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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...ody covered in sweat even though the temperature in the cave was very low. He raised his head to listen. Scuttling noises - bats or rats - these wer... ...f Rosita, who hated storms even on terra firma. She would be terrified on her own in their cabin, listening to the storm’s mounting intensity. She h... ...otting garbage, their odiferous presence conspicuous to the eye by swarms of hovering flies. She listened to the cacophony of dialects - overseers i... ...marriage to a strict Muslim prince. Before she left the palace, she handed a printed copy of Lord Lister’s paper on antiseptic surgery to Mahmoud Bi... ...enhagen 116 that was to be converted into their Clinic for the Poor and together they drew up a list of all that was required to equip the little h...

...are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and a woman whose destinies are inextricably linked, their love yearning to flower despite every obstacle. For more information visit http://www.audreyblankenhagen.co.uk. ...

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The Natural State, In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti

By: U.G. Krishnamurti, Edited by Peter Maverick

...lock, and this little boy of five, six or seven years—I don't know—had to listen to all that crap. So much so that by the time I reached my seventh ... ...ich thought has decided is beautiful. There is no one directing. As for listening, when you leave the sense of hearing alone all that is there is t... ...s I lie like this. If there is any noise outside, it just echoes in me. I listen to my heartbeat and don't know what it is. There are only the sen... ...t is, is understanding. You are finished. You'll walk out. You will never listen to anybody describing his state or ask any questions about understan... ...ars and they will guide you. The vision becomes extraordinarily clear. The listening mechanism becomes extremely sensitive, that is all. The senses a... ...ut myself, free, enslaved, or otherwise. Freedom and self-knowledge are linked. Since I do not know myself and have no way of seeing myself except... ...t with another, takes time. What you are now and what you ought to be are linked together by time. You are going to be enlightened tomorrow. Let u...

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

...ed life, I know of none more promising than this little valley. From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar char acter of its inhabit... ...s of an evening, were often filled with awe at hearing his nasal melody, “in linked sweet ness long drawn out,” floating from the distant hill, or al... ... fire, with a row of apples roasting and splutter ing along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washing... ...troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry scurry had clattered by, and then excl... ...abod was too con scious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would “doub... ...at drowsy undertone with which men talk in the dark, the countenances of the listeners only now and then receiving a casual gleam from the glare of a ...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...tramping along the road singing; the reapers gathered in the venta gateway listening to “Felixmarte of Hircania” read out to them; and those little Ho... ...emporaries. In some of the others there is a good deal of exaggeration. To listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in l... ...ght and mirror of all knight- errantry.” 42 Don Quixote “Say on,” said I, listening to his talk; “how do you propose to make up for my diffidence, an... ...ed in this you will have achieved no small success.” In profound silence I listened to what my friend said, and his observations made such an impressi... ...s sense of smell was as acute as his hearing, and as Sancho was so closely linked with him that the fumes rose almost in a straight line, it could not... ..., ‘I will:’ Don Fernando said the same, and giving her the ring they stood linked by a knot that could never be loosed. The bridegroom then approached... ...plished when the raging Manchegan lion and the white Tobosan dove shall be linked together, having first humbled their haughty necks to the gentle yok... ...hich he says that to have seen the pair marching from the door to the bed, linked hand in hand in this way, he would have given the best of the two tu... ...d as one depth calls to another, and one sin to another sin, revenges have linked themselves together, and I have taken upon myself not only my own bu...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...s mast- 56 Moby Dick head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more aw... ...ptain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in col... ... it’s very punctual then. I went down to supper. After sitting a long time listening to the long stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum... ...rig, confined to the north of the line, in the Atlantic Ocean only); after listening to these plum- puddingers till nearly eleven o’clock, I went up s... ... now did with Queequeg. “Queequeg,” said I, “get into bed now, and lie and listen to me.” I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the ... ...ey wrought on Ahab’s texture. Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. ... ... offered. One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the supersti- tiously inclined,... ...ke this, by what sort of unac- countable tie he soon evinced himself to be linked with Ahab’s peculiar fortunes; nay, so far as to have some sort of a... ...breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has i...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

...ery good opportunity for showing off her knowl edge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) ‘—yes, that’s a... ...ownward! The An tipathies, I think—’ (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) ‘—but I s... ... be a person of authority among them, called out, ‘Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I’ll soon make you dry enough!’ They all sat down at once, ... ...ltogether; but after a few minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen. ‘Mary Ann! Mary Ann!’ said the voice. ‘Fetch me my gloves this... ...h,’ Said his father; ‘don’t give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? Be off, or I’ll kick you down stairs!... ...away, even in the middle of her favourite word ‘moral,’ and the arm that was linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up, and there stood the Q...

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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...ntal beliefs, our rules of conduct, we must all make for ourselves. We may listen and read, but the views of others we cannot take on credit; we must ... ...r and died and reproduced just like animals, and that economists following List have for the purposes of fiscal con- 26 First and Last Things trovers... ...am always to be called upon where it is, I am it. Am I a mind mysteriously linked to this thing of matter and endeavour? So I can present myself. I se... ...tors he will find quite a large number repeated over and over again in the list and that he is cut down to perhaps two or three thousand separate pers... ...orm of sin. It is a duty to talk, teach, explain, write, lecture, read and listen. Every truly religious man, every good Socialist, is a propagandist.... ...not write or discuss can talk, those who cannot argue can induce people to listen to others and read. We have a belief and an idea that we want to spr... ...ngs harmless to oneself because they are inconveniently alluring to others linked to us. The moderate drinker who sits at table sipping his wine in th...

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Silas Marner the Weaver of Raveloe

By: George Eliot

... of the old demon-worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the grey-haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty... ... he could never arrive at anything higher than hope mingled with fear, and listened with longing wonder when William declared that he had possessed un... ...nce, could he be received once more within the folds of the church. Marner listened in silence. At last, when everyone rose to depart, he went towards... ...s symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy be- cause it is linked with no memories. But even their experience may hardly enable them t... ...las might have driven a profitable trade in charms as well as in his small list of drugs; but money on this condition was no temptation to him: he had... ...on Godfrey’s blond face was in sad accordance. He seemed to be waiting and listening for some one’s approach, and presently the sound of a heavy step,...

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

... chant the same unvaried lesson from sunrise to sunset, not to mention the listening to so many lectures against idleness, as if I en- joyed or was ma... ...pted some apol- ogy. T o this he did not deign either to reply, or even to listen; and Cristal, at a signal from his master, removed the object of my ... ... clean; and I soon was so little occupied with my heats and tremors, as to listen with interest to a heavy foot, which seemed to be that of my landlor... ...thout exciting any of the astonishment which I had expected. Willie indeed listened to me with considerable attention; but I was no sooner finished, t... ...inks he wad do great things till he come to the proof.’ My gudesire scarce listened to this, but spurred his horse, with ‘Gude e’en to you, freend.’ B... ...f on foot in a misty morning, with my hand, just for fear of going astray, linked into a handcuff, as they call it, with poor Harry Redgauntlet’s fast... ...xertions, appeared at the head of the cavalcade, which consisted of horses linked together, and accommodated with packsaddles, and chains for securing... ...men of worth and honour conceive the cause of En- gland and Scotland to be linked with that of Charles Stuart, I must follow their brave example, and,...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...t Day—Spring Break Ends Reece University—New York Campus Kelly should have listened to his brother. Nevery was his boy, his closest, older sib who'd n... ...od from bad—more like their now-dead father than a brother. He should have listened and gotten out of the life sooner, when Nev had first started warn... ...brother. If he wasn't dead already, Nev and his moms would kill him. Kelly listened to the responding squawk. Squads dispatched. Ambulances on the way... ... only stared through him. "He's not dead, Ben. I know he's not." Word Ben. Listen to the sister. Ben thumbed away her tears, pulled her head back to h... ...mind. "He wasn't like you think, Ben. He was ... he was special..." He was listening to his own obituary, Kelly thought. "I know, Amire. I understand.... ...e table with her own plate of waffles and eggs and a small serving tray of linked sausages. She watched as both Tyler and Kelly immediately helped the... ... Why did we have to get rid of Tyler?" "Simmer down, simmer down." Camilla linked an arm in Kelly's and led her out to the living room. "I know I'm cr...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ol cannot half so well help himself—but soft, whom have we here?” he said, listening to the trampling of several horses which became then audible. “Ne... ...t first view seemed rather inconsistent with its form, a shirt, namely, of linked mail, with sleeves and gloves of the same, curiously plaited and int... ... the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of... ... so?—Prior, your collar is in danger; I will wear it over my gorget in the lists of Ashby-de-la-Zouche.” “Win it fairly,” said the Prior, “and wear it... ... have friends, I have followers—man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists; let him come in his plate and his mail, and all that can render cowa... ...ring from that fatal land! I too might ask—I too might enquire—I too might listen with a beating heart to fables which the wily strollers devise to ch... ...d to =none=,” said the Pilgrim, who had stood near enough to hear, and had listened to this conversation with marked impatience. All turned toward the...

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A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

...arning voice, looking down from his box. “What do you say, Tom?” They both listened. “I say a horse at a canter coming up, Joe.” “I say a horse at a g... ...ed from the coachman to the guard, and from the guard to the coachman, and listened. The coach man looked back and the guard looked back, and even th... ... little more?” The shoemaker stopped his work; looked with a vacant air of listening, at the floor on one side of him; then simi larly, at the floor ... ...hat would be produced, would show the prisoner to have been furnished with lists of his Majesty’s forces, and of their disposition and preparation, bo... ...e had habitually conveyed such information to a hostile power. That, these lists could not be proved to be in the prisoner’s handwriting; but that it ... ...e dry waterfalls than staircases, Defarge, the turnkey, and Jacques Three, linked hand and arm, went with all the speed they could make. Here and ther... ...him, surrounded by all, and in the midst of a line of twenty men long, all linked shoulder to shoulder, and hand to shoulder, hurried out with cries o... ...ound in pairs, until many of them dropped. While those were down, the rest linked hand in hand, and all spun round together: then the ring broke, and ...

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Agamemnon

By: Aeschylus

... From our rent hearts the vulture Care. Aeschylus 7 strophe 1 List! for the power is mine, to chant on high The chiefs’ emprise, the stre... ... mine, to chant on high The chiefs’ emprise, the strength that omens gave! List! on my soul breathes yet a harmony, From realms of ageless powers, and... ... as he wills, the rod Of vengeance smiteth sore. One said of old, The gods list not to hold A reckoning with him whose feet oppress The grace of holin... ... Old, old and grey long since the time has grown, Which saw the linked cables moor The fleet, when erst it came to Ilion’s sandy ... ...Some woe—I know not what—must close thy pious wail. CASSANDRA more calmly List! for no more the presage of my soul, Bride like, shall peer from its s... ...n. VOICE OF AGAMEMNON O I am sped—a deep, a mortal blow. LEADER Listen, listen! who is screaming as in mortal agony? Aeschylus 51 VOICE OF...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

...hy and history, as the repeating of names that were hard to pronounce, and lists of products and populations and heights and lengths, and as lists and... ...rvice, and look through the great gates at the candles and choristers, and listen to the organ-sustained voices, but the transepts he never penetrated... ...ady to the left going on valiantly and speaking to every- one who cares to listen, while Mrs. Johnson beams beside her: “There she used to sit as bold... ...akes a nauseating medicine, and scrutinised his cousin’s neat figures with listless eyes. “Well,” said Johnson, rising and stretching. “Bed! Better sl... ...ohnson took the opportunity to say, “Well—so long,” to anyone who might be listening, and dis- appear. Mr. Polly found himself smoking a cigarette and... ...l forest, of whose makers there is now no human memory. With La Perouse he linked “The Island Nights Entertainments,” and it never palled upon him tha...

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Ballads

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...length she came, To men who were foes to the Tevas and hated their race and name. There was she well received, and spoke with Hiopa the king.** And Hi... ...le and feast, Marvellous eaters and smiters: the men of Vaiau not least. Now hearken to me, my daughter, and hear a word of the wise: How a strength g... ...an his lunatic rounds, and howled for the flesh of men; All day long he ate not, nor ever drank of the brook; And all day long in their houses the peo... ...hy as a cat, with never a change of face, Taheia slips to the door, like one that would breathe a space; Saunters and pauses, and looks at the stars, ...

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Night and Day

By: Virginia Woolf

...g downstairs in the drawing-room describing his afternoon’s adventures, or listening to the afternoon’s adventures of other people; the room itself, t... ...ivering an accurately worded speech with perfect composure. William Rodney listened with a curious lifting of his upper lip, although his face was sti... ...r painting, and merely by look- ing at them it could be seen that, as they listened to Mr. Purvis first, and then to Mr. Greenhalgh, they were see- in... ...firmly. “When a paper’s a failure, nobody says anything, whereas now, just listen to them!” The sound, which filled the room, with its hurry of short ... ...er- tion of intimacy, would not strike Katharine as imperti- nent. She was listening to what some one in another group was saying. Rodney, meanwhile, ... ...thed an excuse, for how could he break away when Rodney’s arm was actually linked in his? “You must not think that I have any bitterness against her— ... ...onder, and Mary, stripping ivy from the trees. When he came up with her he linked his arm through hers and said: “Now, Mary, what’s all this about Ame... ...ace or, to put it figuratively, a place where any line of blue mist softly linked tree to tree upon the horizon. For a moment she thought she saw in h... ...oble loving which they had taught, so that nothing changes, and one age is linked with another, and no one dies, and we all meet in spirit, until she ...

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Scenes from a Courtesans Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ch are part of everything?” “He is right,” said Lousteau, who had hitherto listened without speaking; “La Torpille can laugh and make others laugh. Th... ...o two years’ surveillance. They are ready enough to enter your name on the lists of disgrace, but make every difficulty about scratching it out again.... ...at him with eyes full of tears. “I thought I had done so much!” she said. “Listen, my child. Your terrible reputation has cast Lucien’s family into gr... ... “Ah! if it were possible to shed all my blood here and have it renewed!” “Listen to me.” She was silent. “Your future fate depends on your power of f... ... fallen back- wards; but the Spaniard’s arm held off his assailant. “Come, listen,” said he coldly. “I have made another woman of her, chaste, pure, w... ...ld be proved against a man whose name had been so often and so malignantly linked with that of the Countess. “Ah!” he sighed, folding his arms, “forme... ... lion will live on. In real life, in society, every event is so inevitably linked to other events, that one cannot occur without the rest. The water o... ...hat his judge suf- fers anguish equal to his own. At this moment he and I, linked by a sheet of paper—I, society avenging itself; he, the crime to be ...

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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

...turned to me. “Wouldn’t you like to see?” I had to look, and then I had to listen, how that this scarce- visible intruder was to be, was presently to ... ...want to start meetings of an evening on Howden’s Waste.” “You think they’d listen?” “They’d listen fast enough now.” “They didn’t before,” said Parloa... ...the supreme 32 In the Days of the Comet importance of Life. Parload stood listening, half turned to- wards the sky with the tips of his fingers on hi... ...ction sent him off to the guillotine. “Ah, Parload! Parload! If only you’d listened to me earlier, Parload.” None the less that quarrel made me extrem... ...it cost me much to keep away from him and think evil of him with no one to listen to me, evening after evening. That was a very miserable time for me,... ...the most acciden- tal way against some other blindly seeking creature, and linked like nascent atoms. We were obsessed by the books we read, by all th... ...e obsessed by the books we read, by all the talk about us that once we had linked ourselves we were linked for life. Then afterwards we discovered tha... ... teor overhead swam back into my conscious mind. For the first time then I linked it clearly with all the fierce violence that had crept into human li... ...hing about a hat. I had come out without my hat. A fragment of thought has linked itself with an effect of long shadows upon turf golden with the ligh...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...r to hear it! Think of a sick man in such a place as Saint Martin’s Court, listening to the footsteps, and in the midst of pain and weariness obliged,... ... which are free of toil at last), where many stop on fine evenings looking listlessly down upon the water with some vague idea that by and by it runs ... ...rected my steps that way. I passed and repassed the house, and stopped and listened at the door; all was dark, and silent as the grave. Yet I lingered... ... as she was talking to the young man, held his peace, and bent his head to listen. ‘Well, Nelly,’ said the young fellow aloud. ‘Do they teach you to h... ...ud when the tide was out, to standing with his hands in his pockets gazing listlessly on the motion and on the bustle of the river at high water. The ... ... of their meeting. The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest and advantage, and nothing ...

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Adventures in the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...l- culated to call forth. Little as I believed in such things, I could not listen to some of these stories unaffected. Above all was I struck by one o... ...ness of his looks. “Mr. Jermin, call off their names;” and he handed him a list of the ship’s company. All answered but the deserters and the two mari... ...some sick among you. Now then, Mr. Jermin, call off the names on that sick-list of yours, and let them go over to the other side of the deck—I should ... ...ter, was put down as, in a great measure, affected; and my name was on the list of those who would be fit for any duty in a day or two. This was enoug... ...ntic struggles. In vain the doctor and oth- ers tried to save him: the men listened to nothing. “Murder and mutiny, by the salt sea!” shouted the mate... ... due course it came to Long Ghost and myself, for the sailors in- variably linked us together. In such an enterprise, I some- 138 Omoo what distruste...

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