The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... carry a hawk on the right ) , and she must be carried about as much as possible , late into the night , every day , being constantly stroked with a bird's wing or feather , very lightly at first . At night she should be tied to a perch ...
... carry a hawk on the right ) , and she must be carried about as much as possible , late into the night , every day , being constantly stroked with a bird's wing or feather , very lightly at first . At night she should be tied to a perch ...
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... carrying feather fans . They were attri- butes of royalty along with horse - hair fly - flappers and umbrellas . Examples ... carried in the state processions ; . Folding fans had their origin in Japan , and were imported thence to China ...
... carrying feather fans . They were attri- butes of royalty along with horse - hair fly - flappers and umbrellas . Examples ... carried in the state processions ; . Folding fans had their origin in Japan , and were imported thence to China ...
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... carried him well nigh to a denial of the faith of which he was a minister . In the winter of 1790-91 Fauchet organized , in the precincts of the Palais Royal , his " Cercle Social , " with regenerative in- tent , to be carried out ...
... carried him well nigh to a denial of the faith of which he was a minister . In the winter of 1790-91 Fauchet organized , in the precincts of the Palais Royal , his " Cercle Social , " with regenerative in- tent , to be carried out ...
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... carried on the business for a time for the sake of his mother . His first success in literature was a poem entitled La France délivrée par la Pucelle Orléans , which obtained the prize of the Académie des Jeux Floraux . After the ...
... carried on the business for a time for the sake of his mother . His first success in literature was a poem entitled La France délivrée par la Pucelle Orléans , which obtained the prize of the Académie des Jeux Floraux . After the ...
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... carried into the country if possible ; or otherwise possession was to be obtained of the person of the Princess Elizabeth , who was then at Combe Abbey in Warwickshire , and a rising was to be prepared among the Catholics of the midland ...
... carried into the country if possible ; or otherwise possession was to be obtained of the person of the Princess Elizabeth , who was then at Combe Abbey in Warwickshire , and a rising was to be prepared among the Catholics of the midland ...
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