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... nearly exterminated . Frank Oakly imme- diately complied with the request . The badger , like the fox , " said the woodman , " leaves his earth about ten or eleven o'clock at night in search of his prey , unless the weather be ...
... nearly exterminated . Frank Oakly imme- diately complied with the request . The badger , like the fox , " said the woodman , " leaves his earth about ten or eleven o'clock at night in search of his prey , unless the weather be ...
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... nearly distinct , otherwise we obtain a mongrel breed , scarcely fit for anything , certainly not fit for breeding hereafter . This remark is par- ticularly applicable to mares which are not thorough - bred ; unless their lineage is ...
... nearly distinct , otherwise we obtain a mongrel breed , scarcely fit for anything , certainly not fit for breeding hereafter . This remark is par- ticularly applicable to mares which are not thorough - bred ; unless their lineage is ...
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... nearly eighty years of age . Really , for the whole of that period he was never unfaithful , even in thought , to the resolution he had made to assist at the performances of the service for the dead upon the anniver- sary of the death ...
... nearly eighty years of age . Really , for the whole of that period he was never unfaithful , even in thought , to the resolution he had made to assist at the performances of the service for the dead upon the anniver- sary of the death ...
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... nearly eighty , I of course pretended to perfectly agree with him in all he said . We now approached the table , round which there were no chairs , where we found an excellent Westphalian ham ; and having cut a slice or two , and eaten ...
... nearly eighty , I of course pretended to perfectly agree with him in all he said . We now approached the table , round which there were no chairs , where we found an excellent Westphalian ham ; and having cut a slice or two , and eaten ...
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... nearly an hour to per- form the journey . Nevertheless it was not mine uncle who retarded us in our going , for he marched along at the head of our little party more like a young man of thirty than like an octogenarian . The road was so ...
... nearly an hour to per- form the journey . Nevertheless it was not mine uncle who retarded us in our going , for he marched along at the head of our little party more like a young man of thirty than like an octogenarian . The road was so ...
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Popular passages
Page 159 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 2 - ... or other race, fight, game, sport, or exercise, or as or for the consideration for securing the paying or giving by some other person of any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency as aforesaid...
Page 153 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 80 - ... the common gaol or house of correction (with or without hard labour), as to the justice or justices shall seem meet, for any term not exceeding two calendar months...
Page 117 - And from the deep-mouthed thunder flies: She starts, she stops, she pants for breath; She hears the near advance of death ; She doubles, to mislead the hound, And measures back her mazy round: Till, fainting in the public way, Half dead with fear she gasping lay. What transport in her bosom grew, When first the Horse appeared in view! "Let me," says she, "your back ascend, And owe my safety to a friend.
Page 156 - No house, office, room, or other place shall be opened, kept, or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper thereof, or any person using the same...
Page 72 - Because authority, though it err like others, • Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o...
Page 153 - Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield!
Page 2 - ... as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse- race...
Page 116 - As when th' impatient greyhound slipt from far, Bounds o'er the glebe, to course the fearful hare, She in her speed does all her safety lay; And he with double speed pursues the prey...