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Socially and psychologically they did me no good, and materially throughout my
years in Ceylon caused considerable difficulty when I was moved from one
station to another and they suddenly had to be transported over hundreds of
miles in ...
Socially and psychologically they did me no good, and materially throughout my
years in Ceylon caused considerable difficulty when I was moved from one
station to another and they suddenly had to be transported over hundreds of
miles in ...
Page 210
Coming upon him suddenly, as I so often did, in thick jungle he seemed to me
gigantic towering up above me; there is, too, something primeval and malignant
about him, his pachydermatous greyness, his wicked little eye, the menace of his
...
Coming upon him suddenly, as I so often did, in thick jungle he seemed to me
gigantic towering up above me; there is, too, something primeval and malignant
about him, his pachydermatous greyness, his wicked little eye, the menace of his
...
Page 217
this mad way when I suddenly remembered Mermaid, pulled up the pony, and
was horrified to find that she was not with us. She must have been frightened by
the thundering of hoofs on the sand and bolted back into the jungle. I went all
round ...
this mad way when I suddenly remembered Mermaid, pulled up the pony, and
was horrified to find that she was not with us. She must have been frightened by
the thundering of hoofs on the sand and bolted back into the jungle. I went all
round ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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