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... Ladies or fair ladies - I would wish you - or I would request you , or I would entreat you , not to fear - not to tremble ; my life for yours . - Midsummer Night's Dream . A shew , as it were , of an accompanible solitariness , and of a ...
... Ladies or fair ladies - I would wish you - or I would request you , or I would entreat you , not to fear - not to tremble ; my life for yours . - Midsummer Night's Dream . A shew , as it were , of an accompanible solitariness , and of a ...
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... ladies of the family ; very little aid or consolation being derived from making a " genteel " appearance in such cases . At the first encounter of such a mud - hole as I have attempted to describe , we stopped in utter despair . My ...
... ladies of the family ; very little aid or consolation being derived from making a " genteel " appearance in such cases . At the first encounter of such a mud - hole as I have attempted to describe , we stopped in utter despair . My ...
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... ladies from the eastward world may hereafter encounter in Michigan . Our journey was marked by no incident more alarming than the one I have related , though one night passed in a wretched inn , deep in the " timbered land ” —as all ...
... ladies from the eastward world may hereafter encounter in Michigan . Our journey was marked by no incident more alarming than the one I have related , though one night passed in a wretched inn , deep in the " timbered land ” —as all ...
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... lady speaking with enthusiastic admiration of our Indian names , and quoting Ypsilanti as a specimen . But I was not fortunate in my choice ; for to each of the few which I could recollect , Mr. Mazard found some insuperable objection ...
... lady speaking with enthusiastic admiration of our Indian names , and quoting Ypsilanti as a specimen . But I was not fortunate in my choice ; for to each of the few which I could recollect , Mr. Mazard found some insuperable objection ...
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... lady was placing some cups and plates in a pyramidal pile on the cupboard shelf , when the mother , after taking my bonnet with grave courtesy , said something , of which I could only distinguish the words " slick up . " She soon after ...
... lady was placing some cups and plates in a pyramidal pile on the cupboard shelf , when the mother , after taking my bonnet with grave courtesy , said something , of which I could only distinguish the words " slick up . " She soon after ...
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