We could not manage our ski and pulled on foot, falling into crevasses every minute—most luckily no bad accident.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott
'We could not manage our ski and pulled on foot, falling into crevasses every minute—most luckily no bad accident.
— from The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley
If rationalism cannot hold its own, the alternative is not the finding of firm foothold in concrete experience, but only such consolation as a sceptical philosophy may afford.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith
THE .. LARGEST Manufacturers of FINE FURS in Canada Exclusive Designs in Ladies' Persian Lamb and Sealskin Coats FINE HUDSON BAY AND RUSSIAN SABLE SKINS, SILVER, WHITE AND BLUE FOX SKINS.
— from My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec by Various
Dr. Martius describes ten different kinds of fern found in coal, each distinctly marked by some of those peculiarities which distinguish the living plants.
— from Bertha's Visit to Her Uncle in England; vol. 3 [of 3] by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet
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