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Page 42
... arrived at the town of Caen , which the French pronounce as if they began to say Cong , and stopped short in the middle of the sound . They remained at Caen two or three days , and rambled about the town a great deal , finding many ...
... arrived at the town of Caen , which the French pronounce as if they began to say Cong , and stopped short in the middle of the sound . They remained at Caen two or three days , and rambled about the town a great deal , finding many ...
Page 60
... arriving in the presence of William at one of his castles and delivering his message of his taking the oath of allegiance to William as the future king of England — and of various scenes and incidents which occurred dur- ing Harold's ...
... arriving in the presence of William at one of his castles and delivering his message of his taking the oath of allegiance to William as the future king of England — and of various scenes and incidents which occurred dur- ing Harold's ...
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... arrived at the great seaport , and proceeded immediately to the hotel which Grimkie had chosen , from among a list given in his guide book . They arrived at Cherbourg about noon , and almost immediately after becoming settled in their ...
... arrived at the great seaport , and proceeded immediately to the hotel which Grimkie had chosen , from among a list given in his guide book . They arrived at Cherbourg about noon , and almost immediately after becoming settled in their ...
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... arrive at the age of eighteen or nineteen , the boys have to draw lots to determine who of them shall leave their homes , and give up all their plans of life , and join the army , to be taught and trained as soldiers , and forced to ...
... arrive at the age of eighteen or nineteen , the boys have to draw lots to determine who of them shall leave their homes , and give up all their plans of life , and join the army , to be taught and trained as soldiers , and forced to ...
Page 105
... arrived at St. Lo , which was the end of the line . " Now , " said Grimkie , as they were riding away from the station toward the hotel , " we have done with the railroad for a long time . We must go by the rest of the way to the sea in ...
... arrived at St. Lo , which was the end of the line . " Now , " said Grimkie , as they were riding away from the station toward the hotel , " we have done with the railroad for a long time . We must go by the rest of the way to the sea in ...
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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,...