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...y of its publi- cation a wretched dog, flayed and otherwise mutilated, es- caped from Moreau’s house. It was in the silly season, and a prominent edit... ...way from me to the east, and westward it was hidden by the shoulder of the cape. Then I recalled the fact that Moreau’s beach lay to the west. A twig ... ...AN THE MAN THE MAN IT CAME BEFORE MY MIND with an unreasonable hope of es- cape that the outer door of my room was still open to me. I was convinced n... ...the woods for some days, until we hunted it; and then it wriggled into the northern part of the island, and we divided the party to close in upon it. ... ...ice it, pat it, call it half-mock- ing, half-jocular names, and so make it caper with extraordi- nary delight; sometimes he would ill-treat it, especi... ...e rocks the Leopard-man, realising that he was making for the project- ing cape upon which he had stalked me on the night of my arrival, had doubled i...

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...vast, Secure of storms, your royal brother pass’d, Till, coasting nigh the cape where Malen shrouds Her spiry cliffs amid surrounding clouds, A whirli... ... closed in sleep his ever watchful eyes. There view’d the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion’s more refulgent beam. To which, around the ... ...t the pilot and the wind. Then to my native country had I sail’d: But, the cape doubled, adverse winds prevail’d. Strong was the tide, which by the no... ...e cape doubled, adverse winds prevail’d. Strong was the tide, which by the northern blast Impell’d, our vessels on Cythera cast, Nine days our fleet t... ...es! ask no mortal guide. Rear but the mast, the spacious sail display, The northern winds shall wing thee on thy way. Soon shalt thou reach old Ocean’... ...ens, and by the strait of Scylla and Charybdis: the manner in which he es caped those dangers: how, being cast on the island T rinacria, his companio... ...ide; Sacred the south, by which the gods descend; But mortals enter at the northern end. Thither they bent, and haul’d their ship to land (The crooked... ...hrough the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails, Aloof from Crete, before the northern gales: But when remote her chalky cliffs we lost, And far from ken... ...great Ulysses came. For elemental war, and wintry Jove, From Malea’s gusty cape his navy drove To bright Lucina’s fane; the shelfy coast Where loud Am...

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...nities of contrast have been af- forded me, by the state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history, and may serve at o... ...his stock of chivalrous and ro- mantic lore. The earlier literature of the northern nations did not escape the study of one who read rather to awaken ... ...eir lives an hour’s diversion, that the king might have that space for es- cape, ‘ And, God help her,’ would Mrs. Rachel continue, fix- ing her eyes u... ...rned to seek his Titus Livius, which he had forgot in the hurry of his es- cape. [See Note 2.] The simplicity of this anecdote struck the gentleman, w... ...ceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained some ancient families, but they were ... ...this feat, the brook, assuming its natural rapid and fierce character, es- caped from the eye down a deep and wooded dell, from the copse of which aro... ...of intelligence, made a signal to Edward to follow, and began to dance and caper down the alley up which he had made his approaches.—A strange guide t... ... His countenance was decidedly Scottish, with all the peculiarities of the northern physiognomy, but yet had so little of ifs harshness and exag- gera... ...ry. He then mentioned your being at that moment in the power of one of our northern parties—you know I could not ask him to explain particu- lars—and ...

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...ng that she had no fears, and would not endure that the Earl should double Cape Horn on her account; but he stood fast—he would not be deprived of the... ... a grand con- solation, even though he entirely destroyed all plans of es- cape by assuring her that there was a tremendous disturbance in the directi... ...suring her that there was a tremendous disturbance in the direction of the Northern Railway, and that the only safe place for ladies was just where sh... ...ould not think why a man of old Ormersfield’s age should go figuring round Cape Horn, instead of staying to keep his own son in order. Sydney was abse...

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...! What did I tell you?” A melodious bellow stole across the water from the northern dory. Harvey heard something about somebody’ s hands and feet bein... ... we know . His natural tongue’ s kinder curious. Comes from the innards of Cape Breton, he does, where the farmers speak homemade Scotch. Cape Breton’... ...to the banquit,” said Long Jack, squelching the water from his boots as he capered like an elephant and stuck an oil-skinned arm into Harvey’ s face. ... ...nd, an’ Gibbons o’ that town he was her skipper; they fund her leakin’ off Cape Cod Light. There was a terr’ble gale on, an’ they was gettin’ the Bett... ... sea run daown a piece. They wouldn’t hev that either, hangin’ aracund the Cape in any sech weather, leak or no leak. They jest up stays’l an’ quit, n... ...oard dory-nest. Tom Platt puffed at his pipe in scornful silence: he was a Cape Cod man, and had not known that tale more than twenty years. Uncle Sal... ...greenish sea, where there were no dories. The We’re Here skirted round the northern squadron, Disko waving his hand to friend after friend, and an- ch... ...did not linger over,-and stayed with them past Western and Le Have, to the northern fringe of George’ s. From there they picked up the deeper wa- ter,...

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...n that pale phantas- magoria of cliff and cloud, our haven lay concealed; and somewhere to the east of it—the only sea-mark given—a certain headland, ... ... early moment from the table. It was in these circumstances that we skirted the windward shore of that indescribable island of Ua-pu; viewing with diz... ... two of the debauching streams have deviated nearer on the beach of Hatiheu, a certain bird have been heard to sing, a certain ominous formation of cl... ... but he is an American born, somewhere far east; followed the trade of a ship-carpenter; and was long employed, the cap- tain of a hundred Indians, br... ...is bones there in the end with full content; having no desire to behold again the places of his boyhood, only, perhaps—once, before he dies—the rude a... ...ered islands, was decisive. A pier of coral, landing-stairs, a harbour light upon a staff and pillar, and two spacious Government bungalows in a hands... ... healthy children; and his humour was infectious. We were next neighbours and met daily, yet our salutations lasted minutes at a stretch— shaking hand... ...before on Apaiang, the most christianised of all these islands; where excellent Mr. Bingham lived and laboured and has left golden memories; whence al...

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...rm she sung to a wild tune, in a high and shrill voice, and, cutting three capers with such strength and agil- ity, as almost to touch the roof of the... ...op of war crowded all sail to pursue, but she had stood too close upon the cape, so that they were obliged to wear the vessel for fear of going ashore... ...e woods, which, as we have said, covered a promontory termi- nating in the cape called the Point of Warroch, Kennedy met young Harry Bertram, attended... ...bserved a king’s ship, with her colours up, heave in sight from behind the cape. The guns of the burning ves- sel discharged themselves as the fire re... ...ted with the old haunted castle in which you played the astrologer in your northern tour some twenty years since, I have heard you too often describe ... ...The face she left bare, after closing the mouth and eyes, and arranged the capes of the cloak so as to hide the bloody bandages, and give the body, as... ...ell pronounce to us if the wines of Gascony lose their flavour in our more northern realm.” Mannering, agreeably flattered by this allusion to the fam... ...with an audience on those affairs of weight which have brought him to your northern capital.” The monarch opened Mac-Morlan’s letter, and, running it ... ..., from having sharpened his wits in controversy with the ge- niuses of the northern metropolis.” “Of a surety,” said the Dominie, with great complacen...

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...ged through Belgium and Holland and the Rhineland, through Switzerland and Northern Italy, planning about nothing, but seeing everything. The guides a... ...f to its grave defects, and come to life as flesh and blood, to wear white capes and long trains. All I can say is that she really possesses every mer... ...gentleman in the neckcloth, an old lady in a red satin dress and an ermine cape, who wore across her forehead a band with a topaz set in it. Young 15...

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... the room. And that’s Miriam, in her coachman’s cloak, with all the little capes on, and she wore great top-boots underneath. You young people may say... ...arbles, and gray days without any sun. She’s a typical example of the cold northern nature. I come from Devonshire—” Had they been quarreling, Mary wo... ... marry any one. She wanted to go away by herself, preferably to some bleak northern moor, and there study mathematics and the science of astronomy. Tw... ...pproaching nearer and nearer—how could she escape? There was no way of es- cape. She did not even know whether that oblong mark on the ceiling was a t... ...when she tried to visualize it, took form as a wind scouring the flanks of northern hills and flashing light upon cornfields and pools. “Impossible,” ...

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... welter, rock, and sway; strophe 4 And rife with ill delay From northern Strymon blew the thwarting blast— Mother of famine fell, That hold... ...ith fuel, roared and rose the blaze, And onward flaring, gleamed above the cape, Beneath which shimmers the Saronic bay, And thence leapt light unto A...

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... clearing the forehead of perspiration. As to pocket-handkerchiefs, in our northern use of them, it has been satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a Ge... ...e Roi donne par honeur.’ And lately in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the K... ...an investment for capital during the times preced- ing his own, and, as to northern Greece, even during his own, had never entirely languished, as wit... ...rts up on the excitement of mere scenery. Some laud the Caucasus; some the northern and eastern val- leys of Spain; some the Alpine scenery; some the ... ... dignity of his bold preten- sions, as the navigator who first doubled the Cape of Storms 3 into an untried sea. But against a man dealing presumably ... ...a higher source than their own inexperience or unlearned fancies. NOTE 3. ‘Cape of Storms,’ which should primae facie be the 182 Theological Essays a... ...primae facie be the 182 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two Cape of Terrors. But it bears a deep allegoric sense to the bold wrestler w... ...r with such terrors, that in English, and at length to all the world, this Cape of Terrors has transfigured itself into the Cape of Good Hope. NOTE 4....

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...y well for ‘em. [Follows singing.] Will you buy any tape, Or lace for your cape, My dainty duck, my dear a? Any silk, any thread, Any toys for y... ...s white as it, Or Ethiopian’s tooth, or the fann’d snow that’s bolted By the northern blasts twice o’er. POLIXENES: What follows this...

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...north. What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of those who es caped on the rock, or were left in the vessel, I cannot tell; but conclud... ...hey have not lost their faculty. Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord i... ...nder, bound for Surat. We had a very prosperous gale, till we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but discovering a lea... ...ing sick of an ague, we could not leave the Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 68 Cape till the end of March. We then set sail, and had a good voyage till ... ...down at my feet; and the other, seeing the fate of his comrade, made his es cape, but not without one good wound on the back, which I gave him as he ... ...selves, and it is the best part of their maintenance: such are those in many northern parts of Europe.” “What you have told me,” said my master, “upon...

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... a leering smile that threatened to last for evermore; a woman in a floppy capelline rested her arm on the rail and stared at Gibberne’s house with th... ...tle rooms, very cool and sunny, hollowed out of the limestone of a sort of cape, very high above the sea. The whole island, you know, was one enormous... ... Of course. Now!—yes. “Well, this room of ours was at the extremity of the cape, so that one could see east and west. Eastward was a great cliff—a tho... ... standards. The east and south would trust me as they would trust no other northern man. And I knew I had only to put it to her and she would have let... ... over the Piccola Marina other boats were coming; and as we came round the cape and within sight of the mainland, another little string of boats came ... ...haunting our minds it still resulted only in a deepening resolution to es- cape. O, but she was brave and patient! She who had never faced hardship an...

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...’s in the butt of Malmsey. CHAPTER XI. DOCTOR LONG GHOST A WAG— ONE OF HIS CAPERS GRAVE though he was at times, Doctor Long Ghost was a decided wag. E... ...on one occasion, he found every soul napping, and forthwith went about his capers. Fastening a rope’s end to each sleeper, he rove the lines through a... ...en a Prayer Book. When this was made known, Antone, a Portuguese, from the Cape-de-Verd Is- lands, stepped up, muttering something over the corpse of ... ...pon to play a sort of second quadrant to Jermin’s first; and what with the capers of both, they used to furnish a good deal of diversion. The mate’s t... ...springing to his feet and flourishing his paddle, cut some of the queerest capers; all the while jabbering something which at first we could not under... ...u please, clothing, may be entirely dispensed with. How different our hard northern latitudes! Alas! the lot of a “poor devil,” twenty degrees north o...

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...ia, natural daughter of Charles V . Francesco dé Medici, husband of Bianca Capello, accepted as his son a child of poor parents bought by the celebrat... ...francs. To-day, the lesser bour- geoisie and the courtesans who edge their capes with sable, are ignorant than in 1440 an ill-disposed police-officer ... ..., wholly French, having always been French,—unlike in that respect to our northern provinces, which have de- generated by contact with Germany, and t... ...uld have been safe from the dan- gers of invasion. Had this been done, the northern cities would not have required such vast sums of money spent to fo... ... the right to recover the crown which was usurped from their house by Hugh Capet; but can they do it? The pear is not yet ripe. Our nephew is dying, a... ... that the sover- eign who poisons dies by poison. The Borgias, also Bianca Capello, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, are noted examples of the dangers of tha...

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...ed to the finest cut of a very yellow boiled leg of mutton with very green capers, there were no invalids as yet; and walking, and smoking, and drinki... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ...s 238 June, I shall not easily forget the day —there lay be fore us, old Cape Clear, God bless it, showing, in the mist of early morning, like a clo... ...g, but it was still in the right quarter, and so, by slow degrees, we left Cape Clear behind, and sailed along within sight of the coast of Ireland. A...

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...sland, all green and sunny , encircled by a sea more blue than is found in Northern latitudes. I suppose that he clung to Captain Nichols because he w... ...got a contract to paint a tramp that had come in from Madagascar round the Cape of Good Hope, and they spent several days on a plank hanging over the ...

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...urniture would have been nothing ex- traordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to... ... weeks’ torture, tossing, and sickness! Oh, these bleak winds and bit- ter northern skies, and impassable roads, and dilatory coun- try surgeons! And ... ... he did not guess my agony, perhaps: it barely left me sense to try to es- cape from him and his voice. Before I recovered sufficiently to see and hea... ...able. He now re- commenced his moody walk, and I raised the latch, and es- caped into the kitchen. Joseph was bending over the fire, peer- ing into a ... ...t per- ceiving that the people of the house took her part, she com- menced capering round the room; and on my giving chase, ran like a mouse over and ... ...th!’ and the old sinner grinned in mockery. I thought he intended to cut a caper round the bed; but suddenly composing himself, he fell on his knees, ...

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...had emerged from the tunnel and was racing between the ragged edges of the northern suburbs. Then, as it lowered its speed near Y onkers, she rose fro... ...ad left Mme. Regina’s she had spent her days in the streets, partly to es- cape from the uncongenial promiscuities of the boarding-house, and partly i...

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...ause the smell of the blood made us foolish. We ran to and fro in circles, capering and crying out and shaking our heads. Then Tha gave an order to th... ...ection of the passage, while the boy stood upon the snow under the blazing Northern Lights and dealt out justice. The last to be served was the big bl... ...among the feet of the rowers, and the women sang songs as they glided from cape to cape over 101 Rudyard Kipling the glassy, cold waters. All the lux... ...t stars burned like street-lamps. From time to time a greenish wave of the Northern Lights would roll across the hollow of the high heavens, flick lik... ...ard a quartermaster on board a big steamer that took tourists to the North Cape in Norway. When the tourist season was over, the steamer ran between L... ...h! This changes all trails. I had thought to take thee away with me to the northern marshes, but the Word—even the Word of a little, naked, hairless M... ...anything else, for he had chosen the long downward slope that leads to the Northern Marshes through the heart of the main Jungle, where the springy gr...

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...gnor Re’, began the Italian in some fear, as the dogs smelted his lambskin cape. ‘The Lord Bishop en- 15 Yo n g e treats your Majesty’s presence.’ Hi... ...oth the Knight of Berwick and the Canon of Durham 31 Yo n g e on the wide northern moors; but Sir Patrick, on starting in the morning of the day when... ...ustoms of the days of Edward III) contrasted well with his scarlet hat and cape, as he came slowly into the cloistered court on his large sober-paced ... ...s. You had better take what we offer, far better than aught your barbarous northern lords could give, and then your sister will be free, without ranso...

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...rew Woodhouse, drowned in the same seas in 1777, or John Paxton, drowned off Cape Farewell a year later, or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather saile... ... quick. Want us off soon. At dark passed into Archipelago. On 13 July passed Cape Matapan. Crew dissatisfied about something. Seemed scared, but would... ...7 August “Dear Sirs,—”Herewith please receive invoice of goods sent by Great Northern Railway. Same are to be deliv ered at Carfax, near Purfleet, i... ...he was inclined to think it was one of the bats which are so numerous on the northern heights of London. “Out of so many harmless ones,” he said, “the... ...ne him self to two sides of London. He was now fixed on the far east on the northern shore, on the east of the south ern shore, and on the south. Th... ... his form and jump or fly on shore, then, unless he be carried he cannot es cape. And if he be carried, then the customs men may discover what the bo... ... the customs men may discover what the box contain. Thus, in fine, if he es cape not on shore tonight, or before dawn, there will be the whole day lo...

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...presides. These beautiful creatures all have some- thing in common: Bianca Capella, whose portrait is one of Bronzino’s masterpieces; Jean Goujon’s Ve... ... cast by the lofty build- ings of the Louvre, darkened on that side by the northern blast. Darkness, silence, an icy chill, and the cavernous depth of... ...tretch your arms while you spout about the ideal, and beauty, and all your northern madness?— Beauty is not to compare with solid pudding—and what am ... ...dear boy, I quite forgot you!” The sturdy woman pulled off her gloves, her cape and bon- net, and remade the artist’s little camp bed as briskly as an... ...ou forthwith drink up to two bottles full of Hungarian wine, Champagne, or Cape, just to bring you up to their mark.—My dear fellow, we are all so muc... ...arms with clear gauze sleeves and hid her shoulders un- der an embroidered cape. Her curls, /a l’Anglaise/, struck her as too fly-away; she subdued th... ...es for his good news. “When he came back into the drawing-room, Crevel cut capers like a dancer; he embraced that woman, exclaiming, ‘Then, at last, y...

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... the canoe, and the keg of water and some coffee and biscuits wrapped in a Cape Argus by his feet, and a tin of methylated spirit underneath him. Ther... .... I tried dipping my head in the sea, but after a while my eye fell on the Cape Argus, and I lay down flat in the canoe and spread this over me. Wonde... ...u get up to when you’re alone, as I was. I suppose I read that blessed old Cape Argus twenty times. The pitch in the canoe simply reeked with the heat... ...ntercourse vanished. I felt she was learning to dislike me. I grinned, and capered, and scowled, and posed at her in a thousand ways, and knew—with wh... ... and every star was hidden in its turn, save only Jupiter near the zenith, Capella, Aldebaran, Sirius, and the pointers of the Bear. It was very white... ... standards. The east and south would trust me as they would trust no other northern man. And I knew I had only to put it to her and she would have let... ...f fire and metals and with organised feats of engineering that stagger our northern minds—unused as we are to such feats as that of the Saübas of Rio ...

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...ere has dropped upon the table as I write a modest pe- riodical called The Northern British Israel Review, illustrated with portraits of various clerg... ...heresy that God is all mercy. “We cannot allow it to be said,” the Dean of Cape Town insisted, “that God was not angry and was not ap- peased by punis...

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...ys are few, And the far mountains wax a little hoary, And clap a white cape on their mantles blue; And the sea dashes round the promontory, ... ... And averaged each from ten to a hundred dollars. Some he disposed of off Cape Matapan, Among his friends the Mainots; some he sold To his Tu... ...her time he might have liked to see ‘em, But now was not much pleased with Cape Sigaeum. There, on the green and village cotted hill, is (Flan... ...aper, My bosom underwent a glorious glow, And my internal spirit cut a caper: And though so much inferior, as I know, To those who, by the... ...ear debates whose thunder roused (not rouses) The world to gaze upon those northern lights Which flash’d as far as where the musk bull browses; ...

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...usefulness to man, we can understand how it is that neither Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, nor any other region inhabited by quite uncivilised man,... ...e are plants which now range in In- dia, as I hear from Dr. Falconer, from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya, which have been imported from America since i... ...maximum of species. Probably no region is as yet fully stocked, for at the Cape of Good Hope, where more species of plants are crowded together than i... ...nstance: in the last edition of Dr. Asa Gray’s ‘Manual of the Flora of the Northern United States,’ 260 naturalised plants are enumerated, and these b... ...ed States, in which certain varieties are habitually recom- mended for the northern, and others for the south- ern States; and as most of these variet... ...eral remark- able cases of differences in nests of the same species in the northern and southern United States. Fear of any particular enemy is certai... ...y a single one as an example, namely, that ‘every ovule in a pod of Crinum capense fertilised by C. revolutum produced a plant, which (he says) I neve... ...iod as since the latter part of the Chalk formation. The distance from the northern to the southern Downs is about 22 miles, and the thickness of the ... ...thern half was formerly more closely allied, than it is at present, to the northern half. In a similar man- ner we know from Falconer and Cautley’s di...

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...sentiment alluded to in the last paragraph. I certainly did think that the Northern States, if wise, would have let the Southern States go. I had blam... ...ty of British opposition to American independence, so was the necessity of Northern opposi- tion to Southern secession. I do not say that in other res... ...here can be no doubt that the front of the offense given by England to the Northern States was this declaration of Lord John Russell’s. But it has bee... ...d John Russell, in making the open avowal which gave such of- fense to the Northern States, only did that which, as a servant of England, England requ... ... borders of Canada, had been endowed with the power of cutting off the six Northern States from the rest of the Union? No one will for a moment doubt ... ...xactly the same with the colonies of Australia, with New Zealand, with the Cape of Good Hope, and with Jamaica. While England enjoys the prestige of h... ...the Northern party obtained a considerable advantage by taking the fort at Cape Hatteras, in North Carolina, situated on one of those long banks which...

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...s coast before, I knew very well that the islands of the Canaries, and the Cape de V erde Islands also, lay not far off from the coast. But as I had n... ...was to make the river Gambia or Senegal, that is to say anywhere about the Cape de V erde, where I was in hopes to meet with some European ship; and i... ...ther to the coast of Guinea or to Brazil, or to the East Indies, made this cape, or those islands; and, in a word, I put the whole of my for- tune upo... ...eaward; then I concluded, as it was most certain indeed, that this was the Cape de V erde, and those the islands called, from thence, Cape de V erde I... ...tch over for the African coast when we came about ten or twelve degrees of northern latitude, which, it seems, was the manner of course in those days.... ...ssively hot, all the way upon our own coast, till we came to the height of Cape St. Augustino; from whence, keeping fur- ther off at sea, we lost sigh... ...me, and were, by our last observation, in seven degrees twenty-two minutes northern latitude, when a violent tornado, or hurricane, took us quite out ... ...son Crusoe so that when I came near the island, I found myself open to the northern shore of it, that is to say, the other end of the island, opposite... ...o thick for us to travel, and being not hard frozen, as is the case in the northern countries, there was no going without being in danger of being bur...

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...The grey houses of Pulteney extend along the southerly shore almost to the cape; and it is about half-way down this shore – no, six-sevenths way down ... ...ng flats of wet sand, over which the gulls go flying and crying; and every cape runs down into them with its little spit of wall 33 The Letters of R.... ...ollow, sturdy beat of the paddles of an unseen steamer somewhere round the cape. I am glad to say that the peace of the day and scenery was not marred... ...my scalp was sore. With this high wintry wind, and the grey sky, and faint northern daylight, it was quite wonderful to hear such a clamour of blackbi...

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...d it has also been pointed out that ‘mutterrecht’ still left its traces in northern Greece in historical times. The following analysis (after Marcksch... ...whose head looks down upon the ground, like him, I say, they wander to es- cape the white snow. (ll. 536-563) Then put on, as I bid you, a soft coat a... ...have been a Lacedemonian and founder of Aeria. And after Acrias, they say, Capetus was done to death by Oenomaus, and Lycurgus, Lasius, Chalcodon and ...

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... was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern litera- ture, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr. ... ...er assistance; and some, after all the diligence I have bestowed, have es- caped my enquiries. He told me, a great many years ago, ‘he believed he had... ...erit of Dr. Robertson’s His- tory of Scotland. But, to my surprize, he es- caped.—’Sir, I love Robertson, and I won’t talk of his book.’ An essay, wri... ...usand pounds were ready to be given to the gaoler, if he would let him es- cape. He added, that he knew a friend of Dodd’s, who walked about Newgate f... ...have no wine. It would be my business cavere ne quid detrimenti Respublica caperet, and wine is dan- gerous. Rome was ruined by luxury,’ (smiling.) E.... ...ll of Odin, as he is your enemy; that will be truly ancient. There will be Northern Antiquities.’ Johnson. ‘He’s a Whig, Sir; a sad dog. (smiling at h... ...ictionary, he shewed it with this censure on its secondary sense: ‘“To es- cape from secrecy to notice; a sense lately in- novated from France, withou...

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... a dismal stroll through his mansion, which had no apparent object but es- cape from the presence of the chief butler. ‘I beg your pardon,’ he said, s... ..., and with a vehemence that would have been absolute madness in any man of Northern origin, cried ‘Behold the same assassin! Here he is!’ In his passi... ...etor? What can be expected of him? Did anybody ever find boiled mutton and caper-sauce growing in a cocoa-nut?’ None of the Bleeding Hearts ever had, ...

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...alone, sometimes with chance met gipsies of their own land. From the North Cape to the Blue Grotto at Capri they wandered, because the next steamer he... ...raphical degree, the progress of as many homeward-bound packets. The word “Cape” rises across the face of a dial; a gong strikes: the South African mi... ...hulls whistling like Chinese kites. Their market is in the North among the northern sanatoria where you can smell their grape-fruit and bananas across... ...ighted too, of enormous capacity and unlovely outline. They, too, feed the northern health stations in icebound ports where submersibles dare not rise... ...ghts Lights No changes in English Inland lights for week ending Dec. 18th. CAPE VERDE—Week ending Dec. 18. Verde inclined guide- light changes from 1s... ...hite occulting light withdrawn for winter. PATAGONIA—No summer light south Cape Pilar. This in- cludes Staten Island and Port Stanley. C. NAVARIN—Quad... ...C. NAVARIN—Quadruple fog flash (white), one minute in- tervals (new). EAST CAPE—Fog—flash -single white with single bomb, 30 sec. intervals (new). MAL... ...gh-Le High-Lev v v v vel Slee el Slee el Slee el Slee el Sleet t t t t The Northern weather so far shows no sign of improve- ment. From all quarters c... ...d the latter from loaded bows and snow-cased bodies. As a consequence, the Northern and North-western upper levels have been practically aban- doned, ...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- 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 thr...

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...TER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 ...

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...d childish after our deliverance to explode into twit- tering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to for- get the imminent hawk on bough. Lie low,... .... 136 The V arieties of Religious Experience ception, but undoubtedly the northern tone in reli- gion has inclined to the more intimately pessimistic... ... formula by which the ‘now’ keeps exfoliating out of itself, yet never es- capes. What is it, indeed, that keeps existence exfoli- ating? The formal b... ...ted by three butterflies; once more at night upon the shingly shore of the Northern Ocean, my back upon the sand and my vision ranging through the Mil... ...thor wordeth it) as screens to keep off the cold and nipping blasts of the northern and east- erly winds, and reflecting the benign and cherishing sun...

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...tes, each with one pair of ready fighters: Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Langley Air Force Base in Hampton,Virginia. 10... ... took the ini- tiative, at 8:34, to contact the military through the FAA’s Cape Cod facility. The center also tried to contact a former alert site in ... ... in Kashmir. In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethni... ...n inspector general’s report recommending that the Border Patrol develop a northern border strategy, the only positive step was that the number of Bor... ...out 1999 and ulti- mately become entangled with debate about enlisting the Northern Alliance as an ally for covert action. 84 Another diplomatic optio... ...e 124 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 124 Northern Alliance with Pashtun groups. One U.S. diplomat later told us that... ...5 Final1-4.4pp 7/17/04 9:12 AM Page 125 on the battlefield against the Northern Alliance—and criminalize giving them arms and providing military “...

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...nly remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he es capes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometime... ...ord and Edinburgh; returns to America. 1763 Makes a five months’ tour of the northern colonies for the Purpose of inspecting the post offices. 1764 De...

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...of all possible accommoda- 55 Memories and Portraits tion, pitched on the northern inlet as the scene of opera- tions. For it was no accident that ha... ...here cheek by jowl, with our feet upon our baggage, in a beautiful, clear, northern summer eve. And behold! there was now a pier of stone, there were ... ...he year 1818, the grandson of Thomas Smith, first engineer to the Board of Northern Lights, son of Robert Stevenson, brother of Alan and David; so tha... ..., Robin Hood, The Waterman, Richrd I, My Poll and My Partner Joe, The Inch Cape Bell (imperfect), and Three-Fingered Jack, The Terror of Jamaica; and ... ...all house at night, and people groping on the stairs by the light that es- caped from the open door of a sickroom. In another, a lover left a ball, an...