Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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... trees through which you can see from time to time the flitting of a brightly coloured bird , and every- where all round the tank wherever you look are shrubs , flowers , bushes , and trees , tree after tree after tree . And for the next ...
... trees through which you can see from time to time the flitting of a brightly coloured bird , and every- where all round the tank wherever you look are shrubs , flowers , bushes , and trees , tree after tree after tree . And for the next ...
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... trees , the sky itself were as different from those that I had left a few hours ago as the Sinhalese language from ... trees and changing leaves and , after the parched brown earth of Jaffna , it seemed to be embowered in ferns and ...
... trees , the sky itself were as different from those that I had left a few hours ago as the Sinhalese language from ... trees and changing leaves and , after the parched brown earth of Jaffna , it seemed to be embowered in ferns and ...
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... 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 high and quite smooth and flat on the top . One could lie on it all night and get a fine view ...
... 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 high and quite smooth and flat on the top . One could lie on it all night and get a fine view ...
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