Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 221William Blackwood, 1927 |
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Pagina 7
... round , yellow , golden sovereigns . Now , Cap . , you can believe me or not , just as you like ; but I know we've got men aboard here who'd cut every throat in the ship rather than let a sum like that get away from them . And yet you ...
... round , yellow , golden sovereigns . Now , Cap . , you can believe me or not , just as you like ; but I know we've got men aboard here who'd cut every throat in the ship rather than let a sum like that get away from them . And yet you ...
Pagina 11
... round and stared at me with his mouth open . And then it was my turn to jump . I recognised him at once . He was the bird who should have been ironed to a stanchion down No. 1 . hold the murderer , in fact , that Finch 1927. ] 11 A ...
... round and stared at me with his mouth open . And then it was my turn to jump . I recognised him at once . He was the bird who should have been ironed to a stanchion down No. 1 . hold the murderer , in fact , that Finch 1927. ] 11 A ...
Pagina 17
... round through nine points so quickly you'd have thought a tug had got hold of her head . I looked over the side and heard the tide regu- larly sluicing past us . ' Hear that ? ' said I to the second . ' No wonder we've been set off to ...
... round through nine points so quickly you'd have thought a tug had got hold of her head . I looked over the side and heard the tide regu- larly sluicing past us . ' Hear that ? ' said I to the second . ' No wonder we've been set off to ...
Pagina 41
... round the spot , and in the confusion the East Indian seized a favourable opportunity and eluded his captor , getting clear away to the appointed place where Beamish was ex- pecting us , from whom he derived the benefit intended for me ...
... round the spot , and in the confusion the East Indian seized a favourable opportunity and eluded his captor , getting clear away to the appointed place where Beamish was ex- pecting us , from whom he derived the benefit intended for me ...
Pagina 46
... round I found him standing still at the end . " Come on , " I cried in as loud a whisper as I could , but he only replied , " I can't , ' and when I went back to him I found he could hardly move for laughing . This set me off . He was ...
... round I found him standing still at the end . " Come on , " I cried in as loud a whisper as I could , but he only replied , " I can't , ' and when I went back to him I found he could hardly move for laughing . This set me off . He was ...
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Pagina 398 - gaped and gazed upon her with open mouth: if she laughed upon him, he laughed also ; but if she took any displeasure at him, the king was fain to flatter, that she might be reconciled to him again. O! ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus.
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Pagina 680 - : " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country.
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Pagina 683 - writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal if not to invent.
Pagina 576 - has long lain halfhidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, meeting where he likes, bawling what he likes, breaking what he likes.
Pagina 568 - The Soviet Government undertakes not to support with funds or in any other form persons or bodies or agencies or institutions whose aim is to spread discontent or to foment rebellion in any part of the British Empire, and to impress upon its officers and officials the full and continuous observance of these conditions.