Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... heard him called Mr. Coachmaker . Wives take their husbands ' titles , and are quite as tena- cious of them . Thus , you address a clergyman as Priest , and his wife as Priestess ; a major's wife is Majorskan ; a colonel's ...
... heard him called Mr. Coachmaker . Wives take their husbands ' titles , and are quite as tena- cious of them . Thus , you address a clergyman as Priest , and his wife as Priestess ; a major's wife is Majorskan ; a colonel's ...
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... heard of anything else ? " Another laugh . " The English ! -they are so - yes , I know that ! " I applied to another person for information , and was told that such was the case . Cards must be sent by the last comer , and if this be ...
... heard of anything else ? " Another laugh . " The English ! -they are so - yes , I know that ! " I applied to another person for information , and was told that such was the case . Cards must be sent by the last comer , and if this be ...
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... heard me , " it is not wonderful that in Sweden they like a good winter , that they abhor a bare one ! " The day was bright ; the snow of one night was as deep as that of a week in England would be . The last brick and timber of the old ...
... heard me , " it is not wonderful that in Sweden they like a good winter , that they abhor a bare one ! " The day was bright ; the snow of one night was as deep as that of a week in England would be . The last brick and timber of the old ...
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... heard a soft jingle of bells ; I ran to the window , and saw a countryman driving in a sledge . We had had no snow since the night , but the traveller was one white mass : it had fallen heavily not far off . And now came to me the most ...
... heard a soft jingle of bells ; I ran to the window , and saw a countryman driving in a sledge . We had had no snow since the night , but the traveller was one white mass : it had fallen heavily not far off . And now came to me the most ...
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... heard ; I trembled for five minutes after hearing it the first time ; for the man bounced out and yelled as I passed , so that I started and clung to my companion's arm in the full belief that he had been seized with madness . At the ...
... heard ; I trembled for five minutes after hearing it the first time ; for the man bounced out and yelled as I passed , so that I started and clung to my companion's arm in the full belief that he had been seized with madness . At the ...
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.