Heroines that Every Child Should Know: Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All AgesHamilton Wright Mabie, Kate Stephens Grosset & Dunlap, 1908 - 281 pages A collection of biographical sketches of great heroines from ancient and modern times. |
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... prayed , saying : " O Queen Heré , behold ! I depart this day . Do thou therefore keep my children , giving to this ... praying at them . Nor did she weep at all , or groan , or grow pale . But at the last , when she came to her chamber ...
... prayed , saying : " O Queen Heré , behold ! I depart this day . Do thou therefore keep my children , giving to this ... praying at them . Nor did she weep at all , or groan , or grow pale . But at the last , when she came to her chamber ...
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... pray thee , bringeth thee to this land ? " " I am bound on an errand for King Eurystheus ; even to bring back to him horses of King Diomed . " " How wilt thou do this ? Dost thou not know this Diomed ? " " I know naught of him , nor of ...
... pray thee , bringeth thee to this land ? " " I am bound on an errand for King Eurystheus ; even to bring back to him horses of King Diomed . " " How wilt thou do this ? Dost thou not know this Diomed ? " " I know naught of him , nor of ...
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... pray thee , keep this woman against the day when I shall come back from the land of Thrace , bringing the horses of King Diomed . And if it should fare ill with me , let her abide here and serve thee . Not without toil came she into my ...
... pray thee , keep this woman against the day when I shall come back from the land of Thrace , bringing the horses of King Diomed . And if it should fare ill with me , let her abide here and serve thee . Not without toil came she into my ...
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... pray you , take her from my sight , for she troubleth my heart , and my tears run over with beholding her . " Then said Hercules : " Would I had such strength that I could bring back thy wife from the dwellings of the dead , and put her ...
... pray you , take her from my sight , for she troubleth my heart , and my tears run over with beholding her . " Then said Hercules : " Would I had such strength that I could bring back thy wife from the dwellings of the dead , and put her ...
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... prayed to Heré , for she was the goddess of the great city of Argos , which had helped him in this enterprise , and Eteocles prayed to Pallas of the Golden Antigone 19.
... prayed to Heré , for she was the goddess of the great city of Argos , which had helped him in this enterprise , and Eteocles prayed to Pallas of the Golden Antigone 19.
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