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... walls hanging over the noisy and inhospitable wave . No pomp , no pleasant amenities ; the place seemed to jut into the sea , defying man's oldest and most bitter enemy , its gable ends and one crenelated bastion or turret betraying its ...
... walls hanging over the noisy and inhospitable wave . No pomp , no pleasant amenities ; the place seemed to jut into the sea , defying man's oldest and most bitter enemy , its gable ends and one crenelated bastion or turret betraying its ...
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... he should never have thought of that ! There was the castle , truly , beet- ling against the breakers , very cold , very arrogant upon its barren promontory . He was not twenty paces from its walls , and yet it might as 12 DOOM CASTLE .
... he should never have thought of that ! There was the castle , truly , beet- ling against the breakers , very cold , very arrogant upon its barren promontory . He was not twenty paces from its walls , and yet it might as 12 DOOM CASTLE .
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A Romance Neil Munro. paces from its walls , and yet it might as well have been a league away , for he was cut off from it by a natural moat of sea - water that swept about it in yeasty little waves . It rode like a ship , oddly inde ...
A Romance Neil Munro. paces from its walls , and yet it might as well have been a league away , for he was cut off from it by a natural moat of sea - water that swept about it in yeasty little waves . It rode like a ship , oddly inde ...
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... walls were of a rough rubble of granite and whinstone , grown upon at the upper storeys with grasses and weeds ... wall surrounded a patch of garden - ground to the rear , one corner of it grotesquely adorned with a bower all bedraggled ...
... walls were of a rough rubble of granite and whinstone , grown upon at the upper storeys with grasses and weeds ... wall surrounded a patch of garden - ground to the rear , one corner of it grotesquely adorned with a bower all bedraggled ...
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... walls built for a more bickering age than this - Count Victor took all in at a glance , and found revealed to him in a flash the colossal mendacity of all the Camerons , Macgregors , and Macdonalds , who had implied , if they had not de ...
... walls built for a more bickering age than this - Count Victor took all in at a glance , and found revealed to him in a flash the colossal mendacity of all the Camerons , Macgregors , and Macdonalds , who had implied , if they had not de ...
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