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... seems hard that such indifference should lead to a new and unjustifiable etymology . As I fear your readers will not ... seem good to him shall say Wasseille , and drink to him . The other shall say again Drinkhaille . He his companion ...
... seems hard that such indifference should lead to a new and unjustifiable etymology . As I fear your readers will not ... seem good to him shall say Wasseille , and drink to him . The other shall say again Drinkhaille . He his companion ...
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... seems worth recording as folk - phrase . } ' Clog " and " log " must have been synonymous terms . 66 N. Bailey , in his ' English Dictionary , ' 1759 , defines clog to mean a load or log . John Brand , in his Popular Antiquities ...
... seems worth recording as folk - phrase . } ' Clog " and " log " must have been synonymous terms . 66 N. Bailey , in his ' English Dictionary , ' 1759 , defines clog to mean a load or log . John Brand , in his Popular Antiquities ...
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... seems necessary to elucidate the facts which the above ingeniously conceals . ( a ) Massachusetts wutohtimoin , though here brought into the foreground , is at best only distantly connected with totem . If it were possible to imagine a ...
... seems necessary to elucidate the facts which the above ingeniously conceals . ( a ) Massachusetts wutohtimoin , though here brought into the foreground , is at best only distantly connected with totem . If it were possible to imagine a ...
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... seem to remember it lying in the St. Aldate's yard of which Canon Thompson speaks . When Lord Derby came down to be ... seems to lose some of its consistency and to become fragile and gradually decay . The seal of Ulster's office used ...
... seem to remember it lying in the St. Aldate's yard of which Canon Thompson speaks . When Lord Derby came down to be ... seems to lose some of its consistency and to become fragile and gradually decay . The seal of Ulster's office used ...
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... seems to have been really in love with her during her residence at the Thrales ' , and though he was then an old man , she seems almost capable of reciprocating his adora- tion . Reynolds was enthusiastic in her praise , and Burke was ...
... seems to have been really in love with her during her residence at the Thrales ' , and though he was then an old man , she seems almost capable of reciprocating his adora- tion . Reynolds was enthusiastic in her praise , and Burke was ...
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