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... say truthfully every barren plain bears , either visibly or beneath its brown soil , some mysterious token of an epoch before history began , and frequently also of one or other of the various invaders , who , though they have impressed ...
... say truthfully every barren plain bears , either visibly or beneath its brown soil , some mysterious token of an epoch before history began , and frequently also of one or other of the various invaders , who , though they have impressed ...
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... says , no woman will suckle an infant without crossing herself , and if you pass a woman with a child in her arms you must say , " God bless you ! " He also says that a man will not strike even his worst enemy if he has a child in his ...
... says , no woman will suckle an infant without crossing herself , and if you pass a woman with a child in her arms you must say , " God bless you ! " He also says that a man will not strike even his worst enemy if he has a child in his ...
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... say , we were conquered by the Duke of Normandy , and are therefore , after all , only a Norman colony , we certainly colonised Brittany , and the first reputed king of that country was born in Troynovant , the ancient London , in the ...
... say , we were conquered by the Duke of Normandy , and are therefore , after all , only a Norman colony , we certainly colonised Brittany , and the first reputed king of that country was born in Troynovant , the ancient London , in the ...
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... say that Gomer , the son of Japhet , settled in Armorica , and begot the Celtic race there . M. de la Borderie divides Breton history into three periods : from B.C. 56 to A.D. 938 , that is from Julius Cæsar to Alain Barbe Torte , the ...
... say that Gomer , the son of Japhet , settled in Armorica , and begot the Celtic race there . M. de la Borderie divides Breton history into three periods : from B.C. 56 to A.D. 938 , that is from Julius Cæsar to Alain Barbe Torte , the ...
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... says Froissart , " the Countess of Montfort , who possessed the courage of a man and the heart of a lion , was in the city of Rennes when she heard of the seizure of her lord , and , notwithstanding the great grief she had at heart ...
... says Froissart , " the Countess of Montfort , who possessed the courage of a man and the heart of a lion , was in the city of Rennes when she heard of the seizure of her lord , and , notwithstanding the great grief she had at heart ...
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