Lieut.
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Lieut. null fighter snapped to bits in mid-air when something, possibly the propeller, broke.
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Elaine Fairless ; both for the second time; in Huntington, W. Va. Lieut. and Mrs. Fairless attended the bridal couple.
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The Boer party, which consisted of eighty Johannesburg policemen, under Lieut. van Zyl, retired to a ridge about 1,500 yards further to the south.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
Sholl, Robert Lieut., interview with natives, 23, 24, 65 death of, 121.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
Lieut., on fossil quadrumana, 144Dureau de la Malle, M., cited, 584, 593.Durham, waste of coast of, 303.D'Urville,
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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