St. Nicholas, Volume 53Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1926 - Children's literature |
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... ISLAND SOMETHING less than a week from that day , the Nancy Ann , being then about 180 miles east by south of Halifax , in full Atlantic , lay to with a tawny line of low - rounded dunes stretching in a vast arc on her starboard hand ...
... ISLAND SOMETHING less than a week from that day , the Nancy Ann , being then about 180 miles east by south of Halifax , in full Atlantic , lay to with a tawny line of low - rounded dunes stretching in a vast arc on her starboard hand ...
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... island . He remembered having read about it as a killer of men and ships A SAILOR CASTING LEAD WHILE APPROACHING SABLE ISLAND . " BY THE MARK , SEVEN ! " ever since the largest ship of old - time Sir Humphrey Gilbert's fleet was wrecked ...
... island . He remembered having read about it as a killer of men and ships A SAILOR CASTING LEAD WHILE APPROACHING SABLE ISLAND . " BY THE MARK , SEVEN ! " ever since the largest ship of old - time Sir Humphrey Gilbert's fleet was wrecked ...
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... Island , the world's greatest killer of ships and men ; Sable Island , des- tined to be for Stanfield Prentiss an Ad- venture Isle indeed ! Now the Nancy Ann dwindled under the afternoon sun , and away to dim distances on either hand ...
... Island , the world's greatest killer of ships and men ; Sable Island , des- tined to be for Stanfield Prentiss an Ad- venture Isle indeed ! Now the Nancy Ann dwindled under the afternoon sun , and away to dim distances on either hand ...
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... for though Sable lies in cold latitudes , the Gulf Stream skirts it , and on sunny days it fairly vibrates with heat . How strange an island , Stanfield thought . In a long line , joined now and then by. 1925 ] 9 ADVENTURE ISLE.
... for though Sable lies in cold latitudes , the Gulf Stream skirts it , and on sunny days it fairly vibrates with heat . How strange an island , Stanfield thought . In a long line , joined now and then by. 1925 ] 9 ADVENTURE ISLE.
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... Island " or to Robinson Crusoe's refuge . Now , while he was standing thus , getting his bearings in this strangest of islands , he heard a sharp and joyous barking ; and pres- ently over the crest where the gully crossed the dune top ...
... Island " or to Robinson Crusoe's refuge . Now , while he was standing thus , getting his bearings in this strangest of islands , he heard a sharp and joyous barking ; and pres- ently over the crest where the gully crossed the dune top ...
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