Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 289William Blackwood, 1961 |
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... lived in one of these Otway valleys where farmers see only sky and walls of grass and cows grazing perpen- dicularly above the chimneys , and a few white trunks of trees , dead and ghostly reminders of the original forest . In her old ...
... lived in one of these Otway valleys where farmers see only sky and walls of grass and cows grazing perpen- dicularly above the chimneys , and a few white trunks of trees , dead and ghostly reminders of the original forest . In her old ...
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... lived it . At long last then I arrive at what should have been my starting - point- a consideration of Collins's life and work . He was , if I am not mistaken , a characteristic man of his generation -the type of all that was most ...
... lived it . At long last then I arrive at what should have been my starting - point- a consideration of Collins's life and work . He was , if I am not mistaken , a characteristic man of his generation -the type of all that was most ...
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... lived on board . The distance was only a cable - two hundred yards ; I remember this because a messmate once bet me that I couldn't drive a golf - ball from the quarter- deck to pitch in the dockyard . I lost the bet ; the nearest I got ...
... lived on board . The distance was only a cable - two hundred yards ; I remember this because a messmate once bet me that I couldn't drive a golf - ball from the quarter- deck to pitch in the dockyard . I lost the bet ; the nearest I got ...
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