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Page 89
... castle that crowned the sum- mit , they stopped to take another view - one far more extensive than that which they had enjoyed at their stopping place below . The first thing which attracted their attention was the break- water , which ...
... castle that crowned the sum- mit , they stopped to take another view - one far more extensive than that which they had enjoyed at their stopping place below . The first thing which attracted their attention was the break- water , which ...
Page 90
... castles built upon it . Those are great batteries of cannon . On the walls of them are the biggest guns in the world . They can throw balls and bombshells out over the water farther than we can see . Just as soon as an English ship 90 ...
... castles built upon it . Those are great batteries of cannon . On the walls of them are the biggest guns in the world . They can throw balls and bombshells out over the water farther than we can see . Just as soon as an English ship 90 ...
Page 91
... castle to go up and down by . There was only room for two persons to walk together . Mrs. Morelle and John went first , and Grim- kie and Florence came behind . " How do you know that the Digue is twice as big as the biggest pyramid ...
... castle to go up and down by . There was only room for two persons to walk together . Mrs. Morelle and John went first , and Grim- kie and Florence came behind . " How do you know that the Digue is twice as big as the biggest pyramid ...
Page 93
... were de- lightful . There were precipitous hills and rocky cliffs seen in every direction , all surmounted with castles , forts and batteries , and some of them bearing tall flag staffs with the tri - colored flag CHERBOURG . 93.
... were de- lightful . There were precipitous hills and rocky cliffs seen in every direction , all surmounted with castles , forts and batteries , and some of them bearing tall flag staffs with the tri - colored flag CHERBOURG . 93.
Page 102
... castles and batteries which line the coasts - these and many other such spectacles continually meet the eyes of the people of France ; while in the United States , in time of peace , a real soldier is very seldom seen . * It is perhaps ...
... castles and batteries which line the coasts - these and many other such spectacles continually meet the eyes of the people of France ; while in the United States , in time of peace , a real soldier is very seldom seen . * It is perhaps ...
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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,...