In these upper reaches it was still in a prodigious hurry for the sea. It ran so fast and merrily, ...
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Little did the Bazins know how much they served us. We were charged for candles, for food and drink...
of the voyage; it was nothing but clay banks and willows, and rain; incessant, pitiless, beating ra...
last town. I remember, when we came into L'Isle Adam, for instance, how we met dozens of pleasure-b...
manoeuvre with the ADLER was impossible; the CALLIOPE was too heavy. The one possibility of escape ...
broken off at Washington in 1887. The example thus offered by Germany is rare in history; in the ca...
a sense of his own abilities or of the great service he has rendered to his native land. He felt hi...
for example, the experience of Lieutenant Ulfsparre, late chief of police, and (so to speak) comman...
it from the contagion of the swamp. Samoans have a quaint phrase in their language; when out of hea...
to which he would probably add one condition, that the joint government should remain seated at Mal...
An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION To equip so small a book ...
the horizon all day long. It is a mystery how things ever get to their destination at this rate; an...
to the Club's prosperity, one of their number escorted us to an hotel. He would not join us at our ...
war against the wrong. After Hautmont, the sun came forth again and the wind went down; and a litt...
and then fall upon and carry that. And there is no doubt in my mind that such a plan was bruited ab...