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Page 100
... sand dollars a year , has a son who draws a bad number , and his father buys him off for eight hundred dollars . Eight hundred dollars is one fifth of the father's income . So that in giving that sum to the government , he gives them ...
... sand dollars a year , has a son who draws a bad number , and his father buys him off for eight hundred dollars . Eight hundred dollars is one fifth of the father's income . So that in giving that sum to the government , he gives them ...
Page 102
... sand . The splendor of the military establish- ment in France is indescribably great . The mil- itary schools for the education of officers , the magnificent barracks for the residence of the troops erected in every part of the kingdom ...
... sand . The splendor of the military establish- ment in France is indescribably great . The mil- itary schools for the education of officers , the magnificent barracks for the residence of the troops erected in every part of the kingdom ...
Page 107
Jacob Abbott. " I might smooth over a pair of the shoes with sand paper , " he added , after a little pause , “ and then polish them , and they would be very pretty . There is a kind that are low and shallow , such as young girls use ...
Jacob Abbott. " I might smooth over a pair of the shoes with sand paper , " he added , after a little pause , “ and then polish them , and they would be very pretty . There is a kind that are low and shallow , such as young girls use ...
Page 130
... sand , with the walls and battlements of Mont St. Michel rising like an isolated mountain in the centre of it . When ... sands slop- ing off very gradually as they recede from the shore 130 GRANVILLE .
... sand , with the walls and battlements of Mont St. Michel rising like an isolated mountain in the centre of it . When ... sands slop- ing off very gradually as they recede from the shore 130 GRANVILLE .
Page 131
... sand . Then the next morning when we get up , we shall find ourselves on an island far out to sea , with the waves rolling , and vessels sail- ing all around us . " “ That would be very curious , " said Mrs. Morelle . " Indeed the " And ...
... sand . Then the next morning when we get up , we shall find ourselves on an island far out to sea , with the waves rolling , and vessels sail- ing all around us . " “ That would be very curious , " said Mrs. Morelle . " Indeed the " And ...
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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,...