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... laugh , and a song sometimes , yet without violent clamor ; and the salt tears were often wrung from his eyes by the pent - up laughter which his vocation and his subordinate temper had taught him it was unseemly to discharge in a ...
... laugh , and a song sometimes , yet without violent clamor ; and the salt tears were often wrung from his eyes by the pent - up laughter which his vocation and his subordinate temper had taught him it was unseemly to discharge in a ...
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... laughing ; " you pay for that , though the mercer saw my coin for it . Twelve bottles of Canary were a good return on that venture . The bauble sits lightly on the head of the dame , and it is but fair that the winnings should rise as ...
... laughing ; " you pay for that , though the mercer saw my coin for it . Twelve bottles of Canary were a good return on that venture . The bauble sits lightly on the head of the dame , and it is but fair that the winnings should rise as ...
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... laughing ; " Father Pierre would have but an idle sinecure if he had no other calling but to bring you to your penitentiary . Good even , friends- may the kind saints be with you ! " The Captain and his comrade now turned their steps ...
... laughing ; " Father Pierre would have but an idle sinecure if he had no other calling but to bring you to your penitentiary . Good even , friends- may the kind saints be with you ! " The Captain and his comrade now turned their steps ...
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... laugh- ing . " A dark road , John ! It is a long time since there has been a dark road for your night rides , with that nose ' shining like a lighted link a half score paces ahead . It was somewhat dead- ened last September , I allow ...
... laugh- ing . " A dark road , John ! It is a long time since there has been a dark road for your night rides , with that nose ' shining like a lighted link a half score paces ahead . It was somewhat dead- ened last September , I allow ...
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... laughing , " this great business is settled without the aid of the church . Well , I have lost some of my consequence in the winding up , and the Lady Maria is in the ascendant . I will have my revenge by being as merry as any of you at ...
... laughing , " this great business is settled without the aid of the church . Well , I have lost some of my consequence in the winding up , and the Lady Maria is in the ascendant . I will have my revenge by being as merry as any of you at ...
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Albert Verheyden Alice amongst Anthony Warden Arnold beach Black House Blanche Warden boat brigantine brought brow Captain Dauntrees Chiseldine cloak Collector Colonel Talbot companions comrades Coode council creek Cripple Crow and Archer dame dance devil Dickon Doctor door ejaculated Escalfador exclaimed Father Pierre favor Fendall friends Garret Weasel gave give hand hath head heard heart honor horse hour Iago Inigoe's Isle of Kent Jerome's John Coode la Grange Lady Maria laugh light look Lord Baltimore Lordship maiden Mary's Mary's river Master Albert Master Cocklescraft Master Rob Master Verheyden merry Mistress Blanche never night Olive Branch Pamesack party port priest Proprietary province publican quarrel replied river Rose Croft scarce Secretary seen shore skipper speak spirit stood sword Talbot tell thee thou thought to-night tone town turn voice Warrington whilst whispered wife Willy worshipful yawl
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Page 156 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 7 - And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Page 375 - It is our op'ning day. Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door, Nor kind mate, bound by holy vow To bless a good man's store...
Page 177 - Fellows, to mount a bank. Did your instructor In the dear tongues, never discourse to you Of the Italian mountebanks ? Per.
Page 70 - Which seemly was to see; A hood to that so neat and fine, In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.
Page 135 - ' Bell my wife she loves not strife, Yet she will lead me if she can ; And oft, to live a quiet life...
Page 14 - Furthermore, Kennedy described the roof as having been "capped by a wooden balustraded parapet, terminating, at each extremity, in a scroll like the head of a violin, and, in the middle, sustaining an entablature that rose to a summit on which was mounted a weathercock.
Page 63 - She cast her weeds away, And to the palmy shore she hied, All in her best array. In sea-green silk so neatly clad, She there impatient stood ; The crew with wonder saw the lad Repell the foaming flood.
Page 197 - Some do call me Jack, sweetheart, And some do call me Jille." Witton Gilbert, a village four miles west of Durham, is, throughout the bishopric, pronounced Witton Jilbert. We have also the common name of Giles, always in Scotland pronounced Jill. For Gille, or Juliana, as a female name, we have Fair Gillian of Croyden, and a thousand authorities.
Page 100 - Twas even said the Blasted Oak, Convulsive, heaved a hollow groan : And, to this day, the peasant still, With cautious fear avoids the ground ; In each wild branch a spectre sees, And trembles at each rising sound.