Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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... close prox- imity to their companions ' feet , their discordant snores keeping time to the beating of the pro- peller . In the extreme bow stands a Malay lolling above the hand - wheel . He knows the shallow and difficult river like the ...
... close prox- imity to their companions ' feet , their discordant snores keeping time to the beating of the pro- peller . In the extreme bow stands a Malay lolling above the hand - wheel . He knows the shallow and difficult river like the ...
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... close . When darkness falls the Malay coxswain creeps to his side and prays to be suffered to let go the anchor for the night . The river ahead is shallow , he says , the launch cannot fail to run aground many times before the dawn . If ...
... close . When darkness falls the Malay coxswain creeps to his side and prays to be suffered to let go the anchor for the night . The river ahead is shallow , he says , the launch cannot fail to run aground many times before the dawn . If ...
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... close order during his short absence , and he guides them to the ford in a compact body . Then twenty burly Sikhs strip to the buff , and , joining hands , wade into mid - stream . Some of them lose their foothold and flounder under ...
... close order during his short absence , and he guides them to the ford in a compact body . Then twenty burly Sikhs strip to the buff , and , joining hands , wade into mid - stream . Some of them lose their foothold and flounder under ...
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... close we shan't really knock them if they don't stand up to us . " The commander swears in his turn . " Then what shall I do ? " he asks . The political officer knits his forehead into anxious puckers . Theoretically he holds the ...
... close we shan't really knock them if they don't stand up to us . " The commander swears in his turn . " Then what shall I do ? " he asks . The political officer knits his forehead into anxious puckers . Theoretically he holds the ...
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... Close to me on the steps of the Throne were two prominent members of the Legis- lature who in '32 had been pro- minent members of the Oxford De- bating Society : Mr Gladstone the Tory orator of '32 become the Radical of '67 , and Mr ...
... Close to me on the steps of the Throne were two prominent members of the Legis- lature who in '32 had been pro- minent members of the Oxford De- bating Society : Mr Gladstone the Tory orator of '32 become the Radical of '67 , and Mr ...
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