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Strana 2
... lives when com- pelled to approach me . In my second I am exalted to the first place in the noblest orders of society . In the army and the navy I hold the highest rank ; in short , of all human beings I am uppermost . But compound me ...
... lives when com- pelled to approach me . In my second I am exalted to the first place in the noblest orders of society . In the army and the navy I hold the highest rank ; in short , of all human beings I am uppermost . But compound me ...
Strana 19
... lives within the sea ; Attempt my first and miss your aim , My whole becomes your trivial name . 54. Sir Geoffrey lay in his cushioned chair Nursing a gouty knee , The lady Dorothy , tall and spare , Was mixing his colchicum tea ; And ...
... lives within the sea ; Attempt my first and miss your aim , My whole becomes your trivial name . 54. Sir Geoffrey lay in his cushioned chair Nursing a gouty knee , The lady Dorothy , tall and spare , Was mixing his colchicum tea ; And ...
Strana 25
... lives a swain , To whom it is unknown . 79. Born both to flatter and to fib , To make their verses ring and shine , Poets have often sung my first And called it ruby , sweet , divine . My second , by the rhyming tribe Neglected as unfit ...
... lives a swain , To whom it is unknown . 79. Born both to flatter and to fib , To make their verses ring and shine , Poets have often sung my first And called it ruby , sweet , divine . My second , by the rhyming tribe Neglected as unfit ...
Strana 46
Charades. 23 . 24 . I change my name three days together , Yet live but one in any weather . In me , fair querist , you behold A beauty of no earthly mould , Though , to confess my mystic birth , I sprang immediately from earth , And ...
Charades. 23 . 24 . I change my name three days together , Yet live but one in any weather . In me , fair querist , you behold A beauty of no earthly mould , Though , to confess my mystic birth , I sprang immediately from earth , And ...
Strana 77
... game of bagatelle like the Thames Tunnel ? -the answer in French with a cock- ney pronunciation . 236. Is there any difference between fish alive and live fish ? 237. Why is a drunken man like a noun adjective CONUNDRUMS . 77.
... game of bagatelle like the Thames Tunnel ? -the answer in French with a cock- ney pronunciation . 236. Is there any difference between fish alive and live fish ? 237. Why is a drunken man like a noun adjective CONUNDRUMS . 77.
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