The Living Age, Volume 212Living Age Company, 1897 |
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Page 11
... move knees and feet he found that the points of his snow- shoes were dug deep , and his toes , tied to them , held the soles of his feet in the same position . What cursed temerity had made him confess to a criminal act in order to be ...
... move knees and feet he found that the points of his snow- shoes were dug deep , and his toes , tied to them , held the soles of his feet in the same position . What cursed temerity had made him confess to a criminal act in order to be ...
Page 12
... moving rafts of his shoes into a sea in which no man could swim very long . He wondered , should his snow - shoes break , if he would be able to flounder to the rim of the fence ? How long could he sit there ? Certainly it would seem ...
... moving rafts of his shoes into a sea in which no man could swim very long . He wondered , should his snow - shoes break , if he would be able to flounder to the rim of the fence ? How long could he sit there ? Certainly it would seem ...
Page 51
... moving slowlier with the gathering years ; and now he is so bent , he moves so stiffly , that the field seems very long to him . The cottage is white- washed outside ; within there is plaster , only more whitewash which does not conceal ...
... moving slowlier with the gathering years ; and now he is so bent , he moves so stiffly , that the field seems very long to him . The cottage is white- washed outside ; within there is plaster , only more whitewash which does not conceal ...
Page 75
... moving during the seven weeks ' war in 1866. Yet it would have booted him nothing , had he not followed it up with another piece of cleverness , which is often characterized as sailing close to the wind , and sometimes as downright 2 In ...
... moving during the seven weeks ' war in 1866. Yet it would have booted him nothing , had he not followed it up with another piece of cleverness , which is often characterized as sailing close to the wind , and sometimes as downright 2 In ...
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... move on the part of the emperor of the French , and was treated as such by the Germans . Bismarck consented , and the paragraph was admitted ; but he had first taken the precaution to con- clude separate offensive and defensive treaties ...
... move on the part of the emperor of the French , and was treated as such by the Germans . Bismarck consented , and the paragraph was admitted ; but he had first taken the precaution to con- clude separate offensive and defensive treaties ...
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