Tropical Sketches: Or, Reminiscences of an Indian Journalist, Том 1Hurst and Blackett, 1855 |
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... at the least provocation , and who constantly rub their shining phrenological developments , guiltless of hair , with their handkerchiefs , when excited . VOL . I. B He had just given me a long dissertation on the The Colonial Newspaper.
... at the least provocation , and who constantly rub their shining phrenological developments , guiltless of hair , with their handkerchiefs , when excited . VOL . I. B He had just given me a long dissertation on the The Colonial Newspaper.
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... shining in vivid contrast to the dun brown body - a snake , gradually increasing in thickness from the head towards . the centre of its body , and tapering off again towards its tail . The forked tongue played incessantly , like the ...
... shining in vivid contrast to the dun brown body - a snake , gradually increasing in thickness from the head towards . the centre of its body , and tapering off again towards its tail . The forked tongue played incessantly , like the ...
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... shining glow which suffused his countenance was with him but an everyday affair : a glow to be seen there , whether he was scouring the forests for the haunts of its wild denizens , or reposing in quiet at home experimentalizing in ...
... shining glow which suffused his countenance was with him but an everyday affair : a glow to be seen there , whether he was scouring the forests for the haunts of its wild denizens , or reposing in quiet at home experimentalizing in ...
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... shining black hair just appeared above the rail in front of me , as he maintained his seat of imperturbable gravity , a gravity suited to the place , but caused by his own sense of his own vast importance , not- withstanding his ...
... shining black hair just appeared above the rail in front of me , as he maintained his seat of imperturbable gravity , a gravity suited to the place , but caused by his own sense of his own vast importance , not- withstanding his ...
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... shining curls were left in as naked ugliness as the razor could accomplish . He was one of those ex- traordinary products of this extraordinary age who united the ideas of sanctity and shaven faces , of wickedness and beards ...
... shining curls were left in as naked ugliness as the razor could accomplish . He was one of those ex- traordinary products of this extraordinary age who united the ideas of sanctity and shaven faces , of wickedness and beards ...
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