A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern CountiesRichard Bentley & Son, 1889 - 403 psl. |
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... the view from the Langdon Hills has often been written about and described by travellers of the last century , who being unblest with railways , when journeying this way , could not but observe what was before them . If.
... the view from the Langdon Hills has often been written about and described by travellers of the last century , who being unblest with railways , when journeying this way , could not but observe what was before them . If.
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James John Hissey. could not but observe what was before them . If they went with slower speed than we do , they saw more , they were not taken into darksome tunnels under hills , or through gloomy cuttings just where the scenery is most ...
James John Hissey. could not but observe what was before them . If they went with slower speed than we do , they saw more , they were not taken into darksome tunnels under hills , or through gloomy cuttings just where the scenery is most ...
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... observed , were ingeniously planned to prevent their smoking ; the design , manifestly the outcome of necessity , was not the ungainly feature such con- trivances mostly are , but quaintly original , and picturesque rather than the ...
... observed , were ingeniously planned to prevent their smoking ; the design , manifestly the outcome of necessity , was not the ungainly feature such con- trivances mostly are , but quaintly original , and picturesque rather than the ...
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... observed in various other parts of the country , the name of the village plainly painted on the Post Office . This information , being no news for the inhabitants , must of course be for the benefit of travellers by road , and as these ...
... observed in various other parts of the country , the name of the village plainly painted on the Post Office . This information , being no news for the inhabitants , must of course be for the benefit of travellers by road , and as these ...
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... observed nobody disturbed themselves about us , or troubled to discuss who we were or where we came from , unless it were the landlord of the clean - looking little Bell Inn , who stared at us in a languid sort of a manner ; but then he ...
... observed nobody disturbed themselves about us , or troubled to discuss who we were or where we came from , unless it were the landlord of the clean - looking little Bell Inn , who stared at us in a languid sort of a manner ; but then he ...
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