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... close chemical relation between coal and diamonds . It is the reason , I believe , why some people allude to coal as " black diamonds . " Both these com- modities represent wealth ; but coal is a much less port- able form of property ...
... close chemical relation between coal and diamonds . It is the reason , I believe , why some people allude to coal as " black diamonds . " Both these com- modities represent wealth ; but coal is a much less port- able form of property ...
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... close over the last vestiges of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Com- pany - A . Heyst , manager in the East . Davidson , a good , simple fellow in his way , was strangely affected . It is to be noted that he knew very little of Heyst ...
... close over the last vestiges of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Com- pany - A . Heyst , manager in the East . Davidson , a good , simple fellow in his way , was strangely affected . It is to be noted that he knew very little of Heyst ...
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... undertone : " It's unreasonable to get so angry as that . Even if he had run off with your cash - box- 99 The big hotel - keeper bent down and put his infuriated face close to Davidson's " My cash - box ! My - he - 46 VICTORY.
... undertone : " It's unreasonable to get so angry as that . Even if he had run off with your cash - box- 99 The big hotel - keeper bent down and put his infuriated face close to Davidson's " My cash - box ! My - he - 46 VICTORY.
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... a bamboo pole , and was waving it at the end of the old wharf . " Davidson didn't like to take his steamer alongside for fear of being indiscreet , I suppose ; but he steered close inshore , stopped his engines , and lowered a 52 VI ...
... a bamboo pole , and was waving it at the end of the old wharf . " Davidson didn't like to take his steamer alongside for fear of being indiscreet , I suppose ; but he steered close inshore , stopped his engines , and lowered a 52 VI ...
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Joseph Conrad. close inshore , stopped his engines , and lowered a boat . He went himself in that boat , which was manned , of course , by his Malay seamen . Heyst , when he saw the boat pulling towards him , dropped his signalling ...
Joseph Conrad. close inshore , stopped his engines , and lowered a boat . He went himself in that boat , which was manned , of course , by his Malay seamen . Heyst , when he saw the boat pulling towards him , dropped his signalling ...
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