The Child of Thirty-six Fathers: A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance, Volume 1Isaac Riley, 1809 - French fiction |
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... eye , we found ourselves at the back of the village . There several shady roads , fenced with hedges and vines , presented themselves to our sight --- we followed the first that offered . The terrible cry of " Stop ! " still echoing ...
... eye , we found ourselves at the back of the village . There several shady roads , fenced with hedges and vines , presented themselves to our sight --- we followed the first that offered . The terrible cry of " Stop ! " still echoing ...
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... eyes off us , informed us that if we were desirous to shorten our road by ten leagues , we had only , on leaving the farm , to cross the high road , to gain the little wood which faced us ; and after hav- ing passed through that , to ...
... eyes off us , informed us that if we were desirous to shorten our road by ten leagues , we had only , on leaving the farm , to cross the high road , to gain the little wood which faced us ; and after hav- ing passed through that , to ...
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... eyes off of him , instantly launched one of the flint stones with which he was armed at the fellow's head directed by a sure hand accustomed to hit its mark , the terrible stone struck the trooper right upon the forehead , and laid him ...
... eyes off of him , instantly launched one of the flint stones with which he was armed at the fellow's head directed by a sure hand accustomed to hit its mark , the terrible stone struck the trooper right upon the forehead , and laid him ...
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... occasional apprehensions that he had met with some misadventure , which I was sorry I was not along with him to take my share in . Sans - Chagrin , who read in my eyes every thing that passed in my heart , THIRTY - SIX FATHERS . 31.
... occasional apprehensions that he had met with some misadventure , which I was sorry I was not along with him to take my share in . Sans - Chagrin , who read in my eyes every thing that passed in my heart , THIRTY - SIX FATHERS . 31.
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A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance. my eyes every thing that passed in my heart , encouraged me and said , " that af " ter the picture I had drawn of Linval , " he could not bring himself to ascribe " his delay to any thing but prudence ...
A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance. my eyes every thing that passed in my heart , encouraged me and said , " that af " ter the picture I had drawn of Linval , " he could not bring himself to ascribe " his delay to any thing but prudence ...
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