Charles Dayrell: A Modern BacchanalE. Stock, 1883 - 459 pages |
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... took him to a blacksmith's forge and let him see a bar of iron heated red - hot , hammered , heated again , and then plunged into cold water . ' Very uncomfortable process , doubtless , for the iron , Charlie , ' said she . But that ...
... took him to a blacksmith's forge and let him see a bar of iron heated red - hot , hammered , heated again , and then plunged into cold water . ' Very uncomfortable process , doubtless , for the iron , Charlie , ' said she . But that ...
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... took rather more interest in him when grown to young man's estate , but then the young man's character was pretty well formed . There was not even the common ground between them , usually found in such circles , in a love of field ...
... took rather more interest in him when grown to young man's estate , but then the young man's character was pretty well formed . There was not even the common ground between them , usually found in such circles , in a love of field ...
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... took care to warn him , soon won their hearts , especially those of the softer sex ; so that in his favour they all , with one consent , appeared to renounce their favourite sentiment that there's nothing worse than mumply Gentiles ...
... took care to warn him , soon won their hearts , especially those of the softer sex ; so that in his favour they all , with one consent , appeared to renounce their favourite sentiment that there's nothing worse than mumply Gentiles ...
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... took the chief parts , with similar extravagances . Most of these diversions succeeded wonderfully well ; though it must be confessed that irrepressible mirth was more than once occasioned by sudden failures and accidents to unlucky ...
... took the chief parts , with similar extravagances . Most of these diversions succeeded wonderfully well ; though it must be confessed that irrepressible mirth was more than once occasioned by sudden failures and accidents to unlucky ...
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... took only a small number of pupils . But the confinement of school - not merely having to sit still for three hours , which at first was an absolutely impossible achievement , but still more the being forbidden to pass CHARLES DAYRELL . 27.
... took only a small number of pupils . But the confinement of school - not merely having to sit still for three hours , which at first was an absolutely impossible achievement , but still more the being forbidden to pass CHARLES DAYRELL . 27.
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