Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... horses were kept at work in the dray - carts , but on Sunday I had the privilege to go abroad in my chariot , either to church or otherways , as my husband and I could agree about it , which , by the way , was not very often ; but of ...
... horses were kept at work in the dray - carts , but on Sunday I had the privilege to go abroad in my chariot , either to church or otherways , as my husband and I could agree about it , which , by the way , was not very often ; but of ...
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... horses and men , rid every day out to the forest a hunting , and nothing was done all this while ; but the money ... horse - coursers , and men meaner than himself , which is another consequence of a man's being a fool ; such can ...
... horses and men , rid every day out to the forest a hunting , and nothing was done all this while ; but the money ... horse - coursers , and men meaner than himself , which is another consequence of a man's being a fool ; such can ...
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... horses , either what became of them , where or which way they went , or what they did , or in- tended to do , no more than if the ground had opened and swallowed them all up , and nobody had known it , except as hereafter . I was not ...
... horses , either what became of them , where or which way they went , or what they did , or in- tended to do , no more than if the ground had opened and swallowed them all up , and nobody had known it , except as hereafter . I was not ...
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... horse and go to London , do the business he had to do , which it seems was to pay a foreign bill that was due that night , and would else be protested , and that he would come back in three hours at farthest , and sup with me ; but bade ...
... horse and go to London , do the business he had to do , which it seems was to pay a foreign bill that was due that night , and would else be protested , and that he would come back in three hours at farthest , and sup with me ; but bade ...
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... horse for London . This kind of discourse had fired my blood , I confess , and I knew not what to think of it ; it was plain now that he intended to lie with me , but how he would reconcile it to a legal thing , like a marriage , that I ...
... horse for London . This kind of discourse had fired my blood , I confess , and I knew not what to think of it ; it was plain now that he intended to lie with me , but how he would reconcile it to a legal thing , like a marriage , that I ...
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