The Dennes of Daundelyonn, Volume 1Smith, Elder, 1859 |
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... never be recognised at all , but his death will be recorded after the following fashion- Killed : Colonel Hawkes , Major Vaux , Captain Stalks -- 97 rank and file . Oh the horror of those wholesale butcheries called battles ! and what a ...
... never be recognised at all , but his death will be recorded after the following fashion- Killed : Colonel Hawkes , Major Vaux , Captain Stalks -- 97 rank and file . Oh the horror of those wholesale butcheries called battles ! and what a ...
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... not forgotten - I shall never forget the misery of the last few weeks of our residence in Wales ; the dread of the arrival of " post - time , " yet the constant deferring of every act and deed until " post - time AZRAEL . 11.
... not forgotten - I shall never forget the misery of the last few weeks of our residence in Wales ; the dread of the arrival of " post - time , " yet the constant deferring of every act and deed until " post - time AZRAEL . 11.
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... and especial glory of my brother Otho . Yes - I can see her now , as she stood , clasping him tightly to her heart ; while he , never very observant or sensitive , kept gabbling on some long story about " 12 THE DENNES OF DAUNDELYONN .
... and especial glory of my brother Otho . Yes - I can see her now , as she stood , clasping him tightly to her heart ; while he , never very observant or sensitive , kept gabbling on some long story about " 12 THE DENNES OF DAUNDELYONN .
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... kisses , whilst she gasped out " Thank God ! Oh ! thank God ! his name's not there . " The day after this scene we left Wales for London : my mother , my sisters , Florence , and Angelica ( I never have been able to discover how AZRAEL .
... kisses , whilst she gasped out " Thank God ! Oh ! thank God ! his name's not there . " The day after this scene we left Wales for London : my mother , my sisters , Florence , and Angelica ( I never have been able to discover how AZRAEL .
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Mrs. Charles J. Proby. Angelica ( I never have been able to discover how such romantic names found their way into our pro- saic family ) , my brother Otho - so called after a rich great - uncle , a wealthy manufacturer in a very dirty ...
Mrs. Charles J. Proby. Angelica ( I never have been able to discover how such romantic names found their way into our pro- saic family ) , my brother Otho - so called after a rich great - uncle , a wealthy manufacturer in a very dirty ...
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Page 9 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, and our good Prince Eugene. "Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl," quoth he, "it was a famous victory.