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An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical - Page 540
by Edward Cresy - 1847 - 1039 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 86

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1850 - 608 pages
...(imlii.-i.rh in his cell — 'black troops of unclean spirits which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes, and coming in both out of the...heads, long necks, lean faces, pale countenances, grisly beards, rough ears, wrinkled foreheads, fierce eyes, foul mouths, teeth like horses, spitting...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 86

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1850 - 612 pages
...to Guthlach in his cell — 'black troops of unclean spirits which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes, and coming in both out of the...heads, long necks, lean faces, pale countenances, grisly beards, rough ears, wrinkled foreheads, fierce eyes, foul mouths, teeth like horses, spitting...
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Fen sketches

John Algernon Clarke - 1852 - 284 pages
...all his cell to be full of black troops of unclean spirits, which crept in under the door^ as also at chinks and holes, and, coming in both out of the...faces, pale countenances, ill-favoured beards, rough ears, wrinkled foreheads, fierce eyes, stinking mouths, teeth like horses, spitting fire out of their...
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Essays on Agriculture

Thomas Gisborne - Agriculture - 1854 - 666 pages
...to Guthlach in his cell — " black troops of unclean spirits which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes, and coming in both out of the...heads, long necks, lean faces, pale countenances, grisly beards, rough ears, wrinkled foreheads, fierce eyes, foul mouths, teeth like horses', spitting...
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The Land We Live in: The Midland counties and the East coast of England

England - 1856 - 586 pages
...all his cell to he full of black troops of unclean spirits, which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes, and coming in both out of the...and from the earth, filled the air, as it were, with darke clouds. In their .looks they were cruel, and of form terrible, having great heads, long necks,...
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Our home islands [by T. Milner, Volume 3

Thomas Milner - 1857 - 332 pages
...all his cell to be full of black troops of unclean spirits, which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes, and, coming in both out of the...faces, pale countenances ill-favoured beards, rough ears, wrinkled foreheads, fierce eyes, stinking mouths, teeth like horses, spitting fire out of their...
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Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works ..., Volume 1

Samuel Smiles - Bridges - 1861 - 532 pages
...discerned his cell to be full of black troops of unclean spirits, which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes; and, coming in both out of the...faces, pale countenances, illfavoured beards, rough ears, wrinkled foreheads, fierce eyes, stinking mouths, teeth like horses, spitting fire out of their...
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Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of Their Principal Works, Volume 1

Samuel Smiles - Engineers - 1861 - 536 pages
...discerned his cell to be full of black troops of unclean spirits, which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes ; and, coming in both out of the...their looks they were cruel, and of form terrible, liaviug great heads, long necks, lean faces, pale countenances, illfavoured beards, rough cars, wrinkled...
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Reminiscences of Fen and Mere

John Moyer Heathcote - Drainage - 1876 - 226 pages
...all his cell to be full of black troops of unclean spirits, which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes, and coming in both out of the sky and from the earth, filling the air, as it were, with dark clouds. In their looks they were cruel, and of form terrible...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 86

1850 - 346 pages
...to Guthlach in his cell — ' black troops of unclean spirits which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes, and coming in both out of the...heads, long necks, lean faces, pale countenances, grisly beards, rough ears, wrinkled foreheads, fierce eyes, foul mouths, teeth like horses, spitting...
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