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Page 104
... four different South American ruminants that are so much like humpless camels that they are called cameloids . Of the four the llama is the largest and most useful . Trustworthy and surefooted , it makes an excellent beast of burden for ...
... four different South American ruminants that are so much like humpless camels that they are called cameloids . Of the four the llama is the largest and most useful . Trustworthy and surefooted , it makes an excellent beast of burden for ...
Page 146
... four hundred pounds a year , which comes a little short of being sufficient to maintain the scholars at Oxford . Rhodes himself specified the general qualifications required of the applicants . Scholarship was to count for thirty per ...
... four hundred pounds a year , which comes a little short of being sufficient to maintain the scholars at Oxford . Rhodes himself specified the general qualifications required of the applicants . Scholarship was to count for thirty per ...
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... four hundred years old . These " orbs " of the fairy queen , as Shakespeare calls them in A Midsummer Night's Dream , may range in size from tiny ringlets to circles three or four yards in diameter . The growth of the underground part ...
... four hundred years old . These " orbs " of the fairy queen , as Shakespeare calls them in A Midsummer Night's Dream , may range in size from tiny ringlets to circles three or four yards in diameter . The growth of the underground part ...
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