The Florence StoriesSheldon, 1867 |
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Page 12
... told Florence and Grimkie that there were several ways of going from Paris to London , and that if they would find a map , and study out the various ways , and learn the advantages and disadvantages of each , and the comparative cost ...
... told Florence and Grimkie that there were several ways of going from Paris to London , and that if they would find a map , and study out the various ways , and learn the advantages and disadvantages of each , and the comparative cost ...
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... told her about the Channel Islands , and particularly about Normandy , the country through which the chief part of their journey lay , on the way to the place where they would embark for the islands . Most of the stories which Grimkie told ...
... told her about the Channel Islands , and particularly about Normandy , the country through which the chief part of their journey lay , on the way to the place where they would embark for the islands . Most of the stories which Grimkie told ...
Page 39
... told Florence and John , about the places of interest on the way . He also explained to her - what he had not spoken of to Florence and John - that his guide book said that Bayeux , where they would stop to see the tapestry , was ...
... told Florence and John , about the places of interest on the way . He also explained to her - what he had not spoken of to Florence and John - that his guide book said that Bayeux , where they would stop to see the tapestry , was ...
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... told her that they had come to see the tapestry , she conducted them across the court to the front door of the library building , and ushered them in , * They entered first a sort of hall , the walls of which were hung with pictures ...
... told her that they had come to see the tapestry , she conducted them across the court to the front door of the library building , and ushered them in , * They entered first a sort of hall , the walls of which were hung with pictures ...
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... told his mother how young the drummers looked . " Yes , " said Mrs. Morelle , " poor things ! they are conscripts , I suppose , just drawn . " 66 This supposition of Mrs. Morelle's was correct . They were conscripts just drawn . In ...
... told his mother how young the drummers looked . " Yes , " said Mrs. Morelle , " poor things ! they are conscripts , I suppose , just drawn . " 66 This supposition of Mrs. Morelle's was correct . They were conscripts just drawn . In ...
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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,...