 | Isabella Lucy Bird - 1875 - 516 páginas
...many old people at once ugly and contemptible: speaking English with a slight, old-fashioned, refined Scotch accent, which gives naivete to everything she...the last to retire in the house. She was away when I came, but some days afterwards rode up on horseback, in a large drawn silk bonnet, which she rarely... | |
 | Isabella Lucy Bird - 1875 - 516 páginas
...contemptible : speaking English with a slight, old-fashioned, refined Scotch accent, which gives naivetd to everything she says, up to the latest novelty in...the last to retire in the house. She was away when I came, but some days afterwards rode up on horseback, in a large drawn silk • bonnet, which she rarely... | |
 | David Herschell Edwards - 1891 - 400 páginas
...many old people at once ugly and contemptihle. Speaking English with a slight, oldfashioned, refined Scotch accent, which gives naivete to everything she...theology and politics ; devoted to her children and giandchildren, the life of the family, and though upwards of seventy, the first to rise, and the last... | |
 | David Herschell Edwards - 1891 - 400 páginas
...says, up to the latest novelty in theology and politics; devoted to her children and giandchildren, the life of the family, and though upwards of seventy,...first to rise, and the last to retire in the house. Then there are her eldest son, a batchelor, two widowed daughters with six children between them, three... | |
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... beautiful in her old age, disdaining that servile conformity to prevailing fashion which makes many old people at once ugly and contemptible: speaking English with a slight, oldfashioned, refined Scotch accent, which gives naivete to everything she... 