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Page 6
... circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea - beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise wit great height , and advance with extreme rapidity . Others were inter- sected ...
... circumstance to make his mind easy . Many of the roads in that country lay along the sea - beach , and were liable to be flooded by the tides , which rise wit great height , and advance with extreme rapidity . Others were inter- sected ...
Page 9
... circumstances to the servant ; and the gentleman of the house , who heard his tale from the parlour , stepped forward , and welcomed the stranger hospitably to Ellango- wan . The boy , made happy with half - a - crown , was dismissed to ...
... circumstances to the servant ; and the gentleman of the house , who heard his tale from the parlour , stepped forward , and welcomed the stranger hospitably to Ellango- wan . The boy , made happy with half - a - crown , was dismissed to ...
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... circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress upon the high road to ruin . This was his marriage with a lady who had a portion of about four thou- sand pounds . Nobody in the neighbourhood could conceive why she married him , and endowed ...
... circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress upon the high road to ruin . This was his marriage with a lady who had a portion of about four thou- sand pounds . Nobody in the neighbourhood could conceive why she married him , and endowed ...
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... , And some that have writ Almanacs ? - Hudibras . The circumstances of the landlady were pleaded to Mannering , first , as an apology for her not ap- pearing to welcome her guest , and for those defici- GUY MANNERING . 19.
... , And some that have writ Almanacs ? - Hudibras . The circumstances of the landlady were pleaded to Mannering , first , as an apology for her not ap- pearing to welcome her guest , and for those defici- GUY MANNERING . 19.
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... circumstances hereafter to be noticed , had been familiar to him in early youth . Signs and planets , in aspects sextile , quartile , trine , conjoined or opposite ; houses of heaven , with their cusps , hours , and minutes ; Almuten ...
... circumstances hereafter to be noticed , had been familiar to him in early youth . Signs and planets , in aspects sextile , quartile , trine , conjoined or opposite ; houses of heaven , with their cusps , hours , and minutes ; Almuten ...
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