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Page 202
... authorities of Charleston , before the introduction of mod- ern sanitary systems , protected these ill - favored domestic economists and labor savers , which devour every particle of exposed organic refuse and which have naked heads ...
... authorities of Charleston , before the introduction of mod- ern sanitary systems , protected these ill - favored domestic economists and labor savers , which devour every particle of exposed organic refuse and which have naked heads ...
Page 260
... authorities at the Taku forts had issued orders forbidding foreign vessels to go up the river . When the British and French attacked the forts and seemed to be getting the worst of it , Tattnall , whose flagship had been helped off a ...
... authorities at the Taku forts had issued orders forbidding foreign vessels to go up the river . When the British and French attacked the forts and seemed to be getting the worst of it , Tattnall , whose flagship had been helped off a ...
Page 275
... authorities a great deal of trouble at the time their name was fastened upon the robbers , assassins , hooli- gans , ruffians and other vicious characters who frequented the streets of Paris and whose violence and atrocities were ...
... authorities a great deal of trouble at the time their name was fastened upon the robbers , assassins , hooli- gans , ruffians and other vicious characters who frequented the streets of Paris and whose violence and atrocities were ...
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