Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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... speaking , the place of all these questionable visitors had been . for about three years supplied by a cousin of Lady Tawstock . Her name was Miss Onslow . Whoever spent an evening at the Tawstocks ' experienced something singularly ...
... speaking , the place of all these questionable visitors had been . for about three years supplied by a cousin of Lady Tawstock . Her name was Miss Onslow . Whoever spent an evening at the Tawstocks ' experienced something singularly ...
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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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... Speaking as a city man , I could not forgive him for that , " interposed Mr. Fox ; " certainly that was a weakness - quite a blot in his com- mercial escutcheon . And I really have many a time remarked , that if Walford had continued in ...
... Speaking as a city man , I could not forgive him for that , " interposed Mr. Fox ; " certainly that was a weakness - quite a blot in his com- mercial escutcheon . And I really have many a time remarked , that if Walford had continued in ...
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... speak generally , a golden in- heritance is apt to be tempered with alloy — and how far , in the scrambling race of this life , the high - bred steed proves weighted and jockeyed out of no small part of his supposed advantages -may all ...
... speak generally , a golden in- heritance is apt to be tempered with alloy — and how far , in the scrambling race of this life , the high - bred steed proves weighted and jockeyed out of no small part of his supposed advantages -may all ...
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... speaking his mind . Farmer White knew better : however , as he jogged along , with his feet almost to the ground , on his little shaggy pony , boding ill of his crops and grumbling at his work - people , he would stop and rub his hand ...
... speaking his mind . Farmer White knew better : however , as he jogged along , with his feet almost to the ground , on his little shaggy pony , boding ill of his crops and grumbling at his work - people , he would stop and rub his hand ...
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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.