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... remained several days at Caen , spending the time in rambling about the town , and in making excursions in the environs , and then one morning , after breakfast , they all took their places in a little omnibus which came for them at the ...
... remained several days at Caen , spending the time in rambling about the town , and in making excursions in the environs , and then one morning , after breakfast , they all took their places in a little omnibus which came for them at the ...
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... remained standing near the end of the drawbridge , by which they had come out from the port , looking at the musicians , while Grimkie and John walked out toward and among them , in order to obtain the full effect of the deafening ...
... remained standing near the end of the drawbridge , by which they had come out from the port , looking at the musicians , while Grimkie and John walked out toward and among them , in order to obtain the full effect of the deafening ...
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... , or of deadly fevers in remote lands — in Italy , in Russia , in China - fighting in quarrels in which they have themselves no appreciable concern . CHAPTER XI . THE WOODEN SHOES . THE party remained THE CONSCRIPTION . 103.
... , or of deadly fevers in remote lands — in Italy , in Russia , in China - fighting in quarrels in which they have themselves no appreciable concern . CHAPTER XI . THE WOODEN SHOES . THE party remained THE CONSCRIPTION . 103.
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Jacob Abbott. CHAPTER XI . THE WOODEN SHOES . THE party remained for some days at Cher- bourg , during which time they rode and rambled all about the town and the environs again and again , until they had become quite familiar with the ...
Jacob Abbott. CHAPTER XI . THE WOODEN SHOES . THE party remained for some days at Cher- bourg , during which time they rode and rambled all about the town and the environs again and again , until they had become quite familiar with the ...
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... remained several days at St. Lo , rambling about the town , and making excursions in the environs . On the day before they were to leave the town in order to continue their jour- ney , Grimkie enquired where the diligence office was ...
... remained several days at St. Lo , rambling about the town , and making excursions in the environs . On the day before they were to leave the town in order to continue their jour- ney , Grimkie enquired where the diligence office was ...
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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,...