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Hesther, your third son must certainly be a lawyer: he has the stock in trade - brass, self-conceit, and words - words - words. '
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But when I was Robert's age I had five or six sisters, all as decent and proper as she is; but you see, Hesther, for all that it did not hinder me from looking out for a wife. '
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Sonja wrote: "To Hesther, with all good wishes, Sonja."
The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980
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Mr. Thrale had married Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, of good Welsh extraction [1], a lady of lively talents, improved by education.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Hobson, of ... in the Isle of Wight, Esq.; _Hesther_, to Arthur Fuller, of Bradfield, in com.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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Hobson, of ... in the Isle of Wight, Esq.; Hesther, to Arthur Fuller, of Bradfield, in com.
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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I saw the Lady Hesther Stanhope [2] at Athens, and do not admire "that dangerous thing a female wit."
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Before her marriage Mrs. Piozzi had been Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, a young lady of a good Welsh family.
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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Mr. Thrale had married Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, of good Welsh extraction, a lady of lively talents, improved by education.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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Mr. Thrale had married Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, of good Welsh extraction [1440], a lady of lively talents, improved by education.
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767
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