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... clothing I wear ; As colder it grows , I throw off my clothes , And in winter quite naked appear . RIDDLE IV . I am a thing that many say Is bought with toil and trouble ; What all would wish for once a day , Yet few desire to double ...
... clothing I wear ; As colder it grows , I throw off my clothes , And in winter quite naked appear . RIDDLE IV . I am a thing that many say Is bought with toil and trouble ; What all would wish for once a day , Yet few desire to double ...
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... clothes the favour'd soil ; Fair pools , in which the finny race abound , By human art prepared , enrich the ground ; Not India's coasts produce a richer store , — Pearls , ivory , diamonds , gold and silver ore ; Perpetual war ...
... clothes the favour'd soil ; Fair pools , in which the finny race abound , By human art prepared , enrich the ground ; Not India's coasts produce a richer store , — Pearls , ivory , diamonds , gold and silver ore ; Perpetual war ...
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... , And its province is clothes to keep clean . CHARADE LXXXV . My first is myself , and a very short word ; My second ' s a puppet ; and you are my third . CHARADE LXXXVI . My first was ne'er known to be. CHARADE LXXXIV .
... , And its province is clothes to keep clean . CHARADE LXXXV . My first is myself , and a very short word ; My second ' s a puppet ; and you are my third . CHARADE LXXXVI . My first was ne'er known to be. CHARADE LXXXIV .
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... cloth . TOM STARBOARD ; or , the Life of a Sailor ; his Voyages and Travels , Perils and Adventures , by Sea and Land . By the Author of " The Children's Fireside , " " The Young Wanderer's Cave , " & c . With 6 engrav- ings . Price 7s ...
... cloth . TOM STARBOARD ; or , the Life of a Sailor ; his Voyages and Travels , Perils and Adventures , by Sea and Land . By the Author of " The Children's Fireside , " " The Young Wanderer's Cave , " & c . With 6 engrav- ings . Price 7s ...
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... cloth and lea- ther , square 16mo . Extract from list of CONTENTS . - Ancient Coal Mine . Gold Mines . Anglesea Mines . Black Damp . Black Lead . Blast Furnace . Blasting Mines . Boring for Coal . Bra- zil Diamonds . Bristol Stones ...
... cloth and lea- ther , square 16mo . Extract from list of CONTENTS . - Ancient Coal Mine . Gold Mines . Anglesea Mines . Black Damp . Black Lead . Blast Furnace . Blasting Mines . Boring for Coal . Bra- zil Diamonds . Bristol Stones ...
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Page 97 - THE VOWELS We are little airy creatures, All of different voice and features; One of us in glass is set, One of us you'll find in jet. T'other you may see in tin, And the fourth a box within. If the fifth you should pursue, It can never fly from you.
Page 52 - I'm now a sail, and now a mast. I here am red, and there am green, A beggar there, and here a queen. I sometimes live in a house of hair, And oft in hand of lady fair. I please the young, I grace the old, And am at once both hot and cold Say what I am then, if you can, And find the rhyme, and you're the man.