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... carriage drove in under the arched passage - way which led to the court of the hotel . This passage i in four parts , the parts being separated by columns . One of these passages is for carriages WILE FLAMAZ COURT OF THE HOTEL . going ...
... carriage drove in under the arched passage - way which led to the court of the hotel . This passage i in four parts , the parts being separated by columns . One of these passages is for carriages WILE FLAMAZ COURT OF THE HOTEL . going ...
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Jacob Abbott. WILE FLAMAZ COURT OF THE HOTEL . going out , and another for carriage going in .
Jacob Abbott. WILE FLAMAZ COURT OF THE HOTEL . going out , and another for carriage going in .
Page 15
Jacob Abbott. going out , and another for carriage going in . Besides these there are two other passage - ways paved with asphalte , and forming sidewalks as it were , through the archway , for the use of foot passengers . The carriage ...
Jacob Abbott. going out , and another for carriage going in . Besides these there are two other passage - ways paved with asphalte , and forming sidewalks as it were , through the archway , for the use of foot passengers . The carriage ...
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... carriage , in addition to the fare which the law allows for the use of it in proportion to the time or distance in each case , which fare goes of course to the owner of the carriage , to make also a present of a few cents to the ...
... carriage , in addition to the fare which the law allows for the use of it in proportion to the time or distance in each case , which fare goes of course to the owner of the carriage , to make also a present of a few cents to the ...
Page 105
... carriage of another train marked for St. Lo . After proceeding on the branch road for about an hour , they arrived at St. Lo , which was the end of the line . " Now , " said Grimkie , as they were riding away from the station toward the ...
... carriage of another train marked for St. Lo . After proceeding on the branch road for about an hour , they arrived at St. Lo , which was the end of the line . " Now , " said Grimkie , as they were riding away from the station toward 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,...