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... writes : - From the Bordello it might come as well , The Spittle or Pict - hatch ; where Gifford notes : - " Here the allusion is local , and without doubt applies to the Loke or Lock , a spittle for venereal patients , situated , as ...
... writes : - From the Bordello it might come as well , The Spittle or Pict - hatch ; where Gifford notes : - " Here the allusion is local , and without doubt applies to the Loke or Lock , a spittle for venereal patients , situated , as ...
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... writes Bosworth Smith's sister Mrs. Caledon Egerton of their childhood days , " after supper , we would adjourn to the study , where our father would read aloud to us some ponderous memoir , the dulness of which we would while away by ...
... writes Bosworth Smith's sister Mrs. Caledon Egerton of their childhood days , " after supper , we would adjourn to the study , where our father would read aloud to us some ponderous memoir , the dulness of which we would while away by ...
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... writes to Williamson on 26 August , 1670 , and gives a most spirited relation of an encounter with Turks with the object of freeing these prisoners , and he supplies a list of 62 for Non inultus premor ! Here we have whom he had just ...
... writes to Williamson on 26 August , 1670 , and gives a most spirited relation of an encounter with Turks with the object of freeing these prisoners , and he supplies a list of 62 for Non inultus premor ! Here we have whom he had just ...
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... for The Atlantic , Whittier writes : " As the expression of my deepest religious feeling it may not be without interest , and it may help some inquiring spirit . Apart from this , I think I 11 S. II . JULY 9 , 1910. ] 33 NOTES AND QUERIES .
... for The Atlantic , Whittier writes : " As the expression of my deepest religious feeling it may not be without interest , and it may help some inquiring spirit . Apart from this , I think I 11 S. II . JULY 9 , 1910. ] 33 NOTES AND QUERIES .
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... writes of the past and present of the colony in homely and effective style . Mr. C. Holmes Cautley's collections gathered from Old Folk who knew the Brontës do not amount to much , but give us a suggestive glimpse here and there . The ...
... writes of the past and present of the colony in homely and effective style . Mr. C. Holmes Cautley's collections gathered from Old Folk who knew the Brontës do not amount to much , but give us a suggestive glimpse here and there . The ...
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