Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... appearing much more independent than most visitors , and also from their visits being as long as if they had , taken a lease of the premises . At the time of which we are speaking , the place of all these questionable visitors had been ...
... appearing much more independent than most visitors , and also from their visits being as long as if they had , taken a lease of the premises . At the time of which we are speaking , the place of all these questionable visitors had been ...
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... appear like a true member of the Tawstock family . There was a quiet winning influence about her . She was now nearly forty years of age . Everybody was sure she must have had offers : so every- body wondered why she had never married ...
... appear like a true member of the Tawstock family . There was a quiet winning influence about her . She was now nearly forty years of age . Everybody was sure she must have had offers : so every- body wondered why she had never married ...
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... appear like a bitter satire upon the shadow- chasing folly of man : — " Perhaps you don't know what killed him ? " said Mr. Fox , a wholesale drug merchant from Mincing Lane . Certainly I do , Sir , " said the Doctor , net- tled for his ...
... appear like a bitter satire upon the shadow- chasing folly of man : — " Perhaps you don't know what killed him ? " said Mr. Fox , a wholesale drug merchant from Mincing Lane . Certainly I do , Sir , " said the Doctor , net- tled for his ...
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... appear abroad , and to christen her dear babes- which she did , with the names of Edward and Na- thanael - than her mind was disturbed with an announcement from her lawyer of divers threats from the General to dispute the Will , and to ...
... appear abroad , and to christen her dear babes- which she did , with the names of Edward and Na- thanael - than her mind was disturbed with an announcement from her lawyer of divers threats from the General to dispute the Will , and to ...
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... appear , is attended with disadvantages to a boy in heart , head , and habits , that do , indeed , require something very powerful to counteract them . " Save me from my friends ! " is a well - known cry . To save a SHARP PRACTICE . 81 ...
... appear , is attended with disadvantages to a boy in heart , head , and habits , that do , indeed , require something very powerful to counteract them . " Save me from my friends ! " is a well - known cry . To save a SHARP PRACTICE . 81 ...
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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.