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... day-a bye-word be thy namet WILIAMI WHurITMOas, [We extract this from a small book of poems, entitled First- lings. The work of a labouring-men; and noble work, too, when the hours snatched from toil can be so dedicated to the exapression of such feelings ...

Published: Sunday 30 May 1852
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1678 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... %VsSTMIlN61BT 0- AGCa.-On the hustinga were posted a set of young uMen, neatly dressed in blue and buff for the occasion, blacelsgs from all the race-courses, and all the Pharo and B.O. tables in town. Their business weas to affront every gentleman who came on ...

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... the reins of my mule, tried to turn it away from the edge, which seemed to me as if it must crumble beneath its next step. My imprudence was near being fetal to me, for turning the head of my Imule away from the precipice, it lost its sure footing, stepping ...

Published: Sunday 24 April 1853
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1774 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... is very apparent. It is because thse southern horsemen have still a way of esape lefto to them, vwhilst it has been cut off from tbe ott vassals of Russia. The Tseheraomerski can, if nes be, enter his boat, trust himself to the curente of the ?? sea, and ...

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... TSE SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN. T|E BIlcwonmsr-Near Davetr, there is a wood, where vipers are reported to dwell, Sa t was walkiir g in the wood, I caught a gl' sd tS I snake like body close to aY foot. [Struck pa? o f, stabbed, it with a litil e stick-for it hda ...

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... of smoke The -aith1' Jamboo had been left on board; butI understsoi from the little these Malays told me, that the torch were intended for the purpose of driving th,, It h away from the honey, but I did not undostand tb at they were essential to one's ...

Published: Sunday 15 November 1857
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1632 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... continent has been peopled from northern Asia. I have come to thi conclusion from two causes: first, from the proximity of ;the two eountries, which, at Behring's Straits, is only thirty nine miles across from the Old World to the New. In ...

Published: Sunday 10 April 1853
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1686 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... testimony she thus bore over the corpse of her dead son to his opinions while living, drew from these who stood nearest a cry of admiration, wshich spread rapidly from mouth to mouth through the crowd; the enthusiasm for the beautiful had seized upon them ...

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... had lefs their guns, when suddeniy a shriek was heard from one of the men who searched the bank with their feet: he was seen to fall back in the water; and a huge ser- pent, uncoiling himself from his cool ir,and raising Isis head above the surface, tookis ...

Published: Sunday 08 August 1852
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1650 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... the spot where the accidenthap. pened.. Not being able to 'get a chance of shdo'U*. they threw their guns from them and could scarcely restrained from rushing on the fiere animal with their knives only. The bear all the time kept looking. fast at one, then ...

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... things from beyond the seas thich gh nets may easily rase t home, thou6gh nathilg 01 so much as formerly; for in Queen Eli0SgoDu so we had not onely our gardaner, ware from15, froo but also cherries from Flauders, thO Frnece; saffron, licorish from Sptain; ...

Published: Sunday 05 September 1858
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1582 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

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... de Monsigny, commandant of artillery at the Basnile, lodged near it. Mademoiselle de Monsigny learned from the dit- charge of the cannon, and from rumours in the street, that her father's life was in danger. She ran out, her hair loose, her dress in ...

Published: Sunday 30 January 1859
Newspaper: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1629 | Page: 8 | Tags: News