The Winthrops: A NovelCarleton, 1864 - 319 páginas |
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Página 82 - ... nearer than a village some two miles distant, she laid down Lilian on the grass, that she might wash and refresh herself. Fatigue, terror, and anxiety, had so overcome the gentle child, that in a little she fell into a sound sleep, from which she did not awaken as the Egyptian conveyed her to the screen of a...
Página 297 - ... barring for rust-pits, and then gave them a nice thick daubing of oil against the Arctic weather. Then I put on my own clothes that I had made, and all the other clothes that I could get lent, and climbed out over the to'-gallan' rail on to the ice. The Gleaner lay in a bay some two miles from the shore, and let me tell you, if you do not know it, that Arctic ice is no curling rink. There are great hills, and knolls, and bergs, and valleys spread all over, and even where it's about level, the...