[I]t was thus the passion of Mr. Panton allayed its overflowings: for very shortly after his marriage, he again fell passionately in love with another lady; a bona roba Queen, the full head taller than himself, and more than an armfull.
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They then brought up a part of the board fence of the Convent lands, the fence wood was laid on the tar barrels, to make a bonfire, to raise an alarm of fire, and collect a greater number of people, there was a steady stream of people coming up with armsfull of the fence to feed the bonfire, I have no doubt that the tall man I saw is the prisoner at the bar.
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In this state of the weather, and before sunrise, in the grey of the morning, we had to wade off, nearly up to our hips in water, to load the skiff with the wood by armsfull.
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Therefore the Secretary of War (I remember he was a little man) went and fetched a large armfull of books, and looked, and did not find my father’s name; he went and fetched another armfull of books, and soon found my father’s name, and said if I was the only heir of my father, I could get the land.
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