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The Compleat Angler

By: Izaak Walton

... him some observations concerning them. And he may note, that there are in Wales, and other countries, peculiar flies, proper to the particular place ...

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Tess of the Durbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

... apparent where the swedes had been pulled, was beginning to be striped in wales of darker brown, gradually broadening to ribands. Along the edge of e...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...r, and divers other ladies and gentlemen in vari ous parts of England and Wales (and one Mr Brown who was supposed to be then a corporal in the East ...

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Dancing with Fate : Song of the Muses

By: Hywela Lyn

...als—a small country known as Cymru, the brotherhood, erstwhile called Cambria, or Wales as some would have it? You may recall the folk who inhabit ... ...e yourself with the changes that have occurred since you last visited the land of Wales. Then bid your dear sisters farewell, before you take your ... ...r. “If I have to act as a mortal, how will I travel? On the grand scale of things, Wales may not be a large country, but it is mountainous and as I ... ...not been mistaken. Hywela Lyn 8 Chapter 2 Ceredigion, Wales, 460 AD The song of the Horai, the sisters who guarded t... ...orrow. However, Terpsichore had chosen those she inspired with care. The music of Wales would not die again. This time, they would not let her down... ...h of bronze glimpsed in the halls of Olympus the day Apollo asked her to return to Wales. It was Ares spying on them; of course, she should have gue...

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Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert

By: Izaak Walton

...s his Angler, and like it are of value less as exact knowledge than as harmonious and complete pictures of character. (Summary by Wikipedia and David Wales)...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...n of Charles I. As to the eldest, I have the honor of knowing him by name, but not personally.” “That is exactly the point, Planchet, we must come to:... ... d’Artagnan, and it was in this idea that D’Artagnan, who was, from habit, pretty well acquainted with men and things, had principally interested Plan...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...: ‘My mother was a Glamorganshire woman. My father, I know, walked up from Wales, mending boots on his road for a livelihood. He is not a bad scholar,... ...e value of Lord Fleetwood’s estates in Kent and in Staffordshire and South Wales, and his house property in London. ‘He will have means to support her... ...ured: ‘Now she’s got the boy. There ‘s clasping and kissing. He’s all wild Wales to her.’ The plate of meat was brought by Mary Jones with Gower besid... .... He promises to be a patron of Literature as well. His mother was a South Wales woman.’ ‘Could he be persuaded to publish a grand edition of the T ri... ...ht by the door of the shuttered shop, that Lord Fleetwood had gone down to Wales. ‘It means her having to wait,’ she said. ‘The minister has been to t... ...ers and voted against the Government, and then went down to his estates in Wales, being an excellent holder of the reins, whether on the coach box or ... ... jump and my lord’s paymaster here upon the scene. ‘My lady was to go down Wales way, sir.’ ‘That may be ordered after.’ ‘I ‘m to take my lady to my l... ... following letter to Chillon: ‘I am with Livia to-morrow. Janey starts for Wales to-mor- row morning, a voluntary exile. She pleaded to go back to tha... ...s lawyers, informing him of their receipt of a communica- tion dated South Wales, December 11th, and signed Owain Wythan; to the effect, that the birt...

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John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...use a sort of terror in us youthful spectators, and in which the Prince of Wales (his Royal Highness was a Foxite then) was represented as sitting alo...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Three

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...eve, with air-boxes, in the manner of some life-boats used on the coast of Wales. After searching in vain for about the period of time just men- tione...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...nistrative divisions: 3 districts Legal system: based on laws of England and Wales with a small number adopted from Jamaica and The Bahamas; constitu-... ...000 Jewish (registered) Language: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) Infant mortali... ...onarchy Capital: London Administrative divisions: 54 counties in England and Wales, 12 regions in Scotland and islands area, 26 districts in Northern ...

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Benevolence : From Guatemala to Goa On a Zimmer Frame

By: Jim William West

...ters with Corrupt Police, Santa-Cruz Shootout Stoned by Turks, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Himalayas, Goa Chapter 4 London to Wales to India Down and Out in London, Madeline Goes Mad, Naked Chase Hitching to India, Smugglers Train Hunted in Pakistan, The Valley of The Unbelievers Carry Hash Across Indian Border Chapt...

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Collected Poems of Alexander Pope : The Reader's Library, Volume 12

By: Alexander Pope; Neil Azevedo, Editor

...f St. Francis Xavier On a Picture of Queen Caroline Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales Lines Written in Evelyn’s Book on Coins Epigram (“Did Milton’s prose...”) Epigram (“Should Dennis print...”) Mr. J. M. Smythe Epigram on Mr. Moore’s Going to Law with Mr. Giliver Epigram (“A gold watch found...”) ...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...ntry into great constituencies such as London or Ulster or Wessex or South Wales, each return- ing a score or more of members, and the establishment o... ...t by the representa- tives of, let us say, twenty great provinces, Ulster, Wales, Lon- don, for example, each returning from twelve to thirty mem- ber...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...elow. Soon after, John came aft, with his bare back covered with stripes and wales in every direction, and dread- fully swollen, and asked the stewa...

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