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... seemed to glitter with suppressed fun and humour , and a joke seemed to be ever playing round the corners of his expressive mouth . To my thinking , he bore upon his face and in his manner the characteristic marks of the Irish gentle ...
... seemed to glitter with suppressed fun and humour , and a joke seemed to be ever playing round the corners of his expressive mouth . To my thinking , he bore upon his face and in his manner the characteristic marks of the Irish gentle ...
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... seemed positively to glitter . The rather short petticoats , I had before remarked , conduced to the appearance of grace and activity which every motion betokened . She was gathering parsley , and she held a bunch of that " crisp ...
... seemed positively to glitter . The rather short petticoats , I had before remarked , conduced to the appearance of grace and activity which every motion betokened . She was gathering parsley , and she held a bunch of that " crisp ...
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... seemed to be a faint track , leading more directly than the course hitherto pursued towards what I had been told was our ultimate destina- tion . " This way , yer ' onner ! " shouted Larry ; " it's bad ground you're coming on - this way ...
... seemed to be a faint track , leading more directly than the course hitherto pursued towards what I had been told was our ultimate destina- tion . " This way , yer ' onner ! " shouted Larry ; " it's bad ground you're coming on - this way ...
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... seemed good in his eyes , utterly regardless of rate or signal , ( indeed , he was almost blind , and quite deaf ) but either from reflection , experience , or some inscrut- able development of instinct , the line he took was invariably ...
... seemed good in his eyes , utterly regardless of rate or signal , ( indeed , he was almost blind , and quite deaf ) but either from reflection , experience , or some inscrut- able development of instinct , the line he took was invariably ...
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... seemed more bellicose than the bull , trotting towards us with lowering heads and tails twisted high in air . They stopped when within twenty yards , and . then turning suddenly galloped off , forming in good order in the rear of the ...
... seemed more bellicose than the bull , trotting towards us with lowering heads and tails twisted high in air . They stopped when within twenty yards , and . then turning suddenly galloped off , forming in good order in the rear of the ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!