Female heroism, and tales of the western worldWesleyan-Methodist Book-Room, 2, Castle St., City Rd., E.C., 1880 - 212 pages |
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... returned from his unsuc- cessful pursuit , said , with abundance of curses and expletives directed against the fugitives who had con- trived to evade his power , " They must have got away by some underground railway . " The idea was an ...
... returned from his unsuc- cessful pursuit , said , with abundance of curses and expletives directed against the fugitives who had con- trived to evade his power , " They must have got away by some underground railway . " The idea was an ...
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... returned to the toil and cruelties of the plantation they had deserted . Nor was it needful for them to remain longer : for they were not further to prosecute their journey with swollen and bleed- ing feet . When the night was ...
... returned to the toil and cruelties of the plantation they had deserted . Nor was it needful for them to remain longer : for they were not further to prosecute their journey with swollen and bleed- ing feet . When the night was ...
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... returned home disappointed and more violent and enraged than ever . They also told her how the cruel oppressor , when he found that all his efforts to recover the fugitives were unavailing , seized upon the timid daughter who had ...
... returned home disappointed and more violent and enraged than ever . They also told her how the cruel oppressor , when he found that all his efforts to recover the fugitives were unavailing , seized upon the timid daughter who had ...
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... I know not which it was . " " It was a boy , " returned his companion ; " and if my eyes did not deceive me , it was Marien's dumb page . " " What ! Julio Impossible ? What could the boy be doing abroad THE GUNPOWDER PLOT . 47.
... I know not which it was . " " It was a boy , " returned his companion ; " and if my eyes did not deceive me , it was Marien's dumb page . " " What ! Julio Impossible ? What could the boy be doing abroad THE GUNPOWDER PLOT . 47.
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... returned home voluntarily and was forgiven ; for he was a valuable slave , being a man of more than ordinary powers both intellectual and physical . His master might have had him hung for it , without any loss to himself . There is a ...
... returned home voluntarily and was forgiven ; for he was a valuable slave , being a man of more than ordinary powers both intellectual and physical . His master might have had him hung for it , without any loss to himself . There is a ...
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