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-the natural smell of man in his wild state , but compounded with brandy , and snuff , and the tobacco that came in from the American plantations , in shiny black coils like a snake . They called it ' twist ' .
-the natural smell of man in his wild state , but compounded with brandy , and snuff , and the tobacco that came in from the American plantations , in shiny black coils like a snake . They called it ' twist ' .
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As a Christmas present I bought Denry a copy of that immortal classic , Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne , a section of which I read to him each evening after he'd finished his work , for , as Denry put it , he didn't ...
As a Christmas present I bought Denry a copy of that immortal classic , Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne , a section of which I read to him each evening after he'd finished his work , for , as Denry put it , he didn't ...
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Though no facet of myrmecology escaped Forel's inquiring mind , it was natural that the psyche of the ant interested him most . Alas , in his later days he got the mind of ant and man mixed up and ended as one of the world's prime ...
Though no facet of myrmecology escaped Forel's inquiring mind , it was natural that the psyche of the ant interested him most . Alas , in his later days he got the mind of ant and man mixed up and ended as one of the world's prime ...
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