The Lure of the Mediterranean: The Ship Dwellers: a Story of a Happy CruiseHarper & brothers, 1911 - 393 pages |
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... FEET FROM THE TIME OF ADAM , BAALBEC BECAME A PLACE OF ALTARS . SO THE PATRIARCHS JOURNEYED ; SO , TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER , JOSEPH AND MARY TRAVELLED INTO EGYPT URGING US TO PARTAKE OF THE PRECIOUS STUFF , WITH- OUT STINT .... ASKED ...
... FEET FROM THE TIME OF ADAM , BAALBEC BECAME A PLACE OF ALTARS . SO THE PATRIARCHS JOURNEYED ; SO , TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER , JOSEPH AND MARY TRAVELLED INTO EGYPT URGING US TO PARTAKE OF THE PRECIOUS STUFF , WITH- OUT STINT .... ASKED ...
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... feet long , I believe , and , as already men- tioned , her tonnage was registered at eighteen hundred . The figures set down in the prospectus for this vessel are a good deal bigger than those , but they are still too modest . The ...
... feet long , I believe , and , as already men- tioned , her tonnage was registered at eighteen hundred . The figures set down in the prospectus for this vessel are a good deal bigger than those , but they are still too modest . The ...
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... feet . We did not need any one to tell us what it meant . " The fleet ! " came to every man's lips , and a moment later we were on deck . Not only those in the dining- room came . Sick or well , bundled together somehow , from every ...
... feet . We did not need any one to tell us what it meant . " The fleet ! " came to every man's lips , and a moment later we were on deck . Not only those in the dining- room came . Sick or well , bundled together somehow , from every ...
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... feet above the sea - and to make out the tiny houses nestling like white and tinted shells against the green , we changed our minds about being willing to sail past without stopping , and when at last we swung slowly into the Harbor of ...
... feet above the sea - and to make out the tiny houses nestling like white and tinted shells against the green , we changed our minds about being willing to sail past without stopping , and when at last we swung slowly into the Harbor of ...
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... feet into the air , and one had to be pretty careful to step just at the right instant or he would leave one foot on a high step and the other in the boat , far below . Several of our best passengers were dismembered in that way . Once ...
... feet into the air , and one had to be pretty careful to step just at the right instant or he would leave one foot on a high step and the other in the boat , far below . Several of our best passengers were dismembered in that way . Once ...
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Page 135 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
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