Readings from the best authors, ed. by A.H. Bryce, Issue 9Archibald Hamilton Bryce 1862 |
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Page 11
... hour , scarcely a word could be heard in court . Williams1 got to his coach amidst a tempest of hisses and curses . Cartwright , whose curiosity was ungovernable , 2 1 Sir William Williams , Solicitor - General , whose duty it was to ...
... hour , scarcely a word could be heard in court . Williams1 got to his coach amidst a tempest of hisses and curses . Cartwright , whose curiosity was ungovernable , 2 1 Sir William Williams , Solicitor - General , whose duty it was to ...
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... hour of suspense . It was ten o'clock before the ships arrived at the quay . The whole population was there to ... hours before , half a pound of tallow and three quarters of a pound of salted hide had been weighed out with niggardly ...
... hour of suspense . It was ten o'clock before the ships arrived at the quay . The whole population was there to ... hours before , half a pound of tallow and three quarters of a pound of salted hide had been weighed out with niggardly ...
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... vindication of his name , and his pathetic appeal to posterity , in the hopeless hour of condem- nation - all these entered deeply into every generous bosom , B and even his enemies lamented the stern policy that dictated W Irving.
... vindication of his name , and his pathetic appeal to posterity , in the hopeless hour of condem- nation - all these entered deeply into every generous bosom , B and even his enemies lamented the stern policy that dictated W Irving.
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... hour of anguish . To render her widowed situation more desolate , she had incurred her father's displeasure by her unfortunate attach- ment , and was an exile from the paternal roof . But could the sympathy and kind offices of friends ...
... hour of anguish . To render her widowed situation more desolate , she had incurred her father's displeasure by her unfortunate attach- ment , and was an exile from the paternal roof . But could the sympathy and kind offices of friends ...
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... hour at which we should arrive at easily imagined and readily understood . we drank the captain's health that day at dinner ; and how restless we became about packing up ; and how two or three of the most sanguine spirits rejected the ...
... hour at which we should arrive at easily imagined and readily understood . we drank the captain's health that day at dinner ; and how restless we became about packing up ; and how two or three of the most sanguine spirits rejected the ...
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