New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 40Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1834 |
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... bills of mortality ? Civilization is the very Herod of our days . There was a queer look , a half - open leer , a glance ... Bill Woods , John King , and Paddy Puss . The first of these was a fellow who had his leg broken , and his skull ...
... bills of mortality ? Civilization is the very Herod of our days . There was a queer look , a half - open leer , a glance ... Bill Woods , John King , and Paddy Puss . The first of these was a fellow who had his leg broken , and his skull ...
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... Bill Woods was certainly intended by Nature for a hero . He was a perfect block in point of feeling . All his tastes were military , and he delighted in destruction . He was of a good size , had tolerable features , and would have been ...
... Bill Woods was certainly intended by Nature for a hero . He was a perfect block in point of feeling . All his tastes were military , and he delighted in destruction . He was of a good size , had tolerable features , and would have been ...
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... bill , bade her a good afternoon , and promised to come to her early in the morning . 66 Sir , " , " said she , " don't be angry with me for what I am going to say ; -I feel very anxious about you : -do you know much of Dr. Crowpick ...
... bill , bade her a good afternoon , and promised to come to her early in the morning . 66 Sir , " , " said she , " don't be angry with me for what I am going to say ; -I feel very anxious about you : -do you know much of Dr. Crowpick ...
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... bill and claws , and then flew back into the tree , bearing in its bill a fragment of discoloured or bloody linen . The soldier ran to the spot , turned up the earth with the point of his sabre , and discovered the body of an infant ...
... bill and claws , and then flew back into the tree , bearing in its bill a fragment of discoloured or bloody linen . The soldier ran to the spot , turned up the earth with the point of his sabre , and discovered the body of an infant ...
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... bills of the butcher are said to be artificially kept up . Reduce the price of meat to twopence per pound by means of a society , and you do an apparently great public good . But who are you that effect this good for the public ...
... bills of the butcher are said to be artificially kept up . Reduce the price of meat to twopence per pound by means of a society , and you do an apparently great public good . But who are you that effect this good for the public ...
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