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The ladies wore men's hats and long cloth dresses , fitting their figures closely , sitting sideways , and carrying gold - headed whips in their gloved hands ; the men , almost without exception , had black coats and light trousers .
The ladies wore men's hats and long cloth dresses , fitting their figures closely , sitting sideways , and carrying gold - headed whips in their gloved hands ; the men , almost without exception , had black coats and light trousers .
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But what would you say if I told you many were mere beggars , paupers ; that the charms with which they entice are filched from art , the clothes upon their backs unpaid for , ever will be ; that others you do not see ...
But what would you say if I told you many were mere beggars , paupers ; that the charms with which they entice are filched from art , the clothes upon their backs unpaid for , ever will be ; that others you do not see ...
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Also some funny old iron men , with very little clothing on but wings , who struck bells with hammers at every quarter of an hour throughout the day , more particularly at the fourth quarter , when they became quite merry and played a ...
Also some funny old iron men , with very little clothing on but wings , who struck bells with hammers at every quarter of an hour throughout the day , more particularly at the fourth quarter , when they became quite merry and played a ...
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Trixie took a great fancy to a pasty - faced doll , which sat in the front row of quite a school of them , staring vacantly out into space , and ( no doubt on account of the heat of the day ) almost totally devoid of clothing .
Trixie took a great fancy to a pasty - faced doll , which sat in the front row of quite a school of them , staring vacantly out into space , and ( no doubt on account of the heat of the day ) almost totally devoid of clothing .
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Whoever it was , was evidently on the eve of undertaking a journey ; for the traveller was busy with his portmanteau and other luggage , loudly coaxing his various articles of clothing to fit into corners not altogether adapted for ...
Whoever it was , was evidently on the eve of undertaking a journey ; for the traveller was busy with his portmanteau and other luggage , loudly coaxing his various articles of clothing to fit into corners not altogether adapted for ...
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Página 368 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Página 248 - Tis the voice of the sluggard ; I heard him complain, " You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed, Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head. "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber...