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Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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(Betsey meets a doctor at an oculist's shop near the Fair who happens to summer near Byfleet; he agrees to attend to Peggy that August.) The story ends with Betsey's return and her promise to tell her friends all about the Centennial--there is "enough," she says, "to think of and tell ye for the rest o' my days." The great experience has transformed her, at least temporarily (she looks "quite young and gay, and wears a townish and unfamiliar air"), and will bring, through her material, medical, and narrative gifts, new pleasures to the little poorhouse world (807).

Jewett at the fair: seeing citizens in "The Flight of Betsey Lane"

Indeed, the rural superstitions of Vilbert, Arabella and Anny are shown to jar with Sue's "townish" (111) ideas.

Religion, sorcery and suffering men: witchcraft in David Copperfield and Jude the Obscure/Din, buyuculuk ve aci ceken erkekler: David Copperfield ve Jude the Obscure adli eserlerde cadi avi

Bermuda is unlike any other tropical island I've ever been to because most of them (outside the immediate holiday complex) are all a bit shanty townish. Not Bermuda.

Haven on Earth; Carole Malone and Big Brother mate Cleo get together for ultimate girlie break in Bermuda

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