School Experience of a Fag at a Private and Public SchoolSmith, Elder, and Company, 1854 - 311 Seiten |
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... miles an hour would have been considered an insanity ; the electric telegraph a myth ; to span the Atlantic in ten days an impossibility ; to be on terms of a friendly alliance with France an absurdity ; and in those days a coach - and ...
... miles an hour would have been considered an insanity ; the electric telegraph a myth ; to span the Atlantic in ten days an impossibility ; to be on terms of a friendly alliance with France an absurdity ; and in those days a coach - and ...
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... miles off ; up jumped the unfor- tunate man , and having searched for the boy all over the premises , and called out for him repeatedly without success - the runaway being concealed ( perhaps gagged too ) under a bush , or in some ...
... miles off ; up jumped the unfor- tunate man , and having searched for the boy all over the premises , and called out for him repeatedly without success - the runaway being concealed ( perhaps gagged too ) under a bush , or in some ...
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... miles from home , and I walked round the playground till I was tired out I had calculated and found it was half a mile round , and that I had done it five times . I laid up stores of bread , till it became musty and had to be thrown ...
... miles from home , and I walked round the playground till I was tired out I had calculated and found it was half a mile round , and that I had done it five times . I laid up stores of bread , till it became musty and had to be thrown ...
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... miles away from this scene of injustice and persecution of cowardice on the part of those in authority , and of coarse and ungentlemanly feeling on the part of the lower members of the school . I lay tossing on the bed , thinking of the ...
... miles away from this scene of injustice and persecution of cowardice on the part of those in authority , and of coarse and ungentlemanly feeling on the part of the lower members of the school . I lay tossing on the bed , thinking of the ...
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... miles in that terrible race - I galloped along the pier - and as I leapt towards a foreign shore looked back ; his horse had reared , and I had escaped him . I woke , as my horse plunged with a splash into the Channel , and I found my ...
... miles in that terrible race - I galloped along the pier - and as I leapt towards a foreign shore looked back ; his horse had reared , and I had escaped him . I woke , as my horse plunged with a splash into the Channel , and I found my ...
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