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  1    1,    1|             garments bore witness to long and roughish wear. On his
  2    1,    2|              armed with one of those long guns of Spanish make which
  3    1,    2|           arms of the Arabs, guns of long range and considerable precision,
  4    1,    3|           Portuguese did not wait so long to acknowledge what he owed
  5    1,    4|            you will not have to wait long for her consent.”~Half an
  6    1,    4|              you to grant. No! For a long time I have thought over
  7    1,    5|               said Manoel, “and very long as well, for Minha cannot
  8    1,    6|           weather were rowed by four long paddles not at all easy
  9    1,    6|           when the wind fell, by six long sweeps which Indians worked
 10    1,    6|        Benito.~“Wont it take rather long?” observed Manoel; “could
 11    1,    6|          flat, and two or three feet long, and strongly handled, which
 12    1,    6|           only a doomed forest, with long bare stems, bereft of their
 13    1,    7|          three leagues being not too long to frighten them.~Neither
 14    1,    7|            it. All is broken off! As long as this walk lasts we are
 15    1,    7|            ruby red; “tisauras” with long scissors-like tails, looking
 16    1,    7|            shrieks and whistles. The long beak of the toucan stood
 17    1,    7|            displaying in the air the long white plumes of his tail,
 18    1,    7|          agrippina moths, ten inches long, with leaves for wings,
 19    1,    7| appropriately compared by Agassiz to long sticks of coral flecked
 20    1,    7|              was standing alone. The long festoon of the liana curled
 21    1,    7|      attempts of Manoel had not been long in bringing the luckless
 22    1,    8|             measured a thousand feet long and sixty broad, and thus
 23    1,    8|        good-natured joke, he was not long in being liked by all.~But
 24    1,    8|           were necessary to work the long boathooks by which the giant
 25    1,    8|           young mulatto, as though a long arm was forever holding
 26    1,    9|           The root, very much like a long black radish, grows in clumps
 27    1,    9|             bands, and thirty inches long; turtles large and small,
 28    1,    9| circumstances a rudder is of no use. Long oars have no effect on a
 29    1,    9|          from the sides, by means of long boathooks or props thrust
 30    1,    9|             very rapid it would take long months before similar conditions
 31    1,   10|           the crew, armed with their long poles, went to their proper
 32    1,   10|           start. The current was not long in seizing it, and coasting
 33    1,   11|         nights were so fine that the long raft went on its way with
 34    1,   11|     pria-rucus,” ten and twelve feet long, cuirassed with large scales
 35    1,   11|           the Marahua Indians, whose long floating hair, and mouths
 36    1,   11|            of palm-trees, six inches long, give them a cat-like look—
 37    1,   11|         shadows. The watch, with his long pole on his shoulder, reminded
 38    1,   11|              the jangada, and looked long and earnestly at the Ronde
 39    1,   12|              War, we know, was for a long time the surest and most
 40    1,   12|            destined to become before long a station of some importance,
 41    1,   12|         natural flowers, to or three long fish-bones, and some fine
 42    1,   12|            villages of the Javary.~A long array of anxious ones formed
 43    1,   13|               and his hair, a trifle long, imperiously required the
 44    1,   13|            Oh, that will not take me long!” answered Torres; “there
 45    1,   14|       possession was disputed for so long by Spaniards and Portuguese.~
 46    1,   14|              looked superb, with his long tail and grizzly hair; with
 47    1,   14|              principal food; and his long, thin paws, armed with sharp
 48    1,   14|             sharp nails, five inches long, and which can shut up like
 49    1,   14|          turn out in thousands those long strings of beads which are
 50    1,   15|              trench six hundred feet long, a dozen wide, and six deep.
 51    1,   15|            to a stake by a cord just long enough to allow them to
 52    1,   15|           small river filled up with long grass, and on the borders
 53    1,   15|             points at first traced a long furrow on the top of the
 54    1,   15|             very primitive harpoon—a long nail at the end of a stick—
 55    1,   15|            measured about three feet long. These poor cetaceans have
 56    1,   15|              twelve and fifteen feet long, which still abound in the
 57    1,   15|           smoke-dried it keeps for a long time, and is capital food.
 58    1,   16|              No—I try all I can. How long was it ago? In what country?
 59    1,   16|               and nine or ten inches long, with a point like a needle,
 60    1,   17|             never off Joam Garral as long as he fancied he was unobserved.~
 61    1,   17|          from fifteen to twenty feet long, had managed to clamber
 62    1,   18|              thought Para was such a long way off!”~As for Manoel
 63    1,   18|           and Benito, they had had a long conversation about what
 64    1,   18|           the resting-places for the long poles which kept the jangada
 65    1,   18|           like the breeze!”~“And the long lianas, which so oddly stretch
 66    1,   18|              top of the water glided long and swiftly-swimming snakes,
 67    1,   18|           thirty to thirty-five feet long? and even, according to
 68    1,   20|            you not answer?”~Rather a long silence followed this direct
 69    1,   20|              this man, whom I knew a long time after his crime, and
 70    1,   20|           This discussion has lasted long enough,” said he, moving
 71    1,   20|            and Manoel is to wait too long. The marriage will take
 72    1,   20|              Garral. We shall not be long before we meet.”~“If it
 73    1,   20|              he had had to endure so long himself.~Yes, Manoel knew
 74    2,    1|            pause in the midst of its long journey, and here will be
 75    2,    2|            young fellows closed in a long and cordial grasp.~Then
 76    2,    2|             had been preparing for a long time.”~“And when he learned
 77    2,    2|           banks, and assisted by the long poles of his crew, succeeded
 78    2,    2|            the house. But during the long night not an hour’s sleep
 79    2,    3|              been his life for those long years; such had been the
 80    2,    4|            the mute; and his body so long and his legs so short, and
 81    2,    4|            Greatly prospering.”~“How long ago did you leave your fazenda?”~“
 82    2,    6|         level bank about fifty paces long, on the top of a cliff rising
 83    2,    8|              Indians, furnished with long poles, began to sound every
 84    2,    8|             to the center the crews’ long poles left not a single
 85    2,    8|              lost down the stream, a long way beyond the obstruction.
 86    2,    9|            body, can you tell me how long it will be before it rises
 87    2,    9|              propelled it with their long poles in the desired direction.~
 88    2,   10|         those of the raft, which the long poles of the Indians kept
 89    2,   10|            was raised, and he took a long breath and sat down to rest.~
 90    2,   10|            others are about ten feet long, while others, which, however,
 91    2,   10|         living coils, about ten feet long, which, after uncurving
 92    2,   11|        vulture, with naked necks and long claws, and black as crows.
 93    2,   12|            in the house, they passed long hours in endeavoring to
 94    2,   16|        difficulties and peril, and a long one in any case, should
 95    2,   16|           the risk of being arrested long before he reached the Atlantic.
 96    2,   17|             favor, and it was to his long life of toil and honor that
 97    2,   17|         which had already lasted too long.~“Sir,” said the doomed
 98    2,   18|             the number sought for so long! The name of Ortega had
 99    2,   19|         profit the guilty man in the long run, for, a little time
100    2,   19|            proof sought after for so long was the incontestable witness
101    2,   19|              had suffered during the long years of exile, and if he
102    2,   20|            over and over again.~“How long!” murmured Manoel.~“How
103    2,   20|           the resting-places for the long poles of the crew as they
104    2,   20|           their compatriot after his long exile. Thousands of sight-seers—
105    2,   20|         interrupted by the sorrow of long separation. In fact, Manoel
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