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Page 94
... looked down on the glittering white city of the Montezumas . They stood where Cortez and his fighting crew of Spaniards had stood more than three hundred years before . There is not a place in the world better situated for defense . The ...
... looked down on the glittering white city of the Montezumas . They stood where Cortez and his fighting crew of Spaniards had stood more than three hundred years before . There is not a place in the world better situated for defense . The ...
Page 139
... looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile was looked at for a brief instant - and then it was led back to the closet ...
... looked upon as a social pariah . The subject of slave - trading was tabooed in polite society . When it had to be discussed at all , its least repulsive profile was looked at for a brief instant - and then it was led back to the closet ...
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... looked , in the distance , like animated dolls ; and the bursting shells resembled puffy balls of white smoke tinged with fire . On November 25 , 1863 , Grant's army assembled in the valley , in full view of the Confederate position ...
... looked , in the distance , like animated dolls ; and the bursting shells resembled puffy balls of white smoke tinged with fire . On November 25 , 1863 , Grant's army assembled in the valley , in full view of the Confederate position ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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