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Well , " said John , " I should like to hear it too , " " Sark is one of the Channel Islands , " said Grimkie , " and the shores of it are formed of cliffs of rocks which extend all around it except in one place where there is a harbor ...
Well , " said John , " I should like to hear it too , " " Sark is one of the Channel Islands , " said Grimkie , " and the shores of it are formed of cliffs of rocks which extend all around it except in one place where there is a harbor ...
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It was necessary to cut this dock mainly out of the solid rock , at an almost incredible cost . Now that the works are all finished , the place forms one of the strongest and most celebrated naval stations in the world , though the ...
It was necessary to cut this dock mainly out of the solid rock , at an almost incredible cost . Now that the works are all finished , the place forms one of the strongest and most celebrated naval stations in the world , though the ...
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The breakwater is seen in the engraving , but it was concealed from view to our party when they stopped to look back upon the town by a mass of rocks which came in the way . Florence was , however , very much disappointed by the ...
The breakwater is seen in the engraving , but it was concealed from view to our party when they stopped to look back upon the town by a mass of rocks which came in the way . Florence was , however , very much disappointed by the ...
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This path had been made with great labor by blasting away the rock in some places , and by walling up in others . It was made for the soldiers of the castle to go up and down by . There was only room for two persons to walk together .
This path had been made with great labor by blasting away the rock in some places , and by walling up in others . It was made for the soldiers of the castle to go up and down by . There was only room for two persons to walk together .
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... region rises and falls more than forty feet , and as the coast itself in every part is very shelving , -the rocks and sands slopand ing off very gradually as they recede from the shore 130 GRANVILLE .
... region rises and falls more than forty feet , and as the coast itself in every part is very shelving , -the rocks and sands slopand ing off very gradually as they recede from the shore 130 GRANVILLE .
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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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