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 81
... face , his sandy , close - cropped hair contrasting with the effeminate locks of the nobles and troubadours of his wife's glittering court , his squat , sturdy frame and long boxer's arms , he looked rather like a good - natured lion ...
... face , his sandy , close - cropped hair contrasting with the effeminate locks of the nobles and troubadours of his wife's glittering court , his squat , sturdy frame and long boxer's arms , he looked rather like a good - natured lion ...
Page 296
... face . There was wide- spread unrest , too , among the toiling peasant masses outside the constitution . For the most enduring consequence of the Black Death had been a general shortage of labour caused by the death in its first three ...
... face . There was wide- spread unrest , too , among the toiling peasant masses outside the constitution . For the most enduring consequence of the Black Death had been a general shortage of labour caused by the death in its first three ...
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... face which flushed when he was crossed , had inherited his warrior grandfather's love of pomp and pageantry and his hero father's passionate temper which , in him , if thwarted , took the form of querulousness . But unlike his ...
... face which flushed when he was crossed , had inherited his warrior grandfather's love of pomp and pageantry and his hero father's passionate temper which , in him , if thwarted , took the form of querulousness . But unlike his ...
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