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Page 40
... wishes , and a few days afterward the party repaired to the station of St. Lazare , from which the grand trunk of the western system of railways leaves Paris , and commenced their journey . The day was fine and the party had a ...
... wishes , and a few days afterward the party repaired to the station of St. Lazare , from which the grand trunk of the western system of railways leaves Paris , and commenced their journey . The day was fine and the party had a ...
Page 41
... wish I knew whether they were or not , " said John . " I will tell you what we will do , " said Grimkie . " We will look at the pictures of the horses in the Bayeux tapestry , and there we can see how the saddles were made in those old ...
... wish I knew whether they were or not , " said John . " I will tell you what we will do , " said Grimkie . " We will look at the pictures of the horses in the Bayeux tapestry , and there we can see how the saddles were made in those old ...
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... wish to buy it directly from the lacemakers themselves , or at least from some of the lacemaking establishments . " " Ah , yes , " rejoined Florence ; " that will be much the best plan . " CHAPTER VII . THE LACE - MAKERS . DURING the ...
... wish to buy it directly from the lacemakers themselves , or at least from some of the lacemaking establishments . " " Ah , yes , " rejoined Florence ; " that will be much the best plan . " CHAPTER VII . THE LACE - MAKERS . DURING the ...
Page 101
... wishes for regular soldiers they must hire them as they would workmen of any kind , and the expense must be met by a tax levied fairly upon the whole community . This makes the maintenance of an army very expensive in America , and ...
... wishes for regular soldiers they must hire them as they would workmen of any kind , and the expense must be met by a tax levied fairly upon the whole community . This makes the maintenance of an army very expensive in America , and ...
Page 106
... wish to do anything with them , " said John , " if you get them for a curiosity . " " I get tired of anything that is merely a curiosity , " said Grimkie ; " but if I can put it to some use , then I don't get tired of it , and it is a ...
... wish to do anything with them , " said John , " if you get them for a curiosity . " " I get tired of anything that is merely a curiosity , " said Grimkie ; " but if I can put it to some use , then I don't get tired of it , and it is a ...
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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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