Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 201
... give you the chance of a shot at them as they circle high over your head . I always remained a very poor shot , but I got to know the ways of the jungle and of its birds and beasts quite well so that I was a fairly good tracker . But ...
... give you the chance of a shot at them as they circle high over your head . I always remained a very poor shot , but I got to know the ways of the jungle and of its birds and beasts quite well so that I was a fairly good tracker . But ...
Page 205
... give Hodson a chance to shoot a deer or possibly a bear or leopard . We were walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a leopard crossed our path about 25 yards ahead . Hodson fired and hit the ...
... give Hodson a chance to shoot a deer or possibly a bear or leopard . We were walking slowly in single file , Hodson in front with his rifle , near the rocks when a leopard crossed our path about 25 yards ahead . Hodson fired and hit the ...
Page 229
... give him sight . The God had not heard their prayers and they thought that perhaps if they made the child cry long and loud enough , the God would hear him . They had therefore pinched the child and had even pricked him with pins to ...
... give him sight . The God had not heard their prayers and they thought that perhaps if they made the child cry long and loud enough , the God would hear him . They had therefore pinched the child and had even pricked him with pins to ...
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