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 19
... took a prime minister's share in the government of the large parish to which it was attached ; and one of the gentlemen , whose estates he ma- naged , being the independent member for an independent borough , he had every now and then a ...
... took a prime minister's share in the government of the large parish to which it was attached ; and one of the gentlemen , whose estates he ma- naged , being the independent member for an independent borough , he had every now and then a ...
Page 20
... took offence or gave it ; never thought of herself or of what others would think of her ; had never been afflicted with the besetting sins of her station , a dread of the vulgar , or an aspiration after the genteel . Those " words of ...
... took offence or gave it ; never thought of herself or of what others would think of her ; had never been afflicted with the besetting sins of her station , a dread of the vulgar , or an aspiration after the genteel . Those " words of ...
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... took up behind , where he swang in an odd but apparently satisfactory posture , between running and riding . While he continued with us , we fell into no mistakes ; but at last he and the shoulder of veal reached their place of ...
... took up behind , where he swang in an odd but apparently satisfactory posture , between running and riding . While he continued with us , we fell into no mistakes ; but at last he and the shoulder of veal reached their place of ...
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... took up the glove in a style of manly courtesy , that would have done honour to a knight in the days of chivalry . " We were not professed players , " he said ; " being little better than school - boys , and scarcely older : but , since ...
... took up the glove in a style of manly courtesy , that would have done honour to a knight in the days of chivalry . " We were not professed players , " he said ; " being little better than school - boys , and scarcely older : but , since ...
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... took tall John Strong , who , with an incurable hanker- ing after the honour of being admitted , had kept constantly with the players , to take the chance of some such accident - we took John for our pisaller . I never saw any one ...
... took tall John Strong , who , with an incurable hanker- ing after the honour of being admitted , had kept constantly with the players , to take the chance of some such accident - we took John for our pisaller . I never saw any one ...
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