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remain , as a race , one of the world's enigmas , which is both baffling and vexatious for our enemies . ... running parallel with those victories which are so surely bringing the defeat of the enemy within measurable contemplation - to ...
remain , as a race , one of the world's enigmas , which is both baffling and vexatious for our enemies . ... running parallel with those victories which are so surely bringing the defeat of the enemy within measurable contemplation - to ...
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The stoat , like the badger and the polecat , is bloodthirsty and as effective as any commando when its enemy is in sight . But more often than a chicken that enemy is a rabbit , or a rat , or a field - mouse .
The stoat , like the badger and the polecat , is bloodthirsty and as effective as any commando when its enemy is in sight . But more often than a chicken that enemy is a rabbit , or a rat , or a field - mouse .
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Little vessels were wanted with light draft which would allow them not only to approach close to the shore but also to ground on the beaches , and which would be small targets for attack by anything the enemy could marshal against them ...
Little vessels were wanted with light draft which would allow them not only to approach close to the shore but also to ground on the beaches , and which would be small targets for attack by anything the enemy could marshal against them ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 282 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1942 |
| Original from | Rutgers University |
| Digitized | 14 Mar 2022 |
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