In Strange Company: Being the Experiences of a Roving CorrespondentH. S. King, 1873 - 340 páginas |
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... ragged , squalid , terribly dirty creatures before me - not the dirt of labour , but a smoky , ingrain grime , resembling the tar- nish on neglected brass or copper - had come away from the great fire that invariably is kept burning in ...
... ragged , squalid , terribly dirty creatures before me - not the dirt of labour , but a smoky , ingrain grime , resembling the tar- nish on neglected brass or copper - had come away from the great fire that invariably is kept burning in ...
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... ragged little flock of toddlers in small frocks and pinafores , ate by themselves in a place set apart . It was not a pretty sight : it was , in- deed , a painful and distressing sight , if you made merely a sight of it . The forms ...
... ragged little flock of toddlers in small frocks and pinafores , ate by themselves in a place set apart . It was not a pretty sight : it was , in- deed , a painful and distressing sight , if you made merely a sight of it . The forms ...
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... ragged school - as ragged a school as ever was seen , the Sunday school , the evening reading and writing classes for young people of both sexes , and many other branches of instructive and religious entertainment . But I think that the ...
... ragged school - as ragged a school as ever was seen , the Sunday school , the evening reading and writing classes for young people of both sexes , and many other branches of instructive and religious entertainment . But I think that the ...
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... ragged tailors , it is said that such expulsions are rare . It is , perhaps , only natural that the care and perplex- ity attending the stitching together of rags that will scarcely bear the weight of a needle should at times in- cline ...
... ragged tailors , it is said that such expulsions are rare . It is , perhaps , only natural that the care and perplex- ity attending the stitching together of rags that will scarcely bear the weight of a needle should at times in- cline ...
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... ragged fledgling . But the licensed lodging - houses of Golden Lane , with all their ingrained , home - bred nastiness and unwhole- someness , and the undoubted facilities which they afford the predatory tribes of London for continuance ...
... ragged fledgling . But the licensed lodging - houses of Golden Lane , with all their ingrained , home - bred nastiness and unwhole- someness , and the undoubted facilities which they afford the predatory tribes of London for continuance ...
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