Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 276William Blackwood, 1954 - England |
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To avoid that , Number One bowsed the whole affair so tight alongside with Spanish windlasses that timbers began to creak with the strain . Then he festooned it with steadying - lines from the jetty . After that an elephant could have ...
To avoid that , Number One bowsed the whole affair so tight alongside with Spanish windlasses that timbers began to creak with the strain . Then he festooned it with steadying - lines from the jetty . After that an elephant could have ...
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But right now we plumped whole - heartedly for the lushly vegetated hills . eighty fathoms of two - and - ahalf - inch wire . Unfortunately , Captain Hayward chose this unmooring operation to throw an unintentional spanner in the works ...
But right now we plumped whole - heartedly for the lushly vegetated hills . eighty fathoms of two - and - ahalf - inch wire . Unfortunately , Captain Hayward chose this unmooring operation to throw an unintentional spanner in the works ...
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WE lived for a whole winter in Magnolia Street ; a whole winter in one of those high old wooden houses set on a steep cobbled street that leads straight up the thickly wooded hillside from the water's edge .
WE lived for a whole winter in Magnolia Street ; a whole winter in one of those high old wooden houses set on a steep cobbled street that leads straight up the thickly wooded hillside from the water's edge .
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Contents
BLACKWOODS | 1 |
GEORGE OFF THE BEATEN TRACK | 50 |
CALIFORNIA HERE I COME By R | 60 |
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