Womanhood, Том 17

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Womanhood., 1906
 

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Страница 299 - means such of the members of the workman's family as were wholly or in part dependent upon the earnings of the workman at the time of his death, or would but for the incapacity due to the accident have been so dependent, and where the workman, being the parent or grandparent of an illegitimate child, leaves such a child so dependent upon his earnings, or, being an illegitimate child, leaves a parent or grandparent so dependent upon his earnings, shall include such an illegitimate child and parent...
Страница 252 - My ideal is about six feet in height ; he has not an ounce of fat on him ; he has broad and muscular shoulders, a powerful, deep chest ; he is a Hercules of manly strength. He has black hair, a brown complexion, a clever forehead, sagacious eyebrows, large, black, wondrous eyes — those strange eyes you dare not take yours from off them — with long lashes. He is a soldier and a man ; he is accustomed to command and to be obeyed. He frowns on the ordinary affairs of life, but his face always lights...
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