The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and Some Romantic Love Affairs Amid Strange SurroundingsJ. F. Taylor, 1901 - 323 páginas |
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Página 13
... he broke in : " How long would it take you to go there and get back ? " he asked . " I hardly know - five years , perhaps possibly longer . " The millionaire editor took his feet down . " Humph SEEKING TO REALIZE IT . 13.
... he broke in : " How long would it take you to go there and get back ? " he asked . " I hardly know - five years , perhaps possibly longer . " The millionaire editor took his feet down . " Humph SEEKING TO REALIZE IT . 13.
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... asked , and I thought there was a suggestion of teasing in his voice . Also , it seemed to me that there was a little wave of confusion in Miss Gale's face , though the slight added color there may have been due to other causes . “ I ...
... asked , and I thought there was a suggestion of teasing in his voice . Also , it seemed to me that there was a little wave of confusion in Miss Gale's face , though the slight added color there may have been due to other causes . “ I ...
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... asked . There was that about Mr. Biffer's tone and atti- tude which indicated , so far as he was concerned , an entire lack of humor in the proposition . Even Gale , I thought , seemed a trifle subdued as he answered : " Oh , I don't ...
... asked . There was that about Mr. Biffer's tone and atti- tude which indicated , so far as he was concerned , an entire lack of humor in the proposition . Even Gale , I thought , seemed a trifle subdued as he answered : " Oh , I don't ...
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... asked . Ferratoni's face grew even more beautiful . " Fortune ? Recognition ? " He spoke musically , " It is not It is the pursuing of Electricity — it is but yet many others-- and his English was almost perfect . those that I would ...
... asked . Ferratoni's face grew even more beautiful . " Fortune ? Recognition ? " He spoke musically , " It is not It is the pursuing of Electricity — it is but yet many others-- and his English was almost perfect . those that I would ...
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... asked . " Who have you got for that ? " I knew as little of practical ballooning as of navi- gation , but as a boy I had experimented in chem- istry , and the manufacture of gases . More lately I had done some reading , and I had ideas ...
... asked . " Who have you got for that ? " I knew as little of practical ballooning as of navi- gation , but as a boy I had experimented in chem- istry , and the manufacture of gases . More lately I had done some reading , and I had ideas ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ahead ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE altogether Antarctic Antarctic Circle ascended balloon barrier beautiful believe berg Bill Billowcrest boat Bottle Bay brown cows cabin Cape Horn Captain Biffer Chase Chauncey Gale chord cold comfort dark deck Doolan dream drift EAST SIXTEENTH ST Edith Gale eyes face feet Ferratoni Gale's gwine hand harbor heah ice-wall J. F. TAYLOR Johnnie land Larkins laughed looked lozenges miles Miss Edith Miss Gale morning never Nicholas Nicholas Chase Nick night once perhaps Prince Princess river rope sail sailors seemed ship silent snow South Pole southward story Sturritt tablets TAYLOR & COMPANY telephone tell things thought tide told turned uncle vessel vibrations Victoria Land Violet Fields voice waited wall warm warm river what's wheah wind words York
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Página 313 - There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found ; And while the mouldering ashes sleep Low in the ground...
Página 312 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 258 - No man could be rich, no man could be poor, in Peru ; but all might enjoy, and did enjoy, a competence. Ambition, avarice, the love of change, the morbid spirit of discontent, those passions which most agitate the minds of men, found no place in the bosom of the Peruvian.