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a him in the face on the opposite side of his body . The thuds on his ribs , the smacks of the tail on his face , and Charles's grumbling growls resounded regularly for some minutes and then the snake was as dead as the cat .
a him in the face on the opposite side of his body . The thuds on his ribs , the smacks of the tail on his face , and Charles's grumbling growls resounded regularly for some minutes and then the snake was as dead as the cat .
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F. H. Price — tall , thin , athletic looking , baldish , with a long hatchet - face , an impassive , unflinching , implacable eye , an air of natural unshakable superiority and of goodhumoured tolerance of so many obviously inferior ...
F. H. Price — tall , thin , athletic looking , baldish , with a long hatchet - face , an impassive , unflinching , implacable eye , an air of natural unshakable superiority and of goodhumoured tolerance of so many obviously inferior ...
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wrong , and the Jaffna Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara in the right , not right in believing that I would and had hit him in the face , but right in feeling that my sitting on a horse arrogantly in the main street of their town ...
wrong , and the Jaffna Tamil Association and Mr. Sanderasekara in the right , not right in believing that I would and had hit him in the face , but right in feeling that my sitting on a horse arrogantly in the main street of their town ...
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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 Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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