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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... keep pace with the vagaries of the bibliomaniac . Of all odd fashions , that of dark , gloony , dingy flowers , appears to me the oddest . Your true connoisseur now , shall prefer a deep puce hol- lyhock , to the gay pink blossoms which ...
... keep pace with the vagaries of the bibliomaniac . Of all odd fashions , that of dark , gloony , dingy flowers , appears to me the oddest . Your true connoisseur now , shall prefer a deep puce hol- lyhock , to the gay pink blossoms which ...
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... keeps a single - horse chaise , and has built and endowed a Methodist chapel . Yet is he the richest man in these ... keep them out , shutting up windows to darken the inside of the house , ( by which means one end looks precisely as ...
... keeps a single - horse chaise , and has built and endowed a Methodist chapel . Yet is he the richest man in these ... keep them out , shutting up windows to darken the inside of the house , ( by which means one end looks precisely as ...
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... keep house . " - The Maying ! We are near Bramley , then ? " At last we reached a large farm - house at - " Only two miles the nearest way across Bramley ; another mile remained to the Green , the fields were we going ? -she would see ...
... keep house . " - The Maying ! We are near Bramley , then ? " At last we reached a large farm - house at - " Only two miles the nearest way across Bramley ; another mile remained to the Green , the fields were we going ? -she would see ...
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... keep you ? " The per- fect gravity and earnestness with which this question was put , set her laughing , and the laugh was echoed back from a group at the end of the room , which I had not before no- ticed an elegant man in the prime of ...
... keep you ? " The per- fect gravity and earnestness with which this question was put , set her laughing , and the laugh was echoed back from a group at the end of the room , which I had not before no- ticed an elegant man in the prime of ...
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... keep- ing , her notions resemble those of other verbal managers ; full of economy and retrenchment , with a leaning towards reform , though she loves so well to declaim on the abuses in the cook's department , that I am not sure that ...
... keep- ing , her notions resemble those of other verbal managers ; full of economy and retrenchment , with a leaning towards reform , though she loves so well to declaim on the abuses in the cook's department , that I am not sure that ...
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