The Mountain Way: An Anthology in Prose and VerseDent, 1938 - 655 էջ |
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Էջ 193
... close to the icy parapet , and where the projecting crest was narrowest and weakest . It was resolved to cut boldly into the ice , and endeavour to hew deep enough to get a sloping passage on to the dome beyond . He stood close , not ...
... close to the icy parapet , and where the projecting crest was narrowest and weakest . It was resolved to cut boldly into the ice , and endeavour to hew deep enough to get a sloping passage on to the dome beyond . He stood close , not ...
Էջ 199
... close at hand , white and sparkling in the first rays of the sun , and a long ridge - a single level line in all this verticality - stretching away to the base of the final bastion ; then a crevasse opening its depths and seeming to ...
... close at hand , white and sparkling in the first rays of the sun , and a long ridge - a single level line in all this verticality - stretching away to the base of the final bastion ; then a crevasse opening its depths and seeming to ...
Էջ 456
... close up to me and I beat and massaged his body . I could not persuade him to make any active movement . His conscious- ness was not continuous nor complete . At intervals he repeated his brother's name weeping , without , however ...
... close up to me and I beat and massaged his body . I could not persuade him to make any active movement . His conscious- ness was not continuous nor complete . At intervals he repeated his brother's name weeping , without , however ...
Common terms and phrases
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