Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 238William Blackwood, 1935 - England |
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Page 236
... wind was blowing . We halved the hole eventu- ally in twelve . It was like one of those games of bagatelle . The only thing to do was to pitch right up into the wind , dropping one's ball just beyond the hole , when with luck it would ...
... wind was blowing . We halved the hole eventu- ally in twelve . It was like one of those games of bagatelle . The only thing to do was to pitch right up into the wind , dropping one's ball just beyond the hole , when with luck it would ...
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... wind , feet braced againt the leaning deck , and watch the card dip in the binnacle and the sunlit spume crash away from the ship's bows . But any dawning suspicion that I might have to take charge of the owner's ship for him , whom an ...
... wind , feet braced againt the leaning deck , and watch the card dip in the binnacle and the sunlit spume crash away from the ship's bows . But any dawning suspicion that I might have to take charge of the owner's ship for him , whom an ...
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... wind to the north- west . It was about due , for the barometer had ceased fall- ing , and he was wearying for it ; never , in all his experience , had he known such a long- drawn - out south - westerly gale . Just before midnight Peter ...
... wind to the north- west . It was about due , for the barometer had ceased fall- ing , and he was wearying for it ; never , in all his experience , had he known such a long- drawn - out south - westerly gale . Just before midnight Peter ...
Contents
REINSTATEMENT BY PHYSICIAN | 212 |
SCRATTON BY J CHARTRES MOLONY | 289 |
THE CALEUCHE BY SHALIMAR | 328 |
Copyright | |
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