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...oat as near the shore as it will come; but it will be aground in twelve or thirteen feet water.” —Thomas Edge’ s Ten V oyages to Spitzbergen, in Purch... ...stitions do we fail to throw the same snowy mantle round our phantoms; all ghosts rising in a milk-white fog—Y ea, while these terrors seize us, let u... ...t century. Captain Langsdorff thus begins his seventeenth chapter: “By the thirteenth of May our ship was ready to sail, and the next day we were out ... ...ping wound. Nor was this all. It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures. A sort of generic or Pantheistic vitality seemed... ...th his ghost becomes a power- less panic to a world. Are you a believer in ghosts, my friend? There are other ghosts than the Cock-Lane one, and far d... ... ference, such a whale will weigh at least ninety tons; so that, reckoning thirteen men to a ton, he would considerably out- weigh the combined popula... ...ails. A sound like the moaning in squadrons over Asphaltites of unforgiven ghosts of Gomorrah, ran shuddering 474 Moby Dick through the air. Started ... ...ry so plaintively wild and unearthly—like half-articulated wailings of the ghosts of all Herod’s murdered Innocents—that one and all, they started fro...

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...nt on, and in about a minute I come a booming down on a cut bank with smoky ghosts of big trees on it, and the current throwed me off to the left and... ...dress him up in some of yours that’s dry.” Buck looked about as old as me — thirteen or fourteen or along there, though he was a little bigger than ... ... a sweat. They couldn’t a been worse scared if the place had a been full of ghosts laying for them behind ev erything and under the beds and shiver...

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... you say this treasure amounts to” — “Two millions of Roman crowns; nearly thirteen millions of our money.”* “Impossible!” said Dantes, staggered at t... ...he expatiated on the amount, explaining to Dantes all the good which, with thirteen or fourteen millions of francs, a man could do in these days to hi... ...d to his memory, and he reflected how much ill, in these times, a man with thirteen or fourteen millions could do to his enemies. The abbe did not kno... ...and supposing it to be only that of St. Louis, that makes you mount to the thirteenth century, which is tolerably ancient.” “It is possible,” said Mor... ...Come, take the lantern, and let us visit the garden; you are not afraid of ghosts with me, I hope?” Bertuccio raised the lantern, and obeyed. The door... ...aight wall, is, I assure you, a most agreeable surprise. I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never Alexandre Dumas 451 heard it said that so much ha...

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...NCTORUM — THE V ALENTINE I T was Sunday afternoon in the farmhouse, on the thirteenth of February. Dinner being over, Bathsheba, for want of a better ... ...g round about her rose and fluttered away in the breeze thus created, ‘like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing.’ There was an opening towards the east, an... ...ied with it a much diminished perspective of him and his deeds; there were thirteen miles interval betwixt them now. She hated questioning Liddy about...

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...od beneath the touch, as time will seam and roughen a smooth hand. If ever Ghosts act plays, they act them on this ghostly stage. It was most deliciou... ...nd came bubbling up above it; and the water too; and here they stand, like ghosts on whom the other world closed suddenly, and who have no means of ge... ...the chapels of St. Peter’s, which is gaily decorated for the occasion; the thirteen sitting, ‘all of a row,’ on a very high bench, and looking particu... ...owd, to be in time at the Table, where the Pope, in person, waits on these Thirteen; and after a prodigious struggle at the Vatican staircase, and sev... ...ved, to be particularly overcome by his condescension); and then the whole Thirteen sat down to dinner. Grace said by the Pope. Peter in the chair. Th... ...nted to the Pope, by Cardinals upon their knees, were by him handed to the Thirteen. The manner in which Judas grew more white livered over his victua... ...ppeared to be chiefly composed of fish and vegetables. The Pope helped the Thirteen to wine also; and, during the whole dinner, somebody read somethin...

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...proof that the place was haunted, at my expense. Well, it is—swarming with ghosts and goblins! You have reason in shutting it up, I assure you. No one... ...don’t, Miss Catherine!’ I cried. ‘We’re dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us. Come, come, be merry and like yourself! L... ...t; and we must pass by Gimmerton Kirk to go that journey! We’ve braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and a... ...nt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad... ...reckon on that!’ Fortunately its mother died before the time arrived; some thirteen years after the decease of Catherine, when Linton was twelve, or a... ...y and eagerly, and did honour to his teaching. Till she reached the age of thirteen she had not once been beyond the range of the park by herself. Mr.... .... ‘I’ll tie the riband. Now, let us have no petulance. Oh, for shame! Y ou thirteen years old, and such a baby!’ This exclamation was caused by her pu... ...her to return to 243 Emily Brontë me her spirit! I have a strong faith in ghosts: I have a convic- tion that they can, and do, exist among us! The da... ...it.’ ‘You are aware, Mr. Heathcliff,’ I said, ‘that from the time you were thirteen years old you have lived a selfish, unchris- 280 Wuthering Height...

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... (as everybody on board has found out already; it’s impossible to say how) thirteen times without a single accident! There is an other passenger very... ...oor boy’s name is Oliver Caswell; American Notes – Dickens 46 that he is thirteen years of age; and that he was in full possession of all his facult... ...all, itself not taken down and burned; is the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, which solemnly declares that All Men are... ...American Notes – Dickens 168 portion of the company to be the melancholy ghosts of departed book keepers, who had fallen dead at the desk: such is t... ...d come from Pittsburg. As this passage does not occupy more than twelve or thirteen hours, we arranged to go ashore that night: not coveting the disti... ...loods of our city: Samuel Thurston, aged fifteen, and William Hine, aged thirteen years. They were attended by young gentlemen of the same age. The ...

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...He is a curious mixture; he has true enthusiasm for boxing, he believes in ghosts. He mourns for the lost days of prize- fighting, he thinks that spec... .... Jarniman, his mother, he is not married, is much the same so far, except ghosts; she will not have them; except after strong tea, they come, she say... ...precious little of it going on now among the young lot. They’re for seeing ghosts and gaping their jaws; all for the quavers instead of the capers.’ H... ...ng—the idea of whom gave Lakelands an immediate hearth-glow. Armandine was thirteen minutes, by his watch, behind the time she had named. Small blame ... ...this theme was almost an exorcism of Mrs. Burman. He consulted his watch. ‘Thirteen minutes to four. I must be punctual,’ he said. Nataly stepped fast...

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...st as awful to him in his heart, then, at sixty-eight, as they had been at thirteen. If the Doctor, with a large birch, had appeared bodily to him, ev... ...and Quintin, of the King’s 14th, said to me, ‘Sedley,’ said he, ‘I bet you thirteen to ten that Sophy Cutler hooks either you or Mulligatawney before ... ...ectators. Nevertheless, his in- trepid adversary prepared to close for the thirteenth time. If I had the pen of a Napier, or a Bell’s Life, I should l... ...een Cuff & Dobbin. Cuff, you know, was the Cock of the School. They fought thirteen rounds, and Dobbin Licked. So Cuff is now Only Second Cock. The fi... ...ience, Miss,” said the old woman. “There’s room for us and a half-dozen of ghosts in it,” says Rebecca. “Tell me all about Lady Crawley and Sir Pitt C... ...u care whether the turnip crop is good or bad; whether the fat pig weighed thirteen stone or fourteen; and whether the beasts thrive well upon mangelw... ...t, and the others are blinking wanly, as if they were about to vanish like ghosts before the dawn. Such charms as those of which we catch glimpses whi... ...mansion? I have dined in it—moi qui vous parle, I peopled the chamber with ghosts of the mighty dead. As we sat soberly drinking claret there with men... ... whom Georgy used to “lark” dreadfully with accounts of German robbers and ghosts. She passed her time chiefly in grumbling, in ordering about her mis...

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...unpleasant.” “Y es—but those dogs?” I insisted. “W ell, those dogs are the ghosts of Kerfol. At least, the peas- ants say there’s one day in the year ... ...n here.” The young man brightened perceptibly. “The number of the house is thirteen; but any one can indicate it to you—it is well known in Siena. It ...

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... my manner of living in this country, during a residence of nine months, and thirteen days. Having a head mechanically turned, and being likewise forc... ...ployed to make two sails to my boat, according to my directions, by quilting thirteen folds of their strongest linen together. I was at the pains of m... ...princesses royal, the eldest sixteen years old, and the younger at that time thirteen and a month. Her majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of m... ...tic spectres. I had the honour to dine with the governor, where a new set of ghosts served up the meat, and waited at table. I now observed myself to ...

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...ht to get his pardon by founding this Hospital, as it was called, in which thirteen old men should always reside; and he hoped that they would spend t... ...had such a silent, cold, familiar strangeness, with none in it, though the ghosts of the grim Doctor, of laughing little Elsie, of crusty Hannah,—dead... ...the breath and in the atmosphere, it was really a spiritual enjoyment. The ghosts of ancient epicures seemed, on that day and the few preceding ones, ...

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...had untimely depraved her. Corrupted at the age of twelve, and a mother at thirteen, she found herself bound to the most degraded of human creatures. ... ...begin with, I must tell you that the hour of eleven on Monday morning, the thirteenth of May, is only the end of a long illness, which began on the da... ...nd men stay who work it, whence the 387 Balzac footlights are raised, the ghosts, the blue-devils shot up from hell, and so forth. Every word of this... ...m, and had carried out the decrees of justice from father to son since the thirteenth cen- tury. Few families can boast of an office or of nobility ha... ...xte, Baron du Lost Illusions A Distinguished Provincial at Paris The Thirteen Chaulieu, Henri, Duc de Letters of T wo Brides Modeste Mignon ... ...Letters of T wo Brides Modeste Mignon A Bachelor’s Establishment The Thirteen Collin, Jacqueline Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Coll...

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...times Cecile told me some of these, and very unedifying they were,— acting ghosts in the passages, fastening up the cell doors, ring- ing the bells at... ...ngs of France come of age at fourteen; and on the day that young Louis was thirteen he was declared to be major, and his mother ceased to be Regent, t... ... a nurse who understood his language. As if poor T ryphena, after liv- ing thirteen years in France, could not understand the tongue quite enough for ... ...in captivity, for there was a grave manliness about him though he was only thirteen. He said: ‘do you think Lord Walwyn would see me? I am used to be ...

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...he top shelf of the cupboard, his whole stock of ready money (amounting to thirteen pounds and half-a-crown), which he transferred to one of the pocke... ...h Bagstock, Sir, was held out of the window by the heels of his boots, for thirteen minutes by the college clock’ The Major might have appealed to his... ...rted verbs, savage noun-sub- stantives, inflexible syntactic passages, and ghosts of exercises that appeared to them in their dreams. Under the forcin... ...the subject, to the expression of which he was wholly unequal. Ideas, like ghosts (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spo- ken to a li... ...pave- ment—particularly round the corner where the side wall was— and drew ghosts on the stable door; and being sometimes driven off by Mr Towlinson, ...

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...ublic eye in jealousy and distrust. There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cl... ...ghost in the reg’lar drama in the fairs, you believed in everything—except ghosts. But now you’re a universal mistruster. I never see a man so changed... ... peal of thunder had died away, ‘since the night when old Luke Withers won thirteen times running on the red. We all said he had the Devil’s luck and ...

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... found a promising David Copperfield Vol. II 124 boy of about twelve or thirteen, very subject to that restlessness of limb which is not an unfrequ... ... I mention, mingled with the childish recollections and later fancies, the ghosts of half-formed hopes, the broken shad- ows of disappointments dimly ... ...ABSENCE IT WAS A LONG AND GLOOMY NIGHT that gathered on me, haunted by the ghosts of many hopes, of many dear remembrances, many errors, many unavaili...

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...t moment instructing her eldest pupil; to wit, a premature little woman of thirteen years old, who had already arrived at such a pitch of whalebone an... ...ey parted hurriedly upon their separate ways. 201 Charles Dickens CHAPTER THIRTEEN SHOWING WHAT BECAME OF MARTIN AND HIS DESPARATE RESOLVE, AFTER HE ... ...ngs now?’ inquired Poll, greedily biting his nails in his great interest. ‘Ghosts?’ Mrs Gamp, who perhaps had been already tempted further than she ha... ... spot,’ said Mr Tapley , breathless, ‘and they come upon me like their own ghosts, as I thought they was! It’s the wonderfulest ewent that ever hap- p...

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...rly destitute, served him for rather less than the usual wages of a boy of thirteen; and likewise failed to mention in his hasty chronicle, that his e... ...g look, “to fritter away the time in gewgaws which shall raise up the pale ghosts of hopes of early years. Bury them, heap penance and mortification o... ... as inexhaustible; and just when the baroness was on the point of making a thirteenth addition to the family pedigree, V on Koeldwethout discovered th... ...ves,” snarled the genius. ‘“Oh! They may be made quiet,” said the baron. ‘“Thirteen children,” shouted the genius. ‘“Can’t all go wrong, surely,” said... ...- pressively shaking her forefinger at the small unfortunate, who might be thirteen years old, and was looking on with a singed head and a frightened ... ...y figures in quest of franks, flit restlessly to and fro like the troubled ghosts of Complete Letter-writers departed. This is Manchester Buildings; a...

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...ll me now. I don’t need to waste my time’. “’No shit,’ he says. ‘Come, watch’. “Thirteen years he’s promised to give me this house he bought for ... ...ald didn’t look at the judge, but at Jack. Closely cropped brown hair made him look thirteen and scared. Jack looked down at his pimply-faced clien... ...s best friend.” “From the time Royce Lee first moved here. Royce was probably thirteen, fourteen then. I asked him about his will the other d... ...n a million years believe that, and I told her so. I said, ‘You believed that after thirteen years? It was thirteen years ago you left me and Magg... ... for Johnnie, and beer for the sheriff.” When Serpents Die 71 Chapter Thirteen “All rise.” The trial of Donald Martell, who sat... ...e with them, when a callous voice dug into her wits. Leave, leave, leave me with my ghosts. When Serpents Die 169 “My God, my god,” ...

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...ite innocently done, and harmless styled, When she had twenty years, and thirteen he; But I am not so sure I should have smiled When he was ... ... to sleep alone,’ quoth she. The matron frown’d: ‘Why so?’— ‘For fear of ghosts, ’ Replied Katinka; ‘I am sure I see A phantom upon each of ... ... By way of change from their sepulchral sites, And shown themselves as ghosts of better taste Than haunting some old ruin or wild waste. Man... ...Danube’s border Were briskly fired and answer’d in due order. But on the thirteenth, when already part Of the troops were embark’d, the siege ... ...And tell me what you think of your great thinkers. CANTO THE THIRTEENTH. I now mean to be serious;—it is time, Since laughter no... ...ts find The goodliest soil of body and of mind. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Thirteen” 267 I ‘ll not gainsay them; it is not my cue; I ‘ll leav... ...le Of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Thirteen” 268 Of all tales ‘t is the saddest—and more sad, Because... ... we have touch’d on were the guests: Their table was a board to tempt even ghosts To pass the Styx for more substantial feasts. I will not dwe... ... spots unfold, Coin’d from surviving superstition’s mint, Which passes ghosts in currency like gold, But rarely seen, like gold compared with ...

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...now that your monster of a husband took Jenny Cadine in hand at the age of thirteen?” 14 Cousin Betty “What then?” said the Baroness. “ As Jenny Cadi... ... about it; the Baron knows nothing of it as yet; for it is the same in the Thirteenth Arrondissement as in every other: the lover, like the husband, i... ...he only passages into this gloomy and forsaken block, inhabited perhaps by ghosts, for there never is anybody to be seen. The pavement is much below t... ...ok her father’s arm. “T welve hundred francs?” he repeated. “T o be exact, thirteen hundred; you will lend me the odd hundred?” “And on what, in such ... ... a bell, and as good as a young man? He will 303 Balzac marry you (in the Thirteenth Arrondissement) and be very kind to you; he will place seven tho... ... Ma- demoiselle Olympe Bijou is perhaps divorced. Divorce is common in the thirteenth arrondissement.” Josepha rose, and foraging among the rare plant...

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... T en parts of a hundred pistoles each, in ten throws, without revenge; in thirteen throws I had lost all— in thirteen throws. The number thirteen was... ...thirteen throws. The number thirteen was always fatal to me; it was on the thirteenth of July that—” “Ventrebleu!” cried D’Artagnan, rising from the t... ...nds that they could not remain quiet in one place, and wandered about like ghosts on the road by which Planchet was expected. “Really,” said Athos to ... ...and that would make four. Add these four to the nine others, that would be thirteen days lost—thirteen days, during which so many important events mig...

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...usetops among which they sat. ‘ As if,’ said Eugene, ‘as if the churchyard ghosts were rising.’ He had walked to the window with his cigar in his mout... ...to his arm-chair, and said: 148 Our Mutual Friend ‘ Apparently one of the ghosts has lost its way, and dropped in to be directed. Look at this phanto... ... it, and her face was at once so young and so old. T welve, or at the most thirteen, might be near the mark. ‘I always did like grown-ups,’ she went o... ... crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked sp...

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... English poetry to the visitors at the Allan house. From his eighth to his thirteenth year he attended the Manor House school, at Stoke-Newington, a s... ...oe married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, in Baltimore. She had barely turned thirteen years, Poe himself was but twentysix. He then was a resident of Ri... ...s morning proved an epoch in my voyage. It will be remembered that, on the thirteenth, the earth subtended an angular breadth of twenty-five degrees. ... ...n the absence of the sun they have a light from the earth equal to that of thirteen full unclouded moons. The topography throughout, even when profess... .... On page 23, we have the following: “What a prodigious influence must our thirteen times larger globe have exercised upon this satellite when an embr... ...n it are imbued with the spirit of Eld. The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries; their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning; an...

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..., with the 86 JACK LONDON silence heavy upon us like a damp sea mist. And the ghosts of the past were in the air and all about us; and I saw the yell... ...ere was wind moaning and sobbing of water, and where I sought wisdom from the ghosts of old shamans in the trees and dead and gone. “And in the end, ... ... “What if I am auctioneer? That does not prevent me from bidding. I’ll make it thirteen hun dred.” “Fourteen hundred,” from Porportuk. “I’ll buy you ... ...rifted, ever pur sued by the flitting shadows of the anthropophagi, themselves ghosts of evil that dared not face him in battle but that knew, soon or... ...emories of matings accomplished, of feasts forgotten, of desires that were the ghosts of desires, flaring, flaming, burning, yet unrealized in achieveme...

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...ests, who wan- der about the long passages and deserted balconies like the ghosts of those of the summer visitors, who cannot rest quietly in their gr... ...one tube, as is that over the Menai Straits, but is divided into, I think, thirteen tubes. To the eye there appear to be twenty-five tubes; but each o... ...ng-enforced moderation. The wages I found to be very various, running from thirteen or fourteen dollars a month to twenty-eight or thirty, according t... ... as remunerative. The total capital invested by the twelve corporations is thirteen million and a half of dollars, or about two million seven hundred ... ... 308 North America V ol. 1 judgment of the separate States. In most of the thirteen original States provision is made in the written constitu- tion fo... ... the legisla- ture had to pay for its rashness. On the 13th of Septem- ber thirteen of its members were arrested, as were also two editors of newspape...

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... are trivial, and rather political than religious.’ We talked of belief in ghosts. He said, ‘Sir, I make a distinction between what a man may experien... ... not know whether there are any well-attested stories of the appearance of ghosts. You know there is a famous story of the ap- pearance of Mrs. Veal, ... ...is ob- 233 Boswell’s Life of Johnson jection is made against the truth of ghosts ap- pearing: that if they are in a state of happiness, it would be a... ...philosophically on the nature of prayer, was very unprofitable. Talking of ghosts, he said, he knew one friend, who was an honest man and a sensible m... ... the same degree, if they had not been acquainted with Johnson. Talking of ghosts, he said, ‘It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed... ... very inaccurate man in his narrative, Sir? He once told me, that he drank thirteen bottles of port at a sitting.’ Johnson. ‘Why, Sir, I do not know t...

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...e of the Clemens family for twenty nine years. Mark T wain 77 In England, thirteen years ago, my wife and I were stabbed to the heart with a cablegra... ...is evening’s pa pers?—the one so blithe, the other so tragic? I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother—her in comparable mother!—five and a... ... I stood, forty years ago, and were married; and where Susy’s coffin stood thirteen years ago; where her mother’s stood five years and a half ago; and... ...red off twenty one feet of the road, and drove William Rufus’s state; then thirteen feet and drove the first Henry’s stake; then thirty five feet and ... ...s dates to any ignorant person that inquires after them. You will now take thirteen pieces of blue paper, each two inches square, and do William II. ... ...hearty, just as I am. And on the few surviving steamboats— those lingering ghosts and remembrancers of great fleets that plied the big river in the be...

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... in the private circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we... ... and punctually done by one national government than it could be either by thirteen separate States or by three or four distinct confederacies. Becaus... ... same manner,— whereas, adjudications on the same points and questions, in thirteen States, or in three or four confederacies, will not al- ways accor... ...o one corps, and thereby ren- der them more efficient than if divided into thirteen or into three or four distinct independent companies. What would t... ...ignificance. Apply these facts to our own case. Leave America divided into thirteen or, if you please, into three or four independent governments—what... ...at of the supreme magistracy, wandering among the people like discontented ghosts, and sighing for a place which they were destined never more to poss...

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...ng was prodi- gious. The thing ended, however, in the consolidation of the thirteen states, with some fifteen or twenty others, in the most odious and... ...thy slumb’ring sould lies hid, That o’er the floor and down the wall, Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall! Oh, lady dear, hast thous no fear? Why an... ...y to God that she may lie Forever with unopened eye, While the dim sheeted ghosts go by! My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so ...

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...n to it by the victorious arms of his followers, has now lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and embraces more than one hundred millions of our race... ..., where Enoch is reckoned among the nine ac- cording to other T almudists, thirteen (Schroeder’s T alm. und Rabb. Judenthum)–individuals who were exem... ...er respects of a similar na- ture” (Lane’s Modern Egyptians, i. 285). “The ghosts of dead persons are also called by this name” (ib. 289). 8 Or, befo...

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... ―Jung's belief in ghosts... ...y those same extra-sensory phenomena are being studied in reputable universities across the world. Mind reading or telepathy, the existence of ghosts... ...elebrity, gets in a fight during a game it may be within the norm for the situation and many spectators are quite pleased. Similarly a normal thirte...