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... eye of a denizen of the New World . The fragmentary state in which my letters appear owing to my fear of wearying readers less interested than my own family by prolonged details or prosing reflections , or disgusting them with the ...
... eye of a denizen of the New World . The fragmentary state in which my letters appear owing to my fear of wearying readers less interested than my own family by prolonged details or prosing reflections , or disgusting them with the ...
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... eye , a picture " come to life . " " Six- teen hundred and sixteen , " said I to L. , decipher- ing a date on a monument ... eyes were bent on the ground . She was in her own land ; she looked up and saw the old arched and ivied gateway ...
... eye , a picture " come to life . " " Six- teen hundred and sixteen , " said I to L. , decipher- ing a date on a monument ... eyes were bent on the ground . She was in her own land ; she looked up and saw the old arched and ivied gateway ...
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... eye upon them ; for ( shame to us ! ) it is the detection , and not the sin , that calls up the blush . OUR first stop after leaving Ventnor was at St. Lawrence's Church , the smallest in England ; you shall have its dimensions from ...
... eye upon them ; for ( shame to us ! ) it is the detection , and not the sin , that calls up the blush . OUR first stop after leaving Ventnor was at St. Lawrence's Church , the smallest in England ; you shall have its dimensions from ...
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... eyes seeing the sarcophagi containing the bones of the old Saxon kings ? the Ethelreds and Ethelwolfs , and of Canute the Dane ; the tombs of William Rufus , and of William of Wickham ; the chair in which bloody Mary sat at her nuptial ...
... eyes seeing the sarcophagi containing the bones of the old Saxon kings ? the Ethelreds and Ethelwolfs , and of Canute the Dane ; the tombs of William Rufus , and of William of Wickham ; the chair in which bloody Mary sat at her nuptial ...
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... eyes were wandering over the arches , the carvings , the Saxon caskets , & c . , & c . * WHEN we arrived at the depôt at Southampton we found Mrs. , with her daughter , awaiting us with a welcome that made us forget we were stran- gers ...
... eyes were wandering over the arches , the carvings , the Saxon caskets , & c . , & c . * WHEN we arrived at the depôt at Southampton we found Mrs. , with her daughter , awaiting us with a welcome that made us forget we were stran- gers ...
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