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Jacob Abbott. CHAPTER PAGE XIX . - A DRIVE . 196 XX . OVER THE SANDS ... 206 XXI . - FROM JERSEY TO GUERNSEY . 220 XXII . - GUERNSEY .. 233 XXIII - CONCLUSION . 242 ENGRAVINGS . PAGI I - PASSING THE CORBIÈRES . II viii CONTENTS .
Jacob Abbott. CHAPTER PAGE XIX . - A DRIVE . 196 XX . OVER THE SANDS ... 206 XXI . - FROM JERSEY TO GUERNSEY . 220 XXII . - GUERNSEY .. 233 XXIII - CONCLUSION . 242 ENGRAVINGS . PAGI I - PASSING THE CORBIÈRES . II viii CONTENTS .
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... sand which was carried continuously into the cleft , by a small stream of water which was kept constantly running while the work was going on . The party remained several days at Caen , spending the time in rambling about the town , and ...
... sand which was carried continuously into the cleft , by a small stream of water which was kept constantly running while the work was going on . The party remained several days at Caen , spending the time in rambling about the town , and ...
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... sand and mud , as fast as it fills in , by means of dredging machines . There are also usually two large ba- sins excavated at the inner end of the piers , near the town . Of these two basins one is kept always full , by means of ...
... sand and mud , as fast as it fills in , by means of dredging machines . There are also usually two large ba- sins excavated at the inner end of the piers , near the town . Of these two basins one is kept always full , by means of ...
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... 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 . " " The bigness of it , then , is of no consequence to us , " said ...
... 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 . " " The bigness of it , then , is of no consequence to us , " said ...
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... sand are taken away from their families and homes , in this way , every year . It is true that those who draw the bad num- bers , as they call them , can be released by pay · ing a sum of money sufficient to provide a sub- THE ...
... sand are taken away from their families and homes , in this way , every year . It is true that those who draw the bad num- bers , as they call them , can be released by pay · ing a sum of money sufficient to provide a sub- THE ...
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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,...