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Except in the few villages through which we passed we met scarcely any human
beings . In the day the heat and dust were terrific ; the bullock cart creaked and
groaned and rolled one about from side to side until one ' s bones and muscles ...
Except in the few villages through which we passed we met scarcely any human
beings . In the day the heat and dust were terrific ; the bullock cart creaked and
groaned and rolled one about from side to side until one ' s bones and muscles ...
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I left Anuradhapura at 9 o ' clock in the evening of Tuesday , January 3rd , and the
bullock cart with its broken and battered passengers arrived at Elephant Pass at
9 o ' clock in the morning of Thursday , January 5th . The town of Jaffna , for ...
I left Anuradhapura at 9 o ' clock in the evening of Tuesday , January 3rd , and the
bullock cart with its broken and battered passengers arrived at Elephant Pass at
9 o ' clock in the morning of Thursday , January 5th . The town of Jaffna , for ...
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Walking up what was before the village street , you passed boutique after
boutique , selling flowers and fruit , to be offered in the temple and mutatis
mutandis you might have been passing the shops in Lisieux or even in London ' s
Victoria ...
Walking up what was before the village street , you passed boutique after
boutique , selling flowers and fruit , to be offered in the temple and mutatis
mutandis you might have been passing the shops in Lisieux or even in London ' s
Victoria ...
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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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