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... horse , dared to face . Laura Seckerton has a clever sketch in her port- folio of the wild , desolate , elevated swamp as it appeared on one of these occasions ; a sweep of yellow grass , interspersed with ling , and black bog pits ; in ...
... horse , dared to face . Laura Seckerton has a clever sketch in her port- folio of the wild , desolate , elevated swamp as it appeared on one of these occasions ; a sweep of yellow grass , interspersed with ling , and black bog pits ; in ...
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... horses strongly in request , not to mention Irish whips and second horse- men . A stone - wall country in part , and in part intersected by deep lanes and high hedges . Not a safe or promising country by any means . Bad accidents were ...
... horses strongly in request , not to mention Irish whips and second horse- men . A stone - wall country in part , and in part intersected by deep lanes and high hedges . Not a safe or promising country by any means . Bad accidents were ...
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... horse , and dog . A young man who had hunted not only in Leicestershire and Berwickshire , but at Pau ; a young man entirely up to every conceivable sort of country . Such a young man was To Let . And Sir George Herage's advice was ...
... horse , and dog . A young man who had hunted not only in Leicestershire and Berwickshire , but at Pau ; a young man entirely up to every conceivable sort of country . Such a young man was To Let . And Sir George Herage's advice was ...
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... horse - breaking Herage girls . That is it , depend on it . Not another word , Charles , here comes Laura . " " My dear mother , good morning ! " " You think he ought to come , then , Emily ? " said Sir Charles . " You think he will do ...
... horse - breaking Herage girls . That is it , depend on it . Not another word , Charles , here comes Laura . " " My dear mother , good morning ! " " You think he ought to come , then , Emily ? " said Sir Charles . " You think he will do ...
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... horse alone , on the hill which lay half way between the sea and the moor , she looked round on the widest horizon she had ever seen . She had heard of a great world which roared and whirled beyond that horizon ; but she had never seen ...
... horse alone , on the hill which lay half way between the sea and the moor , she looked round on the widest horizon she had ever seen . She had heard of a great world which roared and whirled beyond that horizon ; but she had never seen ...
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