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Page 62
... leading to the library above . They went up stairs and looked into the library room . It was a long apartment , with book - shelves fill- ing the sides and ends of it , and long tables at which a number of gentlemen were reading and ...
... leading to the library above . They went up stairs and looked into the library room . It was a long apartment , with book - shelves fill- ing the sides and ends of it , and long tables at which a number of gentlemen were reading and ...
Page 68
... leading into a court , with an arch over it on which was the sign , giving the name of the manufacturer , and the address of the house in Paris , where their principal depot was kept ; but without any appearance , on the street , of ...
... leading into a court , with an arch over it on which was the sign , giving the name of the manufacturer , and the address of the house in Paris , where their principal depot was kept ; but without any appearance , on the street , of ...
Page 77
... leading from it out to sea , are almost empty . Nothing re- mains in them , in fact , but small tortuous streams of turbid water winding through the centre , while everywhere else nothing is seen but a vast expanse of mud , in which ...
... leading from it out to sea , are almost empty . Nothing re- mains in them , in fact , but small tortuous streams of turbid water winding through the centre , while everywhere else nothing is seen but a vast expanse of mud , in which ...
Page 86
... leading up the declivity on the back side , and a steeper zigzag , suitable only for foot passengers , in front . * The party concluded to go up by the road and come down by the footpath . In the engraving we see them in the act of ...
... leading up the declivity on the back side , and a steeper zigzag , suitable only for foot passengers , in front . * The party concluded to go up by the road and come down by the footpath . In the engraving we see them in the act of ...
Page 94
... leading through them , and peasant's cot- tages , with children playing , and talking French in their play , before the doors , and rows of women kneeling in shallow boxes enclosed in front and at the sides , and open behind , at the ...
... leading through them , and peasant's cot- tages , with children playing , and talking French in their play , before the doors , and rows of women kneeling in shallow boxes enclosed in front and at the sides , and open behind , at the ...
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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,...