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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...ital, was well aware of the increasing ferocity of the gale, as the ship bucked and reared in the troughs and crests of the raging sea, like a wild ... ... Mirapore with its Alpine climate, the heat was never as stifling as in the plains of India. The monsoons were not very far off and all nature seeme... ...f the jackals seemed louder at night, as if they, too, were waiting in anticipation of the coming monsoon. Then the storm broke. Helen and Rosita wa... ...Helen and Rosita watching from her bedroom window were lost in wonder at the force of their first monsoon, which dwarfed anything they had ever expe... ...apore and the Company, and he was determined to guide the ruler through these final stages. The monsoon had been intermittent this year and the few... ...ring the earthquake debris. More rain fell in a few hours than had fallen since the start of the monsoon season and the river was becoming dangerous...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...s, some with corrugated plastic and some with corrugated metal roofs. The monsoon season would soon visit with the vengeance of Shiva and the solid r... ...untry are dropping several feet per year, even though we still have heavy monsoons. ―The Green Revolution of a few years ago has turned brow... ...having no irrigation facilities. ―Lower rainfall during the recent monsoon seasons cut drinking water supplies and significantly reduced the ... ...pment. It was easier for farmers to stop plowing and eat at the free food trough. In fact more than seven million Ethiopians relied on the free food... ...a third of the total food aid. We have been lucky because of our soil and monsoons, we have been able to get by with very little food aid, but I see... ...global warming increases the evaporation of the water we do have. And the monsoon deluges that we once welcomed now vary from typhoons to long dry p...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...rabolic collectors covered in polished aluminum. Sunshine pours into the troughs and is concentrated onto oil-flled pipes. The heated oil can gener... ...nds, you name it.” The Sopogy technology is ideal for parts of Asia where monsoons bring heavy rain. “Other technologies only capture the light, so... ...our technology is that our system captures heat, so, even in the case of monsoons, with intermittent sunny days, there’s heat.” Seeking alternative... ...rated tsunamis. For example, SOEST has been working with Japan’s Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment, a multiyear ocean-drilling project tha... ...plify its energy. To collect that heat, Sopogy employs rows of parabolic troughs with computerized trackers that follow the sun. Sopogy’s technolo...

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Deviation : Covenant

By: Elissa Malcohn

...een up since predawn, cooking and serving breakfast, feeding goats, filling troughs. Thanks to FeatherFly's infirmity she also had to run the thresh... ...aken amidst a tangle of limbs like her own, hungry for slop, bending to the troughs. The moment of carelessness, the gate left open between the nurs... ...itizens depended on imported water from Rudder and cisterns to collect the monsoon rains. Storms blackened the sky when, she had heard, the mountain... ...ari structures—while across the merciless salt pan, turned into lake by the monsoons, the high, rocky cliffs of Skedge continued to stand even as th... ...one pair of legs. It was only the two of them now. There were no fences, no troughs, no slaughterhouses. There were only small flowers and weaving g...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ttuces, Rhine-wine and French mustard, were hurled into one huge tureen or trough, and the hungry Public invited to help itself. To bring what order w... ...now understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents, the Trade-winds, and Monsoons, and Moon’s Eclipses; by all which the condition of its 182 Sarto... ...w is Man; his Creek this Planet Earth; his Ocean the immeasurable All; his Monsoons and periodic Currents the mysterious Course of Providence through ... ... side, of a large oaken Board, which was scooped out in the middle, like a trough, to receive the contents of their Pot of Potatoes. Little holes were...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...al Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor’-West- ers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Leva... ..., glistening in the sun’s rays like a mirror. But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapoury jet, t... ...the water, d’ye see. Same with cocked hats; the cocks form gable- end eave-troughs, Flask. No more monkey-jackets and tar- paulins for me; I must moun...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...al Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levante... ..., glistening in the sun’s rays like a mirror. But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapory jet, th... ... the water, d’ye see. Same with cocked hats; the cocks form gable end eave troughs, Flask. No more monkey jackets and tarpaulins for me; I must mount ...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

... food and tobacco, a stack of firewood, a police station, a well, a horse trough, a few trees, and, under them, some trampled ground dotted with the ... ...a little at a time.’ ‘Oho!’ said Kim, and held his tongue. That was in the monsoon holidays, after he had taken the prize for math ematics. The Chris...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... At one o’clock the wind with sudden shift Threw the ship right into the trough of the sea, Which struck her aft, and made an awkward rift, ... ... not see his likeness: he could kill his Man quite as quietly as blows the monsoon Her steady breath (which some months the same still is): Se...

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The Pathfinder

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...got the canoes handsomely land-locked, and into moorings that would defy a monsoon. The only hard- ship is the denial of the pipe.” “The scent of the ... ...was now under the control of familiar hands, fell off, and was soon in the trough of the sea. This perilous instant was passed in safety, and at the n...

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Verses 1889-1896

By: Rudyard Kipling

... For I got four niggers to carry me off, As I lay in the bight of a canvas trough, When the Widow give the party. “What was the end of all the sho... ...to where the stream V erses 1889 to 1896 115 Is dammed to fill our cattle-troughs — sent up White waves that rocked and heaved and then were still, T... ... walked. That night, the Red Horse grazed above the Dam, Beyond the cattle-troughs. Men heard him feed, And those that heard him sickened where they ... ...n four; And the Red Horse went hillward with the dawn, But near the cattle-troughs his hoof-prints lay. That night, the slow mists of the evening drop... ... That night, the Red Horse grazed beyond the Dam, A stone’s-throw from the troughs. Men heard him feed, And those that heard him sickened where they ... ... With the rank and pay of a Sapper! When the Flood come along for an extra monsoon, ’Twas Noah constructed the first pontoon To the plans of Her Maje...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...e piers stood the scouring of Mother Gunga, or to adventure up-stream on a monsoon night and report on the state of the embankment-facings. He would i... ...d watch a gale out with 11 The Day’s Work him, and see if he could stop a monsoon.” “All the same, if you carried off his gurus he’ d leave us like a... ...shoulder. Peroo went on as if he were talking to himself. “ Six-seven- ten monsoons since, I was watch on the fo’c’ sle of the ehwah— the Kumpani’s bi... ... a clean sweep of a boat, which turned bottom up and sank in the darkening troughs alongside, while the broken falls whipped the davits. “That’s all t... ...ms, and a harbour safe to rest in till the first violence of the southeast monsoon has blown itself out. They opened up the low coral beach, with its ...

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Barrackroom Ballads

By: Rudyard Kipling

... For I got four niggers to carry me off, As I lay in the bight of a canvas trough, When the Widow give the party. “What was the end of all the sho... ... With the rank and pay of a Sapper! When the Flood come along for an extra monsoon, ’Twas Noah constructed the first pontoon To the plans of Her Maje...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...lettuces, Rhine wine and French mustard, were hurled into one huge tureen or trough, and the hungry Public invited to help itself. To bring what order... ...nnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents, the Trade winds, and Monsoons, and Moon’s Eclipses; by all which the condition of its little C... ...now is Man; his Creek this Planet Earth; his Ocean the immeasurable All; his Monsoons and periodic Currents the mysterious Course of Providence throug... ...ch side, of a large oaken Board, which was scooped out in the middle, like a trough, to receive the contents of their Pot of Potatoes. Little holes we...

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