Victory: An Island TaleMetheun & Company, 1919 - 444 pages |
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... rounded , instead of the imponderable stormy and transparent ocean of air merging into infinity , by a tepid , shallow sea ; a passionless offshoot of the great waters which embrace the continents of this globe . His most frequent ...
... rounded , instead of the imponderable stormy and transparent ocean of air merging into infinity , by a tepid , shallow sea ; a passionless offshoot of the great waters which embrace the continents of this globe . His most frequent ...
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... Round Island " of the charts - was daz- zling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement invaded by the jungle : vague roofs above low vegetation ...
... Round Island " of the charts - was daz- zling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement invaded by the jungle : vague roofs above low vegetation ...
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... round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a magic circle . It just touched Manila , and he had been seen there . It just touched Saigon , and he was likewise seen there once . Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so ...
... round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a magic circle . It just touched Manila , and he had been seen there . It just touched Saigon , and he was likewise seen there once . Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so ...
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... round pith hat shading an unshaven , livid face . His white clothes , which he had not taken off for three days , were dingy . He looked already gone to the bad , past redemption . The sight was shocking to Heyst ; but he let nothing of ...
... round pith hat shading an unshaven , livid face . His white clothes , which he had not taken off for three days , were dingy . He looked already gone to the bad , past redemption . The sight was shocking to Heyst ; but he let nothing of ...
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... personally ; but he never went . It wasn't necessary . The company was formed with- him , and his nomination of manager in the tropics out to him by post . From the first he had selected Samburan , or Round VICTORY 25.
... personally ; but he never went . It wasn't necessary . The company was formed with- him , and his nomination of manager in the tropics out to him by post . From the first he had selected Samburan , or Round VICTORY 25.
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