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Old and New London
… which were a number of distinguished personsprinces of the blood, statesmen, and fellow-ministers of the deceased. … gaining the prize, for the ladyalarmed, doubtless, at his blood-stained handsnot long afterwards married the great Duke …
Old and New London
… to make his escape from the hands of the avenger of blood. The Rev. Mr. Nightingale, in the "Beauties of England …
Old and New London
… it not more than becometh him; he, being born of princely blood only on the mother's side, serveth me that am a king …
Old and New London
… existing. Hollar was of Bohemian extraction and of gentle blood; he was born at Prague in 1607. He came to England in …
Old and New London
… is charged for the drawing and modelling classes. COLONEL BLOOD'S HOUSE. ( From a Drawing in Mr. Crace's Collection.) … during the latter part of his life, the notorious Colonel Blood, who, as told by us in a previous volume, 1 endeavoured … so bravely saved the crown, was literally left to starve, Blood is stated to have retired hitherwith a pension, …
Old and New London
… joy sparkling in their eyes, and the pure and living blood colouring their cheeks, which our brightest belles … Congreve, in his Old Bachelor, makes Bluffe say, "My blood rises at that fellow. I can't stay where he is; and I …
Old and New London
… an ill-natured fellow, ever revengeful, and delighting in blood. He confessed, however, that he was never willing to … he had a power to retaliate. He had never been guilty of blood till now, though he had occasion to draw his sword, … would think, unbefitting to a man of his honour and blood (a baron of 300 years' antiquity), but was fit enough …
Survey of London
… wife of the Duke of York and mother of a prince of the blood royal. She therefore came to the resolution to curtail …
Old and New London
… thretes." Clearly she was a "hard hitter" when the Tudor blood within her was fairly roused. The following account of … cause of all the evils in the kingdom, and of so much blood being shed." Every day gave new force to their designs, … Charles was beheaded in that very place where the first blood was shed in the beginning of our late troubles; for a …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… news. Very fine day. Bad headache, I think from too much blood in the head. 10. Went on with 'Choultry' in the morning … north side for, was to prevent the needless effusion of blood etc etc. This is quite in their usual style, it is …
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