Cornertown Chronicles: New Legends of Old Lore. [With Illustrations.]Griffith and Farran, 1880 - 256 pages |
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... hill . The grand street was the one that went across the top ; it was much shorter than the other - rather out of proportion , in fact - but then it had a double row of trees down the centre , of which it was justly proud , and was ...
... hill . The grand street was the one that went across the top ; it was much shorter than the other - rather out of proportion , in fact - but then it had a double row of trees down the centre , of which it was justly proud , and was ...
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... hill on which Cornertown was built . But this street , though it was a pleasant , straggling street enough , was not thought genteel -and the inhabitants of Cornertown were quite as genteel in their way as the inhabitants of the great ...
... hill on which Cornertown was built . But this street , though it was a pleasant , straggling street enough , was not thought genteel -and the inhabitants of Cornertown were quite as genteel in their way as the inhabitants of the great ...
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... hill , and might , therefore , reasonably be supposed to belong to both streets . But don't imagine that the two streets were not friendly with each other . Quite the contrary . When once it was clearly under- stood that Meadow Street ...
... hill , and might , therefore , reasonably be supposed to belong to both streets . But don't imagine that the two streets were not friendly with each other . Quite the contrary . When once it was clearly under- stood that Meadow Street ...
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... hill to church , I always wore a bunch of her red roses , and she a bunch of my white ones . That was our constant habit , and we never changed it . Well , my dear , we had just finished drawing water , when who should come by but Dame ...
... hill to church , I always wore a bunch of her red roses , and she a bunch of my white ones . That was our constant habit , and we never changed it . Well , my dear , we had just finished drawing water , when who should come by but Dame ...
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... hill , where he sat under the church wall , or sometimes climbed up to the steeple , but what his thoughts were about no one knew . His mother lamented loudly , and wished for daughters more than ever , -but that did no good . " It's no ...
... hill , where he sat under the church wall , or sometimes climbed up to the steeple , but what his thoughts were about no one knew . His mother lamented loudly , and wished for daughters more than ever , -but that did no good . " It's no ...
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