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... nature . We had not long been anchored at Spithead , before a detachment of the 80th regiment came on board , consisting of forty - five soldiers and five or six women , wives to some of the men ; and now devolved upon me the honourable ...
... nature . We had not long been anchored at Spithead , before a detachment of the 80th regiment came on board , consisting of forty - five soldiers and five or six women , wives to some of the men ; and now devolved upon me the honourable ...
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... nature of his work , and his legs resembled the styles of a pair of compasses ; he had a crafty clear blue eye ; and his head , square as a die , was covered with a close crop of flat curling brown hair , and altogether the expression ...
... nature of his work , and his legs resembled the styles of a pair of compasses ; he had a crafty clear blue eye ; and his head , square as a die , was covered with a close crop of flat curling brown hair , and altogether the expression ...
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... nature , and this octagonal construction was the steward's safe . Often had I beheld the remnants of other fare enter its recesses ; and as the concatenation of sympathies has often been dwelt upon by philosophic writers , my bowels ...
... nature , and this octagonal construction was the steward's safe . Often had I beheld the remnants of other fare enter its recesses ; and as the concatenation of sympathies has often been dwelt upon by philosophic writers , my bowels ...
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... nature , by way of dispelling scruples of delicacy that might stand in the way of unbutton- ing ; perhaps also he was influenced by the broad principle of justice , for as he caused them to expose their nether ends , he might have ...
... nature , by way of dispelling scruples of delicacy that might stand in the way of unbutton- ing ; perhaps also he was influenced by the broad principle of justice , for as he caused them to expose their nether ends , he might have ...
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... natural history of these reptiles , that immediately after shedding their skins , they are more than usually irritable and venomous . Whilst upon this subject , I may mention a narrow escape I had myself . The whip snake , so called ...
... natural history of these reptiles , that immediately after shedding their skins , they are more than usually irritable and venomous . Whilst upon this subject , I may mention a narrow escape I had myself . The whip snake , so called ...
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