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Phillis Wheatley

GRIM monarch! see, depriv'd of vital breath,

A young physician in the dust of death:

Dost thou go on incessant to destroy,

Our griefs to double, and lay waste our joy?

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verb

To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun

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Mother Goose in Prose

by L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum's delightful debut book retells twenty-two beloved Mother Goose nursery rhymes as charming prose stories — from Sing a Song o' Sixpence to Humpty Dumpty — illustrated by the legendary Maxfield Parrish.

23

Chapters

48,597

Words

~4h read

Est. reading time

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