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, 1846 - 672 pages |
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... Half - way up the hill is another de- tached cottage , the residence of an officer and his beautiful family . That eldest boy , who is hanging over the gate , and looking with such intense childish admiration at my Lizzy , might be a ...
... Half - way up the hill is another de- tached cottage , the residence of an officer and his beautiful family . That eldest boy , who is hanging over the gate , and looking with such intense childish admiration at my Lizzy , might be a ...
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... half the turned gowns on the common can witness . As a dairy - woman , and a rearer of pigs and poultry , she was equally success- ful : none of her ducks and turkeys ever died of neglect or carelessness , or , to use the phrase of the ...
... half the turned gowns on the common can witness . As a dairy - woman , and a rearer of pigs and poultry , she was equally success- ful : none of her ducks and turkeys ever died of neglect or carelessness , or , to use the phrase of the ...
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... half a dozen ragged urchins are slipping along in tottering tri- umph . Half a dozen steps bring us to the bank right above them . May can hardly re- sist the temptation of joining her friends , for most of the varlets are of her ...
... half a dozen ragged urchins are slipping along in tottering tri- umph . Half a dozen steps bring us to the bank right above them . May can hardly re- sist the temptation of joining her friends , for most of the varlets are of her ...
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... half the dogs in the county ; but she killed him ; and then , though almost as large as herself , took it up in her mouth , brought it to her mas- ter , and laid it down at his feet . Oh how pleased he was ! and what a pleasure it was ...
... half the dogs in the county ; but she killed him ; and then , though almost as large as herself , took it up in her mouth , brought it to her mas- ter , and laid it down at his feet . Oh how pleased he was ! and what a pleasure it was ...
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... half a dozen greyhounds , a brace of spaniels , as large as life , an old pony , and the master and mistress of the house in half- length . She as unlike as possible , prim , mincing , delicate , in lace and satin ; he so staringly and ...
... half a dozen greyhounds , a brace of spaniels , as large as life , an old pony , and the master and mistress of the house in half- length . She as unlike as possible , prim , mincing , delicate , in lace and satin ; he so staringly and ...
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