Notes and QueriesOxford University Press, 1886 |
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... seem odd to some ; but I am satisfied my self , having often viewed this Flint Weapon , which was once in the Pos- session ... seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that the first vehicle to which the name was applied was the one which ...
... seem odd to some ; but I am satisfied my self , having often viewed this Flint Weapon , which was once in the Pos- session ... seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that the first vehicle to which the name was applied was the one which ...
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... seems highly probable that Bag - seven years would take up in his hand , and I nigge Wells were originally a rival establish- have seen it a load for three hundred yoke of the ment , to which the enterprising proprietor gave largest ...
... seems highly probable that Bag - seven years would take up in his hand , and I nigge Wells were originally a rival establish- have seen it a load for three hundred yoke of the ment , to which the enterprising proprietor gave largest ...
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... seems to show that Elizabeth Horrocks and the Rev. James Horrocks were sister and brother of William Horrocks , of Toxteth , father to the astronomer . 6 volume of poems ( " The Wreck , " st . vii . 1. 3 ) to make the word rhyme with ...
... seems to show that Elizabeth Horrocks and the Rev. James Horrocks were sister and brother of William Horrocks , of Toxteth , father to the astronomer . 6 volume of poems ( " The Wreck , " st . vii . 1. 3 ) to make the word rhyme with ...
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... seems most pro- bable , that Bobadill's bed - staff was a stick , used when in bed to summon attendance , instead of the modern bell . Invalids still use such a staff , and I , though no invalid , have so used a poker or hearth - brush ...
... seems most pro- bable , that Bobadill's bed - staff was a stick , used when in bed to summon attendance , instead of the modern bell . Invalids still use such a staff , and I , though no invalid , have so used a poker or hearth - brush ...
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... seems to be correct . must have been a light and portable article , for we To judge from the following passages , the bed - find its rapid movements passing into a proverb , staff can scarcely have been 66 " the twinkling of a bed ...
... seems to be correct . must have been a light and portable article , for we To judge from the following passages , the bed - find its rapid movements passing into a proverb , staff can scarcely have been 66 " the twinkling of a bed ...
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