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Page 14
... nurses and steal away young children , or to do them harm . This is noticed by one of our old English poets , Ben ... nurse by the nose . " The wicked and thievish elves , who are despatched on the dreadful errand of changing children ...
... nurses and steal away young children , or to do them harm . This is noticed by one of our old English poets , Ben ... nurse by the nose . " The wicked and thievish elves , who are despatched on the dreadful errand of changing children ...
Page 106
... nurses who had been accustomed to wash babies ' faces in it , if they were girls , in order to make them grow up very fair , pleaded hard to have it left for their use . And the young women , so washed when babies , who on Midsummer eve ...
... nurses who had been accustomed to wash babies ' faces in it , if they were girls , in order to make them grow up very fair , pleaded hard to have it left for their use . And the young women , so washed when babies , who on Midsummer eve ...
Page 117
... nurse of his infancy and his childhood , old Mabel brought him a bowl of milk , to refresh him before he went down to breakfast in the great hall on beef and ale . She seemed to be very officious about him , and to linger longer than ...
... nurse of his infancy and his childhood , old Mabel brought him a bowl of milk , to refresh him before he went down to breakfast in the great hall on beef and ale . She seemed to be very officious about him , and to linger longer than ...
Page 118
... nurse , " he who behaved so bad to the Pixies . Depend upon it , they will take their revenge upon him one of these days , and not care for who is in his com- pany . Don't go with him ! " " I am not going with him , Mabel . " " Thank ...
... nurse , " he who behaved so bad to the Pixies . Depend upon it , they will take their revenge upon him one of these days , and not care for who is in his com- pany . Don't go with him ! " " I am not going with him , Mabel . " " Thank ...
Page 119
... Nurse . " Don't go near him , my Lord ; better to take the risk of the robbers in the open road , than to darken the gates of Simon de Dinant . People do tell such things of him . They do say he be leagued with worse than robbers ...
... Nurse . " Don't go near him , my Lord ; better to take the risk of the robbers in the open road , than to darken the gates of Simon de Dinant . People do tell such things of him . They do say he be leagued with worse than robbers ...
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A Peep at the Pixies: Or, Legends of the West Anna Eliza (Kempe) Stothard Bray,Hablot Knight Browne No preview available - 2016 |
A Peep at the Pixies; Or, Legends of the West Anna Eliza Bray,Hablot K. Browne No preview available - 2008 |
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Anastatia Steer bade Baron La Zouch beautiful Betsy Humming bird brave Bridget broken lance called castle chough cloak cloth coloured Cornwall Countess of Devon Crabby Cross Crediton dark Dartmoor death Devonshire Dinant door dressed ears Edition Engravings exclaimed eyes Father Hilary Fcap fear follow Fontina Gammer Guy gave give hall hand head hear heard Henry de Bath hundred and forty JOHN GILBERT Johnny king live looked Mabel master Master Constable metheglin moon moor morning Nathan's Kieve natural arch needle never night North Tawton nurse old Anastatia old Joan old Swillpot once Penruffin pool poor pretty Randolph Rowle rocks Roger de Stevenson round seemed seen Serena SILVER BELL Sir Henry Sir Roger soon spot stones stood Stories strange stream tail Tavistock thing Tintagel Tiverton took Tregarrens Tregony Trevenna waterfall whilst wicked Will's William Courtenay woman wood word young friends
Popular passages
Page 15 - And somewhat southward toward the noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon. And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders...