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... visiting a clergyman who had just returned from a funeral ; when there was a tap at the door , and the servant looked in . " Well , Mary , am I wanted ? " asked the parson . " Please your reverence , there's the corpse's brother wants ...
... visiting a clergyman who had just returned from a funeral ; when there was a tap at the door , and the servant looked in . " Well , Mary , am I wanted ? " asked the parson . " Please your reverence , there's the corpse's brother wants ...
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... visiting the scenes of his great deeds . " " Tell us first where do you find any records of him ? " " In the Gretla , a Saga composed , or rather , I should say , committed to writing , in the thirteenth century . " The Red Rovers ...
... visiting the scenes of his great deeds . " " Tell us first where do you find any records of him ? " " In the Gretla , a Saga composed , or rather , I should say , committed to writing , in the thirteenth century . " The Red Rovers ...
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... visited it in 1697 , and who says , " The sea - fowls are , first , the gairfowl , being the stateliest , as well as the largest , of all the fowls here , and above the size of a solan goose , of a black colour , red about the eyes , a ...
... visited it in 1697 , and who says , " The sea - fowls are , first , the gairfowl , being the stateliest , as well as the largest , of all the fowls here , and above the size of a solan goose , of a black colour , red about the eyes , a ...
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... visited him in his studio one day , and invited him to dinner on the following day . Thorwaldsen looked towards his servant , and asked whether he had any previous engage- ment . " Yes , " replied the man , " to Oersted . " " Sire ...
... visited him in his studio one day , and invited him to dinner on the following day . Thorwaldsen looked towards his servant , and asked whether he had any previous engage- ment . " Yes , " replied the man , " to Oersted . " " Sire ...
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... were in condition to pay visits in the town . I went first to the Latin school , where I inquired for the rector from the porter Olavur , who was Mr. Metcalfe's guide in 1860 , but whom he dismissed for bad DINNER . 37.
... were in condition to pay visits in the town . I went first to the Latin school , where I inquired for the rector from the porter Olavur , who was Mr. Metcalfe's guide in 1860 , but whom he dismissed for bad DINNER . 37.
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