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... waited for the clock to give the signal , when he sprung into the coach , which was to re- ceive him , his lady , and four of their slen- derest daughters , as nimbly as impatience ( which often impedes rather than aids its design ) and ...
... waited for the clock to give the signal , when he sprung into the coach , which was to re- ceive him , his lady , and four of their slen- derest daughters , as nimbly as impatience ( which often impedes rather than aids its design ) and ...
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... waited anxiously for the sentence - at this impressive moment ( said the preacher ) when the guilty one stood trembling in expectation of condemna- tion , our Saviour reproved them in the words of the text ; and on finding that they had ...
... waited anxiously for the sentence - at this impressive moment ( said the preacher ) when the guilty one stood trembling in expectation of condemna- tion , our Saviour reproved them in the words of the text ; and on finding that they had ...
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... waited for horses , which were every minute expected , had lounged into the church : he had not then left the village . Whilst they were talking , a note was brought for Mrs. Sinclair from the inn . " It is doubtless from the stranger ...
... waited for horses , which were every minute expected , had lounged into the church : he had not then left the village . Whilst they were talking , a note was brought for Mrs. Sinclair from the inn . " It is doubtless from the stranger ...
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Margaret Roberts Amelia Opie. son waited , she said an answer would be re- turned the next morning . Edmund touched as delicately as he could upon the extraordi- nary emotion Mrs. Sinclair had betrayed at seeing him ; but perceiving that ...
Margaret Roberts Amelia Opie. son waited , she said an answer would be re- turned the next morning . Edmund touched as delicately as he could upon the extraordi- nary emotion Mrs. Sinclair had betrayed at seeing him ; but perceiving that ...
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... had communicated , adding the pre- vious declaration which he had made to her and Julia , and then waited in anxious ex- pectation of the approving smile , the assent- ing word . In his mother's , face he read 64 DUTY .
... had communicated , adding the pre- vious declaration which he had made to her and Julia , and then waited in anxious ex- pectation of the approving smile , the assent- ing word . In his mother's , face he read 64 DUTY .
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