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... of a dreadful hurricane , the month of October , 1780 .... And of an awful phænomenon called a Tornado , which took a spirit of industry , economy and frugality among and 10 S. XII . JULY 3 , 1909. ] NOTES AND QUERIES . 1.
... of a dreadful hurricane , the month of October , 1780 .... And of an awful phænomenon called a Tornado , which took a spirit of industry , economy and frugality among and 10 S. XII . JULY 3 , 1909. ] NOTES AND QUERIES . 1.
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... called from its stealthy and deadly mode of attacking the other fishes which this depraved and degraded looking little mon- ster makes its daily prey . " In a letter to The Times of 5 June Mr. A. L. Mayhew showed the untenability of ...
... called from its stealthy and deadly mode of attacking the other fishes which this depraved and degraded looking little mon- ster makes its daily prey . " In a letter to The Times of 5 June Mr. A. L. Mayhew showed the untenability of ...
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... called from the popular Lexicon , ' 1890. It has the merit , at any name of the fish , or from the fact ( if it be rate , of being easy to pronounce . Dolma a fact ) that they wore clothes ( ? trousers ) Bagcha means the filled - up ...
... called from the popular Lexicon , ' 1890. It has the merit , at any name of the fish , or from the fact ( if it be rate , of being easy to pronounce . Dolma a fact ) that they wore clothes ( ? trousers ) Bagcha means the filled - up ...
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... called by every one . general opinion , too , that often they were " bread - and - water diet ; why , however , none seemed to know . Is there any early mention of bread and water as a diet for poor persons , other than prisoners ? In ...
... called by every one . general opinion , too , that often they were " bread - and - water diet ; why , however , none seemed to know . Is there any early mention of bread and water as a diet for poor persons , other than prisoners ? In ...
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... called " leading articles . " These are goods sold at cost to attract custom . One furniture dealer , for instance , will offer a saddlebag suite as leading line , another a bedroom suite . A friend of mine set up housekeeping at the ...
... called " leading articles . " These are goods sold at cost to attract custom . One furniture dealer , for instance , will offer a saddlebag suite as leading line , another a bedroom suite . A friend of mine set up housekeeping at the ...
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105. oldal - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
89. oldal - Ay me! I fondly dream — Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
156. oldal - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
2. oldal - Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
180. oldal - tis and ever was my wish and way To let all flowers live freely, and all die, Whene'er their Genius bids their souls depart, Among their kindred in their native place. I never pluck the rose ; the violet's head Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank And not reproacht me ; the ever-sacred cup Of the pure lily hath between my hands Felt safe, unsoiled, nor lost one grain of gold.
105. oldal - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
257. oldal - At eve last Midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the field a bag of hempseed brought; I...
444. oldal - Otis's pamphlet I never saw, and whether I had gathered my ideas from reading or reflection, I do not know. I know only that I turned to neither book nor pamphlet while writing it. I did not consider it as any part of my charge to invent new ideas altogether, and to offer no sentiment which had ever...
413. oldal - There were eight or ten more lines, but Peter destroyed them in his wrath. In the region of wild burlesque, where the ridiculous, by its intensity and mass, becomes the sublime, I never met any one to approach " Peter," except our amazing Medea-Robson.
220. oldal - Now I lay me down to sleep ; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take.