Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 210
... jungle the wild elephant was always to me the most alarming of all the animals . Coming upon him suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he seemed to me gigantic tower- ing up above me ; there is , too , something primeval and ...
... jungle the wild elephant was always to me the most alarming of all the animals . Coming upon him suddenly , as I so often did , in thick jungle he seemed to me gigantic tower- ing up above me ; there is , too , something primeval and ...
Page 213
... jungle , go due south , and I would soon strike the track on which I had left the pony . Now I was faced with a circle of jungle a mile or more round this open space , and the wall of trees and leaves was exactly the same all round the ...
... jungle , go due south , and I would soon strike the track on which I had left the pony . Now I was faced with a circle of jungle a mile or more round this open space , and the wall of trees and leaves was exactly the same all round the ...
Page 214
... jungle , and I set off towards the light of what I took to be the setting sun . After slow progress through thick thorn jungle for about a quarter of an hour , I came to the conclusion that something was wrong , because I had not ...
... jungle , and I set off towards the light of what I took to be the setting sun . After slow progress through thick thorn jungle for about a quarter of an hour , I came to the conclusion that something was wrong , because I had not ...
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1817 LIBRARIES afternoon Anuradhapura Arabs Arachchi asked Assistant Government Agent Baron Blixen became boat Buddhist buffaloes bullock cart bungalow cattle Ceylon Civil Service CHIGAN civil servant Colombo Court curious deal deer District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht extremely face felt Game Sanctuary Giruwa Pattu Governor Hambantota Hambantota District head headmen Jaffna kachcheri Kandy Kandyan Kataragama kind knew koddu lagoon Leonard Woolf leopard letter to Lytton lewaya licences lived looked Magampattu Mannar ment MICHIGAN miles mind months morning never night Office Assistant one's oysters Pearl Fishery planters play Police Magistrate Province remember Rest House riding rinderpest road round salt sand seemed shooting side Sinhalese Southorn strange suddenly Superintendent of Police talked Tamil Tangalla temple tennis thing Tissa Tissamaharama told took town trees Twynam Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf