The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 страници |
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... decks , suggesting the sumptuous pleasures of the truly rich . But she was much larger than any yacht I had ever seen , and fully bark - rigged - carrying both steam and sail . She was wider , too , in pro- portion to her length , and ...
... decks , suggesting the sumptuous pleasures of the truly rich . But she was much larger than any yacht I had ever seen , and fully bark - rigged - carrying both steam and sail . She was wider , too , in pro- portion to her length , and ...
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... deck and signed checks ; checks , many of them , that would have wrecked my former commercial venture at any time during the ten years of its existence ; and he whistled as he did it , and called out words of comfort to Captain Biffer ...
... deck and signed checks ; checks , many of them , that would have wrecked my former commercial venture at any time during the ten years of its existence ; and he whistled as he did it , and called out words of comfort to Captain Biffer ...
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... deck Fer- ratoni was pointing out some landmark to Chauncey Gale , while from the bridge Captain Biffer was tak- ing a silent and solemn farewell of the sky - scrapers of Manhattan . Mr. Sturritt presently came out of the cabin ...
... deck Fer- ratoni was pointing out some landmark to Chauncey Gale , while from the bridge Captain Biffer was tak- ing a silent and solemn farewell of the sky - scrapers of Manhattan . Mr. Sturritt presently came out of the cabin ...
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... deck . Chauncey and Edith Gale were already there , walking briskly up and down , and I joined in the joyous march . A faint violet bank showed on the western horizon . Looking through a glass I could see that it was solid and ...
... deck . Chauncey and Edith Gale were already there , walking briskly up and down , and I joined in the joyous march . A faint violet bank showed on the western horizon . Looking through a glass I could see that it was solid and ...
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... decks , discussing the books we had read , the pictures we had seen , and the purpose and possibilities of art . 46 Beauty , the secret of the universe , The thought that gives the soul eternal peace . " was the quotation most ...
... decks , discussing the books we had read , the pictures we had seen , and the purpose and possibilities of art . 46 Beauty , the secret of the universe , The thought that gives the soul eternal peace . " was the quotation most ...
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ahead ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE altogether Antarctic Antarctic Circle ascended balloon barrier beautiful believe berg Bill Billowcrest boat Bottle Bay brown cows cabin Cape Horn Captain Biffer Chase Chauncey Gale chord cold comfort dark deck Doolan dream drift EAST SIXTEENTH ST Edith Gale eyes face feet Ferratoni Gale's gwine hand harbor heah ice-wall J. F. TAYLOR Johnnie land Larkins laughed looked lozenges miles Miss Edith Miss Gale morning never Nicholas Nicholas Chase Nick night once perhaps Prince Princess river rope sail sailors seemed ship silent snow South Pole southward story Sturritt tablets TAYLOR & COMPANY telephone tell things thought tide told turned uncle vessel vibrations Victoria Land Violet Fields voice waited wall warm warm river what's wheah wind words York
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Страница 312 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Страница 258 - No man could be rich, no man could be poor, in Peru ; but all might enjoy, and did enjoy, a competence. Ambition, avarice, the love of change, the morbid spirit of discontent, those passions which most agitate the minds of men, found no place in the bosom of the Peruvian.