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... heard the answer so often obtained by restless , in- quisitive children- " I have no time to attend to you ! " - which might be rendered into the still more expressive Scotticism , " I canna be fashed ! " For , in spite of the heavy and ...
... heard the answer so often obtained by restless , in- quisitive children- " I have no time to attend to you ! " - which might be rendered into the still more expressive Scotticism , " I canna be fashed ! " For , in spite of the heavy and ...
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... heard , by a slave , of the mis- fortune of her old rival , and in the joy of her heart could almost have afforded to keep the baboon for the pleasure of seeing it . She had heard also that the father , in the first transport of his ...
... heard , by a slave , of the mis- fortune of her old rival , and in the joy of her heart could almost have afforded to keep the baboon for the pleasure of seeing it . She had heard also that the father , in the first transport of his ...
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... heard overhead , and groans , and cries of agony and struggling , so loud and violent , that the guests all rushed with one accord to the nursery . The door was not fastened , but a heavy weight lay against it , and on forcing it open ...
... heard overhead , and groans , and cries of agony and struggling , so loud and violent , that the guests all rushed with one accord to the nursery . The door was not fastened , but a heavy weight lay against it , and on forcing it open ...
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... heard from those dreary regions is , that those who have succeeded in pene- trating to the valley of diamonds have found it covered , not with these gems , but with small slates and pebbles . Perhaps the vengeance of the fairies has ...
... heard from those dreary regions is , that those who have succeeded in pene- trating to the valley of diamonds have found it covered , not with these gems , but with small slates and pebbles . Perhaps the vengeance of the fairies has ...
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... heard cook avow that she had chopped it up and heated the oven with it , and she really believed it had helped to bake my last school cake . I cannot describe what I felt on hearing this confession ; and , for a long time afterwards ...
... heard cook avow that she had chopped it up and heated the oven with it , and she really believed it had helped to bake my last school cake . I cannot describe what I felt on hearing this confession ; and , for a long time afterwards ...
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