The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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Page 45
... sides will be illumined ; that side towards the sun by the direct sunbeam , and the side towards the mirror , though less powerfully , by the reflected sunbeam . In a somewhat similar manner , the earth supplies the place of the mirror ...
... sides will be illumined ; that side towards the sun by the direct sunbeam , and the side towards the mirror , though less powerfully , by the reflected sunbeam . In a somewhat similar manner , the earth supplies the place of the mirror ...
Page 47
... side , Is seen the fox , with close downfolded tail , Watching his time to seize a straggling prey ; Or from some lofty crag he ominous howls , And makes approaching night more dismal fall . Grahame , " Just popp'd in , you know ! " 47 ...
... side , Is seen the fox , with close downfolded tail , Watching his time to seize a straggling prey ; Or from some lofty crag he ominous howls , And makes approaching night more dismal fall . Grahame , " Just popp'd in , you know ! " 47 ...
Page 65
... side , as a pelican does fish , to employ it hereafter and so , with Bet Monson at his side , and No. 55 . perhaps a cane or whanghee twisted under his other arm , sallies forth to take possession of all Lubberland . He buys every thing ...
... side , as a pelican does fish , to employ it hereafter and so , with Bet Monson at his side , and No. 55 . perhaps a cane or whanghee twisted under his other arm , sallies forth to take possession of all Lubberland . He buys every thing ...
Page 79
... side of the island : but in no part with more serious destruction of pro- perty , public works , and the hopes of the husbandman , than in the fens of Cam- bridgeshire : where , by some accounts , 60,000 , by others above 150,000 acres ...
... side of the island : but in no part with more serious destruction of pro- perty , public works , and the hopes of the husbandman , than in the fens of Cam- bridgeshire : where , by some accounts , 60,000 , by others above 150,000 acres ...
Page 107
... side , it came crashing and roaring up the street in full career , casting forth , within a few yards of the cross , floats of ice like mill- stones . The houses on the west side were in the same situation with those on the east . At ...
... side , it came crashing and roaring up the street in full career , casting forth , within a few yards of the cross , floats of ice like mill- stones . The houses on the west side were in the same situation with those on the east . At ...
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