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As sure , my dearest Phoebe , as . " The rest of the asseveration was lost in
Phoebe ' s ear , so closely did the keeper ' s lips approach it ; and if they
approached so very near as to touch her cheek , grief , like impatience , hath its
privileges ...
As sure , my dearest Phoebe , as . " The rest of the asseveration was lost in
Phoebe ' s ear , so closely did the keeper ' s lips approach it ; and if they
approached so very near as to touch her cheek , grief , like impatience , hath its
privileges ...
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You have been moistening your own throat to some purpose , and using it to
gabble tunes very suiting to the times , to be sure ! • Faith , the tune ' s a pretty
tune enough , Mark , only out of fashion a little - - the more ' s the pity . ' . " What
could I ...
You have been moistening your own throat to some purpose , and using it to
gabble tunes very suiting to the times , to be sure ! • Faith , the tune ' s a pretty
tune enough , Mark , only out of fashion a little - - the more ' s the pity . ' . " What
could I ...
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This is just what I wished to speak with you about , Wildrake , ' said Markham -
You hold me , I am sure , for your frier . d ? ' True as steel . - Chums at college
and at Lincoln ' sInn - we have been Nisus and Euryalus , Theseus and Perithous
...
This is just what I wished to speak with you about , Wildrake , ' said Markham -
You hold me , I am sure , for your frier . d ? ' True as steel . - Chums at college
and at Lincoln ' sInn - we have been Nisus and Euryalus , Theseus and Perithous
...
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Truce with thy folly , Wildrake ; sure the devil of drink , to whom thou hast , I think ,
sold thyselfm ' For a hogshead of sack , ' interrupted Wildrake ; " the bargain was
made in a cellar in the vintry . ' " I am as mad as thon art , to trust anything to ...
Truce with thy folly , Wildrake ; sure the devil of drink , to whom thou hast , I think ,
sold thyselfm ' For a hogshead of sack , ' interrupted Wildrake ; " the bargain was
made in a cellar in the vintry . ' " I am as mad as thon art , to trust anything to ...
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acquainted the General that thou hast been by bad example and bad education •
Which is to be interpreted by contraries , I hope , ' said Wildrake ; ' for sure I have
been as well born and bred up as any lad of Liecestershire might desire .
acquainted the General that thou hast been by bad example and bad education •
Which is to be interpreted by contraries , I hope , ' said Wildrake ; ' for sure I have
been as well born and bred up as any lad of Liecestershire might desire .
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| Title | Woodstock, Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one Volume 1 of Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 370 pages |
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