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... green tiles that recalled bedroom suites in Totten- ham Court Road . The table , again , was not what the letters P. and O. had seemed to promise . That , at least , is the way I put it older travellers gloomily said it was just what ...
... green tiles that recalled bedroom suites in Totten- ham Court Road . The table , again , was not what the letters P. and O. had seemed to promise . That , at least , is the way I put it older travellers gloomily said it was just what ...
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... green turn out their beasts on the beach . There are no sights , no amusements , no society ; every- body is saving his money for a summer some- where else . Individuals are waiting as well as the town - waiting to be sent somewhere else.
... green turn out their beasts on the beach . There are no sights , no amusements , no society ; every- body is saving his money for a summer some- where else . Individuals are waiting as well as the town - waiting to be sent somewhere else.
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... green . A ditch of sweet water runs between Canal and railway , and with its aid a few dwarf trees and bushes struggle above ground ; but , even so , they attain only to grey , not green . The Suez Canal goes on mile after mile ...
... green . A ditch of sweet water runs between Canal and railway , and with its aid a few dwarf trees and bushes struggle above ground ; but , even so , they attain only to grey , not green . The Suez Canal goes on mile after mile ...
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... green . It is too big for a Suez Company bungalow : it is Ismailia . Pick your way through the black veils of women and amber caftans of children , who sit peacefully on the platform as in a waiting - room - and then you can refresh ...
... green . It is too big for a Suez Company bungalow : it is Ismailia . Pick your way through the black veils of women and amber caftans of children , who sit peacefully on the platform as in a waiting - room - and then you can refresh ...
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... green and white and brown . The railway embankment between town and suburb is an isthmus at high water , a streak across a waste of sand at low . I went down by train and found a clean and thriving little community - flourishing ave ...
... green and white and brown . The railway embankment between town and suburb is an isthmus at high water , a streak across a waste of sand at low . I went down by train and found a clean and thriving little community - flourishing ave ...
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