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Page 29
... keeping in which they had broke cover . The commissary being absent without leave , short commons was unfortunately present ; while the miserable wan- derers , like deserters from a region visited by famine , flocked in by twos and ...
... keeping in which they had broke cover . The commissary being absent without leave , short commons was unfortunately present ; while the miserable wan- derers , like deserters from a region visited by famine , flocked in by twos and ...
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... keeping up a large body of armed troops , as are now found necessary for preserving life and property , would defray ... keep the carriage windows up , I will not say to the exclusion of air , for that very useful element found access ...
... keeping up a large body of armed troops , as are now found necessary for preserving life and property , would defray ... keep the carriage windows up , I will not say to the exclusion of air , for that very useful element found access ...
Page 41
... keeping the knuckles of the youngsters warm , and by an application upon their cerebral organs , which is likely to produce the same effect . I wonder what , in the name of Busby , could induce any one possessed of his natural senses ...
... keeping the knuckles of the youngsters warm , and by an application upon their cerebral organs , which is likely to produce the same effect . I wonder what , in the name of Busby , could induce any one possessed of his natural senses ...
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... his auditors to laugh almost to tears ; - his dress was in such good keeping , that one could scarcely bring himself to think it was a mimic scene . Murtoch enters with tattered 56 OWENSON . garments , and a hay rope round.
... his auditors to laugh almost to tears ; - his dress was in such good keeping , that one could scarcely bring himself to think it was a mimic scene . Murtoch enters with tattered 56 OWENSON . garments , and a hay rope round.
Page 61
... keep their places , was of no avail . Scrambling like a bevy of fright- ened cats , over pew doors , across the reading- desk and communion table , they upset the whole paraphernalia of the sanctuary . The affrighted multitude still ...
... keep their places , was of no avail . Scrambling like a bevy of fright- ened cats , over pew doors , across the reading- desk and communion table , they upset the whole paraphernalia of the sanctuary . The affrighted multitude still ...
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Page 307 - ... had to maintain several conflicts with the English troops. On retreating through Pombal, the moment the English entered the town, the bells were ordered to be rung, and every kind of rejoicing to be made, even it is said, to the burning of Ney and Massena in effigy.
Page 307 - Massena in effigy. Ney, being made acquainted with the fact, instantly turned round, and drove the British out at the point of the bayonet, and set fire to the town. He then wrote a letter to Lord Wellington, stating that he was sorry to have been compelled to such a measure...