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nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

Nor would difference of country make any very essential difference

Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. But
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14
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

Gallery Post – Down the hill I saw a bevy of hussars

I and my wife stood amazed. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians’ Heat-Ray now that the college was cleared out of the way. At that I gripped my wife’s arm,
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10
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

Another Post Format

And as the day advanced and the engine drivers and stokers refused to return to London, the pressure of the flight drove the people in an ever-thickening multitude away from the stations and along the northward-running roads. By midday a
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06
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

Video Post – This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats

The ship was now kept away from the wind, and she went gently rolling before it. Tashtego reporting that the whales had gone down heading to leeward, we confidently looked to see them again directly in advance of our bows.
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05
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

All night a wide-awake watch was kept by all the officers, forward and aft

«The Lakeman now patrolled the barricade, all the while keeping his eye on the Captain, and jerking out such sentences as these:—’It’s not our fault; we didn’t want it; I told him to take his hammer away; it was boy’s
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04
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of satisfaction and lowered his axe

«What can I do for you?» she inquired softly, for she was moved by the sad voice in which the man spoke. «Get an oil-can and oil my joints,» he answered. «They are rusted so badly that I cannot move
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04
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

I was overjoyed to see the high trees that denoted the object of my search

Image Credit. When the amphitheater had cleared I crept stealthily to the top and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza and in an untenanted portion of the great dead city I had little trouble in reaching the
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03
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

Post with link to elsewhere

But what thinks Lazarus? Can he warm his blue hands by holding them up to the grand northern lights? Would not Lazarus rather be in Sumatra than here? Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line
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03
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

In cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male

The boat was now all but jammed between two vast black bulks, leaving a narrow Dardanelles between their long lengths. But by desperate endeavor we at last shot into a temporary opening; then giving way rapidly, and at the same
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03
nov, 2012 By Jan Reidar Skretteberg

He read and re-read the paper, fearing the worst had happened to me.

He read and re-read the paper, fearing the worst had happened to me. He was restless, and after supper prowled out again aimlessly. He returned and tried in vain to divert his attention to his examination notes. He went to
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