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... tells a long story of his paddling half the night with his fingers in the dirt , digging up some money he had buried in a garden , and con- veying it with his own hands , with many fears and contrivances , safely back to his house .
... tells a long story of his paddling half the night with his fingers in the dirt , digging up some money he had buried in a garden , and con- veying it with his own hands , with many fears and contrivances , safely back to his house .
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tendants was entering a house where they had proposed to sleep , he suddenly started back with a scream , and fell down in an agony . I asked what the matter was , for he seemed to me to be very much frighted : he told me very seriously ...
tendants was entering a house where they had proposed to sleep , he suddenly started back with a scream , and fell down in an agony . I asked what the matter was , for he seemed to me to be very much frighted : he told me very seriously ...
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Such persons had hardly , as Mr Leslie Foster has observed in his evidence before the Committee of the House of Lords , any resource but to let their estates to adventurers , who were ready to meet such a state of things , and to make ...
Such persons had hardly , as Mr Leslie Foster has observed in his evidence before the Committee of the House of Lords , any resource but to let their estates to adventurers , who were ready to meet such a state of things , and to make ...
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A Discourse on the Rise Progress Peculiar Objects | 1 |
Memoirs of Samuel Pepys Esq F R S Secretary | 23 |
Absenteeism By Lady Morgan | 54 |
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