Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... tell you once more , we are not men of war or blood . " " Not more than may be drawn by the point of a needle , " said the preacher , scornfully . " Ye tailors of Woodstock , -for what is a glover but a tailor working on kidskin ? -I ...
... tell you once more , we are not men of war or blood . " " Not more than may be drawn by the point of a needle , " said the preacher , scornfully . " Ye tailors of Woodstock , -for what is a glover but a tailor working on kidskin ? -I ...
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... tell you where the sword was forged , and tempered , and welded , and grinded , and polished . When you were , as I said before , making whittles for false priests , and daggers for dissolute G - d d - n - me ca- valiers , to cut the ...
... tell you where the sword was forged , and tempered , and welded , and grinded , and polished . When you were , as I said before , making whittles for false priests , and daggers for dissolute G - d d - n - me ca- valiers , to cut the ...
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... tell you , ye are but like Jehu the son of Nimshi , who broke down the house of Baal , yet departed not from the sons of Jeroboam . Even so ye eat not fish on Friday with the blinded Papists , nor minced - pies on the twenty - fifth day ...
... tell you , ye are but like Jehu the son of Nimshi , who broke down the house of Baal , yet departed not from the sons of Jeroboam . Even so ye eat not fish on Friday with the blinded Papists , nor minced - pies on the twenty - fifth day ...
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... tell , " he said , " what to think of it . Thou seem'st sincere , and wert ever a good and kindly daughter - how thou hast let that rebel youth creep into thy heart I wot not ; perhaps it is a punishment on me , who thought the loyalty ...
... tell , " he said , " what to think of it . Thou seem'st sincere , and wert ever a good and kindly daughter - how thou hast let that rebel youth creep into thy heart I wot not ; perhaps it is a punishment on me , who thought the loyalty ...
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... tell thee many a tale of our meetings at the Mermaid , where , if there was much wine , there was much wit also . We did not sit blowing tobacco in each other's faces , and turning up the whites of our eyes as we turned up the bottom of ...
... tell thee many a tale of our meetings at the Mermaid , where , if there was much wine , there was much wit also . We did not sit blowing tobacco in each other's faces , and turning up the whites of our eyes as we turned up the bottom of ...
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