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One Hundred Years of English Studies in Dutch Universities: Seventeen Papers ... - Page 49
edited by - 1987 - 274 pages
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Villette, Volume 2

Charlotte Brontë - 1853 - 332 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting : this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....fed : very much butcher's meat — to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids — must she have consumed to attain that breadth and height, that...
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Villette, Volume 2; Volume 140

Charlotte Brontë - 1853 - 334 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting: this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....sixteen stone. She was, indeed, extremely well fed: very mnch butcher's meat—to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids—must she have consumed to...
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Villette

Charlotte Brontë - 1853 - 540 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting ; this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....bulk, would infallibly turn from fourteen to sixteen stones. She was, indeed, extremely well fed. Very much butcher's meat, to say nothing of bread, vegetables,...
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Life and Works of Charlotte Bronté and Her Sisters: Villette, by C. Bronté

Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 550 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting : this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....fed : very much butcher's meat-— to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids — must she have consumed to attain that breadth and height, that...
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Villette

Charlotte Brontë - 1889 - 508 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting : this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....was, indeed, extremely well fed: very much butcher's meat—to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids—must she have consumed to attain that breadth...
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Villette

Charlotte Brontë - 1893 - 360 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting : this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....fed : very much butcher's meat — to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids — must she have consumed to attain that breadth and height, that...
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... Villette

Charlotte Brontë - 1899 - 666 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting : this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....fed : very much butcher's meat — to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids — must she have consumed to attain that breadth and height, that...
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... Villette

Charlotte Brontë - 1902 - 668 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting : this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....represented a woman, considerably larger, I thought, 'n the life. I calculated that this lady, put into a scale 'of magnitude, suitable for the reception...
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The Novels of the Sisters Brontë ...: Villette, by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 360 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting : this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....fed : very much butcher's meat — to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids — must she have consumed to attain that breadth and height, that...
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Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Villette, by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 454 pages
...gazed themselves off their feet, might be fain to complete the business sitting : this picture, I say, seemed to consider itself the queen of the collection....fed : very much butcher's meat — to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids — must she have consumed to attain that breadth and height, that...
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