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Springtime

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Some Names of Characters in Fiction

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Thomas Hearne, 1678–1735

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Recollections

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Old Instruments of Music

71

The Traditional Names of English Plants

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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

115

A Great Hospital

137

Sir George Airy

161

Sydney Smith

175

Charles Dickens

199

A Procession of Flowers

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