The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy CruiseGood Press, 2019 M12 10 - 1896 pages 'The Ship-Dwellers' is a travelog in first-person perspective, written through the lens of a young teenager. She was traveling on a cruise ship across the Mediterranean. Amongst the places she visited are the following: Algeria, Egypt, and Syria. |
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... became the nucleus of our family circle, and how night after night my mother read aloud from it while the rest of us listened, and often the others laughed. TO ME IT WAS ALL TRUE, ALL ROMANCE—ALL POETRY I did not laugh—not then. In the ...
... became the nucleus of our family circle, and how night after night my mother read aloud from it while the rest of us listened, and often the others laughed. TO ME IT WAS ALL TRUE, ALL ROMANCE—ALL POETRY I did not laugh—not then. In the ...
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... became gorgeous with prospectuses in blue and gold and crimson sunset dyes. The Sphinx, the Pyramids, and prows of stately vessels looked out from many covers and became backgrounds for lofty, dark-blue camels and dusky men of fantastic ...
... became gorgeous with prospectuses in blue and gold and crimson sunset dyes. The Sphinx, the Pyramids, and prows of stately vessels looked out from many covers and became backgrounds for lofty, dark-blue camels and dusky men of fantastic ...
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... became more cheerful . Only , I wish the ship people wouldn't find it necessary to blow their whistle so loud and suddenly to send one's friends ashore . There is no chance to carry off somebody - somebody you would enjoy having along ...
... became more cheerful . Only , I wish the ship people wouldn't find it necessary to blow their whistle so loud and suddenly to send one's friends ashore . There is no chance to carry off somebody - somebody you would enjoy having along ...
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... became a dark outline . That , too , sank lower and became grayer and fell back into the mist . I remembered that certain travellers had displayed strong emotions on seeing their native land disappear . I had none - none of any ...
... became a dark outline . That , too , sank lower and became grayer and fell back into the mist . I remembered that certain travellers had displayed strong emotions on seeing their native land disappear . I had none - none of any ...
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... became a single vessel when they had left us behind. It was over, all too soon. Straight as an arrow those two noble lines pierced the western horizon, passed through it, and were gone. We went below then, to find chairs flying ...
... became a single vessel when they had left us behind. It was over, all too soon. Straight as an arrow those two noble lines pierced the western horizon, passed through it, and were gone. We went below then, to find chairs flying ...
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