Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 282William Blackwood, 1957 - England |
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Page 223
... Russian shirt with a high collar , embroidered with scarlet , and his face was red and hard , with a little upturned nose and wide cheekbones , and the hair on his potato - shaped head was fair and cut like a brush . His little blue ...
... Russian shirt with a high collar , embroidered with scarlet , and his face was red and hard , with a little upturned nose and wide cheekbones , and the hair on his potato - shaped head was fair and cut like a brush . His little blue ...
Page 224
... Russian authors of the nineteenth century . There slipped into my mind a saying that had always been meaning- less before I visited the Soviet Union , but now seemed appropriate enough . " Ah - ah , " I thought . " Scratch a Russian and ...
... Russian authors of the nineteenth century . There slipped into my mind a saying that had always been meaning- less before I visited the Soviet Union , but now seemed appropriate enough . " Ah - ah , " I thought . " Scratch a Russian and ...
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... Russian- American Company , from 1799 sole ruler of the fur empire that stretched from Kamchatka to Russian River in California and even cast its shadow on the Hawaiian Islands , was at St Petersburg , almost 8000 miles from Sitka . And ...
... Russian- American Company , from 1799 sole ruler of the fur empire that stretched from Kamchatka to Russian River in California and even cast its shadow on the Hawaiian Islands , was at St Petersburg , almost 8000 miles from Sitka . And ...
Contents
TENERIFE INVICTA BY J D SPINNEY | 48 |
THE AMERICAS CUP BY FRANCIS B COOKE | 191 |
A BROADLAND GOSSIP BY WONTOLLA | 384 |
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