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... shores of it . Then we should sail through Spithead . ” " I don't see how we can sail through any kind of a head , " said Florence . " Oh , Spithead is not a head , " said Grimkie , " it is a great anchorage ground for the English navy ...
... shores of it . Then we should sail through Spithead . ” " I don't see how we can sail through any kind of a head , " said Florence . " Oh , Spithead is not a head , " said Grimkie , " it is a great anchorage ground for the English navy ...
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... shores . They could almost shoot a can- non ball to the land , I should think . How far can they shoot a cannon ball , Grimkie ? " --- Grimkie said that with the newly invented guns which throw a sort of bolt , shaped some- what like a ...
... shores . They could almost shoot a can- non ball to the land , I should think . How far can they shoot a cannon ball , Grimkie ? " --- Grimkie said that with the newly invented guns which throw a sort of bolt , shaped some- what like a ...
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... shores ? " asked Florence . " I will see , " said Grimkie . So saying he took from his pocket book a small piece of ... shore . He marked with his pencil the points on the edge of the paper which corresponded with these two positions ...
... shores ? " asked Florence . " I will see , " said Grimkie . So saying he took from his pocket book a small piece of ... shore . He marked with his pencil the points on the edge of the paper which corresponded with these two positions ...
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... shores of it are formed of cliffs of rocks which extend all around it except in one place where there is a harbor . The French had in some way got possession of the island and the English wished to get it back again . But there was no ...
... shores of it are formed of cliffs of rocks which extend all around it except in one place where there is a harbor . The French had in some way got possession of the island and the English wished to get it back again . But there was no ...
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... shore with the body should not bring with them any arms at all , not even the smallest dagger . " The shipmen agreed to this , and they low- ered a great coffin box into a boat and came with it to the shore . When they got to the shore ...
... shore with the body should not bring with them any arms at all , not even the smallest dagger . " The shipmen agreed to this , and they low- ered a great coffin box into a boat and came with it to the shore . When they got to the shore ...
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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,...