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Somewhere in the distance , beyond the town perhaps , a motor cycle engine spluttered and died , spluttered and died again . Then only the intermittent sounds of livestock could be heard ; a mule brayed , a sleepy cock crowed faintly .
Somewhere in the distance , beyond the town perhaps , a motor cycle engine spluttered and died , spluttered and died again . Then only the intermittent sounds of livestock could be heard ; a mule brayed , a sleepy cock crowed faintly .
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A Dutch officer in our service , who was born in the town , led the attack which faild with so much spirit that he , with sixteen men only , surmounted the formidable exterior defences , crossed the ditch , & mounted the inner glacis on ...
A Dutch officer in our service , who was born in the town , led the attack which faild with so much spirit that he , with sixteen men only , surmounted the formidable exterior defences , crossed the ditch , & mounted the inner glacis on ...
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If the defensive works were what chiefly attracted Scott's attention at Bergen - op - Zoom , the countryside between that town and Antwerp , and the houses and churches of Antwerp itself held his interest on the next stage of his ...
If the defensive works were what chiefly attracted Scott's attention at Bergen - op - Zoom , the countryside between that town and Antwerp , and the houses and churches of Antwerp itself held his interest on the next stage of his ...
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JANUARY 1969 VOLUME 305 | 1 |
SURTSEY THE FORBIDDEN ISLAND Esmé Speakman | 13 |
TRUMPETERWHAT ARE YOU SOUNDING NOW? R T | 22 |
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