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OVER THE SANDS .... XXI . - FROM JERSEY TO GUERNSEY . XXII . - GUERNSEY .. XXIII - CONCLUSION . PAGE 196 206 220 233 242 ENGRAVINGS . I - PASSING THE CORBIÈRES . II - viii CONTENTS .
OVER THE SANDS .... XXI . - FROM JERSEY TO GUERNSEY . XXII . - GUERNSEY .. XXIII - CONCLUSION . PAGE 196 206 220 233 242 ENGRAVINGS . I - PASSING THE CORBIÈRES . II - viii CONTENTS .
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They were smooth plates of steel , and they were only able to wear their way slowly through the stone , by means of sharp sand which was carried continuously into the cleft , by a small stream of water which was kept constantly running ...
They were smooth plates of steel , and they were only able to wear their way slowly through the stone , by means of sharp sand which was carried continuously into the cleft , by a small stream of water which was kept constantly running ...
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... at its mouth , and extending them out toward the sea until deep water is reached , and then keeping open the passage between these piers by dredging out the sand and mud , as fast as it fills in , by means of dredging machines .
... at its mouth , and extending them out toward the sea until deep water is reached , and then keeping open the passage between these piers by dredging out the sand and mud , as fast as it fills in , by means of dredging machines .
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It looks like nothing but a small sand bank . " " Ah , but the great mass of it is under water , " said Grimkie . " They had to build it up from the bottom , where the water is forty or fifty feet deep .
It looks like nothing but a small sand bank . " " Ah , but the great mass of it is under water , " said Grimkie . " They had to build it up from the bottom , where the water is forty or fifty feet deep .
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I might smooth over a pair of the shoes with sand paper , " he added , after a little pause , " and then polish them , and they would be very pretty . There is a kind that are low and shallow , such as young girls use , and one of them ...
I might smooth over a pair of the shoes with sand paper , " he added , after a little pause , " and then polish them , and they would be very pretty . There is a kind that are low and shallow , such as young girls use , and one of them ...
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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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