The Dennes of Daundelyonn, Volume 1Smith, Elder, 1859 |
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... sense of the exceeding sweetness of the mignionette in the balcony - a sense so acute that to this day I have never inhaled the perfume of that flower without recalling the scene I have just depicted . VOL . I. C The open window , the ...
... sense of the exceeding sweetness of the mignionette in the balcony - a sense so acute that to this day I have never inhaled the perfume of that flower without recalling the scene I have just depicted . VOL . I. C The open window , the ...
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... sense or sensibility ever calmly con- template the atrocity of thatching his heroine's head with such a white crape haystack , a crimped net birdcage , as the widow's cap of the 19th cen- tury , with its formal crown and prim ...
... sense or sensibility ever calmly con- template the atrocity of thatching his heroine's head with such a white crape haystack , a crimped net birdcage , as the widow's cap of the 19th cen- tury , with its formal crown and prim ...
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... senses by the massive curtains , high carved bed- stead , and polished wardrobes ; it was darkened , too , by both outer and inner blinds , though the windows were open ; and the air in it was heavy with perfume , as if some strongly ...
... senses by the massive curtains , high carved bed- stead , and polished wardrobes ; it was darkened , too , by both outer and inner blinds , though the windows were open ; and the air in it was heavy with perfume , as if some strongly ...
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... no recollection of what immediately followed this scene , never to be obliterated from our remembrance . Our young feelings received an undefinable and appalling shock . A vague sense of 40 THE DENNES OF DAUNDELYONN .
... no recollection of what immediately followed this scene , never to be obliterated from our remembrance . Our young feelings received an undefinable and appalling shock . A vague sense of 40 THE DENNES OF DAUNDELYONN .
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Mrs. Charles J. Proby. an undefinable and appalling shock . A vague sense of the close affinity between this world and that to come , for the first time , stole upon us . The absence , too , of all the " old familiar faces , " the humble ...
Mrs. Charles J. Proby. an undefinable and appalling shock . A vague sense of the close affinity between this world and that to come , for the first time , stole upon us . The absence , too , of all the " old familiar faces , " the humble ...
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