East by West: A Journey in the Recess, Volume 1R. Bentley and son, 1885 - 303 pages |
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... reached , I perceived that it was simply a shrewd business transaction , for the odds were heavily against arrival at our destination . If the horse lived so long , the rattletrap conveyance would surely come to grief over the corduroy ...
... reached , I perceived that it was simply a shrewd business transaction , for the odds were heavily against arrival at our destination . If the horse lived so long , the rattletrap conveyance would surely come to grief over the corduroy ...
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... reached the hotel with only one shoe , as would pro- bably have happened had it been a few blocks farther off , or if we had never arrived at all , he would have regarded the financial incident as closed . This same peremptoriness in ...
... reached the hotel with only one shoe , as would pro- bably have happened had it been a few blocks farther off , or if we had never arrived at all , he would have regarded the financial incident as closed . This same peremptoriness in ...
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... reached Coolidge about one in the morning , and made a brief stoppage . The conductor was about to start it when he noticed a man climbing up behind the express car . He thought it was a tramp engaged in the not unfrequent enter- prise ...
... reached Coolidge about one in the morning , and made a brief stoppage . The conductor was about to start it when he noticed a man climbing up behind the express car . He thought it was a tramp engaged in the not unfrequent enter- prise ...
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... reaching prairie , and by the south and west from the Rocky Mountains , whose snow - clad peaks , standing beyond the purple band of the lower hills , catch the light of the rising sun long before he can be seen from the house - tops of ...
... reaching prairie , and by the south and west from the Rocky Mountains , whose snow - clad peaks , standing beyond the purple band of the lower hills , catch the light of the rising sun long before he can be seen from the house - tops of ...
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... reaching out you could tear your hand against it , and often it seems that this time the carriage really is about to take a header straight into the rock . But it is only turning another sharp corner , and does it with the assured ...
... reaching out you could tear your hand against it , and often it seems that this time the carriage really is about to take a header straight into the rock . But it is only turning another sharp corner , and does it with the assured ...
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