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Page 94
... roads 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 ...
... roads 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 ...
Page 104
... road- way , on the top , and a parapet wall , immensely thick , on the outside of it , made to protect the roadway both from the sea and from bombs and balls shot against the Digue from enemies ' ships in the offing . There were places ...
... road- way , on the top , and a parapet wall , immensely thick , on the outside of it , made to protect the roadway both from the sea and from bombs and balls shot against the Digue from enemies ' ships in the offing . There were places ...
Page 105
... road by which they came as far as to the junction of the St. Lo branch . Here they left the train , and passing across a broad platform they took their places in a carriage of another train marked for St. Lo . After proceeding on the ...
... road by which they came as far as to the junction of the St. Lo branch . Here they left the train , and passing across a broad platform they took their places in a carriage of another train marked for St. Lo . After proceeding on the ...
Page 106
... roads leading from one to the other - and a grand terrace on the brow of a cliff commanding a beautiful view of the valley , with a river , and many pretty roads , and the railway , all meandering through it in a charming manner -and a ...
... roads leading from one to the other - and a grand terrace on the brow of a cliff commanding a beautiful view of the valley , with a river , and many pretty roads , and the railway , all meandering through it in a charming manner -and a ...
Page 111
... made the boy get off . So he dropped off the steps back into the road , and there , put- ting on his wooden shoes again , he walked along at his leisure . CHAPTER XII . RIDE IN THE DILIGENCE . AT St. THE WOODEN SHOES . 111.
... made the boy get off . So he dropped off the steps back into the road , and there , put- ting on his wooden shoes again , he walked along at his leisure . CHAPTER XII . RIDE IN THE DILIGENCE . AT St. THE WOODEN SHOES . 111.
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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,...