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Now , first , " said Grimkie , " let us count up the number of routes and see how many there are that we have got to choose from . ” So he counted the steamer tracks that were laid down upon the map , and found that there were six .
Now , first , " said Grimkie , " let us count up the number of routes and see how many there are that we have got to choose from . ” So he counted the steamer tracks that were laid down upon the map , and found that there were six .
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We can not go across in exactly the narrowest place , " said Grimkie , " for that would be from this point , in the middle between Calais and Boulogne ; and there is no steamer that goes across there . I suppose there is not any harbor ...
We can not go across in exactly the narrowest place , " said Grimkie , " for that would be from this point , in the middle between Calais and Boulogne ; and there is no steamer that goes across there . I suppose there is not any harbor ...
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S the way of Boulogne and Folkstone , on account of the fact that so much larger a portion of the route is by sea - the speed of a steamer through the water being usually much less than that of a locomotive on the land .
S the way of Boulogne and Folkstone , on account of the fact that so much larger a portion of the route is by sea - the speed of a steamer through the water being usually much less than that of a locomotive on the land .
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... very well for merchant vessels that are to come in and lie alongside a quay , to discharge their cargoes , and also for the small steamers which go to and fro across the channel , taking travelers from England to France or bringing ...
... very well for merchant vessels that are to come in and lie alongside a quay , to discharge their cargoes , and also for the small steamers which go to and fro across the channel , taking travelers from England to France or bringing ...
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It was on Tuesday that the party made this journey to Granville , and the steamer for Jersey would not sail until Thursday . There were steamers only twice a week , Thursdays and Sundays . Of course if they were to embark on Thursday ...
It was on Tuesday that the party made this journey to Granville , and the steamer for Jersey would not sail until Thursday . There were steamers only twice a week , Thursdays and Sundays . Of course if they were to embark on Thursday ...
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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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