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... girls in Highland schools are clad , and which had been saturated with peat - smoke for months , and some of it perhaps for years , getting drenched with the rain , emitted an effluvium which , combined with the smell of the fir ...
... girls in Highland schools are clad , and which had been saturated with peat - smoke for months , and some of it perhaps for years , getting drenched with the rain , emitted an effluvium which , combined with the smell of the fir ...
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... girl who unthinkingly crams up the ipsissima verba of history , and , rashly trusting to a treacherous memory , omits an absolutely essential phrase , the absence of which makes the answer ludicrous . Such a boy , in giving an account ...
... girl who unthinkingly crams up the ipsissima verba of history , and , rashly trusting to a treacherous memory , omits an absolutely essential phrase , the absence of which makes the answer ludicrous . Such a boy , in giving an account ...
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... girl , undergone the terror of a first inspection in a country school in Aberdeenshire . She was a pupil in the school , and had been taught by a nervous teacher to regard an in- spector as a terribly severe personage , and , when the ...
... girl , undergone the terror of a first inspection in a country school in Aberdeenshire . She was a pupil in the school , and had been taught by a nervous teacher to regard an in- spector as a terribly severe personage , and , when the ...
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... - trade of a medical man not to be despised , " applies also to a school inspector . Nervousness on the day of inspection is not confined to young girls who are passing through " GLAD TO SEE MY BACK . " 39 the 38 MEMORIES GRAVE AND GAY .
... - trade of a medical man not to be despised , " applies also to a school inspector . Nervousness on the day of inspection is not confined to young girls who are passing through " GLAD TO SEE MY BACK . " 39 the 38 MEMORIES GRAVE AND GAY .
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... girl with unconscious innuendo ; " a pilgrim is a good man . " A Scottish colleague , in dealing with a reading lesson on natural history where it was said that the cow is a graminivorous animal , asked the meaning of that big word ...
... girl with unconscious innuendo ; " a pilgrim is a good man . " A Scottish colleague , in dealing with a reading lesson on natural history where it was said that the cow is a graminivorous animal , asked the meaning of that big word ...
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