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Page ix
... seemed awfully presumptuous to think there would be eyes to spare for those pages in a community which in the crash of the big guns and in the din of brave words expressing the truth of an indomitable faith could not but feel the edge ...
... seemed awfully presumptuous to think there would be eyes to spare for those pages in a community which in the crash of the big guns and in the din of brave words expressing the truth of an indomitable faith could not but feel the edge ...
Page xii
... seemed to be either a servant or the confidant of that aged and distinguished - looking invalid , who early on the passage held a long murmured conversation with the friar , and after that did nothing but groan feebly , smoke cigarettes ...
... seemed to be either a servant or the confidant of that aged and distinguished - looking invalid , who early on the passage held a long murmured conversation with the friar , and after that did nothing but groan feebly , smoke cigarettes ...
Page xv
... seemed rather more respectable than the Zangiacomo musical enterprise . It was less pretentious also , more homely and familiar , so to speak , insomuch that in the intervals when all the performers left the platform one of them went ...
... seemed rather more respectable than the Zangiacomo musical enterprise . It was less pretentious also , more homely and familiar , so to speak , insomuch that in the intervals when all the performers left the platform one of them went ...
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... seemed mostly concerned for was the “ stride forward , ” as he expressed it , in the general organisation of the universe , apparently . He was heard by more than a hundred persons in the islands talking of a " great stride forward for ...
... seemed mostly concerned for was the “ stride forward , ” as he expressed it , in the general organisation of the universe , apparently . He was heard by more than a hundred persons in the islands talking of a " great stride forward for ...
Page 12
... seemed the very last person to be the agent of Providence in an affair concerned with money . The fact of his turning up in Timor or anywhere else was no more wonderful than the settling of a sparrow on one's window - sill at any given ...
... seemed the very last person to be the agent of Providence in an affair concerned with money . The fact of his turning up in Timor or anywhere else was no more wonderful than the settling of a sparrow on one's window - sill at any given ...
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