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An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. en and distrust .
However much they liked their work and , up to a point , the people of Ceylon , as
they walked into their office in the morning there was below the surface of their
minds ...
An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911 Leonard Woolf. en and distrust .
However much they liked their work and , up to a point , the people of Ceylon , as
they walked into their office in the morning there was below the surface of their
minds ...
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It was the last thing I heard as I fell asleep at night , the first thing I heard when I
woke in the morning — the moment of silence , the heavy thud ; the moment of
silence , the heavy thud — the rhythm of the sea , the rhythm of Hambantota .
It was the last thing I heard as I fell asleep at night , the first thing I heard when I
woke in the morning — the moment of silence , the heavy thud ; the moment of
silence , the heavy thud — the rhythm of the sea , the rhythm of Hambantota .
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Next morning at Talawa a villager told me a curious story about buffaloes . I had
several times during the outbreak been told that buffaloes which got the disease
would often break out madly and travel long distances to die in the place where ...
Next morning at Talawa a villager told me a curious story about buffaloes . I had
several times during the outbreak been told that buffaloes which got the disease
would often break out madly and travel long distances to die in the place where ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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