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Turning the Vertical Flank : Airpower as a Maneuver Force in the Theater Campaign

By: Robert P. Givens

.... . . . . . . . 32 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 4 1972 EASTER OFFENSIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Air Campaign Phases Related to Maneuver Force Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Summary . . . . . ...

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Beauchamp's Career

By: George Meredith

... it (enough, when unburlesqued, to blow the down off the gossamer-stump of fiction at a single breath, I have heard tell), must be treated of men, and... ... given to lose our solidity and fly at it; although the faithful mirror of fiction has been showing us latterly that a too superhu- man beauty has dis... ...s feet, ‘it’s because I consented to a compromise!’—a transparent piece of fiction this, but so in harmony with the character stripped naked for us th... ...inter with- out seeing him. She returned to Mount Laurels from Lon- don at Easter, and went on a visit to Steynham, and back to 245 George Meredith L... ...lays. Beggar and heiress he said in his heart, to vitalize the three-parts fiction of the point of honour which Cecilia’s beauty was fast submerging. ... ...ore than in what you do. They are now in Wales. They will be in town after Easter. Then you must expect that her feeling for you will be tried, unless... ...uchamp’s Career CHAPTER XLV A LITTLE PLOT AGAINST CECILIA Some days before Easter week Seymour Austin went to Mount Laurels for rest, at an express in... ...ere is an objection, I am sure—yes; papa has invited Mr. T uckham here for Easter.’ ‘We could carry him with us.’ ‘Yes, but I should wish to be entire... ...e.’ ‘In that case, we might be off early, as you say, and have part of the Easter week in Rome.’ ‘Mr. Austin wishes it greatly, papa, though he has no...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...oble- men for the country. Lord Brailstone’s blue coach rattled through an eastern gate to the corner of the thirty-acre meadow, where Lord Fleetwood ... ... miration of a shop where Whitechapel would sit in state- according to the fiction so closely under the lee of fact that they were not strictly divisi... ...ers, when the incredible is excised. She claims the being a good friend to fiction in feeding popular voracity with all her stores. But the Old Buccan... ...r seas and away: if there would but come a wind to do that! The wild North-easter tore the budded beeches. Master John Edward Russett lay in the cradl... ...s grew here, and found it to be gilt thorns, loud mockery. A shaving North-easter tore the scream from hedges and the roar from copses under a faceles... ... friars. By what women? Bacchante, clearly, if the wife we have is a North-easter to wither us, blood, bone, and soul. He was hungry; he waxed furious... ...ks and jelly smile of the swinging sign- board creaked. Flaws of the North-easter swung and banged him. He creaked high, in complaint,—low, in some pa...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...d patriotic cries, and then flew up very swiftly and easily into the south-eastern sky, rising and falling with long, easy undulations in an ex- traor... ...?” said Edna. “Oh!—manoeuvres,” stid Bert. “Oh! I thought they did them at Easter,” said Edna, and troubled no more. The last great British war, the B... ...ances—might have been observed wending his way across Franconia in a north-easterly direction, and at a height of about eleven thousand feet above the... ...univiorsal service in a defensive militia. Next came the great alliance of Eastern Asia, a close-knit coalescence of China and Japan, advancing with r... ...the new type. They had been built solely for reconnoitring purposes on the eastern fron- tier, they were mostly too small to carry more than a couple,... ... Red Indians, and comic, respect- ful niggers. This he had learnt from the fiction in his public library. Beyond that he had learnt very little. He wa...

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Love at First Stake

By: J. Morgan

...verbal variety. “Is anything you know based on something other than popular fiction?” The vamp twisted in the chair to give me another dirty look.... ...ll my carefully ingrained delusions. If he didn’t stop soon, my faith in the Easter Bunny would be in serious jeopardy. He let out a laugh. “Yes, ... ... a vice grip. The newcomer had a heavily accented voice. He sounded middle-eastern from the lilt of the accent. Lucky me. I’d stumbled into the ... ...riding through the shadows right into the center of the quartet. The middle-eastern Vampire walked up to meet him. The Vampire’s lean frame matche...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...tains; for certainly he is a lord to be doubted. Well, said Lucius, before Easter I suppose to pass the mountains, and so forth into France, and there...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

... inside you lies your own very self, like a germinating egg, your precious Easter egg of your own soul. There it is, developing bit by bit, from one s...

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Complete Poems in English : The Reader's Library, Volume 15

By: George Herbert; Neil Azevedo, Editor

...um Superliminare THE CHURCH The Altar The Sacrifice The Thanksgiving The Reprisall The Agonie The Sinner Good Friday Redemption Sepulchre Easter Easter-Wings (I) Easter-Wings (II) Holy Baptisme (I) Holy Baptisme (II) Nature Sinne (I) Affliction (I) Repentance Faith Prayer (I) The Holy Communion Antiphon (I) Love (I) Love (II) The Temper (I) The ...

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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

By: Edgar Alfred Bowring

.................................................................... 361 WEST-EASTERN DIVAN. ............................................................... ... The Foolish Pilgrim.] WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, When scarce the Eastern sky is grey? Hath he just ceased, though cold it be, In yonder holy... ...herish’ d towards them, especially Minnie, the youngest. Well, I went last Easter, politely to pay them a visit, And I wore the new coat now hanging u... ... prospect of peace we should all be rejoicing.” 1796 – 7. 421 Goethe WEST-EASTERN DIVAN. Who the song would understand, Needs must seek the song’s ow... ... greatly admired by Oriental scholars, for the truthfulness with which the Eastern spirit of poetry is reproduced by the Western minstrel. They were c...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...of the search for a southern continent -- Discovery of new lands -- Arrival at Easter island -- Wondrous stone statues carved by an extinct people -- ... ...us stone statues carved by an extinct people -- Descriptions of the statues on Easter island -- Wonderful relics on Tinian island -- The people of Eas... ... fishing.................................................. 456 Cook's visit to Easter Island........................................... 458 Erect and ... ...sions given must have had a tonnage of 15,000, not quite so large as the Great Eastern, but fully 4500 tons greater than the City of Paris, which is t... ...y of the great desert of Gobi, which is 1200 miles long, and thence in a north-easterly direction until in the spring of 1275 the three reached Xanadu... ...such as the voyage of Hanno which, though generally regarded at that time as a fiction, was yet accepted as probable, if not true, by a few voyagers, ... ...r some time the incarceration continued, since da Gama, anxious to keep up the fiction of being a merchant, had previously directed that only in the l...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...thence was a most formidable foe to mer- chant vessels on the northern and eastern coasts of France; and often indulged in descents on the coast, when... ... at the cost of much severe handling and almost in- tolerable pain: but by Easter, Berenger found the good surgeon’s encouragement verified, and himse... ...on, and a considerable sum ad- vanced for a philter, compounded of strange Eastern plants and mystic jewels; and then Diane, with a shudder of relief,... ...tice of his profession likewise, delayed Ercole so much that it was nearly Easter before he brought his certain intelligence to the Chevalier, and to ...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...he mutters, as tier on tier of cloud drops under. “We generally pick up an easterly draught below three thousand at this time o’ the year. I hate slat... ...usand-six, six thousand eight hundred”—the dip- dial reads ere we find the easterly drift, heralded by a flurry of snow at the thousand fathom level. ... ...nd her in ten. 86 Actions and Reactions So we breakfast in the arms of an easterly slant which pushes us along at a languid twenty. To enjoy life, an... ...R THE HOUSE SUR THE HOUSE SURGEON GEON GEON GEON GEON O N AN EVENING after Easter Day, I sat at a table in a homeward bound steamer’s smoking-room, wh...

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Heartbreak House : A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ealize Utopia for the common people: they wished to realize their favorite fictions and poems in their own lives; and, when they could, they lived wit... ...invented? MRS HUSHABYE. Five hundred pounds; and I have made it last since Easter! CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Since Easter! Barely four months! Monstrous extra...

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Two Penniless Princesses

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...and Bologna in preparation for that foundation, which, save for that cruel Eastern’s E’en, would have been commenced by the uncle whose name he bore. ... ...itement that had followed. She also knew that on poor Eleanor that fearful Eastern’s Eve had left an indelible impression, recurring in any state of w... ... his suite would be welcomed, and where they were requested to remain till Easter week, by which time the King of France, the Dauphin, and Dauphiness ... ...er nuns with clappers, as demonstrations against Ju- das on the way to the Easter Sepulchre. She was so much shocked at herself that she wanted to con... ... he gave her absolution. 87 Yo n g e Meantime all the nuns were preparing Easter eggs, whereof there was a great exchange the next day, when the mass...

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Faces and Places

By: Henry W. Lucy

...s when it was written.<P/>The first article, Fred Burnaby, includes a lively account of a balloon trip, while Night and Day on the Cars in Canada and Easter on Les Avants relate Lucy's experiences of rail travel at that time. Other travel tales (A Night on a Mountain, Mosquitoes and Monaco, and Oysters and Arcachon) provide an insight into the Victorian Englishman's attitu...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...lover’s prayer, And paid a tradesman once, to make him stare; Gave alms at Easter, in a Christian trim, And made a widow happy, for a whim. Why then d... ...rtals Juno’s power invoke, 370 Her fanes no more with Eastern incense smoke, Nor victims sink beneath the sacred stroke! But to y... ...; Who view the western sea’s extremest bounds, Or drink of Ganges in their eastern grounds; All these the woes of Oedipus have known, Your fates, your... ... he leans his ear, And hears the various vows of fond mankind; Some beg an eastern, some a western wind: All vain petitions, mounting to the sky, With... ...ess others. That once was Britain—happy! had she seen No fiercer sons, had Easter never been. 357 In peace, great goddess, ever be adored; How keen th... ...- ness making a wit (which could be done no other way than by chance). The fiction is the more reconciled to probabil- ity, by the known story of Apel... ...Cross-keys, Lintot’s. 304 ‘Seas:’ see Lucian’s Icaro-Menippus, where this fiction is more extended.—P . 305 ‘Evans, Young, and Swift:’ some of those... ...f Syrian princes:’ the strange story follow- ing, which may be taken for a fiction of the poet, is justified by a true relation in Spon’s Voyages. Vai...

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