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... head , ' or ' end of the stone or rock . ' A railway tunnel , made in 1864 , now pierces 630 yards in length through another division - Penmaen - bach , or ' the small end ; ' but in 1280 it was a wild , desolate rock , which , rising ...
... head , ' or ' end of the stone or rock . ' A railway tunnel , made in 1864 , now pierces 630 yards in length through another division - Penmaen - bach , or ' the small end ; ' but in 1280 it was a wild , desolate rock , which , rising ...
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... head was cut off and sent off to Edward , then residing at Conway Abbey ; and thus died the last native Prince of Wales , after a reign of thirty - six years , leaving only one child , a daughter . Even burial was denied to the mangled ...
... head was cut off and sent off to Edward , then residing at Conway Abbey ; and thus died the last native Prince of Wales , after a reign of thirty - six years , leaving only one child , a daughter . Even burial was denied to the mangled ...
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... head was cut off , fixed on the top of a spear , and then , encircled with a chaplet of ivy , paraded through the streets of London , and stuck on one of the turrets of the Tower , where it remained exposed to public view for a ...
... head was cut off , fixed on the top of a spear , and then , encircled with a chaplet of ivy , paraded through the streets of London , and stuck on one of the turrets of the Tower , where it remained exposed to public view for a ...
Page 56
... head to be cut off , and his body to be quartered and hung up in four different parts of England . This sentence was carried out in the cruellest manner ; and his head , after being cut off , was placed opposite to that of Prince ...
... head to be cut off , and his body to be quartered and hung up in four different parts of England . This sentence was carried out in the cruellest manner ; and his head , after being cut off , was placed opposite to that of Prince ...
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... head of the Ridley family in those days ; one who brought up his family as strictly as was then the custom . Let us imagine Willesmoteswick , the day that the youthful Nicholas was about to leave it for Cambridge , at Dr. Robert ...
... head of the Ridley family in those days ; one who brought up his family as strictly as was then the custom . Let us imagine Willesmoteswick , the day that the youthful Nicholas was about to leave it for Cambridge , at Dr. Robert ...
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