Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 256William Blackwood, 1944 - England |
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Page 113
Young Moudie , poacher's son , slippery as an eel , cunning as a fox , savage when cornered , but seldom brought to bay . He ranked among the goblins who hate mankind , but his acts were redeemed from meanness by a strange fantastic ...
Young Moudie , poacher's son , slippery as an eel , cunning as a fox , savage when cornered , but seldom brought to bay . He ranked among the goblins who hate mankind , but his acts were redeemed from meanness by a strange fantastic ...
Page 136
They were all astonishingly young . Francis , himself , who was C.O. of the Coastal Motor Boat Flotilla , was only twenty - three years old ; though it seemed to him a long time ago since in the early days of C.M.B.s he had for one ...
They were all astonishingly young . Francis , himself , who was C.O. of the Coastal Motor Boat Flotilla , was only twenty - three years old ; though it seemed to him a long time ago since in the early days of C.M.B.s he had for one ...
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0900 hours was the time , and even very young soldiers know what that means . The warning rumble of the Sergeant - Major's last moment admonitions delivered in a stage undertone with many long rolling R's came through the open window ...
0900 hours was the time , and even very young soldiers know what that means . The warning rumble of the Sergeant - Major's last moment admonitions delivered in a stage undertone with many long rolling R's came through the open window ...
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