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... allowed to stand . Wide strips also of grass - land were to be found running even with the road or between different estates , extending sometimes in an unbroken line for several miles together , with oaks and elms and beeches ...
... allowed to stand . Wide strips also of grass - land were to be found running even with the road or between different estates , extending sometimes in an unbroken line for several miles together , with oaks and elms and beeches ...
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... allowed to go in search of Widow Pitt's cow , and carry the animal back to her . I shall have time to do that and give a few of the apprentices a drubbing before dinner - time . " Saying this , Jack Deane , putting his arms again into ...
... allowed to go in search of Widow Pitt's cow , and carry the animal back to her . I shall have time to do that and give a few of the apprentices a drubbing before dinner - time . " Saying this , Jack Deane , putting his arms again into ...
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... allowed to pick up what they chose , and if not inclined to learn , no great effort was made to instruct them . Jack had therefore run wild , and had done many things for which he had cause to be sorry , and had sometimes even got into ...
... allowed to pick up what they chose , and if not inclined to learn , no great effort was made to instruct them . Jack had therefore run wild , and had done many things for which he had cause to be sorry , and had sometimes even got into ...
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... allowed at length to carry out his much - cherished plan , contributed not a little to his restoration , and the burns on his hands and legs healed more rapidly than Cousin Nat had predicted . Squire Harwood and his daughter had ...
... allowed at length to carry out his much - cherished plan , contributed not a little to his restoration , and the burns on his hands and legs healed more rapidly than Cousin Nat had predicted . Squire Harwood and his daughter had ...
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... allowed to treat them as they think fit . The ministers are driven from the country , and if any Huguenot gentlemen are captured attempting to make their escape , they are sent to the galleys , and have there to row on board those ...
... allowed to treat them as they think fit . The ministers are driven from the country , and if any Huguenot gentlemen are captured attempting to make their escape , they are sent to the galleys , and have there to row on board those ...
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