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Pagina 26
... British Navy assembled in a few square miles of the North Sea , and then , under the supreme command , proceeded to ma- nœuvre and exercise just as in peace- time . What a landsman's feelings would have been , could he have been present ...
... British Navy assembled in a few square miles of the North Sea , and then , under the supreme command , proceeded to ma- nœuvre and exercise just as in peace- time . What a landsman's feelings would have been , could he have been present ...
Pagina 29
... British sailing vessel -left- on July 15 with a cargo of nickel for Ham- burg . Owners ask that she may be sent into a British port . " * The captain of the British sailing ship was walking up and down the poop with his mate . Every few ...
... British sailing vessel -left- on July 15 with a cargo of nickel for Ham- burg . Owners ask that she may be sent into a British port . " * The captain of the British sailing ship was walking up and down the poop with his mate . Every few ...
Pagina 66
... British , Belgian or French , You dice with death when you cross the trench . When the " rapid , " like fire - flies in the dark , Flits down the parapet spark by spark , And you drop for cover to keep your head With your face on the ...
... British , Belgian or French , You dice with death when you cross the trench . When the " rapid , " like fire - flies in the dark , Flits down the parapet spark by spark , And you drop for cover to keep your head With your face on the ...
Pagina 91
... British voter - I mean , the variety of the species that we have left at home . Like the gentleman in Jack Point's song , ' he likes to get value for money ' ; and he is quite capable of asking us , about June or July , ' if we know ...
... British voter - I mean , the variety of the species that we have left at home . Like the gentleman in Jack Point's song , ' he likes to get value for money ' ; and he is quite capable of asking us , about June or July , ' if we know ...
Pagina 106
... British trench , this depression narrowed and deepened as it ran slantingly towards the German ; halfway across , it turned abruptly and continued towards the German side on another slant , and at a point about halfway between the elbow ...
... British trench , this depression narrowed and deepened as it ran slantingly towards the German ; halfway across , it turned abruptly and continued towards the German side on another slant , and at a point about halfway between the elbow ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 675 - The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. ... He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Pagina 127 - The Government of the United States notifies the Imperial Government that it cannot for a moment entertain, much less discuss, the suggestion that respect by the German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way, or in the slightest degree, be made contingent
Pagina 675 - himself, the mighty are afraid. . . . He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. ... He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Pagina 561 - of Omar Khayyam:— I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropped in its lap from some once lovely Head.
Pagina 439 - Among innumerable false, unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, untemfied, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind. The
Pagina 560 - I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.
Pagina 139 - of a real European partnership, based on the recognition of equal rights, and established and enforced by .a common will. A year ago that would have sounded like a Utopian idea. It is probably one that may not, or will not, be realized either today or tomorrow. If and when this war is decided
Pagina 573 - United States, born under other flags, but welcomed here under our generous naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries of our national life, who have sought to bring the authority and good name of our government into contempt, to destroy our industries
Pagina 278 - figured nothing nearer to experience than a wild eastern caravan, looming into view with crude colors in the sun, fierce pipes in the air, high spears against the sky, all a thrill, a natural joy to mingle with, but turning off short before it reached her and plunging into other defiles. ... It was extraordinary; they
Pagina 637 - career, wrote: Where'er thy Navy spreads her canvas wings, Homage to thee, and peace to all, she brings. Although the wings are no longer canvas, the statement holds as good now as it did more than two hundred years ago. For a long time the British Navy afforded the best guarantee for peace possessed by the