Sharpe's London Magazine: a Journal of Entertainment and Instruction for General Reading..., Volume 6A.Hill, Virtue, and Company, 1848 Vols. 22-23 include illustrations by George Cruikshank. |
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... face were ab- solutely painful . No doubt they were , but this is a " custom " in the East - a word of most extended meaning , powerful enough at all times to set aside any supposed necessity for reason , and affording an excuse for ...
... face were ab- solutely painful . No doubt they were , but this is a " custom " in the East - a word of most extended meaning , powerful enough at all times to set aside any supposed necessity for reason , and affording an excuse for ...
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... face and figure . She was then care- fully placed in an open palankeen , decorated with cushions and tassels of green and gold ; this was immediately raised , and borne between her male relatives , while the guests of both sexes ...
... face and figure . She was then care- fully placed in an open palankeen , decorated with cushions and tassels of green and gold ; this was immediately raised , and borne between her male relatives , while the guests of both sexes ...
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... faces of intense excitement , as it is their duty to do . Thus the spectators were lulled and charmed by turns into a succes- sion of the most perfect satisfactions . Behind the dancers a full curtain that de- pended from an arch ...
... faces of intense excitement , as it is their duty to do . Thus the spectators were lulled and charmed by turns into a succes- sion of the most perfect satisfactions . Behind the dancers a full curtain that de- pended from an arch ...
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... face , as much as to say , " You don't mean that ? " " Let them go ! " he reiterated , in a stentorian tone . In an instant they were free . All four immediately took a survey of Piccadilly on their hind legs , and , dashing forward ...
... face , as much as to say , " You don't mean that ? " " Let them go ! " he reiterated , in a stentorian tone . In an instant they were free . All four immediately took a survey of Piccadilly on their hind legs , and , dashing forward ...
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... face ; I felt , I did , just as may be dead , and it was so unco and lonesome like ; and I couldn't bear it no longer , and says I , ' I woan't , ' says I , and that's all about it . ' So I told measter ; and says he , he be a kind man ...
... face ; I felt , I did , just as may be dead , and it was so unco and lonesome like ; and I couldn't bear it no longer , and says I , ' I woan't , ' says I , and that's all about it . ' So I told measter ; and says he , he be a kind man ...
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Page 243 - And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
Page 241 - And he said, Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot ; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.
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Page 39 - Death? perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
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