Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A. [and E.] Strickland, Volume 11864 |
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... lived on When William was five years old , public charity , and had successively three daughters . Having one day come to Falaise to beg at duke Richard's door , the duke , struck with the beauty of the woman and her children , asked ...
... lived on When William was five years old , public charity , and had successively three daughters . Having one day come to Falaise to beg at duke Richard's door , the duke , struck with the beauty of the woman and her children , asked ...
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... lived many years afterwards . " The descriptions which I have just quoted from the pen of the Norman poet and the monastic chronicler fall far short of the marvel- lousness of Matilda's delineation of this comet in the Bayeux tapestry ...
... lived many years afterwards . " The descriptions which I have just quoted from the pen of the Norman poet and the monastic chronicler fall far short of the marvel- lousness of Matilda's delineation of this comet in the Bayeux tapestry ...
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... lived full ten years after the period at which this matrimonial discipline is said to have been inflicted upon her by the strong arm of the Conqueror ; and the worthy chronicler himself , merely relates it as one of the current rumours ...
... lived full ten years after the period at which this matrimonial discipline is said to have been inflicted upon her by the strong arm of the Conqueror ; and the worthy chronicler himself , merely relates it as one of the current rumours ...
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... lived ; and it is a singular fact that in all the battles in which he had been engaged , he had never lost a drop of blood , till it was in this field drawn by the lance of his first- born . Transported with rage at the disgrace of the ...
... lived ; and it is a singular fact that in all the battles in which he had been engaged , he had never lost a drop of blood , till it was in this field drawn by the lance of his first- born . Transported with rage at the disgrace of the ...
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... lived none : By that he wist what he were worth of all England , And set it clearly forth that all might understand , And had it clearly written , and that script he put , I wis , In the treasury of Westminster , where it still is . ” 1 ...
... lived none : By that he wist what he were worth of all England , And set it clearly forth that all might understand , And had it clearly written , and that script he put , I wis , In the treasury of Westminster , where it still is . ” 1 ...
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