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The Professor

By: Charlotte Brontë

...learly written, it contained no error against sense, and but few faults of orthography. I coolly read aloud both exercises, marking the faults—then I ... ...oises are often heard therein after sunset; wolves haunt these glades, and Danish warriors infest the country; worse things are talked of; you might c... ...e quotation; the whole devoir was in the same strain. There were errors of orthography, there were foreign idioms, there were some faults of construct...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...-room is hung with tapestries of the fourteenth century; the style and the orthography of the inscription on the banderols beneath each figure prove t... ...o Croisic by water. This idea came to me on finding that there is a little Danish vessel now here, laden with marble, which is to touch at Croisic for... ...s afternoon, the fishermen were saying that they had seen a little vessel, Danish, Swedish, or Norwegian, in the offing.” This speech brought a flush ... ...s clothing a woman wears, the more nobly modest is her bearing. The little Danish vessel had just finished lading, therefore the landing of the two ha...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

...ozacks, or, if so you please, Cossacques (I don’t much pique myself upon orthography, So that I do not grossly err in facts, Statistics, tac... ... to revel in a livelier sight: His bell mouth’d goblet makes me feel quite Danish Or Dutch with thirst—What, ho! a flask of Rhenish. O reader! i...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

..., Prince John had extended his invitation to a few distinguished Saxon and Danish families, as well as to the Norman nobility and gentry of the neighb... ...ers. Amen. Amen.”* This extract has been somewhat amended or modernized in orthography, to render it more intelligible to the general reader. I have t... ..., by reading aloud to him, or by reducing the ordinary words to the modern orthography, he satisfies his proselyte that only about one- tenth part of ...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...has charmed her aged and her youthful companions. In music, in dancing, in orthography, in every variety of em- broidery and needlework, she will be f... ... young Lord Southdown. “My dear Mrs. Crawley, what a fancy! Why not have a Danish dog? I know of one as big as a camel-leopard, by Jove. It would almo...

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The Daisy Chain: Or, Aspirations : A Family Chronicle

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...nded and despatched, in spite of Miss Winter’s horrors at its disregard of orthography. It was nearly the last letter before the Alcestis was heard of... ...ble lay, Whilst you stand up in the diet, And have not a word to say? —Old Danish Ballad. “OH, NORMAN, are you come already?” exclaimed Margaret, as h...

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