Three Courses and a Dessert: Comprising Three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal ; and a Melange ; with Fifty Illustrations by George CruikshankHenry G. Bohn, 1850 - 432 pàgines |
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... children of the former were , for the most part , boys , and those of the latter , girls . If a male child were born among the Hickories , he grew up puny in frame and womanly in features ; and there was not an individual , among the ...
... children of the former were , for the most part , boys , and those of the latter , girls . If a male child were born among the Hickories , he grew up puny in frame and womanly in features ; and there was not an individual , among the ...
Pàgina 18
... children paid her , were acts of duty rather than affection . The days of her glory , even as an old woman were over : she had ceased to become a domestic adviser ; : 66 the last child she had nursed , for one 18 COUSINS . THE COUNTERPART.
... children paid her , were acts of duty rather than affection . The days of her glory , even as an old woman were over : she had ceased to become a domestic adviser ; : 66 the last child she had nursed , for one 18 COUSINS . THE COUNTERPART.
Pàgina 19
... child she had nursed , for one of her daughters , was now a stout and stalwart " young fellow , nearly six feet high ; and those , to whom she had told tales of other times , when her me- mory and breath were both equal to the task ...
... child she had nursed , for one of her daughters , was now a stout and stalwart " young fellow , nearly six feet high ; and those , to whom she had told tales of other times , when her me- mory and breath were both equal to the task ...
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... children fallen into fits . Ralph and Harry both loved the pastimes of their native place ; they could wrestle , and play at back - sword , in very laudable style ; but Ralph was the better wrestler , and Harry surpassed in the use of ...
... children fallen into fits . Ralph and Harry both loved the pastimes of their native place ; they could wrestle , and play at back - sword , in very laudable style ; but Ralph was the better wrestler , and Harry surpassed in the use of ...
Pàgina 38
... children rather sud- denly , persuaded young Caddy that a life of ease , with sufficient to satisfy the desires of a moderate person , was preferable by far to the dangers attendant upon a chace after Fortune , on the perilous ocean ...
... children rather sud- denly , persuaded young Caddy that a life of ease , with sufficient to satisfy the desires of a moderate person , was preferable by far to the dangers attendant upon a chace after Fortune , on the perilous ocean ...
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