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Page 40
There passed in review before them as they were trundled rapidly along the road , a succession of smooth plains or hill sides , divided into patches of different colored vegetation , like the beds of a garden , with long rows of trees ...
There passed in review before them as they were trundled rapidly along the road , a succession of smooth plains or hill sides , divided into patches of different colored vegetation , like the beds of a garden , with long rows of trees ...
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Matilda's abbey was situated on a hill , and the spires and towers which arose from the central portion of it , and the long ranges of building around , which now form the hospital , gave it quite a majestic appearance .
Matilda's abbey was situated on a hill , and the spires and towers which arose from the central portion of it , and the long ranges of building around , which now form the hospital , gave it quite a majestic appearance .
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And now first , " said Grimkie , " we will go up to the top of one of the hills to get a general view . " The hill most favorable for a general view of Cherbourg and of the harbor , is the Roule , so called . There is a very good zigzag ...
And now first , " said Grimkie , " we will go up to the top of one of the hills to get a general view . " The hill most favorable for a general view of Cherbourg and of the harbor , is the Roule , so called . There is a very good zigzag ...
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We can not see it from here , " said Grimkie , " but it will come into view when we get to the top of the hill . ” After resting a few minutes the party resumed . their walk and ascended to the top of the hill , where upon a sort of ...
We can not see it from here , " said Grimkie , " but it will come into view when we get to the top of the hill . ” After resting a few minutes the party resumed . their walk and ascended to the top of the hill , where upon a sort of ...
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They came down , not by the road where they went up , but by the path already referred to , on the front side of the hill , where it was much steeper . This path had been made with great labor by blasting away the rock in some places ...
They came down , not by the road where they went up , but by the path already referred to , on the front side of the hill , where it was much steeper . This path had been made with great labor by blasting away the rock in some places ...
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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,...
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| Title | The Florence Stories The Florence Stories, Jacob Abbott |
| Author | Jacob Abbott |
| Publisher | Sheldon, 1867 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 1 Apr 2008 |
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