Identifier: lifestrangeadven004defo (find matches)
Title: The life and strange adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
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Publisher: New York : George D. Sproul
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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found him sitting upin his bed, with his eyes broad open, but as motion-less as if he had been asleep, or even (if it had notbeen for a lively beautiful colour which the prettyfair silver-haired boy always had in his cheeks) as ifhe had been quite dead; he did not seem so muchas to breathe ; the eyelids of him were so fixed andimmovable, that the eyelashes did not so much asonce shake, which the least motion imaginable mustagitate ; not to say that he was like a person in anecstasy, he was at least in what we commonly calla brown study to the highest degree, and for thelargest space of time I ever knew. I, who had beenfrequently informed by people who have been presentat the operations of second-sighted persons, that, atthe sight of a vision, the eyelids of the person areerected, and the eyes continue staring till the objectvanishes, I, I say, sat myself softly down on his bedside,and with a quiet amazement observed him, avoidingdiligently any motion that might give him the least (56)
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