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What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?
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suspence
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Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, but to whole towns and entire tribes. What hand could snatch it and save two small, defenseless children?
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doubt
suspence
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Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.
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fright
suspence
wilderness
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Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
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suspence
terror
wilderness
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Henryk Sienkiewicz |