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  • Yet in the harvest of our days it is something for the animal to have had such mere fleshly polypian experiences to look back upon, and they give him an horizon -- pale seas of luring splendour.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Yet in the harvest of our days it is something for the animal to have had such mere fleshly polypian experiences to look back upon, and they give him an horizon -- pale seas of luring splendour.

    Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Yet in the harvest of our days it is something for the animal to have had such mere fleshly polypian experiences to look back upon, and they give him an horizon -- pale seas of luring splendour.

    Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

  • Hanoverian succession; and, continuing his _polypian_ imitations, relates a few coarse experiments upon _his subject_ illustrative of its destructive properties, voracity, and sagacity, which set at nought "all the contrivances of the farmer to defend his barns; the trailer his warehouse; the gentleman his land; or the inferior people their cup-boards and small beer cellars.

    Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

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