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... folks sport their best coats and manners , tell their best jokes , and say their best sayings , the gentleman selected by the company " to do justice to the merits " of the host and hostess invariably brings out his full - dress voice ...
... folks sport their best coats and manners , tell their best jokes , and say their best sayings , the gentleman selected by the company " to do justice to the merits " of the host and hostess invariably brings out his full - dress voice ...
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A Book for Every Table. and hostess invariably brings out his full - dress voice to suit the full - dress occasion . How many of these oratorical displays commence by our Cicero acquainting his auditory that he's " unaccustomed to public ...
A Book for Every Table. and hostess invariably brings out his full - dress voice to suit the full - dress occasion . How many of these oratorical displays commence by our Cicero acquainting his auditory that he's " unaccustomed to public ...
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... brings it straight again : -in short , gives way to an infinity of postures , which he imagines to be necessary and graceful , but which really are contortions and grimaces . Amongst the gestures and attitudes , the most annoying are ...
... brings it straight again : -in short , gives way to an infinity of postures , which he imagines to be necessary and graceful , but which really are contortions and grimaces . Amongst the gestures and attitudes , the most annoying are ...
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... brings at the last moment . Alas ! it is too tight ! -your arms will neither be forced nor coaxed into it , and the clock strikes the fatal hour ! -Pleasant , ain't it ? It is a cold winter's morning , and you are desired to wait instan ...
... brings at the last moment . Alas ! it is too tight ! -your arms will neither be forced nor coaxed into it , and the clock strikes the fatal hour ! -Pleasant , ain't it ? It is a cold winter's morning , and you are desired to wait instan ...
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... bring over . As for turbans , the Tariff as hitherto works- Let us hope it won't lead to a war with the Turks ; Alliance with England ' t will hinder , perhaps , For now at Britannia they can't set their caps . Fifteen is a class which ...
... bring over . As for turbans , the Tariff as hitherto works- Let us hope it won't lead to a war with the Turks ; Alliance with England ' t will hinder , perhaps , For now at Britannia they can't set their caps . Fifteen is a class which ...
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