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... 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 departure from England ...
... 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 departure from England ...
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... sort of bugle mania . Regiments passed hither and thither in quest of quarters , and officers in every imaginable Muscovite uniform hustled each other on the uneven pavement , and crammed to excess every café on the picturesque little ...
... sort of bugle mania . Regiments passed hither and thither in quest of quarters , and officers in every imaginable Muscovite uniform hustled each other on the uneven pavement , and crammed to excess every café on the picturesque little ...
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... sort of forlorn hope , appeal . The chief magistrate of Giurgevo , a most charming old gentleman , expressed the warmest sympathy with me in the difficulty in which I found myself ; but the edicts of war were beyond his control . Death ...
... sort of forlorn hope , appeal . The chief magistrate of Giurgevo , a most charming old gentleman , expressed the warmest sympathy with me in the difficulty in which I found myself ; but the edicts of war were beyond his control . Death ...
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... sort of factotum though in my own mind I had decided to promote him to the dignity of dragoman through the campaign , a position which he was peculiarly well fitted to fill , having been up country in Asia Minor a good deal , and being ...
... sort of factotum though in my own mind I had decided to promote him to the dignity of dragoman through the campaign , a position which he was peculiarly well fitted to fill , having been up country in Asia Minor a good deal , and being ...
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... sort of state secret , that , as a matter of fact , there were no prisoners at all within two hundred miles of that particular place at that time , and that it was only a report which had been circulated for political motives ...
... sort of state secret , that , as a matter of fact , there were no prisoners at all within two hundred miles of that particular place at that time , and that it was only a report which had been circulated for political motives ...
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