Madam How and Lady Why; OrMacmillan and Company, 1885 - 321 páginas |
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... poor , half- withered scrap of bottle - heath , and nothing left for you to catch either , for the butterflies and insects are all dead too , except one poor old Daddy - long- legs , who sits upon that piece of turf , boring a hole with ...
... poor , half- withered scrap of bottle - heath , and nothing left for you to catch either , for the butterflies and insects are all dead too , except one poor old Daddy - long- legs , who sits upon that piece of turf , boring a hole with ...
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... poor old Mrs. Daddy - long - legs there and her eggs . She will spend thousands of years in building up a mountain , and thousands of years in grinding it down again ; and then carefully polish every grain of sand which falls from that ...
... poor old Mrs. Daddy - long - legs there and her eggs . She will spend thousands of years in building up a mountain , and thousands of years in grinding it down again ; and then carefully polish every grain of sand which falls from that ...
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... poor people : I mean ignorant and uneducated people , who do not use their brains rightly , though they may be fine ladies , or kings , or popes . The Bible says , " Prove all things : hold fast that which is good . " So do you prove my ...
... poor people : I mean ignorant and uneducated people , who do not use their brains rightly , though they may be fine ladies , or kings , or popes . The Bible says , " Prove all things : hold fast that which is good . " So do you prove my ...
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... poor people in great affliction but I cannot help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls " tempting God " -staking their property and their lives upon the chances of no ...
... poor people in great affliction but I cannot help thinking that they have been doing for hundreds of years past something very like what the Bible calls " tempting God " -staking their property and their lives upon the chances of no ...
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... it ; and was giving us , in a very rough fashion , notice to quit . And so it seems to me that these poor Spanish Americans have received from the Landlord of all landlords , who can do no wrong , such a D 2 EARTHQUAKES . 35.
... it ; and was giving us , in a very rough fashion , notice to quit . And so it seems to me that these poor Spanish Americans have received from the Landlord of all landlords , who can do no wrong , such a D 2 EARTHQUAKES . 35.
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