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Dover , Calais , Folkstone and Boulogne are all very interesting towns , with much striking and beautiful scenery in the environs of them , and all are connected with many curious historical associations . These circumstances make it ...
Dover , Calais , Folkstone and Boulogne are all very interesting towns , with much striking and beautiful scenery in the environs of them , and all are connected with many curious historical associations . These circumstances make it ...
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In the first place we shall have a delightful journey , down the river Seine to Rouen , which they say is a very curious old town . We can stop at Rouen a day or two if we like . Then we can go from Rouen down to Havre in a river ...
In the first place we shall have a delightful journey , down the river Seine to Rouen , which they say is a very curious old town . We can stop at Rouen a day or two if we like . Then we can go from Rouen down to Havre in a river ...
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William and Matilda both built their abbeys in the town of Caen , -one at one end of the town , and the other at the other . Matilda's was an abbey for women , and William's , one for men . Each consisted of a magnificent church ...
William and Matilda both built their abbeys in the town of Caen , -one at one end of the town , and the other at the other . Matilda's was an abbey for women , and William's , one for men . Each consisted of a magnificent church ...
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It is in the town of Bayeux where it has always been , and from which it derives its name of the Bayeux tapestry . For several centuries it was kept in the cathedral , among other treasures , but it is now deposited in a public library ...
It is in the town of Bayeux where it has always been , and from which it derives its name of the Bayeux tapestry . For several centuries it was kept in the cathedral , among other treasures , but it is now deposited in a public library ...
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In one of these wars he took the town of Mantes , and he ordered it to be burnt . After the fire had subsided , he was riding through the streets to see the mischief that he had made , and his horse stepped on some of the embers that ...
In one of these wars he took the town of Mantes , and he ordered it to be burnt . After the fire had subsided , he was riding through the streets to see the mischief that he had made , and his horse stepped on some of the embers that ...
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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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