Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen224W. Blackwood, 1928 |
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... arrived at the Col des Aravis we watched Mont Blanc dis- entangle itself from a cloudy drapery and sink peacefully into a cold bath of stars . We Just below the hotel the did not then know that two railway bends round over an parties ...
... arrived at the Col des Aravis we watched Mont Blanc dis- entangle itself from a cloudy drapery and sink peacefully into a cold bath of stars . We Just below the hotel the did not then know that two railway bends round over an parties ...
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... arrived at the inn at 10.15 A.M. , and occupied the remainder of the morning and most of the afternoon in care- ful examination of the visible part of our route . A magnificent couloir de- scends from under the summit of Mont Blanc to ...
... arrived at the inn at 10.15 A.M. , and occupied the remainder of the morning and most of the afternoon in care- ful examination of the visible part of our route . A magnificent couloir de- scends from under the summit of Mont Blanc to ...
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... arrived back at the Montenvers Hotel . The proprietor and Josef Knubel - a well - known guide— joined us over the inevitable champagne . We were very happy . Before passing into sleep that night we both realised that rain was falling in ...
... arrived back at the Montenvers Hotel . The proprietor and Josef Knubel - a well - known guide— joined us over the inevitable champagne . We were very happy . Before passing into sleep that night we both realised that rain was falling in ...
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... arrived with my company about six weeks before the rains broke , and for the next seven or eight months we were so busy building houses and digging ourselves in that we had no time for exploration . By the time the rains were over and ...
... arrived with my company about six weeks before the rains broke , and for the next seven or eight months we were so busy building houses and digging ourselves in that we had no time for exploration . By the time the rains were over and ...
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... arrival . 66 Supposing , sir , " he said , " you were to strike the chain of pools between two of them , and had to march another five or six miles to get water ? Of course , he was quite right ; the risk was consider- able , but I ...
... arrival . 66 Supposing , sir , " he said , " you were to strike the chain of pools between two of them , and had to march another five or six miles to get water ? Of course , he was quite right ; the risk was consider- able , but I ...
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Página 45 - Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him ? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines : for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
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Página 338 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Página 489 - Seamen in general that whatever you give them out of the common way — altho' it be ever so much for their good — it will not go down, and you will hear nothing but murmurings against the Man that first invented it; but the moment they see their superiors set a value upon it, it becomes the finest stuff in the world and the inventor an honest fellow.
Página 493 - Yards from the breakers, the same Sea that washed the sides of the Ship rose in a breaker prodigiously high the very next time it did rise so that between us and destruction was only a dismal Vally the breadth of one wave and even now no ground could be felt with 120 fathoms.
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Página 420 - ... refusal. To give way to the blackmailer's menaces enriches him, but it has long been proved by uniform experience that, although this may secure for the victim temporary peace, it is certain to lead to renewed molestation and higher demands after ever-shortening periods of amicable forbearance.
Página 421 - Either Germany is definitely aiming at a general political hegemony and maritime ascendency, threatening the independence of her neighbours and ultimately the existence of England; Or Germany, free from any such clear-cut ambition, and thinking for the present merely of using her legitimate position and influence as one of the leading Powers in the council of nations, is seeking to promote her foreign commerce, spread the benefits of German culture, extend the scope of her national energies, and...
Página 78 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 845 - Don Quixote, Gil Bias, and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time — they, and the Arabian Nights, and the Tales of the Genii — and did me no harm ; for, whatever harm was in some of them, was not there for me ; I knew nothing of it.