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... look upon it as an offensive and untrue jest . As for the kitchen half of the motto , it never came into question , for there was no spoiling of children there in the usual acceptation of the term . Round the schoolroom were ranged the ...
... look upon it as an offensive and untrue jest . As for the kitchen half of the motto , it never came into question , for there was no spoiling of children there in the usual acceptation of the term . Round the schoolroom were ranged the ...
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... look out and see Bill Purcell go by with such a queer piece of stone . I daren't ' a get down , for father were ' a working too . So thinks I to myself , I'll make haste and finish , and then I can go with a clean con- science . And ...
... look out and see Bill Purcell go by with such a queer piece of stone . I daren't ' a get down , for father were ' a working too . So thinks I to myself , I'll make haste and finish , and then I can go with a clean con- science . And ...
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... look upon , studded with newly clothed trees and bushes , beneath whose shelter cowslips and bluebells grew so thickly , that it suggested the notion that sea air was beneficial to flowers as well as human beings . Even the wild roses ...
... look upon , studded with newly clothed trees and bushes , beneath whose shelter cowslips and bluebells grew so thickly , that it suggested the notion that sea air was beneficial to flowers as well as human beings . Even the wild roses ...
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... look upon her scheme as not so very visionary after all , but a thing to be somewhat proud of . " I wish we'd got Polly here ! " at last cried Moses , in the warmth of his heart , forgetting all previous hitches in his deep interest in ...
... look upon her scheme as not so very visionary after all , but a thing to be somewhat proud of . " I wish we'd got Polly here ! " at last cried Moses , in the warmth of his heart , forgetting all previous hitches in his deep interest in ...
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... look well , " said Polly sagaciously , and nodding her head at Moses ; " it's the contrivance , you see , Moses , and the darning a bit here , and putting in a new bit there , and touching it up like , you know , that makes a place look ...
... look well , " said Polly sagaciously , and nodding her head at Moses ; " it's the contrivance , you see , Moses , and the darning a bit here , and putting in a new bit there , and touching it up like , you know , that makes a place look ...
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