Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... arms according to the manual as then practised , their musket - butts rang on the church pavement , within an inch of the gouty toes of Master Mayor . The energetic magistrate , whose efforts in favour of order were thus checked , cast ...
... arms according to the manual as then practised , their musket - butts rang on the church pavement , within an inch of the gouty toes of Master Mayor . The energetic magistrate , whose efforts in favour of order were thus checked , cast ...
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... arm in arm , was a slight and sylph - like form , with a person so delicately made , and so beautiful in countenance , that it seemed the earth on which she walked was too grossly massive a support for a crea- ture so aerial . But ...
... arm in arm , was a slight and sylph - like form , with a person so delicately made , and so beautiful in countenance , that it seemed the earth on which she walked was too grossly massive a support for a crea- ture so aerial . But ...
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... arm is but little worth . But you and Albert were so de- sirous that he should go alone - and now , who can say what has become of him ? " " Nay , nay , father , " said Alice ; " we have good hope that Albert escaped from that fatal day ...
... arm is but little worth . But you and Albert were so de- sirous that he should go alone - and now , who can say what has become of him ? " " Nay , nay , father , " said Alice ; " we have good hope that Albert escaped from that fatal day ...
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... arm shall support you while you will accept an aid so feeble . " 66 " Thou word'st me , girl , " answered the old cava- lier , " thou word'st me , as Will Shakspeare says- thou speakest of lending me thy arm : but thy secret thought is ...
... arm shall support you while you will accept an aid so feeble . " 66 " Thou word'st me , girl , " answered the old cava- lier , " thou word'st me , as Will Shakspeare says- thou speakest of lending me thy arm : but thy secret thought is ...
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... arms and hunting . " " You have seen Shakespeare , sir ? " said the young lady . " Silly wench , " replied the knight , " he died when I was a mere child - thou hast heard me say so twenty times ; but thou would'st lead the old man away ...
... arms and hunting . " " You have seen Shakespeare , sir ? " said the young lady . " Silly wench , " replied the knight , " he died when I was a mere child - thou hast heard me say so twenty times ; but thou would'st lead the old man away ...
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