Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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... voice , was reading the Evening Service according to the Church of England . Alice Lee kneeled at the feet of her father , and made the responses with a voice that might have suited the choir of angels ; and a modest and serious ...
... voice , was reading the Evening Service according to the Church of England . Alice Lee kneeled at the feet of her father , and made the responses with a voice that might have suited the choir of angels ; and a modest and serious ...
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... voice , lately as firm as it was melodious , faltered when she repeated the responses . It ap- peared to Everard , as far as he could collect by the stolen glances which he directed towards her , that the character of her beauty , as ...
... voice , lately as firm as it was melodious , faltered when she repeated the responses . It ap- peared to Everard , as far as he could collect by the stolen glances which he directed towards her , that the character of her beauty , as ...
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... voice , than that a creature , who seemed so much above the feelings of this world , and so nearly al- lied to the purity of the next , should have had the indelicacy to mingle in such manoeuvres as he himself and others had been ...
... voice , than that a creature , who seemed so much above the feelings of this world , and so nearly al- lied to the purity of the next , should have had the indelicacy to mingle in such manoeuvres as he himself and others had been ...
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... voice , which , I must say , was much like another voice , that it was one wanting Major - General Harrison . So as it was then late , I answered mildly , that General Harrison was betaking himself to his rest , and that any who wished ...
... voice , which , I must say , was much like another voice , that it was one wanting Major - General Harrison . So as it was then late , I answered mildly , that General Harrison was betaking himself to his rest , and that any who wished ...
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... voice replied , and bid me open directly , without which he would blow the folding leaves of the door into the mid- dle of the hall . And therewithal the noise re- commenced , that we thought the house would have fallen ; and I was in ...
... voice replied , and bid me open directly , without which he would blow the folding leaves of the door into the mid- dle of the hall . And therewithal the noise re- commenced , that we thought the house would have fallen ; and I was in ...
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