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Page 13
... us . " " No fear of that , " rejoined Rowland : " such vermin never dare to show themselves in this privileged district . All we have to apprehend is a rescue . " 14 JACK SHEPPARD . The hint was not lost upon JACK SHEPPARD : 13.
... us . " " No fear of that , " rejoined Rowland : " such vermin never dare to show themselves in this privileged district . All we have to apprehend is a rescue . " 14 JACK SHEPPARD . The hint was not lost upon JACK SHEPPARD : 13.
Page 15
... Fear nothing . We'll be upon the bandogs before they can shake their trotters ! " And the alarum was sounded more loudly than ever . Another horn now resounded from the further extremity of the tho roughfare ; this was answered by a ...
... Fear nothing . We'll be upon the bandogs before they can shake their trotters ! " And the alarum was sounded more loudly than ever . Another horn now resounded from the further extremity of the tho roughfare ; this was answered by a ...
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... fear of giving the alarm . " " If you mean the fugitive Darrell , he has escaped through the back window , " replied Jonathan . " Thank Heaven ! " she gasped . " Well , you women are forgiving creatures , I must say , " observed ...
... fear of giving the alarm . " " If you mean the fugitive Darrell , he has escaped through the back window , " replied Jonathan . " Thank Heaven ! " she gasped . " Well , you women are forgiving creatures , I must say , " observed ...
Page 41
... fear- ing detection through him , and stealing off upon an Indian pony - all seemed to make out a flagrant case of desertion . But why dwell upon these painful details of an affair which was so amply canvassed in all its bearings ...
... fear- ing detection through him , and stealing off upon an Indian pony - all seemed to make out a flagrant case of desertion . But why dwell upon these painful details of an affair which was so amply canvassed in all its bearings ...
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... fear of a personal recognition by some of the soldiery before his substitution as a victim to martial law was com- pleted ; but of the many in his brother's band who had so often echoed his own shout upon the joyous hunt , or caught up ...
... fear of a personal recognition by some of the soldiery before his substitution as a victim to martial law was com- pleted ; but of the many in his brother's band who had so often echoed his own shout upon the joyous hunt , or caught up ...
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Page 43 - If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 416 - It was a peal of joy from the populace outside, greeting the news that he would die on Monday. The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Page 80 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 46 - The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose, As asses are.
Page 98 - I travelled, I took a particular delight in hearing the songs and fables that are come from father to son, and are most in vogue among the common people of the countries through which I passed...
Page 42 - Demand me nothing ; what you know, you know : From this time forth I never will speak word.
Page 147 - God, yet they defer from day to day, from week to week, from month to month, from year to year, the practice of these duties.
Page 599 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Page 45 - Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end ; For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In complement extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at I am not what I am.
Page 284 - If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law's a bachelor ; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.