The West Indies and the Spanish MainHarper & brothers, 1860 - 381 oldal |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 100 találatból.
6. oldal
... never make Cien Fuegos by the 28th , and then it will be eight days before I can reach the Havana . May God forgive me all my evil thoughts ! Motionless , I said ; I wish she were . Progressless should have been my word . She rolls ...
... never make Cien Fuegos by the 28th , and then it will be eight days before I can reach the Havana . May God forgive me all my evil thoughts ! Motionless , I said ; I wish she were . Progressless should have been my word . She rolls ...
8. oldal
... Never before this have I obtained in a passport any more dignified de- scription of my body than robust . I certainly like the word " Alta . " Then my eyes are azure . This he did not find out by the unassisted guidance of personal in ...
... Never before this have I obtained in a passport any more dignified de- scription of my body than robust . I certainly like the word " Alta . " Then my eyes are azure . This he did not find out by the unassisted guidance of personal in ...
15. oldal
... never walk . Men , even young men , whose homes are some mile or half - mile distant from their offices , ride or drive to their work as systematically as a man who lives at Watford takes the railway . Kingston , on a map - for there is ...
... never walk . Men , even young men , whose homes are some mile or half - mile distant from their offices , ride or drive to their work as systematically as a man who lives at Watford takes the railway . Kingston , on a map - for there is ...
16. oldal
... never was so odious a place in which to move . There is no pathway or trottoir to the streets , though there is very generally some such - I cannot call it accommodation - before each individual house . But as these are all broken from ...
... never was so odious a place in which to move . There is no pathway or trottoir to the streets , though there is very generally some such - I cannot call it accommodation - before each individual house . But as these are all broken from ...
18. oldal
... never met a wider and a kinder hospitality than I did in Jamaica , but I neither ate nor drank in any house in Kingston except my hotel , nor , as far as I can remember , did I enter any house except in the way of business . And yet I ...
... never met a wider and a kinder hospitality than I did in Jamaica , but I neither ate nor drank in any house in Kingston except my hotel , nor , as far as I can remember , did I enter any house except in the way of business . And yet I ...
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