Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... witnesses along with justices and constables . All the world knows how they come by their money . " Is " Ay , but ... witness against them , provided they drank well , and paid their score . " " Very true , dame , " said her elder guest ...
... witnesses along with justices and constables . All the world knows how they come by their money . " Is " Ay , but ... witness against them , provided they drank well , and paid their score . " " Very true , dame , " said her elder guest ...
Page 89
... witnesses and informers , with whom his imagination has as- sociated me for these two hours past , he is as much within my danger now , as what he is ever likely to be . " Then , suddenly changing his tone to serious , which was in ...
... witnesses and informers , with whom his imagination has as- sociated me for these two hours past , he is as much within my danger now , as what he is ever likely to be . " Then , suddenly changing his tone to serious , which was in ...
Page 96
... d'ye call , ( addressing Peveril , ) - get ye some water , and wash this filthy witness from your hand , as Betterton says in the play : for Chaubert's cookery is like Friar Bacon's Head - time is - time 96 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
... d'ye call , ( addressing Peveril , ) - get ye some water , and wash this filthy witness from your hand , as Betterton says in the play : for Chaubert's cookery is like Friar Bacon's Head - time is - time 96 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
Page 124
... witnesses . ' 99 " You are wrong , Master Bridgenorth - clearly wrong . It doth but keep them in wind - only breathes them like greyhounds before a coursing match . " " Be it so , " said Bridgenorth , with his usual in- difference of ...
... witnesses . ' 99 " You are wrong , Master Bridgenorth - clearly wrong . It doth but keep them in wind - only breathes them like greyhounds before a coursing match . " " Be it so , " said Bridgenorth , with his usual in- difference of ...
Page 127
... witness to this . " 66 66 " To his having reviled the House of Commons -by G - d , that I will ! " said Dangerfield ; " I will take it on my damnation . " " And verily , " said Everett , " as he spoke of Parliament generally , he hath ...
... witness to this . " 66 66 " To his having reviled the House of Commons -by G - d , that I will ! " said Dangerfield ; " I will take it on my damnation . " " And verily , " said Everett , " as he spoke of Parliament generally , he hath ...
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Page 194 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.