Gutta Percha Willie, the Working Genius, Volumen405Henry S. King & Company, 65 Cornhill and 12 Paternoster row, 1873 - 212 páginas |
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... seemed full of needle - points , so sharp was the cold , he was as comfortable and happy as if he had been a creature of the winter only , and found himself quite at home in it . For there were ruins , and pretty large ruins too , which ...
... seemed full of needle - points , so sharp was the cold , he was as comfortable and happy as if he had been a creature of the winter only , and found himself quite at home in it . For there were ruins , and pretty large ruins too , which ...
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... seemed to him only the more wonderful and mysterious ; and ever as it went whirring round , it sung a song of its own , which was also the song of the story , whatever it was , that the old woman was telling him , as he sat listening in ...
... seemed to him only the more wonderful and mysterious ; and ever as it went whirring round , it sung a song of its own , which was also the song of the story , whatever it was , that the old woman was telling him , as he sat listening in ...
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... seemed for a long time to be on the whole very well satisfied with life and its gifts . But when at last its troubles began to overtake her , she did not approve of them at all . The first thing she objected to was being weaned , which ...
... seemed for a long time to be on the whole very well satisfied with life and its gifts . But when at last its troubles began to overtake her , she did not approve of them at all . The first thing she objected to was being weaned , which ...
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... seemed to him likely to succeed . " If I could but go to bed after mamma was asleep , " he said , " I could tie a string to my hair , and then slip a loop at the other end over mamma's wrist , so that when she sat up to attend to Agnes ...
... seemed to him likely to succeed . " If I could but go to bed after mamma was asleep , " he said , " I could tie a string to my hair , and then slip a loop at the other end over mamma's wrist , so that when she sat up to attend to Agnes ...
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... seemed to his eyes enough of leather for them in that one skin . But how ever was he to find two pieces small enough for doll's shoes in such an ocean of leather ? He began to turn it round and round , looking at it all along the edge ...
... seemed to his eyes enough of leather for them in that one skin . But how ever was he to find two pieces small enough for doll's shoes in such an ocean of leather ? He began to turn it round and round , looking at it all along the edge ...
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able Agnes answered Willie asked baby began better bird boot bough carpenter carried CHAPTER cold Cornhill cried Willie Crown 8vo delight doctor door dream Edition eyes father and mother feet garden GEORGE MACDONALD give golden ball grandmother grannie grew growing Gutta-Percha hand head heart hole Illustrated keep kite knew laughed length London looked Louis Blanc Macmichael mamma medicine Mona moon morning never night NUMBER once papa pickaxe pipe Priory Leas pull pulley ROBERT BUCHANAN round ruins Sandy Shepherd shoemaker shoes sleep sluice smith soon Spelman stair stones story strange sure talk tell there's thing thread Tibby told took tree turn understand vault wake wall WALTER BAGEHOT wanted water-wheel wheel Willet William Webster Willie's Wilson wind window wonder words Yellowley
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