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I then went downstairs, and I ascertained, in your presence, Watson, without your perceiving the drift of my remarks, that Professor Coram's consumption of food had increased as one would expect when he is supplying a second person.
I then went downstairs and I ascertained, in your presence, Watson, without your perceiving the drift of my remarks, that Professor Coram's consumption of food had increased as one would expect when he is supplying a second person.
It is not extravagant to say that any one fish may be considered a supernumerary. But when Captain Coram's ship sprung a leak and the carpenter could not stop it, and the passengers had made up their minds that it was all over with them, all at once, without any apparent reason, the pumps began gaining on the leak, and the sinking ship to lift herself out of the abyss which was swallowing her up.
Clara Reeve speaks of both translations as "well known to the readers of Circulating Libraries." Progress of Romance , I, 130. Austin Dobson, Eighteenth Century Vignettes, First Series, 44. "Captain Coram's Charity." In one other respect Natura belongs to the new rather than to the old school: he takes genuine delight in the wilder beauties of the landscape.
It is not extravagant to say that any one fish may be considered a supernumerary. But when Captain Coram's ship sprung a leak and the carpenter could not stop it, and the passengers had made up their minds that it was all over with them, all at once, without any apparent reason, the pumps began gaining on the leak, and the sinking ship to lift herself out of the abyss which was swallowing her up.
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