Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2G. Bell and Sons, 1885 |
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... killed a man at the tennis- court . My landlord was then sensible of his mistake , and came to me , and told me the danger I was in , and very honestly offered to convey me to a friend's of his , where I should be very secure ; I ...
... killed a man at the tennis- court . My landlord was then sensible of his mistake , and came to me , and told me the danger I was in , and very honestly offered to convey me to a friend's of his , where I should be very secure ; I ...
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... killed , for as to quar- ter , they neither asked nor gave . I ran away very fairly one of the first , and my companion with me , and by the goodness of our horses got out of the fray , and beiug not much known in the army , we came ...
... killed , for as to quar- ter , they neither asked nor gave . I ran away very fairly one of the first , and my companion with me , and by the goodness of our horses got out of the fray , and beiug not much known in the army , we came ...
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... killed . Had the Duke of Savoy contented himself with the defeat of five regiments on the right , which he quite broke and drove into the wood , and with the slaughter and havoc which he had made among the rest , he had come off with ...
... killed . Had the Duke of Savoy contented himself with the defeat of five regiments on the right , which he quite broke and drove into the wood , and with the slaughter and havoc which he had made among the rest , he had come off with ...
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... killed in this action , and the French had really a great blow here , though they took care to conceal it all they could ; and I cannot , without smiling , read some of the histories and memoirs of this action , which they are not ...
... killed in this action , and the French had really a great blow here , though they took care to conceal it all they could ; and I cannot , without smiling , read some of the histories and memoirs of this action , which they are not ...
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... killed in battle . Upon this resolution I procured a pass to go to Genoa , and accordingly began my journey , but was arrested at Villa Franca by a slow linger- ing fever , which held me about five days , and then turned to a burning ...
... killed in battle . Upon this resolution I procured a pass to go to Genoa , and accordingly began my journey , but was arrested at Villa Franca by a slow linger- ing fever , which held me about five days , and then turned to a burning ...
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