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... letters in wonderfully minute penmanship , all across the single quarto sheet , each word so small that they could scarcely be read without a magnifier , and the lines so close together that a black ruled paper had to be kept under the ...
... letters in wonderfully minute penmanship , all across the single quarto sheet , each word so small that they could scarcely be read without a magnifier , and the lines so close together that a black ruled paper had to be kept under the ...
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... letters , where the first person plural was spelt ' whee . ' I should think a half - witted man born there , still an inmate of the Union , was the sole survivor . The water - wagtail , here called dish- washer , comes tapping upon the ...
... letters , where the first person plural was spelt ' whee . ' I should think a half - witted man born there , still an inmate of the Union , was the sole survivor . The water - wagtail , here called dish- washer , comes tapping upon the ...
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... letters . So , no doubt , they do , but they write a good deal besides which keeps up the bonds of family affection . This very March , on one of the first relenting days , I came upon an aunt sending a bunch of violets to her niece in ...
... letters . So , no doubt , they do , but they write a good deal besides which keeps up the bonds of family affection . This very March , on one of the first relenting days , I came upon an aunt sending a bunch of violets to her niece in ...
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... letters AI for woe , which Apollo is said to have in- scribed on the root of the plant that sprang from the relics of his friend Hyacinthus . Nothing can be further from sorrow than those rich deep bluebells hanging in such clusters on ...
... letters AI for woe , which Apollo is said to have in- scribed on the root of the plant that sprang from the relics of his friend Hyacinthus . Nothing can be further from sorrow than those rich deep bluebells hanging in such clusters on ...
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... letter - writers , for their ' apples ' produced in Asia Minor are or were , together with oxide of iron , the chief material of ink . People in the old days , before universal commerce , used to make their own ink . I remember one ...
... letter - writers , for their ' apples ' produced in Asia Minor are or were , together with oxide of iron , the chief material of ink . People in the old days , before universal commerce , used to make their own ink . I remember one ...
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