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  • Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • The turning-point was conspicuous, but less so than my sewing would have been.

    The Ides of March Jean 2009

  • Hodgson and his players were careful not to proclaim Liverpool's first league win since August as a turning-point on Sunday, especially as the club remain in the bottom three on goal difference.

    Fernando Torres let down by Liverpool team-mates, says José Reina Andy Hunter 2010

  • Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

  • Sir Leslie Stephen, the pioneering mountaineer and biographer, and father of novelist Virginia Woolf and painter Vanessa Bell, wrote in his 1871 book, The Playground of Europe: "Before the turning-point of the eighteenth century, a civilized being might, if he pleased, regard the Alps with unmitigated horror."

    Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011

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