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... effects , put in this way with a palette knife , ' I suggested , and then- ' Telegram , sir . ' It was my shock - headed studio boy , who , suddenly putting his terra - cotta - coloured cranium round a bit of Moorish drapery , presented ...
... effects , put in this way with a palette knife , ' I suggested , and then- ' Telegram , sir . ' It was my shock - headed studio boy , who , suddenly putting his terra - cotta - coloured cranium round a bit of Moorish drapery , presented ...
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... effect a landing - indeed , any hesitation at that critical moment would , he assured me , have been fatal to us all . It was the calm before the storm - the slow music before the rising of the curtain , which should display the first ...
... effect a landing - indeed , any hesitation at that critical moment would , he assured me , have been fatal to us all . It was the calm before the storm - the slow music before the rising of the curtain , which should display the first ...
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... effect of scaring those ruffians as they were never scared before by mortal man . One of their number lay wounded at the bottom of the glen , and the rest were scamper- ing away in every direction , terrified by dint of sheer , well ...
... effect of scaring those ruffians as they were never scared before by mortal man . One of their number lay wounded at the bottom of the glen , and the rest were scamper- ing away in every direction , terrified by dint of sheer , well ...
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... effect which true British hospit- ality had wrought in a very few days , as far as I was concerned , was truly remarkable . I say British hospitality advisedly , for Consul James Zohrab was a Britisher to the backbone . Having made all ...
... effect which true British hospit- ality had wrought in a very few days , as far as I was concerned , was truly remarkable . I say British hospitality advisedly , for Consul James Zohrab was a Britisher to the backbone . Having made all ...
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... effects . Having partaken of bread and salt with their worthy leader , during which time he had arranged that his women - folk should make room for us , we at once proceeded to occupy their khan . It was a long , low , smoke - begrimed ...
... effects . Having partaken of bread and salt with their worthy leader , during which time he had arranged that his women - folk should make room for us , we at once proceeded to occupy their khan . It was a long , low , smoke - begrimed ...
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