The Dennes of Daundelyonn, Volume 1Smith, Elder, 1859 |
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... manners and habits which the most sensible people calmly adopt , merely because other sensible people have been silly enough to do the same thing before them . Among other follies , it is curious to notice that all articles of female ...
... manners and habits which the most sensible people calmly adopt , merely because other sensible people have been silly enough to do the same thing before them . Among other follies , it is curious to notice that all articles of female ...
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... without bestowing a word or taking the slightest notice of us ( which was very contrary to her usual custom ) she walked quietly to the windows and drew down the blinds . Her manner of doing this , and MATER LACHRYMARUM . 43.
... without bestowing a word or taking the slightest notice of us ( which was very contrary to her usual custom ) she walked quietly to the windows and drew down the blinds . Her manner of doing this , and MATER LACHRYMARUM . 43.
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Mrs. Charles J. Proby. the blinds . Her manner of doing this , and her solemn injunction " by no means to draw them up again , " infected us with a vague sense of awe , which deprived us of all courage to ask the reason why we were not ...
Mrs. Charles J. Proby. the blinds . Her manner of doing this , and her solemn injunction " by no means to draw them up again , " infected us with a vague sense of awe , which deprived us of all courage to ask the reason why we were not ...
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... manner when last we beheld her , as we should see the calm and peaceful repose which was now the characteristic of her countenance and perhaps also to give us an opportunity of indulging in that demonstrative sorrow which has a kind of ...
... manner when last we beheld her , as we should see the calm and peaceful repose which was now the characteristic of her countenance and perhaps also to give us an opportunity of indulging in that demonstrative sorrow which has a kind of ...
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... manner - jerked out , rather than uttered in a continuous flow - that it completely neutralized the kindness of her words . I was innocent enough to take her hair ( it was a wig ) upon trust , and her vivid colour ( otherwise " bloom of ...
... manner - jerked out , rather than uttered in a continuous flow - that it completely neutralized the kindness of her words . I was innocent enough to take her hair ( it was a wig ) upon trust , and her vivid colour ( otherwise " bloom of ...
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Page 9 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, and our good Prince Eugene. "Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl," quoth he, "it was a famous victory.