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...yn who is lonely and longs for a friend. But she is isolated by rich parents who ignore her and left to the care of servants who are indifferent. Her nanny’s carelessness with some medicine plunges Gwendolyn into a bewildering world in which metaphors literally come to life. (Summary by Susan Umpleby)...

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...John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious lodger. A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family, at one point assuming a human voice to warn John that his suspicions that Dot is having an af...

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...e slanted recto pages show a way-too-precocious infant in a carriage [the go-cart of yesteryear] racing downhill who has somehow gotten away from his nanny, gleefully creating havoc all along the way! The facing verso pages contain two stanzas of commentary on the charming --if alarming!-- illustrations. This book pioneered the special format children's literature of today...

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... with the Gods on Mount Olympus! There is no way you come from this hootin’- nanny that we define as life on this sphere in the here and now. Your wor...

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...so that no stranger may harm it. It tends to its every need like a trained nanny who will not forget it even for a moment, until it has acquired the ...

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... Egg shells to ease the stomach 45 Sweet seeds for the liver 46 Nanny’s antibiotic 47 Menopause formula 48 Handy Tinct... ...rb Wines and Liquors Sweet heart wine 69 Refreshing orange wine 71 Nanny’s warming petite liquor 72 The delicious hawthorn liquor ... ...egulate blood pressure Crème de Cassis: Blackcurrant Liquor 74 Nanny’s Cointreau 75 Olden days quince liquor 76 Nice an... ... 98 Salade de pissenlits (dandelion) 99 Salade niçoise 100 Nanny’s cassoulet 101 Lentils and ham 103... ...03 Australian pot-au-feu 104 Wallaby croquettes 105 Nanny’s paella 106 La bouillabaisse 108 ... ... herbs into fine powder. Add ginger, mix, and fill up the capsules. 47 Nanny’s Antibiotic In our modern societies, people wrongly think tha... ...led and drink it in moderation with light savouries. Bon Appétit!!! 72 Nanny’s warming Petite liqueur In winter, we like something to war... ...able to keep it as it is so Yummy!!! 74 Crème de cassis (blackcurrent) Nanny’s favourite liquor Yes, I love this liquor; it is smooth lik... ...hol per three cups of liquid. Pour into pretty bottles. Enjoy!!! 75 Nanny’s Cointreau This liquor is delicious. Of course, take an org...

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...er is from Sweden. She met my father in England where she was working as a nanny. He’s an aero- nautical engineer, and was poached by the North Americ... ... day. It was a Tuesday, not one of the three days per week her housekeeper/nanny came in to help. But Jana had learned to pace herself – to enjoy each...

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...n the car, and reminded her that as their sons were being cared for by the nanny, they should not spoil their holiday by giving them much thought now...

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... addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes – are "protected from themselves" by an intrusive nanny state. The possession of a right by a person imposes on ot... ... addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes – are "protected from themselves" by an intrusive nanny state. The possession of a right by a person imposes on ot... ... the mixture - police profiling, mandatory drug-testing, workplace keylogging, the nanny (welfare) state, traffic surveillance, biometric screening... ... addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes – are "protected from themselves" by an intrusive nanny state. The possession of a right by a person imposes on ot...

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... addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes – are "protected from themselves" by an intrusive nanny state. The possession of a right by a person imposes on ot... ... addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes – are "protected from themselves" by an intrusive nanny state. The possession of a right by a person imposes on ot... ... the mixture - police profiling, mandatory drug-testing, workplace keylogging, the nanny (welfare) state, traffic surveillance, biometric screening... ... addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes – are "protected from themselves" by an intrusive nanny state. The possession of a right by a person imposes on ot...

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...ed David to think his father had been part of such madness. Recalling the nanny bot from his childhood, although a woman in appearance, it was cold ...

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...hys at the potential loss of her pet kept Bridey from bringing the family’s nanny goat along for fresh milk. Listen With Your Heart 147 With Wi...

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...im, she might have grabbed the girls one impulsive day and flown to Prague, hired a nanny for them, and continued on with her work. Instead she was...

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...ou like playing with children, does not mean you will work as a babysitter or nanny the rest of your life. Work is not supposed to be fun except for... ...our head spin. It was only because many rich babies had a loving lower class nanny who loved them and cared for them, that the British Empire ever d... ...utally as possible. A tiny token bit of humanity still managed to survive the nanny-private school system of child raising of the elite of the Briti... ...ater… by the fantasy myth of Mary Poppins… along with the myth of the perfect nanny… taking care of two children belonging to a banker… who God forb... ...She merely takes on the children of a father whose wife died. She is merely a nanny for them, who finally becomes their legal mother. The dream of ...

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...unwelcome offer of a drink of cider. “Seems quiet enough down there,” said Nanny Lakin, peer- ing wistfully over the valley where the shadows of eveni... ...is rider a little way from him, a fine stout young man, cold and stiff, as Nanny turned up his face to see if it was her Harry’s. A little farther on ... ...as her Harry’s. A little farther on lay another figure on his back, but as Nanny stooped over it, a lantern was flashed on her and a gruff voice calle... ...n stood darkly before them, pistol in hand. “No, sir; no, sir,” sobbed out Nanny. “I am only a poor widow woman, come down to see whether my poor lad ... ...r lads that are killed must be buried to-morrow. Take care, dame,” as poor Nanny cried out in horror at having stumbled over a dead man’s legs. He hel... ...e all the better, be she who she may.” The permission was not listened to. Nanny had already sprung into the midst of the mass of suffering towards th... ...ther soft place in his heart. He had a pretty young wife and a little son. Nanny Pierce was older in years, but far more childish than Patience, and t... ...owever, a whistle, and the sharp yap of a dog was heard across the stream. Nanny Pierce exclaimed, “There are those rascal lads after the rabbits agai... ...m William then kissed the young women (the usual mode of salutation then), Nanny Pierce and all, thanked Patience, and looked about for the goodly lit...

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...rmy lacemaker, who had since made his fortune, had won her the name of the Nanny Goat, which the Baron gave her in jest. But this nickname only met th... ...” cried Hortense, smiling. “To see what a man can be like who can love the Nanny Goat?” retorted Lisbeth. “He must be some monster of an old clerk, wi... ...ee, I have neither cat nor canary, nei- ther dog nor a parrot, and the old Nanny Goat wanted some- thing to pet and tease—so I treated myself to a Pol... ...od under which her admirer was sitting, the unknown started back at once. “Nanny shall tell me who it is,” said the Baron to himself. The sight of the... ...e Baron, kissing his wife and daughter; “I shall perhaps go to call on the Nanny, and from her I shall hear a great deal about our young man.” “Papa, ... ...lerie’s former boudoir and bedroom. “I began,” she would say, “as a hungry nanny goat, and I am ending as a lionne.” She still worked for Monsieur Riv... ...m when he is with me.” At this moment Lisbeth came in. “My dear little pet Nanny, what an age since we met!” cried Valerie. “I am so unhappy! Crevel b...

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...g e “Thick bread and thin butter,”whereupon there was a gen- eral outcry. “Nanny likes thick bread and thin butter, let her have it!” and Sam, Henry, ... ... bursting out crying easier than thinking, and then they all cried out, “O Nanny, the pig!” and Miss Fosbrook had the barbarity to call that foolish c...

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...no trouble about it. My own trouble, you know, I never regard. I will send Nanny to London on purpose, and she may have a bed at her cousin the saddle... ...ome reputable tradesman’s wife or other going up.” Except to the attack on Nanny’s cousin, Sir Thomas no longer made any objection, and a more respect... ...o all in my power. I am not one of those that spare their own trouble; and Nanny shall fetch her, however it may put me to inconvenience to have my ch... ..., I should have got you just to go as far as my house with some orders for Nanny,” said she, “which I have since, to my very great inconvenience, been...

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...ut,—some of them still covered with their peel or bark. These hides of the nanny-goat (to give them the name by which they were known to the peasantry... ...eant to stab us with that nose of hers!” cried Hulot. “Here, look, you old nanny-goat!” 231 Balzac And he showed her in the distance three or four of...

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...like a horse, pinching like a vice, and bawling gigantic baby talk at his “Nanny” and “Mammy” and the rather scared and awe-stricken “Daddy,” who had ...

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...came running out, followed by Harold, caressing the beast, calling it poor Nanny, and asking where he should shut it up for the night I suggested an o...

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...ll in her per son, so neither did she in her taste. Happy had it been for Nanny the chambermaid, if she had seen with the eyes of her mistress, for t... ...es in five minutes, that her passion afterwards cost her many a sigh. This Nanny was extremely pretty, and alto gether as coy; for she had refused a ...

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...and a boy—I’d take my oath it was young Hodgekin. 49 Yo n g e They do say Nanny Hodgekin, she as was one of the Blacketts, whose husband was transpor...

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...e had scarce opened her lips either now or the last evening. “I am glad, Nanny,” says Mrs. Miller, “the gentleman hath made the observation; I prote...

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...med by little Dolly, and here are a pair of bands and cuffs to match, that Nanny and Bessy have been broidering with their choicest stitchery.’ Bereng...

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...ave no trouble about it. My own trouble, you know, I never regard. I will send Nanny to London on purpose, and she may have a bed at her cousin, the s... ...ys some reputable tradesman’s wife or other going up.” Except to the attack on Nanny’s cousin, Sir Thomas no longer made any ob jection, and a more r... ... I do all in my power. I am not one of those that spare their own trouble; and Nanny shall fetch her, however it may put me to inconvenience to have m... ... out, I should have got you just to go as far as my house with some orders for Nanny,” said she, “which I have since, to my very great inconvenience, ...

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...r preacher whining spoke Of One whose heart for sinners broke: He tied old Nanny to an oak, 99 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass And drew t...

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...? do you beg your way?” “No, sir; father sent up a pound in a letter, only Nanny Brooks said I owed some to her for my victuals, and I have not much o... ...iendship, that he would have been miserable in leaving him to the mercy of Nanny Brooks. So, after their meal, Jem and T oby were bidden to wait for D...

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...evil drove them, do but put a bit of eringo into the mouth of the hindmost nanny, and they will all stop stock still in the time you can tell three. T...