Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... huge convoy held in its embrace , and steadily drifted , a great island of canvas , along the French coast . But at daybreak the English , bringing the wind with them , were thundering on the Dutch rear , and striving fiercely to pierce ...
... huge convoy held in its embrace , and steadily drifted , a great island of canvas , along the French coast . But at daybreak the English , bringing the wind with them , were thundering on the Dutch rear , and striving fiercely to pierce ...
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... huge lion rampant , carved in wood , at least sixteen feet high . It was , from the artist's point of view , a very bold and spirited figure ; but the contours were blurred , the finer lines of the ' graver's chisel were almost ...
... huge lion rampant , carved in wood , at least sixteen feet high . It was , from the artist's point of view , a very bold and spirited figure ; but the contours were blurred , the finer lines of the ' graver's chisel were almost ...
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... huge quarter - deck galleries , and a crew of over six hundred men . Its captain , a gallant Spaniard , bore steadily down , the standard of Spain flying at the masthead , and at noon , being about a league distant from the Centurion ...
... huge quarter - deck galleries , and a crew of over six hundred men . Its captain , a gallant Spaniard , bore steadily down , the standard of Spain flying at the masthead , and at noon , being about a league distant from the Centurion ...
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... huge . In 1733 the Bourbon houses of Paris and Madrid framed betwixt themselves the famous " Family Compact , " one of a series of such compacts which Burke has described as " the most odious and formidable of all conspiracies against ...
... huge . In 1733 the Bourbon houses of Paris and Madrid framed betwixt themselves the famous " Family Compact , " one of a series of such compacts which Burke has described as " the most odious and formidable of all conspiracies against ...
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... huge living tentacle which the British admiral stretched across the thirty miles of sea , and by which , in spite of the darkness , he felt each move of his great antagonist . Morning came , as it comes in the tropics , with glow and ...
... huge living tentacle which the British admiral stretched across the thirty miles of sea , and by which , in spite of the darkness , he felt each move of his great antagonist . Morning came , as it comes in the tropics , with glow and ...
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