Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... half , if you look all England over , the snarling , the snapping , and the quarrelling that there has been about our manor - house ever since master died . " Richard Wyatt was known as " a character " about that part of the country ...
... half , if you look all England over , the snarling , the snapping , and the quarrelling that there has been about our manor - house ever since master died . " Richard Wyatt was known as " a character " about that part of the country ...
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... half a million a - year by pickpockets and other thieves ; besides many other proofs , it were easy to point out as the shipwrecked mariner said when he espied a gallows - of a well - to - do and of a well - ordered and flourishing ...
... half a million a - year by pickpockets and other thieves ; besides many other proofs , it were easy to point out as the shipwrecked mariner said when he espied a gallows - of a well - to - do and of a well - ordered and flourishing ...
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... half the needy men in London - the men of shaky credit - men who , because they could not meet a bill to - day , felt all the more certain of doing so three months later - men tottering on the verge of insolvency , had run breathless ...
... half the needy men in London - the men of shaky credit - men who , because they could not meet a bill to - day , felt all the more certain of doing so three months later - men tottering on the verge of insolvency , had run breathless ...
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... , when , so to speak , they are early planted out , otherwise , the tendrils of their finer sympathies are cramped and confined . The beautiful flower SANGUINE EXPECTATIONS . 29 only half opens , and its 28 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
... , when , so to speak , they are early planted out , otherwise , the tendrils of their finer sympathies are cramped and confined . The beautiful flower SANGUINE EXPECTATIONS . 29 only half opens , and its 28 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
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James Pycroft. SANGUINE EXPECTATIONS . 29 only half opens , and its charms are lost in the garden of life . We saw our old friend Miss Onslow about six months after she was married . Her whole heart was enlarged ; her once contracted ...
James Pycroft. SANGUINE EXPECTATIONS . 29 only half opens , and its charms are lost in the garden of life . We saw our old friend Miss Onslow about six months after she was married . Her whole heart was enlarged ; her once contracted ...
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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.
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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.