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...wer minimum wagers. I squash my way into a raucous mob. They screech and squeal with every spin. I place some of my meager funds on red. Despite the... ...uttons and slumps onto a lounger. The presence of his silence compels me to skip the coming spin. I half turn towards him, rubbing my eyes with stic... ...dangerous. I may even be an Arab, impossible to tell them apart nowadays. A web of mutters spins from crimson lips to hairy ears, from crumb-strewn... ...e genteelly strolling down the promenade, unfastening my necktie and nibbling at a colossal ice cream cone. At last, I flung my reefer on one should... ...Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. Nomi and I had a snail. We placed it in any empty ice-cream packing, on a bed of lettuce. We took turns sp...

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...he idea of extension and extension the embodiment of thought" --Baruch Spinzoa "Mind+entity=truth Sensory perception+things=opinion" ... ... playful inner world was so repugnant to her that it struck a chill down her spine. Only an unequivocal nervous breakdown would cause her to obey the... ... friends; and yet some of unknown Antarctica, a dreamy non-asthmatic land of ice mountains and valleys. In such a place dreamed about and sketched fro... ... It was a partially adult caricature of a being standing proudly alone on an ice mountain. She drew its contumely as master of itself in all of its a... ...ch all the inhabitants of Ithaca spun around in life. As futile as it was to spin, she thought, humans were not meant for thought. They were creature... ...d expunge them from the list of species. Any caretaker of a child needed to spin from time to time too and Gabriele needed to do this to fight off se... ... a McDonalds with an Internet caf? underneath, Pizza Hut, and Baskin-Robbins Ice cream shops. One could always find M&M chocolate candies and shirts d... ...tificial will do: an ocean, trees waving in the winds, passing clouds, soap spinning around in a washer. Watching clouds in particular is instrument... ...n benign whims, and following nothing but the occasional orphic music of the ice- cream truck, her son would be a self-contained paradigm of happiness...

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...lvation! T oll, for the bonnie souls,— Neighbor and friend and bridegroom, Spinning upon the shoals! How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shak... ...uds below; They would not encore death. The gilded creature strains and spins, T rips frantic in a tree, T ears open her imperial veins And t... ...n to the door T o call the little child, Who cannot thank them, for the ice That on her lisping piled. XCII ’T IS an honorable thoug... ... For death was that, and this is thee. 242 CXXVII BEFORE the ice is in the pools, Before the skaters go, Or any cheek at nightfall ... ...could not stop for Death, 190 Before I got my eye put out, 40 Before the ice is in the pools, 242 Before you thought of spring, 85 Belshazzar had ...

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...I gave to letters. Though the kuikui was thick, there was but a small patch of it, and when I was done I attacked the wild lime, and had a hand-to-han... ...; I was working myself, where I hear every sound with morbid certainty, and I can testify that not a hammer fell. Upon inquiry I found they had passed... ...econd half. What makes me sick is to think of Scott turn- ing out Guy Mannering in three weeks!What a pull of work: heavens, what thews and sinews!And... ...s; I believe it is in some ways my best work; I am pretty sure, at least, I have never done anything better than Wiltshire. MONDAY, 13TH SEPTEMBER 189... ...and on coming to the ford, the commandant came and asked me if there were many on the other side. ‘V ery many,’ said I; not that I knew, but I would n...

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...an- time changed. Upon the cessation of the rain, a strict frost had succeeded. The moon, being young, was already near the zenith when we started, gl... ...ne, taking a sudden turn, brought us forth again into the moonshine. With his hooded great- coat on his back, his valise in his hand, his black wig ad... ...m under mine, possessed myself of the valise, and walked him off unresisting. Presently we came to an open piece of country lying a thought downhill. ... ...by fortune as to have your pity? Infinitely obliged, my cousin Anne! But these sentiments are not always reciprocal, and I warn you that the day when ... ...re, a monument of tranquillity: pray may I help myself to wine without umbraging you?’ I took this attitude in sheer despair. I had no plan, no hope. ...

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...red; so that it was a mere romance of casuistry to tax myself with coward- ice so shocking. But, to feel a doubt, was to feel condemna- tion; and the ... ...aris, but the case would be very different if the ceiling were coated with ice.” As it was not, he changed his plan. The true secret, he now discovere... ... human top would overpower the force of gravitation. He should, of course, spin upon his own axis, and sleep upon his own axis— perhaps he might even ... ...n the five months, but altogether upon the five minutes. The apparatus for spinning him, however, perhaps from its complexity, would not work—a fact e... ...aw; motion spread with the fluent race of light or sound through the whole ice-bound mass, until the subtile influence reached us also, who were again... ...well be sup- posed, in such utter disorganization of society, private mal- ice, either personal or on account of old family feuds, was the true princi...

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...harshly to their ears and seemed so ominous, found out a way to soften and spin it out by a periphrasis, and instead of pronouncing such a one is dead... ... always have a man to be doing, and, as much as in him lies, to extend and spin out the offices of life; and then let death take me planting my cabbag... ...ewith a cold body, would do the same service for the cold, for so snow and ice are preserved. And, certes, after the same manner that study is a torme... ...ure than this: what passion are we exempted from in it? Anger, spite, mal- ice, impatience, and a vehement desire of getting the better in a concern w...

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...Chapter 2 3 better than what he did do—his face utterly involuntarily (reflex spinal action, re flected Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was fond of physiology... ...that shed light on all round her. “Is it possible I can go over there in the ice, go up to her?” he thought. The place where she stood seemed to him a... ... day people of one set, all acquainted with one another, used to meet on the ice. There were crack skaters there, showing off their skill, and learner... ...ven spoke to her, and were happy, quite apart from her, enjoying the capital ice and the fine weather. Nikolay Shtcherbatsky, Kitty’s cousin, in a shor... ...e shouted to him: “Ah, the first skater in Russia! Been here long? First rate ice—do put your skates on.” “I haven’t got my skates,” Levin answered, ma... ...d severely self confident figure, in his round hat, with his rather prominent spine, he believed in him, and was aware of a disagreeable sensation, suc... ...a subject. It all lies in the subject. If a subject’s given me, it’s easy to spin something round it. I often think that the celebrated talkers of the... ...ble French words the peasant had uttered, and a chill of horror ran down his spine. “What nonsense!” thought Vronsky, and glanced at his watch. It was... ...that body was lying under the quilt, how those emaciated legs and thighs and spine were lying huddled up, and whether they could not be made more comf...

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..., until Phaon and I sailed? It was a question for water clocks and gulls, spindrift and wind, thought unfolding in my room, scudding across the floo... ...ok into their eyes for long. When I see Kleis cross the room a trickle of ice slips down my back. What if he finds me too old, what if my love doesn... ...s and no doubt the sea voyage was impossible: luxury had softened me. The spinning fish would have horrified Atthis. And was I very different? But w... ...g on the terrace or in the garden, I wonder who is most beautiful. Kleis spins. Atthis bends, arms upflung. I see a grape-tinted breast, fragile an...

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...htraut! And what does she do the livelong day, Since she dare not knit and spin alway? O hunting and fishing is ever her play! And, heigh! that her hu... ...ce, Or where the black blockaded ribs Are jammed ‘mongst ghostly fleets of ice, Or where upon the curling hills Glow clusters of the bright-eyed grape... ...Rich harvestings and wealthy germs, And handicrafts and shapely wares, And spinnings of the hermit worms, And fruits that bloom by lions’ lairs. Come,... ...o doth but sing ‘cuk, cuk,’ And the dove alone doth coo; Though the cushat spins her coo-r-roo, r-r-roo – T o the cuckoo’s halting ‘cuk.’ 74 II Sweet... ...h you to the British nation. SONG Should thy love die; O bury it not under ice-blue eyes! And lips that deny, With a scornful surprise, The life it on... ... given, ‘T om’s health!’—Quoth the farmer: ‘Eh, Miss? are you weak in the spine?’ 124 XXVI For Mary had sunk, and her body was shaking, as if in a f... ...he wrong is mixed. In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. XLIV They say, that... ... for strength His compassionate heart shook a frame 211 Stricken rigid to ice all its length. On amain the black traveller came. Lo, a chariot, cleav... ...r no more than a fling o’ the dice, But, or shame to my manhood, a lady of ice, We master her by craft! II Heart-sick the lords of joyance yawned, Lor...

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...for there?’ “‘ A thaw’, said the tipsy fellow, finding himself held by the ice. “Then Godenot, like a good Christian, released him from his dilemma, a... ...oo big for the foot! old arque- bus! ten year old codfish! old spider that spins no more! old death with open eyes! old devil’s cradle! vile lantern o... ...—the husband, the wife, or himself—rather than lose the distaff whereon to spin one hour of joy. Indeed, he was so mad with love, that he believed lif...

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... beheld, Whose towering summit ambient clouds conceal’d. High on a rock of ice the structure lay, Steep its ascent, and slippery was the way; The wond... ... the coast; Pale suns, unfelt, at distance roll away, And on the impassive ice the lightnings play; Eternal snows the growing mass supply, 127 The Po... ...dst a bursting world. Who shames a scribbler? break one cobweb through, He spins the slight, self-pleasing thread anew: 90 Destroy his... ...h too rough. The lines are weak, another’s pleased to say, Lord Fanny 122 spins a thousand such a day. Timorous by nature, of the rich in awe, I come... ...ns, 220 That counts your beauties only by your stains, Spin all your cobwebs o’er the eye of day! The Muse’s wing shall brush you ...

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... Sand-Pillars rush whirling from this side and from that, like so many mad Spinning-Der- vishes, of a hundred feet in stature; and dance their huge De... ...e knot of the crisis, when salvation or destruction hangs in the hour! The Ice-Tower of Avignon was noised of sufficiently, and lives in all memories;... ...f the everlasting Abyss, this black-spot, looking up as water through thin ice;—say, as the region of Nether Darkness through your thin film of Girond... ...tee of Salut; civilly alive: not to live always. So giddy-swift whirls and spins this immeasurable tormentum of a Revolution; wild-booming; not to be ... ...he Cities of the South; no more sit judging, with pipes and brandy, in the Ice-tower of Avignon. The all-hiding Earth has received him, the bloated Ti... ...bare of breeches, neck and breast naked, stockings down, went whirling and spinning, like those Dust-vortexes, forerunners of Tempest and Destruction.... ...ently intro- duced a vein of satire, of irreverent banter, not against the Spinster alone, but obliquely against her Regenerative Man! Barrere’s light... ... and cloaks of bass-mat,’ how they overrun Holland, like a demon-host, the ice having bridged all waters; and rush shouting from victory to victory! S...

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...ing himself in the condemnation of his coun- trymen. But Russia was soon to be changed; the ice of the Neva was softening under the sun of civilisatio... ...ttention; and one night, in the midst of his famous performance of ‘Billy Keogh,’ I saw him spin half round in a pirouette and throw an audacious wink... ...pses of green fields. The road underfoot was wet and heavy— 95 Robert Louis Stevenson part ice, part snow, part water, and any one I met greeted me, ... ...the woods, as they might take a walking- stick as an excuse to bathe. With quick ears, long spines, and 103 Robert Louis Stevenson bandy legs, or per... ...pired, that dream all day on their own reflections in the Rhine or Danube. You may pass the spinal cord of Europe and go down from Alpine glaciers to ... ...hese grassy plateaux. Here and there a little private flock was being tended by a girl, one spinning with a distaff, another seated on a wall and inte... ...g curd; add a few score invalids marching to and fro upon the snowy road, or skating on the ice-rinks, possibly to music, or sit- ting under sunshades... ...a vicious effort; for by this time your wooden steed is speeding like the wind, and you are spinning round a corner, and the whole glitter- ing valley...

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...that, in greasy winter weather, the pavement is al- most as treacherous as ice. Washing dangles above washing from the windows; the houses bulge outwa... ...ne had grown there of its own accord, like a cellar fungus, and would soon spin itself out and fill the vaults from end to end with its mysterious lab... ... his sister lived together in an odour of sour piety. She was a marvellous spinster; he had a rare gift of supplication, and was known among devout ad... ... some dimensions: but when all is said, it was a single room. Here our two spinsters fell out – on some point of controversial divinity belike: but fe... ...e unites the two summits. Over this, every afternoon, private carriages go spinning by, and ladies with card-cases pass to and fro about the duties of... ... of blue, with swans sailing from the reeds; in winter, a field of ringing ice. The village church sits above it on a green promontory; and the villag... ...rowd opens and closes, and keeps moving through itself like water; and the ice rings to half a mile away, with the flying steel. As night draws on, th... ...nger, and the first torch is kindled and begins to flit rapidly across the ice in a ring of yellow reflection, and this is followed by another and an-...

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...st cultivated and pleasant men,” she replied. I was silent. The heart of a spinster of thirty-six is a well of tolerance. In the evening I went to the... ...e ideal double life which seemed so fair was cut short. My heart turned to ice within me as, hopeless of any other expla- nation, I concluded that you... ...elicate flower-like fingers; it ex- pands in tender, transparent nails; it spins the silky tresses; it 129 Balzac kicks in the little feet. Oh! those... ...dic, and there were convulsive twitchings in the limbs, which turned me to ice. I jumped out of bed to fetch him a drink. Imagine my horror when, on m... ...ver,” said the first. Finally it was agreed to put leeches on his neck and ice on his head. It seemed to me like death. T o look on, to see a corpse, ... ...h kisses, with the leeches feeding on it, and his darling head in a cap of ice. My dear, we had to cut those lovely curls, of which we were so proud a... ...re so proud and with which you used to play, in order to make room for the ice. The convulsions returned every ten minutes with the regularity of labo...

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...oucard. “Here, get on your double-soled shanks-mare, take this packet, and spin off to the Invalides.” “Here set forth,” Godeschal went on. “Add in th... ...f the heroic men on whom our national glory is reflected, as a splinter of ice on which the sun shines seems to reflect every beam. These vet- erans a...

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...and hurricanes; reins up his horse on the verge of an abyss; falls through ice in Holland and shows nothing but his head above it; cures himself of a ... ...n all house-wifely arts, to prepare dainty food and varied liquors, and to spin, weave, and broider, was only a part of Christina’s training; her uncl... ...might be held against five hundred men by sister Johanna with her rock and spindle! ’Tis a free barony, Mas- 17 Yo n g e ter Gottfried, I tell thee—h... ...t of her uncle and aunt, the poodle and the cat round the stove, the maids spinning and the prentices knitting as her uncle read aloud some grave good... ...ever, as Christina soon found, in her present state, impossible. She could spin and sew a little, but hated both; and her clumsy, listless fingers onl... ...resque dresses. Women and girls were exchanging the yarn of their winter’s spinning for bright handkerchiefs; men drove sheep, goats, or pigs to barte... ...ntrasted with the purple blue of the sky; or that they stood marvelling at ice caverns with gigantic crystal pendants shining with the most magical pu... ... the hues of the painted glass less pure and translucent than those of the ice crystals on the mountains. However after his eye had become trained, th... ...cannot hear him,” she an- swered. “‘Whiter than the snow, clearer than the ice-cave, more solemn than the choir. They will come at last.’ That was wha...

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...in those days, his clutches were instantly in the bowels of the pasty. The ice of ceremony being once broken, it seemed matter of rivalry between the ... ...herself a Saxon rhyme, as if to beat time to the revolving dance which her spindle was perform- ing upon the floor. The hag raised her head as Rebecca... ...ich she held in her hand, as if she had been one of the Fatal Sisters, who spin and abridge the thread of human life. T radition has preserved some wi...

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...at cares not for its home.—All shod with steel, We hiss’d along the polish’d ice, in games Confederate, imitative of the chace 465 And woodland pleasu... ...multuous throng, To cut across the image of a star 480 That gleam’d upon the ice: and oftentimes When we had given our bodies to the wind, And all the... ...d all the shadowy banks, on either side, Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still The rapid line of motion; then at once 485 Have I, reclini... ...g oft the impassion’d game, From Esthwaite’s neighbouring Lake the splitting ice, 570 While it sank down towards the water, sent, Among the meadows an... ...ftiest notes Down to the low and wren like warblings, made For cottagers and spinners at the wheel And weary travellers when they rest themselves 210 ... ... Chamouny did, on the following dawn, With its dumb cataracts and streams of ice— 460 A motionless array of mighty waves, Five rivers broad and vast—m... ...a toy, a windmill, though the air Do of itself blow fresh and makes the vane Spin in his eyesight, he is not content, But with the plaything at arm’s ... ...belying the kind hope 515 Which he had formed when I at his command Began to spin, at first, my toilsome songs.’ Without me and within as I advanced Al...

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...have attended a good many lectures in my time. I still re- member that the spinning of a top is a case of Kinetic Sta- bility. I still remember that E... ... should be at home minding women’s work, she answered there were plenty to spin and wash. And so, even with your own rare gifts! When nature is “so ca... ...old? For, after a certain distance, every step we take in life we find the ice growing thinner below our feet, and all around us and behind us we see ... ... it, for those who fear the last pinch, is irrevocable ruin. And yet we go spinning through it all, like a party for the Derby. Perhaps the reader rem... ...his paper. That spirit is truly En- glish; they, and not Tennyson’s cotton-spinners or Mr. D’Arcy Thompson’s Abstract Bagman, are the true and typical... ...s leading luminary? or – since we live in a scientific age – when once our spinning planet has turned its back upon the sun? The moon, from time to ti...

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...ow gladness on the peopled lands, And still with laughter, song and shout, Spin the great wheel of earth about. But ye? – O ye who linger still Here i... ... Nae doot, themsel’s, they ken it weel, An’ wi’ a hash o’ leemon peel, And ice an’ siccan filth, they ettle The stawsome kind o’ goo to settle; Sic we...

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...voices dropped suddenly. The head Chinaman went out. We heard the clink of ice in the glasses, pouring sounds, the shuffling of feet, the scraping of ... ...is brandy and soda. He must have trembled like an aspen leaf. The piece of ice in the long tumbler he held in his hand tinkled with an effect of chatt... ...bvious. I might just as well have suspected the girl of a curvature of the spine. And I per- ceived that the sun was about to set. The smoke of Falk’s... ...d not sink then?” I asked in surprise. He nodded. “We sighted the southern ice,” he pronounced dreamily. “And you alone survived?” He sat down. “Y es.... ...ract the attention of a lonely whaler, and very soon the edge of the polar ice-cap rose from the sea and closed the southern horizon like a wall. One ... ...hey were alarmed by finding themselves floating amongst detached pieces of ice. But the fear of sinking passed away like their vigour, like their hope... ...the good old ship Mrs. Hermann’s voice rang out so changed that it made me spin round in my chair to see what was the matter. “Lena, come here!” she s...

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... pass that I never have been round the world, never have been shipwrecked, ice environed, tomahawked, or eaten. Sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twil... ...cal delusion; the legs of my stool appeared to me to double up; the car to spin round and round with great violence; and a mist to arise between my s... ...s, then turnips—now the wires of the electric telegraph are all alive, and spin, and blurr their edges, and go up and down, and make the intervals bet... ...rter with equal deliberation helping the rest of the wheels bountifully to ice cream. Monied In terest and I re entering the carriage first, and bein... ...tune, and had borne him an immense number of children, and had set them to spinning, and farming, and engineer ing, and soldiering, and sailoring, an... ...ou must remember (says the plate) how you saw the mould of a little basin spinning round and round, and how the workmen smoothed and pressed a handfu... ...f Parliament before the fire broke out. It happened in this way. Poor John Spine, the celebrated novelist, had taken him over to South Lambeth to read...

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... man that spiritless fear holds aloof, nor any that gives place to coward ice, and shuns the cruel war, nay, but even thus, methinks, must it have se... ...te Hector on the breast, over the shield rim, near the neck, and made him spin like a top with the blow, that he reeled round and round. And even as ... ... in summer floweth forth like cold 275 The Iliad of Homer hail or snow or ice that water formeth. And there beside the springs are broad washing trou... ...t in the hall and make la ment afar off. Even thus did forceful Fate erst spin for Hector with her thread at his beginning when I bare him, even I, t...

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... the Last Day they shall disappear “like clouds;” the whole Earth shall go spinning, whirl itself off into wreck, and as dust and vapor vanish in the ... ...mplains, you some- times see a street-porter, staggering under his load on spindle- shanks, and near at hand a tailor with the frame of a Samson handl... ... withal, “Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” A gl... ... stern, impla- cable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful one: the lip is curl... ...ke her small merchandisings; perhaps to sell the lock of yarn she had been spinning, to buy the small winter-necessaries for her narrow hut or househo... ...hecks, balances; that there is something far other in it than the clank of spinning-jennies, and parliamentary majorities; and, on the whole, that it ... ...e, striving to be fervid;—which will glitter, if not as fire does, then as ice does: and the irreducible Cromwell will remain a chaotic mass of “madne...

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...lons, grapes, cheese and a bottle of Chianti. And for an added touch, spumoni ice cream. Antonio thought Mama had been in good spirits through dinn... ...ur sacred promise," Francis said without equivocation. Alex's mind began to spin like a top out of control. "Then I must keep everyone in the dark... ... them to become part of this mission." "Good luck," Brand said, swirling the ice cubes in his drink. "Would Radcliff be willing to set up a meetin... ...from the planet?" "Something like that," Brand responded, while stirring the ice cubes in his drink with a finger. "Do you believe in this Angel of... ...ll lowered. "Do you know a man by the name of Biaggi?" Madero's mind began spinning. What the hell, dead is dead, he reminded himself. "Yes, I kn... ...row opening of the hallway. Brand tried to reload, but the pain sent his head spinning until he lapsed into blackness. D.C.’s blue and whites sem... ...o a small room with a table and two chairs. "Get me a bottle of bourbon. No ice." "No problema." Jose left and returned in seconds with the bourb...

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... Arctic,’ he had to say. ‘But a gallop, after an Arc- tic bath, would soon spin the blood-upon an Esquimaux 22 Celt and Saxon dog, of course,’ he pur... ... human, and deceptive down to treachery, unless you had them fast by their spinning fancy. They called it being romantic. It was the ante-chamber of m... ...r, a real friend—that they have; and that ‘s a wonder in a woman chaste as ice. I do respect her; and I’ d like to see the man to favour me with an op... ... Patrick that it was a sham departure; they had to follow without a single spin to the claretjug: he closed the door merely to state his position; how... ...ohn had notions about the north-west passage, he had spent a winter in the ice, and if an amateur, was not the less a true sailor. With his brass-butt... ... beef influence mounts up to peaceful skies and the domestic English world spins with him. What he does not like will then be the forbidding law of a ...

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...l-keeper, Garde-des-Sceaux Miromenil is thought to be playing the traitor: spinning plots for Lomenie-Brienne! Queen’s-Reader Abbe de Vermond, unloved... ...f phosphorous and oil-of-turpentine spouted up through forc- ing pumps:’ O Spinola-Santerre, hast thou the mixture ready? Every man his own engineer! ... ..., thy beams fall slant on reapers amid peaceful woody fields; on old women spin- ning in cottages; on ships far out in the silent main; on Balls at th... ... and then, on the slightest stroke or shake, it at once rushes wholly into ice. Thus has France, for long months and even years, been chemically dealt... ...utting asunder ancient in- tolerable bonds; and, for new ones, assiduously spinning ropes of sand. Were their labours a nothing or a something, yet th... ...niting fluid; for example, ‘turpentine-and-phosphorus oil,’—fluid known to Spinola Santerre! 173 Thomas Carlyle Chapter 1.7.X. The Grand Entries. The... ...con- stitutional Pedant; clear, thin, inflexible, as water, turned to thin ice; whom no Queen’s heart can love. National Assembly, its pavilion spread... ...ce; not unrefreshed by brandy. Close by is the Dungeon of the Glaciere, or Ice-Tower: there may be deeds done—? For which language has no name!—Darkne... ...e knot of the crisis, when salvation or destruction hangs in the hour! The Ice-Tower of Avignon was noised of sufficiently, and lives in all memories;...

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...y amusement was in winter, when he took a pleasure in being drawn upon the ice by a boy barefooted, who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him; ... .... But the fact was, that we had a very good soup, a boiled leg of lamb and spinach, a veal pye, and a rice pudding. He owned that he thought Hawkeswor... ...would be Hercules with the distaff indeed.’ Johnson. ‘No, Madam. Women can spin very 452 Boswell’s Life of Johnson well; but they cannot make a good ... ...rd; oc- casionally, whore and thief. She had, however, genteel lodgings, a spinnet on which she played, and a boy that walked before her chair. Poor B...

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...vely as the name of the highest of the Finnish deities. Frost, snow, hail, ice, wind and rain, sunshine and shadow, are thought to come from the hands... ...ing the windows of heaven, and showering upon him flakes of snow, balls of ice, and hailstones of iron. Usually, however, Ukko prefers to encourage a... .... These daughters are believed to be skilled to perfection in the arts of spinning and weav ing, accomplishments probably attributed to them from th... ...s Lemminkainen, as described in the following runes. She busies herself in spinning veins, and in sewing up the wounded tissues of such deserving wors... ...e songs. These journeys were made through wild fens, forests, marshes, and ice plains, on horseback, in sledges drawn by the reindeer, in canoes, or i... ...e and hatchet These my tender mother taught me When she twirled the flying spindle, When a child upon the matting By her feet I rolled and tumbled. In... ...ll drive thee back dishonored, Sink thee in the fatal snow drift, T urn to ice thy pliant fingers, T urn to ice thy feet and ankles.” These the words ... ...hey were weaving; There I also heard the daughters Of the Sun as they were spinning On the red rims of the cloudlets, O’er the blue edge of the forest... ...ambkins, Gathered from them six white fleeces, Hence to make the rolls for spinning, Hence to form the threads for weaving, Hence to make the softest ...

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...birth. Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace 160 To spin, to weep, and cully human race. By this nice conduct and this prudent ... ...with showers, Or gives to Zembla fruits, to Barca flowers; Glittering with ice here hoary hills are seen, There painted valleys of eternal green; In c... ...thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it: So spins the silk-worm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds its... ...ir happiness; whereas they who take this high priori road (such as Hobbes, Spinoza, Descartes, and some better reasoners) for one that goes right, ten...

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... the way my luck was going, what was one more obstacle? After scraping the ice-covered windows, I climbed in and with a turn of the key it started. Al... ...is the same story told throughout the history of man but with a futuristic spin added to it. It is the combination of those two elements that makes th...

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... the earth goes round the sun; one small blob of mud among several others, spinning ridiculously with a waggling motion like a top about to fall. This... ... fields of Korea for Russian wheat or Japanese rice, from the ownership of ice- free ports and the command of the waters of the East—its true mission ... ...t? We know what had happened. The ship scraped her side against a piece of ice, and sank after floating for two hours and a half, taking a lot of peop... ...if one may be- lieve the last reports, has only scraped against a piece of ice which, I suspect, was not an enormously bulky and comparatively easily ... ...eive suddenly right ahead, and close to, something that looks like a large ice-floe. What would you do?” “Put the helm amidships.” “Very well. Why?” “... ...er’s before you. Very simple. If only the Titanic had rammed that piece of ice (which was not a monstrous berg) fairly, every puffing paragraph would ... ...le tell you of insuperable difficulties, if they tell you of the swing and spin of spanned boats, don’t you believe them. The heads of the cranes need... ... the davits. The lift required would be only a couple of inches. As to the spin, there is a way to prevent that if you have in each boat two men who k...

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... wait motionless. That is how the spider waits for the fly. But the spider spins her web. And if the fly, like my hero, shows a strength that promises... ...ea into his head. THE STATUE. Stuff! As an old soldier I admit the coward- ice: it’s as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little. But tha... ...nd punishments, forced you to learn how to play half a dozen pieces on the spinet which she hated as much as you did— had she any other purpose than t... ...p after dinner? You married my friend Ottavio: well, did you ever open the spinet from the hour when the Church united him to you? ANA. You are a fool... ...fool, Juan. A young married woman has something else to do than sit at the spinet without any sup- port for her back; so she gets out of the habit of ...

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...me enthusiastic at a bound. She lacked equilibrium, like all women who are spin- sters at the age of fifty. She seemed to be pickled in vinegary innoc... ... night, and fallen in headlong.’ “But, suddenly, a cold shiver attacked my spine, I first recognized a foot, then a clothed limb; the body was entire,... ...ace at about half past four. On that spot a hut had been built of lumps of ice, so as to shelter us somewhat from the trying wind which precedes daybr... ...dried rushes. Suddenly, at the turn of one of the lanes, I per- ceived the ice-hut which had been constructed to shelter us. I went in, and as we had ... ...ks and pale hair seemed to have lost their color by long dwelling amid the ice. When Ulrich had caught up with the animal which carried the women, he ... ... see that his iron-shod stick and his ax, which served to cut steps in the ice, were in order. Then he waited. The fire was burning on the hearth, the... ...cended, scaling the rocks by means of his climbing-irons, cutting into the ice, advancing con- tinually, and occasionally hauling up the dog, who rema... ... the beast. The girl stooped to milk her, while he stroked the cow’s sharp spine with a careless hand. Then they left the milk-pail on the grass, and ...

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...cied that their stillness was but the rest of infinite motion, the sleep of a spinning top? Thy little figure, there as, in loose ill brushed threadbare... ... everlasting barren simper; in the smile of others lies a cold glitter as of ice: the fewest are able to laugh, what can be called laughing, but only ... ...sly emitted several pecks of dry wheat dust: and stood there diminished to a spindle, his galloons and slashes dangling sorrowful and flabby round him.... ... tened round him, and the noble creature is his own sempster and weaver and spin ner; nay his own boot maker, jeweller, and man milliner; he bounds ... ...e but has tools. The basest of created animalcules, the Spider itself, has a spinning jenny, and warping mill, and power loom within its head: the stu... ...shes of the Old are blown about, do organic filaments of the New mysteriously spin themselves: and amid the rushing and the waving of the Whirlwind ele...