Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 254William Blackwood, 1943 - England |
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Page 80
... feet above the water's edge . We rounded close under a grassy knoll , shaped like a green toad staring out to sea and called incongruously Sappho Point , and opened up Cumber- land Bay . This was a huge sheet of pale - green water some ...
... feet above the water's edge . We rounded close under a grassy knoll , shaped like a green toad staring out to sea and called incongruously Sappho Point , and opened up Cumber- land Bay . This was a huge sheet of pale - green water some ...
Page 86
... feet climb in two miles over boggy moss and loose scree needs better training than an office chair . But the crest made up for everything -even the occasional icy squalls and fine driving snow which attacked us now and then from every ...
... feet climb in two miles over boggy moss and loose scree needs better training than an office chair . But the crest made up for everything -even the occasional icy squalls and fine driving snow which attacked us now and then from every ...
Page 146
... feet in the air in a completely hopeless position . They were alone in front of the infantry . It was rank madness ... feet outside the trench , but their heads below ground level . More and more metal was flying . If you have never sat ...
... feet in the air in a completely hopeless position . They were alone in front of the infantry . It was rank madness ... feet outside the trench , but their heads below ground level . More and more metal was flying . If you have never sat ...
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