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" Civilians ; and, as it is called, "took their opinion," showing to some of them the amount of his nephew's debts, which he had dotted down on the back of a card, and asking what was to be done, and whether such debts were not monstrous, preposterous ?... "
Sea Nile: The Desert, and Nigritia: Travels in Company with Captain Peel, R ... - Page 215
by Joseph H. Churi - 1853 - 331 pages
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Feats on the Fiord: A Tale

Harriet Martineau - Norway - 1841 - 398 pages
...Erica had feared ; — worse than finding the boat gone ; — worse than meeting it in the wide fiord. What was to be done ? There was nothing for it but to do nothing, • — to lie perfectly still in the shadow, ready, however, to push out on the first...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 19

Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...Erica had feared ; — worse than finding the boat gone ; — worse than meeting it in the wide fiord. What was to be done? There was nothing for it but to do nothing — to lie perfectly still in the shadow, ready, however, to push out on the first movement...
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The Living Age, Volume 19

1848 - 640 pages
...Erica had feared ; — worse than fmding the boat gone ; — worse than meeting it in the wide fiord. What was to be done? There was nothing for it but to do nothing — to lie perfectly still in the shadow, ready, however, to push out on the first movement...
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Feats on the Fiord: A Tale of Norway

Harriet Martineau - 1846 - 242 pages
...that Erica had feared;—worse than finding the boat gone ;—worse than meeting it in the wide fiord. What was to be done ? There was nothing for it but to do nothing,—to lie perfectly still in the shadow, ready, however, to push out on the first movement...
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The Billow and the Rock: A Tale

Harriet Martineau - English fiction - 1846 - 462 pages
...Erica had feared ; — worse than finding the boat gone ; — worse than meeting it in the wide fiord. What was to be done ? There was nothing for it but to do nothing, — to lie perfectly still in the shadow, ready, however, to push out on the first movement...
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The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His ..., Volume 1

William Makepeace Thackeray - English fiction - 1849 - 454 pages
...of a card, and asking what was to be done, and whether such debts were not monstrous, preposterous ? What was to be done ? — There was nothing for it but to pay. Wenham and tho others told the Major of young men who owed twice as much — five times as much...
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The Keepsake

Caroline Sheridan Norton, Marguerite A. Power - Gift books - 1855 - 334 pages
...regrets and excuses, we were now informed that he could not insure safety, if required to proceed. What was to be done ? There was nothing for it but to retrace our steps towards a solitary house which lay a couple of miles below ; and the extraordinary...
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Life in the Old World: Or, Two Years in Switzerland and Italy, Volume 2

Fredrika Bremer - Italy - 1880 - 492 pages
...negligent conductor of the railway train had forgotten to tell us when the line branched off for Sienna. What was to be done ? There was nothing for it but to remain at Pisa, until a train some hours later went thence to Sienna. But the sun shone; the functionaries...
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Two years in Switzerland and Italy, tr. [from Lifvet i gamla ..., Volume 2

Fredrika Bremer - 1861 - 450 pages
...negligent conductor of the railway train had forgotten to tell us when the line branched off for Sienna. What was to be done? There was nothing for it but to remain at Pisa, until a train some hours later went thence to Sienna. But the sun shone ; the functionaries...
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Feats on the Fiord

Harriet Martineau - Norway - 1865 - 234 pages
...Erica had feared — worse than finding the boat gone — worse than meeting it in the wide fiord. What was to be done ? There was nothing for it but to do nothing — to lie perfectly still in the shadow, ready, however, to push out on the first movement...
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