Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... means an Uncommon Description CHAPTER XIX . A Lady finds some other Things Necessary besides " all the Necessaries of Life " CHAPTER XX . Occasions when our departed Relatives are very apt to come to Life again CHAPTER XXI . How Tom ...
... means an Uncommon Description CHAPTER XIX . A Lady finds some other Things Necessary besides " all the Necessaries of Life " CHAPTER XX . Occasions when our departed Relatives are very apt to come to Life again CHAPTER XXI . How Tom ...
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... means they take to gratify it ! Thomas Walford , now , after thirty years ' hard work , was about fifty years of age , when one day , to the surprise of his clerks , his hat no A HALT IN HIS GALLOP . 13 more appeared , 12 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
... means they take to gratify it ! Thomas Walford , now , after thirty years ' hard work , was about fifty years of age , when one day , to the surprise of his clerks , his hat no A HALT IN HIS GALLOP . 13 more appeared , 12 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
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... mean by this strange late - in- life alliance ? Contentment and resignation last just as long - especially as regards the lot of single ladies as they cannot help it . Once open to a lady a way of escape from a forlorn , an aimless , a ...
... mean by this strange late - in- life alliance ? Contentment and resignation last just as long - especially as regards the lot of single ladies as they cannot help it . Once open to a lady a way of escape from a forlorn , an aimless , a ...
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... mean , that was the cause of the first attack , that broke up the finest chance of business man ever could desire . " Here the Doctor began to make a question about the fumes of tallow having brought on paralysis . " White lead , " he ...
... mean , that was the cause of the first attack , that broke up the finest chance of business man ever could desire . " Here the Doctor began to make a question about the fumes of tallow having brought on paralysis . " White lead , " he ...
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... means rather slow , decided on a coup d'état , and eloped with the Doctor's daughter ; and since run - away girls , like run - away boys , become very penitent when " WHAT'S IN A NAME ? " 55 their money 54 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
... means rather slow , decided on a coup d'état , and eloped with the Doctor's daughter ; and since run - away girls , like run - away boys , become very penitent when " WHAT'S IN A NAME ? " 55 their money 54 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
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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.