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Page 78
I thought I should come back by a mad way and started out down the coast where there were no roads only sand and palmyra trees . No one ever goes there and the sand has heaped itself up into great curves and ridges .
I thought I should come back by a mad way and started out down the coast where there were no roads only sand and palmyra trees . No one ever goes there and the sand has heaped itself up into great curves and ridges .
Page 88
When they ran my boat up on to the sandy beach at Marichchukaddi and I jumped down into the sand , I felt that , though my body was unwashed and unshaved , my mind had been curiously cleaned and purified . Naturally I was instantly and ...
When they ran my boat up on to the sandy beach at Marichchukaddi and I jumped down into the sand , I felt that , though my body was unwashed and unshaved , my mind had been curiously cleaned and purified . Naturally I was instantly and ...
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The graves were two enormous , smooth mounds of sand side by side , each about 30 yards long , five yards in width , and about two or three foot high in the centre . Each of them was completely covered from end to end with a white ...
The graves were two enormous , smooth mounds of sand side by side , each about 30 yards long , five yards in width , and about two or three foot high in the centre . Each of them was completely covered from end to end with a white ...
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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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