The Last Essays of EliaDent, 1901 - 254 pages |
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... sometimes in what is called good company , but where he has been a stranger , sit silent , and be suspected for an odd fellow ; till some unlucky occasion provoking it , he would stutter out some senseless pun ( not altogether senseless ...
... sometimes in what is called good company , but where he has been a stranger , sit silent , and be suspected for an odd fellow ; till some unlucky occasion provoking it , he would stutter out some senseless pun ( not altogether senseless ...
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... sometimes with it ! the ligaments which tongue - tied him , were loosened , and the stammerer proceeded a statist ! do not know whether I ought to bemoan or rejoice He that my old friend is departed . His jests PREFACE 3.
... sometimes with it ! the ligaments which tongue - tied him , were loosened , and the stammerer proceeded a statist ! do not know whether I ought to bemoan or rejoice He that my old friend is departed . His jests PREFACE 3.
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... sometimes think that as men , when they die , do not die all , so of their extinguished habitations there may be a hope - a germ to be revivified . A POOR RELATIONS - -a an odious approximation , -. " The terror of luckless poacher ...
... sometimes think that as men , when they die , do not die all , so of their extinguished habitations there may be a hope - a germ to be revivified . A POOR RELATIONS - -a an odious approximation , -. " The terror of luckless poacher ...
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... sometimes - aliquando sufflami- nandus erat - but there is no raising her . You send her soup at dinner , and she begs to be helped - after the gentlemen . Mr requests the honour of taking wine with her ; she hesitates between Port and ...
... sometimes - aliquando sufflami- nandus erat - but there is no raising her . You send her soup at dinner , and she begs to be helped - after the gentlemen . Mr requests the honour of taking wine with her ; she hesitates between Port and ...
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... skirmishes on this topic - the only one upon which the old gentleman was ever brought out — and bad blood - bred ; even sometimes almost to the recom- 66 mencement ( so I expected ) of actual hostilities POOR RELATIONS 23.
... skirmishes on this topic - the only one upon which the old gentleman was ever brought out — and bad blood - bred ; even sometimes almost to the recom- 66 mencement ( so I expected ) of actual hostilities POOR RELATIONS 23.
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