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Page 187
On each side sentry asked for a visiting - card , of us lay fields of poor wheat the production of which re- and barley , interspersed with moved any further difficulties stretches of grass full of little in the way of my entering the ...
On each side sentry asked for a visiting - card , of us lay fields of poor wheat the production of which re- and barley , interspersed with moved any further difficulties stretches of grass full of little in the way of my entering the ...
Page 229
They anxiously about , and D. giving moved down the hill , dropped him vain instructions in a to a walk , and some of them loudish whisper . began to feed again in a hollow This may sound absurd , but not more than a quarter - mile it ...
They anxiously about , and D. giving moved down the hill , dropped him vain instructions in a to a walk , and some of them loudish whisper . began to feed again in a hollow This may sound absurd , but not more than a quarter - mile it ...
Page 237
... guy - ropes were tightened or fifty feet above where we were slackened with cunning skill . now covering the sandy flats Inch by inch the huge girder of the river - bed with quantities was moved to its appointed of valuable plant .
... guy - ropes were tightened or fifty feet above where we were slackened with cunning skill . now covering the sandy flats Inch by inch the huge girder of the river - bed with quantities was moved to its appointed of valuable plant .
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