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... Saint - Jean , et à l'entrée de la forêt de Soignes , se trouvait le village de Waterloo , qui a donné son nom à la bataille , parce que c'est de là que le général anglais écrivait et datait ses dépêches . " I may add that as a military ...
... Saint - Jean , et à l'entrée de la forêt de Soignes , se trouvait le village de Waterloo , qui a donné son nom à la bataille , parce que c'est de là que le général anglais écrivait et datait ses dépêches . " I may add that as a military ...
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... saint of her name ? ASTARTE . EXTRAORDINARY FIELD . - In Bateman's ' Great Landowners of Great Britain ' ( London , 1878 ) , under " Dunsany , " it is stated : - " Among Lord Dunsany's Irish possessions is one field of a few acres which ...
... saint of her name ? ASTARTE . EXTRAORDINARY FIELD . - In Bateman's ' Great Landowners of Great Britain ' ( London , 1878 ) , under " Dunsany , " it is stated : - " Among Lord Dunsany's Irish possessions is one field of a few acres which ...
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... saint's body rested on its way to Durham several centuries ago . any one give the exact location of the church men- tioned ? Boston , U.S. Can HARRIET PATERSON . INSTITUTE ( 8th S. iv . 467 ) . - Dr. Birkbeck certainly set the thing ...
... saint's body rested on its way to Durham several centuries ago . any one give the exact location of the church men- tioned ? Boston , U.S. Can HARRIET PATERSON . INSTITUTE ( 8th S. iv . 467 ) . - Dr. Birkbeck certainly set the thing ...
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... Saints , ' 331 , says that Edmund , son of Malcolm Canmore and St. Margaret , lived and died as a saint in the Cluniac Monastery of Montague , in Somersetshire , and that he desired to be buried in chains . For this statement he refers ...
... Saints , ' 331 , says that Edmund , son of Malcolm Canmore and St. Margaret , lived and died as a saint in the Cluniac Monastery of Montague , in Somersetshire , and that he desired to be buried in chains . For this statement he refers ...
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... saint . West Tarring is a disputed dedication ( see ' Suss . Arch . Colls . , xii . 111 ) . Dickens , in Great Expectations , ' has not forgotten that " Olda Clem " is connected with the forge . " TIB'S EVE " : " LATTER LAMMAS " ( 8th S ...
... saint . West Tarring is a disputed dedication ( see ' Suss . Arch . Colls . , xii . 111 ) . Dickens , in Great Expectations , ' has not forgotten that " Olda Clem " is connected with the forge . " TIB'S EVE " : " LATTER LAMMAS " ( 8th S ...
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