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  • Well, the cook left, and retired some streets away to lodgings of her own; and there was Coolin in precisely the same situation with any young gentleman who has had the inestimable benefit of a faithful nurse.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • Thus the sage Coolin was a thief to the last; among

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • There are not many dogs like this good Coolin, and not many people.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • For dogs he had as great an attraction as they had for him, and the master of Coolin the wise, and Woggs, or Bogue, the gallant, discourses as few men could do about canine thoughts and feelings in his essay _The

    Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

  • He straightened himself and saluted, and I saw beneath a disreputable cap the features of the man who had been with me in the Coolin crevice.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • Then back to a promontory of heather, where the first beams of the sun coming over the Coolin dried our skins.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • The place was leased by a man called Bommaerts, and that was one of the two names I had heard whispered in that far-away cleft in the Coolin by the stranger from the sea.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • The confounded rocks of the Coolin had left their mark on my shoes, which moreover had not been cleaned for a week, and the same hills had rent my jacket at the shoulders, and torn my trousers above the right knee, and stained every part of my apparel with peat and lichen.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • The Coolin and the Dolomites for him, for he had grown tired of the Chamonix aiguilles.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • Coolin, and Amos, pelican-like, had to surrender the rusty black tie which adorned his own person.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

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