The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... asked them to pass legal sentence upon a subject charged with grave offenses against the crown . No Greek tyrant ever could do this , he had around him no halo of legiti- macy , and moreover , he permitted no order of nobility among his ...
... asked them to pass legal sentence upon a subject charged with grave offenses against the crown . No Greek tyrant ever could do this , he had around him no halo of legiti- macy , and moreover , he permitted no order of nobility among his ...
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... asked how it stood with him . Forsooth , said he , I am whole of body , thanked be Our Lord ; therefore , sirs , for God's love tell me where I am . Then said they all that he was in the castle of Carbonek . There- with came a ...
... asked how it stood with him . Forsooth , said he , I am whole of body , thanked be Our Lord ; therefore , sirs , for God's love tell me where I am . Then said they all that he was in the castle of Carbonek . There- with came a ...
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... asked him , what he would ? And he said , he would be her paramour . And she asked him if he were a knight ? And he said , nay . And then she said , that he might not be her leman ; but she bid him go again unto his fellows and get him ...
... asked him , what he would ? And he said , he would be her paramour . And she asked him if he were a knight ? And he said , nay . And then she said , that he might not be her leman ; but she bid him go again unto his fellows and get him ...
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... asked them if it had not been better to have given that relief to poor men , rather than to the beasts . And they answered me , and said that they had no poor men amongst them in that country ; and though it had been so that poor men ...
... asked them if it had not been better to have given that relief to poor men , rather than to the beasts . And they answered me , and said that they had no poor men amongst them in that country ; and though it had been so that poor men ...
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... asked , without drag- ging him into the affray , whatever it might be . Seizing his breeches that lay upon the bed , he tucked them under his arm like a gala hat , and bounding downstairs by a little wooden lad- der , ran to the belfry ...
... asked , without drag- ging him into the affray , whatever it might be . Seizing his breeches that lay upon the bed , he tucked them under his arm like a gala hat , and bounding downstairs by a little wooden lad- der , ran to the belfry ...
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