Identifier: charactersketche00inbrew (find matches)
Title: Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Subjects: Literature Allusions Fiction.
Publisher: New York,: E. Hess
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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ed Augusta. Claudius made his mother Antonia Augusta after her death. Heliogabalus had coins inscribed with Julia Mses aAugusta, in honor of his grandmother; Augusta in Court A. Forestier, Artist R. Taylor, Engraver Augusta Smithers, upon whose back has been tatooed "Mr Meeson's Will", is obliged to display it in court. Poor Augusta colored up, and her eyes filled with tears as she slowly undid the dust cloak which hid her shoulders (for of course, she had come in low dress). She took off the cloak and the silk handkerchief beneath it, and stood before the court dressed in a low black dress. I am afraid that I must ask you to come up here, said his lordship. Accordingly she walked round, mounted the bench, and turned her hack to the judge in order that he might examine what was written on it. This he did very carefully, with the aid of a magnifying glass, referring now and again to the photographic copy which Doctor Probate had filed in the registry. Rider Haggards "Mr. Meesons WVill".
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AUGUSTA IN COURT. AUGUSTA 83 AUROEA LEIGH Mammsea, mother of Alexander Severus, isstyled Augusta on coins; and so is Helena,mother of Constantine. 3. SiSTEES. Honorius speaks of his sis-ter as venerabilis Augusta germanauo-stra. Trajan has coins inscribed with Diva Mareiana Augusta. 4. Daughters. Mallia Scantilla thewife, and Didia the daughter of DidiusJulianus, were both Augusta. Titns in-scribed on coins his daughter as JuliaSabina Augusta; there are coins of theemperor Deeius inscribed with HerenniaEtruscilla Augusta, and Sallustia Au-gusta sisters of the emperor Deeius. 5. Othees. Matidia, niece of Trajan, iscalled Augusta on coins; ConstantineMonomachus called his concubine Augusta. Augusta Hare, a woman with a nativegenius for popularity, in Mrs. A. D. T.Whitneys novel Hitherto. Aiigvistina, tJie Maid of Saragossa. Shewas only twenty-two when, her lover being-shot, she mounted the battery in his place.The French, after a siege of two months,were obliged to retreat, August 15, 1

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