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... never came out but in single glasses , which was the rule of the house , for he never exceeded himself , nor permitted others to exceed . Answering to this closet , was a door into an old Chapel , which had been long disused for ...
... never came out but in single glasses , which was the rule of the house , for he never exceeded himself , nor permitted others to exceed . Answering to this closet , was a door into an old Chapel , which had been long disused for ...
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... never lost his eye - sight , or used spectacles . He got on horse- back without help , and rode to the death of the stag , ' till he was past fourscore . " Perhaps the late Sir John Cope was the last old English sportsman of this breed ...
... never lost his eye - sight , or used spectacles . He got on horse- back without help , and rode to the death of the stag , ' till he was past fourscore . " Perhaps the late Sir John Cope was the last old English sportsman of this breed ...
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Edward Jesse. once , and suffered so terrible a defeat , that they never again molested his country . I might enumerate various other Forests , many of which were disforested and changed into private property by an act of Charles I ...
Edward Jesse. once , and suffered so terrible a defeat , that they never again molested his country . I might enumerate various other Forests , many of which were disforested and changed into private property by an act of Charles I ...
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... never able to discover any rejected particles of fish or even of fish bones . The pellets of hair were frequent . It is evident from the above facts that the food of the Heron is not confined to fish ; and , therefore , that the ...
... never able to discover any rejected particles of fish or even of fish bones . The pellets of hair were frequent . It is evident from the above facts that the food of the Heron is not confined to fish ; and , therefore , that the ...
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... never yet observed anything in their bills . Indeed the stomach of the itself , which was called Heronshaw ; and thus the proverb , " he does not know a hawk from a handsaw , " the meaning of which was , that , in a very distant flight ...
... never yet observed anything in their bills . Indeed the stomach of the itself , which was called Heronshaw ; and thus the proverb , " he does not know a hawk from a handsaw , " the meaning of which was , that , in a very distant flight ...
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