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... promised her life and pardon if she would free the other princes from the ban ; but her answer was that she had enclosed the spell in a padlock, and flung it into the sea, and having asked the devil if he could restore the padlock again to her, he...

Sidonia the Sorceress: The Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal ... - Pàgina xi
per Wilhelm Meinhold - 1894
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Leaves and Fruit

Edmund Gosse - 1927 - 404 pàgines

...restore the padlock again to her, he replied, ' No ! that was forbidden to him,' by which everyone can perceive that the destiny of God was in the matter....Courts, Sidonia was brought to the scaffold at Stettin." One neighbouring potentate, who we may be sure would warmly approve of the execution, was King James...

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Start from Somewhere Else: An Exposition of Wit and Humor, Polite and Perilous

Oliver St. John Gogarty - 1955 - 200 pàgines

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