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... Jessie Juliet Knox With the New Books With the New Books With the New Books " What the Rose Can Do " ( Ill . ) . What San Francisco has to Start With ( Ill . ) .. Arthur Inkersley ... Virginia Garland Winter Ways in the Mountains .
... Jessie Juliet Knox With the New Books With the New Books With the New Books " What the Rose Can Do " ( Ill . ) . What San Francisco has to Start With ( Ill . ) .. Arthur Inkersley ... Virginia Garland Winter Ways in the Mountains .
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Looking out from these perfumed doors and windows one may always see the purple outline of mountain and foothill , and flowers of every name and hue , lifting their cups to the tender breeze , while through the lattice comes always the ...
Looking out from these perfumed doors and windows one may always see the purple outline of mountain and foothill , and flowers of every name and hue , lifting their cups to the tender breeze , while through the lattice comes always the ...
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Captain Stone grasped the situation in an instant , and again the trumpet sounded the charge , and over the ridge in swift pursuit went the troop , stopping to load and fire as they drove the Filipinos into the mountains .
Captain Stone grasped the situation in an instant , and again the trumpet sounded the charge , and over the ridge in swift pursuit went the troop , stopping to load and fire as they drove the Filipinos into the mountains .
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But all the time there was an undercurrent of longing and homesickness for her people and their food and for the mountains that she could not hide . She would stand like a statue , looking westward with her hands shading her eyes and ...
But all the time there was an undercurrent of longing and homesickness for her people and their food and for the mountains that she could not hide . She would stand like a statue , looking westward with her hands shading her eyes and ...
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So she went to the mountains , to her people and her beloved acorn soup . I was both surprised and disappointed when she did not return as I expected , and hoped that she would . Time flew by as it always does , and in the following ...
So she went to the mountains , to her people and her beloved acorn soup . I was both surprised and disappointed when she did not return as I expected , and hoped that she would . Time flew by as it always does , and in the following ...
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