The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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Page xi
... morning pipe ' · Tailpiece - Confessions of a Drunkard ' A modest inoffensive deportment does not necessarily imply valour ' ' The first to be tickled with it ' ' She would put up with the calls of the most impertinent visitor ...
... morning pipe ' · Tailpiece - Confessions of a Drunkard ' A modest inoffensive deportment does not necessarily imply valour ' ' The first to be tickled with it ' ' She would put up with the calls of the most impertinent visitor ...
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... morning eyes ; and of nights , hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on thee . This is the only true gentry by adoption ; the veritable change of blood , and not , as empirics have ...
... morning eyes ; and of nights , hast detained my steps from bedward , till it was but a step from gazing at thee to dreaming on thee . This is the only true gentry by adoption ; the veritable change of blood , and not , as empirics have ...
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... morning , announced that he had accepted a commission in a regiment about to embark for Portugal . He was among the first who perished before the walls of St Sebastian . I do not know how , upon a subject which I began with treating ...
... morning , announced that he had accepted a commission in a regiment about to embark for Portugal . He was among the first who perished before the walls of St Sebastian . I do not know how , upon a subject which I began with treating ...
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... morning of his election to that high office . Grasp- ing my hand with a look of significance , he only uttered , - " Have you heard the news ? " - then with another look following up the blow , he subjoined , " 38 ELLISTONIANA.
... morning of his election to that high office . Grasp- ing my hand with a look of significance , he only uttered , - " Have you heard the news ? " - then with another look following up the blow , he subjoined , " 38 ELLISTONIANA.
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... morning , studying a volume of Lardner . I own this to have been a strain of abstraction beyond my reach . I used to admire how he sidled along , keeping clear or secular contacts . An illiterate encounter with a porter's knot , or a ...
... morning , studying a volume of Lardner . I own this to have been a strain of abstraction beyond my reach . I used to admire how he sidled along , keeping clear or secular contacts . An illiterate encounter with a porter's knot , or a ...
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