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... hour after hour they sang long hymns . The voices were loud and raucous near - by , but when you listened from a distance , sitting in the soft night , the effect was beautiful . # Fish spearing . I walked along the road for a bit and ...
... hour after hour they sang long hymns . The voices were loud and raucous near - by , but when you listened from a distance , sitting in the soft night , the effect was beautiful . # Fish spearing . I walked along the road for a bit and ...
Page 221
William Somerset Maugham. This went on for hours . Then the turbid water showed that we had reached the shoals . We took soundings every quarter of an hour and watched for broken water . The swell was not so heavy and we rolled less . We ...
William Somerset Maugham. This went on for hours . Then the turbid water showed that we had reached the shoals . We took soundings every quarter of an hour and watched for broken water . The swell was not so heavy and we rolled less . We ...
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... hour . I saw him with some of the students of the university . He was extremely nice to them , but not with the slightly cloying affectionateness that you sometimes see in missionaries with their converts ; he was natural and human ...
... hour . I saw him with some of the students of the university . He was extremely nice to them , but not with the slightly cloying affectionateness that you sometimes see in missionaries with their converts ; he was natural and human ...
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