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The story has some affinity with the curious _Märchen_ of the Mill and the Bailiff's
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The ballad -- for genuine English ballad it is -- is of the "Bailiff's Daughter of Islington" type, and is published in F, G, and A. _Captor and Captive.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 Various
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(Cf. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, page 8, above.)
A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs Josiah Henry Combs 1923
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The purchase on Mametz and the occupation of Bailiff's Wood, the
My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915
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After that, finding both herself and the others in a more pathetic vein, she sang them The Bailiff's Daughter of
The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903
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'The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington,' while the leering rascals in the pilot coats and the flap-eared caps huddled together over their filthy tables, and swigged their strong drink and thumbed their greasy cards and swore horribly in all the lingoes of Babel.
Marjorie 1898
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Yes, the chief of the orchestra was present, and he sat before a piano on the edge of the maelstrom, in what we should call the High Bailiff's pews -- but they call them the stalls -- while the mushroom himself went back to the cavernous depths of the body, which in a theatre they have properly christened the pit, and this morning it looked like the bottomless one.
The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892
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There was another case just come in -- attempted suicide -- woman tried to fling herself into the harbour -- been prevented -- would his Honour take it now, or let it stand over for the High Bailiff's court.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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And so, in a happy frame of mind, I turned out of the Buffington main street, and was jogging along homeward, when a very startling thing happened; namely, a whole verse of the Bailiff's Daughter of Islington: --
The Diary of a Goose Girl Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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_Bailiff's Daughter_ (dying to laugh, but concealing her feelings).
The Diary of a Goose Girl Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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