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... says : " it was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last , at six o'clock i ' the morning . ( 2 ) February 27th , 1865. On this day ( Monday ) , a terrible sirocco swept over Victoria , Australia , and did fear ...
... says : " it was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last , at six o'clock i ' the morning . ( 2 ) February 27th , 1865. On this day ( Monday ) , a terrible sirocco swept over Victoria , Australia , and did fear ...
Page 358
... says Jacob A. Riis , " I rather think that Elsinore has turned the tables on them . Hamlet being dead , there had to be a Hamlet's grave , of course . The English tourists demanded it , and in due course of time there appeared a mound ...
... says Jacob A. Riis , " I rather think that Elsinore has turned the tables on them . Hamlet being dead , there had to be a Hamlet's grave , of course . The English tourists demanded it , and in due course of time there appeared a mound ...
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... says this is a corruption of the Norman - French tolleaux ; another de- rives it from taillishors , out of the coppice ; and a third says it is the French hunting cry , au taillis , to the coppice , which being often repeated gives the ...
... says this is a corruption of the Norman - French tolleaux ; another de- rives it from taillishors , out of the coppice ; and a third says it is the French hunting cry , au taillis , to the coppice , which being often repeated gives the ...
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