Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... Snipe 88 CHAPTER IX . Ned Walford's First Impressions of College Life 106 CHAPTER X. How Man is born to Trouble ; and much more- Woman 124 CHAPTER XI . The Dying Station - master's History 135 CHAPTER XII . A Slight Initiation into the ...
... Snipe 88 CHAPTER IX . Ned Walford's First Impressions of College Life 106 CHAPTER X. How Man is born to Trouble ; and much more- Woman 124 CHAPTER XI . The Dying Station - master's History 135 CHAPTER XII . A Slight Initiation into the ...
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... Snipe lived by his Wits CHAPTER XXII . How Cupid is most Busy at Idle Times CHAPTER XXIII . Something seems likely to Happen in more ways than one 261 283 297 313 324 333 DRAGONS ' TEETH . CHAPTER I. OUR STORY BEGINS WITH viii Contents .
... Snipe lived by his Wits CHAPTER XXII . How Cupid is most Busy at Idle Times CHAPTER XXIII . Something seems likely to Happen in more ways than one 261 283 297 313 324 333 DRAGONS ' TEETH . CHAPTER I. OUR STORY BEGINS WITH viii Contents .
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... SNIPE . WE return to Ned Walford , at Mr. Watson's academy ; more particularly because our recol- lections are very vivid , not only as to Walford himself , but also as to several others of his school - fellows , who cannot be lost ...
... SNIPE . WE return to Ned Walford , at Mr. Watson's academy ; more particularly because our recol- lections are very vivid , not only as to Walford himself , but also as to several others of his school - fellows , who cannot be lost ...
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... - officer in the family to provide for nephews and nieces without end . He used to complain , " if the boys were but steady if they were only reasonable would -- TOM SNIPE . 95 stick to business , " or 94 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
... - officer in the family to provide for nephews and nieces without end . He used to complain , " if the boys were but steady if they were only reasonable would -- TOM SNIPE . 95 stick to business , " or 94 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
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... Snipe , Esq . , M.A. , of Christchurch Col- lege , Oxford . Every man in Oxford knew Snipe . had begun life " at an early age ; " He that is , he had very early been initiated as a looker - on at the clubs , as also at Tattersall's ...
... Snipe , Esq . , M.A. , of Christchurch Col- lege , Oxford . Every man in Oxford knew Snipe . had begun life " at an early age ; " He that is , he had very early been initiated as a looker - on at the clubs , as also at Tattersall's ...
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Page 93 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 206 - s weel with you gentles, that can sit in the house with handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our work again, if our hearts were beating as hard as ony hammer.
Page 69 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 225 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 13 - See also Jer. vii. 29. Micah i. 16. Isaiah vii. 20. No. 958. — ii. 4. Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath, will he give for his life.] Before the invention of money, trade used to be carried on by barter ; that is, by exchanging one commodity for another. The men who had been hunting in the woods for wild beasts would carry their skins to market, and exchange them with the armourer for so many bows and arrows. As these traffickers were...
Page 85 - Eton, and the other public schools, properly so called; and we hope and trust that an effort will now be made on the part of the Masters and Fellows of Eton to do full justice to those committed to their charge.