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  • He vas der only von dat accombanied mein only friend to die church und to die grafe ....

    Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • "Goot-pye; I am going to der zemetery, to see vat dey haf don mit Bons, und to order som flowers for his grafe."

    Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Sure my heart was nigh breaking, when I thought ye had been drownded or shot to death by these rid gintlemen; but it would not do to show me grafe, lest it would make them think manely of me, so thinks I to meself, I'll fiddle away as long as me elbow can move. "

    Afar in the Forest William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Gott in hefn is going to haf pity upon me; He vill send me to mein friend in der grafe, und I dank Him for it -- "

    Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • It seem to me dat I am going town into der grafe mit you, "said Schmucke, crushed with pain.

    Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • But when they beheld no pomp or grandeur of appearance, and faw only a little old man, and in as mean attire, feated on the grafe by the fea-fide, they could not help regarding the thing in a ridiculous light, and obferving, that this was the very thing reprefented in "the fable*, '* The mountain had

    Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek; with Notes Critical & Historical, & a New Life of ... 1795

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