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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... fathers had been Hickories , and their mothers Blakes , it was said that they did not possess those excellencies of form or feature , which their cousins , who were Blakes by the father's side , and Hickories by the mother's , were ...
... fathers had been Hickories , and their mothers Blakes , it was said that they did not possess those excellencies of form or feature , which their cousins , who were Blakes by the father's side , and Hickories by the mother's , were ...
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... father twisted a hazel switch , as tight as their strength would permit , about the churn , and behold , at last , in came Matty , shrieking and writhing , as if in agony , and beseeching them to unloose the gad ; which , she admitted ...
... father twisted a hazel switch , as tight as their strength would permit , about the churn , and behold , at last , in came Matty , shrieking and writhing , as if in agony , and beseeching them to unloose the gad ; which , she admitted ...
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... father was , that after- noon , beating an apprentice , rather too severely , perhaps , in a field where some of his labourers were hacking - in wheat ; when one who was among them , - -a little fellow who was not much more than five ...
... father was , that after- noon , beating an apprentice , rather too severely , perhaps , in a field where some of his labourers were hacking - in wheat ; when one who was among them , - -a little fellow who was not much more than five ...
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... father's race ; and Harry is in the same situation , as a de- scendant of the labourer , who took his master's life , on that master's own land . They have both a great many of the bad qualities , and but few of the virtues , of the two ...
... father's race ; and Harry is in the same situation , as a de- scendant of the labourer , who took his master's life , on that master's own land . They have both a great many of the bad qualities , and but few of the virtues , of the two ...
Pàgina 32
... you broke open the glass buffet , in which the two sticks my uncle and father won the grand match with - Wilts against Somerset - was stuck up , among the china , with silver mountings , and decorated 32 THE COUNTERPART COUSINS .
... you broke open the glass buffet , in which the two sticks my uncle and father won the grand match with - Wilts against Somerset - was stuck up , among the china , with silver mountings , and decorated 32 THE COUNTERPART COUSINS .
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