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... perhaps , be abhorrent ; but on an atoll where the weekly chicken and the monthly pig make the sum total of fresh meat , an ancient man - of - war hawk seems as succulent as would a squab at home . Windward Village owns the large islet ...
... perhaps , be abhorrent ; but on an atoll where the weekly chicken and the monthly pig make the sum total of fresh meat , an ancient man - of - war hawk seems as succulent as would a squab at home . Windward Village owns the large islet ...
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... perhaps , close to Puka - Puka reef , and salvaged by an ancestor of Scratch - Woman to be for- ever treasured by his female descend- ants . She also wears a pair of men's striped socks , and her huge feet are squeezed into a pair of ...
... perhaps , close to Puka - Puka reef , and salvaged by an ancestor of Scratch - Woman to be for- ever treasured by his female descend- ants . She also wears a pair of men's striped socks , and her huge feet are squeezed into a pair of ...
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... dreamed or thought , or perhaps , being merely mollusks , only existed until the returning water awoke them to the joys and sorrows of snail life . II If I had ventured to make a probable list 24 FIDDLERS BY THE SEA Everywhere'
... dreamed or thought , or perhaps , being merely mollusks , only existed until the returning water awoke them to the joys and sorrows of snail life . II If I had ventured to make a probable list 24 FIDDLERS BY THE SEA Everywhere'
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... perhaps because they were so absorbed in mathematical subtleties that the human side of that marvelous experience failed to touch them . We were watching the revela- tion of awful beauty from above the harbor at New Haven , where the ...
... perhaps because they were so absorbed in mathematical subtleties that the human side of that marvelous experience failed to touch them . We were watching the revela- tion of awful beauty from above the harbor at New Haven , where the ...
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... Perhaps , in the deserts of Egypt or Arabia , primitive stargazers might make out twice as many . And it is worth remembering that in those low latitudes nearly the whole of the stellar sphere is visible night after night . The sun ...
... Perhaps , in the deserts of Egypt or Arabia , primitive stargazers might make out twice as many . And it is worth remembering that in those low latitudes nearly the whole of the stellar sphere is visible night after night . The sun ...
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