Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 267William Blackwood, 1950 - England |
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Page 156
For nearly sixty years he had sat each evening beside the big fireplace in the long sittingroom with his newspaper , his stock and crop reports , and his pipe , looking across those verdant plains to the soaring blue mountains , and no ...
For nearly sixty years he had sat each evening beside the big fireplace in the long sittingroom with his newspaper , his stock and crop reports , and his pipe , looking across those verdant plains to the soaring blue mountains , and no ...
Page 266
During the afternoon watch , which I kept , on our second day out , while we were off the Northumbrian coast , I sighted a small floating object nearly a mile away on our starboard bow . Again , the weather was perfect and the sea a ...
During the afternoon watch , which I kept , on our second day out , while we were off the Northumbrian coast , I sighted a small floating object nearly a mile away on our starboard bow . Again , the weather was perfect and the sea a ...
Page 488
Both of us breathed with profound relief when , after nearly an hour's exertions , we topped the last of those exasperating crests and found ourselves on a broad , flat plateau . For me , at any rate , our labours had earned a fitting ...
Both of us breathed with profound relief when , after nearly an hour's exertions , we topped the last of those exasperating crests and found ourselves on a broad , flat plateau . For me , at any rate , our labours had earned a fitting ...
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