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... learned our lesson well . Then we experience a comfortable , proprietary feeling that the bird is in some way ours . We have added one to the number of species which have emerged , with shape , color , and name , from the circumambi ...
... learned our lesson well . Then we experience a comfortable , proprietary feeling that the bird is in some way ours . We have added one to the number of species which have emerged , with shape , color , and name , from the circumambi ...
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... for the one whose acts , shared with his companion Saint Protus , are embedded in the story of the learned and spirited Roman virgin , Saint Eugenia . We may read in Caxton's English version 60 of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (
... for the one whose acts , shared with his companion Saint Protus , are embedded in the story of the learned and spirited Roman virgin , Saint Eugenia . We may read in Caxton's English version 60 of the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine (
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... learned , off to the south . On the Peninsula , south of San Francisco , the afternoon fog rolls across the cliff - tops until it is stopped by the spine of the Coast Range . It fills the bowl of shore and mesa , and spills over the rim ...
... learned , off to the south . On the Peninsula , south of San Francisco , the afternoon fog rolls across the cliff - tops until it is stopped by the spine of the Coast Range . It fills the bowl of shore and mesa , and spills over the rim ...
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