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" At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles the glimmer of a taper. "
The midwife: or, The old woman's magazine - Page 64
by Midwife - 1750
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader: Revised and Improved

William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pages
...safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labor, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labor, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to 30 his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced...
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Class Book of Prose and Poetry: Consisting of Selections from the Best ...

Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labor, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the 90 brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced...
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First collection of instructive extracts

Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or destruction. At length, not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Fourth Reader: Containing Elegant Extracts ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 350 pages
...safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labor, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced...
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The Popular Educator, Volume 6

1855 - 424 pages
...knowing whither he was going, or whether he wa>> every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the, point, of lying down ir. resignation to his fate,...
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The Church-warder and domestic magazine, Volumes 12-14

1858 - 916 pages
...safety or to destruction. At length not fear but labour began to overcome him ; hist breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labor began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper." He advanced...
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A manual of English grammar

James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 pages
...knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or destruction. At length, not fear, but labour began to overcome him. His breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when...
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The National Fourth Reader: Containing a Course of Instruction in Elocution ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labor began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.8 He advanced...
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