Novels and Miscellaneous Works: With Prefaces and Notes, Including Those Attributed to Sir Walter Scott, Volume 4G. Bell and Sons, 1724 |
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... took to make my life passable and easy with the most incorrigible temper in the world ; but it is too long , and the articles too trifling : I shall mention some of them as the circumstances I am to relate shall necessarily bring them ...
... took to make my life passable and easy with the most incorrigible temper in the world ; but it is too long , and the articles too trifling : I shall mention some of them as the circumstances I am to relate shall necessarily bring them ...
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... took the youngest , which was born in this parish , and have got it a very good nurse , and taken care of it ; but as for the other four , they had sent them away to some of their father's relations , and who were very substantial ...
... took the youngest , which was born in this parish , and have got it a very good nurse , and taken care of it ; but as for the other four , they had sent them away to some of their father's relations , and who were very substantial ...
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... took him up near an hour . By this time I had dressed me as well as I could , for though I had good linen left still , yet I had but a poor head - dress , and no knots , but old fragments ; no necklace , no earrings ; all those things ...
... took him up near an hour . By this time I had dressed me as well as I could , for though I had good linen left still , yet I had but a poor head - dress , and no knots , but old fragments ; no necklace , no earrings ; all those things ...
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... took his leave of me , with a thousand expressions of kindness and tenderness , and true affection to me , but offered not the least of what my maid Amy had suggested . At his going away he took me in his arms , protested an honest ...
... took his leave of me , with a thousand expressions of kindness and tenderness , and true affection to me , but offered not the least of what my maid Amy had suggested . At his going away he took me in his arms , protested an honest ...
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... took me by the hand ; Come now , madam , says he , you must show me your house ( for he had a mind to see every- thing over again ) . No , sir , said I , but I'll show you your house , if you please ; so we went up through all the rooms ...
... took me by the hand ; Come now , madam , says he , you must show me your house ( for he had a mind to see every- thing over again ) . No , sir , said I , but I'll show you your house , if you please ; so we went up through all the rooms ...
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