The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 28George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1873 - Electronic journals |
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... person was an impudent lad , dressed in a drab jacket and overalls , with a Scotch cap on his head . He had a complete suit of horse clothing beside him , marked with a duke's coronet and the cypher " C. & R. " He sat on the seat behind ...
... person was an impudent lad , dressed in a drab jacket and overalls , with a Scotch cap on his head . He had a complete suit of horse clothing beside him , marked with a duke's coronet and the cypher " C. & R. " He sat on the seat behind ...
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... person in it but the curate , Mr. Mowledy , who ever subscribed to a news- paper or read a book . Even Mr. Mowledy had been for some time away in the north , and his duty was performed by a hasty parson , who rode over from Dronington ...
... person in it but the curate , Mr. Mowledy , who ever subscribed to a news- paper or read a book . Even Mr. Mowledy had been for some time away in the north , and his duty was performed by a hasty parson , who rode over from Dronington ...
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... person for twenty miles round who never heard it at all ; for rumour has a deal of humour in it , for all its gravity , and keeps prudently out of the way of contradiction . CHAPTER VIII . FOUND DROWNED . DAY after day passed by for ...
... person for twenty miles round who never heard it at all ; for rumour has a deal of humour in it , for all its gravity , and keeps prudently out of the way of contradiction . CHAPTER VIII . FOUND DROWNED . DAY after day passed by for ...
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... person who knew that there was anything wrong , and he tried in uncouth ways to serve or comfort her . When she came downstairs , after moaning for hours to herself , she would find the hardest part of her work done . He kept the fire ...
... person who knew that there was anything wrong , and he tried in uncouth ways to serve or comfort her . When she came downstairs , after moaning for hours to herself , she would find the hardest part of her work done . He kept the fire ...
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... he practised upon his own person . It is narrated of him that he recommended Beau Nash to take to it , in his old age , and that Nash asked him whether he wished 2-2 Ladies as Elementary Schoolmistresses 690 Literary Ramblings about Bath.
... he practised upon his own person . It is narrated of him that he recommended Beau Nash to take to it , in his old age , and that Nash asked him whether he wished 2-2 Ladies as Elementary Schoolmistresses 690 Literary Ramblings about Bath.
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Page 479 - The saw of their teeth without he could hear. And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down...
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Page 56 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell) what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy; she answered, 'Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.