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... look smart . " I know not how it happens , but there appears a sickly delicacy in the faces of their finest women . This may have introduced the use of paint , and paint produces wrinkles , so that a fine lady shall look like a hag at ...
... look smart . " I know not how it happens , but there appears a sickly delicacy in the faces of their finest women . This may have introduced the use of paint , and paint produces wrinkles , so that a fine lady shall look like a hag at ...
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... look which expresses that it is coming or when he has said it from a look that expresses it has come . During one of the disputes when the Whigs , " the cursed Whigs , " " the bot- tomless Whigs , " as Johnson calls them , have become ...
... look which expresses that it is coming or when he has said it from a look that expresses it has come . During one of the disputes when the Whigs , " the cursed Whigs , " " the bot- tomless Whigs , " as Johnson calls them , have become ...
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... looks around with a smirk , and ogles the ladies . " Look - look - there's that devil Wilkes - you can tell him by the squint . " He wears a scarlet suit edged with gold . Hugh Kelly looks all the blacker in black . The prim looking ...
... looks around with a smirk , and ogles the ladies . " Look - look - there's that devil Wilkes - you can tell him by the squint . " He wears a scarlet suit edged with gold . Hugh Kelly looks all the blacker in black . The prim looking ...
Contents
A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD | 13 |
THE MISTAKES OF A NIGHT | 17 |
BURGERSDICIUS AND SMIGLECIUS | 25 |
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