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Literary Miscellanea

... lying upon his back, elevating his small sharp pickaxe a little above his nose, and picking into the coal-seam with might and main; anotheris squatting down and using his pick like a common labourer a third cutting small channel in the seam, and preparing ...

FORCING LND ORCHARD nous=

... behind a land frontier of five thousand !miles they multiply like rats, for ever making shift to live on what is waste and garbage elsewhere, till even with these universal economies the immense empire is not big enough to hold them. And, thanks to their ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1875
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 2168 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPORTING

... bad only been assisted by the majority the back division, the Students would not have beeD in the same field. Tucker was the pick of the lot, his br lliant rushes from the scrum and following being greatly admired, Townsendand Eeddon also did a good al ...

Published: Tuesday 26 February 1889
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3237 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FACETLE

... lawyer's calling, being taking in hand with switch, after haring been forbidden to pick another pear from favourite dwarf tree, indignantly exclaimed, “Mamma, I did not pick off the pear; you come and see if I did.” Sure enough didn't He simply stood there ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1879
Newspaper: West Somerset Free Press
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2437 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LITERARY GLEANINGS

... accustomed to pick up their daily food in the streets.” Ido ate see bow we can have one law for the dogs of the rich aad another law for the dogs the poor. Apart from that consideration, however, it strikes me that the doge “who are accustomed to pick up their ...

BT 30AK ASD JILL

... to be presented approaching Drawing Room, is now at Monte Carlo with the Duke, and wears very wonderful dretses. generally pick or white silk muslin the rooms at night, and the whispers from Paris cn the Prcmenade in the Jay me, A splendid dinner wss ...

Published: Friday 03 April 1896
Newspaper: Bridport News
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2008 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ART AND LITERATURE

... accustomed to pick up their daily food in the streets.” Ido not see how we can have one law for the dogs of the rich and another law for the dogs the poor. Apart from that consideration, however, it strikes that the dogs “ who are accustomed to pick op their ...

Published: Tuesday 17 September 1889
Newspaper: North Devon Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2443 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A NIGHT FROLIC IN SPAIN

... streets of T--, in which, although it was little after eleven, sc rcely a creature was visible, except stray dogs, grubbing for garbage in the dust-heaps, and the screnos, Spanish counterfeits of the ancient London Charleys, queer old boys carrying lanterns ...

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE

... dbinterseda pig ,to make into ausage meat; he had 4lloben in' -tho abit of.n6pplying the London, 1 sansege-tokea with sitilar garbage. He, was fonud I gqD tyt.and-sutenced to foar .nmntbs hard lahour. - , Ak4sftat tcolliery-explosion -occured at Ringley, ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1852
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1818 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WINCANTON

... Hoare when he visited this place on his election campaign. Then they got brick-bats, and searched the dunghills for rotten garbage to burl at his head ; but Mr. Hobhouse knows tb.B party pretty Well by this time, and will noßoubt observe they bad to to ...

Published: Friday 23 December 1887
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2124 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ON THE WAR PATH

... school of morality than average English homes, we could not argue with them ; but the physical argument is easily disposed of. Pick out a hundred, or a thousand, or a hundred thousand of Continental conscripts after they have received all the blessings of ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1889
Newspaper: Gloucester Journal
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2572 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

REVELATIONS OF ENGLISH PRISON LIFE

... tter constitutes attempted escape. The prisoner walking a few yards beyond the unmarked bounds the place work to pick up weeds or garbage is a common ground for the charge. Most prisoners know that, except in very extraordinary cases, escape is almost ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1879
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3279 | Page: 6 | Tags: none