Westward ho !Macmillan, 1887 - Sermons, English |
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... perhaps , eight hundred years since the first Grenvil , cousin of the Con- queror , returning from the conquest of South Wales , drew round him trusty Saxon serfs , and free Norse rovers with their golden curls , and dark Silurian ...
... perhaps , eight hundred years since the first Grenvil , cousin of the Con- queror , returning from the conquest of South Wales , drew round him trusty Saxon serfs , and free Norse rovers with their golden curls , and dark Silurian ...
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... perhaps compared with the vast efforts of the present day but who dare despise the day of small things , if it has proved to be the dawn of mighty ones ? And it is to the sea - life and labour of Bideford , and Dartmouth , and Topsham ...
... perhaps compared with the vast efforts of the present day but who dare despise the day of small things , if it has proved to be the dawn of mighty ones ? And it is to the sea - life and labour of Bideford , and Dartmouth , and Topsham ...
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... suit of crimson velvet , a little the worse , perhaps , for wear ; by his side were a long Spanish rapier and a brace of daggers , gaudy enough about the hilts ; his fingers sparkled with rings ; CHAP . I. ] 3 SAW THE WHITE BIRD .
... suit of crimson velvet , a little the worse , perhaps , for wear ; by his side were a long Spanish rapier and a brace of daggers , gaudy enough about the hilts ; his fingers sparkled with rings ; CHAP . I. ] 3 SAW THE WHITE BIRD .
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... perhaps , hardly excepting Shaks- peare's or Spenser's , Alva's or Parma's , is more heroic than that of Richard Grenvil , as it stands in Prince's " Worthies of Devon ; " of a Spanish type , perhaps ( or more truly speaking , a Cornish ) ...
... perhaps , hardly excepting Shaks- peare's or Spenser's , Alva's or Parma's , is more heroic than that of Richard Grenvil , as it stands in Prince's " Worthies of Devon ; " of a Spanish type , perhaps ( or more truly speaking , a Cornish ) ...
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... perhaps , thou hast killed him . " " Killed the devil ? " asked Amyas , hopefully but doubtfully . " No , killed the schoolmaster , sirrah ! Is he dead ? " " I don't think he's dead ; his coxcomb sounded too hard for that . But had not ...
... perhaps , thou hast killed him . " " Killed the devil ? " asked Amyas , hopefully but doubtfully . " No , killed the schoolmaster , sirrah ! Is he dead ? " " I don't think he's dead ; his coxcomb sounded too hard for that . But had not ...
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