The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran: And His Man Mark Anthony O'TooleWilliam Tegg and Company, 1853 - 412 pages |
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... father was of that number . Yet there were few persons excepting its owner , who , even in peaceful times , would choose Knockloftie for an abiding place . It was an old and dreary - looking fabric , -one portion consisting of a dark ...
... father was of that number . Yet there were few persons excepting its owner , who , even in peaceful times , would choose Knockloftie for an abiding place . It was an old and dreary - looking fabric , -one portion consisting of a dark ...
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... father's name stood first . Such was the state of the times , and such the local condition of the country in which the opening scene of this true history is laid . My first anniversary had come round ; and although the hospitable ...
... father's name stood first . Such was the state of the times , and such the local condition of the country in which the opening scene of this true history is laid . My first anniversary had come round ; and although the hospitable ...
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... father's parish had heard of the intended embarkation , and hastened to offer the home my mother needed . Thus , cheered by " the good man's counsels , " and nursed tenderly by his excellent wife , my mother gave birth , in four months ...
... father's parish had heard of the intended embarkation , and hastened to offer the home my mother needed . Thus , cheered by " the good man's counsels , " and nursed tenderly by his excellent wife , my mother gave birth , in four months ...
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... father's regiment the lieut . - colonel had become sick , and the senior major retired- consequently the command had devolved upon himself - and could any thing have reconciled the severance of young love , it would have been the early ...
... father's regiment the lieut . - colonel had become sick , and the senior major retired- consequently the command had devolved upon himself - and could any thing have reconciled the severance of young love , it would have been the early ...
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... father's offendings was not already full , the daring act of interposing between a lawless confederacy and its victims had heaped it even to an overflow . No wonder there- fore , that the full fury of rebel vengeance was to be turned ...
... father's offendings was not already full , the daring act of interposing between a lawless confederacy and its victims had heaped it even to an overflow . No wonder there- fore , that the full fury of rebel vengeance was to be turned ...
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