Blackwood's Magazine, Том 222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... move off . By this time the Shanghai Defence Force main body is arriving . Sandbag defence posts appear in the support line , and Shanghai begins more and more to assume the appear- ance of a beleaguered city . The incident of the 22nd ...
... move off . By this time the Shanghai Defence Force main body is arriving . Sandbag defence posts appear in the support line , and Shanghai begins more and more to assume the appear- ance of a beleaguered city . The incident of the 22nd ...
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... move on , as he always put it , suddenly leant forward , and with his serious face earn- est and intent , addressed the Commandante in his broken Spanish . " Señor - er - have you - er- had any letter from the Presi- dent of Honduras ...
... move on , as he always put it , suddenly leant forward , and with his serious face earn- est and intent , addressed the Commandante in his broken Spanish . " Señor - er - have you - er- had any letter from the Presi- dent of Honduras ...
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... move- ment could not have been better timed . The hissing sword - blade shore through reins and martingale , grazing the pony's off - shoulder but doing no further harm . Like George II . at Dettingen , Bimbashi Parkinson - Smythe was ...
... move- ment could not have been better timed . The hissing sword - blade shore through reins and martingale , grazing the pony's off - shoulder but doing no further harm . Like George II . at Dettingen , Bimbashi Parkinson - Smythe was ...
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... move- ment of the ships without in any way affecting the naviga- tion , and providing observation points that were almost ideal . Their effect on the shooting gave a definite proof of their utility , the efficiency in spot- ting being ...
... move- ment of the ships without in any way affecting the naviga- tion , and providing observation points that were almost ideal . Their effect on the shooting gave a definite proof of their utility , the efficiency in spot- ting being ...
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... move hand or foot . The swine did the job properly , there's no doubt about that . They'd got me where they wanted me , and they weren't taking any chances of my getting myself loose . At first I hadn't a notion what it was they had in ...
... move hand or foot . The swine did the job properly , there's no doubt about that . They'd got me where they wanted me , and they weren't taking any chances of my getting myself loose . At first I hadn't a notion what it was they had in ...
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