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Not so my nannie , an Irish - Argentinian lady called Nelly Jennings who claimed that I made a " tirrible mucksup of the bathroom " . Nelly was a formid- able personality . Starchily dressed in white , with stiff collar and long stiff ...
Not so my nannie , an Irish - Argentinian lady called Nelly Jennings who claimed that I made a " tirrible mucksup of the bathroom " . Nelly was a formid- able personality . Starchily dressed in white , with stiff collar and long stiff ...
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After all , the man who first called the thing he had created ' A Ship ' , was using a word which means a shape . As often with a woman , it was the form that caught his eye . Perhaps that is why ships are called ' she ' .
After all , the man who first called the thing he had created ' A Ship ' , was using a word which means a shape . As often with a woman , it was the form that caught his eye . Perhaps that is why ships are called ' she ' .
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Long ago called the Street of Adventure , it cannot provide general security and without that there must be anxiety in the air . Escape and consolation there must be . I have met no more self - destruc- tive drinking east of Temple Bar ...
Long ago called the Street of Adventure , it cannot provide general security and without that there must be anxiety in the air . Escape and consolation there must be . I have met no more self - destruc- tive drinking east of Temple Bar ...
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Valley of the Shadow Anthony French | 1 |
Indian Sketches | 13 |
Western Ocean L W J Fifield | 24 |
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