Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 3 |
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... colours , without veil or disguise ; and subsequently compares the same period to Ash Wednesday , when the Carnival - folks , having no longer any body to deceive , finish by throwing off the mask . Women in search of a husband are au ...
... colours , without veil or disguise ; and subsequently compares the same period to Ash Wednesday , when the Carnival - folks , having no longer any body to deceive , finish by throwing off the mask . Women in search of a husband are au ...
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... colours there is the most lamentable confusion , as we have " WHITE , Blacksmith , " — " BLACK , Whitesmith , ” - BROWN & SCARLET , Green - grocers , " and " GREY - Hairdresser , " which would erroneously lead the passenger to sup- pose ...
... colours there is the most lamentable confusion , as we have " WHITE , Blacksmith , " — " BLACK , Whitesmith , ” - BROWN & SCARLET , Green - grocers , " and " GREY - Hairdresser , " which would erroneously lead the passenger to sup- pose ...
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... coloured ensign , the pole , like the ivy - bound Thyrsus of the Bacchanalian Menades , was upreared at each shop to typify the staff put into the hand of every patient undergoing the operation of phlebo- tomy ; while the fillet was ...
... coloured ensign , the pole , like the ivy - bound Thyrsus of the Bacchanalian Menades , was upreared at each shop to typify the staff put into the hand of every patient undergoing the operation of phlebo- tomy ; while the fillet was ...
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... coloured frock - coat , descending nearly to his feet , stood a tallish thin figure , whose matted powdered hair , falling over his forehead and ears like the sedge of a river - god , seemed to render still paler his coarse and somewhat ...
... coloured frock - coat , descending nearly to his feet , stood a tallish thin figure , whose matted powdered hair , falling over his forehead and ears like the sedge of a river - god , seemed to render still paler his coarse and somewhat ...
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... coloured ceiling ; and such is my antipathy to this exercise of the art , that I se- riously doubt whether I should have saved Sir James Thornhill's life while employed upon the dome of St. Paul's , had I seen him upon the extreme edge ...
... coloured ceiling ; and such is my antipathy to this exercise of the art , that I se- riously doubt whether I should have saved Sir James Thornhill's life while employed upon the dome of St. Paul's , had I seen him upon the extreme edge ...
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