Cornertown Chronicles: New Legends of Old Lore. [With Illustrations.]Griffith and Farran, 1880 - 256 pages |
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... HOPE SAT DOWN TO REST Frontispiece " NETTA SAT · • • AND LISTENED " 31 " HERE HE IS IN RAGS " 117 " BUT THEY WERE ON IT " . 230 AND 16 SMALLER ONES IN THE TEXT . Cornertown Chronicles . CHRONICLE THE FIRST . A WREATH OF.
... HOPE SAT DOWN TO REST Frontispiece " NETTA SAT · • • AND LISTENED " 31 " HERE HE IS IN RAGS " 117 " BUT THEY WERE ON IT " . 230 AND 16 SMALLER ONES IN THE TEXT . Cornertown Chronicles . CHRONICLE THE FIRST . A WREATH OF.
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... small spot of ground when one is obliged to stay in it . However this may be , certain it is that those old - fashioned folks , the fairies , guarded this little spot of ground like the very apple of their eye - cities and towns , villa ...
... small spot of ground when one is obliged to stay in it . However this may be , certain it is that those old - fashioned folks , the fairies , guarded this little spot of ground like the very apple of their eye - cities and towns , villa ...
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... small astonishment of her grandparents , and in the evening , when all Wood Street was sitting under its beautiful trees , Netta was as often as not to be found in that uninteresting little back garden , whereupon Wood Street shook its ...
... small astonishment of her grandparents , and in the evening , when all Wood Street was sitting under its beautiful trees , Netta was as often as not to be found in that uninteresting little back garden , whereupon Wood Street shook its ...
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... small truth , one tiny link in a chain of evidence which is as long as eternity , might take at least half of a man's natural life . What time can there be , then , to penetrate into the very inmost recesses of the heavens and the earth ...
... small truth , one tiny link in a chain of evidence which is as long as eternity , might take at least half of a man's natural life . What time can there be , then , to penetrate into the very inmost recesses of the heavens and the earth ...
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... small tender bud , had sprung from the parent stem . " A new hope of immortality , " said Hope ; " it belongs to our son , " and Richard , severing the bud from the stem , laid it tenderly on the babe's in- nocent breast . But for some ...
... small tender bud , had sprung from the parent stem . " A new hope of immortality , " said Hope ; " it belongs to our son , " and Richard , severing the bud from the stem , laid it tenderly on the babe's in- nocent breast . But for some ...
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