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Records of a Family of Engineers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...y, 11th, the weather appeared to moderate, and they put to sea, only to be driven by evening into Levenswick. There they lay, ‘rolling much,’ with bot... ...vits unshipped, high seas, strong gales from the south- ward, and the ship driven to refuge in Kirkwall or Deer Sound. I have many a passage before me... ...e expeditiously ashore. A gale immediately followed, and the Elizabeth was driven back to Orkney and lost with all hands. The second escape I have bee... ...ape Wrath; it will be long ere any char-a-banc, laden with tourists, shall drive up to Barra Head or Monach, the Island of the Monks. They are far- th... ...he -s exhibited. These two cold-hearted persons, not contented with having driven the daughter of the poor nervous woman from her father’s house, both... ...uring about seven feet in height and three feet in diameter at the middle, tapering to both ends, being what seamen term a nun-buoy, vaulted or sprung... ...ness, the walls being covered with green cloth formed into panels with red tape, and his bed festooned with curtains of yellow cotton-stuff. If, in sp...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...something that happened to other people—like AIDS, vehicular manslaughter, drive-by shootings and serial killers. An aneurysm was something that happe... ...houghts. "He's only going to bring you down, Dagny. That is, if he doesn't drive you away again, hon—" "Now wait a minute, Curtis. You want to talk ab... ...fluenced household was the musical collection. There were rows and rows of tapes and CDs outlining a rather soulful, R&B taste in music. Earth, Wind a... ...wolf down a steak- and-potato dinner with all the trimmings like a big rig driver. It had always been one of the things he'd found odd and appealing a... ... Kelly's elbows, opened the passenger door. Kelly hesitated. "Just a short drive around the block, then I'll take you wherever you want to go." "Edge.... ...ide had been so relaxing and smooth and peaceful. Edge had had a nice jazz tape playing in the deck, classic Will Downing—right up Kelly's alley. The ... .... New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 120 Kelly grabbed a few of the tapes with the "wedding" markings on their spine and carried them to the li... ...e living room. He stacked three of them on the coffee table and popped the tape marked "#2: The Reception" into the VCR. It was rewound all the way to... ...t sickening-sweet waves. Kelly punched the remote, stopped and ejected the tape. He pulled the video from the VCR slot, stared at the spine for a long...

...A young black man is shot down in the streets in a drive-by. But a mistake has been made. Kelly shouldn't have died. So he's returned to Earth?in the body of a young comatose white woman married to a hot looking Latino narc cop. Can Kelly resolve the questions surrounding his...

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The Emerald Dagger

By: Barbara M. Hodges

...lished in the United States of America Tigress Press, LLC 2509 Morning Glory Drive Columbia, MO 65202 www.tigresspress.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS For my mo... ...d walls, and woven rugs of scarlet, gold, and black covered the stone floor. Tapestries of ancient fairie kings and queens draped the walls. Tables, c... ...tly where the rift would open. For seven years, no matter the weather, she’d driven monthly to the area and, sitting cross-legged on the ground, she’d... ...nine-thirty. What’s her name?” “Elaine something or other,” she said. “I can drive myself. It’s better this way. I hate airport good-byes.” She stood ... ...Rourk and his family a gift. Would it seem pushy? She’d finally decided on a tapestry of the San Francisco skyline at night. It would look beautiful o... ...e for her, but thank God he had. Her lips thinned in exasperation. The drunk driver had stolen three of her days. Three whole days. And she’d lose the... ...ing you or the babe yet again.” She turned her back to him and stared at the tapestry on the far wall. The weavers had finished it only yester- day. I... ...her gaze over the room. It was nice enough, all the stone walls covered with tapestries of forest scenes. The one with the unicorns bathing in the str... ...ed, and she reached for something to hold her upright. Her fingers grasped a tapestry, and it ripped from the wall as she dropped to her knees. The sh...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...s innocence ran by like a shell-shocked soldier; circumventing normal sexual drive by being gay would not free him to an innocence that was forlorn. ... ...e do you live? How many people are in your family?' They can't interact with tape recorders. Can't you do that?" Sang Huin ignored him. "Don't you hav... ...iving southwest through America's heartland to the destination of Mexico but driven insatiably to an isolated state as if the car could take her strai... ...d like when a bad tune by its prevalence repeats itself over and over in the tape recorder of the psyche and the repetition feels like drudgery. It ma... ...mnika?" and then probed his mind. "Odie ka?," (where you go?) asked the taxi driver sharply. The word, "kang," meant river and "mul" meant water. What... ... factor. It was the impulsiveness of one lacking social skills who suddenly drives up to a school playground to form intimacies, discards the body in... ... the least he could do. Hadn't there been a time when he and his sister were driven to the home of their Grandma Vera and rather than connecting to he... ...t want to be there contributing to any bit of it: writing documentation, red tape, bureaucracy of this and that sucking up my ideas." "You are one he... ...-the girl doing the most sensuous dance and then her brother turning off the tape recorder and collecting the Rupiah after the dance. In all, the chi...

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Signature for Sunshine

By: Christine Jones

...onto the bus, which by this time had many vacant seats. Mr. Jago, the bus driver, turned in his seat. The plumpish man in his fifties watched Chris ... ... rear vision mirror at Jackson and his mates, whom now sat silent. The bus driver shook his head whilst mumbling something under his breath pertainin... ...etheless, she’d grown impatient with the renovations being held up by red tape, as she saw it. They had already planned to add on a couple of bedroo... ...ndouts, even from her grandfather. Having not heard the Ute pull into the drive, Chris didn’t notice the owner of the vehicle standing behind her. T... .... In no hurry to do homework or chores, the three children dawdled up the drive. Kelly was the first to notice the white Ute parked at the side of t... ...ittle more lady-like? You’re starting to sound like a beer guzzling truck driver!” “That’s below the belt Pop.” Chris felt the sting of the remark an...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...sure now to be at the Zoological Gardens from four to five. Kitty skates. You drive along there, and I’ll come and fetch you, and we’ll go and dine som... ...ge at the entrance. It was a bright, frosty day. Rows of carriages, sledges, drivers, and policemen were standing in the approach. Crowds of well dres... ...s, “Good bye till this evening.” Stepan Arkadyevitch was absorbed during the drive in composing the menu of the dinner. “You like trout, don’t you?” h... ... wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine driver covered with frost. Behind the tender, setting the platform more a... ... looking for her maid. When they went out the Vronsky’s carriage had already driven away. People coming in were still talking of what happened. “What ... ...es, and shoes for the different legs, and to undo and to do up again all the tapes and buttons, Darya Alexandrovna, who had always liked bathing herse... ...y, and with his self confidence had made his career, was his contempt for red tape, his cutting down of correspon dence, his direct contact, wherever ...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...r, Martin,” he said. “But make sure you feed on time in the morning. And I'll drive you home.” “We’ll walk him home,” Sandra said, clearly unwillin... ...His throat gurgled as he drained half the can. Kurt had an ugly image of young drivers and car crashes and resolved to make sure the kid got home saf... ...uth twitch. “Men and horses, together at the track. You can use me for a test drive, kind of like a morning gallop.” She laughed and bit the end of... ... but she chased it around the plate with single-minded determination. “I can drive you home tonight,” he said, watching her fork with concern. “I ju... ...mmed his hands in his pockets, resigned to waiting by the perimeter of yellow tape. The interrogating officer finished with Julie and turned his att... ...g. A white panel van was backed against the door behind the barrier of yellow tape. Solemn onlookers kept a respectful distance. The man Kurt had ... ... the phone against his ear as he rummaged through the box, pushing aside duct tape, plastic, tweezers and a stuffed teddy bear. Finally found his loc... ... hand in her pocket and passed him a flat disc, handling it reverently. “Just tape the magnet on the crownpiece. The side with ‘Nikken’ faces up.” H... ... the way to the liquor store. I was the last one to see him alive.” Her voice tapered to a sigh, and she gave her eyes an exaggerated swipe. Not a ...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...reasons I brought this place, classic postcard stuff. The lengthy, gravel driveway runs right past this side of the house, leading to a semi circle; ... ...rea of concrete between there and the back door. On the other side of the drive is a paddock belonging to yours truly. Joining that, the neighbours,... ...ey had the wrong address. I continue to watch as the Ute pulls out of the drive, along the road and suddenly… Oh shit, they’re heading down my drive... ...nd the land itself. He has big plans for the house; I hope he will let me drive the bulldozer when the time comes. It’s very exciting to see someone... ...er own yet wants me to chauffeur her on a trip to a farm. Geezers, he has drivers who can do this. Oh, and how’s this. He won’t let me bring any of ... ...r the buffet. It’s not one of those modern ten stack CD players with duel tape decks, like the one I have in the lounge. It’s one of those nice wood... ...ne of those nice wood-grain cabinet jobs, you know, the old three in one, tape deck, radio and record player. “Meet Bertram.” Steven is not beating a... ...ll be permanent features on my cheeks. I suppose it’s nothing that sticky tape can’t fix; geezers, I’m starting to sound like my brother! Steven grin... ... stroll, it wouldn’t be so bad but his romantic gesture sound more like a tape on rewind. Another thing I can’t stand is a fly buzzing around my hea...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...he full light of the attack, crawled out from under a bush and lay in the driveway with third degree burns. “What do you want us to do?” The imp groa... ...orus books. Tammy politely asked Miss Armstrong to sit back and enjoy the taped music they had prepared, adding. “You play the organ beautifully. We... ...d naturally prefer your talents, but we’ll have to rely on these inferior tape recordings until your sheet music arrives.” With a smile from Tammy, ... ...ly one clapping. Several imps played poky at the bottom of the Campbell’s driveway. The game relieved boredom and entailed poking each other in ever... ...ssion, as he moved down the steps watching the last car pulled out of the drive. “Country folk, they’re a hungry lot.” Karen sighed with thoughts of ... ...bly come straight here to the pub.” “Yeah right, and I own a Ferrari that drives on water.” “Fare dinkum Morris, this is where He’s needed the most. ... ...tacked as once every two years the Cowers held a family reunion. Most had driven out from the city to participate in a weekend of family, friends an...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...mselves!’). He would not say, that one burst of general indignation should drive them from the parish they polluted with their presence (‘Give it him!... ...ies, the greater portion of whom, owing to the captain’s impetuosity, were driven up to the poll and home again, before they recovered from their flur... ...eets on their way to the coach-offices or steam-packet wharfs; and the cab-drivers and hackney- coachmen who are on the stand polish up the ornamen- t... ... hat on his head, and turns round to avoid the gust of wind and rain which drives against him at the street-corner, to be very far from congratulating... ...gratification of vanity, and an immodest love of self-display, rather than drive them to a last dreadful resource, which it would shock the delicate f... ...large, was obviated by their being firmly attached to her legs with strong tape sandals. Her head was ornamented with a profusion of artifi- cial flow... ...gloomy and mournful scenes that are passing within. The sudden moving of a taper as its feeble ray shoots from window to window, until its light gradu...

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The Clever Woman of the Family

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...more novelty, and too much smartness to in- vite self-devotion. So we were driven from pillar to post till we settled down into this Mr. Touchett, as ... ...ance of children, only the two youngest boys outside with their maid. This drive brought more to light about Fanny’s past way of life and feelings tha... ...aded the boys, dreaded their fate, and dreaded the Major more. During this drive, Grace and Rachel had the care of the 33 Yo n g e elder boys, whom R... ...ur holiday will be short.” “Well, the less play the less anxiety. How many drives will the six young gentlemen be worth to you?” “I am afraid it will ... ...e me worse. She still wrote her note of refusal, and asked me to light the taper; I dashed down the match in a frenzy of temper and—” She paused for b... ...de her own to the sleepless night and the headache. The usual remedy was a drive in a wheeled chair, and Rose was so urgent to be al- lowed to go and ... ... strong box, she returned in a short space with a parcel tied up with, red tape, and labelled “Barnaby’s Bargain.” “I have been thinking,” she exclaim...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...mselves!’). He would not say, that one burst of general indignation should drive them from the parish they polluted with their presence (‘Give it him!... ...ies, the greater portion of whom, owing to the captain’s impetuosity, were driven up to the poll and home again, before they recovered from their flur... ...eets on their way to the coach-offices or steam-packet wharfs; and the cab-drivers and hackney- coachmen who are on the stand polish up the ornamen- t... ... hat on his head, and turns round to avoid the gust of wind and rain which drives against him at the street-corner, to be very far from congratulating... ...gratification of vanity, and an immodest love of self-display, rather than drive them to a last dreadful resource, which it would shock the delicate f... ...large, was obviated by their being firmly attached to her legs with strong tape sandals. Her head was ornamented with a profusion of artifi- cial flow... ...gloomy and mournful scenes that are passing within. The sudden moving of a taper as its feeble ray shoots from window to window, until its light gradu...

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The Arrow of Gold : A Story between Two Notes

By: Joseph Conrad

...fore a wrought-iron gateway which stood half open and walked up a circular drive to the door of a large villa of a neglected appearance. The mistral h... ... her lips had awakened in me the visual perception of a dark-skinned, hard-driven lady’s maid with tarnished eyes; even of the tireless Rose handing m... ...the brave gentleman. That maid of my sister Rita was upstairs watching him drive away with her evil eyes, but I made a sign of the cross after the fia... ...had to stand in the middle of her room while Rose walked around her with a tape measure not- ing the figures down on a small piece of paper which was ... ... was over the edge, as though his eyes had been stilettos and he wanted to drive them home into my brain. It was only much later that I understood how... ...appeared! I couldn’t let him go on to make himself a worry and a nuisance, drive her out from a town in which she wished to be (for whatever reason) a...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...e was four and had first seen Roger Brock popping wheelies in their mutual driveway. She had been watch- ing him now for four years. She knew it bugge... ...7 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE One summer evening she saw him shooting hoops in his driveway. She rushed outside. “Hello, Roger. Can I play?” He shrugged and l... ...up to defend. In mid air they collided and Lacey was knocked hard onto the driveway cement. She cried out, tears springing to her eyes, blood pouring ... ...r! I should go see her. Finally he finished his beer and headed across the driveway. LACEY PULLED him inside and fell into his arms as soon as she ope... ... stirred in him. All he wanted was to get back home on his own side of the driveway. He drank his beer and stood up. “Look, Lace. I’m beat. I’ve gotta... ...ood Stores featured a ‘Masters’ Series’ promotion. Lacey collected grocery tapes and paid $12.95 for a ‘Van Gogh’. She hung this lovingly above the se... ... I have taken the first steps toward that end, but it involves so much red tape I get tired even thinking about it, and I cannot count on it to happen...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...in New Hampshire's First Congressional District. Mr. Adams was an unemployed taxi driver who did almost no campaigning. He made no speeches, issue... ...stood out among those of neighboring areas. Upon entering Connecticut's highways, drivers became especially aware of their speedometers. A brand n... ...ty is confounded by the heterogeneous nature of the population. "Don't Drink and Drive" is another case in point. This is a very trialable product,... ...ket on the basis of fear appeals. (Some British "Think Before You Drink Before You Drive" commercials pull no punches, employing gory illustrations ... ...e cash fee. Other non-monetary prices include the effort expected of the habitual driver who turns to mass transit and the shame endured by the ado... ...with government manpower programs, experienced in the past by industry: 1. Red tape and overregulation. 2. Adverse publicity. 3. Bias against... ...ed above) the following: 1. An official to be designated as an ombudsman or "red tape cutter" for participating firms, with a "Hot-Line" phone num... ...P be associated with a better-prepared recruit, but in addition, the amount.of red tape expected of employees is to be demonstrably reduced and simi...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...that money wages were at the equilibrium level. Unemployment will tend to drive them down. Prices will tend to follow wages down, since declining mo... ...contracts. They would reduce the insupportable costs and simplify the red tape now involved in hiring and firing. The only country to buck the trend... ...on people throughout its existence. It was part of a major "public works" drive known as "The New Deal". This Keynesian tradition continues in many ... ...y abuse substances, are narcissistic and destructively competitive (being driven, they are incapable of team work). 5. The depersonalization of man... ...l capitalistic incentives - far outweighs all the old elements. Incentive driven initiative is likely to bring in its wake and to herald the transfo... ...offs which, in themselves, are the results of efficiency and productivity drives. It is not that the workforce is ill adapted to cope with the new, ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...ple altogether in all three villages, accumulating about 70 hours of field tapes. During 1997-1999, , an undergraduate, joined us, starting interviewi... ...f Lampang plains villages belong to the yuan people and the original field tapes are in the local dialect ( ). The interviews from the years 1984-85 w... ... collections of the in Helsinki, and archive copies of the field interview tapes are deposited in the recordings archive of the . In this book, we hea... ...kinds of things quickly and easily. For example, if someone learned how to drive a car, he'd be called Mr Driver. Today, even children are capable and... ... a broad strip of field and waste land, used for grazing horse- drawn? cab drivers' horses. The village was reached via the twisting Phahonlyothin roa... ..., the only people in permanent outside employment were just the occasional driver and building labourer or night Phat Chaivanna security guard. Toda... ...e bridges rotten; to get across the Mae Ang, one had to leave the road and drive across the river bed. The river valley fields were already there as t... ...o the floor and wall structures, and snakes, scorpions and other creatures driven out of their holes by the downpours could not get in. People needed ... ...ering rite over the food tray. After leaving the sand pagoda, people lit a taper on the 'candle altar' located in the compound in front of the temple ...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

... to fly, with wet cheeks and flaming heart, from that Fever-scene at Metz; driven forth by sour shavelings? She hardly returned, when fever and shavel... ...too, when Damiens wounded Royalty ‘slightly, under the fifth rib,’ and our drive to Trianon went off futile, in shrieks and madly shaken torches,—had ... ...w, it is a resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opin- ion, is at last for entering the sick-room,—will twi... ...poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could keep him out; but h... ...b. i. 100-151. Weber, i. 11-50.) have pictured her, there within the royal tapes- tries, in bright boudoirs, baths, peignoirs, and the Grand and Littl... ..., two of them are hanged, ‘on a new gallows forty feet high;’ and the rest driven back to their dens,—for a time. Clearly a difficult ‘point’ for Gove... ...have Nestor, King, Queen, ministers and clerks, with paper-bundles tied in tape: but the Government? For Government is a thing that governs, 40 The F... ...some chair, if not to sit on, then to stand on. The Secretaries undo their tapes; Bailly has constituted the Assembly. 144 The French Revolution: V o... ...esty’s Reposi- tory, what they call Garde-Meuble, is forced and ransacked: tapestries enough, and gauderies; but of serviceable fight- ing-gear small ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...nd flaming heart, 14 The French Revolution from that Fever-scene at Metz; driven forth by sour shave- lings? She hardly returned, when fever and shav... ...too, when Damiens wounded Royalty ‘slightly, under the fifth rib,’ and our drive to Trianon went off futile, in shrieks and madly shaken torches,—had ... ...w, it is a resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opinion, is at last for entering the sick-room,—will twitc... ...poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could keep him out; but h... ... i. 100-151. Weber, i. 11-50.) have pic- tured her, there within the royal tapestries, in bright bou- doirs, baths, peignoirs, and the Grand and Littl... ..., two of them are hanged, ‘on a new gallows forty feet high;’ and the rest driven back to their dens,—for a time. Clearly a difficult ‘point’ for Gove... ...have Nestor, King, Queen, ministers and clerks, with paper-bundles tied in tape: but the Govern- ment? For Government is a thing that governs, that gu... ...some chair, if not to sit on, then to stand on. The Secretaries undo their tapes; Bailly has con- stituted the Assembly. Experienced Mounier, not whol... ...ajesty’s Repository, what they call Garde-Meuble, is forced and ransacked: tapestries enough, and gauderies; but of serviceable fighting-gear small st...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

...ugly; nor was it large enough for the congregation, some of whom were thus driven to the dissenting chapels, the Sions and Ebenezers, which had got th... ...her pretended ignorance un- der the veil of darkness. ‘And have you really driven over four-and-twenty miles of Barsetshire roads on such a day as thi... ...day’s figures, generally, I should say; or else by unrolling a ball of red tape. Well-docketed papers and statistical facts are his forte. ’ ‘And what... ... the sermon. ’ And he spoke very low in his friend’s ear. ‘Fancy having to drive ten miles after dusk, and ten miles back, to hear Harold Smith talk f... ... on the verge of the chase, the ladies were to go in carriages through the drives of the forest, and Mr Robarts was to escort them on horseback. Indee... ...ry as though they never could go quick enough; and then the coachmen would drive very fast also, though they did not know why, for a fast pace of move... ...aves did not yet hand heavy in masses, and the bend of every bough and the tapering curve of every twig were visible through light green covering. The...

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Two Poets

By: Honoré de Balzac

...had yet been ruminating for a long while over the bargain that he meant to drive with David. All that the father made, the son, of course, was bound t... ...e of the yard by a win- dow with leaded panes, and hung with the old-world tapes- try that decorated house fronts in provincial towns on Cor- pus Chri... ...valances and quilt of crimson serge, a couple of worm-eaten armchairs, two tapestry-covered chairs in walnut wood, an aged bureau, and a timepiece on ... ... another hundred years. So there you are.” A generous man is a bad bargain-driver. David’s nature was of the sensitive and affectionate type that shri... ...ll youthful figure and shapely, well placed contours beneath. With fingers tapering and well-kept, though somewhat too thin, Mme. de Bargeton amiably ... ..., small wonder that society, finding Marius seated among the ruins, should drive him forth in abhor- rence. All unconsciously Lucien stood with the pa... ...nce accused and fairly convicted of a liking for canaille, Louise would be driven from the place, her caste would shun her as men shunned a leper in t... ...omplacent laugh reinforced the smile; but he never vouchsafed a word until driven to the last extremity. A tete-a-tete put him in the one embarrass- m...

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Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

...ng at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Pro fessor Owen, and driven Charles’s Wain like a locomotive HARD T IMES 10 engine driver. No l... ...cination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way abo... ...ath; and had not the Spartan mothers, oh my soon to be victorious friends, driven their flying children on the points of their enemies’ swords? Then w... ... need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face... ...bility of this country applauding him till they were black in the face, is drivelling at this minute—drivelling, sir!—in a fifth floor, up a narrow da... ..., and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil. So James Hartho...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...eping slowly towards the interior; so did 7 Little Dorrit their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted ... ...ed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued from their mouths in alcoholic breathings. As these people... ...wound folds of white cravat round his neck, as he wound and wound folds of tape and paper round the neck of the country. His wristbands and col- lar w... ...ttle Dorrit on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on. Another... ... his love had fretted and worrited him enough as it was, without his being driven to do himself a mischief, as nobody couldn’t say he wouldn’t be if h... ...at, let ME go. I shall go out of my senses, if I have to think that I have driven you away like this.’ His trembling voice and unfeigned earnestness b... ..., or let me come to you. ‘ ‘Well!’ he replied. ‘I will come to-morrow as I drive by.’ Bar and Bishop had both been bystanders during this short dialog... ... of a mile to spare for the park (Immense cheering and laughter); while of tape—red tape—it had used enough to stretch, in graceful festoons, from Hyd...

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The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...d alacrity with which they proceeded to lock, and double lock, and secure with tape and sealing — wax, all the avenues of the delinquent vessel. Inste... ...n, whom the white man’s firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest. It might be, too, th... ...en like a possessed one; and there lacks little that I should take in hand, to drive Satan out of her with stripes.” 48 The Scarlet Letter The strang... ...ft there to be the plaything of the angels after the world’s first parents were driven out. The child had a native grace which does not invariably co e... ...ns, to create a noontide shadow when desirable. The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and, at all events, repres... ...gels blushed and wept, while fiends rejoiced with jeering laughter! He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywher... ...ter, with comfort in its unearthly ray. Elsewhere the token of sin, it was the taper of the sick chamber. It had even thrown its gleam, in the suffere... ...d room, and looked around him on its books, its windows, its fireplace, and the tapestried comfort of the THE MINISTER IN A MAZE 153 walls, with the s...

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...y towards the interior; so did 7 Little Dorrit – Book One their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted ... ...ed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued from their mouths in alcoholic breathings. As these people... ...wound folds of white cravat round his neck, as he wound and wound folds of tape and paper round the neck of the country. His wristbands and col- lar w... ... – Book One on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on. Another... ... his love had fretted and worrited him enough as it was, without his being driven to do himself a mischief, as nobody couldn’t say he wouldn’t be if h... ...at, let ME go. I shall go out of my senses, if I have to think that I have driven you away like this.’ His trembling voice and unfeigned earnestness b... ..., or let me come to you. ‘ ‘Well!’ he replied. ‘I will come to-morrow as I drive by.’ Bar and Bishop had both been bystanders during this short dialog...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ld with the odd- wares man, and only went to the crockery man when she was driven—or drawn by the cornflowers on a little dish; then she was coldly po... ... along happily enough. The factory had a homely feel. No one was rushed or driven. Paul always enjoyed it when the work got faster, towards post-time,... ...nst the seared meadows and the thorn- trees. It was four and a half miles’ drive. Tiny buds on the hedges, vivid as copper-green, were opening into ro... ...t behind the rest, convulsed with shamed laughter. “How much will it be to drive to Brook Cottage?” said Mrs. Morel. “Two shillings.” “Why, how far is... ...in fear. And he knew, before he could kiss 222 Sons & Lovers her, he must drive something out of himself. And a touch of hate for her crept back agai... ...at her again, in fear, and went obedi- ently out of the room. Paul saw the tape of his garters 419 D.H. Lawrence swinging against his legs. After ano...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...ead, or listen to, or watch the stuff. This is our cultural policy and it is driven, in part, by copyright. The promise of patent is this: we have a m... ...d services that result. This is our innovation policy and it is increasingly driven by patent. What about the legal protection of trademarks, the litt... ...hers from one’s original expression fuels a vibrant public sphere indirectly driven by popular demand. At its best, it is supposed to allow a decentra... ...e. The allocation of social resources to particular types of in- novation is driven by guesses about what the market wants. Trademark law is supposed ... ... receives instruction him- self without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light with- out darkening me. That ideas should f... ...o. Perhaps you could find a balky mimeograph machine, or press a reel-to-reel tape recorder into use. You might manage a single unauthorized showing of... ...two respondents in this case, the exclusive right to distribute VTR’s [Video Tape Recorders] simply because they may be used to infringe copyrights. T... ...f the show for free at the moment they wanted to watch it. That was why they taped. One could even argue that Napster users would have access to most ... ...Kaplan describes, I suppose, just as when the VCR was invented we could have taped movies from television and swapped them with our friends. But as th...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...re you going to apply?” “It is a difficult process, Holy Father. So much red tape; so many permissions from so many higher ups. Besides, I think th... ...y the most powerful religious leader in the world, Pope Francis. During the drive to the Vatican, through the sounds of horns blaring and taxi dri... ...d rented a bungalow on the beach just south of town, but every night he would drive to one of the many hotels and sit around the pool bar, sipping Ma... ...villa, and after a brief exchange, he was directed to park along the circular drive in front of the massive house. Brand entered the residence thro... ..." Gallucci grunted. The man abruptly turned and walked back to the car as the driver opened the rear door of the limo. Not another word was spoken. ... ...need all of our wits." The next day, the Italian negotiator, with a Japanese driver, picked them up in a black Mercedes. It was eleven a.m. The neg... ...cled the entrance to Brand's apartment. Police roped off the area with yellow tape from onlookers and television cameras. A team of forensics was sc...

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My Dear Sister-in-law

By: Manohar Asija

...owever, our estimation of others remains perched on the foundation, inscribed with the unequivocal declaration `you aren’t like me`. This very notion drives us to believe, comprehend respond to or even react, in a peculiar fashion, while making a move towards other person’s statements. Her curiosity to know the contents of the printed matter impelled her to open the envel...

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My Dear Sister-in-Law

By: Manohar Asija

...owever, our estimation of others remains perched on the foundation, inscribed with the unequivocal declaration `you aren’t like me`. This very notion drives us to believe, comprehend respond to or even react, in a peculiar fashion, while making a move towards other person’s statements. Her curiosity to know the contents of the printed matter impelled her to open the envel...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Power Drive ... .................................................................................................................... 17 Combinations of Needs and Drives... ................................................................................................................. 31 POWER AND SUCCESS AS PRIMARY DRIVES... ... OF POWER ............................................................................................................ 59 ADDRESSING THE POWER DRIVE ... ...d she got one at Berkeley. Nowadays we are often put on the same podium to debate our beliefs, my realistic belief in the basic psychological drives... ...mental illness when it does not require people to work for pay. A few counties and states have tried to require work but the bureaucratic red tape m...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ions and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never an... ... to a privileged few. Today, the common person can buy a desktop-terabyte drive for fifty dollars and a pocket-terabyte drive for a hundred dollars— ... ...ld write and edit copy on this setup. One key click punched holes in paper tapes that—when run through apparatus in the back shop—set type twice as f... ...revolutionaries. More than a million words piled up in my Macintosh hard drives before the process of condensing them into this book began about fi... ...ts operation on next page after end of this chapter. Brain, Our Hard Drive; Neurons, Its Circuits The brain is our system‘s hard drive; neuro... ...the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driven from their homes by that fearsome flood, survivors dispersed to the... ...to cut out her tongue and leave her in the cabin. There, Philomela wove a tapestry that told her story and had it sent to Procne. Her sister’s so... ...pic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tapestries, and the like, however, marked but baby steps beyond the limita...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...rugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still tries to save the hallow’d taper’s end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more... ...e six whores and make his lady weep? Or soft Adonis, so perfumed and fine, Drive to St James’s a whole herd of swine? Oh filthy check on all industrio... ..., 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair’d with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling fro... ... that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumbers seals the wakeful eye; That drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts, Or back to life compels the wande... ...of the sky; But with a thicker night black Auster shrouds The heavens, and drives on heaps the rolling clouds, From whose dark womb a rattling tempest... ...far, The floods descending, and the watery war, 510 That, driven by storms, and pouring o’er the plain, Swept herds, and hinds, and h... ...ient will be left at night. ’Tis but a just and rational desire To light a taper at a neighbour’s fire. There’s danger too, you think, in rich array, ... ...frown’d, and ‘Use (he cried) those eyes So skilful, and those hands so taper; Do something exquisite and wise—’ She bow’d, obey’d him, and c... ...70 bends. Of these, twelve volumes, twelve of amplest size, Redeem’d from tapers and defrauded pies, Inspired he seizes: these an altar raise: An hec...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...le’s broidered hammer-cloth, or the driving-seat of the common coach, each driver assailed the other with floods of ribald satire. The pavid matron wi... ...up a thousand pound note from a bundle on the piano, she lighted it at the taper and proceeded to re-illumine the extinguished chibouk of Lord Codling... ...ur troops returned from the sally in which your gallant storming party was driven back, you were found on the glacis, and I had you brought into the C... ...! he thought not of thee. It happened thus. Miss Amethyst being engaged to drive with her cousin the prince in his phaeton, her own carriage was sent ... ... tooned with Walanseens Lace, and lighted up of evenings with rose-colored tapers. Goold dressing-case and twilet of Dresding Cheny. My bed white and ... ...med to be a consperracy, too, between that Silvertop and Lady Hangelina to drive me to the same pint. ‘What a plucky fellow you were, Pluche,’ says he... ...d a stronger term) ‘are you, then?’ said Mr. Silvertop. ‘Are you Baggs and Tapewell, my uncle’s attorneys? If you are, you have come too late for the ... ...come too late for the fair.’ “I briefly explained that I was not Baggs and Tapewell, but that my name was J—ms, and that I was a gentleman con- nected... ...gate flew open! the organ went off in a fugue—the lights quivered over the tapers, and then went off towards the ceiling—the ghosts assembled rushed a...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...grant him.” “O my Friends, we are [in Yorick Sterne’s words] but as ‘turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to the market:’ or if some drivers, a... ...knows not whether to hate or to love him. For though, in looking at the fair tapestry of human Life, with its royal and even sacred figures, he dwells ... ...day. Had Teufelsdr¨ ockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel bibs, and live on spoon meat? Did he ever, in rapture and tears, ... ...as a Mrs. Teufelsdr¨ ockh likely to make in polished society? Could she have driven so much as a brass bound Gig, or even a simple iron spring one? Th... ...othing there but brick or stone houses, and some bundles of Papers tied with tape. Where, then, is that same cunningly devised almighty GOVERNMENT of ... ...longer dwells; but only spiders and unclean beetles, in horrid accumulation, drive their trade; and the mask still glares on you with its glass eyes, ... ...ich:— “In these distracted times,” writes he, “when the Religious Principle, driven out of most Churches, either lies unseen in the hearts of good men...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...ot an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool. When my great great gr... ...ed up the joint stool upon his knees, turning over the leaves then under the tapes. One of the children stood at the door to give notice if he saw the... ...z.: I. That there shall be paid for each waggon, with four good horses and a driver, fifteen shillings per diem; and for each able horse with a pack s... ...ime of their discharge, or from time to time, as it shall be demanded. 5. No drivers of waggons, or persons taking care of the hired horses, are on an... ...wanted, and compel as many persons into the service as would be necessary to drive and take The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 127 care of them. ... ... spare from the business of their plantations a waggon and four horses and a driver, may do it together, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two... ...ether, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two horses, and another the driver, and divide the pay propor tionately between you; but if you do n...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... of Boston Center instructed his quality assurance specialist to “pull the tape” of the radio transmission, listen to it closely, and report back. 110... ...l there? New England Region:Y es, I am. Boston Center: . . . as far as the tape, Bobby seemed to think the guy said that “we have planes.” Now, I don’... ...f the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA cente... ...1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document c... ...e accounts, he had been interested there in religious studies, inspired by tape recordings of fiery sermons by Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian and a dis... ...peals for jihad.At about the time when the Taliban were making their final drive toward Jalalabad and Kabul, Bin Ladin issued his August 1996 fatwa, s... ...ricans from the Gulf region.T wo weeks after that, Bin Ladin gave a video- taped interview to ABC News with the same slogans, adding that “we do not d... ...iorities and assign personnel accordingly. 11 The office’s priorities were driven by two primary concerns. First, perform- ance in the Bureau was gene... ...ment ranks had little counterterrorism experience. Second, priorities were driven at the local level by the field offices, whose concerns centered on ...

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The Bedfordrow Conspiracy

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...led, grin- ning air. Perkins descended, and on being asked, “Vere ham I to drive the young ‘oman, sir?” I am sorry to say muttered something like an o... ...tood listlessly, for who would call a cab on such a night? Meanwhile their drivers, at the alehouse near, smoked the short pipe or quaffed the foaming... ...“Why, my intended has a couple of hundreds a year, and my clerkship in the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office will be as much more.” “Clerkship—Tape and Seal... ...who starve that you may fatten in idleness. But take this clerkship in the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office,” continued the patriot, his bosom heaving with... ...variety of sealing-wax, blotting-pa- per, envelopes, despatch-boxes, green tapers, etc. etc. An immense fire was blazing in the grate, an immense shee... ...mpton.) “When first, by your kindness, I was promised the clerkship in the Tape and Sealing-Wax Office, my opinions were not formed as they are now; a... ...w coming up to town, and wants a place for him. There is one vacant in the Tape Office, he says: have you not a promise of it?” “I can’t—I can’t belie... ... has such a strange influence upon me, that the smallest false note almost drives me to distraction, and for that very reason I hardly ever go to a co...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...r was filled with the noise of hooves, the rattle of 5 The Day’s Work the drivers’ sticks, and the swish and roll-down of the dirt. The river was ver... ...ets, death in every manner and shape, vio- lent and awful rage against red tape half frenzying a mind that knows it should be busy on other things; dr... ...bs—were all but in posi- tion. They needed just as many rivets as could be driven into them, for the flood would assuredly wash out their supports, an... ...eded only an exertion of will for the soul to hurl the body ashore as wind drives paper, to waft it kite-fashion to the bank. Thereafter—the boat spun... ...pise their fellows; Ganesh shall have his mahajuns, and Bhairon the donkey-drivers, the pilgrims, and the sellers of toys. Beloved, they will do no mo... ...n of Grandee. He has been handled 35 The Day’s Work since he was two, was driven in a light cart before he was three, and now ranks as an absolutely ... ...er jaw, and lungs. A very nice shot.” He whistled for Bukta as he drew the tape over the stiffening bulk. “T en—six—eight—by Jove! It’ s nearly eleven...

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