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... seemed to take a sort of fiendish delight in it ; and the cab was detained to carry me forthwith down to the Strand , where a certain rearrangement of affairs took place , a terrible colliery accident in South Wales postponing my ...
... seemed to take a sort of fiendish delight in it ; and the cab was detained to carry me forthwith down to the Strand , where a certain rearrangement of affairs took place , a terrible colliery accident in South Wales postponing my ...
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... seemed an eternity , each stroke of the oars bringing one nearer and nearer still to that swarthy group of red - fezzed soldiery , who , with sinister looks , awaited the infidels ' arrival . Our keel grazed the shore ; we were safe ...
... seemed an eternity , each stroke of the oars bringing one nearer and nearer still to that swarthy group of red - fezzed soldiery , who , with sinister looks , awaited the infidels ' arrival . Our keel grazed the shore ; we were safe ...
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... seemed somehow to win me over . At a glance we understood each other , the result being that I agreed to take him to Constantinople as a sort of factotum though in my own mind I had decided to promote him to the dignity of dragoman ...
... seemed somehow to win me over . At a glance we understood each other , the result being that I agreed to take him to Constantinople as a sort of factotum though in my own mind I had decided to promote him to the dignity of dragoman ...
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... seemed to say , ' I know it's there somewhere ' - and echo answered ' Where ? ' Then suddenly , as if by some mighty magic , its mosques and minarets began to appear in mid - air , above a low - lying bank of clouds and grey morning ...
... seemed to say , ' I know it's there somewhere ' - and echo answered ' Where ? ' Then suddenly , as if by some mighty magic , its mosques and minarets began to appear in mid - air , above a low - lying bank of clouds and grey morning ...
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... seemed ready at any moment to soar into mid - air at one's approach ? The surf here was so high that special surf - boats were necessary for landing , so that before the one in which Holmes and myself were came nearer inland , my ...
... seemed ready at any moment to soar into mid - air at one's approach ? The surf here was so high that special surf - boats were necessary for landing , so that before the one in which Holmes and myself were came nearer inland , my ...
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