Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts, Volume 5Lippincott, Grambo [& Company,], 1854 |
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... feet above its surface , and sending their waves rippling away to the pebbly shores , made the mountains and groves that were reflected from its bosom , seem to leap and clap their hands for joy at the sacred quiet that reigned amongst ...
... feet above its surface , and sending their waves rippling away to the pebbly shores , made the mountains and groves that were reflected from its bosom , seem to leap and clap their hands for joy at the sacred quiet that reigned amongst ...
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... , ' from the age of six years , when I climbed up the side of a steep sand - rock , and there scooped me out a plot four feet square to make me a garden , and the soil for which I carried up in the bosom 3 WILLIAM COBBETT .
... , ' from the age of six years , when I climbed up the side of a steep sand - rock , and there scooped me out a plot four feet square to make me a garden , and the soil for which I carried up in the bosom 3 WILLIAM COBBETT .
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... feet deep on the ground , and the weather piercing cold . It was my habit , when I had done my morning's writing , to go out at break of day to take a walk on a hill at the foot of which our barracks lay . In about three mornings after ...
... feet deep on the ground , and the weather piercing cold . It was my habit , when I had done my morning's writing , to go out at break of day to take a walk on a hill at the foot of which our barracks lay . In about three mornings after ...
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... upon the path . My feet were cold and wet through ; I thought of the night when I had so gone through the streets of London - a night as inclement as this . I almost fancied I was acting 18 ALICE HOFFMANN : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY .
... upon the path . My feet were cold and wet through ; I thought of the night when I had so gone through the streets of London - a night as inclement as this . I almost fancied I was acting 18 ALICE HOFFMANN : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY .
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... feet along the hall , and the sound of a low querulous voice , as the persons entered the room in which we were concealed . ' More money- -more money ! always money ! ' with a Jewish accent and an impatient sigh . said the voice , There ...
... feet along the hall , and the sound of a low querulous voice , as the persons entered the room in which we were concealed . ' More money- -more money ! always money ! ' with a Jewish accent and an impatient sigh . said the voice , There ...
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