Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, Volume 56, Part 2E. W. Allen, 1839 |
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Page 208
... light elastic spear - a faultless male bamboo from the jungles of the Concan , about ten feet long , tough as whalebone , and tapering away beautifully to the smaller end , where it terminated in a keen glittering blade , about the size ...
... light elastic spear - a faultless male bamboo from the jungles of the Concan , about ten feet long , tough as whalebone , and tapering away beautifully to the smaller end , where it terminated in a keen glittering blade , about the size ...
Page 211
... light weight soon began to tell , in favour of his horse Light- ning , who gradually crept ahead of his antagonist , till , by the time they had got within a hundred yards of the hog , he was nearly half that dis- tance in advance ...
... light weight soon began to tell , in favour of his horse Light- ning , who gradually crept ahead of his antagonist , till , by the time they had got within a hundred yards of the hog , he was nearly half that dis- tance in advance ...
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... light ! a brighter light than the Drummond light , or the Bude light , or the Oxyhydrogen light of the microscope , or the new light , or the Newman light - a light which " requires no snuffing . " By this sentence we are reminded that ...
... light ! a brighter light than the Drummond light , or the Bude light , or the Oxyhydrogen light of the microscope , or the new light , or the Newman light - a light which " requires no snuffing . " By this sentence we are reminded that ...
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A Fragment of Modern History By Theodore Hook Esq | 1 |
The Early Career of Talma By A de V | 21 |
Song of a Sicilian Girl By F A Leslie | 32 |
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