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Moved to this date 1838." In 1750 a few benevolent gentlemen inaugurated the scheme, and at first its benefits were open to boys and girls alike. In 1754 the Dowager Countess of Oxford, having granted a piece of land in High Street for the term of 999 years at peppercorn rent, the school house was erected. The numbers of the children varied according to the income.
The jewel I have myself beheld three times stained, as it were, with the blood of my fellow-man, so that it now has so little value in my sight that I would not give a peppercorn to possess it. Indeed, there is no inducement in the world that could persuade me to accept it, or even to take it again into my hand.
So Boundless was his Lordship's generosity that he offered to bestow a portion of Five Hundred Pounds on Miss Lightfoot if she would become Madame Dangerous said portion to be at my absolute disposal and to give me besides a long Lease at a Peppercorn Rent of a Farm of his in Wiltshire. The Match, however, came to nothing.
Peppercorn came in, and put on a monstrous pair of spectacles, and said, "Hum! ha! extraordinary case; very singular." "Did you ever see anything like it, doctor?" said both parents in a breath. "I've read of such cases. It's a calcareous enlargement of the vascular bony tissue, threatening ossification," said the doctor. "Oh, dreadful! Can it be possible?" shrieked both parents.
For this great estate Sir George and Lord Berkeley had to pay only ten shillings a year and a peppercorn. Nicholls of course knew nothing about these grants, and when he heard of them he was grieved that the Duke should have given away so much valuable land. He had besides allowed some Puritans from New England and others to settle on the land after making agreements with the natives.
In the time of Kara Georg, the Patriarchate of Constantinople was not recognized, and the Archbishop of Carlovitz in Hungary was looked up to as the spiritual head of the nation; but after the treaty of Adrianople, the Servian government, on paying a peppercorn tribute to the Patriarch of Constantinople, was admitted to have the exclusive direction of its ecclesiastical affairs.
My subjects, in the first instance, are young and boast but a slight corporation, very far removed from what it will be in the late autumn. The belly, the wallet containing the rope-works, hardly exceeds a peppercorn in bulk. This slenderness on the part of the spinstresses must not prejudice us against their work: there is no parity between their skill and their years.
"No, no, sister; dampness and darkness are worse than spectres ours are spirits of light, and I would rather have you try the spell." "I will do that blythely, Monkbarns, an I had the ingredients, as my cookery book ca's them There was vervain and dill I mind that Davie Dibble will ken about them, though, maybe, he'll gie them Latin names and Peppercorn, we hae walth o' them, for"
Peppercorn 'e now ups and talks of revolutions, and liberty, and down with the aristocrats, just like Mr. 'Empseed over 'ere!" "Pardon me, Mr. Jellyband," again interposed Mr. Hempseed feebly, "I dunno as I ever did " Mr. Jellyband had appealed to the company in general, who were listening awe-struck and open-mouthed at the recital of Mr. Peppercorn's defalcations.
It was a beautiful day, and the river was dancing and dimpling and winking as the little breezes shook the trees that hung over it. "Well," said the biggest of the little ducks, "in spite of Dr. Peppercorn, I can't help longing for the water.
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