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... present themselves the roofs being supported by curiously wrought pillars of various forms and magnitudes , and the walls being thickly sculptured into all the varieties of Hindu mythology . The largest of the three excavations is ...
... present themselves the roofs being supported by curiously wrought pillars of various forms and magnitudes , and the walls being thickly sculptured into all the varieties of Hindu mythology . The largest of the three excavations is ...
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... present site of a bowling - green once stood outery was raised against him , which threatened an ancient castle , alternately held by the English the existence of the Derby government . To avert and Welsh . this result , Lord E ...
... present site of a bowling - green once stood outery was raised against him , which threatened an ancient castle , alternately held by the English the existence of the Derby government . To avert and Welsh . this result , Lord E ...
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... present . The east end is eminently is said to have been born at Louvain about the beautiful : it consists of two tiers of high lancet - year 1540. He was induced by religious disturb- shaped windows . Perhaps the most interesting and ...
... present . The east end is eminently is said to have been born at Louvain about the beautiful : it consists of two tiers of high lancet - year 1540. He was induced by religious disturb- shaped windows . Perhaps the most interesting and ...
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... present the required device in relief . EMBOUCHURE ( Fr. ) , that part of a wind instrument to which the lips are applied to produce the sound . The term EMBOUCHURE is also applied to the mouth of a river . EMBOW'ED , the heraldic term ...
... present the required device in relief . EMBOUCHURE ( Fr. ) , that part of a wind instrument to which the lips are applied to produce the sound . The term EMBOUCHURE is also applied to the mouth of a river . EMBOW'ED , the heraldic term ...
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... present time ) . But this to thirty fathoms joins England and France . West nomenclature and these divisions are now impugned of this , it deepens to sixty fathoms , with some by an increasing number of scholars , who affirm , aaks at ...
... present time ) . But this to thirty fathoms joins England and France . West nomenclature and these divisions are now impugned of this , it deepens to sixty fathoms , with some by an increasing number of scholars , who affirm , aaks at ...
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