The Florence StoriesSheldon, 1867 |
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Page 56
... began . She also gave them a small pamphlet , containing a description of the succes- sive scenes represented on the tapestry , and then left them to themselves . The description was in French . Grimkie took the pamphlet and began to ...
... began . She also gave them a small pamphlet , containing a description of the succes- sive scenes represented on the tapestry , and then left them to themselves . The description was in French . Grimkie took the pamphlet and began to ...
Page 61
... began at the beginning and went on in regular order , they followed each other in succession along the range of cases , and did not interfere with one another at all . The lower portions of the cases were filled with antique relics and ...
... began at the beginning and went on in regular order , they followed each other in succession along the range of cases , and did not interfere with one another at all . The lower portions of the cases were filled with antique relics and ...
Page 66
... you begin to learn when you were very young ? " asked Grimkie . " Yes sir , " said the woman . " I began before I was seven years old , and now I am more than seventy . I have been working at it many long 66 THE LACE - MAKERS .
... you begin to learn when you were very young ? " asked Grimkie . " Yes sir , " said the woman . " I began before I was seven years old , and now I am more than seventy . I have been working at it many long 66 THE LACE - MAKERS .
Page 68
... began at once to speak English . The room which the party entered first was a counting - room , with large and handsome desks and tables in the centre of it , and cases around the sides , containing an infinite number of the paper ...
... began at once to speak English . The room which the party entered first was a counting - room , with large and handsome desks and tables in the centre of it , and cases around the sides , containing an infinite number of the paper ...
Page 82
... began to form plans for building a breakwater here , about two hundred years ago , and the actual work of constructing it has occupied a very long period . It is two miles long , and in connection with two islands not far from the two ...
... began to form plans for building a breakwater here , about two hundred years ago , and the actual work of constructing it has occupied a very long period . It is two miles long , and in connection with two islands not far from the two ...
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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,...