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kind of country there are no trees and changing leaves, and, as far as my
experience goes, there are no Luriana Lurilees. But over a very large part of
Ceylon the country is the exact opposite of the sandy austerity of Jaffna and Ham-
bantota in ...
kind of country there are no trees and changing leaves, and, as far as my
experience goes, there are no Luriana Lurilees. But over a very large part of
Ceylon the country is the exact opposite of the sandy austerity of Jaffna and Ham-
bantota in ...
Page 132
The feeling was intensified by Polgahawela. What a soft liquid gentle Sinhalese
word this — Field of Coconuts — was when one compared it with Tamil places
like Kange- santurai and Kodikanam ! And the place itself, the air, the trees, the
sky ...
The feeling was intensified by Polgahawela. What a soft liquid gentle Sinhalese
word this — Field of Coconuts — was when one compared it with Tamil places
like Kange- santurai and Kodikanam ! And the place itself, the air, the trees, the
sky ...
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It was surrounded on all sides by thick jungle and was raised above the jungle so
that the tops of the nearest trees were level with it. On one side of the water hole
and about 5 or 6 yards from it rose a great rock or gigantic boulder, 12 or 15 feet ...
It was surrounded on all sides by thick jungle and was raised above the jungle so
that the tops of the nearest trees were level with it. On one side of the water hole
and about 5 or 6 yards from it rose a great rock or gigantic boulder, 12 or 15 feet ...
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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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