The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on FactJ. Bennett, 1831 - 716 Seiten |
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... fair to do at last , our entire island into a vast London with its modern improvements ! Our elegant edifices of bricks and mortar - our regular and open streets - our houses , like a company of soldiers , all in uniform order , dressed ...
... fair to do at last , our entire island into a vast London with its modern improvements ! Our elegant edifices of bricks and mortar - our regular and open streets - our houses , like a company of soldiers , all in uniform order , dressed ...
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... village ) ; and here the neighbours occasionally met at fair or dance , —the old to chat of days gone by , the young for purposes more congenial to their years : At the bottom of the hill was a bright sheet of water , at 4 THE RED BARN ,
... village ) ; and here the neighbours occasionally met at fair or dance , —the old to chat of days gone by , the young for purposes more congenial to their years : At the bottom of the hill was a bright sheet of water , at 4 THE RED BARN ,
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... Fair maid , " said she , accosting Maria with a peculiarly expressive smile , " I am dying of thirst ; may I beg a little water ? " Her voice , as she spoke , Maria thought , was the softest and most musical she had ever heard ; yet ...
... Fair maid , " said she , accosting Maria with a peculiarly expressive smile , " I am dying of thirst ; may I beg a little water ? " Her voice , as she spoke , Maria thought , was the softest and most musical she had ever heard ; yet ...
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... fair of Polstead next week . Be sure to go there . He will be mounted on a grey horse , and wear a white hat ; you will know him directly - there will be none like him at the fair . He will take a proper opportu- nity of speaking to you ...
... fair of Polstead next week . Be sure to go there . He will be mounted on a grey horse , and wear a white hat ; you will know him directly - there will be none like him at the fair . He will take a proper opportu- nity of speaking to you ...
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... fair ; — 1 hope he is dark - I like dark men ; -I hope he is not short : -but he is rich and a gentleman - that's good . After all , perhaps , he may not like me . " ( On this she goes to the glass , to adjust her curls . ) " Well ! I ...
... fair ; — 1 hope he is dark - I like dark men ; -I hope he is not short : -but he is rich and a gentleman - that's good . After all , perhaps , he may not like me . " ( On this she goes to the glass , to adjust her curls . ) " Well ! I ...
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The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on Fact - Primary Source Edition William Maginn Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2014 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
advertisement answer appearance Beauty body buried Captain Creed Carribles character child Colchester connexion Coroner cottage cried daughter dear death dress entered evidence exclaimed father favourable fear feelings female fortune fortune-teller gentleman girl give guilty hand handkerchief Hannah happy Harry Everton head hear heard heart honour hour Ipswich Isle of Wight Jack Jack Smith Jury Killganders knew lady letter living London look manner Manningtree Maria Marten marriage married mind morning mother murder nard nature never night o'clock officer old Barnard old Marten Orridge passed passion person pistols Polstead postchaise present prisoner racter Red Barn render replied Barnard respectable returned Smith soon sphenoidal sinus Stafford Jackson Sudbury Suffolk tell thought tion told Tom Ricketts took voice Warren wife William Barnard William Corder witness woman wound Xiutototle Yarmouth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 355 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Seite 484 - Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Seite 1 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please: How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I...
Seite 674 - April next, and that, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, you be taken thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck till you are dead! dead! dead ! And may the Almighty God have mercy on your soul...
Seite 180 - Tis raging noon ; and, vertical, the Sun Darts on the head direct his forceful rays. O'er heaven and earth, far as the ranging eye Can sweep, a dazzling deluge reigns; and all From pole to pole is undistinguished blaze.
Seite 439 - Come unto me all ye who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Seite 643 - EF, one mortal wound, of the depth of four inches, and of the breadth of half an inch ; of which said mortal wound he the said EF then and there instantly died.
Seite 181 - Welcome, ye shades ! ye bowery thickets, hail ! Ye lofty pines ! ye venerable oaks ! Ye ashes wild, resounding o'er the steep ! Delicious is your shelter to the soul, As to the hunted hart the sallying spring...
Seite 620 - ... a third liaison with the man who became her deliberate murderer. William Corder was the son of an opulent farmer at Polstead, and having become acquainted with the unfortunate girl Marten the consequence of an illicit intercourse which took place between them, was a child. From that time he became much attached to her, and was a frequent visitor at her father's house. The child died within a short period of its birth, and from the circumstances of its...
Seite 205 - I received you ; Courted, and sought to raise you to your merits : My house, my table, nay, my fortune too, My very self was yours; you might have...