt to...Sleeping or waking, he was continually before me. 6. Every time I dropped into a dose, he would come stalking up the beach, from the spot where he had...
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