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The place for the ships of war , which is what they call the military port , is out where you see that smoke coming up . There are immense basins there , a great deal larger than these , and shipyards and arsenals , all enclosed in a ...
The place for the ships of war , which is what they call the military port , is out where you see that smoke coming up . There are immense basins there , a great deal larger than these , and shipyards and arsenals , all enclosed in a ...
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After rambling about in the military port for two or three hours , the party prepared to leave it , and John wished very much to go out by one of the ports of egress leading to the rear , on account of the great drumming which he heard ...
After rambling about in the military port for two or three hours , the party prepared to leave it , and John wished very much to go out by one of the ports of egress leading to the rear , on account of the great drumming which he heard ...
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It was this which made the music that had attracted John's attention within the port . The trumpeters twenty or thirty in number , were marching about among the ramparts , and out far over the open fields beyond , in order to accustom ...
It was this which made the music that had attracted John's attention within the port . The trumpeters twenty or thirty in number , were marching about among the ramparts , and out far over the open fields beyond , in order to accustom ...
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Mrs. Morelle and Florence looked on with an expression of curiosity and wonder in their countenances , and remained standing near the end of the drawbridge , by which they had come out from the port , looking at the musicians , while ...
Mrs. Morelle and Florence looked on with an expression of curiosity and wonder in their countenances , and remained standing near the end of the drawbridge , by which they had come out from the port , looking at the musicians , while ...
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AT St. Lo , where the railroad came to an end , our party were still thirty or forty miles from Granville , which as will be seen by the map , was the port where they were to embark for the islands . This distance was to be traversed in ...
AT St. Lo , where the railroad came to an end , our party were still thirty or forty miles from Granville , which as will be seen by the map , was the port where they were to embark for the islands . This distance was to be traversed 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,...
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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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