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... situation like that of Mannering . As the light grew faint and more faint , and the mo- rass appeared blacker and blacker , our traveller ques- tioned more closely each chance passenger upon his distance from the village of ...
... situation like that of Mannering . As the light grew faint and more faint , and the mo- rass appeared blacker and blacker , our traveller ques- tioned more closely each chance passenger upon his distance from the village of ...
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... situations . Fielding has described one class as feras consumere nati ; but the love of field - sports indicates a certain activity of mind , which had for- saken Mr. Bertram , if he ever possessed it . A good- humoured listlessness of ...
... situations . Fielding has described one class as feras consumere nati ; but the love of field - sports indicates a certain activity of mind , which had for- saken Mr. Bertram , if he ever possessed it . A good- humoured listlessness of ...
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... situation , marked his embarrassments with more compassion . He was even a kind of favourite with them , and upon the division of a common , or the holding of a black fish- ing , or poaching court , or any similar occasion , when they ...
... situation , marked his embarrassments with more compassion . He was even a kind of favourite with them , and upon the division of a common , or the holding of a black fish- ing , or poaching court , or any similar occasion , when they ...
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... situation of a village at the place where the stream had its junction with the ocean . The vales seemed well cultivated , the little enclosures into which they were divided , skirting the bottom of the hills , and sometimes carrying ...
... situation of a village at the place where the stream had its junction with the ocean . The vales seemed well cultivated , the little enclosures into which they were divided , skirting the bottom of the hills , and sometimes carrying ...
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... situation the superiority which its founders were said once to have possessed among the chiefs and nobles of the district . In other places , the shore was of a more gentle description , indented with small bays , where the land sloped ...
... situation the superiority which its founders were said once to have possessed among the chiefs and nobles of the district . In other places , the shore was of a more gentle description , indented with small bays , where the land sloped ...
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