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Page 51
If you walked to the edge of the bastion and looked down upon the esplanade
you saw below you a small erection which looked like a hen coop; in this there
lived another devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable, for many
...
If you walked to the edge of the bastion and looked down upon the esplanade
you saw below you a small erection which looked like a hen coop; in this there
lived another devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable, for many
...
Page 73
And in the feeble light of the oil lamp on the verandah I saw that the Red Indian
face was puckered with worry and she looked as if she might at any moment
burst into tears. I felt terribly sorry for them, but far more for her than for him. It
became ...
And in the feeble light of the oil lamp on the verandah I saw that the Red Indian
face was puckered with worry and she looked as if she might at any moment
burst into tears. I felt terribly sorry for them, but far more for her than for him. It
became ...
Page 239
... one day noticing a man who looked rather ill, I asked him what was the matter
with him. He said he was suffering from "yak leda", which means devil sickness.
How, I asked him, did he catch devil sickness. Well, he said, one night he went to
...
... one day noticing a man who looked rather ill, I asked him what was the matter
with him. He said he was suffering from "yak leda", which means devil sickness.
How, I asked him, did he catch devil sickness. Well, he said, one night he went to
...
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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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