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Little Giant, alloy point, (with chain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1882 | See Source »

...night with its pleasant chain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DREAMS. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...mortal man was depicted in my countenance. I fell at the feet of the brutal wild man, and implored him to restore me to my Linda. "Linda," said he, - his face wore a far-away, dreamy expression; his heart beat violently against his waistcoat pocket, and caused his watch-chain to swing to and fro, - "Linda," said he; then suddenly recollecting himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

...robust, it would have been worse than prolepsis - to would have been a terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head that mortal ever beheld. Clad cap-a-pie in chain armor he surveyed with sweeping glance the whole quadrangle. His single offensive weapon - a sword-cane - he used with such skill and precision that he could transfix an enemy with it every time at an angle of forty-five degrees. The conditions which he laid down in fighting were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACT FROM "THE NEW IVANHOE." | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

Tugging at its chain, if but the night breeze blow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANCHORED. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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