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Edoran looked around, paying little attention as Togger explained his presence to the fisherwife.
Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009
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Edoran looked around, paying little attention as Togger explained his presence to the fisherwife.
Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009
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An 'gien ye dinna chowse to lat on aboot it till an auld freen' cause she's naething but a fisherwife, it's dune ye mair skaith a'ready nor I thocht it wad to the lang last, Ma'colm -- for it 's yer ain name I s 'ca' ye yet, gien ye war ten times a laird!
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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The dying mother and the unfortunate child would have found succour and help wherever the wind blew them; but nowhere could they have found more earnest care than in the hut of the poor fisherwife; who had stood but yesterday, with a heavy heart, beside the grave which covered her child, which would have been five years old that day, if
What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840
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Though the job didn’t trouble his stomach, Edoran’s peelings were thick, clumsy chunks, not the long, thin strips the fisherwife produced.
Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009
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Though the job didn’t trouble his stomach, Edoran’s peelings were thick, clumsy chunks, not the long, thin strips the fisherwife produced.
Crown of Earth Hilari Bell 2009
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