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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 other ...
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 other ...
Page 69
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 habitues, on the courts. Among the habitue's or habituees were the two/ ...
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 habitues, on the courts. Among the habitue's or habituees were the two/ ...
Page 119
He was only a very moderately good player and so was I. As I have already said,
I like all games and I like to play them seriously if I play them at all. But I would
never put golf very high in the hierarchy of good games ; it is too slowly long
drawn ...
He was only a very moderately good player and so was I. As I have already said,
I like all games and I like to play them seriously if I play them at all. But I would
never put golf very high in the hierarchy of good games ; it is too slowly long
drawn ...
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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, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political scientists Sri Lanka |
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