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From these few scanty words, who could fathom the secrets of my heart about the autumntide?
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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How sudden break forth wind and rain, and help to make the autumntide!
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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From these few scanty words, who could fathom the secrets of my heart about the autumntide?
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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How sudden break forth wind and rain, and help to make the autumntide!
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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It was in the autumntide that Olaf encountered the first serious storm.
Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton
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Now sail Gunnlaug and his fellows into the English main, and come at autumntide south to London Bridge, where they hauled ashore their ship.
The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 Anonymous 1865
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In the dying beauty of an autumntide, Love Divine, last and most potent of the goddesses, came walking through the woods and diffused the mystery of heaven over the forest paths, the trees, the streets of the town; and she melted into a sweet and noble human face -- a face I caught but for a moment clearly on one of our galloping rides, Quinet's and mine; yet it remained and still looks upon me in the holy of holies of my heart's inner chapel.
The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair
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Worm-tongue 12 in 1004 carne to England, after being in Norway, as the saga says: — “Now sail Gunnlaug and his fellows into the English main, and come at autumntide south to London
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I have played and been merry in the autumntide about the edges of the stubble-fields; and we gathered the nuts and bramble-berries there, and started thence the missel-thrush, and wondered at his voice and thought him big; and the sparrow-hawk wheeled and turned over the hedges, and the weasel ran across the path, and the sound of the sheep-bells came to us from the downs as we sat happy on the grass; and she is dead and gone from the earth, for she pined from famine after the years of the great sickness; and my brother was slain in the French wars, and none thanked him for dying save he that stripped him of his gear; and my unwedded wife with whom I dwelt in love after
Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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Then his face grew happy, and he smiled, and he said: "I put it for thee one autumntide in the snake's hole in the bank above the river, amidst the roots of the old thorn-tree, that the snake might brood it, and make the gold grow greater; but when winter was over and we came to look for it, lo! there was neither ring nor snake, nor thorn-tree: for the flood had washed it all away."
The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865
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