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... four jackets . Oh ! what measuring and contriving I had before I could make it do for all four . ' 6 Now , Caroline , I wonder what can possibly be the use of making you do all that . My mamma is just the same , so you need not colour ...
... four jackets . Oh ! what measuring and contriving I had before I could make it do for all four . ' 6 Now , Caroline , I wonder what can possibly be the use of making you do all that . My mamma is just the same , so you need not colour ...
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... four hours , is at intervals of twelve hours , so it will not have been quite so low yesterday at six , for you see it has only just turned back now , and it is scarcely nine . ' ' No ; then it must have been coming up last night when ...
... four hours , is at intervals of twelve hours , so it will not have been quite so low yesterday at six , for you see it has only just turned back now , and it is scarcely nine . ' ' No ; then it must have been coming up last night when ...
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... onyxes on this coast , I believe . Bring me several , and I will show you what kind of outsides they have . ' Many handfuls were brought , and Mrs Leslie at last picked out three or four that shone transparently when held FICKLE FLORA . 43.
... onyxes on this coast , I believe . Bring me several , and I will show you what kind of outsides they have . ' Many handfuls were brought , and Mrs Leslie at last picked out three or four that shone transparently when held FICKLE FLORA . 43.
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Emma Davenport. picked out three or four that shone transparently when held up to the light , and were of a yellowish or red- dish colour . These , she thought , were carnelians . And a few that had a mottled whitish sort of outside were ...
Emma Davenport. picked out three or four that shone transparently when held up to the light , and were of a yellowish or red- dish colour . These , she thought , were carnelians . And a few that had a mottled whitish sort of outside were ...
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... four sides and the bottom being of glass , and the top open to the air . It was filled with sea water ; but these receptacles for marine curiosities are now so well known , that I need not particularly describe it . Flora and Caroline ...
... four sides and the bottom being of glass , and the top open to the air . It was filled with sea water ; but these receptacles for marine curiosities are now so well known , that I need not particularly describe it . Flora and Caroline ...
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