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The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of ... - Page 192
by Gilbert White - 1840
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly ..., Volume 3

John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 pages
...naked, were pushed tbrough the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities: Naturalist's Calendar ...

Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of ...

Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...naked were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr ..., Volume 3

John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and ...

Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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The natural history and antiquities of Selborne. Standard ed. by E.T ...

Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of ..., Volume 1

Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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Deutsche Mythologie, Volume 2

Jacob Grimm - 1877 - 564 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, • under a persuasion that, by such a procefs, the poor babes would • be cured of their infirmity. As soon, as...plastered with loam, and carefully swathed up. If the part coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitnefs...
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English folk-lore

Thomas Firminger Thiselton- Dyer - 1878 - 344 pages
...naked, were pushed through the apertures, under a persuasion that, by such a process, the poor babes would be cured of their infirmity. As soon as the...loam, and carefully swathed up. If the parts coalesced and soldered together, as usually fell out, where the feat was performed with any adroitness at all,...
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