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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... road , belongs to a retired pub- lican from a neighbouring town ; a substantial person with a comely wife ; one who piques himself on independence and idleness , talks politics , reads newspapers , hates the minister , and cries out for ...
... road , belongs to a retired pub- lican from a neighbouring town ; a substantial person with a comely wife ; one who piques himself on independence and idleness , talks politics , reads newspapers , hates the minister , and cries out for ...
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... road behind its fine eluded ; turns the wheeler's children out of swinging sign , with a little bow - window their own little cart , and makes them draw room coming out on one side , and forming , her ; seduces cakes and lollypops from ...
... road behind its fine eluded ; turns the wheeler's children out of swinging sign , with a little bow - window their own little cart , and makes them draw room coming out on one side , and forming , her ; seduces cakes and lollypops from ...
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... road winds up the hill , with its broad green borders and hedge - rows so thickly timbered ! How finely the evening sun falls on that sandy excavated bank , and touches the farm - house on the top of the emi- nence ! and how clearly ...
... road winds up the hill , with its broad green borders and hedge - rows so thickly timbered ! How finely the evening sun falls on that sandy excavated bank , and touches the farm - house on the top of the emi- nence ! and how clearly ...
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... road is gay now ; carts and post- blains than exercise . Besides , I don't believe she has any and as to breaking her bones in sliding , I don't suppose there's a slide on the common . These murmuring cogitations have brought us up the ...
... road is gay now ; carts and post- blains than exercise . Besides , I don't believe she has any and as to breaking her bones in sliding , I don't suppose there's a slide on the common . These murmuring cogitations have brought us up the ...
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... road is alive bare boughs , seeking , poor pretty thing , for again . Noise is reborn . Wagons creak , horses the warmth it will not find . And there , far - plash , carts rattle , and pattens paddle through ther on , just under the ...
... road is alive bare boughs , seeking , poor pretty thing , for again . Noise is reborn . Wagons creak , horses the warmth it will not find . And there , far - plash , carts rattle , and pattens paddle through ther on , just under the ...
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