10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIGHTGEAR»
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nightgear in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Kenilworth: A Romance : in Four Volumes
Wert thou not told, that a brief illness, such as woman puts on in very wantonness
, that she may wear her nightgear at noon , and lie on a settle when she should
mind her domestic business, is all here aimed at? Here is a learned man will ...
2
The Prose Works: Containing Tales of my landlord, The Monastery
Knock the head out of a cask of nsquebae; let that be their nightgear—their plaids
their bed-clothes—the blue sky their canopy, and the heather their conch.—
Come a thousand more, and they would not quarrel on the broad heath for want
of ...
3
Peter Priggins, the college scout
... was carried by half-a-dozen men, by the side of " old Pipkins's pretty lady," with
her face smudged over with red-ochre, and dressed in the nightgear of his wife,
who, alive and well, was walking at the head of the procession with the marquis,
...
Joseph Hewlett, Theodore Edward Hook,
1841
4
Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, With Notices ...
Under the sofa are two large and deep drawers which contain the bedding,
coverlet, and nightgear, and which are hidden by a fringed valance. In a few
minutes the sofa is converted at night into an excellent bed, and in the morning
the bed ...
But it was not so; for, the train stopping at some station, the cars were instantly
thronged with the natives, wives and fathers, young men and maidens, some of
them in little more than nightgear, some with stable lanterns, and all offering beds
...
Robert Louis Stevenson,
2010
The terrified inhabitants fled in their nightgear, leaving everything behind them.
And thereupon arose such a scene of grotesque good-natured schoolboy riot as
perhaps a con uered town never witnessed before. Whie the serious work of ...
7
Across the Plains and Homeward: Through America
But it was not so; for, the train stopping at some station, the cars were instantly
thronged with the natives, wives and fathers, young men and maidens, some of
them in little more than nightgear, some with stable lanterns, and all offering beds
...
Robert Stevenson, John Hyde,
2007
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The New monthly magazine and universal register. [Continued ...
... was carried by half-a-dozen men, by the side of " old Pipkins's pretty lady," with
her face smudged over with red-ochre, and dressed in the nightgear of his wife,
who, alive and well, was walking at the head of the procession with the marquis,
...
Miss Prissy took the nightgear between her finger and thumb. "My soul !" was her
only comment, but its tone was all-sufficient. She disappeared, to return in a
moment or two with a folded flannel garment in her hand. "Here's one of father's,"
...
10
Beauchamp's Career, Complete
The taxpayerof a free land taxes himself, and his disinclination forthebitter task,
save under circumstances of screaming urgency—as when the nightgear and
bedlinen ofold convulsed Panic are like the churned Channel sea in the track of.
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