The Merchant's Clerk: And Other TalesHarper & Brothers, 1836 - 366 էջ |
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... half ut- tered , I looked at my watch , rung the bell , and ordered the carriage to be at the door in a quarter of an hour . I was sealing one of the letters I had been writing , when I heard a knock at the street door , and in a few ...
... half ut- tered , I looked at my watch , rung the bell , and ordered the carriage to be at the door in a quarter of an hour . I was sealing one of the letters I had been writing , when I heard a knock at the street door , and in a few ...
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... half a handful left ! So she was obliged to go to the drug- gist at the other end of the street . Poor thing , she looked so vexed ; for she has quite a confidence , like , in what she gets here ! " " True , very likely ! You said , by ...
... half a handful left ! So she was obliged to go to the drug- gist at the other end of the street . Poor thing , she looked so vexed ; for she has quite a confidence , like , in what she gets here ! " " True , very likely ! You said , by ...
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... half of his glass , and smacked his lips as though he unusually relished the flavour . 66 " Indeed , papa ! " exclaimed the young lady , with an air of anxious vivacity , not attempting to convey to her lips the brimming wineglass her ...
... half of his glass , and smacked his lips as though he unusually relished the flavour . 66 " Indeed , papa ! " exclaimed the young lady , with an air of anxious vivacity , not attempting to convey to her lips the brimming wineglass her ...
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... Half the poor girl's fortune was already transferred , in Lord Scamp's mind , to the pockets of half a dozen harpies at the turf and the table ; so he was , as before observed , very punctual in his engagements at Bullion House , with ...
... Half the poor girl's fortune was already transferred , in Lord Scamp's mind , to the pockets of half a dozen harpies at the turf and the table ; so he was , as before observed , very punctual in his engagements at Bullion House , with ...
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... half in a perfect ecstasy of terror . As soon , however , as the apothecary summoned to her assistance had assured him that there were , happily , no grounds for his fears- that she had had a very violent fit of hysterics , but was now ...
... half in a perfect ecstasy of terror . As soon , however , as the apothecary summoned to her assistance had assured him that there were , happily , no grounds for his fears- that she had had a very violent fit of hysterics , but was now ...
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Էջ 343 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Էջ 113 - It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Էջ 343 - Where the great Sun begins his state, Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Էջ 365 - SACRED HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Attempted to be Philosophically considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son. By SHARON TURNER, FSA and RASL New Edition, edited by the Rev.
Էջ 344 - Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Էջ 362 - Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens.
Էջ 364 - A DESCRIPTION OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND, AND ITS INHABITANTS. With an Authentic Account of the Mutiny of the Ship Bounty, and of the .subsequent Fortunes of the Mutineers.