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Page 74
... half long and eight inches wide , which , at the cost of manufacture , were worth forty dollars , and this at the rate of twenty cents a day , which is about the average pay of the lacemakers , represents a labor of two hundred days on ...
... half long and eight inches wide , which , at the cost of manufacture , were worth forty dollars , and this at the rate of twenty cents a day , which is about the average pay of the lacemakers , represents a labor of two hundred days on ...
Page 96
... half at a time , changing often , but without mak- ing the least break or interruption in the tune . A man can play this instrument when marching briskly , only a part of the time He would get entirely out of breath if he were to ...
... half at a time , changing often , but without mak- ing the least break or interruption in the tune . A man can play this instrument when marching briskly , only a part of the time He would get entirely out of breath if he were to ...
Page 110
Jacob Abbott. kie could want of those shoes . They were not half as good as the leather ones used in America . “ True , ” said Grimkie ; “ not so good to wear , but we have not bought them to wear . Look ! " he added , showing John one ...
Jacob Abbott. kie could want of those shoes . They were not half as good as the leather ones used in America . “ True , ” said Grimkie ; “ not so good to wear , but we have not bought them to wear . Look ! " he added , showing John one ...
Page 118
... half past two . There were many other villages , however , along the road , and the diligence stopped several times to change horses . These stoppages usually took place at some very ancient and queer - look- ing inn , with stables ...
... half past two . There were many other villages , however , along the road , and the diligence stopped several times to change horses . These stoppages usually took place at some very ancient and queer - look- ing inn , with stables ...
Page 119
... Grimkie ? " said Mrs. Morelle . " How long are we going to stop ? " Grimkie interpreted the question to the girls , and after hearing their reply he said to his aunt , " About half an hour , they say . I RIDE IN THE Diligence . 119.
... Grimkie ? " said Mrs. Morelle . " How long are we going to stop ? " Grimkie interpreted the question to the girls , and after hearing their reply he said to his aunt , " About half an hour , they say . I RIDE IN THE Diligence . 119.
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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,...