My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... coloured semi - court dress of the earlier Georgian period to the plain black of our own day . He is shown as having a ruddy complexion , blue eyes , and carefully dressed and curled hair , which I think must have been pow- dered , or ...
... coloured semi - court dress of the earlier Georgian period to the plain black of our own day . He is shown as having a ruddy complexion , blue eyes , and carefully dressed and curled hair , which I think must have been pow- dered , or ...
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... colour of the house , the road , the river close below it , the bridge with the cottage near its foot , the manor fields between us and the bridge , the steep wooded bank at the back , the stone quarry and the very shape and position of ...
... colour of the house , the road , the river close below it , the bridge with the cottage near its foot , the manor fields between us and the bridge , the steep wooded bank at the back , the stone quarry and the very shape and position of ...
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... colour - effects , but only in the depth and purity of the water and the fine rock - basins that contained it . I am informed that now this beautiful Chadwell Spring has been entirely destroyed by the boring of deep wells in the ...
... colour - effects , but only in the depth and purity of the water and the fine rock - basins that contained it . I am informed that now this beautiful Chadwell Spring has been entirely destroyed by the boring of deep wells in the ...
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... coloured ribbons . I well remember the election which took place after the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed , when Thomas Slingsby Duncombe was the Radical member , and was returned at the head of the poll . I saw him being chaired , and ...
... coloured ribbons . I well remember the election which took place after the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed , when Thomas Slingsby Duncombe was the Radical member , and was returned at the head of the poll . I saw him being chaired , and ...
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... coloured stiff stock , which was the fashionable necktie of the day . Those being ante - steel - pen days he had to make and mend our quill pens , and always had a sharp penknife . He was consequently the authority among the boys on the ...
... coloured stiff stock , which was the fashionable necktie of the day . Those being ante - steel - pen days he had to make and mend our quill pens , and always had a sharp penknife . He was consequently the authority among the boys on the ...
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