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" ONCE upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor any one else's time, there was a girl whose mother had died, and her father had married again. "
London labour and the London poor - Page 384
by Henry Mayhew - 1861
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London Labour and the London Poor: The Condition and Earnings of ..., Volume 3

Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1864 - 474 pages
...stories out of that sometimes. We all told in our turns. We generally began, — ' Once upon a lime, and a very good time it was, though it was neither...if by rote. I give it for its peculiarity, as it is extraTagint enough, without humour. " A farmer hired Jack, and instructed him over-night. Jack was...
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English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs - Children's stories - 1890 - 296 pages
...she was blind on the right side from that hour till the day of her death. The Well of the World's End ONCE upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor any one else's time, there was a girl whose mother had died,...
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More English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs - Children - 1894 - 290 pages
...burnt. And they were married, and he she are living happy to this day, for aught I know. Yallery Brown ONCE upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor any one else's time, there was a young lad of eighteen or...
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The One Strand River, and Other Fairy Tales

Mrs. H. F. HALL, Alice Marples Hall - Fairy tales - 1903 - 264 pages
...care of the young Queen to repress piracy. •HOW MANY STRAWS GO TO A GOOSE•S NEST?' The Turkey-Girl upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, or your time, or any one else's time that ever I heard tell of," there stood a little...
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Folk-tales of Andros Island, Bahamas, Volume 13

Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons - Folk literature - 1918 - 218 pages
...Not my time, not your time, ol' people time." Mr. Jacobs begins "Jack and his Golden Snuff-Box" with, "Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it was neither in my time nor in your time nor in any one else's time." * The personages of the tales are also formulaic,...
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English Fairy Tales

Fairy tales - 1918 - 452 pages
..."Now, lass," he exclaimed, " thou art the richest, and I shall marry thee." THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END ONCE upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor anyone else's time, there was a girl whose mother had died,...
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FF Communications

Johannes Bolte, Kaarle Krohn, Axel Olrik, Carl Wilhelm Sydow - Folklore - 1920 - 1174 pages
...die Tiere noch redeten. ' Scherzend weist ein englisches Märchen jeden Versuch einer Datierung ab : 'Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor any eise's time' (Jacobs i, 315). Und ganz ins Reich der wunderbaren...
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Fairy Tales from England

Fiction - 1999 - 196 pages
...finished skeins, and led Joan downstairs to feast with him in his own hall. 125 The Golden Snuff-Box Once upon a time — and a very good time it was, though it was neither in your time nor in my time nor in anyone else's time — there lived a poor wood-cutter and his wife in the middle...
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Deliver Us from Evil: Interpreting the Redemption from the Power of Satan in ...

Richard H. Bell - Bible - 2007 - 488 pages
...Julicher, (ileichnisreden 172Sellin, "Allegorie," 329 173 Weinrich, Tempus, 59, gives a very good example: "Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor any[one] else's time". 174 German has "Es war einmal" to mark...
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