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... Peebles from his cottage in Manor , reaching it after hours of toil , yet succeeding in getting back the same day , —a distance of fully eight miles . The bairns in the town used to bother him , my mother told me , and he grew very ...
... Peebles from his cottage in Manor , reaching it after hours of toil , yet succeeding in getting back the same day , —a distance of fully eight miles . The bairns in the town used to bother him , my mother told me , and he grew very ...
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... Peebles , and visited , as a first stage from Edinburgh , Hallyards , three and a half miles from the former place , in the valley of the Manor . This house , the mansion formerly of the Lairds of Hundleshope , was tenanted by Adam ...
... Peebles , and visited , as a first stage from Edinburgh , Hallyards , three and a half miles from the former place , in the valley of the Manor . This house , the mansion formerly of the Lairds of Hundleshope , was tenanted by Adam ...
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... Peebles : " His fore- head was very narrow and low , sloping upwards and backwards - something of the hatchet shape ; his eyes deep - set , small , and piercing ; his nose straight , thin as the end of a cut of cheese , sharp at the ...
... Peebles : " His fore- head was very narrow and low , sloping upwards and backwards - something of the hatchet shape ; his eyes deep - set , small , and piercing ; his nose straight , thin as the end of a cut of cheese , sharp at the ...
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... Peebles , who attended him on one occasion , compared them to a pair of cork - screws . " The principal turn they took was from the knee outwards , so that he rested on his inner ankles and the lower part of his tibias . The thrawn ...
... Peebles , who attended him on one occasion , compared them to a pair of cork - screws . " The principal turn they took was from the knee outwards , so that he rested on his inner ankles and the lower part of his tibias . The thrawn ...
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... Peebles , four miles , and back again in one day . " 1 This misshapen creature had set himself down in Manor , an especial incongruity in such a valley ; but there he figured for at least half a century , finally died there , -getting ...
... Peebles , four miles , and back again in one day . " 1 This misshapen creature had set himself down in Manor , an especial incongruity in such a valley ; but there he figured for at least half a century , finally died there , -getting ...
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