Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..William Martin Darton and Company, 1860 |
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animal Balboa Bessy bird-lime birds blue boar spear boat branches bright bull bullaces called Captain chase cloth Cortez cried dear delight donkeys dragon dress Edition Engravings Ephraim eyes fire fish Fitz followed garden ghost gilt give Grammar School Grand Turk guns head heard heart horse Illustrated kangaroo kind King KING WILLIAM STREET Latin lion Lochmaben LONDON London Wall looked loud Muddleslush Mulford never night noble old Etonian Old Groky old woman party passed PATENT Peter Parley PETER ROBINSON Pizarro poor old Price Railway REGENT STREET rocks round salt salt-box sharks shot Shrove Tuesday side Simon SIMON MAGNUS smoke snake Snooks soon Spaniards sport squirrel stone story STREET tail tell things thought tiger took Town School tree W. H. SMITH Westminster School Whippersnapper wild witches wood yellow young friends
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18. oldal - PROVIDENT FUND.— Provident Annuities purchased by Ladies in any way connected with Education, upon Government Security, agreeably to the Act of Parliament. This branch includes a Savings' Bank. A HOME for Governesses during the intervals between their engagements. A SYSTEM OF REGISTRATION, entirely free of expense. AN ASYLUM for the Aged. Treasurer.
176. oldal - this reason I intend to have a few words with my young friends about ghosts, spectres, phantoms, hobgoblins, and the like. A ghost is supposed to be the spirit of a person deceased, who is either commissioned to return for some especial errand —such as the discovery of a murder; to procure restitution of land and property
58. oldal - built by the father of Montezuma. It was surrounded by a stone wall with towers, and its apartments and courts were so large as to accommodate the whole of the little army. This Cortez immediately fortified, and planted his ten pieces of artillery so as to command every approach to his quarters.
27. oldal - been prescribed for me ; and yet I got completely rid of it by taking about half a small box of your Lozenges, which I find are the only ones that relieve the cough. without deranging the stomach or digestive organs.— I am, Sir, your humble servant,
79. oldal - water prevented their going further than they did in a south easterly direction, which was that of the boat. He well knew that a shark required sufficient depth of water to sink beneath its prey ere it made its swoop, and that it uniformly turned on its back and struck upwards
83. oldal - object glanced past the young man, so near as almost to touch him. It was a shark that had actually turned on its back to seize its prey, and was only prevented from succeeding by being driven from the line of its course, by hitting the slimy rock over which it