Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing TractsWilliam and Robert Chambers, 1854 |
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... night - wind , giving token that the revellers still kept up the dance , and were ignorant of the departure of the trains . Late on the following day , the Nor ' - west scouts reported the party of Indians , and soon a set of sleighs ...
... night - wind , giving token that the revellers still kept up the dance , and were ignorant of the departure of the trains . Late on the following day , the Nor ' - west scouts reported the party of Indians , and soon a set of sleighs ...
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... night , and sometimes all night long . How many quarrels have I assisted to foment and perpetuate between those poor innocent fellows , John Doe and Richard Roe ! How many times - God forgive me ! -have I set them to assault each other ...
... night , and sometimes all night long . How many quarrels have I assisted to foment and perpetuate between those poor innocent fellows , John Doe and Richard Roe ! How many times - God forgive me ! -have I set them to assault each other ...
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... night - watchings over a sick , and then only child , who , after lingering many months , died in my arms . This was the way that we went on : this was the way that we began our married life . ' It was in the summer of 1794 , a year and ...
... night - watchings over a sick , and then only child , who , after lingering many months , died in my arms . This was the way that we went on : this was the way that we began our married life . ' It was in the summer of 1794 , a year and ...
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... o'clock . No verdict was given during the night , and at a little before nine in the morning , the jury stated that they could not agree ; upon which they were discharged . The decision of the jury met 28 WILLIAM COBBETT .
... o'clock . No verdict was given during the night , and at a little before nine in the morning , the jury stated that they could not agree ; upon which they were discharged . The decision of the jury met 28 WILLIAM COBBETT .
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... night he grew more and more feeble - the journey round the farm had been the last flicker in the socket . About one o'clock on Thursday morning , the 18th of June 1835 , William Cobbett expired , in the seventy - fourth year of his age ...
... night he grew more and more feeble - the journey round the farm had been the last flicker in the socket . About one o'clock on Thursday morning , the 18th of June 1835 , William Cobbett expired , in the seventy - fourth year of his age ...
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