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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... mean , says he , by not relieving Rochelle , but by helping to ruin Rochelle , when you and the Dutch lent ships to beat our fleet , which all the ships in France could not have done without you . RUN A MAN THROUGH THE BODY . 9 I was 8 ...
... mean , says he , by not relieving Rochelle , but by helping to ruin Rochelle , when you and the Dutch lent ships to beat our fleet , which all the ships in France could not have done without you . RUN A MAN THROUGH THE BODY . 9 I was 8 ...
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... means find my way out ; at last , seeing a door open that looked through a house into the street , I went in , and out at the other door ; but then I was at as great a loss to know where I was , and which was the way to my lodging . The ...
... means find my way out ; at last , seeing a door open that looked through a house into the street , I went in , and out at the other door ; but then I was at as great a loss to know where I was , and which was the way to my lodging . The ...
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... mean time everywhere else things looked ill ; the troops were ill paid , the magazines empty , the people mutinous , and a general disorder seized the minds of the court ; and the cardinal , who was the soul of everything , desired this ...
... mean time everywhere else things looked ill ; the troops were ill paid , the magazines empty , the people mutinous , and a general disorder seized the minds of the court ; and the cardinal , who was the soul of everything , desired this ...
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... mean the cardinal . We went from hence to Grenoble , and arrived there the same day that the king and the cardinal , with the whole court , went out to view a body of six thousand Swiss foot , which the cardinal had wheedled the cantons ...
... mean the cardinal . We went from hence to Grenoble , and arrived there the same day that the king and the cardinal , with the whole court , went out to view a body of six thousand Swiss foot , which the cardinal had wheedled the cantons ...
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... means it came to almost a pitched battle . There were two regiments of French dragoons who did ex- cellent service in this action , and maintained their ground till they were almost all killed . Had the Duke of Savoy contented himself ...
... means it came to almost a pitched battle . There were two regiments of French dragoons who did ex- cellent service in this action , and maintained their ground till they were almost all killed . Had the Duke of Savoy contented himself ...
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