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Walking with his ten-year-old daughter on the beach at Calais, Wordsworth considers the energy of God moving in all things.
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Sherlock Holmes turns to his brother for help when the case of a missing Greek proves unexpectedly troublesome.
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A mild-mannered clerk in the British Embassy’s passport office in Berlin, just before the outbreak of war in 1939, was not all he seemed to be.
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Olaf hears that the ruler of Norway has lost the support of his noblemen, and sails away from England to claim his crown.
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A mouse’s delight at seeing his old enemy caught in a trap proves short-lived.
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Viking raider Olaf Tryggvason, newly converted to Christianity, threw his weight behind a Danish invasion of England.