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... received the above docu- ment , or deed of transfer , vesting the pro- perty in her in me upon my arrival at Ballykillcronaghan , the village where we halted the night before we were to march into the flourishing market town of Bally ...
... received the above docu- ment , or deed of transfer , vesting the pro- perty in her in me upon my arrival at Ballykillcronaghan , the village where we halted the night before we were to march into the flourishing market town of Bally ...
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... received them with great interest , so that a dead silence ensued while we bestowed what time we could spare from the whiskey - punch , in ascertaining what prospects of delicious pain we had in store for us at Ballymaccrocodile . My ...
... received them with great interest , so that a dead silence ensued while we bestowed what time we could spare from the whiskey - punch , in ascertaining what prospects of delicious pain we had in store for us at Ballymaccrocodile . My ...
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... received me very cordially ; but being almost immediately afterwards called out of the room upon some affair of domestic economy - of which the only word that reached me was " capers " -left me at liberty to open a communica- tion with ...
... received me very cordially ; but being almost immediately afterwards called out of the room upon some affair of domestic economy - of which the only word that reached me was " capers " -left me at liberty to open a communica- tion with ...
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... received much kindness and attention from them , and learned their ways , and how to please them , and found subjects in common , and felt that they like one , and , in short , made friends of them , to have to part , and with so little ...
... received much kindness and attention from them , and learned their ways , and how to please them , and found subjects in common , and felt that they like one , and , in short , made friends of them , to have to part , and with so little ...
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... received a gracious assent from that lady , now informed Johnny that I would fulfil my promise to him , and take him to tea there that very evening , with which notification he was highly delighted , and scampered off to his quarters to ...
... received a gracious assent from that lady , now informed Johnny that I would fulfil my promise to him , and take him to tea there that very evening , with which notification he was highly delighted , and scampered off to his quarters to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 259 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Página 248 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 126 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Página 197 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Página 126 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Página 109 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Página 11 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Página 20 - Act, other than the Person thereunto authorized by Law, shall assume or use the Name, Style, or Title of Archbishop of any Province, Bishop of any Bishoprick, or Dean of any Deanery, in England or Ireland, he shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds.
Página 256 - They come, in dim procession led, The cold, the faithless, and the dead ; As warm each hand, each brow as gay, As if they parted yesterday.
Página 183 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys, Why, soldiers, why ? Whose business 'tis to die...