Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 221W. Blackwood, 1927 - England |
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There was nothing now but to get to the ground outside , for we were in an upper room about 12 feet from the level . I went first , and Whitehurst followed , coming , of course , upon his feet like the animal above mentioned , so that I ...
There was nothing now but to get to the ground outside , for we were in an upper room about 12 feet from the level . I went first , and Whitehurst followed , coming , of course , upon his feet like the animal above mentioned , so that I ...
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They had removed the stones from the wall on one side of the room , and made an opening of quite 2 feet square , which led to another chamber , where there was a little den with a curiously devised window . The place had originally been ...
They had removed the stones from the wall on one side of the room , and made an opening of quite 2 feet square , which led to another chamber , where there was a little den with a curiously devised window . The place had originally been ...
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After breakfast we started , with an attendant on a third horse , there being two feet of snow on the ground . We had not gone far when we reached the crown of a hill and noticed a gendarme escorting an English prisoner to Verdun .
After breakfast we started , with an attendant on a third horse , there being two feet of snow on the ground . We had not gone far when we reached the crown of a hill and noticed a gendarme escorting an English prisoner to Verdun .
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... parents at their he still automatically called old friend's eulogies of their him old Saunders , though he good days , with the had been greatly junior to his winged sandals of youth on own present age when he died . one's feet .
... parents at their he still automatically called old friend's eulogies of their him old Saunders , though he good days , with the had been greatly junior to his winged sandals of youth on own present age when he died . one's feet .
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Though the city and all around was under snow , here , several hundred feet higher , the roads are almost free , and one can drive on wheels . The long- tailed scarcely groomed horses take the carriage along at a spanking pace ...
Though the city and all around was under snow , here , several hundred feet higher , the roads are almost free , and one can drive on wheels . The long- tailed scarcely groomed horses take the carriage along at a spanking pace ...
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