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Barabbas: a dream of the world's tragedy. by Marie Corelli (World's book)

Barabbas: a dream of the world's tragedy. by Marie Corelli (World's book)

Corelli, Marie

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1530505321
ISBN13: 9781530505326
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 11 2016
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.43 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The heavy heat was almost insupportable, and a poisonous stench oozed up from the damp earth-floors of the Jewish prison, charging what little air there was with a deadly sense of suffocation. Down in the lowest dungeons complete darkness reigned, save in one of the cells allotted to the worst criminals; there, all through the slow hours a thin white line of light had persistently pierced the thick obscurity. It was the merest taper-flame reflection of the outside glowing Eastern sky, yet narrow as it was, it had vexed the eyes of the solitary prisoner on whom it fell, and he had turned from its hot flash with a savage curse and groan. Writhing back as far as his chains would allow, he covered his face with his manacled hands, pressing his eyelids down, and gnawing his lips in restless fury till his mouth was bitter with the taste of his own blood

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