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... hand to deprive the inhabitants of Barsands of what they considered their rights of cove or common , or to coerce them into ways unaccustomed and uncongenial , would have had to fight for it , though he came with his pockets stuffed ...
... hand to deprive the inhabitants of Barsands of what they considered their rights of cove or common , or to coerce them into ways unaccustomed and uncongenial , would have had to fight for it , though he came with his pockets stuffed ...
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... she was generally called , Mother Jose , in whose hands lay virtually the whole of the inland trade of Barsands . Left a widow with five sons thirty years ago , she had made a good fight in her day , and she was now THE OLD HOME . 5.
... she was generally called , Mother Jose , in whose hands lay virtually the whole of the inland trade of Barsands . Left a widow with five sons thirty years ago , she had made a good fight in her day , and she was now THE OLD HOME . 5.
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... hands in those sorrowful days of thirty years ago , were now all parts of the clever mechanism of her life ; and she took care that they should be paying parts . Not one of them was his own master yet , not one married or in his own ...
... hands in those sorrowful days of thirty years ago , were now all parts of the clever mechanism of her life ; and she took care that they should be paying parts . Not one of them was his own master yet , not one married or in his own ...
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... hand the difference between the lines of a man - of- war and a merchantman ; and she cherished a grave contempt for iron - clads and steam . But she could neither tat nor crochet , for all that the Misses Pritchard had made both these ...
... hand the difference between the lines of a man - of- war and a merchantman ; and she cherished a grave contempt for iron - clads and steam . But she could neither tat nor crochet , for all that the Misses Pritchard had made both these ...
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... hands folded on her lap , and her attitude “ attention . " He raised his eyes to her fondly . There was nothing that ... hand she left it at a word or a sign from him ; always with that sunny smile on her fresh fair face , always with ...
... hands folded on her lap , and her attitude “ attention . " He raised his eyes to her fondly . There was nothing that ... hand she left it at a word or a sign from him ; always with that sunny smile on her fresh fair face , always with ...
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