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... English or American ! » « Why , madam , » he answered , « it's a moan . » And so it is . The popular fête would have been long if it had not been so interesting to watch the people . Five hun- dred thousand ! I should have said millions ...
... English or American ! » « Why , madam , » he answered , « it's a moan . » And so it is . The popular fête would have been long if it had not been so interesting to watch the people . Five hun- dred thousand ! I should have said millions ...
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... English diplomatists are out of all this , and that broad red and blue rib- bons don't fall over their shoulders just be- cause they happen to be standing in the way . Monday , June 11 ( May 30 ) . ASKED to a monster picnic to - morrow ...
... English diplomatists are out of all this , and that broad red and blue rib- bons don't fall over their shoulders just be- cause they happen to be standing in the way . Monday , June 11 ( May 30 ) . ASKED to a monster picnic to - morrow ...
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... English meadows and the ripple of English grass ; these panting , di- sheveled women slaving beside their hus- bands and brothers amid the rattle of the machines and the steam of the pressers ' irons , with the sick or the dying ...
... English meadows and the ripple of English grass ; these panting , di- sheveled women slaving beside their hus- bands and brothers amid the rattle of the machines and the steam of the pressers ' irons , with the sick or the dying ...
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... English passions for spending- above all , by the passion for drink . Here , too , were men of a far lower type and grade - the waste and refuse of the vast industrial mill . Tressady knew a good many of them by sight- sullen , quick ...
... English passions for spending- above all , by the passion for drink . Here , too , were men of a far lower type and grade - the waste and refuse of the vast industrial mill . Tressady knew a good many of them by sight- sullen , quick ...
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... English , ra- ther than the Portuguese , that have become the pos- sessors of the rich interior . In the early years of the sixteenth century , long be- fore the first Dutch fort was erected at Cape Town , Portu- gal had planted her ...
... English , ra- ther than the Portuguese , that have become the pos- sessors of the rich interior . In the early years of the sixteenth century , long be- fore the first Dutch fort was erected at Cape Town , Portu- gal had planted her ...
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