Good Words, Volume 22Alexander Strahan and Company, 1881 - English periodicals |
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... young folk , as the butcher's and grocer's girls might do . And who was there likely to ask her in marriage , or to take her to a dance , or a fairing , or a club , comely as she was , and so nice - spoken ? Why , Parson Tom Short was ...
... young folk , as the butcher's and grocer's girls might do . And who was there likely to ask her in marriage , or to take her to a dance , or a fairing , or a club , comely as she was , and so nice - spoken ? Why , Parson Tom Short was ...
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... young lady ran away , and left him to enjoy it , for she saw that help was near at hand . Now a man of good sense and strong will led the simple people of Christowell . In any trouble or turning of the mind , as well as in bodily ...
... young lady ran away , and left him to enjoy it , for she saw that help was near at hand . Now a man of good sense and strong will led the simple people of Christowell . In any trouble or turning of the mind , as well as in bodily ...
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... young girl's minds . " Now what would this child do , to ex- press her gratitude " —he put it to her father with a nod of understanding ; " supposing that I were to bring her a hero ? A genuine hero of valour and of chivalry , such a ...
... young girl's minds . " Now what would this child do , to ex- press her gratitude " —he put it to her father with a nod of understanding ; " supposing that I were to bring her a hero ? A genuine hero of valour and of chivalry , such a ...
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... young ladies nowadays are taught all paradoxes . Why should milk become solid , and apples liquid , by the self- same process of thumping ? ( ( Because , because because I don't know . And can you explain to me , Mr. Short , how a man ...
... young ladies nowadays are taught all paradoxes . Why should milk become solid , and apples liquid , by the self- same process of thumping ? ( ( Because , because because I don't know . And can you explain to me , Mr. Short , how a man ...
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... young Oxford apostles the forerunners of Antichrist . Infidelity was rushing in upon us . Achilles must rise from his tent , and put on his celestial armour . The Church must reassert herself in majesty to smite and drive back the proud ...
... young Oxford apostles the forerunners of Antichrist . Infidelity was rushing in upon us . Achilles must rise from his tent , and put on his celestial armour . The Church must reassert herself in majesty to smite and drive back the proud ...
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