10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUMBLEMENT»
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mumblement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mumblement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Had they but known it, it might all have been seen, holy of holies, head-wagging
priest, idle yawning assistant, with legs stretched out, half asleep, mumblement,
jumblement and all, from a little back window in The Bertrnms. I. 7 a passage ...
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The Bertrams: Easyread Edition
yawning assistant, with legs stretched out, half asleep, mumblement, jumblement
and all, from a little back window in a passage opening from that Calvary gallery
upstairs. From thence at least did these profane eyes look down and see all the ...
Had they but known it, it might all have been seen, holy of holies, head-wagging
priest, idle yawning assistant, with legs stretched out, half asleep, mumblement,
jumblement and all, from a little back window in a passage opening from that ...
This used to be a well-known fact ; and daily still, in certain edifices, steeple-
houses, joss-houses, temples sacred or other, everywhere spread over the world,
we hear some dim mumblement of an assertion that such is still, what it was
always ...
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The French Revolution: The guillotine
Lasource answered with some vague painful mumblement, — which, says
Levasseur, one could not help tittering at.f Patriot Sections, Volunteers not yet
gone to the Frontiers, come demanding the " purgation of traitors from your own
bosom ...
The sound of them is ' not a voice, conveying knowledge or memorial of any
earthly ' or heavenly thing ; it is a wide-spread inarticulate slumberous '
mumblement, issuing as if from the lake of Eternal Sleep. ' Craving for oblivion,
for abolition ...
Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle, 1870
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The North American Review
The echoes that the east wind wafted to their shores went to swell what Carlyle
calls the " vast, inarticulate, wide-spread, slumberous mumblement," that grew
and deepened day by day, till it burst forth in the majestic tones of a nation's voice
, ...
Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, 1856
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The French Revolution: A History ...
Lasource answered with some vague painful mumblement,—which, says
Levasseur, one could not help tittering at? Patriot Sections, Volunteers not yet
gone to the Frontiers, come demanding the “ purgation of traitors from your own
bosom ...
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Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: With Elucidations
The sound of "them is not a voice , conveying knowledge or memorial of any "
earthly or heavenly thing; it is a wide-spread inarticulate "slumberous
mumblement, issuing as if from the lake of " Eternal Sleep. Craving for oblivion,
for abolition ...
Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle, 1861
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History of Friedrich II. Of Prussia, Frederick the Great ...
Getting no written answer, or distinct verbal one; gettingonly some vague
mumblement asgood as none, Rambonet had disappeared from Liege on the 9th
; andwas home at Moyland when Voltairearrived that Sunday evening ...
