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Page 102
... passes . They are of all ages and all nations . There are Japanese , Negro women , Germans , Americans , Spaniards . ( It is strange and nostalgic as you pass to hear on a gramophone coplas or a seguidilla . ) Most of them have no trace ...
... passes . They are of all ages and all nations . There are Japanese , Negro women , Germans , Americans , Spaniards . ( It is strange and nostalgic as you pass to hear on a gramophone coplas or a seguidilla . ) Most of them have no trace ...
Page 252
... pass a peasant ploughing his field with a wooden plough , like the ploughs they used in Roman times , drawn by two mules . Sometimes you pass a peasant on a don- key , or another , with his son riding pillion , on a horse . The wind ...
... pass a peasant ploughing his field with a wooden plough , like the ploughs they used in Roman times , drawn by two mules . Sometimes you pass a peasant on a don- key , or another , with his son riding pillion , on a horse . The wind ...
Page 359
... pass the time and once read pass straight out of one's mind . I have never cared to read books on subjects that were in no way my concern , and I still cannot bring myself to read books of entertainment or in- struction about people or ...
... pass the time and once read pass straight out of one's mind . I have never cared to read books on subjects that were in no way my concern , and I still cannot bring myself to read books of entertainment or in- struction about people or ...
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