Woodstock, Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2A. Constable and Company, 1826 - 370 pages |
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... turn my daughter loose to you- I will go join the good doctor in dame Joan's apartment . I am not unwilling that you should know that the girl hath , in all reasonable sort , the exercise of her free will . ” He withdrew , and left the ...
... turn my daughter loose to you- I will go join the good doctor in dame Joan's apartment . I am not unwilling that you should know that the girl hath , in all reasonable sort , the exercise of her free will . ” He withdrew , and left the ...
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... turn , why your cousin Markham has lost the name of friendship and kindred , and even of some nearer feeling , and then I will answer you , Alice . " " It is soon answered , " she said . " When you drew your sword against my father's ...
... turn , why your cousin Markham has lost the name of friendship and kindred , and even of some nearer feeling , and then I will answer you , Alice . " " It is soon answered , " she said . " When you drew your sword against my father's ...
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... turn out with his godliness's second , with as good will as I ever drank a glass of sack . " " Pshaw , ” replied Everard , " those in his high place fight no singular combats . — But tell me , Roger Wildrake , didst thou thyself think ...
... turn out with his godliness's second , with as good will as I ever drank a glass of sack . " " Pshaw , ” replied Everard , " those in his high place fight no singular combats . — But tell me , Roger Wildrake , didst thou thyself think ...
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... turn them aside , as a bull would toss a cur - dog . - Lower your pikes still , my hearts , the end secured against your foot -down on your right knee , front rank - spare not for the spoiling of your blue aprons . - Ha- Zerobabel - ay ...
... turn them aside , as a bull would toss a cur - dog . - Lower your pikes still , my hearts , the end secured against your foot -down on your right knee , front rank - spare not for the spoiling of your blue aprons . - Ha- Zerobabel - ay ...
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... turn it against me . " " No , ' fore George , not so mad as that neither but I'll have another day with him . " " Thou , another day ! " exclaimed Harrison , whose eye had still remained fixed on the spot where he found such palpable ...
... turn it against me . " " No , ' fore George , not so mad as that neither but I'll have another day with him . " " Thou , another day ! " exclaimed Harrison , whose eye had still remained fixed on the spot where he found such palpable ...
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