Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 15
... 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 29
... seemed the very last person to be the agent of Pro- vidence 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 ...
... seemed the very last person to be the agent of Pro- vidence 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 ...
Page 36
... seemed to have got himself into a state of remarkable haziness as to his exact position towards Heyst . For , if Heyst had been sent with money in his pocket by a direct decree of the Almighty in answer to Mor- rison's prayer then there ...
... seemed to have got himself into a state of remarkable haziness as to his exact position towards Heyst . For , if Heyst had been sent with money in his pocket by a direct decree of the Almighty in answer to Mor- rison's prayer then there ...
Page 46
... seemed to swim in a green sea . Then that too disappeared , as if it had sunk into the living depths of the tropical vegetation , which is more jealous of men's conquests than the ocean , and which was about to close over the last ...
... seemed to swim in a green sea . Then that too disappeared , as if it had sunk into the living depths of the tropical vegetation , which is more jealous of men's conquests than the ocean , and which was about to close over the last ...
Page 51
... seemed to imply that he had been wandering before he came under our observation . In what regions ? At what early age ? Mystery . Perhaps he was a bird that had never had a nest . " I left school early , " he remarked once to Davidson ...
... seemed to imply that he had been wandering before he came under our observation . In what regions ? At what early age ? Mystery . Perhaps he was a bird that had never had a nest . " I left school early , " he remarked once to Davidson ...
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