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— The Wood Beyond the World • William Morris
... they left Berlin, and went to the beautiful watering-place of Warmbrunn, in Silesia. The dwellings of the laborers in Silesia struck them as being of a wretched description. "What they do." says J.Y., "in a rigorous winter, like the last, I cannot tell; they appeared ...
— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley
... eating, being very like an eel in flavour, and I have known one man catch forty in a morning with no other ...
— The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon • Samuel White Baker
... dated Louvere, Oct. 9, 1757, says, "We have had many English here. Mr. Greville, his lady, and her suite of adorers deserved particular notice: he was so good as to present me with his curious book: since the days of the Honourable Edward Howard, nothing has been published like it. I told him the age wanted an Earl of Dorset to celebrate it properly; and he was so well pleased with that speech, that he visited me every day, to the great comfort of Madame, who was entertained, meanwhile, with parties ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... the slender, tiny figure of the old Countess appearing to greet them, a tall, dark young woman came forward, whose hair was wound about her head like a coronet. ...
— The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army • Margaret Vandercook
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