The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 179William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1971 |
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Page 54
... give the alarm , but even they get used to a pre- sence and will brace themselves against a trunk within a few feet of you to tug insects from the bark , or teeter on the drab grey beards of lichen . By all the rules of forestry , the ...
... give the alarm , but even they get used to a pre- sence and will brace themselves against a trunk within a few feet of you to tug insects from the bark , or teeter on the drab grey beards of lichen . By all the rules of forestry , the ...
Page 198
... give all kinds of reasons why he should have come then ; I can give equally good - looking reasons why he should not . That he should have appeared when he did was an accident ; that he should have appeared at all was a necessity . This ...
... give all kinds of reasons why he should have come then ; I can give equally good - looking reasons why he should not . That he should have appeared when he did was an accident ; that he should have appeared at all was a necessity . This ...
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... give to poor Indians but not to poor whites . A greengrocer gave them some bad bananas . John Banon , the Anglo - Indian grandson of Captain Banon , one of the first British settlers and fruit growers in the Kulu valley , reproved an ...
... give to poor Indians but not to poor whites . A greengrocer gave them some bad bananas . John Banon , the Anglo - Indian grandson of Captain Banon , one of the first British settlers and fruit growers in the Kulu valley , reproved an ...
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