Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Հատոր 167J. Mason., 1900 |
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... stand awaiting a ' bus ; men and women scurry across the road like rabbits bolting from a brake . There is a block of clumsy vehicles at the corner of Hamilton Place ; cabs , carts , vans , drays , omnibuses , with a stray motor - car ...
... stand awaiting a ' bus ; men and women scurry across the road like rabbits bolting from a brake . There is a block of clumsy vehicles at the corner of Hamilton Place ; cabs , carts , vans , drays , omnibuses , with a stray motor - car ...
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... standing rice , of a greenness which seems too vivid for Nature , and in the near foreground half - a - dozen gigantic blocks of granite hunch their grey shoulders above the crops . It is with the aid of these rocks that the white man ...
... standing rice , of a greenness which seems too vivid for Nature , and in the near foreground half - a - dozen gigantic blocks of granite hunch their grey shoulders above the crops . It is with the aid of these rocks that the white man ...
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... stands there shivering , a forlorn figure dripping with water , palsied with cold , gathering his strength for the return journey . It is the raw hour before the dawn , when vitality is ever at its lowest ebb . The vast darkness of the ...
... stands there shivering , a forlorn figure dripping with water , palsied with cold , gathering his strength for the return journey . It is the raw hour before the dawn , when vitality is ever at its lowest ebb . The vast darkness of the ...
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... 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 opinion that it is a mistake to introduce civilised ...
... 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 opinion that it is a mistake to introduce civilised ...
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... stand up to us again in stock- ades , and we shall have to do all our fighting in dense jungle . And it will always be miserable , heart - breaking , squalid , ineffec- tive . A few dead to bury , a few wounded to patch , an enemy that ...
... stand up to us again in stock- ades , and we shall have to do all our fighting in dense jungle . And it will always be miserable , heart - breaking , squalid , ineffec- tive . A few dead to bury , a few wounded to patch , an enemy that ...
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