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... but no battalion of Englishmen . And the Boxer trouble was twenty - seven years ago ! But here they are now - men from Gloucester and from Durham . And here in the ships must A A few days later we had started for the Mexican.
... but no battalion of Englishmen . And the Boxer trouble was twenty - seven years ago ! But here they are now - men from Gloucester and from Durham . And here in the ships must A A few days later we had started for the Mexican.
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... short - necked Station , to be occupied later China ponies do their training by the Northern and Southern work , and on the enclosed open Chinese armies in succession . space the British and Americans All is now quiet , and there is ...
... short - necked Station , to be occupied later China ponies do their training by the Northern and Southern work , and on the enclosed open Chinese armies in succession . space the British and Americans All is now quiet , and there is ...
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Lorries , also , with Later on , the same evening , an rations and fuel , and Indian armoured car patrolling in A.T. carts with rolls of blankets Chapei is continually fired on , and ammunition - boxes . and in extricating it from a ...
Lorries , also , with Later on , the same evening , an rations and fuel , and Indian armoured car patrolling in A.T. carts with rolls of blankets Chapei is continually fired on , and ammunition - boxes . and in extricating it from a ...
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... for the accommodation dawn , and turning , as the sun available for passengers in this rose , into immense coppery port is very uninviting . I giants from twelve to fourteen remember , on a later occasion , thousand feet in height ...
... for the accommodation dawn , and turning , as the sun available for passengers in this rose , into immense coppery port is very uninviting . I giants from twelve to fourteen remember , on a later occasion , thousand feet in height ...
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A few days later we had started for the Mexican fron- tier , for , whilst in Salvador , geological sections had been handed to us of a beautiful oil structure which was supposed to be situated on the Suchiate River , about ten miles ...
A few days later we had started for the Mexican fron- tier , for , whilst in Salvador , geological sections had been handed to us of a beautiful oil structure which was supposed to be situated on the Suchiate River , about ten miles ...
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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...
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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.