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... dark ridge up which Codrington's stormers went bravely into the jaws of death , looming gauntly against the lustrous sky . I have sat on the smooth green slope whence the little obelisk of stone that guards the dust of those who fell ...
... dark ridge up which Codrington's stormers went bravely into the jaws of death , looming gauntly against the lustrous sky . I have sat on the smooth green slope whence the little obelisk of stone that guards the dust of those who fell ...
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... dark Russian moorlands - and Persian gardens springing up under the shadow of Swedish forests . Nor is the population a whit less cosmopolitan than the scenery . The sallow beetle - browed Russian , the gaunt Cossack , the bullet ...
... dark Russian moorlands - and Persian gardens springing up under the shadow of Swedish forests . Nor is the population a whit less cosmopolitan than the scenery . The sallow beetle - browed Russian , the gaunt Cossack , the bullet ...
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... dark face bears the legible visé of all weathers , from the ice - winds of the higher Caucasus to the broiling sun of Teheran ; an unfortunate lady who " has so many children that she doesn't know what to do ; " a plump , placid German ...
... dark face bears the legible visé of all weathers , from the ice - winds of the higher Caucasus to the broiling sun of Teheran ; an unfortunate lady who " has so many children that she doesn't know what to do ; " a plump , placid German ...
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... dark mountains , and glimmering rivers , and black wastes of moorland , and stations flashing out for a moment in sudden lamplight - till at length , just about midnight , I find myself jolting through the flaring streets of a great ...
... dark mountains , and glimmering rivers , and black wastes of moorland , and stations flashing out for a moment in sudden lamplight - till at length , just about midnight , I find myself jolting through the flaring streets of a great ...
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... more magnificent . Smooth sloping hillsides at first , crested with waving trees and dappled with flocks of goats ; then bolder and bleaker ridges , rising ever higher , and steeper , and darker , Over the hills and far away . 25.
... more magnificent . Smooth sloping hillsides at first , crested with waving trees and dappled with flocks of goats ; then bolder and bleaker ridges , rising ever higher , and steeper , and darker , Over the hills and far away . 25.
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