It is certainly more magnificent: but what will you say, when I tell you, that it is seated either in, or very near, the fenny district of Kesteven in Lincolnshire! Tales of Fancy - Page 131by Sarah Harriet Burney - 1820Full view - About this book
| Public school series - 1874 - 280 pages
...of long future ages. You think that coal is a kind of stone that burns, Well, it looks like a stone, but what will you say when I tell you that it is made of the leaves and trunks and stems of trees and mosses, crushed into a hard mass by the awful... | |
| Alfred Ewen Fletcher - Painters - 1904 - 304 pages
...is a little child's skull ! " "You have hit it," said Gainsborough. "Why, Fowler, you're a witch ! But what will you say when I tell you that it is the skull of Julius Caesar when he was a little boy ? " " Laws, what a wonder! " cried the old man.... | |
| Sarah Harriet Burney - 1820 - 486 pages
...ex-terior of the place, and besought her to give us some idea of the interior. " Have you then," said Blanch, surprised, " never seen it ?" " Never;—I...a little blank: but, quickly recovering - herself :T " Well," she cried, " if that is the case, we must always be provided with ample stores of Peruvian... | |
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