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THe mark-up on Swifs is about 200% He is the only dealer I've ever seen stock the Swift.
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THe mark-up on Swifs is about 200% He is the only dealer I've ever seen stock the Swift.
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They are decorated with coarfe paintings, reprefenting the hiftories of the Old Teltanunt, the battles of the Swifs, and the dance of death.
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NOR NOT h I If like the Swifs mountaineers, are exceed - ingly attached to thi. ir country.
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Sweden, Pruffia, and Sardinia, and the different Swifs cantons;
Sporting Magazine 1796
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One hundred and thirty-feven fettlers, among whom were a Swifs baron, and almoffc all the poor Palatines that had lately come into the country, were flaughtered the firft night.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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Never - thelefs, the gates at length flew open: the Swifs laid down their arms, teflifying every mark of joy and fatisfadtion.
The Jockey Club; Or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age. Part the Third Charles Pigott 1793
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At day break, the king had reviewed the Swifs troops and his own guard, between the Carouzzel and the pa - lace, in the great court, and a prodigious mul - titude flocked to their reprefentatives, to communicate their terrors and apprehenfions.
The Jockey Club; Or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age. Part the Third Charles Pigott 1793
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• From the dcpofition made before the committee of infpe£lion by feveral Swifs foldiers who had efcaped from the rage of the people, it appeared, that in cafe of fjaccQkf,
The Jockey Club; Or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age. Part the Third Charles Pigott 1793
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Lodowick Sforza was forced to fly into Germany, from whence he foon returned to recover his eflates; but being betrayed by the Swifs, he fell into the hands of Louis, who fhut him up in prifon, where he died, after ten years confinement.
The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792
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