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... once more tried , and the Reader gets very snug , and very sleepy , and he begins to make long , unconscious pauses here and there , and then resumes , but goes back to a passage he had read before , and then pauses at the former place ...
... once more tried , and the Reader gets very snug , and very sleepy , and he begins to make long , unconscious pauses here and there , and then resumes , but goes back to a passage he had read before , and then pauses at the former place ...
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... once would retreat , And fly away From such a display Heavy At length the troops celestial agreed To make one last great effort to succeed . They marshalled all their forces , And brought against John Bull , In one long , strong , and ...
... once would retreat , And fly away From such a display Heavy At length the troops celestial agreed To make one last great effort to succeed . They marshalled all their forces , And brought against John Bull , In one long , strong , and ...
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... once vaulted upon a rocking - horse , and were ignominiously thrown ! -a suf- ficient reason for lowering our equestrian ambition ; for refusing the next day , at school , to construe ride si sapis ; and for our declining to join in the ...
... once vaulted upon a rocking - horse , and were ignominiously thrown ! -a suf- ficient reason for lowering our equestrian ambition ; for refusing the next day , at school , to construe ride si sapis ; and for our declining to join in the ...
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... once read of a coach - and - four being driven round some shop , he is puzzled that , in these New Tariff days , a ride into a Magazin de modes et nouveautés , " should be so deuced expensive . If he does n't happen to carry the ready ...
... once read of a coach - and - four being driven round some shop , he is puzzled that , in these New Tariff days , a ride into a Magazin de modes et nouveautés , " should be so deuced expensive . If he does n't happen to carry the ready ...
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... once laughed at is no longer a dangerous rival . The misfortunes that overtake the incipient horseman are most numerous . Not the least among the category , is that of being unable to dismount , when your goddess inadver- ing a graceful ...
... once laughed at is no longer a dangerous rival . The misfortunes that overtake the incipient horseman are most numerous . Not the least among the category , is that of being unable to dismount , when your goddess inadver- ing a graceful ...
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