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... the sounds of business and cries of mariners - it is no wonder that it fills all foreigners with inexpres- sible astonishment , and makes the Englishman proud of his B 2 FIRST IMPRESSIONS . Old-fashioned Travelling Carriage.
... the sounds of business and cries of mariners - it is no wonder that it fills all foreigners with inexpres- sible astonishment , and makes the Englishman proud of his B 2 FIRST IMPRESSIONS . Old-fashioned Travelling Carriage.
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... wonder at the silence of the landscape . Not a sheep , a horse , or a cow , is to be seen . The mountain tops are covered with wood , instead of flocks , as in England . The slopes are covered with vineyards . You ask where the cattle ...
... wonder at the silence of the landscape . Not a sheep , a horse , or a cow , is to be seen . The mountain tops are covered with wood , instead of flocks , as in England . The slopes are covered with vineyards . You ask where the cattle ...
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... wonder- ful velocity . Two boys were set by a gentleman of the party to see which could soonest devour a piece of black bread for three kreutzers - one penny - which they did to their own danger of choking , and great merriment of the ...
... wonder- ful velocity . Two boys were set by a gentleman of the party to see which could soonest devour a piece of black bread for three kreutzers - one penny - which they did to their own danger of choking , and great merriment of the ...
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... wonder how they could ever have been anything like what the young are . The plumpness , and sunburnt freshness of youth gone , then , indeed , the out - of - door toils of the women tell upon them ; not in premature decay , but in a ...
... wonder how they could ever have been anything like what the young are . The plumpness , and sunburnt freshness of youth gone , then , indeed , the out - of - door toils of the women tell upon them ; not in premature decay , but in a ...
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... wonder when we first come to Germany , the strange old - fashioned locks , door - handles - actually levers - queer knives and forks , comical pots and kitchen utensils , odd old - world carriages , lumbering eil- wagons , so called ...
... wonder when we first come to Germany , the strange old - fashioned locks , door - handles - actually levers - queer knives and forks , comical pots and kitchen utensils , odd old - world carriages , lumbering eil- wagons , so called ...
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