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" When we opened the chamber, in which were fifty people, with no light, but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench. "
The letters of Horace Walpole, [ed. by J. Wright]. - Page 169
by Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 13

1819 - 552 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering...acts? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet show, that it would not come that night till seven in the morning, that is, when there are only...
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Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Now ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering...? We had nothing; they told us, as they would at a puppet show, that it would not come that night till seven in the morning, that is, when there are only...
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Containing modern history, to the outbreak of the French Revolution

Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 pages
...at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes. At the top of the room arc ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing...puppet-show, — ' that it would not come that night till seten in the morning, — that is, when there are only 'prentices and old women. We staid, however,...
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The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: The ghost, bk. IV. The candidate ...

Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering...are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope dancing between the acts. We had nothing ; they told us, as they would at a puppet show, that...
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London, Volumes 3-4

Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 860 pages
...tallow-candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they arc murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and...acts? We had nothing. They told us, as they would at a puppet- show, that it would not come that night till seven in the morning, that is, when there are...
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Mysteries; Or, Glimpses of the Supernatural: Containing Accounts of the ...

Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1852 - 298 pages
...the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench We' heard nothing! they told us, as they would at a puppet-show,...that it would not come that night till seven in the morning—that is, when there are only apprentices and old women. We stayed, however, till half an...
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Mysteries; Or, Glimpses of the Supernatural: Containing Accounts of the ...

Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1852 - 304 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child, to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and stench We heard nothing ! they told us, as they would at a puppet-show, that it would not come that night...
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The National Magazine, Volume 3

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes . . . We heard nothing ! They told us, as they would at a puppet-show, that it would not corae that night till seven in the morning ; that is, when there are only apprentices and old women...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Biographies. Reviews. Animated Nature. Cock ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 472 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of the child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat and »tench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing between...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 766 pages
...fifty people, with no light but one tallow candle at the end, we tumbled over the bed of tlie child to whom the ghost comes, and whom they are murdering by inches in such insufferable heat anil stench. At the top of the room are ropes to dry clothes. I asked if we were to have rope-dancing...
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