Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesGibbings, 1894 - 1104 páginas |
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... persons " who infringe our title to deceive the public , " and by the Chatham Street establishment which requested ... person . Uncle Sam tried six times , in as many different issues , before he was satisfied with the result : Nothing ...
... persons " who infringe our title to deceive the public , " and by the Chatham Street establishment which requested ... person . Uncle Sam tried six times , in as many different issues , before he was satisfied with the result : Nothing ...
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... person cannot get his legs down . The children's garden is in apple - pie order . SCOTT , in Lockhart's Life , vol . iv . p . 131 , ed . 1839 . Apples . How we apples swim ! A common English phrase , applied to the self - gratulation of ...
... person cannot get his legs down . The children's garden is in apple - pie order . SCOTT , in Lockhart's Life , vol . iv . p . 131 , ed . 1839 . Apples . How we apples swim ! A common English phrase , applied to the self - gratulation of ...
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... person , indeed , than Alfred Tennyson , once told his neighbor , Mrs. Cameron , that he believed every crime and every vice in the world was connected with the passion for autographs and anecdotes and records ( vide Taylor's ...
... person , indeed , than Alfred Tennyson , once told his neighbor , Mrs. Cameron , that he believed every crime and every vice in the world was connected with the passion for autographs and anecdotes and records ( vide Taylor's ...
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... person of note and eminency , and journey or pension with him any time , they desire him to write his name , with some short sentence which they call the mot of remembrance , the perusall whereof will fill one with no unpleasing ...
... person of note and eminency , and journey or pension with him any time , they desire him to write his name , with some short sentence which they call the mot of remembrance , the perusall whereof will fill one with no unpleasing ...
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... person whose reputation is odorous . There is some philosophy in the remark that a man may be a bad egg , and yet not be a nuisance until he is broke . - Sporting Times . Bag . Both as a verb and as a noun this word is put to many ...
... person whose reputation is odorous . There is some philosophy in the remark that a man may be a bad egg , and yet not be a nuisance until he is broke . - Sporting Times . Bag . Both as a verb and as a noun this word is put to many ...
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