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... says Fosbroke ( Ant . , ii . 752 ) , “ had the care of the things relating to the person of the knight , carried his master's standard , and gave the catchword in battle , " an office often borne by men of honourable descent . This is ...
... says Fosbroke ( Ant . , ii . 752 ) , “ had the care of the things relating to the person of the knight , carried his master's standard , and gave the catchword in battle , " an office often borne by men of honourable descent . This is ...
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... says : " It was bad enough in Dickens , who was wonderfully ignorant of many common things , to hang the Jew Fagin for no definite offence except that he was one of the villains of the novel ; but Fagin was tried in due form , though ...
... says : " It was bad enough in Dickens , who was wonderfully ignorant of many common things , to hang the Jew Fagin for no definite offence except that he was one of the villains of the novel ; but Fagin was tried in due form , though ...
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... says that the donor should add the clause , “ in testimony of which thing I have affixed my seal to this writing " ; and further on he says that it matters not whether the deed be sealed with would seem to have been used for the cross ...
... says that the donor should add the clause , “ in testimony of which thing I have affixed my seal to this writing " ; and further on he says that it matters not whether the deed be sealed with would seem to have been used for the cross ...
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... says Webster , " form the main structure of Lindley Murray's ( and of a good many other ) " compilations . " " Our's and your's , " he informs us , are directly from the Saxon ures , eowers , the possessive case of the pronominal ...
... says Webster , " form the main structure of Lindley Murray's ( and of a good many other ) " compilations . " " Our's and your's , " he informs us , are directly from the Saxon ures , eowers , the possessive case of the pronominal ...
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who says , in his Manual of English Grammar : " The English possessive term is one of the parts of our language which we have preserved from the Saxon . The casal term of the Saxon possessive is es or is , as appears in such phrases as ...
who says , in his Manual of English Grammar : " The English possessive term is one of the parts of our language which we have preserved from the Saxon . The casal term of the Saxon possessive is es or is , as appears in such phrases as ...
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