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Page 38
So that Sam sat , all day long , quite secure in mind from every intruder ; and
might , according to the compact , have so sat till the day of judgment , ( that
being the return - day for such writs , ) but that the said attesting officer , in the
company of ...
So that Sam sat , all day long , quite secure in mind from every intruder ; and
might , according to the compact , have so sat till the day of judgment , ( that
being the return - day for such writs , ) but that the said attesting officer , in the
company of ...
Page 215
... not make up her mind to accept him , especially as her children wept afresh at
the thoughts of having such a stepfather . I cannot enumerate the other partners
of the fashionables , who were all ladies of splendid incomes , whose connexions
...
... not make up her mind to accept him , especially as her children wept afresh at
the thoughts of having such a stepfather . I cannot enumerate the other partners
of the fashionables , who were all ladies of splendid incomes , whose connexions
...
Page 282
At a time when her equals are puzzling over a French verb , or battering out the
last set of quadrilles , her mind is running over all history and romance ; her
imagination is combining and recombining all the forms of character that study or
...
At a time when her equals are puzzling over a French verb , or battering out the
last set of quadrilles , her mind is running over all history and romance ; her
imagination is combining and recombining all the forms of character that study or
...
Page 492
His eyebrows were prominent , strongly marked , and bushy ; and a mind well
regulated , fearless , and independent , looked out of his clear and well - opened
eyes . His person was not unworthy of the lofty brow , and thick ambrosial curls ...
His eyebrows were prominent , strongly marked , and bushy ; and a mind well
regulated , fearless , and independent , looked out of his clear and well - opened
eyes . His person was not unworthy of the lofty brow , and thick ambrosial curls ...
Page 519
It may be “ a profusion of bold and new ideas expressed with incomparable
neatnes8 and brevity , ” but to my mind it looks extremely like very ordinary
balderdash , animated but nonsensical , like a fool in spirits , and by no means
new .
It may be “ a profusion of bold and new ideas expressed with incomparable
neatnes8 and brevity , ” but to my mind it looks extremely like very ordinary
balderdash , animated but nonsensical , like a fool in spirits , and by no means
new .
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