apparition in The Last Chance
great world’s great events published at breakfast time from day to day. On the other hand, to quote dear Sir Walter, “a sun-scorched desert, brown and bare”—and here come the camels to fill in the picture!’ As she spoke, a long train wound round the edge of a line of hillocks—their leader, with tur…
- Record ID
- 2,599
- Year
- 1,905
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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Record context
- Record ID
- 2599
- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Publication
- The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West; Rolf Boldrewood
- Published
- 1905; Project Gutenberg public-domain transcription
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- apparition
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Western Australia (WA): B
- State or territory
- WA
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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great world’s great events published at breakfast time from day to day. On the other hand, to quote dear Sir Walter, “a sun-scorched desert, brown and bare”—and here come the camels to fill in the picture!’ As she spoke, a long train wound round the edge of a line of hillocks—their leader, with turbaned attendants, adding the Eastern tone and flavour to the apparition from the underworld. ‘Thanks very much,’ said Mrs. Lilburne. ‘You are evidently destined to make a name in literature, when you elect to traverse that thorny path. What is to be the title?—for a book it must be within the year! Write while the “impulse” is fresh and.
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