Once a WeekEneas Sweetland Dallas Bradbury and Evans, 1873 - General |
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... night ; there was no peace , no quiet- ness , no chance for anything but endurance . Price 2d . And in the midst of all this the poor girl had to spend her evenings and her nights . Sometimes she would cry aloud for shame and misery ...
... night ; there was no peace , no quiet- ness , no chance for anything but endurance . Price 2d . And in the midst of all this the poor girl had to spend her evenings and her nights . Sometimes she would cry aloud for shame and misery ...
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... night ! They seem to whisper round her- " Rest thee , thy crown is won : Soon shalt thou rest from labor , Soon shall thy work be done . " And in the morn's glad sunlight She lay there cold and dead , To the great God who gave it Her ...
... night ! They seem to whisper round her- " Rest thee , thy crown is won : Soon shalt thou rest from labor , Soon shall thy work be done . " And in the morn's glad sunlight She lay there cold and dead , To the great God who gave it Her ...
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... night , much the same as this night is , a cold wind and a driv- ing rain , and my great coat was scarcely as thick as could be wished , and by the time I got near home I was pretty well wet through . However , my wife was a careful ...
... night , much the same as this night is , a cold wind and a driv- ing rain , and my great coat was scarcely as thick as could be wished , and by the time I got near home I was pretty well wet through . However , my wife was a careful ...
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... night - it was nigh about Christmas time , and there was not much doing at the club - I got leave to go away early , and I took Martha to the play . We was in the pit : Mr. Keeley played that night one of his best parts , and I remember ...
... night - it was nigh about Christmas time , and there was not much doing at the club - I got leave to go away early , and I took Martha to the play . We was in the pit : Mr. Keeley played that night one of his best parts , and I remember ...
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... night . There were frequent squabbles as to the amount of the pool , the division of it into tricks , as to who was looed and who was not ; but oftenest about who had not put his money in . Little silly , honest Mylles was now the ...
... night . There were frequent squabbles as to the amount of the pool , the division of it into tricks , as to who was looed and who was not ; but oftenest about who had not put his money in . Little silly , honest Mylles was now the ...
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