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  • You, too, can enjoy suburban living in lovely Higden, AR, population 101.

    Maybe They Meant a Chevy Suburban | Live Granades 2009

  • The Higden debt, both for the rent and the stores, was the only one at which she did not blush, since, great as was her indiscretion, in not enquiring into her powers before she plighted her services, it would be palliated by her motive.

    Camilla 2008

  • Camilla now recollected the eldest little Higden, the washerwoman's niece, and kindly enquired after her father, her aunt, and family.

    Camilla 2008

  • Higden having had the imprudence, in his grief, to make known his recent misfortune, it had reached the ears of his landlord, who already was watchful and suspicious, from a year and half arrears of his rent; and steps were immediately preparing to seize whatever was upon the premises the next morning; which, by bringing upon him all his other creditors, would infallibly immure him in the lingering hopelessness of a prison.

    Camilla 2008

  • But Mrs. Mittin assured Higden, the poor man, as she assured all others, that she was heiress to immense wealth, for she had had it from one that had it from her own brother's own mouth; and that though she could not find out why she was so shy of owning it, she supposed it was only from the fear of being imposed upon.

    Camilla 2008

  • To this, the rent for Higden added eighteen; and the bill of stores, which had been calculated at thirty, was sent in at thirty-seven.

    Camilla 2008

  • The new, but all powerful guest which now assailed her, unhappiness, had still kept her eyes from closing, when she was called up to Mr. Tennet, the landlord of Higden.

    Camilla 2008

  • But this day, in quitting the dining parlour, she was stopt in the hall by Higden, who, in unfeigned agonies, related, that some flasks of oil, in

    Camilla 2008

  • Higden laughed, and the orphan laughed, and then the visitors laughed.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Trevisa's translation of Higden was completed, according to the best

    Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name

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