A month in Mayo. With miscellaneous papers1876 |
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... poor starved peasant , who , having been found on the bank there , dead from hunger , lay buried , in unhallowed ground , under a large flat stone hard by . At this pool Jemmy , the under keeper , was to meet us with the fishing- rods ...
... poor starved peasant , who , having been found on the bank there , dead from hunger , lay buried , in unhallowed ground , under a large flat stone hard by . At this pool Jemmy , the under keeper , was to meet us with the fishing- rods ...
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... poor boy , yer ' onner , who tries to make a penny out of his patch . of oats or barley ; sure it's a bad business , when a boy's saved a few bushel of oats or barley from the hares , that he mayn't make the most of ' em , instead of ...
... poor boy , yer ' onner , who tries to make a penny out of his patch . of oats or barley ; sure it's a bad business , when a boy's saved a few bushel of oats or barley from the hares , that he mayn't make the most of ' em , instead of ...
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... poor man like Pheenie yonder . " Pheenie , I am bound to say , was as ill - looking a specimen of the human race as it had ever been my lot to encounter ; broad shouldered almost to deformity , with a small head , narrow , retreating ...
... poor man like Pheenie yonder . " Pheenie , I am bound to say , was as ill - looking a specimen of the human race as it had ever been my lot to encounter ; broad shouldered almost to deformity , with a small head , narrow , retreating ...
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... poor boy doing his best to earn an honest shilling for his mother , and she a widdy . " Possibly my tacit acquiescence in this breach of the excise laws , or the slight taste of the result , had opened Larry's heart ; for , unmindful of ...
... poor boy doing his best to earn an honest shilling for his mother , and she a widdy . " Possibly my tacit acquiescence in this breach of the excise laws , or the slight taste of the result , had opened Larry's heart ; for , unmindful of ...
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... poor chance ; I could plainly see his red eyes as he advanced , wide open , and fixed on mine . It was a moment of absolute horror , and I fully believed it to be my last ; but for Honor , I think I should have fallen down , and allowed ...
... poor chance ; I could plainly see his red eyes as he advanced , wide open , and fixed on mine . It was a moment of absolute horror , and I fully believed it to be my last ; but for Honor , I think I should have fallen down , and allowed ...
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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!