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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Page 19
... spirit of the family evaporated in the gentlemen . But , to my thinking , these pretty creatures were fitter for the parlour than the field . They were strong , certainly , excellently loined , cat - footed , and chested like a war ...
... spirit of the family evaporated in the gentlemen . But , to my thinking , these pretty creatures were fitter for the parlour than the field . They were strong , certainly , excellently loined , cat - footed , and chested like a war ...
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... spirit of dispatch , which cannot endure the dust and litter created by the little troop on the one hand , or their tor- menting slowness and stupidity on the other . She was the quickest and neatest of work- women , piqued herself on ...
... spirit of dispatch , which cannot endure the dust and litter created by the little troop on the one hand , or their tor- menting slowness and stupidity on the other . She was the quickest and neatest of work- women , piqued herself on ...
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... spirit haunts this deep poola white lady without a head . I cannot say that I have seen her , often as I have paced this lane at deep midnight , to hear the nightingales , and look at the glow - worms ; -but there , better and rarer ...
... spirit haunts this deep poola white lady without a head . I cannot say that I have seen her , often as I have paced this lane at deep midnight , to hear the nightingales , and look at the glow - worms ; -but there , better and rarer ...
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... spirit than by her pure humility : she never thought of herself . So constituted , it may be imagined that she was , to all who really knew her , an object of intense admiration and love . Servants , chil- dren , poor people , all ...
... spirit than by her pure humility : she never thought of herself . So constituted , it may be imagined that she was , to all who really knew her , an object of intense admiration and love . Servants , chil- dren , poor people , all ...
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... spirit of his own peacefulness , a soothing quietude that sinks into the soul . There is no path through them , not one ; we might wander a whole spring day , and not see a trace of human habi- tation . They belong to a number of small ...
... spirit of his own peacefulness , a soothing quietude that sinks into the soul . There is no path through them , not one ; we might wander a whole spring day , and not see a trace of human habi- tation . They belong to a number of small ...
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