Life in the Trenches Before SebastopolLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 - 195 pages |
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... English heart , as Florence Nightingale , Godolphin Osborne , and Augustus Stafford , who , with a small and devoted band of assistants , were labouring day and night in the good cause ! Amidst the tainted atmosphere of these fearful ...
... English heart , as Florence Nightingale , Godolphin Osborne , and Augustus Stafford , who , with a small and devoted band of assistants , were labouring day and night in the good cause ! Amidst the tainted atmosphere of these fearful ...
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... English to pique ourselves on the score of cleanliness , and he takes a most demoniacal delight in dispelling , once and for ever , the vain illusion . The secret of this most uncomfortable pheno- menon lies in the fact that the ...
... English to pique ourselves on the score of cleanliness , and he takes a most demoniacal delight in dispelling , once and for ever , the vain illusion . The secret of this most uncomfortable pheno- menon lies in the fact that the ...
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... English newspapers , throughout this eventful period , must remember the terse and laconic descriptions , so constantly forwarded by the electric telegraph , of these nocturnal combats , running , as they always did , very much in the ...
... English newspapers , throughout this eventful period , must remember the terse and laconic descriptions , so constantly forwarded by the electric telegraph , of these nocturnal combats , running , as they always did , very much in the ...
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... English eyes , unused to the gathering of large bodies of men on one spot , possessed the charm of novelty in a high degree . I found Din rude health , and in high spirits . He had invited a couple of his brother officers to join our ...
... English eyes , unused to the gathering of large bodies of men on one spot , possessed the charm of novelty in a high degree . I found Din rude health , and in high spirits . He had invited a couple of his brother officers to join our ...
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... , and which was as yet barely ended , we should take the earliest oppor- tunity of returning spring to enjoy , amidst our sterner occupations , that pastime which is so essentially English 128 LIFE IN THE TRENCHES .
... , and which was as yet barely ended , we should take the earliest oppor- tunity of returning spring to enjoy , amidst our sterner occupations , that pastime which is so essentially English 128 LIFE IN THE TRENCHES .
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