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Page 72
The sky, the sea, the stars, the turtles, the bay, the palms were so lusciously
magnificent at Tangalla Rest House that Nature seemed to tremble on the verge
— I don't think she ever actually fell over the verge — of vulgarity. As the Duttons
and ...
The sky, the sea, the stars, the turtles, the bay, the palms were so lusciously
magnificent at Tangalla Rest House that Nature seemed to tremble on the verge
— I don't think she ever actually fell over the verge — of vulgarity. As the Duttons
and ...
Page 83
Typhoid seemed to have drained all strength out of both body and brain.
Someone — I forget who — took me for a few days into his bungalow down on
the shore of the Jaffna lagoon and one evening I foolishly crawled along the road
to the ...
Typhoid seemed to have drained all strength out of both body and brain.
Someone — I forget who — took me for a few days into his bungalow down on
the shore of the Jaffna lagoon and one evening I foolishly crawled along the road
to the ...
Page 196
He was entirely alone, performing what seemed to be an intricate dance. I have
twice in my life seen March hares in the Sussex water-meadows performing their
extraordinary dances. The jackal seemed to be doing the same thing. Leaping ...
He was entirely alone, performing what seemed to be an intricate dance. I have
twice in my life seen March hares in the Sussex water-meadows performing their
extraordinary dances. The jackal seemed to be doing the same thing. Leaping ...
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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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