Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 psl. |
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... answer in the English tongue — Ne se by God, — i.e., Not so by God. Upon which the king and his courtiers, deriding him, and corruptly repeating his answer, called him bigot, which was the origin of the term. Cotgrave's Dictionary (161 ...
... answer in the English tongue — Ne se by God, — i.e., Not so by God. Upon which the king and his courtiers, deriding him, and corruptly repeating his answer, called him bigot, which was the origin of the term. Cotgrave's Dictionary (161 ...
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... answered, " You're an article, ma'am." " No more an article than yourself, you b— y misbegotten villain." " You are ... answer. — Arvine : Encyclopedia of Anecdotes. Bills. This would seem an unpromising subject. Yet a few specimens are ...
... answered, " You're an article, ma'am." " No more an article than yourself, you b— y misbegotten villain." " You are ... answer. — Arvine : Encyclopedia of Anecdotes. Bills. This would seem an unpromising subject. Yet a few specimens are ...
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... answer or speak as if you were in earnest, and then cry you, * Madam, there's a bite !' I would not have you undervalue this, for it is the constant amusement in court, and everywhere else among the great people ; and I let you know it ...
... answer or speak as if you were in earnest, and then cry you, * Madam, there's a bite !' I would not have you undervalue this, for it is the constant amusement in court, and everywhere else among the great people ; and I let you know it ...
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... answer. A Shropshire peasant, it seems, can furnish the information needed. There it means iron pyrites. It is well known by barrow-diggers and others interested in the remote past that fragments of iron pyrites were formerly used for ...
... answer. A Shropshire peasant, it seems, can furnish the information needed. There it means iron pyrites. It is well known by barrow-diggers and others interested in the remote past that fragments of iron pyrites were formerly used for ...
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... answer was returned that day. Early the next morning, however, — for the Spartans rose at dawn, — the Epirote was awakened and conducted to the field of exercise outside the city, where the army of Sparta was drawn up in battle- array ...
... answer was returned that day. Early the next morning, however, — for the Spartans rose at dawn, — the Epirote was awakened and conducted to the field of exercise outside the city, where the army of Sparta was drawn up in battle- array ...
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