Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... cloth , price 7s . 6d . " Mr. Pidgeon's book has a special value from the fact that he has noted down a very great deal more than most travellers . He appears to be one of those happy persons who are born with eyes , and to have ...
... cloth , price 7s . 6d . " Mr. Pidgeon's book has a special value from the fact that he has noted down a very great deal more than most travellers . He appears to be one of those happy persons who are born with eyes , and to have ...
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... clothes , with a few genuine Yankee faces scattered here and there . But the same observer , with his ears open , would receive very different impressions . He would hear questions of considerable local importance discussed earnestly ...
... clothes , with a few genuine Yankee faces scattered here and there . But the same observer , with his ears open , would receive very different impressions . He would hear questions of considerable local importance discussed earnestly ...
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... cloth of to - day , lasted for many years , but what little waste there was went always into the family rag - bag . There it accumulated for a long time , Pattison , the tin - man , not having yet created the wandering tin - pedlar and ...
... cloth of to - day , lasted for many years , but what little waste there was went always into the family rag - bag . There it accumulated for a long time , Pattison , the tin - man , not having yet created the wandering tin - pedlar and ...
Page 115
... cloth , and pressing slightly upon it , so as to prevent lateral spreading of the layer of pulp . This becomes gradually , but visibly , drier and more co- hesive with every foot of its advance , until the gauze web presently traverses ...
... cloth , and pressing slightly upon it , so as to prevent lateral spreading of the layer of pulp . This becomes gradually , but visibly , drier and more co- hesive with every foot of its advance , until the gauze web presently traverses ...
Page 118
... clothes the range , fringed with a thick undergrowth of pine and raspberries , and gemmed just now with the white blossoms of the Alpine strawberry . Reaching the summit , after a charming climb , we gained a glorious view of the ...
... clothes the range , fringed with a thick undergrowth of pine and raspberries , and gemmed just now with the white blossoms of the Alpine strawberry . Reaching the summit , after a charming climb , we gained a glorious view of the ...
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