Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen 208William Blackwood, 1920 |
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... arrived in Soroka , by some curious effect of mirage she appeared to be floating in air , every detail of her distinet , just above the surface of the sea . From the sawmill we char- tered a tug and went out to her . The channel into ...
... arrived in Soroka , by some curious effect of mirage she appeared to be floating in air , every detail of her distinet , just above the surface of the sea . From the sawmill we char- tered a tug and went out to her . The channel into ...
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... arrived , and began at once to collect men and plant . There is a story of Conrad's -'A Smile of Fortune'- which tells how the captain of a ship in a foreign port encountered an inexplicable shortage of the particular kind of bag which ...
... arrived , and began at once to collect men and plant . There is a story of Conrad's -'A Smile of Fortune'- which tells how the captain of a ship in a foreign port encountered an inexplicable shortage of the particular kind of bag which ...
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... arrived at Soroka . The cement arrived at Kem and was brought round in barges . Thenceforward the divers lived below in water the colour of milk , and the ' tween- decks were thick with cement dust that filled the hair and the eyebrows ...
... arrived at Soroka . The cement arrived at Kem and was brought round in barges . Thenceforward the divers lived below in water the colour of milk , and the ' tween- decks were thick with cement dust that filled the hair and the eyebrows ...
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... arrived in Arch- angel , and went over with the Aleida Johanna to collect it . I found in charge of it a small motor engineer about twenty years old , whom I had not previously met . His voice showed that he came from the Tyne , and his ...
... arrived in Arch- angel , and went over with the Aleida Johanna to collect it . I found in charge of it a small motor engineer about twenty years old , whom I had not previously met . His voice showed that he came from the Tyne , and his ...
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... arrived it was considered that the cement bulkhead in No. 2 had hardened sufficiently to allow of our " trying " the hold . The motor - pump , " Old Bill , " as it was christened , was started away , and to every one's delight the water ...
... arrived it was considered that the cement bulkhead in No. 2 had hardened sufficiently to allow of our " trying " the hold . The motor - pump , " Old Bill , " as it was christened , was started away , and to every one's delight the water ...
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Página 416 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act...
Página 180 - As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea.
Página 181 - They have decided that the empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our colonial empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.
Página 178 - There were days when on waking I felt I could move dynasties and governments, but that has passed away.
Página 95 - If more troops had been at hand the casualties would have been greater in proportion. It was no longer a question of merely dispersing the crowd, but one of producing a sufficient moral effect from a military point of view not only on those who were present, but more especially throughout the Punjab. There could be no question of undue severity.
Página 650 - To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. The Canaanitish woman lives more happily without a name, than Herodias with one. And who had not rather have been the good thief, than Pilate?
Página 343 - To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth The way his soul shall go.
Página 636 - ... and, having taken the administration of justice into their own hands, were not very exact in the distribution of it.
Página 412 - It may be that at some future period the Egyptians may be rendered capable of governing themselves without the presence of a foreign army in their midst, and without foreign guidance in civil and military affairs; but that period is far distant. One or more generations must, in my opinion, pass away before the question can be even usefully discussed.
Página 95 - Nobody answers this remarkable Lord Chief Justice, "Lordship, if you were to speak for six hundred years, instead of six hours, you would only prove the more to us that, unwritten if you will, but real and fundamental, anterior to all written laws and first making written laws possible, there must have been, and is, and will be, coeval with Human Society, from its first beginnings to its ultimate end, an actual Martial Law, of more validity than any other law whatever. Lordship...