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... Ruey , who for the present were sole occupants of the premises , were not people of the dreamy kind , and consequently were not gazing off to sea , but attending to ... Miss Ruey Toothacre were two brisk THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND . 19.
... Ruey , who for the present were sole occupants of the premises , were not people of the dreamy kind , and consequently were not gazing off to sea , but attending to ... Miss Ruey Toothacre were two brisk THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND . 19.
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A Story of the Coast of Maine Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Miss Roxy and Miss Ruey Toothacre were two brisk old bodies of the feminine gender and singular number , well known in all the region of Harpswell Neck and Middle Bay , and such was ...
A Story of the Coast of Maine Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Miss Roxy and Miss Ruey Toothacre were two brisk old bodies of the feminine gender and singular number , well known in all the region of Harpswell Neck and Middle Bay , and such was ...
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... Miss Roxy Toothacre , who sits trotting the baby , is a tall , thin , angular woman , with sharp black eyes , and ... Ruey , a pliant , cosey , easy - to - be - entreated personage , plump and cushiony , revolved. around. her. as. a.
... Miss Roxy Toothacre , who sits trotting the baby , is a tall , thin , angular woman , with sharp black eyes , and ... Ruey , a pliant , cosey , easy - to - be - entreated personage , plump and cushiony , revolved. around. her. as. a.
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... Ruey had a face much resembling the kind of one you may see , reader , by looking at yourself in the convex side of ... Miss Roxy was the master - spirit of the two , and , like the great coining machine of a mint , came down with ...
... Ruey had a face much resembling the kind of one you may see , reader , by looking at yourself in the convex side of ... Miss Roxy was the master - spirit of the two , and , like the great coining machine of a mint , came down with ...
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... Ruey , " and that ought to be enough for us . " " Well , I don't know , " said Aunt Roxy . " Now there was Miss Jones down on Mure P'int called her twins Tiglath - Pileser and Shalmaneser , - Scriptur ' names both , but I never liked ...
... Ruey , " and that ought to be enough for us . " " Well , I don't know , " said Aunt Roxy . " Now there was Miss Jones down on Mure P'int called her twins Tiglath - Pileser and Shalmaneser , - Scriptur ' names both , but I never liked ...
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