Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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Page 95
... doors to all . It was not merely for certain families or tribes , for kings and landowners , for the successful or learned . It was for fools and failures , for the weak and sick , for women and children , for prisoners and paupers ...
... doors to all . It was not merely for certain families or tribes , for kings and landowners , for the successful or learned . It was for fools and failures , for the weak and sick , for women and children , for prisoners and paupers ...
Page 110
... door by the angry King who now resolved to ruin and destroy him . Sen- tencing him for contempt of his royal Court to the loss of all his own and his see's moveable goods , and calling on him to account for the vast sums which had ...
... door by the angry King who now resolved to ruin and destroy him . Sen- tencing him for contempt of his royal Court to the loss of all his own and his see's moveable goods , and calling on him to account for the vast sums which had ...
Page 177
... doors in the depth of winter , they seemed as impervious to weather as the rocks among which they lay in ambush . Their trackless terrain and climate of mist , snow and driving rain made any prolonged cam- paign against them profitless ...
... doors in the depth of winter , they seemed as impervious to weather as the rocks among which they lay in ambush . Their trackless terrain and climate of mist , snow and driving rain made any prolonged cam- paign against them profitless ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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