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... hand , which one of their cursed hussars took off with his sabre as neatly as an hospital sur- geon . At length the death of an old aunt , who left me some fifteen hundred pounds , snugly vested in the three per cents , gave me the long ...
... hand , which one of their cursed hussars took off with his sabre as neatly as an hospital sur- geon . At length the death of an old aunt , who left me some fifteen hundred pounds , snugly vested in the three per cents , gave me the long ...
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... hand . I angled for two days , during which time I lost twenty hooks , and several scores of yard of gut - and- line , and caught not even a minnow . Hunting was out of the question , for the stomach of a horse by no means agrees with ...
... hand . I angled for two days , during which time I lost twenty hooks , and several scores of yard of gut - and- line , and caught not even a minnow . Hunting was out of the question , for the stomach of a horse by no means agrees with ...
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... hand of the exe- cutioner for march - treason . Their castles he was acquainted with from turret to foundation - stone ; and as for the miscellaneous antiquities scattered about the country , he knew every one of them , from a cromlech ...
... hand of the exe- cutioner for march - treason . Their castles he was acquainted with from turret to foundation - stone ; and as for the miscellaneous antiquities scattered about the country , he knew every one of them , from a cromlech ...
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... hands . " These , " said he , " Captain Clutterbuck , are genuine Memoirs of the sixteenth century , and exhibit in a singular , and , as I think , an interesting point of view , the manners of that INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE . 41.
... hands . " These , " said he , " Captain Clutterbuck , are genuine Memoirs of the sixteenth century , and exhibit in a singular , and , as I think , an interesting point of view , the manners of that INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE . 41.
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... hand seemed too modern for the date he assigned to the manuscript . " Do not mistake me , sir , " said the Benedictine ; " I did not mean to say the Memoirs were written in the sixteenth century , but only , that they were compiled from ...
... hand seemed too modern for the date he assigned to the manuscript . " Do not mistake me , sir , " said the Benedictine ; " I did not mean to say the Memoirs were written in the sixteenth century , but only , that they were compiled from ...
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