The Dennes of Daundelyonn, Volume 1Smith, Elder, 1859 |
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... woman in mourning , accom- panied by several large baskets , which looked as if they were in mourning also , for they were covered with shining black oilskin . 99 She immediately commenced " taking our mea- sures ; an operation to which ...
... woman in mourning , accom- panied by several large baskets , which looked as if they were in mourning also , for they were covered with shining black oilskin . 99 She immediately commenced " taking our mea- sures ; an operation to which ...
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... woman , who evidently belonged to the " acute anguish " department of a metropolitan mourning warehouse , next displayed a quantity of widows ' caps ; but Morgan quickly shut the basket containing them , merely observing that " it was ...
... woman , who evidently belonged to the " acute anguish " department of a metropolitan mourning warehouse , next displayed a quantity of widows ' caps ; but Morgan quickly shut the basket containing them , merely observing that " it was ...
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... but polite accomplishments and the power of speaking plainly . I left it , at the end of only a few weeks , a calm , dreamy , self - possessed , pre- mature woman . CHAPTER VI . DAUNDELYONN . " Do you remember all MATER LACHRYMARUM . 59.
... but polite accomplishments and the power of speaking plainly . I left it , at the end of only a few weeks , a calm , dreamy , self - possessed , pre- mature woman . CHAPTER VI . DAUNDELYONN . " Do you remember all MATER LACHRYMARUM . 59.
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... instruc- tress of ingenuous youth . If I had not been very favourably impressed by my Aunt Barbara , the effect produced by Miss Crabbeshawe was still less agreeable . She was a tall , gaunt , bony woman , in DAUNDELYONN . 75.
... instruc- tress of ingenuous youth . If I had not been very favourably impressed by my Aunt Barbara , the effect produced by Miss Crabbeshawe was still less agreeable . She was a tall , gaunt , bony woman , in DAUNDELYONN . 75.
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Mrs. Charles J. Proby. was a tall , gaunt , bony woman , in blue spectacles ; with coarse features , a hard voice , and stern man- ner . Upon her angular form she wore a scanty drab - coloured silk dress ; and upon her grizzled poll a ...
Mrs. Charles J. Proby. was a tall , gaunt , bony woman , in blue spectacles ; with coarse features , a hard voice , and stern man- ner . Upon her angular form she wore a scanty drab - coloured silk dress ; and upon her grizzled poll a ...
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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.