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Page 69
They were bad players and usually played singles together , and I handed Dutton
over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every
evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss ...
They were bad players and usually played singles together , and I handed Dutton
over to them ; for the next few months Dutton used to come and play nearly every
evening a hopelessly incompetent game of tennis with Miss Case and Miss ...
Page 117
The one whose guess was nearest to the actual rainfall pocketed the three
rupees , and we then proceeded with the same routine all over again . As the
rainfall for day after day between the monsoons was always nil , the routine was
nearly ...
The one whose guess was nearest to the actual rainfall pocketed the three
rupees , and we then proceeded with the same routine all over again . As the
rainfall for day after day between the monsoons was always nil , the routine was
nearly ...
Page 238
The lecture took place ; it was interesting and nearly all the Moors and Malays
attended , but I noted at the time that I rather doubted whether they understood
much of it . But , to my surprise , shortly after it the leaders of the two factions
came to ...
The lecture took place ; it was interesting and nearly all the Moors and Malays
attended , but I noted at the time that I rather doubted whether they understood
much of it . But , to my surprise , shortly after it the leaders of the two factions
came 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 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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