The North American Miscellany, Том 2Albert Palmer and Company, 1851 |
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... standing in a doorway , and watching people attempt to dance , -so , in my time , we thought it impossible to gird up our loins too tightly , or to be brushed up , curled , and starched too severely , ere we offered ourselves up ...
... standing in a doorway , and watching people attempt to dance , -so , in my time , we thought it impossible to gird up our loins too tightly , or to be brushed up , curled , and starched too severely , ere we offered ourselves up ...
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... stands about London - towards the East , perhaps , at an angle with the spot where the Pulpit- where sallow , unshorn weavers , who have cross was anciently planted ; whence , on nothing to do , prowl languidly about , or lean every ...
... stands about London - towards the East , perhaps , at an angle with the spot where the Pulpit- where sallow , unshorn weavers , who have cross was anciently planted ; whence , on nothing to do , prowl languidly about , or lean every ...
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... stand godmother for the sexton's child . " The following is another instance of pre- mature interment , of a still more romantic character , and is taken from the ancient chronicles of Venice . 66 Gherardo was a brave officer of the re ...
... stand godmother for the sexton's child . " The following is another instance of pre- mature interment , of a still more romantic character , and is taken from the ancient chronicles of Venice . 66 Gherardo was a brave officer of the re ...
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... stand , which was that upon the quay , near the Pont Neuf . What terrible recollections is this old city of Paris invested with ! scarcely a street , or a place , or a public building , that has not some dreadful story . Neither is ...
... stand , which was that upon the quay , near the Pont Neuf . What terrible recollections is this old city of Paris invested with ! scarcely a street , or a place , or a public building , that has not some dreadful story . Neither is ...
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... stands a frame , or large box , much resembling a soldier's arm - chest , about six feet long by two and a half wide , and probably as much high . One end of this abuts upon the upright posts , at the other end is a small frame like a ...
... stands a frame , or large box , much resembling a soldier's arm - chest , about six feet long by two and a half wide , and probably as much high . One end of this abuts upon the upright posts , at the other end is a small frame like a ...
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Стр. 1 - ... were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule.
Стр. 518 - I have read of a fair young German gentleman, who, living, often refused to be pictured, but put off the importunity of his friends' desire, by giving way that after a few days' burial they might send a painter to his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the image of his death unto the life. They did so. and found his face half eaten, and his midriff1 and backbone full of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed ancestors.
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Стр. 96 - When, packed in one reeking chamber, Man, maid, mother, and little ones lay; While the rain pattered in on the rotting bride-bed, And the walls let in the day. 'When we lay in the burning fever On the mud of the cold clay floor, Till you parted us all for three months, squire, At the dreary workhouse door.