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... France , laid down upon it . He trundled the chairs up to the table , opened the map , and began , with the aid of a railway guide , which he also found upon the table , to study out the dif- ferent routes . The English Channel , as ...
... France , laid down upon it . He trundled the chairs up to the table , opened the map , and began , with the aid of a railway guide , which he also found upon the table , to study out the dif- ferent routes . The English Channel , as ...
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... France , before we get to the sea . " " But let us look out the other routes first , " said Grimkie , " before we decide . " The next route in order , as they were laid down on Grimkie's map , was that by the way of Dieppe and Newhaven ...
... France , before we get to the sea . " " But let us look out the other routes first , " said Grimkie , " before we decide . " The next route in order , as they were laid down on Grimkie's map , was that by the way of Dieppe and Newhaven ...
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... France , and yet they belong to Eng- land . Thus , as is the case with some parts of Canada , while the government is English , the population and the prevailing language , as well as the manners and customs , are French . It would lead ...
... France , and yet they belong to Eng- land . Thus , as is the case with some parts of Canada , while the government is English , the population and the prevailing language , as well as the manners and customs , are French . It would lead ...
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... France in respect to this territory , and at length after the lapse of many centuries the English were driven off from the continent alto- gether , but they succeeded in retaining these islands , and they have held them to the present ...
... France in respect to this territory , and at length after the lapse of many centuries the English were driven off from the continent alto- gether , but they succeeded in retaining these islands , and they have held them to the present ...
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... France . In one of these wars he took the town of Mantes , and he ordered it to be burnt . After the fire had subsided , he was riding through the streets to see the mischief that he had made , and his horse stepped on some of the ...
... France . In one of these wars he took the town of Mantes , and he ordered it to be burnt . After the fire had subsided , he was riding through the streets to see the mischief that he had made , and his horse stepped on some of the ...
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Page 43 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 33 - Lord ivas with me and made all things easy, though my dear friend and I were separated one at one end of the town and the other at the other, and both under locks and bolts ; the said Davis swearing desperately that we should never come out nor see one another again all his time. And yet in two weeks' time he let me out again and her also.
Page 183 - Grimkie said that the best thing they could do would be to go and see the Castle of Mont Orgueil.
Page 193 - Florence established herself upon the sofa, and the two boys in arm-chairs near the fire, each with a large slice of bread and butter in one hand and a piece of cheese in the other, and their tumblers of milk on corners of the table within reach.
Page 69 - There was a large table in the middle of the room, with broad boxes filled with laces upon it, and other boxes in cases about the room.
Page 80 - ... strongly support Senator Mitchell's bill, S. 1639. The establishment of a Board such as is proposed in your bill is vitally necessary in the interest of military and commercial expansion of our national air power. If is an open secret that in the 1930's technological improvements placed German air power far in advance of that of any other nation in the world, and the stern necessity of mastering that power, rather than our own foresight, was the determining factor in World War II. Certainly,...