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Page 49
... seats at the cathedral , Mrs. Morelle and her party took possession of some of the chairs , Grimkie having chosen a place where they could see well what was going on . Very soon after they had taken their seats , a tidy - looking young ...
... seats at the cathedral , Mrs. Morelle and her party took possession of some of the chairs , Grimkie having chosen a place where they could see well what was going on . Very soon after they had taken their seats , a tidy - looking young ...
Page 51
... seat all the time as a silent protest against it . " " When I see people endeavoring to worship God , and actually worshipping him as well as they know how , " rejoined Edward , " if I know better than they , it seems to me that instead ...
... seat all the time as a silent protest against it . " " When I see people endeavoring to worship God , and actually worshipping him as well as they know how , " rejoined Edward , " if I know better than they , it seems to me that instead ...
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... seats here and there under them . Children were playing in various places under these trees , the nurses who had the care of them sitting in the mean- time upon the seats , and engaged in knitting or sewing . On one side of the square ...
... seats here and there under them . Children were playing in various places under these trees , the nurses who had the care of them sitting in the mean- time upon the seats , and engaged in knitting or sewing . On one side of the square ...
Page 113
... seats along the sides and a door behind . The front was what is called a coupé , with doors in the sides , one seat facing the horses , and glass windows in front . Above , there was a large and comfortable seat * Pronounced coopeh ...
... seats along the sides and a door behind . The front was what is called a coupé , with doors in the sides , one seat facing the horses , and glass windows in front . Above , there was a large and comfortable seat * Pronounced coopeh ...
Page 114
... seat above , behind that of the driver , is covered by a kind of chaise top , made to put up or down according to the state of the weather . The diligence at St. Lo , however , was a smaller kind . There was no interior , and the seat ...
... seat above , behind that of the driver , is covered by a kind of chaise top , made to put up or down according to the state of the weather . The diligence at St. Lo , however , was a smaller kind . There was no interior , and the seat ...
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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,...