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Page 307
reached the French side , the tide would be low and the steamer would coast up and down for an hour or more before it was possible to cross the bar . At last we would glide into quiet harbour - water . Bells and counter - bells would ...
reached the French side , the tide would be low and the steamer would coast up and down for an hour or more before it was possible to cross the bar . At last we would glide into quiet harbour - water . Bells and counter - bells would ...
Page 460
By his own reckon- ing I knew the day when he would obey local rule and I was thus able to meet him in the drive before he reached the buildings . Whereas I carried with me a parcel containing three pounds of shin of beef ...
By his own reckon- ing I knew the day when he would obey local rule and I was thus able to meet him in the drive before he reached the buildings . Whereas I carried with me a parcel containing three pounds of shin of beef ...
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Whatever their brilliance , however , none of them quite reached her status of a legend . How many of the matriarchs reached that eminence ? George Eliot was too serious , utterly devoid of the comic element ( although she could create ...
Whatever their brilliance , however , none of them quite reached her status of a legend . How many of the matriarchs reached that eminence ? George Eliot was too serious , utterly devoid of the comic element ( although she could create ...
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