Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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Page 128
... kind was foreign to the severe and ascetic character of the man , and was therefore the more overpower- ing when it had at once surmounted all restraints . Large tears flowed down the trembling features of his thin , and usually stern ...
... kind was foreign to the severe and ascetic character of the man , and was therefore the more overpower- ing when it had at once surmounted all restraints . Large tears flowed down the trembling features of his thin , and usually stern ...
Page 173
... Mistress Alice , I think you had better throw away this gimcrack . Such gifts from such hands are a kind of press - money which the devil uses for enlisting his regiment of witches ; and if they take but WOODSTOCK . 173.
... Mistress Alice , I think you had better throw away this gimcrack . Such gifts from such hands are a kind of press - money which the devil uses for enlisting his regiment of witches ; and if they take but WOODSTOCK . 173.
Page 185
... kind , hastily stepped aside out of the moonlight , and pulled Alice close to him , so as to be invisible from without , yet so placed as to hear what should pass . The scuffle between Bevis and his prisoner seemed to be ended by ...
... kind , hastily stepped aside out of the moonlight , and pulled Alice close to him , so as to be invisible from without , yet so placed as to hear what should pass . The scuffle between Bevis and his prisoner seemed to be ended by ...
Page 191
... kind patron , " said the doctor ; " permit me to bind up your arm . " " My wound ? -with all my heart , doctor , " said Sir Henry , raising himself , and gathering his recollection by degrees . " I knew of old thou wert body - curer as ...
... kind patron , " said the doctor ; " permit me to bind up your arm . " " My wound ? -with all my heart , doctor , " said Sir Henry , raising himself , and gathering his recollection by degrees . " I knew of old thou wert body - curer as ...
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... kind expressions to most of us in especial . He sent his royal greet- ing to you , sir , in particular , and said more than becomes me to repeat . " " Nay , I will hear it every word , boy , " said Sir Henry ; " is not the certainty ...
... kind expressions to most of us in especial . He sent his royal greet- ing to you , sir , in particular , and said more than becomes me to repeat . " " Nay , I will hear it every word , boy , " said Sir Henry ; " is not the certainty ...
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