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Gervas answered, and at the same moment rolled, horse and all, into the ditch, amid a roar of exultation from the soldiers.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Gervas alone succeeded in keeping his attire and his person as neat and as dainty as ever.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Gervas, 'no one there would observe that there had been any increase.'
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Gervas, however, I think, as I said at the inn, that he hath more mettle in him than one would judge at first sight.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Gervas remarked, 'it would not hold you excused for that recklessness of human life which your trade begets.'
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Gervas upon one side of him, Buyse, Reuben, and myself upon the other.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The Ormersfield world was extremely indignant; Frampton and Gervas prophesied that no good would come of such a choice, and marvelled at the Vicar, who gave the lad lodging in his house, and spent the evenings in giving him such mathematical instruction and teaching of other kinds, as he thought most likely to be useful to him.
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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'I must have fainted after I got the stone off my foot, so I missed Gervas going by.
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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'I must come home to learn how to grow young, Gervas,' said she, smiling; 'I hear Betty is as youthful as my aunt here.'
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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If ever a girl deserved it, 'choked, and flourished her white handkerchief; Frampton saluted like my Lord and Louis XIV. rolled into one; and Warren and Gervas privately agreed that they did not know what was coming of the world, since Marksedge poachers had only to go to foreign parts to be coined goold in the silver mines.
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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