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... into the rocky coves that line the Scores,1 the white thready foam is carried 1 This word is a corruption of scar or scaurs, the old English word for a steep cut-away cliff. in large flakes, over house and church-steeple, away to the.
... into the rocky coves that line the Scores,1 the white thready foam is carried 1 This word is a corruption of scar or scaurs, the old English word for a steep cut-away cliff. in large flakes, over house and church-steeple, away to the.
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... carrying into the noise and hurry of the crowded street a wave of calm , a peace that hallows and soothes the fevered nerves , the bounding emotions , or the surging brain . Golf is , however , the more permanent staple of the place ...
... carrying into the noise and hurry of the crowded street a wave of calm , a peace that hallows and soothes the fevered nerves , the bounding emotions , or the surging brain . Golf is , however , the more permanent staple of the place ...
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... carrying on each hand an elab- orate and highly dressed wig , carefully apart , so that no collision might disarrange their form or dispel their powder . This was in the morning : and , after fitting one professor with his wig , he ...
... carrying on each hand an elab- orate and highly dressed wig , carefully apart , so that no collision might disarrange their form or dispel their powder . This was in the morning : and , after fitting one professor with his wig , he ...
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... carried out ; and Mr Dempster now urged Bell to go to India , to lecture there on natural philosophy , and to do work " in the way of tuition . " CHAPTER IV . INDIA . ANDREW BELL , now Dr LONDON - ST ANDREWS - AND LEITH . 21.
... carried out ; and Mr Dempster now urged Bell to go to India , to lecture there on natural philosophy , and to do work " in the way of tuition . " CHAPTER IV . INDIA . ANDREW BELL , now Dr LONDON - ST ANDREWS - AND LEITH . 21.
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... carry out his plans . He had long noticed a bright little fellow called Johnnie Frisken , the son of a private ... carried out with the greatest ease the impossibility that had been too much for the powers of the usher . Other boys ...
... carry out his plans . He had long noticed a bright little fellow called Johnnie Frisken , the son of a private ... carried out with the greatest ease the impossibility that had been too much for the powers of the usher . Other boys ...
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