Pleasure by the BusloadHarper, 1961 - 276 էջ An account of the author's travels in Portugal. |
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... English with the ease and fluency of an English or American woman . Gina whispered to me she spoke some four , perhaps more , other languages in the same manner . Her native tongue , of course , was Greek . The Ambassador spoke English ...
... English with the ease and fluency of an English or American woman . Gina whispered to me she spoke some four , perhaps more , other languages in the same manner . Her native tongue , of course , was Greek . The Ambassador spoke English ...
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... English colony is the " English Factory House ” built in 1785. It is an extraordinary institution , not a club , and certainly not a factory . Whitehead , who was the Consul at the time , began its building then . The purpose was a ...
... English colony is the " English Factory House ” built in 1785. It is an extraordinary institution , not a club , and certainly not a factory . Whitehead , who was the Consul at the time , began its building then . The purpose was a ...
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... English grammar notebooks , and some novels . She was eager to try her English with me , and was quite good , amazingly good when I learned she had had no lessons , but had , like the man at the Negresco , written down phonetically the ...
... English grammar notebooks , and some novels . She was eager to try her English with me , and was quite good , amazingly good when I learned she had had no lessons , but had , like the man at the Negresco , written down phonetically the ...
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