Thoughts on men and things, a series of essays by 'Angelina Gushington'.Rivingtons, 1867 - 205 pages |
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... round the sun , or the sun round the earth , I forget which , but I know it was one or the other . Indeed , he never plays croquet now , but he talks of diagonals , and parallelograms of forces , which may be very useful to him ...
... round the sun , or the sun round the earth , I forget which , but I know it was one or the other . Indeed , he never plays croquet now , but he talks of diagonals , and parallelograms of forces , which may be very useful to him ...
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... round , on others square . Some mallets are short and flat - headed , others long and round - headed ; some are ridiculously light , others as absurdly heavy . As for the balls , there is an endless variety in them . In the original ...
... round , on others square . Some mallets are short and flat - headed , others long and round - headed ; some are ridiculously light , others as absurdly heavy . As for the balls , there is an endless variety in them . In the original ...
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... round the four light balls , and a light one round the dark balls , whereby persons of the most limited intellect can distinguish between their friends and their foes . But even this plan has an awkward appearance , since owing to the ...
... round the four light balls , and a light one round the dark balls , whereby persons of the most limited intellect can distinguish between their friends and their foes . But even this plan has an awkward appearance , since owing to the ...
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... round my neck . I know she did it on purpose , for the evening was excessively warm as it happened . Upon the new - fashioned plan of playing , no one croquets , so that the chief feature of my game is gone CROQUET 29.
... round my neck . I know she did it on purpose , for the evening was excessively warm as it happened . Upon the new - fashioned plan of playing , no one croquets , so that the chief feature of my game is gone CROQUET 29.
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... round the room with me , said that was the correct term ) . Little girl looks like a figure out of Noah's ark . No middle distance ( George again ) . No. 64. Amy Robsart and Leicester at Cumnor Hall . Amy Robsart's dress lovely . Her ...
... round the room with me , said that was the correct term ) . Little girl looks like a figure out of Noah's ark . No middle distance ( George again ) . No. 64. Amy Robsart and Leicester at Cumnor Hall . Amy Robsart's dress lovely . Her ...
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