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Page 191
... the party spent about two hours in rambling about among them and in resting in sunny places among the rocks . They then made their way back to the quay , where they arrived about three THE CASTLE OF MONT ORGUEIL . 191.
... the party spent about two hours in rambling about among them and in resting in sunny places among the rocks . They then made their way back to the quay , where they arrived about three THE CASTLE OF MONT ORGUEIL . 191.
Page 192
Jacob Abbott. back to the quay , where they arrived about three o'clock . " And now , " said Grimkie , " we have got an hour more before the omnibus goes , and what shall we do ? " " Let us walk along the quay , " said John , " and look ...
Jacob Abbott. back to the quay , where they arrived about three o'clock . " And now , " said Grimkie , " we have got an hour more before the omnibus goes , and what shall we do ? " " Let us walk along the quay , " said John , " and look ...
Page 205
... quay for half an hour , Mrs. Morelle and Florence entered the carriage again to ride up the zigzag road to the upper level , while Grimkie and John clam- bered up a series of rough and stony paths which led across , connecting the ...
... quay for half an hour , Mrs. Morelle and Florence entered the carriage again to ride up the zigzag road to the upper level , while Grimkie and John clam- bered up a series of rough and stony paths which led across , connecting the ...
Page 207
... quay to some distance beyond the basins enclosed by the piers , they came to the place where the sandy ridge which at low tide formed the road to go to the castle , came out upon the beach . Grimkie was very nearly right in his calcula ...
... quay to some distance beyond the basins enclosed by the piers , they came to the place where the sandy ridge which at low tide formed the road to go to the castle , came out upon the beach . Grimkie was very nearly right in his calcula ...
Page 219
... the party reached the main- land . They stopped a few minutes on the quay to look back to the castle , over the road by which they had come , and then went home . CHAPTER XXI . FROM JERSEY TO GUERNSEY . THE time OVER THE SANDS . 219.
... the party reached the main- land . They stopped a few minutes on the quay to look back to the castle , over the road by which they had come , and then went home . CHAPTER XXI . FROM JERSEY TO GUERNSEY . THE time OVER THE SANDS . 219.
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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,...