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" ... and arrived about two or three o'clock in the morning at Dover. In our way to it, which was rough and dangerous enough, the following accident happened to us: our guide, or postillion, a youth, was before with two of our company, about the distance... "
Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects: A vindication of natural society. The ... - Page 309
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Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects, Volume 2

Robert Dodsley - English essays - 1761 - 378 pages
...their Names are adjoined, * T vsc i. F usc i. BERR i. Being tired with walking, we refrefhed our felves here with a Mouthful of Bread, and fome Ale, and immediately...afterwards to where the Road divided ; on the right it was down Hill arid Marfhy, on the left was a fmall Hill. Whilft we flopped here in doubt* and confulted...
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Paul Hentzner's Travels in England: During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Paul Hentzner, Sir Robert Naunton - Great Britain - 1797 - 204 pages
...martyrdom ; their names are adjoined, Tuscr, Fusci, BERRI *. Being tired with walking, we refreftied ourfelves here with a mouthful of bread and fome ale,...before with two of our company, about the diftance of a muflcetihot ; we, by not following quick enough, had loft light of our friends ; we came afterwards...
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Byepaths of Biography

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - Biography - 1863 - 314 pages
...ourselves here (at Canterbury) with a mouthful of bread and some ale, and immediately mounted post horses, and arrived, about two or three o'clock in the morning,...the following accident happened to us. Our guide or postillion, a youth, was before, with two of our company, about the distance of a musket-shot, and...
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England as Seen by Foreigners in the Days of Elizabeth & James the First ...

William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - England - 1865 - 462 pages
...some ale, and immediately mounted post-horses, and arrived about two or three hours after nightfall at Dover. In our way to it, which was rough and dangerous...the following accident happened to us. Our guide or postillion (dux vi<e, vulgo postilion] a youth, was before with two of our company, about the distance...
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Aungervyle society reprints [ed. by E.M. Goldsmid].

Aungervyle society - 1881 - 360 pages
...refreshed ourselves here with a mouthful of bread, and some ale, and immediately mounted post horses, and arrived about two or three o'clock in the morning...the following accident happened to us : our Guide or Postillion, a youth, was before with two of our Company, about the distance of a musket shot ; we by...
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Highways and Byways in Kent

Walter Jerrold - Kent (England) - 1907 - 494 pages
...post horses, presumably at night, for it was two or three o'clock in the morning when they reached Dover. " In our way to it, which was rough and dangerous...following accident happened to us : our guide, or postillion, a youth, was before with two of our company, about the distance of a musket shot ; we,...
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Highways and Byways in Kent

Walter Jerrold - Kent (England) - 1923 - 470 pages
...for it was two or three o'clock in the morning when they reached Dover. VII • JACK-A-LANTERNS 161 " In our way to it, which was rough and dangerous enough,...following accident happened to us : our guide, or postillion, a youth, was before with two of our company, about the distance of a musket shot ; we,...
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Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology

Peter C. Mancall - History - 2006 - 431 pages
...some ale, and immediately mounted post-horses, and arrived about two or three hours after nightfall at Dover. In our way to it, which was rough and dangerous...the following accident happened to us. Our guide or postillion a youth, was before with two of our company, about the distance of a musket-shot, we by...
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