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Large sections of the West Country population took to an amphibious existence , living with one foot always ready to spring on shipboard . Many of these fiers belonged to the first families , and preserved loyal feelings by blaming the ...
Large sections of the West Country population took to an amphibious existence , living with one foot always ready to spring on shipboard . Many of these fiers belonged to the first families , and preserved loyal feelings by blaming the ...
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The names that still seem living on the page of history , and to carry to eternal ages the sense of that period's flesh - and - blood vigor , the Drakes , Gilberts , Frobishers , Sidneys , were almost all a memory now .
The names that still seem living on the page of history , and to carry to eternal ages the sense of that period's flesh - and - blood vigor , the Drakes , Gilberts , Frobishers , Sidneys , were almost all a memory now .
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The child grew into a great beauty ; her husband , when , after a period of living apart , he joined her four years later , found her far more attractive than she found him . She had been brought up by the Howards , in a court ...
The child grew into a great beauty ; her husband , when , after a period of living apart , he joined her four years later , found her far more attractive than she found him . She had been brought up by the Howards , in a court ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh, Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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