Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Volumes 3-4J. Hogg, 1846 |
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... round which were huts wherein the household slaves herded ; under a shed stood a hideous grinning wooden idol , about four feet in height , without legs or arms , bedaubed with paint and streaked with clay , with a few rags round it , I ...
... round which were huts wherein the household slaves herded ; under a shed stood a hideous grinning wooden idol , about four feet in height , without legs or arms , bedaubed with paint and streaked with clay , with a few rags round it , I ...
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... round the table . Soon & train of lady - slaves entered , bearing on their heads huge calabashes , carved and stained with sundry devices , containing the different messes which constitute Calabar - chop ( chop , to eat food ; chop ...
... round the table . Soon & train of lady - slaves entered , bearing on their heads huge calabashes , carved and stained with sundry devices , containing the different messes which constitute Calabar - chop ( chop , to eat food ; chop ...
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... round the leg , tufts of them concealing their hands and feet , were spring - fitting close at the ankle but increasing in size as it ing about driving the crowd before them - these were ascends till it reaches near the knee ; it is ...
... round the leg , tufts of them concealing their hands and feet , were spring - fitting close at the ankle but increasing in size as it ing about driving the crowd before them - these were ascends till it reaches near the knee ; it is ...
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... round their knees ; for though they had vowed to go round the church on their knees , they did not consider themselves obliged to spoil a new pair of trousers on the occasion ; and as the handkerchief alone could not have preserved them ...
... round their knees ; for though they had vowed to go round the church on their knees , they did not consider themselves obliged to spoil a new pair of trousers on the occasion ; and as the handkerchief alone could not have preserved them ...
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... round this divine statute . The violation of it is indeed followed by rottenness in the bones . PRICE 14d . perty in the world would not sustain all the men in the world in independent idleness for one month ; and it is written in the ...
... round this divine statute . The violation of it is indeed followed by rottenness in the bones . PRICE 14d . perty in the world would not sustain all the men in the world in independent idleness for one month ; and it is written in the ...
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