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... appearance , his gaunt figure , his excited manner , his long hair , and his unfashionable costume only filled her with a sentiment of tender aversion . She broke into derisive laughter , and noticing his intolerable garments ...
... appearance , his gaunt figure , his excited manner , his long hair , and his unfashionable costume only filled her with a sentiment of tender aversion . She broke into derisive laughter , and noticing his intolerable garments ...
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... appeared the readiest road . Contarini when a boy wrote romances and threw them into the river , and composed pages of satire or sentiment and grew intoxicated with his own eloquence . ' He pondered over the music of language , studied ...
... appeared the readiest road . Contarini when a boy wrote romances and threw them into the river , and composed pages of satire or sentiment and grew intoxicated with his own eloquence . ' He pondered over the music of language , studied ...
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... returned for the holidays , was sent for , and appeared in his shirt - sleeves with boxing gloves . ' His future destination was still uncertain . Isaac Disraeli , who had no great belief in youthful genius 20 LORD BEACONSFIELD.
... returned for the holidays , was sent for , and appeared in his shirt - sleeves with boxing gloves . ' His future destination was still uncertain . Isaac Disraeli , who had no great belief in youthful genius 20 LORD BEACONSFIELD.
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... appearance , ' he wrote . Imagine M. and myself on two little Andalusian mountain horses with long tails and jennet necks , followed by a large beast of burden , with Brunet in white hat and slippers , lively , shrivelled , and noisy as ...
... appearance , ' he wrote . Imagine M. and myself on two little Andalusian mountain horses with long tails and jennet necks , followed by a large beast of burden , with Brunet in white hat and slippers , lively , shrivelled , and noisy as ...
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... appearance , greeted us with dignity ; the señora young and really very pretty , with infinite vivacity and grace . A French valet leant on his chair , and a dueña such as Staphenaff would draw , broad and supercilious , with jet eyes ...
... appearance , greeted us with dignity ; the señora young and really very pretty , with infinite vivacity and grace . A French valet leant on his chair , and a dueña such as Staphenaff would draw , broad and supercilious , with jet eyes ...
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Page 106 - ... to me of conservative principles; but he does not inform me what they are. I observe indeed a party in the State whose rule it is to consent to no change, until it is clamorously called for, and then instantly to yield; but those are concessionary, not conservative principles. This party treats institutions as we do our pheasants, they preserve only to destroy them.
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