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 10
... voice of a giant ; one starts when he begins to talk as if he were shouting through a speaking- trumpet ; she , the sister , daughter , and grand- daughter , of a long line of gardeners , and no contemptible one herself . It is very mag ...
... voice of a giant ; one starts when he begins to talk as if he were shouting through a speaking- trumpet ; she , the sister , daughter , and grand- daughter , of a long line of gardeners , and no contemptible one herself . It is very mag ...
Page 12
... voice , sweet even in its monosyllables ; a dress remarkable for neat- ness and propriety , and borrowing from her delicate beauty an air of superiority not its own ; -such was the outward woman of Han- nah . Her mind was very like her ...
... voice , sweet even in its monosyllables ; a dress remarkable for neat- ness and propriety , and borrowing from her delicate beauty an air of superiority not its own ; -such was the outward woman of Han- nah . Her mind was very like her ...
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... voice that was quite startling . Both tongues were quick and clear , and high and rattling , to a degree that seemed rather to belong to machinery than to human articulation ; and when welcomes and how - d'ye dos were pouring both at ...
... voice that was quite startling . Both tongues were quick and clear , and high and rattling , to a degree that seemed rather to belong to machinery than to human articulation ; and when welcomes and how - d'ye dos were pouring both at ...
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... voice was loud enough to have hailed a ship at sea , without the assistance of a speaking - trumpet , wonderfully rich and round in its tones , and harmonizing admirably with his bluff , jovial visage . He wore his dark shining hair ...
... voice was loud enough to have hailed a ship at sea , without the assistance of a speaking - trumpet , wonderfully rich and round in its tones , and harmonizing admirably with his bluff , jovial visage . He wore his dark shining hair ...
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... voice , unrivalled in pathos and sweetness , might be heard every evening , even by the Colonel , with little more precaution , not to disturb her by praise or no- tice , than would be used with her fellow - war- bler the nightingale ...
... voice , unrivalled in pathos and sweetness , might be heard every evening , even by the Colonel , with little more precaution , not to disturb her by praise or no- tice , than would be used with her fellow - war- bler the nightingale ...
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