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Page 45
... took their places in a little omnibus which came for them at the hotel , and were conveyed to the station ; and there taking the train which came by soon afterward , they proceeded to Bayeux and took lodgings at the hotel of Madame ...
... took their places in a little omnibus which came for them at the hotel , and were conveyed to the station ; and there taking the train which came by soon afterward , they proceeded to Bayeux and took lodgings at the hotel of Madame ...
Page 49
... took possession of some of the chairs , Grimkie having chosen a place where they could see well what was going on . Very soon after they had taken their seats , a tidy - looking young woman , dressed in the costume of the country , came ...
... took possession of some of the chairs , Grimkie having chosen a place where they could see well what was going on . Very soon after they had taken their seats , a tidy - looking young woman , dressed in the costume of the country , came ...
Page 56
... took the pamphlet and began to read , translating the descriptions into English as he read , while the rest of the party walked slowly along , following the descriptions as Grim- kie read them . In this manner they went slowly on until ...
... took the pamphlet and began to read , translating the descriptions into English as he read , while the rest of the party walked slowly along , following the descriptions as Grim- kie read them . In this manner they went slowly on until ...
Page 72
... took leave of Mademoiselle Pagny , and of her polite assistants , and returned to the hotel . Travelers visiting such a place as Bayeux , when they see how simple the work of making the lace seems , and how easily all the apparatus that ...
... took leave of Mademoiselle Pagny , and of her polite assistants , and returned to the hotel . Travelers visiting such a place as Bayeux , when they see how simple the work of making the lace seems , and how easily all the apparatus that ...
Page 86
... took tickets for that place , at the Bayeux station , when they left Bayeux , and after four or five hours of pleasant journeying through a charming country , they arrived at the great seaport , and proceeded immediately to the hotel ...
... took tickets for that place , at the Bayeux station , when they left Bayeux , and after four or five hours of pleasant journeying through a charming country , they arrived at the great seaport , and proceeded immediately to the hotel ...
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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,...