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And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you.
Nature allows no one to claim as property the sunshine, the air, or the water.
Their example, however, became fashionable, and the empire was filled with honorary colonies.
That well describes the colonist of the period, whether in New York or elsewhere.
Thoreau, the poet-naturalist, shows how to find enchantment in the world of nature.
New Mexico is a frontier Province, and has never been of any considerable value to Mexico.
Who would wish to see Florida still a European colony?
He fancied that all was a dream, that the whole business was a piece of enchantment.
We may all see it in the sunshine!
The disenchantment of Dulcinea will attain its due consummation.
And Chicot went off as happy as a king who had conquered an empire.
Do but make the enchantment last and fervently will I embrace it.
And Arthur took a golden comb, and scissors whereof the loops were of silver, and he combed his hair.
After the barrenness of the desert, vegetation was now resuming its empire.
All these animals had once been men, but had been changed by Circe's enchantments into the forms of beasts.
He fancied that all was a dream, that the whole business was a piece of enchantment.
Metz and four others sailed in September, 1842, for New York.
He had again missed his man, who had disappeared as if by enchantment.
Their golden maturity healeth the heart.
The immensely valuable possessions of New Mexico and California are already inhabited by a considerable population.
