Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... head one morning to send to this poor woman , and to see whether she might not be able to help in this dreadful case . I must remember it here , to the praise of this poor girl , my maid , that though I was not able to give her any ...
... head one morning to send to this poor woman , and to see whether she might not be able to help in this dreadful case . I must remember it here , to the praise of this poor girl , my maid , that though I was not able to give her any ...
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... head - dress , and no knots , but old fragments ; no necklace , no earrings ; all those things were gone long ago , for mere bread . However , I was tight and clean , and in better plight thar he had seen me in a great while , and he ...
... head - dress , and no knots , but old fragments ; no necklace , no earrings ; all those things were gone long ago , for mere bread . However , I was tight and clean , and in better plight thar he had seen me in a great while , and he ...
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... head for you for your present supply , and that is , says he , that the house being well furnished , you shall let it out to lodgings for the summer gentry , says he , by which you will easily get a good comfortable subsistence ...
... head for you for your present supply , and that is , says he , that the house being well furnished , you shall let it out to lodgings for the summer gentry , says he , by which you will easily get a good comfortable subsistence ...
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... head ; and then , immediately , I thought I perceived his head all bloody , and then his clothes looked bloody too , and immediately it all went off , and he looked as he really did ; immediately I fell a crying , and hung about him ...
... head ; and then , immediately , I thought I perceived his head all bloody , and then his clothes looked bloody too , and immediately it all went off , and he looked as he really did ; immediately I fell a crying , and hung about him ...
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... head manager at London , that the house was quitted by the tenant , and they might come and take possession of it for the executors . Amy was so dexterous , and did her work so nimbly , that she gutted the house , and sent the key to ...
... head manager at London , that the house was quitted by the tenant , and they might come and take possession of it for the executors . Amy was so dexterous , and did her work so nimbly , that she gutted the house , and sent the key to ...
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