Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 16
... perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a ...
... perhaps it was some sort of enchantment . There are more spells than your commonplace magicians ever dreamed of . Roughly speaking , a circle with a radius of eight hundred miles drawn round a point in North Borneo was in Heyst's case a ...
Page 17
... Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The enchantment must have been an unbreakable one . The manager - the man who heard the exclamation - had been so impressed by the tone , fervour , rapture ...
... Perhaps these were his attempts to break out . If so , they were failures . The enchantment must have been an unbreakable one . The manager - the man who heard the exclamation - had been so impressed by the tone , fervour , rapture ...
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... Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose , even playfully , to quench old McNab's thirst must have been an utopist , a pursuer of chimæras ; for of downright irony Heyst was not prodigal . And , may be , this was the reason why he ...
... Perhaps that was it . A man who could propose , even playfully , to quench old McNab's thirst must have been an utopist , a pursuer of chimæras ; for of downright irony Heyst was not prodigal . And , may be , this was the reason why he ...
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... perhaps to a certain extent ; not much . Most of the places he traded with were unknown not only to geography but also to the traders ' special lore which is trans- mitted by word of mouth , without ostentation , and forms the stock of ...
... perhaps to a certain extent ; not much . Most of the places he traded with were unknown not only to geography but also to the traders ' special lore which is trans- mitted by word of mouth , without ostentation , and forms the stock of ...
Page 26
... perhaps inter- rogating his conscience , and Heyst preserving a mien of unperturbed , polite interest . I “ I prayed like a child , of course . I believe in children praying - well , women , too , but I rather think God expects men to ...
... perhaps inter- rogating his conscience , and Heyst preserving a mien of unperturbed , polite interest . I “ I prayed like a child , of course . I believe in children praying - well , women , too , but I rather think God expects men to ...
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