The Ingoldsby Legends: Or, Mirth and Marvels, Volume 2G. Routledge, 1889 |
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... head that had better been out ; While Cupid's an urchin . We know deserves birching , He's so prone to delude folks , and leave them the lurch in . ' Twas doubtless his doing That absolute ruin Was the end of all poor dear Therese's ...
... head that had better been out ; While Cupid's an urchin . We know deserves birching , He's so prone to delude folks , and leave them the lurch in . ' Twas doubtless his doing That absolute ruin Was the end of all poor dear Therese's ...
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... head , -it was always the same , Still he never complained that the cook was to blame ! ' Twas his appetite fail'd him - no matter how rare And recherché the dish , how delicious the fare , - What he used to like best he no longer could ...
... head , -it was always the same , Still he never complained that the cook was to blame ! ' Twas his appetite fail'd him - no matter how rare And recherché the dish , how delicious the fare , - What he used to like best he no longer could ...
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... head , By way of " Good evening ! " and walk off to bed . Yet even when there he seem'd no better off , For he'd wheeze , and he'd sneeze , and he'd hem ! and he'd cough . And they'd hear him all night , Sometimes , sobbing outright ...
... head , By way of " Good evening ! " and walk off to bed . Yet even when there he seem'd no better off , For he'd wheeze , and he'd sneeze , and he'd hem ! and he'd cough . And they'd hear him all night , Sometimes , sobbing outright ...
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... head and sauce ; And Lady Macbeth looks uncommonly cross , And says in a huff It's all " Proper stuff ! " - All this you'll have seen , Reader , often enough ; So perhaps ' twill assist you in forming some notion Of what must have been ...
... head and sauce ; And Lady Macbeth looks uncommonly cross , And says in a huff It's all " Proper stuff ! " - All this you'll have seen , Reader , often enough ; So perhaps ' twill assist you in forming some notion Of what must have been ...
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... 'ry hair that he has standing up on his head , As when , Agnes des Moulins first catching his view , Now right , and now left , rapid glances he threw , B2 Then shriek'd with a wild and unearthly halloo , " A LEGEND OF FRANCE . 41.
... 'ry hair that he has standing up on his head , As when , Agnes des Moulins first catching his view , Now right , and now left , rapid glances he threw , B2 Then shriek'd with a wild and unearthly halloo , " A LEGEND OF FRANCE . 41.
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