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... Arnold. She has a youthful face, and her hair is prematurely white. She passes by Death without seeing him. A gesture of surprise and pity as she sees Arnold. She kisses him on his forehead, and sits down next him on ...

— The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold - A Play for a Greek Theatre • John Jay Chapman

... of our fellow citizens assailed by other than the ordinary ministers of death. Toil, privation and exposure, have hurried many to the grave; imprudence and carelessness of life, have sent crowds of victims prematurely to the tomb. It is not to be denied that the margins of our great streams in general, and many spots in the vicinity of extensive marshes, are subject to bilious diseases; but it may be as confidently asserted, that ...

— A New Guide for Emigrants to the West • J. M. Peck

... of going into the Church. "I am glad," he writes (March 18, 1829.), "to hear that you are reading divinity. I should like to know what books you are reading, and your opinions about them; you need not be afraid of preaching to me prematurely." Mr. Herbert's sketch shows how doubts arose in my father's mind as to the possibility of his taking Orders. He writes, "We had an earnest conversation about going into Holy Orders; and I remember his asking me, with reference to the question put by the Bishop in ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

... though he might have posed for recruiting posters at one time, and, in point of fact, he had—back when he had been an ensign in the United States Navy's Submarine Service. He was forty-nine and looked a prematurely graying thirty. ...

— Fifty Per Cent Prophet • Gordon Randall Garrett

... a brilliant success, and place her at once where she would be a power in the meetings; and she prayed constantly for a clear manifestation, something she could not mistake, that she might not be tempted by the hope of relief from present suffering to move prematurely in ...

— The Grimke Sisters - Sarah and Angelina Grimke: The First American Women Advocates of - Abolition and Woman's Rights • Catherine H. Birney

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