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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...e -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthag... ...tagem -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- ... ... 357 CHAPTER XXXIII. An attack in which Drake is wounded. -- Proceeding up the coast of Chili -- Capture of an Indian fisherman -- Through his efforts... ...ed to the command -- Capture and plunder of an African village -- Drake on the coast of Patagonia -- Discovery of the skeletons of giants -- Incredibl... ...e paces and kneels down, and then the barons and all the people kneel, and the musicians sound their instruments. There is no cause, since I would avo... ...hops, and baths with hot and cold water, broad plazas in which native bands of musicians discoursed every evening, flowing fountains, and seemingly al...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...estitute. We may spend more on pet psychiatry for the traumatized poodles on East 71st Street than on developing a cure for sleeping sickness, because... ...nt producers of culture will be able to assemble vast teams of animators and musicians and software gurus and meld their labors into a videotape that ... ...ecentralized and iconoclastic cultural ferment in which independent artists, musicians, and writers can take their unique visions, histories, poems, o... ...uld produce an effect directly the reverse of that which was produced by the East India Company’s monopoly of tea, or by Lord Essex’s monopoly of swee... ...ne- teenth century to the world of the twenty-first, from elevators and grain hop- pers to video recorders, the Internet, and file-sharing services. I u... ...to raise money for those who had been affected by the storm. Kanye West, the hip hop musician, was one of them. Appearing on NBC on September 2, with ... ...aise money for those who had been affected by the storm. Kanye West, the hip hop musician, was one of them. Appearing on NBC on September 2, with the ... ...ut Mr. Nickerson and Mr. Randle were not just vol- unteers, they were also a hip-hop duo called “The Legendary K.O.” What better way to express their ... ...Atlantic. See Ezra S. Carr, “Aids and Obstacles to Agriculture on the Pacific-Coast,” in The Patrons of Husbandry on the Pacific Coast (San Francisco: A...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...e community...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many ... ... the submerged city. “You mean Helike?” he asked. “A quake tore apart the coast and it went un- der,” he said, and described something of what I had ... ...: “the convivialists,” Serfo has named it. To help pamper Gyrinno, we had musicians in the courtyard. The air was so warm, so languid, nobody wished... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h... ...garies, war music, sea songs, fragments of a day I can never know. A bat coasts through my open windows. Is there a better hour than dusk? I feel ... ...ias babbled dully about food and flagrant cheating, her basket bumping my hip. I wondered how I could wait, through the days ahead, how could I oc- c...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

.... She remembered the few times that her father took her to a beach along the East Coast and the myriad times when he took her to the beaches in Turkey... ... remembered the few times that her father took her to a beach along the East Coast and the myriad times when he took her to the beaches in Turkey. She... ...n remained turned on. A newscaster was discussing the economic powers of the East with reference to the new economic experiments in the Soviet Union a... ...t there is nothing we can do about it. Anyhow, two cheers for Burger King. Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray!" She laughed, more amused and intereste... ...ll amusement park on the outskirts of Rome. After Ferris wheel and a roller coaster rides she and they were addicted to motion and so they went on th... ...donチOt like. Three cheers for men not liking me and going their merry ways. Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray! Hip hip hurray!" "I think you are strange... ...fudge. Three old ladies ran up to them before leaving. They stood beside the musicians who were dressed in red and blue ponchos so that someone could ... ...ise originated. Inside all was being barraged in the cacophony of rap, hip hop, or some other artillery that she had neither knowledge of nor empty ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...ism may mark the similarity between what I have written here, and the ancient Eastern teachings of Dualism, or Daoism. However: the ancient teachin... ...e Totalities of 3, or 6, or 9 instead of 12… then the sequences will seem to hop around so inexplicably; as to seem to have no rhyme or reason. But... ...e Totalities of 3, or 6, or 9 instead of 12… then the sequences will seem to hop around so inexplicably; as to seem to have no rhyme or reason. But... ...ominids 152 firestorm. Did our ancestors burn down the forests on the east side of the Rift Valley? Was that the reason they were chased ou... ...s of these words: they all tell the same story. The Namib Desert on the West coast of Africa, the Olduvai Gorge which is on the east side of Africa:... .... All of these areas were the ancestral homes of the apes we came from. The coast of the Namib-Bi-man Desert is called the Skeleton Coast: populat... ...herapists are regarded as worthless; since they are not famous. Then the best musicians are worthless; because the entire music industry is filled w... ...stars, or famous people, or media legends, historically famous people, famous musicians, famous politicians, etc. After all of these loyalties a...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...e community...never mentioning that our fleet was rotted! Presently, the musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many ... ... the submerged city. “You mean Helike?” he asked. “A quake tore apart the coast and it went un- der,” he said, and described something of what I had ... ...: “the convivialists,” Serfo has named it. To help pamper Gyrinno, we had musicians in the courtyard. The air was so warm, so languid, nobody wished... ...cumstances of their tell- ing. How he loved travelers, especially from the East. I see Aesop on his balcony, the wind making him blink his eyes; he h... ...garies, war music, sea songs, fragments of a day I can never know. A bat coasts through my open windows. Is there a better hour than dusk? I feel ... ...ias babbled dully about food and flagrant cheating, her basket bumping my hip. I wondered how I could wait, through the days ahead, how could I oc- c... ... the pegs moving inside the beams: that is for integrity. Ivy grew on the east wall of my house in those days. Henley Street June 3, 1615 Alone...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...in the Louvre, at Paris. College ConfereDce The third nnnual conference of eastern college men on the oppor- tunities and work of the Christian minist... ...ly close, but the Ohio State ehuinpions- the only western team which eanie east this your—were at the small entl of a to 7 score after Allen throw a s... ...?k HHp HtdAb 'tiifk 'th Vlfe fnHorVi'WIiirliVdiifittp thh sfitiltsfi't: in Hip tiSr ol' liiki ruts, Yt is'iif-e Stimptl'(hiit'flie'«titfle+tt is HJUiV... ...e- Kncwn Land iJetailiiig an account of his niission woik on and along the coast of Lalirador, iJr. W. T. (i run fell spoke before an exceed ingly api... ...oon left this work, however, and restricted his field to only the Labrador coast. Here his work lay mostly among English-speaking fishermen, and was s... ...t's series of lectures on " Missions '' was held Monday evening at 7.30 in Hop- kins Hall. His subject was " What Missions are Capable of Accomplishin... ...or and Van Woert '10. HSO-yard run—Chapman, Con- over, S. B. Stocking '07, Hop- kins '09. Mile and two-mile runs—A. J. Allen, Davis, Lesser, Wilder '0... ...heme of color is red and dark green, the body being of baked brick and the hip-roof, por- tico, shutters and trimmings be- ing dull green. The oak and... ...9 Syraouse, 32 Princeton, 20 CELEBRATED TRIO BEFORE THE COLLEGE Adatnowski Musicians Entertain With Hig:h Class Music The biennial Jackson Festival Co...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...Yes, Con.‖ --―I remember taking a graduate class in economics from Dr. Easterlin at USC. He had been researching happiness related to income. I r... ... ―On my voyage I was accompanied by CDs containing the great books of the East and the West. I read the Bible and the Koran several times. I read Ari... ...is multiculturalism? Is listening to an opera as valuable as listening to hip hop? Is orthodox Judaism equal to conservative Judaism? ---―... ...ulticulturalism? Is listening to an opera as valuable as listening to hip hop? Is orthodox Judaism equal to conservative Judaism? ---―Comm... ... should we give tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schools and hospitals? Wh... ...e and compare plants, animals and fossil records along the South American coasts, Africa, Australia and to other mainlands and islands. This gave hi... ... Parker, Samuel Becket and Tennessee Williams; artists like Claude Monet; musicians like John Lennon, Elton John; and a number of actors and actress...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...:50 AM Montaigne's Essays Curæ leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent. --Sen. Hip. Act. ii. Scena 2. Light cares can freely speake, Great cares heart r... ... seene by the formes of sommonings and challenges, that the Princes of the East, and their successors yet remaining, have in use, so fierce, so haugh... ...ties of Greece they went to seeke for Rhetoricians, for Painters, and for Musicians; whereas in Lacedemon, they sought for Law-givers, for Magistrat... ...with heat, what clog'd with frost. What wind drives kindly to th' Italian coast. He shall endevour to be familiarly acquainted with the customes, ... ...that it is not an Iland, but rather firme land, and a continent, with the East Indias on one side, and the countries lying under the two Poles on th... ...en inundations, whereof we now treat the causes. In Medoc alongst the Sea-coast, my brother the Lord of Arsacke, may see a towne of his buried under... ...y selfe some luster or grace have rather neede of some of Antinonides the Musicians invention; who, when he was to play any musick , gave order that...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...emed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Pre... ...ey from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Presley drew near to the point where what was known as the Lower R... ... years old, and had graduated and post-graduated with high honours from an Eastern college, where he had devoted himself to a pas- sionate study of li... ...the way, my brother may come down here—locate here, I mean—and go into the hop- raising business. He’s got an option on five hundred acres just back o... ... a while, his anger somewhat subsided. “My brother and I will take up this hop ranch. I’ve saved a good deal in the last ten years, and there ought to... ...ays? Ten thousand acres of wheat! Nothing but wheat from the Sierra to the Coast Range. I remember when De La Cuesta was married. He had never seen th... ... joists of the walls; the last lantern hung, the last nail driven into the musicians’ platform. The sun set. There was a great scurry to have supper a... ...nd carried his coat over his shoulder; a hammer was thrust into one of his hip pockets. He was in execrable temper. The day’s work had fagged him out.... ...ittle longer, understand? And don’t let me see you make a move toward your hip or your friends will be asked to identify you at the morgue to- morrow ...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...aid, “that’s the place where our blessed Lord was born.” She showed him an Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets. In the foreground wa... ...opposite 39 W. Somerset Maugham page. It was a romantic narrative of some East- ern traveller of the thirties, pompous maybe, but fragrant with the e... ...Philip, brooding over these mat- ters, that in the true painters, writers, musicians, there was a power which drove them to such complete absorption i... ... He had done the same thing for ten years. He took his whole fam- ily to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny’s home, and they spent three w... ... said: “I suppose you wouldn’t like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging.” “I wouldn’t mind,” sai... ...lf. He suggested that Philip should join him and his family in the Kentish hop-field to which he went every year; and to persuade him said various bea...

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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

...roadstead. A number of fishing- 24 Around the World in 80 Days smacks and coasting boats, some retaining the fantastic fash- ion of ancient galleys, ... ...h salaries ever since the central government has assumed the powers of the East India Company: for the sub-lieutenants get 280 pounds, 32 Around the ... ...e most long and narrow gulfs. When the wind came from the African or Asian coast the Mongolia, with her long hull, rolled fearfully. Then the ladies s... ...ious rajahs in the interior who are absolutely independent. The celebrated East India Com- pany was all-powerful from 1756, when the English first gai... ...th diamonds, and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince. Next came the musicians and a rearguard of capering fakirs, whose cries 51 Jules Verne s... ...mselves upon the narrow benches and into the boxes opposite the stage. The musicians took up a position inside, and were vigorously performing on thei... ... where they stood, and there were frantic shouts of, “Hurrah for Mandiboy! Hip, hip, hurrah!” It was a band of voters coming to the rescue of their al...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...for in that place stood Aegeus’s house, and the figure of Mer- cury on the east side of the temple is called the Mercury of Aegeus’s gate. The sons of... ...n the custom of giving a palm to the victors. When they were come near the coast of Attica, so great was the joy for the happy success of their voyage... ...o lines, showing the bounds of the two coun- tries that meet there. On the east side the inscription is,— Peloponnesus there, Ionia here, and on the w... ...ers of men, were so far from avoid- ing Theseus when he touched upon their coasts, that they sent him presents to his ship; but he, having invited Ant... ...rious debates of such men, to inspire and direct them; and visit poets and musicians, if at all, in their more sportive moods; but, for difference of ... ...he whole people by the several arts and trades, he formed the companies of musicians, goldsmiths, carpenters, dyers, shoemakers, skin- ners, braziers,... ...r dropped into the river, and swam to the hither side, with a wound in his hip from a Tuscan spear. Poplicola, admiring his courage, pro- posed at onc... ...r, which hitherto had lingered and smothered, and blew it up into a flame; hop- ing, by that means, to disperse and scatter these complaints and charg... ...ched his opportunity. Hearing that the garrison had moved into Locris, and hop- ing to find Orchomenus defenseless, he marched with his sacred band, a...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

...re he took shipping, and crossed the seas into Africa. And coming near the coast of Mauritania, his men went on shore to water, and straggling about n... ...r, divided from one another only by a narrow channel, and distant from the coast of Africa ten thou- sand furlongs. These are called the Islands of th... ...that the air is almost always serene and pleasant. The rough northerly and easterly winds which blow from the coasts of Europe and Africa, dissipated ... ...out to the borders of the Atlantic sea, sets bounds to our kingdoms in the east, and threatens us with war, if we attempt the re- covery of Asia?” How... ...sed athletes. He often appointed prizes, for which not only tragedians and musicians, pipers and harpers, but rhapsodists also, strove to outvie one a... ... should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labor and sweat to describe and cel- ebrate them. ... ...ating them, she fell into a high fever, and was very glad of the occasion, hop- ing, under this pretext, to abstain from food, and so to die in quiet ...

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Moran of the Lady Letty

By: Frank Norris

...before this time Ross Wilbur had pulled at No. 5 in his varsity boat in an Eastern college that was not accustomed to athletic discomfiture. “I wonder... ... a little, undersized fellow in dirty brown sweater and clothes of Barbary coast cut asked him for a match to light his pipe, Wilbur offered a cigar a... ...acht- ing caps—all friends of his—crowded the decks. A little orchestra of musicians were reeling off a quickstep. The popping of a cork and a gale of... ...he “Bertha Millner” had already left the whistling-buoy astern. Off to the east, her sails just showing above the waves, was a pilot-boat with the num... ...The schooner was standing well out from shore—even beyond the track of the coasters and passen- ger steamers—to catch the T rades from the northwest. ... ...lena Bay at about the turn of the tide. Moran swung herself over the side, hip deep in the wa- ter, and, wading ashore with a line, made fast to the h... ...d his knuckles squarely between her eyes where her frown was knotted hard, hop- ing to stun her and end the fight once and for all. But the blow did n... ... yet retained, he thrust her down and from him, until at length, using his hip as a pivot, he swung her off her feet, threw her fairly on her back, an... ...-chop coffin—savvy? Silver heap much—costum big money. You gib my money to Hop Sing Association, topside Ming Yen temple. You savvy Hop Sing?—one Six ...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...idges of purple mountains rose to the left of the ship,—Finisterre and the coast of Galicia. The sky above was cloudless and shining; the vast dark oc... ...with red sashes and tight clothes, looking on superbly, with a hand on the hip and a cigar in the mouth. These must be the chief critics at the great ... ... Before sunset we skirted along the dark savage moun- tains of the African coast, and came to the Rock just before gun-fire. It is the very image of a... ...s by the very first opportunity—those who remained, that is, of the little Eastern Expedition. They were not all there. The Giver of life and death ha... ...though Muzzle flung it at my head. CHAPTER VI:SMYRNA—FIRST GLIMPSES OF THE EAST I AM GLAD THAT THE TURKISH PART of Athens was extinct, so that I shoul... ..., and drink wretched muddy coffee, and to listen to two or three miserable musicians, who keep up a variation of howling for hours together. But the ...

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The Chouans

By: Honoré de Balzac

...snon lay before it. Hulot with his two officers followed the troop slowly, hop- ing to get safely to Ernee where the wounded could be cared for. The f... ...ns by a gorge, through which flows a small river called the Nancon. To the east, the view is the same as from the summit of La Pelerine; to the west, ... ...e Dukes of Brittany, with lofty walls fifteen feet thick, protected on the east by a pond from which flows the Nancon, the waters of which fill its mo... ...ho must be satisfied—he’s here!” he added, striking his stomach. “Have the musicians come?” said the marquis, in a con- temptuous tone, turning to Mad... ... impatience of the dancers by dis- pensing flatteries to each in turn. The musicians were tuning their instruments and the dancing was about to begin,... ...he cried. “The brig- ands are making a false attack over there to keep the coast clear; but the two columns I sent to scour the environs be- tween Ant...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...m. Half cold, anyway!” 17 Sinclair Lewis Ted Babbitt, junior in the great East Side High School, had been making hiccup-like sounds of interruption. ... ...ceries and laundries and drug-stores to supply the more immediate needs of East Side housewives. The market gar- dens in Dutch Hollow, their shanties ... ...f-timbered, with Tudor leaded casements, an oriel, a somewhat musicianless musicians’-gallery, and tapes- tries believed to illustrate the granting of... ...ith you tightwads!” and guided Paul to one of the small tables beneath the musicians’- 54 Babbitt gallery. He felt guilty. At the Zenith Athletic Clu... ...hem that they were set not as verse but as prose. Mr. Frink was known from Coast to Coast as “Chum.” With them were six wives, more or less—it was har... ...’m going to buy out the store!” He gloated on fly-rods and gorgeous rubber hip-boots, on tents with celluloid windows and folding chairs and ice-boxes... ...lieve me! So I lets it go at that. Well, the clerk wakes a nice young bell hop—fine lad—not a day over seventy- nine years old—fought at the Battle of... ...ng him. As for the party, it was as fixed and standardized as a Union Club Hop. There was to be dancing in the living-room, a noble collation in the d... ...d occasionally, and he re- membered rumors of their drinking together from hip- pocket flasks. He tiptoed round the house, and in each of the dozen ca...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...then these visits were indeed but short. But when once D’Artagnan found himself near the field of action, all other feelings but that of confidence di... ...ieur le surintendant of the finances to what extent English smug- gling is injurious to the French merchants. I shall enter ev- ery place, and see eve... ... of making her smile. As to that young and beautiful princess, reclining upon a cushion of velvet bordered with gold, her hands hang- ing listlessly s... ...dered bowls of sweetmeats and fountains of liquors to be carried into the salon adjoining the gallery. He led the way thither conducting by the hand a... ...Greatness appeared, dressed in the un- dress, complete, of a prelate. Aramis carried his head high, like a man accustomed to command: his violet robe ... ... the help of an excel- lent glass, lost sight of one of his steps. At three-quarters past eleven, Aramis was informed that D’Artagnan was sailing towa... ..., without losing an instant, D’Artagnan ordered his little bark to put its head towards Sarzeau. We know that the wind changes with the different hour...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...o wild water at a remove; and a reddish Northern cheek of curdling pipeing East, at shrilly puffs between the Tower and the Custom House, encountered ... ... of meditation, to direct his gaze off the bridge along the waterway North-eastward without beholding as an eye the glow of whitebait’s bow-window by ... ... on his, a troop of mercenaries! And that lands me in Red Republicanism, a hop and a skip from Socialism! said Mr. Radnor, and chuckled ironi- cally a... ...e horrification of the prim. So to refresh ourselves, by having publicly a hip-bath in the truth while we shock our hearers enough to be dis- credited... ...-doggy-foxy circle down there. We want enliven- ing. If we had your set of musicians and talkers!’ Nataly smiled in vacuous kindness, at a loss for th... ...llan at night that Mrs. Burman, he had heard, was by the sea, on the South coast. Which of her maladies might be in the ascendant, he did not know. He... ...ratitude. She nodded an excellent artificial brightness. And there was the coast of France under young sunlight over the waters. Once more her oft-pet... ...h still a little objects to see their born gentle- man acting as leader of musicians. A people of slow move- ment, developing tardily, their country i...

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Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

...wind’s eye, and since evening the Bear had swung round it outwardly to the east, till he was now at a right angle with the meridian. A differ ence of... ...lone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement. The sensation may be caused by the ... ... the sword were darting with a gleam towards her left side, just above her hip; then of their reappearance on her right side, emerging as it were from... ...eba indignantly left the barn, followed by all the women and children. The musicians, not looking upon themselves as ‘company,’ slipped quietly away t... ...rom among the trees — not in a steady shine, but blinking like a revolving coast light, though this ap pearance failed to suggest to her that a perso... ...tween the basin of cultivated country inland and the wilder scenery of the coast. Up the hill stretched a road nearly straight and perfectly white, th...

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A Footnote to History

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...etimes the workman at his toil. No occasion is too small for the poets and musicians; a death, a visit, the day’s news, the day’s pleasantry, will be ... ... political sickness of Samoa. At the foot of a peaked, woody mountain, the coast makes a deep indent, roughly semicircular. In front the barrier reef ... ...n lies drawn out in strings and clusters. The western horn is Mulinuu, the eastern, Matautu; and from one to the other of these extremes, I ask the re... ...rather taken to imply that the claim has been dis- puted. A little farther east he skirts the stores, offices, and barracks of the firm itself. Thence... ...lot- house and signal-post, and whence he can see, on the line of the main coast of the island, the British and the new Ameri- can consulates. The cou... ...d; I cut his head off.” “You shot him?” “No, somebody else shot him in the hip. When I came, he put up his hands, and cried: ‘Don’t kill me; I am a Ma...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

...llustrious town where the famous treaty was signed in 1365, the key of the coast, which may boast, not less than the village of Batz, of a splendor no... ...e plainly indicates the V enetian school depraved by its commerce with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic t... ... atres and actors; squandering her fortune among pamphle- teers, painters, musicians, a devilish society, in short. She writes books herself, and has ... ... authorship. Ostensibly these operas are by Conti, one of the most eminent musicians of our day; but this circumstance belongs to the history of her h... ...ach gable a circular win- dow opens its cyclopic eye, westerly to the sea, easterly on Guerande. One facade of the house looks on the road to Guerande... ...e road to the Grande Chartreuse over all other narrow valleys. Neither the coasts of Croisic, where the granite bulwark is split into strange reefs, n...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume Two

By: Alexandre Dumas

...gan by walking through the apartments, many of which were fitted up in the Eastern style, with cushions and divans instead of beds, and pipes instead ... ...is also known to the Abbe Busoni, a Sicilian priest, of high repute in the East, where he has done much good.” M. de Villefort replied by ordering the... ...t already; it is no uncommon thing in Italy. But to return to the charming musicians — you should give us a treat, Danglars, with- out telling them th... ...one more song; it is so delightful to hear music in the distance, when the musicians are unrestrained by observation.” Danglars was quite annoyed by t... ...emembered that he might safely promise. “That’s all right,” said the man; “hop in, and we’re off! Who-o-o-p, la!” Andrea got into the cab, which passe... ... the Gracchi, barefooted and out at elbows, with one hand rest- ing on the hip and the other gracefully curved above the head, stared at the traveller... ... from the burning siesta of the south. A delicious zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and wafted from shore to shore the sweet perfu...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...reatures in bathing drawers who were trotting in to the foam all along the coasts of En- gland, and scooping up buckets full of water. They saw white ... ...rliament. For that purpose the Latin countries did very well, although the East, of course, would have done better. “Expect to hear of me next in Pete... ...ll from the steps of the Travellers’ . But a disease had broken out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically... ...lloway wished to look at certain guns, and was of opinion that the African coast is far more unsettled than people at home were inclined to believe. F... ...Wasn’t it Wilde who discovered the fact that nature makes no allowance for hip-bones?” enquired Hughling Elliot. He knew by this time exactly what sch... ...o be recognised, and held in respect. Meanwhile as they stood talking, the musicians were unwrapping their instruments, and the violin was repeating a...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...the whiskers—’and with the honours. Take your time from me, if you please. Hip! hip! hip!—Za!— Hip! hip! hip!—Za!—Hip hip!—Za-a-a!’ All eyes were now ... ... and solemn gravity—he was drawing up ‘A Bill for the better observance of Easter Monday. ’ The footman tapped at the door—the legislator started from... ...t. The crowd of loungers had thinned and dispersed; the noise of itinerant musicians had died away; light after light had appeared in the windows of t... ...rly inquired several young ladies. 130 Sketches by Boz ‘When I was in the East Indies, ’ replied the captain— (here was a discovery—he had been in th... ... moment bright, and at another dismal, like a revolv- ing light on the sea-coast—rashly announced his wish to propose a toast. After several ineffectu... ...l he was black in the face, at everything. There was only one drawback—the musicians did not play with quite as much spirit as could have been wished....

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...mong broken laths, and the walls were scrawled with names, sentiments, and hop records. “They’ve been keeping pigeons here,” she cried. “And you could... ...e called Umballa, a hundred and twenty miles or more. Then they would turn east and march up into the hills to Kasauli or Dugshai or Subathoo. I dined... ...lloid underbody port- hole through which I watch over-lighted London slide east- ward as the gale gets hold of us. The first of the low winter clouds ... ... streaks of cream round Dingle Bay show where the driven seas ham- mer the coast. A big S.A.T.A. liner (Societe Anonyme des Transports Aeriens) is div... ... se- nior captain laughed, as we went in. We held a good lift to clear the coastwise and Continental shipping; and we had need of it. Though our route... ...th pipe and nozzle fitting all types of generator. Gradu- ated tap on left hip. Hansen’s Flickers Lead the Aerial Flight 197 O... ...ncestors’ banqueting hall. Her grey and silver dress disappeared under the musicians’ gallery; two electrics broke out, and she stood backed against t...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...dded heaven’s dark blue vault; _120 The eastern wave grew pale With the first smile of morn. The magic car moved on... ...anopied his path o’er the waste deep; T wilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks O’er the fair front and... ...n of such a voyage. In the summer of 1815, after a tour along the southern coast of Devonshire and a visit to Clifton, he rented a house on Bishopgate... ... one form. Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations,... ...ost _270 Of the bounds of English coast; From every hut, village, and town Where those who live and suffer mo...

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

...gation—but nega- tively something, at any rate.’ ‘What are they?—painters, musicians?’ ‘Painters, musicians, writers—hangers-on, models, ad- vanced yo... ....’ ‘If you are walking westward,’ he said, ‘you forfeit the north- ern and eastward and southern direction. If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the... ...’ she said, ‘you know what we mean. Can’t we go up there, and explore that coast?’ She pointed to a grove on the hillock of the meadow-side, near the ... ... clay, that smelled of raw rottenish water. Dawn roused faintly behind the eastern hill. The water still boomed through the sluice. As the birds were ... ...rt of other self, that belongs to a new planet, not to this. You’ve got to hop off.’ Gudrun reflected for a few moments. Then a smile of ridi- cule, a...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

... . . . . . . . . 25 NIA . . . . . . . . 28 CHAPTER IX — CALIFORNIA—A SOUTH EASTER . . . . . . 32 CHAPTER X — A SOUTH EASTER—PASSAGE UP THE COAST . ... ...IA—A SOUTH EASTER . . . . . . 32 CHAPTER X — A SOUTH EASTER—PASSAGE UP THE COAST . . . . . . . 35 CHAPTER XI — PASSAGE UP THE COAST—MONTEREY . . . ... ...SERTION—SAN PEDRO AGAIN—BEATING UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 COAST CHAPTER XVIII — EASTER SUNDAY—’’SAIL HO!’’—WHALES—SAN . . . . . . 6... ...N—BEATING UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 COAST CHAPTER XVIII — EASTER SUNDAY—’’SAIL HO!’’—WHALES—SAN . . . . . . 67 JUAN—ROMANCE OF HID... ...ll agreed with something said months before, he was sure to have you on the hip. In fact, I always felt, when with him, that I was with no common man... ...o come back by way of Capitan Noriego’s and take a look into the booth. The musicians were still there, upon their platform, scrap- ing and twangi...

...RTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o?clock, in full sea-rig, and with my chest, containing an outfit for a two or three years? voyage, which I...

...I ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ? TRADING?A BRITISH SAILOR, 40 -- CHAPTER XIV ? SANTA B...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

.... Thus, with the annual variation of a trip to some quiet place on the sea-coast, passes the old lady’s life. It has rolled on in the same unvarying a... ...o express 17 Charles Dickens his decided opinion that Mr. Robinson was of Eastern descent, and contemplated marrying the whole family at once; and th... ...cing avay her oun’ ‘usband, as she’s been married to twelve year come next Easter Mon- day, for I see the certificate ven I vas a drinkin’ a cup o’ te... ...ery public din- ner in London since the accession of George the First. The musicians are scraping and grating and screwing tremendously—playing no not... ...ho were too bashful to dance before supper, find tongues and partners; the musicians exhibit unequivocal symptoms of having drunk the new year in, whi... ...the whiskers—’and with the honours. Take your time from me, if you please. Hip! hip! hip!—Za!— Hip! hip! hip!—Za!—Hip hip!—Za-a-a!’ All eyes were now ... ... moment bright, and at another dismal, like a revolv- ing light on the sea-coast—rashly announced his wish to propose a toast. After several ineffectu...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

... I Take My Pen in Hand?...........................................141 To the East and to the West...............141 Leaves of Grass –Whitman 3 Somet... ...? We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves... ...ver man, or a man of the woods or of any farm life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada, Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self... ...nt, As a father to his father going takes his children along with him. THE S HIP S TARTING Lo, the unbounded sea, On its breast a ship starting, sprea... ... will thrill to every page. POETS TO C OME Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I am for, ... ...piece, His blue shirt exposes his ample neck and breast and loosens over his hip band, His glance is calm and commanding, he tosses the slouch of his ... ...n leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye; At home on Kanadian snow shoes or up ... ...e drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 114 The babes I beget ...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...rs, as Timotheus did to his disciples, who had been instructed under other musicians. To do this the better, they brought him into the company of lear... ...med their ankles, heaved off of the hinges their ishies, their sciatica or hip-gout, dislocated the joints of their knees, squattered into pieces the ... ...se as straight as a sickle, or as the way is to Faye (like Crooked-Lane at Eastcheap). Thus by his prowess and valour were discom- fited all those of ... ..., or influences of the stars, that would put an end to thy so long enjoyed east and rest? For that all things have their end and period, so as that, w... ... John de Luc, to Fontarabia, where you shall seize upon all the ships, and coasting along Galicia and Portugal, shall pillage all the maritime places,... ...ave his full consent that the good woman should tread down the heel of the hip-gut pangs, by virtue of a solemn protestation put in by the little test... ... those who inhabit the Erythraean confines, and dwell along the shores and coasts of the Red Sea, some sour prickings and smart stingings in his arms ... ...rtheless had a genteel and noble gait, imi- tated to this very day by your hop-merchants of Brittany, in their paspie and country dances. What do you ... ...s, in a large grass plot, exactly measured how far the fleas could go at a hop, a step, and jump; and told us that this was exceedingly useful for the...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...in black, then with every kind of shell-fish that is gathered on the Punic coasts, wheaten porridge, beans and barley, and snails dressed with cumin o... ...illows of a black and petrified ocean. But a luminous bar rose towards the East; far below, on the left, the canals of Megara were beginning to stripe... ...egion, mustering at most six thou- sand men? If the enemy bent towards the east they would join the nomads and intercept the commerce of the desert. I... ...omads had square, tawny robes of dromedary’s hair swinging at their heels; musicians from Cyrenaica, wrapped in violet gauze and with painted eyebrows... ...tica alone were taken, Hippo- Zarytus, six hours further distant along the coast, would take its place, and the metropolis, being revictualled in this... ...hile with the other he carried a kind of cithara of black wood against his hip. The eunuchs, slaves, and women had been scrupulously sent away; no one... ...were laden with rings of excessive weight, upon their heads. From ankle to hip she was covered with a network of nar- row meshes which were in imitati...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...Baldwin, was the renowned old Admiral Fakenham, better known along our sea-coasts and ports among sailors as ‘Old Showery,’ because of a remark he onc... ...tory broken lines, like wild birds shifting the order of flight, north and east, where the dawn sat in a web, but as yet had done no more than shoot u... ...was edged with rose, and then suffused. It seemed that the heights fronted East to eye the interflooding of colours, and it was imaginable that all tu... ... a hand at his ankle and made him wince, but the bones were sound, leg and hip not worse than badly bruised. He was advised by Anton to plant his foot... ...he was bent on defend- ing his own, and he caught a bodyblow that sent him hop- ping back to his pair of seconds, five clear hops to the rear, like a ... ...e with Rome. 212 The Amazing Marriage The earl, you are to know, was then coasting along the Mediterranean, on board his beautiful schooner yacht, wi... ...t Old En- gland, half a step on the road to greatness is the utmost we can hop; and all England jeers at the man attempting it. He caps himself with t... ...ed of eight wind instruments; they played astonishingly well for itinerant musicians. By curious chance, they were playing a selection from the Pirata... ...riage change its direction or bid it disperse: The ‘private band of picked musicians’ at the disposal of the Countess of Fleetwood, and Opera singers ...

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

...mently in the future. They saw too many people at Wickham Place—un- shaven musicians, an actress even, German cousins (one knows what foreigners are),... ...t once, and naturally. Your po- ets too are dying, your philosophers, your musicians, to whom Europe has listened for two hundred years. Gone. Gone wi... ... thoroughfare roared gently—a tide that could never be quiet, while in the east, invisible behind the smokes of Wapping, the moon was rising. “That re... ...hase a new home. Tibby, now in his second year at Oxford, was down for the Easter vacation, and Margaret took the op- portunity of having a serious ta... ...us downs of Central England. Nor is Suburbia absent. Bournemouth’s ignoble coast cowers to the right, heralding the pine-trees that mean, for all thei... ...for the lesser. Rather a dull valley lay below, backed by the slope of the coastward downs. They were looking across the Isle of Purbeck and on to Swa...

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