The Comic Album: a Book for Every Table, Volume 1844W.S. Orr, 1844 - English wit and humor, Pictorial |
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... less costly stuff , There certainly were spoons enough . King , Queen , Prince , Minister , and Lord , Were gathered round the rural board , And made a hearty meal , but hasty , On fowl , and tongue , champagne , and pasty . Unto the ...
... less costly stuff , There certainly were spoons enough . King , Queen , Prince , Minister , and Lord , Were gathered round the rural board , And made a hearty meal , but hasty , On fowl , and tongue , champagne , and pasty . Unto the ...
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... less refreshed than ever the next morning . Perhaps she then maintained her post , not in the vague vanished hope of attracting him home the sooner , but with a faint idea that she might thus induce him not at least to stay later , not ...
... less refreshed than ever the next morning . Perhaps she then maintained her post , not in the vague vanished hope of attracting him home the sooner , but with a faint idea that she might thus induce him not at least to stay later , not ...
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... less covert nature ; and as , under these circumstances , it not unnaturally occurred to him , that a speedy retreat to the Hibbinses aforesaid might save him from further tortures , and secure a little balm for his hurt mind and ...
... less covert nature ; and as , under these circumstances , it not unnaturally occurred to him , that a speedy retreat to the Hibbinses aforesaid might save him from further tortures , and secure a little balm for his hurt mind and ...
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... less had he felt the courage necessary to obtain it . But now at length the worm turns ; the last feather is laid on and the bold camel shakes off his burthen . Now , at length , as he draws forth from the bars the burnt stump of that ...
... less had he felt the courage necessary to obtain it . But now at length the worm turns ; the last feather is laid on and the bold camel shakes off his burthen . Now , at length , as he draws forth from the bars the burnt stump of that ...
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... less we see , perhaps , the better . Simple bands are as much in good taste as those of exaggerated proportions are extravagant and presuming . But we can judge better of the matter by the portrait of this lady , who presents herself at ...
... less we see , perhaps , the better . Simple bands are as much in good taste as those of exaggerated proportions are extravagant and presuming . But we can judge better of the matter by the portrait of this lady , who presents herself at ...
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The Comic Album, 1844: A Book for Every Table (Classic Reprint) Alfred Henry Forrester No preview available - 2018 |
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