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... gives him pleasure and enables the traveller and the coach- man to part excellent good friends . " How much did you give him ? " asked Florence . " I gave him enough to get the ' Thank you , kindly , ' " said Grimkie . If you give the ...
... gives him pleasure and enables the traveller and the coach- man to part excellent good friends . " How much did you give him ? " asked Florence . " I gave him enough to get the ' Thank you , kindly , ' " said Grimkie . If you give the ...
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Jacob Abbott. to give the coachman enough to get the " Thank you kindly , sir ! " On the farther side of the court , as seen in the engraving , the reader will observe a row of lofty windows extending across the whole of that side of the ...
Jacob Abbott. to give the coachman enough to get the " Thank you kindly , sir ! " On the farther side of the court , as seen in the engraving , the reader will observe a row of lofty windows extending across the whole of that side of the ...
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... give sea passages of very different lengths , according to their situation . " Now , first , " said Grimkie , " let us count up the number of routes and see how many there are that we have got to choose from . " So he counted the ...
... give sea passages of very different lengths , according to their situation . " Now , first , " said Grimkie , " let us count up the number of routes and see how many there are that we have got to choose from . " So he counted the ...
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... Grimkie ? " --- Grimkie said that with the newly invented guns which throw a sort of bolt , shaped some- what like a thimble , pointed at the end , instead of a ball , and which give it when i 26 THE CHANNEL ISLANDS .
... Grimkie ? " --- Grimkie said that with the newly invented guns which throw a sort of bolt , shaped some- what like a thimble , pointed at the end , instead of a ball , and which give it when i 26 THE CHANNEL ISLANDS .
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Jacob Abbott. of a ball , and which give it when i . leaves the gun , a sort of spinning motion by which it bores its way through the air with immense velocity , a missile could be sent six or seven miles , and yet have force enough , at ...
Jacob Abbott. of a ball , and which give it when i . leaves the gun , a sort of spinning motion by which it bores its way through the air with immense velocity , a missile could be sent six or seven miles , and yet have force enough , at ...
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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,...