The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 |
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... fish , and not overlaid with it . But , alas ! I have been inside one or two of them , and know what they are lined with . Though we are not so degenerate but that we might possibly live in a cave or a wig- wam or wear skins to - day ...
... fish , and not overlaid with it . But , alas ! I have been inside one or two of them , and know what they are lined with . Though we are not so degenerate but that we might possibly live in a cave or a wig- wam or wear skins to - day ...
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... fish for my dinner , and once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean - field , effect his transmigration , as a Tartar would say , and devour him , partly for experiment's sake ; but though it afforded me a ...
... fish for my dinner , and once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean - field , effect his transmigration , as a Tartar would say , and devour him , partly for experiment's sake ; but though it afforded me a ...
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... fishing in . I drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is . Its thin current slides away , but eternity re- mains , I would drink deeper ; fish in the sky , whose bottom is pebbly with stars . I ...
... fishing in . I drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is . Its thin current slides away , but eternity re- mains , I would drink deeper ; fish in the sky , whose bottom is pebbly with stars . I ...
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... fish ; a mink steals out of the marsh before my door and seizes a frog by the shore ; the sedge is bending under the weight of the reed - birds flitting hither and thither ; and for the last half hour I have heard the rattle of railroad ...
... fish ; a mink steals out of the marsh before my door and seizes a frog by the shore ; the sedge is bending under the weight of the reed - birds flitting hither and thither ; and for the last half hour I have heard the rattle of railroad ...
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... fish , the strong New England and commercial scent , reminding me of the Grand Banks and the fisheries . Who has not seen a salt fish , thoroughly cured for this 188 WALDEN.
... fish , the strong New England and commercial scent , reminding me of the Grand Banks and the fisheries . Who has not seen a salt fish , thoroughly cured for this 188 WALDEN.
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