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... appearance . I love to muse a moment , not without pity , on that unenviable class of the com- munity , bill - deliverers , placard - bearers , and " walk into the auction " men . Oh , what a tale do their haggard cheeks , their sickly ...
... appearance . I love to muse a moment , not without pity , on that unenviable class of the com- munity , bill - deliverers , placard - bearers , and " walk into the auction " men . Oh , what a tale do their haggard cheeks , their sickly ...
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... appearance . Let me , for a moment , take a single figure , that I may see of what a suit of armour is com- posed , beginning at the feet , and ending with the head . First come the sabatynes , or steel clogs ; then the greaves , or ...
... appearance . Let me , for a moment , take a single figure , that I may see of what a suit of armour is com- posed , beginning at the feet , and ending with the head . First come the sabatynes , or steel clogs ; then the greaves , or ...
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... appearance , which the present truly magnificent edifice pos- sesses . Old people are usually sticklers for things ancient in appearance , and I would not willingly part with what the finger of time has inscribed on St. Paul's . I have ...
... appearance , which the present truly magnificent edifice pos- sesses . Old people are usually sticklers for things ancient in appearance , and I would not willingly part with what the finger of time has inscribed on St. Paul's . I have ...
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... appearance ; and the same remark may be made of the other figures , for , seen from this point of view , they are nothing but shapeless blocks of stone , supported by unsightly iron bars , though their fronts are very beautiful . To put ...
... appearance ; and the same remark may be made of the other figures , for , seen from this point of view , they are nothing but shapeless blocks of stone , supported by unsightly iron bars , though their fronts are very beautiful . To put ...
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... . Greenwich is hardly perceptible . The marine forest there , the armada on the river , has a goodly appearance ; and the bridges bestriding the noble F stream are striking objects in this splendid pano- rama . CUPOLA OF ST . PAUL'S . 49.
... . Greenwich is hardly perceptible . The marine forest there , the armada on the river , has a goodly appearance ; and the bridges bestriding the noble F stream are striking objects in this splendid pano- rama . CUPOLA OF ST . PAUL'S . 49.
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