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... called Guadaxox , a name which I dare say in your longest geography lesson you have never been called on to pronounce ; and you would find it no easy matter to do so , unless I wrote it for you thus : Guadakquoth . Five miles ' walk ...
... called Guadaxox , a name which I dare say in your longest geography lesson you have never been called on to pronounce ; and you would find it no easy matter to do so , unless I wrote it for you thus : Guadakquoth . Five miles ' walk ...
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... called all his knights to arms to follow him into " Tell me , Conde , " said the wife of Conde Sol , " how many years will you be absent in this cam- paign ? " " If I am not back , Condesa , in six years , reckon me dead , and forget me ...
... called all his knights to arms to follow him into " Tell me , Conde , " said the wife of Conde Sol , " how many years will you be absent in this cam- paign ? " " If I am not back , Condesa , in six years , reckon me dead , and forget me ...
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... called Syria . Clotaldo had three beautiful daughters , who were so beautiful that men said they were divinities and not women . The King thought that as they were so very beautiful they ought not to be given in marriage in the ordinary ...
... called Syria . Clotaldo had three beautiful daughters , who were so beautiful that men said they were divinities and not women . The King thought that as they were so very beautiful they ought not to be given in marriage in the ordinary ...
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... called him " Fuanillo el loco " . " All this time Clotaldo had been urging his youngest daughter that she should marry like her sisters , but she never would look at any of the princes he named to her . She had determined to belong to ...
... called him " Fuanillo el loco " . " All this time Clotaldo had been urging his youngest daughter that she should marry like her sisters , but she never would look at any of the princes he named to her . She had determined to belong to ...
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... called his two sons - in- law , and said , as they had been so valiant in overcoming the spells of the great castle , they could doubtless help him now ; and that they would not shrink from the perils of the journey , which was to ...
... called his two sons - in- law , and said , as they had been so valiant in overcoming the spells of the great castle , they could doubtless help him now ; and that they would not shrink from the perils of the journey , which was to ...
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