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THE SORROWFUL HOUR

... Obstinate I tell thee 'tis the glamour of the child. 'Tis not the child, though the gods know the poison hath bit deeper somehow since he came. Lo I have tried it, and 'tis not my way. Nor would I kill her. That were too trivial, seeing she is not worth ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3995 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL

... rest in the Lord showed most careful attention to the traditional rendering, so careful, indeed, that the letter almost killed the spirit of the air. Mr. Lloyd, Miss Anna Williams, and Mr. Watkin Mills sang like the great artistes they are. The Mayor ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2250 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK. After so

... difficult to attach much reality to his new song, wherein the coster, gently rocks a cradle and apostrophises the sleeping child in it but the music is so pretty, and Mr. Chevalier has such a quaint way of chanting it, that the song should prove as popular ...

Published: Wednesday 27 September 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4735 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM THE FIVE RIVERS. BY MRS. STEEL

... thrown to the jackals, and Gunesh is driven by his mother to seek another bride. Learning this, Veru dies with an unborn child, the child of her prayers and penances, who was to have removed her reproach, and the old hag who has harried her to death is fearful ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1341 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... One j)ortion of the shoot is popularly known as the Valley of the Shadow of Death, from the tremendous head of game usually killed there. The news of the illness that has struck down Sir Andrew Clark, though it has come with somewhat startling suddenness ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4930 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

Some News: THE END OF THE ARDLAMONT CASE

... recapitulated the evidence on the financial questions, and said that Monson could do nothing worse in his own interest than to kill young Hambrough. As to the boating accident there was no proof that the plug-hole was made by the prisoner, and, with regard ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1893
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1718 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A HORNETS' NEST

... three ordinary wasps, and it is said that four of them are able to sting a horse to death, while two of them are sufficient to kill a human being. Where it occurs in considerable numbers it is very destructive to forest trees, gnawing the bark off the younger ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 523 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... enuf fur me, Good ole Lundun 's the plaice to 'ave a spree Give to them wot likes 'em better Berling or Paree, Bat give this child that good ole tarn called Lundun. Miss May Harvey has suffered rather severely the inevitable penalty of playing a part which ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3938 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... such, for example, as Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean and A Life on the Ocean Wave. Mr. Ilenry Russell has often been killed in print, but he is still living and vigorous, as is shown by the fact that, upon entering upon his eighty-second year, in ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3762 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

ELEONORA DUSE-- AN APPRECIATION

... might probably have been contented with a local reputation. There is, one may almost say no theatre in Italy The opera has killed the teatro di prosa. There are playwrights of ability, manasrers, actors. performances, but everything is unsettled, haphazard ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1357 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

The Masqueraders

... sits down with the latter to a strange game of cutting cards, at which the stakes on Sir Brice's side are Lady Skene and his child, and on Remon's side his entire fortune of 200,000/. Remon wins, and Sir Brice, threatened and even beaten, abjectly promises ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1894
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 709 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... salmon- fishing in the royal waters on the Dee has been excellent, and Dr. Profeit, the Queen's Commissioner at Balmoral, has killed some fine fish. The red deer in the forests are in splendid condition, and there is every promise of great sport this season ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2904 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs