The Cornhill MagazineWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1922 |
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... seals as Phoca barbata , but in a paper , which I luckily chanced upon in a later volume , he made the correction and stated that the seals were Halichorus grypus , the grey seal , an animal in which I was then very much interested ; so ...
... seals as Phoca barbata , but in a paper , which I luckily chanced upon in a later volume , he made the correction and stated that the seals were Halichorus grypus , the grey seal , an animal in which I was then very much interested ; so ...
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... seals . I had hunted them in many lands - in the Shetlands , in the Orkneys , in the Hebrides . I had camped for a week ... seal ( Phoca vitulina ) , they cannot swim at birth , and are three weeks old before they take to the water . No ...
... seals . I had hunted them in many lands - in the Shetlands , in the Orkneys , in the Hebrides . I had camped for a week ... seal ( Phoca vitulina ) , they cannot swim at birth , and are three weeks old before they take to the water . No ...
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... seal when he is swimming , and that is at the moment he rises , when he has just filled his lungs with air , and when he is swimming along the top of the water in the position in which a man swims . But very often he comes up in the per ...
... seal when he is swimming , and that is at the moment he rises , when he has just filled his lungs with air , and when he is swimming along the top of the water in the position in which a man swims . But very often he comes up in the per ...
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... seal themselves can know the many difficulties which lend savour to the chase , or can visualise the wild and ... seals lie . there , but they are much more likely not to be . the disembarkation will almost surely put them off , and it ...
... seal themselves can know the many difficulties which lend savour to the chase , or can visualise the wild and ... seals lie . there , but they are much more likely not to be . the disembarkation will almost surely put them off , and it ...
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... seals . My wife , who is quick at languages , had already , in the few days we had been in Norway , and with the help of German ... seal rocks . VOL . LII.-NO. 308 , N.S. 16 We had not been going very long when I realised HUNTER'S LUCK . 241.
... seals . My wife , who is quick at languages , had already , in the few days we had been in Norway , and with the help of German ... seal rocks . VOL . LII.-NO. 308 , N.S. 16 We had not been going very long when I realised HUNTER'S LUCK . 241.
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The Cornhill Magazine, Томи 9 – 10;Том 83;Том 1901 William Makepeace Thackeray Повний перегляд - 1901 |
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