Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Том 3H. Colburn, 1825 - 353 страници |
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... called him a Nero , meaning to say a hero ; and no longer ago than last season , Miss Augusta Tibbs , daughter of a respectable slopseller in Great St. Helen's , entering Margate by a lane that skirted the cliff , and calling repeatedly ...
... called him a Nero , meaning to say a hero ; and no longer ago than last season , Miss Augusta Tibbs , daughter of a respectable slopseller in Great St. Helen's , entering Margate by a lane that skirted the cliff , and calling repeatedly ...
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... called - an affair of honour ; violating the rights of wedlock - an affair of gallantry ; adultery — a faux - pas ; defrauding honest tradesmen - outrunning the con- stable ; reducing a family to beggary by gaming- shaking the elbows ...
... called - an affair of honour ; violating the rights of wedlock - an affair of gallantry ; adultery — a faux - pas ; defrauding honest tradesmen - outrunning the con- stable ; reducing a family to beggary by gaming- shaking the elbows ...
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... called from the length of their beards , were of course enemies to the Barbers , and it is unnecessary to add that they were a cruel , ferocious , and savage race . Peter the Great , of Russia , was so impressed with the importance of ...
... called from the length of their beards , were of course enemies to the Barbers , and it is unnecessary to add that they were a cruel , ferocious , and savage race . Peter the Great , of Russia , was so impressed with the importance of ...
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... called her ; and , indeed , it was obviously an old affair , for the brat of a child was the very picture of him . He might , at least , have concealed the creature , and not have brought her into his own house , and under the very ...
... called her ; and , indeed , it was obviously an old affair , for the brat of a child was the very picture of him . He might , at least , have concealed the creature , and not have brought her into his own house , and under the very ...
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... called it the Lawyer's Folly ; -Chilvers denominated the tower Mr. Clinch's Coke upon Littleton , and the guns his Term Reports.- At this interview hostilities were resolved on , and the man of law having learnt , in the course of his ...
... called it the Lawyer's Folly ; -Chilvers denominated the tower Mr. Clinch's Coke upon Littleton , and the guns his Term Reports.- At this interview hostilities were resolved on , and the man of law having learnt , in the course of his ...
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