Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 220William Blackwood, 1926 - England |
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Page 15
... trade , and Mr Pea- body had no difficulty in finding a seat in the smoking - room . A pipe and a whisky - and - soda in the comfortable warmth pro- duced a pleasant feeling of drowsiness , and by the time the steward came to summon him ...
... trade , and Mr Pea- body had no difficulty in finding a seat in the smoking - room . A pipe and a whisky - and - soda in the comfortable warmth pro- duced a pleasant feeling of drowsiness , and by the time the steward came to summon him ...
Page 27
... trade by providing its clients with but few of the comforts of home , thus creating an atmosphere which the vic- tims regard as the real thing . Mr Filbert was a psychologist who had grasped the fact that a sugar - coated pill is a pill ...
... trade by providing its clients with but few of the comforts of home , thus creating an atmosphere which the vic- tims regard as the real thing . Mr Filbert was a psychologist who had grasped the fact that a sugar - coated pill is a pill ...
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... trading - posts , and two of our own . When the lonely Arctic post was built a few years ago only half - a - dozen men formed its garrison . Then the following summer , when the supply ship Arctic called on her yearly round of the posts ...
... trading - posts , and two of our own . When the lonely Arctic post was built a few years ago only half - a - dozen men formed its garrison . Then the following summer , when the supply ship Arctic called on her yearly round of the posts ...
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... trading vessels , an ex- ploration ship now and then , a whaler , to make life pleasant . But for us at Craig Harbour there was just the one . Living there shut off from the outer world in the frozen C fastness of Ellesmere Land , the ...
... trading vessels , an ex- ploration ship now and then , a whaler , to make life pleasant . But for us at Craig Harbour there was just the one . Living there shut off from the outer world in the frozen C fastness of Ellesmere Land , the ...
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... trading - post , its Hudson Bay store , its handful of Eskimos , and its equal isolation from the world of civilisation thousands of miles to the south . Ellesmere Land . Barren , half - covered with ice thousands of feet thick , swept ...
... trading - post , its Hudson Bay store , its handful of Eskimos , and its equal isolation from the world of civilisation thousands of miles to the south . Ellesmere Land . Barren , half - covered with ice thousands of feet thick , swept ...
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