On the Road to Khiva: With Photogr. Illustr. and Military MapKing, 1874 - 359 páginas |
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... ( master ) ? We shall make quick work of it to - day ; but if you had come a month ago , you'd have found the road that deep in mud . Let alone that , you couldn't have got horses if you had offered a hundred roubles for them ! " " Why ...
... ( master ) ? We shall make quick work of it to - day ; but if you had come a month ago , you'd have found the road that deep in mud . Let alone that , you couldn't have got horses if you had offered a hundred roubles for them ! " " Why ...
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... master ! how can we help fearing for it ? Twice already our crops have failed , and now , this third time , there's been no rain for weeks together , and the ground is as hard as iron . If the harvest fails again this year , then - God ...
... master ! how can we help fearing for it ? Twice already our crops have failed , and now , this third time , there's been no rain for weeks together , and the ground is as hard as iron . If the harvest fails again this year , then - God ...
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... master ? Found him on the hills a few weeks ago - old one's killed , I suppose : not many of them hereabouts except in winter . Great pet with the children - sleeps in their crib at night . I shall have to kill him when he gets bigger ...
... master ? Found him on the hills a few weeks ago - old one's killed , I suppose : not many of them hereabouts except in winter . Great pet with the children - sleeps in their crib at night . I shall have to kill him when he gets bigger ...
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... Master ! " For the fourth time since sunrise , the fatal words are repeated ; and I find myself stuck fast once more , amid exactly the same surroundings ; for in these lifeless wastes there is little variety . A little kennel of mud ...
... Master ! " For the fourth time since sunrise , the fatal words are repeated ; and I find myself stuck fast once more , amid exactly the same surroundings ; for in these lifeless wastes there is little variety . A little kennel of mud ...
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... master ! we shall get to the end some- how or other . After all , we can hardly expect to get along here as if we were on the Nikolaievski railway . " Hardly , my lad ; but anyhow , we may just as well have a bath while we're waiting ...
... master ! we shall get to the end some- how or other . After all , we can hardly expect to get along here as if we were on the Nikolaievski railway . " Hardly , my lad ; but anyhow , we may just as well have a bath while we're waiting ...
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