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... ride . There passed in review before them as they were trundled rapidly along the road , a succession of smooth plains or hill sides , divided into patches of different colored vegetation , like the beds of a garden , with long rows of ...
... ride . There passed in review before them as they were trundled rapidly along the road , a succession of smooth plains or hill sides , divided into patches of different colored vegetation , like the beds of a garden , with long rows of ...
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... riding at anchor requires a great deal of space . In the first place it is necessary , when the anchor is let down ... rides with her head to the anchor , and she plays all around the anchor , according as the tides or cur- rents or ...
... riding at anchor requires a great deal of space . In the first place it is necessary , when the anchor is let down ... rides with her head to the anchor , and she plays all around the anchor , according as the tides or cur- rents or ...
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... riding away from the station toward the hotel , " we have done with the railroad for a long time . We must go by the rest of the way to the sea in a diligence , and then we shall have three voyages to make by sea before we shall see a ...
... riding away from the station toward the hotel , " we have done with the railroad for a long time . We must go by the rest of the way to the sea in a diligence , and then we shall have three voyages to make by sea before we shall see a ...
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... riding in an omnibus , in the environs of a French town , a small boy came running behind to get a ride . Finding that he could not run fast enough he stooped down and took off his wooden shoes , doing it so dexterously and so quick ...
... riding in an omnibus , in the environs of a French town , a small boy came running behind to get a ride . Finding that he could not run fast enough he stooped down and took off his wooden shoes , doing it so dexterously and so quick ...
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Jacob Abbott. CHAPTER XII . RIDE IN THE DILIGENCE . AT St. Lo , where the railroad came to an end , our party were still thirty or forty miles from Granville , which as will be seen by the map , was the port where ... RIDE IN THE DILIGENCE €
Jacob Abbott. CHAPTER XII . RIDE IN THE DILIGENCE . AT St. Lo , where the railroad came to an end , our party were still thirty or forty miles from Granville , which as will be seen by the map , was the port where ... RIDE IN THE DILIGENCE €
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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,...