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... dames - a ducking stool , that hung suspended over a pool of sufficient depth for the most obsti- nate case that might occur . Without wearying my reader with too much description , I shall content myself with referring to but two or ...
... dames - a ducking stool , that hung suspended over a pool of sufficient depth for the most obsti- nate case that might occur . Without wearying my reader with too much description , I shall content myself with referring to but two or ...
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... departed . Not all its infant glory , nor its manhood's bustle , its walls , gardens and bowers , its warm housekeeping , its gossiping burghers , its politics and its factions , -not even its prolific dames 12 ROB OF THE BOWL .
... departed . Not all its infant glory , nor its manhood's bustle , its walls , gardens and bowers , its warm housekeeping , its gossiping burghers , its politics and its factions , -not even its prolific dames 12 ROB OF THE BOWL .
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... dames and gamesome urchins could keep it in the upper air until this our day . Alas , for the vaulting pride of the village , the vain glory of the city , and the metropolitan boast ! St. Mary's hath sunk to the level of Tyre and Sidon ...
... dames and gamesome urchins could keep it in the upper air until this our day . Alas , for the vaulting pride of the village , the vain glory of the city , and the metropolitan boast ! St. Mary's hath sunk to the level of Tyre and Sidon ...
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... dame with the heart of a lioness . She had trained Master Garret to her hand , where he might have worn out his days in implicit obedience , had it not luckily fallen out for him that Captain Dauntrees had settled himself down in this ...
... dame with the heart of a lioness . She had trained Master Garret to her hand , where he might have worn out his days in implicit obedience , had it not luckily fallen out for him that Captain Dauntrees had settled himself down in this ...
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... dame . With all the tapster's humility and meekness , he still followed the Captain through his irregularities with the adhesiveness and submission of a dog- carousing on occasion like a man of stouter mould , and imitating the reveller ...
... dame . With all the tapster's humility and meekness , he still followed the Captain through his irregularities with the adhesiveness and submission of a dog- carousing on occasion like a man of stouter mould , and imitating the reveller ...
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Albert Verheyden Alice amongst Anthony Warden Arnold beach Black House Blanche Warden boat brigantine brought brow Captain Dauntrees Chiseldine cloak Collector Colonel Talbot companions comrades Coode council creek Cripple Crow and Archer dame dance devil Dickon Doctor door ejaculated Escalfador exclaimed Father Pierre favor Fendall friends Garret Weasel gave give hand hath head heard heart honor horse hour Iago Inigoe's Isle of Kent Jerome's John Coode la Grange Lady Maria laugh leave light look Lord Baltimore Lordship maiden Mary's Mary's river Master Albert Master Cocklescraft Master Rob Master Verheyden merry Mistress Blanche never night Olive Branch Pamesack party port priest Proprietary province publican quarrel replied river Rose Croft scarce Secretary seen shore skipper speak spirit stood sword Talbot tell thee thou thought to-night tone turn voice Warrington whilst whispered wife Willy worshipful yawl
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Page 7 - Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Page 321 - Tobacco's a Musician, And in a pipe delighteth ; It descends in a close, Through the organs of the nose, With a relish that inviteth.
Page 122 - Going to the Wars TELL me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True; a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 230 - A Ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Page 70 - She wore a frock of frolic green, Might well become a maiden queen, Which seemly was to see: A hood to that so neat and fine In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.
Page 63 - An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate...
Page 327 - Much victuals serves for gluttony, to fatten men like swine, ' But he's a frugal man indeed that with a leaf can dine, ' And needs no napkins for his hands his finger's ends to wipe, ' But keeps his kitchen in a box, and roast meat in a pipe.
Page 63 - She cast her weeds away, And to the palmy shore she hied, All in her best array. In sea-green silk so neatly clad, She there impatient stood ; The crew with wonder saw the lad Repel the foaming flood.
Page 14 - Furthermore, Kennedy described the roof as having been "capped by a wooden balustraded parapet, terminating, at each extremity, in a scroll like the head of a violin, and, in the middle, sustaining an entablature that rose to a summit on which was mounted a weathercock.
Page 361 - She turned her right and round about, And she swore by the moon ; I would not be your love, says she, For all the gold in Rome.