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Stories for the household (1889)

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 866

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the sheen of the setting sun, but soclear and transparent that the mountains of Asia, and Olympus, coveredwith perpetual snow, showed their sharp broken outlines like a silver-white cloud behind the glorious city. The moonlight did not deaden thesplendour of the lamps, but only brought out the… … AT PEKA. Hot a human being was to be seen in our neighbourhood, all was lonelyand still. We wandered down among the cypresses; a nightingale wasraising its flute-like voice, and turtle-doves cooed among the shadows ofthe trees. We came past a little sentry-house, built of planks, andpainted red; a…

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