My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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Page 36
... perhaps ten or twelve feet , a long cylindrical beam was continually revolving with fixed beams on each side of it , both higher up and lower down . At regular intervals along the counter were great upright wooden stampers shod with ...
... perhaps ten or twelve feet , a long cylindrical beam was continually revolving with fixed beams on each side of it , both higher up and lower down . At regular intervals along the counter were great upright wooden stampers shod with ...
Page 37
... perhaps , six or eight stamps , and when all these were at work together , but rebounding at different rates and with different intensities of sound , the whole effect was very strange , and the din and reverberation almost deafening ...
... perhaps , six or eight stamps , and when all these were at work together , but rebounding at different rates and with different intensities of sound , the whole effect was very strange , and the din and reverberation almost deafening ...
Page 45
... practice where good bowlers were not available , but it never came into general use , and is now , perhaps , wholly forgotten . CHAPTER IV HERTFORD : MY SCHOOL LIFE My recollections of III ] 45 HERTFORD : HOME OF MY BOYHOOD.
... practice where good bowlers were not available , but it never came into general use , and is now , perhaps , wholly forgotten . CHAPTER IV HERTFORD : MY SCHOOL LIFE My recollections of III ] 45 HERTFORD : HOME OF MY BOYHOOD.
Page 47
... perhaps hearing of my recent illness , offered to take me home with him for a visit to play with his boy of about my age , and to go to Cromer , where his wife , with her sister and son , were going for change of air . As it was thought ...
... perhaps hearing of my recent illness , offered to take me home with him for a visit to play with his boy of about my age , and to go to Cromer , where his wife , with her sister and son , were going for change of air . As it was thought ...
Page 51
... perhaps a page or two back , read us several pages , so that we could better appreciate what we had been trying to translate . I , for one , always enjoyed these readings , as the verse was clear and melo- dious , and gave an excellent ...
... perhaps a page or two back , read us several pages , so that we could better appreciate what we had been trying to translate . I , for one , always enjoyed these readings , as the verse was clear and melo- dious , and gave an excellent ...
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