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... Dame Pearson's History - Engagement between the Pirate and Queen's ship CHAPTER XXXII . The Island Captured CHAPTER XXXIII . 329 340 350 Sir George Rooke takes the Spanish Galleons in Vigo Bay 360 · CHAPTER XXXIV . Hurricane in the ...
... Dame Pearson's History - Engagement between the Pirate and Queen's ship CHAPTER XXXII . The Island Captured CHAPTER XXXIII . 329 340 350 Sir George Rooke takes the Spanish Galleons in Vigo Bay 360 · CHAPTER XXXIV . Hurricane in the ...
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... dame and a careful mother , and his two daughters . You know them better than I do - passable girls though , they seem to me ; not exactly such as I might have chosen as your companions ; but tempora mutantur , as we used to say at ...
... dame and a careful mother , and his two daughters . You know them better than I do - passable girls though , they seem to me ; not exactly such as I might have chosen as your companions ; but tempora mutantur , as we used to say at ...
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... Dame Pitt's lame cow , than see them sent to prison for their freak . It may be all very well for them to bait their cattle when they want tender meat , but they had no business to treat that poor animal in the way they did ; and I told ...
... Dame Pitt's lame cow , than see them sent to prison for their freak . It may be all very well for them to bait their cattle when they want tender meat , but they had no business to treat that poor animal in the way they did ; and I told ...
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... and her father's round to the stables while they entered the house . Having unsaddled the steeds , and given them some corn and hay , he hurried off fil his intention of restoring Dame Pitt's cow to her ; but he was less. of Nottingham . 9.
... and her father's round to the stables while they entered the house . Having unsaddled the steeds , and given them some corn and hay , he hurried off fil his intention of restoring Dame Pitt's cow to her ; but he was less. of Nottingham . 9.
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William Henry G. Kingston. Dame Pitt's cow to her ; but he was less successful in executing his purpose of thrashing the apprentices , in consequence , as he expected would be the case , of their judiciously keeping out of his way ; when ...
William Henry G. Kingston. Dame Pitt's cow to her ; but he was less successful in executing his purpose of thrashing the apprentices , in consequence , as he expected would be the case , of their judiciously keeping out of his way ; when ...
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