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... French pro- verb says , " that one nail drives another out ; " and a " complete assortment " of all possible varieties of fear may supply specific antidotes against each severally in turn . How anxious we -- I mean " friends of order ...
... French pro- verb says , " that one nail drives another out ; " and a " complete assortment " of all possible varieties of fear may supply specific antidotes against each severally in turn . How anxious we -- I mean " friends of order ...
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... French engineers made vain attempts to kindle . Now and then a distant explosion came booming from the distance ; and young officers would nervously twitch their eye - glass . No , it is not yet the sound of cannon , it was only an ...
... French engineers made vain attempts to kindle . Now and then a distant explosion came booming from the distance ; and young officers would nervously twitch their eye - glass . No , it is not yet the sound of cannon , it was only an ...
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... French nation , and written in a terser style than we are accustomed to from his col- leagues . Still , fine style will not make one forget that , to - day , the meat is rationed at the rate of a pound a - head for every five days . But ...
... French nation , and written in a terser style than we are accustomed to from his col- leagues . Still , fine style will not make one forget that , to - day , the meat is rationed at the rate of a pound a - head for every five days . But ...
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... French with- out any foreign accent , which is so rare amongst Englishmen , and oftener found amongst Prussians , and then - what could be my object in coming out alone , and without any papers , on such an unsafe excursion ? I might be ...
... French with- out any foreign accent , which is so rare amongst Englishmen , and oftener found amongst Prussians , and then - what could be my object in coming out alone , and without any papers , on such an unsafe excursion ? I might be ...
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... French courtesy , the hope that I would not retain un trop mauvais souvenir of my night at Gentilly . I assured him that , on the contrary , his reception of me had made it one of the pleasantest recollections which the siege would ...
... French courtesy , the hope that I would not retain un trop mauvais souvenir of my night at Gentilly . I assured him that , on the contrary , his reception of me had made it one of the pleasantest recollections which the siege would ...
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