The Young Wrecker of the Florida Reef: Or, The Trials and Adventures of Fred RansomJames S. Claxton, successor to Wm. S. & Alfred Martien, no. 606 Chestnut Street, 1866 - 381 pages |
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... felt that if I could not travel , there was some solace in being near the instruments with which man has learned to conquer space , and transport the arts and treasures of other lands to his own door . These wharves of which I speak ...
... felt that if I could not travel , there was some solace in being near the instruments with which man has learned to conquer space , and transport the arts and treasures of other lands to his own door . These wharves of which I speak ...
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... felt that I had , in comparison , seen nothing . My visits generally ended by our spending the evening together at some entertainment , which he declared to be better fun than going to sea , and joked me about asking our fathers whether ...
... felt that I had , in comparison , seen nothing . My visits generally ended by our spending the evening together at some entertainment , which he declared to be better fun than going to sea , and joked me about asking our fathers whether ...
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... felt sure that my friend would not return before ten o'clock , but as I had determined to wait , I lay down on the locker and thought over my day's excursion , my father's disappointment and mine . At last I fell into a doze . I ...
... felt sure that my friend would not return before ten o'clock , but as I had determined to wait , I lay down on the locker and thought over my day's excursion , my father's disappointment and mine . At last I fell into a doze . I ...
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... for re- turning to his house before I received some inti- mation of his pleasure , reflection showed me that such would not be the most prudent course ; for I now felt to the full extent , how almost 3 * OR FRED RANSOM . 29.
... for re- turning to his house before I received some inti- mation of his pleasure , reflection showed me that such would not be the most prudent course ; for I now felt to the full extent , how almost 3 * OR FRED RANSOM . 29.
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Or, The Trials and Adventures of Fred Ransom Richard Meade Bache. I now felt to the full extent , how almost impossi- ble it must be for him to credit the statement which I had to make , that the occurrence which followed the ...
Or, The Trials and Adventures of Fred Ransom Richard Meade Bache. I now felt to the full extent , how almost impossi- ble it must be for him to credit the statement which I had to make , that the occurrence which followed the ...
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