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... Eyes and Listening Ears . Illustrated by Miss K. GREENAWAY . Cloth , 3s . 6d .; or with Coloured Plates , Gilt Edges , 4s . 6d . " Written in the true vein of fairy tales for the young ; the volume contains many pictures . " - Daily ...
... Eyes and Listening Ears . Illustrated by Miss K. GREENAWAY . Cloth , 3s . 6d .; or with Coloured Plates , Gilt Edges , 4s . 6d . " Written in the true vein of fairy tales for the young ; the volume contains many pictures . " - Daily ...
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... eyes were closed . The flies hummed drowsily in the window . The street was quiet save for little Chickweed's cry of ... eye : " If you are going to make a noise , Master Dick , I'll throw the little table - cover over your cage ...
... eyes were closed . The flies hummed drowsily in the window . The street was quiet save for little Chickweed's cry of ... eye : " If you are going to make a noise , Master Dick , I'll throw the little table - cover over your cage ...
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... eyes - but set it cheerfully in a corner , saying- " Who knows ! it may be useful some day ! " And months afterwards so indeed it was . But to reach that time , the long hard winter that followed that hot summer had to be passed . And ...
... eyes - but set it cheerfully in a corner , saying- " Who knows ! it may be useful some day ! " And months afterwards so indeed it was . But to reach that time , the long hard winter that followed that hot summer had to be passed . And ...
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... eyes - where the smell was of fresh clean tiles and well - scrubbed floors , and had no sweet familiar whiff of smoke , and mouldy wood about it - where the chair she sat in had cushions perhaps , and was not for that uncomfortable to ...
... eyes - where the smell was of fresh clean tiles and well - scrubbed floors , and had no sweet familiar whiff of smoke , and mouldy wood about it - where the chair she sat in had cushions perhaps , and was not for that uncomfortable to ...
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... eyes . This seemed , indeed , the last ill - natured little flick from ill fortune's whip that she would have courage to bear . She had been accustomed to play in that pleasant wood since she was a baby . The groundsel and the chickweed ...
... eyes . This seemed , indeed , the last ill - natured little flick from ill fortune's whip that she would have courage to bear . She had been accustomed to play in that pleasant wood since she was a baby . The groundsel and the chickweed ...
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Author BARBARA HUTTON Bevis birds Bridgetta Buttercup carriage castle Chickweed Chickweed's cloth elegant Cloudheart coloured course cried Jonquil Crown 8vo Daisy Dame Sweetbriar daughter Day of Wonders Dilly door dress Edition Equerry eyes face fairy Fcap feel four friends G. A. HENTY garden gilt edges gone Groundsel hands HARRISON WEIR head heart Hipposilos Illustrated by JOHN Joyce Halling Katremè King King's knew Lady Pazienza laugh little Princess lived look Majesty matter Mignonette Mignonette's Miss Jonquil Miss Miggonet Mistress morocco nose once perhaps pleasant Post 8vo present pretty price 6d Prince Princess Poppy Princess Wuntha road round Royal 16mo Royal Highness Sgunda Shillings Shillings and Sixpence Sire sisters smile snow Stories sure tears tell thing THOMAS HOOD thought Thousand town village voice walk wish wonder words young girl
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