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Page 59
... colours of the coun- try assumed a new , an almost laboured richness , resembling for a moment the opulent hues of ... colour and more ornament . That is why I read Milton and Jeremy Taylor with laborious zeal . One day , my mind upon ...
... colours of the coun- try assumed a new , an almost laboured richness , resembling for a moment the opulent hues of ... colour and more ornament . That is why I read Milton and Jeremy Taylor with laborious zeal . One day , my mind upon ...
Page 143
... colour and strange shapes I half ex- pected to find a bottle sealed with the seal of Suleyman , the prison of a powerful djin . # The colour of the sea . It is deep blue in the open sea , wine- coloured under the setting sun ; but in ...
... colour and strange shapes I half ex- pected to find a bottle sealed with the seal of Suleyman , the prison of a powerful djin . # The colour of the sea . It is deep blue in the open sea , wine- coloured under the setting sun ; but in ...
Page 144
... colour . Two of them live in each hole . The female is larger and stronger than the male and somewhat more brightly coloured . They are found only in very fine sand and to catch them we went over the lagoon , about a mile , I should ...
... colour . Two of them live in each hole . The female is larger and stronger than the male and somewhat more brightly coloured . They are found only in very fine sand and to catch them we went over the lagoon , about a mile , I should ...
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