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" Page. — So stately and so graceful is her form I thought at first her stature was gigantic; But on a near approach, I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size. "
Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell - Page 41
edited by - 1850 - 479 pages
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The Household of Bouverie: Or, the Elixir of Gold, Volume 1

Catherine Ann Warfield - 1860 - 390 pages
...But on a near approach I found, in truth, She scarcely did surpass the middle size." Lady Freberg. " What is her garb ?" Page. " I cannot well describe...me clad in the usual weeds Of high habitual state." Count Freberg. (starting up,) " 'Tis Jane De Montfort." My grandmother was born of Catholic parents,...
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Literary Recreations of a Sheep-farmer

Lawrence Anderson - 1864 - 196 pages
...was gigantic. But on near approach I found in truth she scarcely does surpass the middle size. Lady. What is her garb ? Page. I cannot well describe the...decked in any gallant trim, but seems to me clad in her usual weeds of high habitual state ; for, as she moves, wide flows her robe in many a waving fold,...
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What Men Have Said about Woman: A Collection of Choice Sentences

1865 - 380 pages
...gigantic ; But on a near approach, I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size. Lady. What is her garb ? Page. I cannot well describe the fashion of it : She is not deck'd in any gallant trim, But seems to me clad in her usual weeds Of high habitual state ; for as...
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What Men Have Said about Woman ...

Henry Southgate - 1865 - 398 pages
...gigantic ; But on a near approach, I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size. Lady. What is her garb ? Page. I cannot well describe the fashion of it : She is not deck'd in any gallant trim, But seems to me clad in her usual weeds Of high habitual state ; for as...
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Literature in Letters; Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and ...

James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 pages
...in truth She scarcely does surpass the middle size. Lady. — What is her garb ? Page. — I eannot well describe the fashion of it ; She is not decked...seen. Friberg. — It it an apparition he has seen, Or Jane de Montford. Jane de Montford, Act 2.— S. 1. This description will not seem extravagant to those...
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Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and ...

James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 pages
...gigantic, But, on a near approach, I found in truth She scarcely does surpass the middle size. Lady.*— What is her garb ? Page. — I cannot well describe...It is an apparition thou hast seen. Friberg. — It is an apparition he has seen, Or Jane de Montford. Jane de Montford, Act 2.— S. 1. This description...
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What Men Have Said about Woman: A Collection of Choice Sentences

Henry Southgate - 1866 - 384 pages
...near approach, I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size. Lady. What is her garb 1 Page. I cannot well describe the fashion of it : She is not deck'd in any gallant trim, But seems to me clad in her usual weeds Of high habitual state ; for as...
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English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...gigantic ; But on a near approach, I found, in truth, Whe scarcely docs surpass the middle size. Lady. What is her garb ? Page. I cannot well describe the...fashion of it. She is not decked in any gallant trim, Hut seems to me clad in her usual weeds Of high habitual state ; for as she moves, Wide flows her rol>e...
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The songstresses of Scotland, by Sarah Tytler. and J. L. Watson, Volume 2

Henrietta Keddie - 1871 - 354 pages
...gigantic ; But on a near approach I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size. Lady. What is her garb ? Page. I cannot well describe the fashion of it. She is not deck'd in any gallant trim, But seems to me clad in the usual weeds Of high habitual state ; for as...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...gigantic ; But on a near approach, I found, in truth, She scarcely does surpass the middle size. Lady. is no her usual weeds Of high habitual state ; for as she moves, Wide flows her robe in many a waving fold,...
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