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...my man, I think: Hoseason, of the brig covenant. Would you set your trust on him?” 18 Robert Louis Stevenson “He didnae behave very well to you and A... ...o themselves, at least – the pub- lic was none the wiser; and in course of time, on November 8th, and in the midst of a prodigious storm of wind and r...

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...ith that, he stepped out of the room and the mirror slipped back into place. 18 Chapter 7 I changed my clothes as requested, shoving the ruined dress... ...tops that I would stay forever. That time will come soon enough. 43 Chapter 18 Erik and I enjoyed one another’s company at the house on Place des Vos... ...ll me about Madame Harrington’s visit this morning.” 89 Chapter 38 October-November, 1889 Alice Harrington invited me to several of her at-homes. S...

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...ect me in my walks abroad. It is a great thing, believe me, to present a good normal type of the nation you belong to. Nobody else was asked for his p... ...ite fresher, and no green more emerald than ours, in all the navy of the canals. There should be books in the cabin, and tobacco-jars, and some old Bu...

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... follows. * * * IT HAPPENED TOWARDS THE END OF 1851. On a cold November evening Hadji Murad rode into Makhmet, a hostile Chechen aoul that... ...aid the prince speaking Russian with an English accent. “Will you take my 18 Hadji Murad place, marya?” “Do you all agree?” asked the princess, ri...

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... over, and the Lord Chancel lor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly... ...permission to place them on a golden talisman of a table at my Lady’s el 18 Bleak House – Vol. One bow, puts on his spectacles, and begins to read b... ... a looking glass, every stage of my own growth and change there, when, one November morning, I received this letter. I omit the date. Old Square, Linc... ... it had seemed innocent and trusting when I first saw it in that memorable November fog, how much more did it seem now when I knew 232 Bleak House – ... ... lofty, gusty, and gloomy. These may not be desirable characteristics when November comes with fog and sleet or January with ice and snow, but they ha... ...irst sight scarcely reconcilable with any day in the year but the fifth of November. It consists of a limp and ugly figure carried in a chair by two b...

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... over, and the Lord Chancel lor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly... ...permission to place them on a golden talisman of a table at my Lady’s el 18 Bleak House – Dickens bow, puts on his spectacles, and begins to read by... ... a looking glass, every stage of my own growth and change there, when, one November morning, I received this letter. I omit the date. Old Square, Linc... ... it had seemed innocent and trusting when I first saw it in that memorable November fog, how much more did it seem now when I knew 232 Bleak House – ... ... lofty, gusty, and gloomy. These may not be desirable characteristics when November comes with fog and sleet or January with ice and snow, but they ha... ...irst sight scarcely reconcilable with any day in the year but the fifth of November. It consists of a limp and ugly figure carried in a chair by two b...

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... to a point on which I have, ever since I landed in the United States last November, ob- served a strict silence, though sometimes tempted to break it... ...erable relic, ‘Aye, aye! This was carried by my fourth son on the fifth of November, when he was a Guy Fawkes.’ These remarkable words wrought (as wel... ... by my forefather’—not fourth son, which is preposterous— ’on the fifth of November. And he was Guy Fawkes.’ Here we have a remark at once consistent,... ...lack suit, and state of widower and dangling double eye-glass, all tended 18 Martin Chuzzlewit to the same purpose, and cried aloud, ‘Behold the mora... ... accustomed places, and put out of sight; the window-blinds as yel- low as November fogs, were drawn down close; Jonas himself was so subdued, that he...

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...OMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KINGS .................. 31 CHAPTER V ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE.................

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... ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED........................... ...re of the fight. Traces of Roman camps over A Child’s Histroy of England 18 grown with grass, and of mounds that are the burial places of heaps of B... ...ich was never done on English ground before or since. On the thirteenth of November, in pursuance of secret instructions sent by the King over the who... ...nged upon the English nation, for the massacre of that dread thirteenth of November, when his countrymen and countrywomen, and the little children who... ...one another, as they drifted in the cold benumbing sea on that unfortunate November night. By and by, another man came swimming to wards them, whom t... ... their deaths were written in Heaven. The Queen died on the seventeenth of November, fifteen hundred and fifty eight, after reigning not quite five ye... ...rliament being again prorogued from the third of Oc tober to the fifth of November, and the conspirators being uneasy lest their design should have b... ...1 Seminary Priests 333 A Child’s Histroy of England 444 Severus 15, 17, 18 Shakespeare 342 Sharp 406 Shepherd 420 Simon Burley 207 Simon de Mon...

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... Embarrass’d at first starting with a novice. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 18 Poor Julia’s heart was in an awkward state; She felt it going, ... ... still In sight, that several months have pass’d; we ‘ll say ‘T was in November, but I ‘m not so sure About the day the era ‘s more obscur... ... more do you And so good night. Return we to our story: ‘T was in November, when fine days are few, And the far mountains wax a little ...

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...orm them into a regular com- position. Of these memorials a few have been 18 Boswell’s Life of Johnson preserved; but the greater part was consigned ... ...e in your prayers, for vain is the help of man. I am, dear Sir, &c. ‘March 18, 1752.’ ‘SAM. JOHNSON.’ That his sufferings upon the death of his wife w... ...ied at eighteen than not keep com- pany with such a man.’ On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said,... ...here, as related by himself:— 191 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ‘Sunday, Oct. 18, 1767. Yesterday, Oct. 17, at about ten in the morning, I took my leave ... ...er as now in the wrong. I went to him early on the morning of the tenth of November. ‘Now (said he,) that you are going to marry, do not expect more f... ...d was from the 18th of Au- gust, on which day he arrived, till the 22nd of November, when he set out on his return to London; and I believe ninety-fou... ...n the fifteenth of September, we shall see it again about the fifteenth of November. * Written from a tour in France with the Thrales, Johnson’s only ... ...which I should be sorry to lose. I am, Sir, your humble servant, ‘February 18, 1777.’ ‘SAM. JOHNSON.’ ‘To DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. ‘Glasgow, April 24, 1777...

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...uch a king as this, and so there were many disturbances in his time. Some 18 Young Folk’s History of England of them rose out of the king—who had bee... ...sgiving all over the country, and it became the custom that, on the 5th of November—the day when the gunpowder plot was to have taken effect—there sho... ...palace of St. Germain given him for a dwelling-place. It was on the 4th of November, 1688, that William landed, 106 Young Folk’s History of England a... .... The other battle was when the Russians crept out, late in the evening of November 5, to attack the English camp: and there was a dreadful fight by n...

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...change rebuked. Young Sir Willoughby, then, stood in this dilemma:—a lady 18 The Egoist was at either hand of him; the only two that had ever, apart ... ... has a crown of Queen o’ the May forced on her head when she is verging on November?” He rejected her analogy, and she his. They could neither of them...

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...there results for him a great loss of vividness, but a great compensating 18 Robert Louis Stevenson gain in his power over the subject; so that he ca... ...was only in abey- ance, and John of Burgundy still conspired in secret. On November 23, 1407 – in that black winter when the frost lasted six-and-sixt... ...ras, which left France almost at the discretion of Burgundy. On De- cember 18 he was still no farther than Bruges, where he entered into a private tre... ...f *Works, iii. 394. *Works, iii. 376. 217 Familiar Studies of Men & Books November, I spoke with Sir Robert Bowes” (the head of the family, his bride...