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... chance and occasional glance at the costly news - sheets which gave be- lated news . Knowing little of what was going on , they cared less . A practically prohibitory rate of postage cut them off from communication with their friends ...
... chance and occasional glance at the costly news - sheets which gave be- lated news . Knowing little of what was going on , they cared less . A practically prohibitory rate of postage cut them off from communication with their friends ...
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... chance . As for the Irishman of fifty years ago , he held with heart and soul to the Sybarite's maxim of carpe diem , and took slight thought for the morrow . He spent his money like a man , however he came by it ; and if he were ...
... chance . As for the Irishman of fifty years ago , he held with heart and soul to the Sybarite's maxim of carpe diem , and took slight thought for the morrow . He spent his money like a man , however he came by it ; and if he were ...
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... chance now of linch - pins snapping of a sudden , for the linch - pins were superseded by the patent box - axles . And all these elaborate precautions were indispensable to reduce the inevitable risks to a minimum . The old gentleman ...
... chance now of linch - pins snapping of a sudden , for the linch - pins were superseded by the patent box - axles . And all these elaborate precautions were indispensable to reduce the inevitable risks to a minimum . The old gentleman ...
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... chances of the wet and the cold in winter , the weary traveller might resign himself to book for the inside , with companions who were pretty sure to be ill - mated or irascible . All men were not so fortunate as the Antiquary when he ...
... chances of the wet and the cold in winter , the weary traveller might resign himself to book for the inside , with companions who were pretty sure to be ill - mated or irascible . All men were not so fortunate as the Antiquary when he ...
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... chance , crowded to- gether like so many cattle , in seatless and roofless trucks , in which the jolting and col- lisions furnished fair pretexts for a free fight at any moment , even when the occupants were neither drunk nor disorderly ...
... chance , crowded to- gether like so many cattle , in seatless and roofless trucks , in which the jolting and col- lisions furnished fair pretexts for a free fight at any moment , even when the occupants were neither drunk nor disorderly ...
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