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Red tape for exsoldiers was cut in half . We were elated . If we hurried with the documents we could go on the first liner , the Volendam , an ancient troop transport that had survived the war and was pressed into service as a migrant ...
Red tape for exsoldiers was cut in half . We were elated . If we hurried with the documents we could go on the first liner , the Volendam , an ancient troop transport that had survived the war and was pressed into service as a migrant ...
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An enormous woman with jet - black hair and forearms and a torso like a hillock of milk - white blancmange , half undressed for bed , was leaning out of the window opposite and complaining to an invisible neighbour about the heat .
An enormous woman with jet - black hair and forearms and a torso like a hillock of milk - white blancmange , half undressed for bed , was leaning out of the window opposite and complaining to an invisible neighbour about the heat .
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water which cuts the island almost in half , was a rare place for widgeon , mallard , teal , pochard and the shelduck which nested in the rabbit holes . But then there came a flood - I think it must have been in 1884.
water which cuts the island almost in half , was a rare place for widgeon , mallard , teal , pochard and the shelduck which nested in the rabbit holes . But then there came a flood - I think it must have been in 1884.
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A DAY ON THE LOCH BY A J MCGEOCH | 134 |
SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE MURDER OF PORTEOUS BY | 212 |
SOME LESSER CAPTAINS | 237 |
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