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Sheering south among the scarps at Catalina, where the whales blow and the seals float in thousands {9} on the ice pans, Cartier anchors to take on wood and water.
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Sheering out where the Montmorency roars over a precipice in a shining cataract, the canoes glided across
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Harlow to Sheering, had found Gilbert lying in his blood, not ten minutes after the knight had ridden away.
Via Crucis 1881
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Eleanor looked straight before her with more curiosity than religious fervour, but in her ear she heard Gilbert's deep voice softly chanting with the monks the psalms he had so often sung at Sheering Abbey.
Via Crucis 1881
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But yet he hesitated, and then, turning the thing over, he saw on the seal the device of the Abbot of Sheering, and he thanked Heaven for such a friend.
Via Crucis 1881
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But Stephen took it when I was lying ill of a wound in Sheering Abbey and bestowed it upon another.
Via Crucis 1881
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But through all he felt, and in all he saw, welding and joining the whole together, there was the still fervour of that something which he had at first known in Sheering Abbey -- something to which every fibre of his nature responded, and which, indeed, was the mainspring of the world in that age.
Via Crucis 1881
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Sheering rather than followed friendly advice, and his obedience had savoured strongly of the monastic rule.
Via Crucis 1881
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Sheering, he often opened wide the wooden shutters of his window and looked out at the castle and at the flowing river that eddied and gleamed in the moonlight.
Via Crucis 1881
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But, when he was gone, the Abbot of Sheering walked thoughtfully up and down the cloister for a long time, even until the refectory bell began to ring for dinner, and he could hear the shuffling steps of the two hundred hungry monks hurrying to their food, through the distant staircases and corridors.
Via Crucis 1881
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