The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy CruiseLitres, 2022 M05 15 |
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... once a city; where the Sphinx and the Pyramids looked out over the sands that had drifted about them long and long before the Wise Men of the East had seen the Star rise over Bethlehem. In the big, bleak farmhouse on the wide, bleak ...
... once a city; where the Sphinx and the Pyramids looked out over the sands that had drifted about them long and long before the Wise Men of the East had seen the Star rise over Bethlehem. In the big, bleak farmhouse on the wide, bleak ...
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... once or pawing over mail and packages heaped upon the cabin table. I didn't feel like laughing and talking, and I wasn't interested in the mail. Almost everybody in the world that meant anything to me was in my crowd, and they were ...
... once or pawing over mail and packages heaped upon the cabin table. I didn't feel like laughing and talking, and I wasn't interested in the mail. Almost everybody in the world that meant anything to me was in my crowd, and they were ...
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... once one gets the habit. They sell them on this ship, and nearly everybody has one or more. The tables in the forward cabin are full of them, and after dinner there is a group around each table pawing over the pieces in a rapt way or ...
... once one gets the habit. They sell them on this ship, and nearly everybody has one or more. The tables in the forward cabin are full of them, and after dinner there is a group around each table pawing over the pieces in a rapt way or ...
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... once said to me, speaking of his crops, "Der early corn, he iss all right; aber der late corn, she's bad!" My German is not as good as his English, but you'd think it was better, the serious way these stewards accept it. They recognize ...
... once said to me, speaking of his crops, "Der early corn, he iss all right; aber der late corn, she's bad!" My German is not as good as his English, but you'd think it was better, the serious way these stewards accept it. They recognize ...
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... once, a roll of drums and a burst of martial music brought us to our 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 diningroom ...
... once, a roll of drums and a burst of martial music brought us to our 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 diningroom ...
Contents
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