Wordstruck: A MemoirViking, 1989 - 230 sider MacNeil's autobiography re-creates the world of his youth and the experiences that were opened up to him through his love of words. His delight and passion for the music and magic of language, have enabled MacNeil to transmute it into a work of art. Photos. |
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A Memoir Robert MacNeil. convoy duty to command a Working Up Squadron training in anti - submarine tactics . The base was Pictou , Nova Scotia , on the Strait of Northumberland , and we moved for the summer to an old pilot's cottage . It ...
A Memoir Robert MacNeil. convoy duty to command a Working Up Squadron training in anti - submarine tactics . The base was Pictou , Nova Scotia , on the Strait of Northumberland , and we moved for the summer to an old pilot's cottage . It ...
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... command , how different the same words may sound in different mouths . At the beginning of the senior year , the ... commands lacked snap and crispness , so that our drill soon looked slack and ragged . After a few weeks , the new ...
... command , how different the same words may sound in different mouths . At the beginning of the senior year , the ... commands lacked snap and crispness , so that our drill soon looked slack and ragged . After a few weeks , the new ...
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... command quiet for the sensuous and tangible images that follow : When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe . Think of creeping murmur and the way small noises travel outdoors at night . Think of ...
... command quiet for the sensuous and tangible images that follow : When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe . Think of creeping murmur and the way small noises travel outdoors at night . Think of ...
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Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse Gisli Palsson Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 1993 |