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... strength of 1250 men , 200 horses , and 13 steam- engines , not only was the work gradually completed , but during night and day , for eight months , the astonishing and almost in- credible quantity of 1800 gallons per minute from the ...
... strength of 1250 men , 200 horses , and 13 steam- engines , not only was the work gradually completed , but during night and day , for eight months , the astonishing and almost in- credible quantity of 1800 gallons per minute from the ...
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... strength of good honest English broadcloth . At the same shaft an accident of exactly a contrary nature subsequently occurred . In order to execute some trifling repair to the brattice , there was , during a desperate cold night , sus ...
... strength of good honest English broadcloth . At the same shaft an accident of exactly a contrary nature subsequently occurred . In order to execute some trifling repair to the brattice , there was , during a desperate cold night , sus ...
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... strength , they are the finest Herculean specimens of the British race ; and , as is generally the case , in proportion as they are powerful so are they devoid of all bluster or bravado . Those who have commanded large numbers of them ...
... strength , they are the finest Herculean specimens of the British race ; and , as is generally the case , in proportion as they are powerful so are they devoid of all bluster or bravado . Those who have commanded large numbers of them ...
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... strength to drag towards the luggage - van a leash of pointer - dogs , whose tails , like certain other " tails " that we know of , are obstinately radiating from the couples that bind together their heads : while a number of newspaper ...
... strength to drag towards the luggage - van a leash of pointer - dogs , whose tails , like certain other " tails " that we know of , are obstinately radiating from the couples that bind together their heads : while a number of newspaper ...
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... strength and quickness . The noise which reverberated within this boiler , in addition to that which was resounding with- out , formed altogether a dose which it is astonishing the tym- panum of the human ear can receive uninjured ; at ...
... strength and quickness . The noise which reverberated within this boiler , in addition to that which was resounding with- out , formed altogether a dose which it is astonishing the tym- panum of the human ear can receive uninjured ; at ...
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