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... parties , and progress . I soon knew that Gibson was first boy , and that Donaldson , who as second boy had pushed him hard , had been unlucky enough , in an unthinking moment , to construe fœminis bobus in his " Tacitus " by " female ...
... parties , and progress . I soon knew that Gibson was first boy , and that Donaldson , who as second boy had pushed him hard , had been unlucky enough , in an unthinking moment , to construe fœminis bobus in his " Tacitus " by " female ...
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... party in the boat remained quite still , a dozen of these little birds might be seen within gunshot ; the moment the oars were resumed all disappeared as if by magic . The keeper now directed the boat to a part of the mere where some ...
... party in the boat remained quite still , a dozen of these little birds might be seen within gunshot ; the moment the oars were resumed all disappeared as if by magic . The keeper now directed the boat to a part of the mere where some ...
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... party of these birds usually arrived first in the plantation , about roosting time ; the ringdoves not arriving till twenty minutes or half an hour later . He found , too , that though these two birds roosted together , and M STOCKDOVES ...
... party of these birds usually arrived first in the plantation , about roosting time ; the ringdoves not arriving till twenty minutes or half an hour later . He found , too , that though these two birds roosted together , and M STOCKDOVES ...
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... party had not passed his spear through the infuriated brute in the very nick of time . The party had now begun to ride steadily on in the direction of Wrilton Park . No incident occurred worth special note , except that Jack's FLY RODS ...
... party had not passed his spear through the infuriated brute in the very nick of time . The party had now begun to ride steadily on in the direction of Wrilton Park . No incident occurred worth special note , except that Jack's FLY RODS ...
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... party were returning from a sort of pic - nic , and that he had eventually , by holding an empty wine bottle before its nose and administering sundry well - timed and judicious pinches to its tail , persuaded it to creep into the bottle ...
... party were returning from a sort of pic - nic , and that he had eventually , by holding an empty wine bottle before its nose and administering sundry well - timed and judicious pinches to its tail , persuaded it to creep into the bottle ...
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