Lionel Harcourt, the Etonian, Or, "Like Other Fellows.".

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T. Nelson, 1889 - 320 pages
 

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Page 189 - We command you, That within eight days after the service of this writ on you, inclusive of the day of such service, you do cause an appearance to be entered...
Page 318 - Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Page 134 - I may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb...
Page 17 - Why, it's the best introduction to Carew as you could have !' insisted the astonished keeper. ' You have only to go up to the great house to-morrow, and say, " Here's the man as proved your match last night," and — ' ' You must allow me to be the best judge of my own affairs,' interrupted the young fellow haughtily. ' So you will be so good as to say nothing more about the matter.
Page 56 - Race-horse breeders have a saying that " what is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
Page 237 - He says hardly anything, and he looks as if the weight of the world was on his shoulders.
Page 312 - He knocked on the door but there was no answer. He tried the handle but the door was locked. He kicked it open and there lied Molly slumped against the wall with the syringe still in her arm. "No baby, no!
Page 295 - afflicted in all the afflictions " of his people, who " was tempted in all points like as we are," who is " touched with the feeling of our infirmities...
Page 267 - ... with their nets, and for the next few minutes nothing was to be seen but a confused mass of fish, porpoises and blacks, all mixed up together, out of which the blacks emerged with their nets as full as they could hold, and left the balance of the school to be worried by their curious allies.
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