Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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Page 39
... gave it , its body gave him a violent blow on the ribs and the tail curled round like the thong of a whip and hit him in the face on the opposite side of his 39 JAFFNA.
... gave it , its body gave him a violent blow on the ribs and the tail curled round like the thong of a whip and hit him in the face on the opposite side of his 39 JAFFNA.
Page 126
... gave me the telegram he said : " of course if you prefer it I will tear this up now and you can go off tonight . " At any rate the wire went and Leak is to go to Mannar . The position I had forced him into on Thursday was that he was to ...
... gave me the telegram he said : " of course if you prefer it I will tear this up now and you can go off tonight . " At any rate the wire went and Leak is to go to Mannar . The position I had forced him into on Thursday was that he was to ...
Page 200
... gave demonstrations there . Almost at once I got applications for 80 or 90 ploughs , which I imme- diately ordered from Colombo . In the end 3,140 acres were cultivated , of which 2,420 were ploughed , 570 mudded , and 150 worked with ...
... gave demonstrations there . Almost at once I got applications for 80 or 90 ploughs , which I imme- diately ordered from Colombo . In the end 3,140 acres were cultivated , of which 2,420 were ploughed , 570 mudded , and 150 worked with ...
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