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Europe has made a deep and wide impression upon the face of all the big towns of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna ... village or a congeries of villages which have coalesced into what we now call , because of its size , a town .
Europe has made a deep and wide impression upon the face of all the big towns of Ceylon which I know except upon Jaffna ... village or a congeries of villages which have coalesced into what we now call , because of its size , a town .
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When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the country you pass from one life or age into another . It is quite different in Jaffna ; there as soon as you leave the main street , the esplanade , or the seashore , you are in a ...
When you pass from the town and its suburbs into the country you pass from one life or age into another . It is quite different in Jaffna ; there as soon as you leave the main street , the esplanade , or the seashore , you are in a ...
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We ran as hard as we could to the town and on the way he told me that the Buddhists and Moslems , armed with sticks and stones and with the posts which they pulled out of the fences , were fighting one another in front of the mosque .
We ran as hard as we could to the town and on the way he told me that the Buddhists and Moslems , armed with sticks and stones and with the posts which they pulled out of the fences , were fighting one another in front of the mosque .
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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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