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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... turned out of doors with my children ; for I had now five children by him , the only work ( perhaps ) that fools are good for . I thought myself happy when he got another man to take his brewhouse clear off his hands ; for , paying down ...
... turned out of doors with my children ; for I had now five children by him , the only work ( perhaps ) that fools are good for . I thought myself happy when he got another man to take his brewhouse clear off his hands ; for , paying down ...
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... turned his hand to the gaining one shilling towards lessening our distress ; he neither had the capacity or the inclination ; he could have been no clerk , for he scarce wrote a legible hand ; he was so far from being able to write ...
... turned his hand to the gaining one shilling towards lessening our distress ; he neither had the capacity or the inclination ; he could have been no clerk , for he scarce wrote a legible hand ; he was so far from being able to write ...
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... turned about as if she would be gone again , and said , Madam , I'll come again another time , I see you are engaged . No , no , Mrs. says the mis- tress , I am not much engaged , sit down ; this senseless crea- ture here has brought in ...
... turned about as if she would be gone again , and said , Madam , I'll come again another time , I see you are engaged . No , no , Mrs. says the mis- tress , I am not much engaged , sit down ; this senseless crea- ture here has brought in ...
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... turned out of doors into the street ; and another of the neighbours there told me , that when they took her children from her , she swooned away , and when they recovered her out of that , she run distracted , and is put into a madhouse ...
... turned out of doors into the street ; and another of the neighbours there told me , that when they took her children from her , she swooned away , and when they recovered her out of that , she run distracted , and is put into a madhouse ...
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... turned out of doors , as these poor innocent creatures are . Don't tell me of security , says the wife , ' tis a good security for our children to keep what we have together , and provide for them , and then ' tis time enough to help ...
... turned out of doors , as these poor innocent creatures are . Don't tell me of security , says the wife , ' tis a good security for our children to keep what we have together , and provide for them , and then ' tis time enough to help ...
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