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... coloured rubbing cloths that are a neces- sary appendage to every sponging - bath . The transformation from the dirty - looking lumps of rubber to these little towels , about eight inches wide and three feet long , is the oddest thing ...
... coloured rubbing cloths that are a neces- sary appendage to every sponging - bath . The transformation from the dirty - looking lumps of rubber to these little towels , about eight inches wide and three feet long , is the oddest thing ...
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... coloured iron , and a thousand double lamps , one every thirty - five yards , will give a cheerful aspect to this ocean roadway , and render it an agreeable contrast to the noise and damp and darkness of an ordinary tunnel , or even the ...
... coloured iron , and a thousand double lamps , one every thirty - five yards , will give a cheerful aspect to this ocean roadway , and render it an agreeable contrast to the noise and damp and darkness of an ordinary tunnel , or even the ...
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... coloured iron , " with old Neptune playing Peeping Tom , perhaps , down the central ventilator , vows of amity for all futurity will be ex- changed . Really , rose - coloured Mr. Chalmers , there is such a thing as over - proving one's ...
... coloured iron , " with old Neptune playing Peeping Tom , perhaps , down the central ventilator , vows of amity for all futurity will be ex- changed . Really , rose - coloured Mr. Chalmers , there is such a thing as over - proving one's ...
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... coloured drawing of Hero's steam - engine invented one hundred and thirty years before Christ ! We can scarcely conceive that whilst Pan was still young , and whilst great was Diana of the Ephesians , the thin white vapour which now ...
... coloured drawing of Hero's steam - engine invented one hundred and thirty years before Christ ! We can scarcely conceive that whilst Pan was still young , and whilst great was Diana of the Ephesians , the thin white vapour which now ...
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... coloured countenance , and frightfully nervous . " " What a creature ! Imagine shag tobacco hanging from his nostrils as long as the King of Sardinia's moustaches ! But this , the reader will say , is simply an allowable exaggera- tion ...
... coloured countenance , and frightfully nervous . " " What a creature ! Imagine shag tobacco hanging from his nostrils as long as the King of Sardinia's moustaches ! But this , the reader will say , is simply an allowable exaggera- tion ...
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