Die Präpositionen des chglischen Sprache. (Progr., Handels- u. d. Wöhlersch. zu Frankfurt a. M.).

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Página 17 - From the moment you lose sight of the land you have left, all is vacancy, until you step on the opposite shore, and are launched at once into the bustle and novelties of another world.
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Página 2 - So saying, with delight he snufFd the smell Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote, Against the day of battle, to a field, Where armies lie...

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