Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces, Volume 5R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [&c., &c.], 1825 |
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... ladies to see the mines ; and , as the guide was showing the cu- riosities of the place , one among the company , a gen- tleman of about six - and - thirty years of age , pointed to some letters that were carved on the rock , and asked ...
... ladies to see the mines ; and , as the guide was showing the cu- riosities of the place , one among the company , a gen- tleman of about six - and - thirty years of age , pointed to some letters that were carved on the rock , and asked ...
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... of his apparatus . I was always left to stand like a cipher beside him whilst he lectured ; and I had regularly the morti- fication of hearing him conclude his lecture with , Now , gentlemen and ladies , I will not detain LAME JERVAS . 31.
... of his apparatus . I was always left to stand like a cipher beside him whilst he lectured ; and I had regularly the morti- fication of hearing him conclude his lecture with , Now , gentlemen and ladies , I will not detain LAME JERVAS . 31.
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Maria Edgeworth. Now , gentlemen and ladies , I will not detain you any longer from what , I am sensible , is much better worth your attention than any thing I can offer - Mr . Jervas's puppet - show . ' 66 It happened one day that he ...
Maria Edgeworth. Now , gentlemen and ladies , I will not detain you any longer from what , I am sensible , is much better worth your attention than any thing I can offer - Mr . Jervas's puppet - show . ' 66 It happened one day that he ...
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... lady as she is should think of a mere country booby : in which light , indeed , she was pleased to say , as I heard from good authority , she did not consider me ; though my manners wanted polish . These were her own words . I shall ...
... lady as she is should think of a mere country booby : in which light , indeed , she was pleased to say , as I heard from good authority , she did not consider me ; though my manners wanted polish . These were her own words . I shall ...
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... ladies in Lincolnshire . The milliner ordered down some dusty bandboxes , which she protested and vowed were just arrived from London with the newest fashions ; and , whilst she was displaying these , Wright talked of the races , and ...
... ladies in Lincolnshire . The milliner ordered down some dusty bandboxes , which she protested and vowed were just arrived from London with the newest fashions ; and , whilst she was displaying these , Wright talked of the races , and ...
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Page 329 - She took a prodigious fancy to it, and offered me any price, if I would part with it : but this I declined doing, because I believed that I should draw down upon my head some dreadful calamity, if I voluntarily relinquished the talisman. Irritated by my refusal, the lady, according to the custom of her sex, became more resolute in her purpose ; but neither entreaties nor money could change my determination. Provoked beyond measure at my obstinacy, as she called it, she left the house.