The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Том 9T. Boys, 1826 |
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... manner of the valet , all raised suspicions in Sir Harry's mind ; and he determined to refer the investigation of the business to a magis- trate . The perfidious Italian , alternately terrified by the dread of punishment , and soothed ...
... manner of the valet , all raised suspicions in Sir Harry's mind ; and he determined to refer the investigation of the business to a magis- trate . The perfidious Italian , alternately terrified by the dread of punishment , and soothed ...
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... manner of the Romans when feasting . On these carpets the elephants laid themselves down , and at a given signal they reached out their trunks to the table , and fell to eating and drinking with as much propriety as if they had been as ...
... manner of the Romans when feasting . On these carpets the elephants laid themselves down , and at a given signal they reached out their trunks to the table , and fell to eating and drinking with as much propriety as if they had been as ...
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... manner of teaching them to dance on the ground , was simple enough ( by the association of music and a hot floor ) ; but we are not informed how they were taught to skip the rope , or whether it was the tight or the slack rope , or how ...
... manner of teaching them to dance on the ground , was simple enough ( by the association of music and a hot floor ) ; but we are not informed how they were taught to skip the rope , or whether it was the tight or the slack rope , or how ...
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... manner , that they can be entered only by one small orifice , and many suspend them from the slender extremities of high branches . A species of loxia , or gross - beak , always hangs its nest on a branch extending over a river or pool ...
... manner , that they can be entered only by one small orifice , and many suspend them from the slender extremities of high branches . A species of loxia , or gross - beak , always hangs its nest on a branch extending over a river or pool ...
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... manner to the house dog , but never presumed to go into the ken- nel except in rainy weather ; whenever the dog barked , the goose would cackle , and run at the person she sup- posed the dog barked at , and try to bite him by the heels ...
... manner to the house dog , but never presumed to go into the ken- nel except in rainy weather ; whenever the dog barked , the goose would cackle , and run at the person she sup- posed the dog barked at , and try to bite him by the heels ...
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Страница 103 - ... timber, his trumpetlike note and loud strokes resound through the solitary savage wilds, of which he seems the sole lord and inhabitant. Wherever he frequents he leaves numerous \ monuments of his industry behind him. We there see enormous...