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Elriges Farm East Ruston Norfolk
It was consigned to Mr. Abe Slaney, Elriges Farm, East Ruston, Norfolk.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Essays from Edinburgh Review New
[pgs 119-120] £ s. d. William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age : World's Classics 0 1 0 William Hazlitt, English Poets and Comic Writers : Bohn's Library 0 3 6 Francis Jeffrey, Essays from Edinburgh Review : New Universal Library 0 1 0 Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-eater , etc.:
— from Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett

Essays from Edinburgh Review New
£ s. d. William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age: World's Classics 0 1 0 William Hazlitt, English Poets and Comic Writers: Bohn's Library 0 3 6 Francis Jeffrey, Essays from Edinburgh Review: New Universal Library 0 1 0 Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-eater , etc.: Scott Library 0 1 0 Sydney Smith, Selected Papers: Scott Library 0 1 0 George Finlay, Byzantine Empire: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 John G. Lockhart, Life of Scott: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 Agnes Strickland, Life of Queen Elizabeth: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 Hugh Miller, Old Red Sandstone: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 J. H. Newman, Apologia pro vita sua: New Universal Library 0 1 0 Lord Macaulay, History of England , (3), Essays (2): Everyman's Library (5 vols.) 0 5 0 A. P. Stanley, Memorials of Canterbury: Everyman's Library 0 1 0 THOMAS CARLYLE, French Revolution (2), Cromwell (3), Sartor Resartus and Heroes and Hero-Worship (1): Everyman's Library (6 vols.) 0 6 0
— from Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett

eyes from Elise Rouquet now
They had just passed through Blois; for three long hours they had been rolling onward; and Marie, who had averted her eyes from Elise Rouquet, now turned them upon a man who occupied a corner seat in the compartment on her left, that in which Brother Isidore was lying.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola

eager feet Eurydice Restored near
And now, all danger past, to upper air He turned his eager feet, Eurydice Restored, near-following (for Proserpine Had so enjoined), when Orpheus, mad with joy And longing to behold her face once more, Paused and looked back, unmindful.
— from The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems by John Reade


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