The English in the West Indies: Or, The Bow of UlyssesLongmans, Green, 1888 - 373 pages |
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... told that it had not been meditated only but positively determined upon , and that further discussion of a settled question would be fruitless and needlessly irritating . Politicians with a favourite scheme are naturally sanguine . It ...
... told that it had not been meditated only but positively determined upon , and that further discussion of a settled question would be fruitless and needlessly irritating . Politicians with a favourite scheme are naturally sanguine . It ...
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... told , has disappeared also , but the wrecker scuttles his ship or runs it ashore to cheat the insurance office . The Church may perhaps be improved in the arrangement of the services and in the professional demonstrativeness of the ...
... told , has disappeared also , but the wrecker scuttles his ship or runs it ashore to cheat the insurance office . The Church may perhaps be improved in the arrangement of the services and in the professional demonstrativeness of the ...
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... told me of an opposition leader in some parlia- ment whom his rival in office had disposed of by shutting him up in the caboose . In the caboose , ' he repeated , screaming with enjoyment at the thought of it , and evidently wishing ...
... told me of an opposition leader in some parlia- ment whom his rival in office had disposed of by shutting him up in the caboose . In the caboose , ' he repeated , screaming with enjoyment at the thought of it , and evidently wishing ...
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... told now that all of us came . The worst of it was that , being lifted above his own people , he had been taught to despise them . He was spoilt as a black and could not be made into a white , and this I found after- wards was the ...
... told now that all of us came . The worst of it was that , being lifted above his own people , he had been taught to despise them . He was spoilt as a black and could not be made into a white , and this I found after- wards was the ...
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... told , had gone over a precipice . Even the unencumbered resident proprietors could barely keep their heads above water . The returns on three - quarters of the properties on the island no longer sufficed to pay the expenses of ...
... told , had gone over a precipice . Even the unencumbered resident proprietors could barely keep their heads above water . The returns on three - quarters of the properties on the island no longer sufficed to pay the expenses of ...
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