My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... feet when I was sixteen , and my eldest brother William was an inch taller , while my brother John and sister Fanny were both rather tall . My father and mother , however , were under rather than over middle height , and the remark ...
... feet when I was sixteen , and my eldest brother William was an inch taller , while my brother John and sister Fanny were both rather tall . My father and mother , however , were under rather than over middle height , and the remark ...
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... feet long and nearly as wide ; and it was these that formed our favourite fishing - stations , where we sometimes found shoals of small lampreys , which could be scooped up in basins or old sauce- pans , and were then fried for our ...
... feet long and nearly as wide ; and it was these that formed our favourite fishing - stations , where we sometimes found shoals of small lampreys , which could be scooped up in basins or old sauce- pans , and were then fried for our ...
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... feet long . 66 The lamprey was a favourite dish with our ancestors , and is still considered a luxury in some districts , while in others it is rejected as disagreeable , and the living fish is thought to be even poisonous . This is ...
... feet long . 66 The lamprey was a favourite dish with our ancestors , and is still considered a luxury in some districts , while in others it is rejected as disagreeable , and the living fish is thought to be even poisonous . This is ...
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... feet thick , and it was thus quite safe to walk round close to the parapet , though there was no protection on the inner edge but the few herbs and bushes that grew upon it . For many years this small fragment of a mediæval castle ...
... feet thick , and it was thus quite safe to walk round close to the parapet , though there was no protection on the inner edge but the few herbs and bushes that grew upon it . For many years this small fragment of a mediæval castle ...
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... feet high , between us and the adjoining house . The very first incident which I remember , which happened , I think , on the morning after my arrival , was of a boy about my own age looking over this wall , who at once inquired ...
... feet high , between us and the adjoining house . The very first incident which I remember , which happened , I think , on the morning after my arrival , was of a boy about my own age looking over this wall , who at once inquired ...
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