Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3G. Bell and Sons, 1884 |
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... pleased with the moral than the fable , with the application than with the relation , and with the end of the writer than with the life of the person written of . There is in this story abundance of delightful incidents , and all of ...
... pleased with the moral than the fable , with the application than with the relation , and with the end of the writer than with the life of the person written of . There is in this story abundance of delightful incidents , and all of ...
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... pleased to let me ; for she had taught me to work with my needle , and spin worsted , which is the chief trade of that city , and I told her that if she would keep me , I would work for her , and I would work very hard . I talked to her ...
... pleased to let me ; for she had taught me to work with my needle , and spin worsted , which is the chief trade of that city , and I told her that if she would keep me , I would work for her , and I would work very hard . I talked to her ...
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... pleased with it , that he would call his lady and his two daughters to hear it , and it made mirth enough among them you may be sure . However , not a week had passed over , but on a sudden comes Mrs. Mayoress and her two daughters to ...
... pleased with it , that he would call his lady and his two daughters to hear it , and it made mirth enough among them you may be sure . However , not a week had passed over , but on a sudden comes Mrs. Mayoress and her two daughters to ...
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... pleased me mightily ; but Mrs. Mayoress did not stop there , but put her hand in her pocket , gave me a shilling , and bid me mind my work , and learn to work well , and I might be a gentlewoman for aught she knew . All this while my ...
... pleased me mightily ; but Mrs. Mayoress did not stop there , but put her hand in her pocket , gave me a shilling , and bid me mind my work , and learn to work well , and I might be a gentlewoman for aught she knew . All this while my ...
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... pleased there with the young ladies , and they so pleased with me , that I had enough to do to come away , and they were as unwilling to part with me . However , I did come away , and lived almost a year more with my honest old woman ...
... pleased there with the young ladies , and they so pleased with me , that I had enough to do to come away , and they were as unwilling to part with me . However , I did come away , and lived almost a year more with my honest old woman ...
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Page 562 - And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. 32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. 33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.