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She was a very beautiful girl , and had been so well educated that she had acquired great skill in all the accomplishments usually taught to young ladies of high rank , in those days . She heard that Duke William , her cousin , was in ...
She was a very beautiful girl , and had been so well educated that she had acquired great skill in all the accomplishments usually taught to young ladies of high rank , in those days . She heard that Duke William , her cousin , was in ...
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... speak of a roll of tapestrywith pictures worked upon it with a needle , like those made upon samplers in modern times by girls at school , -which it has always been said was worked by Matilda his queen , to commemorate the leading ...
... speak of a roll of tapestrywith pictures worked upon it with a needle , like those made upon samplers in modern times by girls at school , -which it has always been said was worked by Matilda his queen , to commemorate the leading ...
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He also explained to her - what he had not spoken of to Florence and John - that his guide book said that Bayeux , where they would stop to see the tapestry , was renowned for the making of laces , —that the girls and women of the ...
He also explained to her - what he had not spoken of to Florence and John - that his guide book said that Bayeux , where they would stop to see the tapestry , was renowned for the making of laces , —that the girls and women of the ...
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... and there opening into beautiful gardens and grounds within . At the doors of many of the houses , women and girls , some singly and others in groups , were sitting at · work making lace , with the cushions on which -BAYEUX.........
... and there opening into beautiful gardens and grounds within . At the doors of many of the houses , women and girls , some singly and others in groups , were sitting at · work making lace , with the cushions on which -BAYEUX.........
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The porter , or rather the porteress - for it was a young girl that had charge of the gate - standing at the door of the lodge , invited them to come in , and then when Grimkie told her that they had come to see the tapestry ...
The porter , or rather the porteress - for it was a young girl that had charge of the gate - standing at the door of the lodge , invited them to come in , and then when Grimkie told her that they had come to see the tapestry ...
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Page 43 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 33 - Lord ivas with me and made all things easy, though my dear friend and I were separated one at one end of the town and the other at the other, and both under locks and bolts ; the said Davis swearing desperately that we should never come out nor see one another again all his time. And yet in two weeks' time he let me out again and her also.
Page 183 - Grimkie said that the best thing they could do would be to go and see the Castle of Mont Orgueil.
Page 193 - Florence established herself upon the sofa, and the two boys in arm-chairs near the fire, each with a large slice of bread and butter in one hand and a piece of cheese in the other, and their tumblers of milk on corners of the table within reach.
Page 69 - There was a large table in the middle of the room, with broad boxes filled with laces upon it, and other boxes in cases about the room.
Page 80 - ... strongly support Senator Mitchell's bill, S. 1639. The establishment of a Board such as is proposed in your bill is vitally necessary in the interest of military and commercial expansion of our national air power. If is an open secret that in the 1930's technological improvements placed German air power far in advance of that of any other nation in the world, and the stern necessity of mastering that power, rather than our own foresight, was the determining factor in World War II. Certainly,...
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| Title | The Florence Stories The Florence Stories, Jacob Abbott |
| Author | Jacob Abbott |
| Publisher | Sheldon, 1867 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Apr 2008 |
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