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My third asset was that I could play a competent game of tennis and a good game of bridge . Dowbiggin , now Sir Herbert Dowbiggin , was not at all meek and mild either in word or deed . He was a bad bridge player , but had bullied the ...
My third asset was that I could play a competent game of tennis and a good game of bridge . Dowbiggin , now Sir Herbert Dowbiggin , was not at all meek and mild either in word or deed . He was a bad bridge player , but had bullied the ...
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Eventually he decided to come with me and play tennis , and so one evening , fitted out with tennis shoes and a racket , Dutton appeared , to the astonishment of the habitués , on the courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the ...
Eventually he decided to come with me and play tennis , and so one evening , fitted out with tennis shoes and a racket , Dutton appeared , to the astonishment of the habitués , on the courts . Among the habitués or habituées were the ...
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I played hockey with the Punjabi regiment . They were absolutely mad on hockey and the subaltern asked me to come and play in their practice games whenever I liked to do so . It was a rather exacting business ; they played like demons ...
I played hockey with the Punjabi regiment . They were absolutely mad on hockey and the subaltern asked me to come and play in their practice games whenever I liked to do so . It was a rather exacting business ; they played like demons ...
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User Review - Jenney - LibraryThingIn the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ... Read full review
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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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