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... especially after midnight , till it is repeated three times . It is believed that Nisi , that is Night per- sonified , has often stood at night at the doors of simple folk , called them out of their beds , and decoyed them to pools and ...
... especially after midnight , till it is repeated three times . It is believed that Nisi , that is Night per- sonified , has often stood at night at the doors of simple folk , called them out of their beds , and decoyed them to pools and ...
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... especially when we remember that it exercised in antiquity the genius of two such poets as Hesiod and Virgil . The Calcutta cockney , who glories in the Mahratta Ditch , despises . the scenery of the country , and plumes himself upon ...
... especially when we remember that it exercised in antiquity the genius of two such poets as Hesiod and Virgil . The Calcutta cockney , who glories in the Mahratta Ditch , despises . the scenery of the country , and plumes himself upon ...
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... especially his chest , was thickly covered with hair . Gayárám resembled Badan in features , though they had not become so hard through toil . Mánik was quite different from the other two ; and no one that did not know him could ever 32 ...
... especially his chest , was thickly covered with hair . Gayárám resembled Badan in features , though they had not become so hard through toil . Mánik was quite different from the other two ; and no one that did not know him could ever 32 ...
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... especially when , as on the present occasion , she had a great deal to do . She was naturally of an imperious disposition , and therefore hated the idea of playing second - or rather third - fiddle in the family . Amidst the general ...
... especially when , as on the present occasion , she had a great deal to do . She was naturally of an imperious disposition , and therefore hated the idea of playing second - or rather third - fiddle in the family . Amidst the general ...
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... especially by Málati : that some quantity was sold every day to a Bráhman family in the neighbour- hood ; that some was made into cream and then into ghi , or clarified butter ; and some into curds for home consumption . It was a happy ...
... especially by Málati : that some quantity was sold every day to a Bráhman family in the neighbour- hood ; that some was made into cream and then into ghi , or clarified butter ; and some into curds for home consumption . It was a happy ...
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