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Old and New London
… partisans bribed the officers who were placed to watch the body, and, like the Ephesian matron in Petronius, …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Several more murders. 1. March. Finished 'Web', began 'Watch works', cut up wood etc. Rev. M Villiers is turned into … Went to Mr Gibson's, altered a diagram and went on with 'watch works'. No news. It is said that the preliminaries of a … to Mr Gibson's and Prior's etc, cut up wood and finished 'watch works'. Cold day. In the evening I went to a concert at …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… vestry window through a window and eased the place of a watch that was lying about. Nothing else is missed at …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… to the rumour of yesterday. We have sent some troops to watch Simpheropol. Today I went to the private view of the …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… safety of the train; it was started by the superintendent, watch in hand, most punctually, it was driven by a most …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… cut up wood, finished up sketches, began a railway watch etc. Slightly showery. 3. Went to Smiles, Sparrow's, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… in the park, which the country people were allowed to watch from beyond the ha-ha, before being invited in by her …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and appears only once in the Dictionary Archive as 'Silver Watch, with an ... Iron-wire Chain with two keys' [Newspapers (1760)]. In this example it was clearly a WATCH CHAIN, though of unusual form. Another form of WIRE …