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... head , with scales so sharply keeled as to end in a kind of spine . It is one of the most venomous and dangerous serpents of South Africa . It attains a length of four or almost five feet , and is thick in proportion to its length ...
... head , with scales so sharply keeled as to end in a kind of spine . It is one of the most venomous and dangerous serpents of South Africa . It attains a length of four or almost five feet , and is thick in proportion to its length ...
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... head , a collar round the neck , the back , wings , and tail are black , the other parts of the plumage white . The P. lays only a single egg , sometimes in a rabbit burrow , but more frequently in a burrow of its own , which often ...
... head , a collar round the neck , the back , wings , and tail are black , the other parts of the plumage white . The P. lays only a single egg , sometimes in a rabbit burrow , but more frequently in a burrow of its own , which often ...
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... head , which to the wood returns a wooden sound . ' P. at length exasperated seizes another bludgeon , soon vanquishes his already . weakened foe , and lays her prostrate at his PUN is the name given to a play upon words . feet ; then ...
... head , which to the wood returns a wooden sound . ' P. at length exasperated seizes another bludgeon , soon vanquishes his already . weakened foe , and lays her prostrate at his PUN is the name given to a play upon words . feet ; then ...
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... head of the poorer , but perhaps better - qualified non - purchasing officer ; and that money decided where merit should be the only guide . These disadvantages , however , it is replied , were not unmixed . Purchase , it is argued ...
... head of the poorer , but perhaps better - qualified non - purchasing officer ; and that money decided where merit should be the only guide . These disadvantages , however , it is replied , were not unmixed . Purchase , it is argued ...
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... head of ' pustular diseases , ' are for three years , on the allegation that his language on the subject of the Real Presence was beyond what is sanctioned by the Formularies of the Church of England . Dr P. , however , protested ...
... head of ' pustular diseases , ' are for three years , on the allegation that his language on the subject of the Real Presence was beyond what is sanctioned by the Formularies of the Church of England . Dr P. , however , protested ...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 8 Affichage du livre entier - 1868 |
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 8 Affichage du livre entier - 1896 |
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 8 Affichage du livre entier - 1873 |
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