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Page 29
They sent in a Dutch vessel with armed men concealed on board . The mate of the vessel sent word on shore that the captain had died , and they asked permission to bury the body in a burying ground upon the island , near a chapel ...
They sent in a Dutch vessel with armed men concealed on board . The mate of the vessel sent word on shore that the captain had died , and they asked permission to bury the body in a burying ground upon the island , near a chapel ...
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... sending of an English vessel to inform William of what had occurredof William's ordering a fleet to be built and equipped - of the labors of the ship - builders in the forests in felling trees and building vessels― of the assembling ...
... sending of an English vessel to inform William of what had occurredof William's ordering a fleet to be built and equipped - of the labors of the ship - builders in the forests in felling trees and building vessels― of the assembling ...
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... Le Havre , means The Harbor , this being the harbor , par excellence , of the whole coast . Besides these there are several minor harbors , that are used principally for fishing smacks and other small vessels engaged in the ...
... Le Havre , means The Harbor , this being the harbor , par excellence , of the whole coast . Besides these there are several minor harbors , that are used principally for fishing smacks and other small vessels engaged in the ...
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Of these two basins one is kept always full , by means of prodigious gates , which are never opened to let vessels go in and out except when the tide is up . This is called the floating basin , because the vessels that are in it are ...
Of these two basins one is kept always full , by means of prodigious gates , which are never opened to let vessels go in and out except when the tide is up . This is called the floating basin , because the vessels that are in it are ...
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a vast expanse of mud , in which boats , smacks , and vessels of all sorts lie embedded , some more or less upright , and others tilted down upon their sides - all , of course , wholly immovable until the next tide comes in to float ...
a vast expanse of mud , in which boats , smacks , and vessels of all sorts lie embedded , some more or less upright , and others tilted down upon their sides - all , of course , wholly immovable until the next tide comes in to float ...
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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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