The Yellow War, by "O" ...W, Blackwood and Sons, 1905 - 302 sider |
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... course was true . There stood the white stones of the light- house which for weeks had surrendered its functions to port - bound mariners . For the space of perhaps fifteen seconds the great white eye penetrating the dark- ness was ...
... course was true . There stood the white stones of the light- house which for weeks had surrendered its functions to port - bound mariners . For the space of perhaps fifteen seconds the great white eye penetrating the dark- ness was ...
Side 3
... course closed in a mass of sparks . It was as if the torch had been applied to the pièce de résistance of some great firework display . In a moment what was darkness became a semicircle of scintillating light . The great beam of the ...
... course closed in a mass of sparks . It was as if the torch had been applied to the pièce de résistance of some great firework display . In a moment what was darkness became a semicircle of scintillating light . The great beam of the ...
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... course . As one looked down from the bridge it seemed that the flag - ship was some ghostly death - ship . Everything was lean and gaunt and silent ; there was no movement , save where the rain - wash trickled over into the scuppers ...
... course . As one looked down from the bridge it seemed that the flag - ship was some ghostly death - ship . Everything was lean and gaunt and silent ; there was no movement , save where the rain - wash trickled over into the scuppers ...
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... course . The senior officers of the flag - ship still stood grouped on the star- board rail . It was now broad daylight , and the wind changed suddenly to the west as it changed it rolled up patches of the fog , so that almost in the ...
... course . The senior officers of the flag - ship still stood grouped on the star- board rail . It was now broad daylight , and the wind changed suddenly to the west as it changed it rolled up patches of the fog , so that almost in the ...
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... course that he was now steering would take them right into the Russian lines . And his chattering at the moment was due to the uncertainty of thought whether it were better to be shot at once by the revolver hanging aggressively from ...
... course that he was now steering would take them right into the Russian lines . And his chattering at the moment was due to the uncertainty of thought whether it were better to be shot at once by the revolver hanging aggressively from ...
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