The Florence StoriesSheldon, 1867 |
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Page 110
... boat that would make . You could have the toe for the bows and the heel for the stern ; and you could set up a mast in the middle , by boring a hole down through the wood . It is hard wood , and very strong . " John seemed to look ...
... boat that would make . You could have the toe for the bows and the heel for the stern ; and you could set up a mast in the middle , by boring a hole down through the wood . It is hard wood , and very strong . " John seemed to look ...
Page 111
... boat , and that she was to make the other into a pincushion . Clumsy as the big kind of shoes are , the chil- dren run about in them over the pavements very well , and yet not so fast as they can without them , for in especial ...
... boat , and that she was to make the other into a pincushion . Clumsy as the big kind of shoes are , the chil- dren run about in them over the pavements very well , and yet not so fast as they can without them , for in especial ...
Page 139
... boat was to sail at twelve , that being the hour at which the tide served . A porter came and put all the baggage upon a queer looking wheel- barrow , as clumsy , so John thought , for a wheel- barrow , as the sabots were for shoes ...
... boat was to sail at twelve , that being the hour at which the tide served . A porter came and put all the baggage upon a queer looking wheel- barrow , as clumsy , so John thought , for a wheel- barrow , as the sabots were for shoes ...
Page 140
... boat , and it was a rule with Mrs. Morelle in traveling to conform always to the customs of the place , in regard to such things , whatever they might be . Following the porter , the party went along . the pier out to the place where ...
... boat , and it was a rule with Mrs. Morelle in traveling to conform always to the customs of the place , in regard to such things , whatever they might be . Following the porter , the party went along . the pier out to the place where ...
Page 150
... boat from here to Guernsey , our next place , almost every day . So we can stay here as long as we please , and then watch for a pleasant day to go to Guernsey . We can take the lodgings first for a week , and then after that by the day ...
... boat from here to Guernsey , our next place , almost every day . So we can stay here as long as we please , and then watch for a pleasant day to go to Guernsey . We can take the lodgings first for a week , and then after that by the day ...
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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,...