The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our Village, Belford Regis, Country Stories, Finden's Tableaux, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the FirstCrissy & Markley, 1850 - 672 pages |
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Page 12
... lived to be killed , to make a noise at their deaths , as chickens should do . She was also a famous " scholar ; " kept ac- counts , wrote bills , read letters , and answered them ; was a trusty accomptant , and a safe confidante ...
... lived to be killed , to make a noise at their deaths , as chickens should do . She was also a famous " scholar ; " kept ac- counts , wrote bills , read letters , and answered them ; was a trusty accomptant , and a safe confidante ...
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... lived in a street , to fix a little board out- EARLY in the present century there lived in side the parlour - window , and cover it with the ancient town of B. two complete and re- bread - crums in the hard weather . It was markable ...
... lived in a street , to fix a little board out- EARLY in the present century there lived in side the parlour - window , and cover it with the ancient town of B. two complete and re- bread - crums in the hard weather . It was markable ...
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... lived with them for forty years , and , except being twice as big and twice as tall , might Our member was a man of seventy , or have passed for another sister . She wore their thereabout , but wonderfully young - looking , gowns ...
... lived with them for forty years , and , except being twice as big and twice as tall , might Our member was a man of seventy , or have passed for another sister . She wore their thereabout , but wonderfully young - looking , gowns ...
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... lived in our family eleven years ; but , having come to us very young , was still under thirty , just in full bloom , and a very brilliant bloom it was . Her figure was rather tall , and rather large , with delicate hands and feet , and ...
... lived in our family eleven years ; but , having come to us very young , was still under thirty , just in full bloom , and a very brilliant bloom it was . Her figure was rather tall , and rather large , with delicate hands and feet , and ...
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... lived in the country , and made use of her ears . Then she was fanciful , recollective , new ; drew her images from the real objects , not from their shadows in books . In short , to listen to her , and the young ladies her com- panions ...
... lived in the country , and made use of her ears . Then she was fanciful , recollective , new ; drew her images from the real objects , not from their shadows in books . In short , to listen to her , and the young ladies her com- panions ...
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