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... the platform in what I suppose should have called it a girl's was the judge's chair , and we nightie . ” were given seats in a row facing If he hadn't been so big and him . dignified , I think I could have We left the palaver to the ...
... the platform in what I suppose should have called it a girl's was the judge's chair , and we nightie . ” were given seats in a row facing If he hadn't been so big and him . dignified , I think I could have We left the palaver to the ...
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... for the vigorous support of and were able , if called upon , Admiral de Robeck , who con- to deliver the whole quantity stituted himself a father of of gas in a single mighty belch . balloons in the Fleet , and for Deflation was ...
... for the vigorous support of and were able , if called upon , Admiral de Robeck , who con- to deliver the whole quantity stituted himself a father of of gas in a single mighty belch . balloons in the Fleet , and for Deflation was ...
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The equipif glorious , end , had not the ment was primitive , and the City of Oxford picked up the balloons were called upon to signal , together with the reply face a buffeting that they were that the German ships were not designed to ...
The equipif glorious , end , had not the ment was primitive , and the City of Oxford picked up the balloons were called upon to signal , together with the reply face a buffeting that they were that the German ships were not designed to ...
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The and shrank like an excited “ balloonatics , ” as they came concertina , causing those at to be called , had simple wants . the Admiralty who were reGive them , they said , but a sponsible for supply an anxious - > time .
The and shrank like an excited “ balloonatics , ” as they came concertina , causing those at to be called , had simple wants . the Admiralty who were reGive them , they said , but a sponsible for supply an anxious - > time .
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Sig . rode undamaged through the nals flickered through space as heart of a severe thunderstorm , she called her consorts , and while an old one , not so pro- directed by the observer , the tected , perished in the first two destroyer ...
Sig . rode undamaged through the nals flickered through space as heart of a severe thunderstorm , she called her consorts , and while an old one , not so pro- directed by the observer , the tected , perished in the first two destroyer ...
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Página 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Página 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Página 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Página 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Página 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Página 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Página 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Página 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Página 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Página 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.