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... took hold of a piece of wainscoting , part of the frame of a panel ; he pulled it towards him , and , at the same mo- ment , a glazed show - case full of razors and brushes swung noise- lessly forward with an effect of the supernatural ...
... took hold of a piece of wainscoting , part of the frame of a panel ; he pulled it towards him , and , at the same mo- ment , a glazed show - case full of razors and brushes swung noise- lessly forward with an effect of the supernatural ...
Page 42
... took me off my legs . There wasn't room for emotion . Macdonald laid about him with the handle of the umbrella a few inches from the deck ; but the passage that he made for himself closed behind him . Suddenly , in the pushing and ...
... took me off my legs . There wasn't room for emotion . Macdonald laid about him with the handle of the umbrella a few inches from the deck ; but the passage that he made for himself closed behind him . Suddenly , in the pushing and ...
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... took my letter was very large , very white , and looked as if it would feel horribly flabby . With the other he put on his nose a pair of enormous mother - of - pearl - framed spectacles — things ex- actly like those of a cobra's - and ...
... took my letter was very large , very white , and looked as if it would feel horribly flabby . With the other he put on his nose a pair of enormous mother - of - pearl - framed spectacles — things ex- actly like those of a cobra's - and ...
Page 42
... took me off my legs . There wasn't room for emotion . Macdonald laid about him with the handle of the umbrella a few inches from the deck ; but the passage that he made for himself closed behind him . Suddenly , in the pushing and ...
... took me off my legs . There wasn't room for emotion . Macdonald laid about him with the handle of the umbrella a few inches from the deck ; but the passage that he made for himself closed behind him . Suddenly , in the pushing and ...
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... took away from the blackness and sparkle of his eyes . And he coughed , and coughed . He put his arm affectionately round my shoulders and said , " How splendid to see you again , my Juan . " His eyes had affec- tion in them , there was ...
... took away from the blackness and sparkle of his eyes . And he coughed , and coughed . He put his arm affectionately round my shoulders and said , " How splendid to see you again , my Juan . " His eyes had affec- tion in them , there was ...
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