Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 188W. Blackwood, 1910 - Scotland |
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Page 52
... held it till the Hedges were of an age to take it in hand themselves in 1800. Here was an old - standing connection . The dockyard officials plain- ly thought that a suspicious watchfulness would have been unbecoming towards friends of ...
... held it till the Hedges were of an age to take it in hand themselves in 1800. Here was an old - standing connection . The dockyard officials plain- ly thought that a suspicious watchfulness would have been unbecoming towards friends of ...
Page 54
... held back . Tickets were given them for the work done , and on the strength of them they found credit with local tradesmen . The rate of pay had been fixed in the last years of the seventeenth cen- tury , and could only be altered " by ...
... held back . Tickets were given them for the work done , and on the strength of them they found credit with local tradesmen . The rate of pay had been fixed in the last years of the seventeenth cen- tury , and could only be altered " by ...
Page 62
... held with the muzzle pointing upwards , and that shooting downhill is out of the question . A small hole punched in the barrel con- nects the powder inside with a pan outside , into which an- other small stock of powder is put . And the ...
... held with the muzzle pointing upwards , and that shooting downhill is out of the question . A small hole punched in the barrel con- nects the powder inside with a pan outside , into which an- other small stock of powder is put . And the ...
Page 84
... held by local superstition to be a deadly thing . There are two enemies of which in Indo- China every Frenchman goes in mortal terror , fresh air and the sun . To exclude the former every sort of precaution is taken , including such ...
... held by local superstition to be a deadly thing . There are two enemies of which in Indo- China every Frenchman goes in mortal terror , fresh air and the sun . To exclude the former every sort of precaution is taken , including such ...
Page 105
... held all the losing cards , having lost the toss , that is , and been compelled to follow on , the Oxonians should have come within measurable dis- tance of pulling the game out of the fire , must rank as even miraculous . But after all ...
... held all the losing cards , having lost the toss , that is , and been compelled to follow on , the Oxonians should have come within measurable dis- tance of pulling the game out of the fire , must rank as even miraculous . But after all ...
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