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English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the ...
... but with a crowd that filled the chapel, all strangers to him, and all devoted to '
darling Lucy'. They expected a ceremony, and he told me how he met the
difficulty. 'I could not let her be thrown on the fire without a word, like a scuttleful of
coals.
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Our Own Agendas: Autobiographical Essays by Women Associated ...
Behind the house was a large shed for coal storage, whence the necessary coal
for the furnace was carried in, scuttleful by scuttleful. Light was by gas mantle
lamps, with one open flame in the bathroom. It sounds almost unbearable, but we
...
Margaret Gillett, Ann Beer, 1995
Mr. Kerr, suggests a plan for utilising coal dross : " Seeing some reference
recently made to the Belgian substitute for coal — a composition that consists of
three- fourths of a scuttleful of garden earth, one .fourth of coal-dust or dross,
mixed with ...
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Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel
He thought hewould light a firewhen hegot inside, and makehimself some
breakfast, just to pass away the time; but he did not seem able to handle anything
from a scuttleful of coals toa teaspoon without dropping it or falling over it, and
making ...
“I was that minute goingto fetch a scuttleful! There's something buried in them
coals as sureas my name's Sarah!” “Nonsense!” returned Hester. “Who could
scream likethat fromunder thecoals? Come;we'll go and see whatitis.” “Laws,
miss!
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The Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales
During the coal famine, for instance, every day passing the coal-yards to and fro, I
would appropriate a single piece of the precious anthracite until I had come into
possession of a scuttleful, and this I would sell to the suffering poor at prices ...
Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, 2012
Doctors had always treated hermost kindly, andeven generously. And then,
having laidthe cloth, and put the lodger's onehot dish uponit,she went towards
the door. "Wouldn't you like me to bring up another scuttleful of coals, sir? it's
bitterly.
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25 Favorite Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and ...
'Will you shut the door, if you please? you left it open; and those—those
detestable creatures won't bring coals to the fire. It's so cold!' I stirred up the
cinders, and fetched a scuttleful myself. The invalid complained of being covered
with ashes; ...
Jane Austen, Various, L. M. Montgomery, 2011
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The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a ...
My young eyes quickly saw this; in the evening I gathered up the coal thus swept
away, and during the course of a week I collected a scuttleful. The first time my
mother saw the garbage pail of a family almost as poor as our own, with the wife
...
I shovelled up a scuttleful of coal. The coal must have been there years, Mr
Dickens only ever used the electric fire. I got right back upstairs without Doggo
seeing me, but I could not get the fire to light. The coal was damp. I thought
maybe it was ...
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scuttleful в контексте приведенных ниже новостных статей.
PERTH OLD BIRDS - May 2010
... bird with lots of “previous” to his cv, including three Federation wins, two Section wins, a scuttleful of club cards, and, earlier this year, 104th open from Dunbar. «Elimar Pigeon Services, Июн 10»
