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... seen recorded in your columns the following proverb or saying , which I understand is prevalent in this county . When a skein of thread gets entangled in unravelling , a bystander will remark , “ Oh , that is like Hicks's horses , all ...
... seen recorded in your columns the following proverb or saying , which I understand is prevalent in this county . When a skein of thread gets entangled in unravelling , a bystander will remark , “ Oh , that is like Hicks's horses , all ...
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... seen him about 1840 or even later . There was a sale of his works of art after his death , I note in 1858 , but fancy that date must be an error , as I have not been able to trace any record of it . Was he not a brother of Archdeacon ...
... seen him about 1840 or even later . There was a sale of his works of art after his death , I note in 1858 , but fancy that date must be an error , as I have not been able to trace any record of it . Was he not a brother of Archdeacon ...
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... seen in those of Cirencester and Slaugham in Sussex ; and at Wimbledon is a complete suit of black horseman's armour , early seventeenth century , for the due preservation of which a sum of money has been left by will . I cannot at ...
... seen in those of Cirencester and Slaugham in Sussex ; and at Wimbledon is a complete suit of black horseman's armour , early seventeenth century , for the due preservation of which a sum of money has been left by will . I cannot at ...
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... seen them . The American robin ( they eat him frequently " on toast " at American tables d'hôte ) seemed to me a big , ugly thrush , with a dirty yellow breast . The blue - bird of Canada is an exquisitely beautiful little fellow , with ...
... seen them . The American robin ( they eat him frequently " on toast " at American tables d'hôte ) seemed to me a big , ugly thrush , with a dirty yellow breast . The blue - bird of Canada is an exquisitely beautiful little fellow , with ...
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... seen a copy of the Hue and Cry ( the present police gazette ) for some day in the month of August , 1845. The Dublin police gazette certainly went by the name of Hue and Cry so recently as 1860 , and , for aught I know , may yet bear ...
... seen a copy of the Hue and Cry ( the present police gazette ) for some day in the month of August , 1845. The Dublin police gazette certainly went by the name of Hue and Cry so recently as 1860 , and , for aught I know , may yet bear ...
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