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Page 74
... close to , and so overlooks the house , being prodigiously high that , should they roll down a pair of those stones coupled with a wooden axis , as is the way of drawing them , they would infallibly give a shock to the building ; yet ...
... close to , and so overlooks the house , being prodigiously high that , should they roll down a pair of those stones coupled with a wooden axis , as is the way of drawing them , they would infallibly give a shock to the building ; yet ...
Page 138
... close to one another ; in two little rooms close under the roofs where the roof of a neigh- bouring house joined on to theirs . A gutter ran all along beneath the eaves . In each house was a little window ; one had only to step over the ...
... close to one another ; in two little rooms close under the roofs where the roof of a neigh- bouring house joined on to theirs . A gutter ran all along beneath the eaves . In each house was a little window ; one had only to step over the ...
Page 195
... close to a bee - farm find the lives of many of their flowers shortened . The bees fertilize the blooms as soon as they open , and a fertilized flower promptly shrivels . The seed , not the gay petals , are what matter . Nevertheless ...
... close to a bee - farm find the lives of many of their flowers shortened . The bees fertilize the blooms as soon as they open , and a fertilized flower promptly shrivels . The seed , not the gay petals , are what matter . Nevertheless ...
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