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But do you really find the air so light and pure in this by right mephitic time of August, with those close calles, pestilential lagunes, etc., etc., and all that our informants frighten us with?
From From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 by Curtis, George William
On our way we passed some large lagunes, full of wild fowl, and surrounded by scarlet flamingoes and pelicans.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie
The stars of winter shone down on the lagunes of Venice.
From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The Hon. Joseph Denman, who was senior officer of the British squadron on the coast, unexpectedly landed two hundred men, and burnt or destroyed all the Spanish factories amid the lagunes and islets.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
The town of Aiguesmortes is situated in the department of Gard, close to the Mediterranean, whose waters wash into the salt marshes and lagunes by which it is surrounded.
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
