Descriptive Essays, Հատոր 2J. Murray, 1857 |
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... passing train with astonishment and fear ploughmen held their breath ; the loose horse galloped from it , and then , suddenly stopping , turned round , stared at it , and at last snorted aloud . But the " nine days ' wonder " soon came ...
... passing train with astonishment and fear ploughmen held their breath ; the loose horse galloped from it , and then , suddenly stopping , turned round , stared at it , and at last snorted aloud . But the " nine days ' wonder " soon came ...
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... passes close by her . It is the same with mankind . On entering a railway station we merely mutter to a clerk in a box where we want to go , -say “ How much ? ” — see him horizontally poke a card into a little machine that pinches it ...
... passes close by her . It is the same with mankind . On entering a railway station we merely mutter to a clerk in a box where we want to go , -say “ How much ? ” — see him horizontally poke a card into a little machine that pinches it ...
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... pass between several of the inmates of the passing train and those seated in or on the motley line of conveyances standing stock still , which have been awaiting their arrival . A wife suddenly recognizes her husband ; a mother her four ...
... pass between several of the inmates of the passing train and those seated in or on the motley line of conveyances standing stock still , which have been awaiting their arrival . A wife suddenly recognizes her husband ; a mother her four ...
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... passing rapidly through the air . In- deed , when a gale of wind and rain from the north - west , sweeping over the surface of the earth at its ordinary rate of , say sixty miles an hour , suddenly meets the dri- ver of the London and ...
... passing rapidly through the air . In- deed , when a gale of wind and rain from the north - west , sweeping over the surface of the earth at its ordinary rate of , say sixty miles an hour , suddenly meets the dri- ver of the London and ...
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... passing traveller ever thanks them , and which he probably does not even know that they perform . It is , however , providentially de- creed that the human heart warms under almost every description of responsibility ; and , accordingly ...
... passing traveller ever thanks them , and which he probably does not even know that they perform . It is , however , providentially de- creed that the human heart warms under almost every description of responsibility ; and , accordingly ...
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