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Page 45
... and served us the drinks. He was extremely respectful, but I sometimes thought
that I caught in his eye a gleam which belied the impassive face when some
more than usually outrageous remark of the Captain or of Jimmy Bowes 45
JAFFNA.
... and served us the drinks. He was extremely respectful, but I sometimes thought
that I caught in his eye a gleam which belied the impassive face when some
more than usually outrageous remark of the Captain or of Jimmy Bowes 45
JAFFNA.
Page 66
When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game
and, in cutting up the animals killed by me, saw the disgusting, semi-digested
contents of their upper intestines, I was always reminded of the contents of ...
When later on in Ceylon I became an extremely incompetent shooter of big game
and, in cutting up the animals killed by me, saw the disgusting, semi-digested
contents of their upper intestines, I was always reminded of the contents of ...
Page 137
It was a good example of how much deeper pain goes than pleasure, and
unkindness than kindness, that I was not in the least consoled when, having
played the very next hand extremely well, I was highly praised by Turner and
even ...
It was a good example of how much deeper pain goes than pleasure, and
unkindness than kindness, that I was not in the least consoled when, having
played the very next hand extremely well, I was highly praised by Turner and
even ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, Incorporated, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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