The Child of Thirty-six Fathers: A Serious, Comic and Moral Romance, Volume 1Isaac Riley, 1809 - French fiction |
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... troopers , who , in effect , were running after us , pushed on their horses faster , and began to cry aloud Stop ! -- Stop ! --- Stop ! " -- I thought I should have sunk into the earth with an involuntary trembling which came over me as ...
... troopers , who , in effect , were running after us , pushed on their horses faster , and began to cry aloud Stop ! -- Stop ! --- Stop ! " -- I thought I should have sunk into the earth with an involuntary trembling which came over me as ...
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... bordered the causeway , when Linval , looking round to the left , perceived two troopers advancing hastily towards us . Without knowing whether they were the same we " Be not " Separated had already escaped , he 16 THE CHILD OF.
... bordered the causeway , when Linval , looking round to the left , perceived two troopers advancing hastily towards us . Without knowing whether they were the same we " Be not " Separated had already escaped , he 16 THE CHILD OF.
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... troopers by these ditches , " which are six or seven feet wide , and " four or five feet deep of water , we " have ... troopers had filled me ; and I too prepared to defend my liberty . I had just formed this resolution when the troopers ...
... troopers by these ditches , " which are six or seven feet wide , and " four or five feet deep of water , we " have ... troopers had filled me ; and I too prepared to defend my liberty . I had just formed this resolution when the troopers ...
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... troopers . Rage and fury were portrayed in every trait of their countenances : they foamed at the mouth with rage , and they uttered a thousand menaces and cut a thousand ludicrous capers . Linval , al- ways on his centre , perfectly ...
... troopers . Rage and fury were portrayed in every trait of their countenances : they foamed at the mouth with rage , and they uttered a thousand menaces and cut a thousand ludicrous capers . Linval , al- ways on his centre , perfectly ...
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... trooper under him . Alarmed at this horrible spectacle , and desirous to revenge his comrade , the other trooper took forth one of his pis- tols with a design to let fly at us ; but Linval , who never took his eyes off of him ...
... trooper under him . Alarmed at this horrible spectacle , and desirous to revenge his comrade , the other trooper took forth one of his pis- tols with a design to let fly at us ; but Linval , who never took his eyes off of him ...
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