Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... served a person of condition , whose lodg- ing is now worse appointed , " answered the honest keeper , his bile rising so fast that he added , in a muttering and inaudible tone , so it may well serve a crop - eared knave like thee ...
... served a person of condition , whose lodg- ing is now worse appointed , " answered the honest keeper , his bile rising so fast that he added , in a muttering and inaudible tone , so it may well serve a crop - eared knave like thee ...
Page 55
... served . ' ' Care not thou about that , ' said Joliffe ; but tell me softly and hastily , what is in the pantry ... serve for a pinch - wrap thy cloak round thy comely body get a basket and a brace of trenchers and towels , they are ...
... served . ' ' Care not thou about that , ' said Joliffe ; but tell me softly and hastily , what is in the pantry ... serve for a pinch - wrap thy cloak round thy comely body get a basket and a brace of trenchers and towels , they are ...
Page 56
... serve us for bread . ' ' Rarely , ' said Phabe ; I made the paste myself- it is as thick as the walls of Fair Rosamond's Tower . ' ' Which two pair of jaws would be long in gnawing through , work hard as they might , ' said the keeper ...
... serve us for bread . ' ' Rarely , ' said Phabe ; I made the paste myself- it is as thick as the walls of Fair Rosamond's Tower . ' ' Which two pair of jaws would be long in gnawing through , work hard as they might , ' said the keeper ...
Page 63
... served it two ways - you wore buff and bandalier , as well as wielded pen and ink - I have not heard if you held forth too . ' ' Think of me and speak of me as harshly as you will , sir , ' said Everard , submissively , I have but , in ...
... served it two ways - you wore buff and bandalier , as well as wielded pen and ink - I have not heard if you held forth too . ' ' Think of me and speak of me as harshly as you will , sir , ' said Everard , submissively , I have but , in ...
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... served in his night - walk . The times were dange- rous and unsettled ; the roads full of disbanded sol- diers , and especially of royalists , who made their political opinions a pretext for disturbing the country with marauding parties ...
... served in his night - walk . The times were dange- rous and unsettled ; the roads full of disbanded sol- diers , and especially of royalists , who made their political opinions a pretext for disturbing the country with marauding parties ...
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Page 106 - ... speaker that ever perplexed an audience. It has been long since said by the historian that a collection of the Protector's speeches would make, with a few exceptions, the most nonsensical book in the world; but he ought to have added that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood. It was also remarked of Cromwell that, though born of a good family, both by father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education...