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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

By: H. G. Wells

...on Times with numerous plates of sphygmograph tracings (I write subject to correction) and an admirable new terminology, that did the thing for him. T... ...making experiments in chemistry with an insufficient quantity of material; errors of observation and manipulation become disproportionately large. It ... ...anced back to discover the third rat in pursuit behind…. His horse bounded forward. The buggy leapt high at a rut. For a frantic minute perhaps everyt... ...Cossar. “Y ou come with us. Where’s Flack? Show us.” The whole party moved forward. Further details of the engagement dropped from the man who had run... ...s the rat- holes, the man who had run away a little to the rear. They went forward through the rank exaggerated weeds and skirted the body of the seco... ...on a long article about himself from a sixpenny weekly, entitled “ A New T error,” and offered to supply one hundred such disturbances for a guinea, a...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...fixed day for a periodical tea-drinking with her, to which the child looks forward as the greatest treat of its existence. She seldom visits at a grea... ...w, and must at no distant period be brought to its final close. She looks forward to its termi- nation, with calmness and without apprehension. She h... ... when he was on the visiting committee, and his opponent overseer, brought forward certain dis- tinct and specific charges relative to the management ... ... had ac- tually drove her wild; so after she had been sent to the house of correction half-a-dozen times, for throwing inkstands at the overseers, bla... ...ht. If you have ever doubted the fact, you are painfully convinced of your error, on the morning of your departure. You left strict orders, over- nigh... ...is constantly getting him into trouble, and occasionally into the house of correction. He is no sooner emanci- pated, however, than he resumes the dut... ...w the fact, for it came to our knowl- edge thus: We went over the House of Correction for the county of Middlesex shortly after, to witness the opera-...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...fixed day for a periodical tea-drinking with her, to which the child looks forward as the greatest treat of its existence. She seldom visits at a grea... ...w, and must at no distant period be brought to its final close. She looks forward to its termi- nation, with calmness and without apprehension. She h... ... when he was on the visiting committee, and his opponent overseer, brought forward certain dis- tinct and specific charges relative to the management ... ... had ac- tually drove her wild; so after she had been sent to the house of correction half-a-dozen times, for throwing inkstands at the overseers, bla... ...ht. If you have ever doubted the fact, you are painfully convinced of your error, on the morning of your departure. You left strict orders, over- nigh... ...is constantly getting him into trouble, and occasionally into the house of correction. He is no sooner emanci- pated, however, than he resumes the dut... ...w the fact, for it came to our knowl- edge thus: We went over the House of Correction for the county of Middlesex shortly after, to witness the opera-...

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Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

...ts from his thoughts, or con HARD T IMES 12 signing them to the House of Correction. But, the turning of the road took him by the back of the booth,... ...sked in the fire, and it was not quite plainly written there, ‘do you look forward with any satisfaction to this change to Mr. Bounderby’s?’ ‘Why, the... ... Sissy fairly sobbed as confessing with extreme contrition to her greatest error; ‘I said it was nothing.’ ‘Nothing, Sissy?’ ‘Nothing, Miss—to the rel... ...ds meant for this, came mockingly out of her at last; and her head dropped forward on her breast. ‘Back agen?’ she screeched, after some minutes, as i... ... time, to which he has so long, and certainly with great constancy, looked forward, is now come. Mr. Bounderby has made his pro posal of marriage to ... ... I un derstand and share the wise consideration with which you regard his errors. With all possible respect both for Mr. Gradgrind and for Mr. Bounde... ...rs little now, except as it may dispose you to think more leniently of his errors.’ As her father held her in his arms, she put her other hand upon hi...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...ined, and ever, and ever, the logarithmic tables to be corrected, for by the error of some calculator the vessel often splits upon a rock that should ... ...t we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its o... ... and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday, forward for to morrow, and overhead for the passing day.” This was sheer ... ...have weathered as these rents have done? They are proof sheets which need no correction. Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which did not go out t... ... frankness as the poor weak headed pauper had laid, our intercourse might go forward to something better than the intercourse of sages. I had some gue... ... you send me back?” One real runaway slave, among the rest, whom I helped to forward toward the northstar. Men of one idea, like a hen with one chicke... ... the flavor of huckleberries, ask the cowboy or the partridge. It is a vulgar error to suppose that you have tasted huckleberries who never plucked the...

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