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Page 193
... Once , when there was a slight pause - a truffle was engaging him - I launched a frail remark ; but it was swept off at once in the renewed torrent . And seriously it does not seem fair . If one speaker insists — to change the figure ...
... Once , when there was a slight pause - a truffle was engaging him - I launched a frail remark ; but it was swept off at once in the renewed torrent . And seriously it does not seem fair . If one speaker insists — to change the figure ...
Page 249
... once that in spite of everything this is still the best age on the whole that man has lived in . It is in its own way very thorough - our modern civilization . It has made adver- tisement into a fine art , equipped bedrooms with tele ...
... once that in spite of everything this is still the best age on the whole that man has lived in . It is in its own way very thorough - our modern civilization . It has made adver- tisement into a fine art , equipped bedrooms with tele ...
Page 420
... once on the home trail , he has , at the least , four or five miles ahead of him . The Atta roads are clean swept , as straight as possible , and very conspicuous in the jungle . The chief highroads leading from very large nests are a ...
... once on the home trail , he has , at the least , four or five miles ahead of him . The Atta roads are clean swept , as straight as possible , and very conspicuous in the jungle . The chief highroads leading from very large nests are a ...
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ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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