Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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Page 61
... sitting in sheer ignorance up there in the hum of the Court , writing down the evidence , listening to the proctors ... sit up there in the stifling heat and look out over the glaring waste to the Fort and the sea , and listen to an ...
... sitting in sheer ignorance up there in the hum of the Court , writing down the evidence , listening to the proctors ... sit up there in the stifling heat and look out over the glaring waste to the Fort and the sea , and listen to an ...
Page 64
... sitting at a small table typing out incompetently on a decrepit typewriter the poetry which he had written the ... sit hour after hour , day after day , writing poetry about fairies or , as he called them , fays ? When not writing poetry ...
... sitting at a small table typing out incompetently on a decrepit typewriter the poetry which he had written the ... sit hour after hour , day after day , writing poetry about fairies or , as he called them , fays ? When not writing poetry ...
Page 98
Leonard Woolf. late it was , there were always people walking about or sitting in front of their huts . Very often a pearl dealer or merchant would invite one to sit down with him and have a small cup of Turkish coffee . As the Fishery ...
Leonard Woolf. late it was , there were always people walking about or sitting in front of their huts . Very often a pearl dealer or merchant would invite one to sit down with him and have a small cup of Turkish coffee . As the Fishery ...
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