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... seemed to take an ell , and his voice became proportionately doleful , till at last it fairly tolled like a passing - bell . Both seemed to feel some awkwardness at broaching the subject of their visit ; and , after sundry sig- nificant ...
... seemed to take an ell , and his voice became proportionately doleful , till at last it fairly tolled like a passing - bell . Both seemed to feel some awkwardness at broaching the subject of their visit ; and , after sundry sig- nificant ...
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... seemed destined for the occupation of that anomalous character , a publican of re- tired habits . Its locality , indeed , promised little more custom than the site of that celebrated tavern on Muckslush Heath , in Colman's comedy . On ...
... seemed destined for the occupation of that anomalous character , a publican of re- tired habits . Its locality , indeed , promised little more custom than the site of that celebrated tavern on Muckslush Heath , in Colman's comedy . On ...
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... seemed to have cast his lot amiss ; as the world goes he made but a sorry sort of publican , but he would have made an excellent parish clerk . Mrs. Hanway , on the contrary , as an Irishman would say , seemed born a landlady , and the ...
... seemed to have cast his lot amiss ; as the world goes he made but a sorry sort of publican , but he would have made an excellent parish clerk . Mrs. Hanway , on the contrary , as an Irishman would say , seemed born a landlady , and the ...
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... seemed to squeal as shrilly as pigs in a high wind . Exactly as the clock struck eight , Mr. Tablet , the presi- dent of the whist - club , proposed to make a rubber : he was a grey - headed , weather - beaten man , with short legs and ...
... seemed to squeal as shrilly as pigs in a high wind . Exactly as the clock struck eight , Mr. Tablet , the presi- dent of the whist - club , proposed to make a rubber : he was a grey - headed , weather - beaten man , with short legs and ...
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... seemed to be on such bad terms with the lights , that they all went out as he came in , and it was not till he had made his way to the fire in the tap - room that his features could be recognised . " As I live by bread , " ejaculated ...
... seemed to be on such bad terms with the lights , that they all went out as he came in , and it was not till he had made his way to the fire in the tap - room that his features could be recognised . " As I live by bread , " ejaculated ...
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