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He looked like one of those old Bessarabian characters whom changes of frontier and master leave untouched , because they see it happen so often in the course of a long life . He spoke about the Queen as any gardener might speak of the ...
He looked like one of those old Bessarabian characters whom changes of frontier and master leave untouched , because they see it happen so often in the course of a long life . He spoke about the Queen as any gardener might speak of the ...
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It is , of course , perfectly true that a very large number of people were drowned in the first floods : we shall probably never know how many perished . It is not true that the survivors were starving and disease- ridden .
It is , of course , perfectly true that a very large number of people were drowned in the first floods : we shall probably never know how many perished . It is not true that the survivors were starving and disease- ridden .
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I offered to take over the re- mainder of Susan's trick at the helm and , after laying - off a corrected course , carried on with the aid of my small hand - bearing compass . No harm had been done , but it was lucky the clouds cleared ...
I offered to take over the re- mainder of Susan's trick at the helm and , after laying - off a corrected course , carried on with the aid of my small hand - bearing compass . No harm had been done , but it was lucky the clouds cleared ...
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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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| Title | Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 309 Blackwood's Magazine |
| Publisher | William Blackwood, 1971 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 9 Mar 2022 |
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