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... human terrier for a moment , still watching at his hole , I clambered over the mounds of earth , and looked down at the dead bones of Roman Britain . The old wall above ground had been the starting point from which the excavations were ...
... human terrier for a moment , still watching at his hole , I clambered over the mounds of earth , and looked down at the dead bones of Roman Britain . The old wall above ground had been the starting point from which the excavations were ...
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... human foot several inches deep . By the direction of the footsteps , it is clear that the people flocking thither must have come up the street from the southward . Strange , that , after fourteen hundred years , we should thus have ...
... human foot several inches deep . By the direction of the footsteps , it is clear that the people flocking thither must have come up the street from the southward . Strange , that , after fourteen hundred years , we should thus have ...
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... human skeletons were a short time since exhumed , several of the skulls of which presented extraordinary appear- ances . Their facial bones are , in fact , all askew , the eye - sockets of one side of the face being in advance of those ...
... human skeletons were a short time since exhumed , several of the skulls of which presented extraordinary appear- ances . Their facial bones are , in fact , all askew , the eye - sockets of one side of the face being in advance of those ...
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Andrew Wynter. when cut open it presents an appearance somewhat like that of a human brain with its numerous convo- lutions . The first process we witnessed at the Messrs . Silver's was the softening of these bottles and " negro brains ...
Andrew Wynter. when cut open it presents an appearance somewhat like that of a human brain with its numerous convo- lutions . The first process we witnessed at the Messrs . Silver's was the softening of these bottles and " negro brains ...
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... human beings , to be cared for , rather than as machines , to be used up ; and the formation of the two little colonies of engineers at Wolverton and Swindon has been followed on a smaller scale by thousands of private employers ...
... human beings , to be cared for , rather than as machines , to be used up ; and the formation of the two little colonies of engineers at Wolverton and Swindon has been followed on a smaller scale by thousands of private employers ...
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