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Page 22
... travels . A shiver , what the French call a frisson , invades you . Your instinctive sleepiness vanishes . If you have enough control of yourself to lie down during breakfast , you choose a spot within 22 A LETTER TO MY DOG.
... travels . A shiver , what the French call a frisson , invades you . Your instinctive sleepiness vanishes . If you have enough control of yourself to lie down during breakfast , you choose a spot within 22 A LETTER TO MY DOG.
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... French first came to Wimbledon they used to cast wry faces at a slippery , oily surface upon which neither their feet nor their strokes would go right . Now the leading Frenchmen recognize that a turf court is the championship court par ...
... French first came to Wimbledon they used to cast wry faces at a slippery , oily surface upon which neither their feet nor their strokes would go right . Now the leading Frenchmen recognize that a turf court is the championship court par ...
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... French influence to Timbuktu , and Joffre was taken from his railway work to command a supplementary column of one thousand men two thirds of whom were carriers and followers . Passing up the left bank of the Niger , he joined Bonnier ...
... French influence to Timbuktu , and Joffre was taken from his railway work to command a supplementary column of one thousand men two thirds of whom were carriers and followers . Passing up the left bank of the Niger , he joined Bonnier ...
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... French military policy on the path to a crevasse which they had not perceived - because they were too absorbed in military occultism to watch the ground over which their steps were taking them . II How did this astonishing appoint- ment ...
... French military policy on the path to a crevasse which they had not perceived - because they were too absorbed in military occultism to watch the ground over which their steps were taking them . II How did this astonishing appoint- ment ...
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... French Army , returning to its traditions , no longer knows any other law than the offensive . . . . All attacks are to be pushed to the extreme with the firm resolution to charge the enemy with the bayonet , in order to destroy him ...
... French Army , returning to its traditions , no longer knows any other law than the offensive . . . . All attacks are to be pushed to the extreme with the firm resolution to charge the enemy with the bayonet , in order to destroy him ...
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