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...r King. Doctor Kevorkian and Mother Theresa. Wars and Disease. Sinners and saints, madmen and geniuses. Nothing had changed, just horrible and great p... ... "Yeah, I guess you could say that." Am I living with some kind of magical saint? God, she was going to have to watch her mouth around him. Among othe... ..., Therese made a U-turn and aimed her holly-green Trooper toward the Bronx River Parkway; hightailing it as far away from Mount Desert Dreams by Grac... ... palm her caramel cheek. So soft and sweet. "I am a Muslim, yes, but not a saint." "I wish you would stop doing that," Therese said through her teeth ... ...ne—in full Saudi Arabian regalia—hold court with Jamilah and her two kids. Lawrence of Arabia was the first description that flashed through her mind,... ...t flashed through her mind, but it didn't really do her genie-man justice. Lawrence had never looked as striking riding camelback across the sweeping ... ...hat you want to be." "Works for me." Jamilah gave Kane the once-over too. "Lawrence of Arabia and Cats. Curious coupling." Therese grinned, wished her...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Ji... ...Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 D. H. Lawrence The T respasser By D. H. Lawrence 1912 1912 1912 1912 1912 Chapter... ...and the sunlight opened great spaces tomorrow. The moon was full above the river. He looked at it as a man in abstraction watches some clear thing; th... ...ad already left the city. His face was silver and shadows to the moon; the river, in its soft grey, shaking golden sequins among the folds of its shad... ...ously. ‘Dear Lord!’ exclaimed Hampson; then: ‘Do you remem- ber Flaubert’s saint, who laid naked against a leper? I could not do it.’ ‘Nor I,’ shudder... ...gain. Presently she saw the quick stilettos of stars on the small, baffled river; they ran between high embankments. Siegmund recollected that these w...

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...ed its way through the grand scenery of gorges, flat-topped mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At last the train arrived in Calcutta and ... ...y continued their long journey, this time (as a rail link had not yet been constructed) along the river Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed... ... journey was slow because the vessels were being dragged upstream against the natural flow of the river. ‘Look, Helen,’ said Lady Agnes as they stoo... ...d in her motherly arms. Noticing his wound, she broke into a stream of Spanish, thanking all the saints that he was still alive. Gavin laughed and ... ...t he was still alive. Gavin laughed and lifting her off her feet said teasingly, ‘With all those saints to protect me, how can I fail to return to y... ...on her face, praying loudly in Spanish and exhorting God, the Virgin Mary and all the angels and saints to save them. Helen cupped her hands over h... ...t thanks to the leadership and personality of men like Clive, Hastings, Roe, Charnock, Stringer, Lawrence, The East India Company became the domina... ... the Indian troops at the fort were opened in case mutinous rebels communicated with them. John Lawrence, the powerful Administrator of the Punjab,... ...in peaceful and that he could rely on his Sikh troops’ loyalty. Then Lord Canning commanded John Lawrence to send troops to the aid of the Delhi Fi...

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... Vitus in Utrecht, Germany, close to the place where a bridge plunged into the Maas river following some frantic dancing. Hence "St. Vitus' dance". ... ...! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property damage: 12,000 houses, fire raged for 6 d... ...meters. An area of 240X60 kilometers sank by 1-3 meters and was flooded as a nearby river rushed in. San Francisco, April 18, 1906, 05:12 AM P... ...lows' Eve". People prayed to prepare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic Ne... ...u/english/faculty/reilly/NCHCproject/Psychology.h tm http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Rivers/chap16.htm I-J Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians... ...e American public. He won the Pulitzer prize in 1953 for his tome, The Spirit of Saint Louis and died in 1974 in Hawaii. The kidnapping and gr... ...st film ever to win the Oscar at 7 hours 33 minutes. Gone With the Wind (1939) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) were each 3 hours and 42 minutes. ...

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...TWILIGHT IN ITALY By D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Twilight in I... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Ji... ...ays the strange radiance of the mountains, there is the mystery of the icy river rushing through its pink shoals into the darkness of the pine-woods, ... ...he on the hill-slopes, or hewing the timber, or steering the raft down the river which is all effervescent with ice; whether it is drinking in the Gas... ... the very soul of the 9 Twilight in Italy place. The road went beside the river, that was seething with snowy ice-bubbles, under the rocks and the hi... ...nd foppish on his cross, as Gabriele D’Annunzio’s son posing as a martyred saint. The martyrdom of this Christ is according to the most polite con- 1... ...efore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.’ This is Saint Paul’s, ‘Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known...

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...f the North! that mouldering long hast hung On the witch-elm that shades Saint Fillan’s spring And down the fitful breeze thy numbers flung, Till ... ... sobs he drew, The laboring stag strained full in view. T wo dogs of black Saint Hubert’s breed, Unmatched for courage, breath, and speed, Fast on his... ...While the deep peal’s commanding tone Should wake, in yonder islet lone, A sainted hermit from his cell, T o drop a bead with every knell! And bugle, ... ...the wheeling eddies boil, Jill from their foam his dazzled eyes Beheld the River Demon rise: 46 The Lady of the Lake The mountain mist took form and ... ...ound is thy slumber! Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and forever! XVII... ...shock of grain, While of ten thousand herds there strays But one along yon river’s maze,— The Gael, of plain and river heir, Shall with strong hand re... ...espeare, R. and J. ii. 3. 6: “and night’s dank dew;” Milton, Sonnet to Mr. Lawrence: “Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire,” etc. 64. Sooth...

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...rancois Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, et Joseph Bernard, de l’Ordre de la Sainte T rinite, dit Mathurine. This Order was established by Jean Matha fo... ...ening the party reached the banks of one of the canals which connected the rivers of France, and which was to convey them to the Loire and thence to t... ..., extinguisher-capped, of castle, convent, or church, the clear reaches of river, the beautiful turns, the little vil- lages and towns gleaming white ... ...nation to continue the attempt, either in the slow canal or the broadening river. He was still very shy with the Countess, who was not in spirits to s... ...em- selves with gestures of despair, screaming out vows to the Madonna and saints, and shouting imprecations. The skip- per came to speak to her. ‘Mad... ...d Estelle. ‘ Ah! my child, who knows whether trials like even that blessed saint’s may not be in reserve even for your tender age. When I think of the... ... as ever I knew the poor misthress’ handbell; and unless our Lady, and St. Lawrence, and the rest of them, keep the better watch on us, the rascals wi...

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...Last of the Mohicans before closing this preface. Hawkeye calls the Lac du Saint Sacrement, the “Horican.” As we believe this to be an appro- priation... ...ical purification of bap- tism, and to obtain for it the title of lake “du Saint Sacrement.” The less zealous English thought they conferred a suffici... ...ds, or rifts, as they were then termed in the language of the country, the river became navigable to the tide. While, in the pursuit of their daring p... ...ranslated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England’.” During this eul... ...CHAPTER 3 “Before these fields were shorn and till’d, Full to the brim our rivers flow’d; The melody of waters fill’d The fresh and boundless wood; An... ...xpected event. The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, over- hanging the water, and shadowing its dark current with a deepe... ... ends of what I call a long trail together, for by this time the broad St. Lawrence, or perhaps, the Great Lakes them- selves, are between us.” “So mu... ...tributaries of Champlain from those of the Hudson, the Mohawk, and the St. Lawrence. Since the period of our tale the active spirit of the country has...

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...Royer Col- lards: every cellular, vascular, muscular Tissue glories in its Lawrences, Majendies, Bichats. How, then, comes it, may the reflective mind... ...re to hear some- thing noteworthy. Nay, perhaps to hear a whole series and river of the most memorable utterances; such as, when once thawed, he would... ...val brightness, even here, though but for moments, look through? Well said Saint Chrysostom, with his lips of gold, ‘the true SHEKINAH is Man:’ where ... ...rom below; the little Kuhbach gushing kindly by, among beech-rows, through river after river, into the Donau, into the Black Sea, into the Atmosphere ... ...pirit, yet spiritualized, vapor- ized. Fact unparalleled in Biography: The river of his His- tory, which we have traced from its tiniest fountains, an... ...ing Foun- 113 Thomas Carlyle tain. To many fondly imagined Fountains, the Saints’ Wells of these days, did I pilgrim; to great Men, to great Cities, ... ...ing Conscience! Did not Paul of Tarsus, whom admiring men have since named Saint, feel that he was ‘the chief of sinners;’ and Nero of Rome, jocund in...

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... people? Monstrous to have the suspicion that he would, you know him! Mrs. Lawrence Finchley, for example. I say nothing to hurt the poor woman; I bac... ...e, let him expect his whipping, with or without orna- ment. My opinion is, Lawrence Finchley had no solid foun- dation for his charge, except his bein... ...ey are rarely discovered in the haunts he frequented. Her allusion to Mrs. Lawrence Finchley rapped him smartly, and she admired his impassiveness und... ...o be relied upon where there’s a woman.” She refused her implicit trust to saints—”if ever a man really was a saint before he was can- onized!” Her pe... ...se of blessedness she had in her bowed simplicity of feeling was as if the sainted dead had cleansed and anointed her. When the sods had been cast on,... ... a great plane standing to the right of the house, the sparkle of a little river running near; all the scenes she knew, all young and lively. She spra... ...a stile across the meadows, making a short cut by way of a bridge over the river to Busley and North T othill, on the high-road to Hocklebourne. The l... ...hosen for her return. Out of Wiltshire there would be no cliffs, quarries, river-banks, presenting dangers. Those dangers, however, spring up when hor...

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... talettes. The fresh crowned hero fell without firing a shot. A certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory of herself ... ...awyer 17 would she feel then? And he pictured himself brought home from the river, dead, with his curls all wet, and his sore heart at rest. How she ... ...ught desolate places that were in harmony with his spirit. A log raft in the river invited him, and he seated himself on its outer edge and contemplat... ...l of chafings and repinings; conscience smitten, too — he could not meet Amy Lawrence’s eye, he could not brook her loving gaze. But when he saw this ... ...om on his premises — a dozen would strain his capacity, without a doubt. Amy Lawrence was proud and glad, and she tried to make Tom see it in her face... .... Petersburg could boast; the bent and venerable Major and Mrs. Ward; lawyer Riverson, the new notable from a distance; next the belle of the vil lag... ...er boy!” Tom thought, grating his teeth. “Any boy in the whole town but that Saint Louis smarty that thinks he dresses so fine and is aristocracy! Oh,...

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...gging of her father’s ships, and pointing them out to us as they go up the river: and Mrs. Kirk and her children will stop here in Bethesda Place, to ... ...rned to his own quarters. He could hear the cheering from the ships in the river, where the transports were already taking in their cargoes preparator... ...part- ments, in the midst of cheering from all the East India ships in the river, and the military on shore, the band playing “God Save the King,” the... ...awdon wrapped in his cloak, and making his bivouac under the rain at Mount Saint John, was thinking, with all the force of his heart, about the little... ...f the Imperial Guard 76 V anity Fair – V olume Two marched up the hill of Saint Jean, at length and at once to sweep the English from the height whic... ...- ten she had heard of Lady Southdown from that excellent man the Reverend Lawrence Grills, Minister of the chapel in May Fair, which she frequented; ... ...down made her up a packet of medicine and sent a letter by her to the Rev. Lawrence Grills, exhorting that gentleman to save the brand who “honoured” ... ...e house was an officer of the great Duke and distin- guished in the famous Saint Bartholomew conspiracy. During the whole of Mary’s confinement, the h... ...ticles of vertu—the magnificent Vandykes; the noble Reynolds pictures; the Lawrence portraits, tawdry and beautiful, and, thirty years ago, deemed as ...

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...scence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Trans... ... other, who should best entertaine, cherish and foster mee: And as if this river of benignitie did runne in a blood, your worthie Sonne in-law, and v... ...he e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Tran... ...he e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Tran... ...rus for many daies together ammused his whole armie to be revenged of the river Gyndus, for the feare be tooke passing over the same: And Caligula c... ... prognosticate some things; of thunders, of turnings and backe-recourse of rivers.' Multa cernunt aruspices: multa augures provident: multa oraculis ... ...to passe over the river Tesine, and to quarter himselfe in the suburbs of Saint Antonie, being impeached by a tower that stood at the end of the bri... ... du Bellay, the Governour of Turin, in the same conntrey, the Captaine of Saint Bony: all the rest of his men http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montai... ...Duke of Bourbon tooke Rome, an Ancient that kept sentinell in the borough Saint Peter, was at the first alarum surprised with such terror, that with ...

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...Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Aaron’s Rod b... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Ji... ...re. He was glad to be alone. He walked quickly down Villiers Street to the river, to see it flowing blackly towards the sea. It had an endless fascina... ...im and give him a sense of liberty. He liked the night, the dark rain, the river, and even the traffic. He enjoyed the sense of friction he got from t... ...om here the view was very beautiful. The hill dropped steep beneath him. A river wound on the near side of the city, crossed by a white bridge. The ci... ...” “Can’t one be alone—quite alone?” said Lilly. “But no—it is absurd. Like Saint Simeon Stylites on a pil- lar. But it is absurd!” cried the Italian. ...

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...imes, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river basins of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con sider the... ...f the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins of the great rivers of Siberia, the lofty plateaus of Central Asia, or the mighty swee... ...n our globe. EDITOR’S TABLE, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 1863 Chapter 1 The River and Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. ... ...undred and seventy five. It discharges three times as much water as the St. Lawrence, twenty five times as much as the Rhine, and three hundred and t... ...but they are hardly justifiable now, when even the children know that a dead saint enters upon a century long career of assassination the moment the e... ... are simply compensation, nothing more. St. Anne is somewhat slow pay, for a Saint, it is true; but better a debt paid after nineteen hundred years, a... ... of what they owe—they pay none of the interest either simple or compound. A Saint can never quite return the principal, however; for his dead body k...

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...holy men, ash smeared fakirs by their brick shrines under the trees at the riverside, with whom he was quite familiar–greeting them as they re turned... ... where it touched earth, there broke out a stream which presently became a River, whose nature, by our Lord’s beneficence, and that merit He acquired ... ...tten,’ said the Curator sadly. The lama drew a long breath. “Where is that River? Foun tain of Wisdom, where fell the arrow?” ‘Alas’, my brother, I d... ... studies as well as map making, and carried away a prize (The Life of Lord Lawrence, tree calf, two vols., nine ru pees, eight annas) for proficiency... ... black enamel, and there is a paper inside each one full of names of local saints and such things. Thatt is Huneefa’s look out, you see? Huneefa makes... .... An English observer might have said that he looked rather like the young saint of a stained glass window, whereas he was but a growing lad faint wit...

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...an likes to the accounts of the Big Salt Lakes, and to that of their being rivers that flow up stream.” “This comes of getting things wrong end foremo... ...the Atlantic is sometimes fresh on the sur- face, near the mouths of great rivers; but, rely on it, I shall show you a way of tasting the water many f... ...ey are sure to be on their trails. The Sarpent has come up one side of the river, and I have come up the other, in order to scout for the outlying ras... ...er in this direction, for sixty or seventy miles will take us into the St. Lawrence, which the 189 James Fenimore Cooper French might make too hot fo... ...rora, how did you get that canoe, and why are you paddling towards the St. Lawrence instead of the gar- rison?” “Arrowhead can tell his own from that ... ...re warriors. Why was the head of Arrowhead’s canoe looking towards the St. Lawrence, where there are none but enemies to be found?” “Why were the Path... ...ison; but if humility would make Christians, the king’s troops ought to be saints, for they’ve done little as yet this war but take lessons from the F...

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...ion; and these were the moments that stung him into longing to flee to the river, and lose the sense of shame among common sailors: but there was alwa... ...rrived. A raid was made on the cottages for buckets, a chain formed to the river, and at last the fire was got under, having made a wreck of everythin... ... of our shallow depths. I think it was on the meaning of the ‘Communion of Saints,’ 107 Yo n g e for the two girls were both reading in preparation f... ...en for that good woman, he would have been out of reach already out in the river before Mr. Castleford’s messenger had reached London! He might call h... ...such a taste of His beautiful things.’ ‘ONE, perhaps, when one is a little saint,’ returned Griff. ‘Oh don’t, Griff! I’m not THAT; but you know every ... ...thing was that it should be Ellen, for whom it was always supposed that no saint in the calendar, no knight in all the Waverley novels, would be good ... ...s that we begrudged; though truly no one could be meeker than this unlucky Lawrence Frith, nor more conscious of being an insufferable burthen. I even... ...nd that’s the reason she wants to keep up the old feud, and send this poor Lawrence off to the ends of the earth.’ ‘Can’t you do anything for him?’ as... ...d swaying a little on his pins whenever a draught came in; and there stood Lawrence Frith, freshly aware of him, and unable to repress the exclamation...

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...s when we would speak of moving or grave or beautiful things. “You were at Saint Athelstan’s all through,” he said, and for a moment that seemed to me... ...at me without effort—as it were by nature. We were at school to- gether at Saint Athelstan’s College in West Kensington for almost all our school time... ...I was about eight or nine it may have been. Do you remember me as a kid at Saint Athelstan’s?” “Rather!” “I didn’t show any signs did I in those days ... ...sing and gathering strength, and in Virginia, and Brazil, and down the St. Lawrence val- ley, it shone intermittently through a driving reek of thun- ... ...ntains of the earth the snow and ice began to melt that night, and all the rivers coming out of high country flowed thick and turbid, and soon—in thei... ...in a rudderless confusion a multitude of men and women fled down the broad river-ways to that one last hope of men— the open sea. Larger grew the star... ...gs; they turn ‘em out as beavers build dams, and with no more sense of the rivers they’re going to divert and the lands they’re going to flood! “ As w...

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...e undergraduates instantly formed themselves in lines from the fire to the river, and in swift continuance kept passing buckets as was needful, till t... ...en Mr. Hare, going along the line, was astonished to find Sterling, at the river-end of it, stand- ing up to his waist in water, deftly dealing with t... ...water, deftly dealing with the buck- ets as they came and went. You in the river, Sterling; you with your coughs, and dangerous tendencies of health!—... ...me year another flying one to Paris, and seen with no undue enthusiasm the Saint-Simonian Portent just beginning to preach for itself, and France in g... ...self, and France in general simmering under a scum of impieties, levities, Saint-Simonisms, and frothy fantasticalities of all kinds, towards the boil... ... Kemble’s a few evenings ago, when a drawing of Miss Kemble, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, was brought in; and I have no doubt that you will shortly see, ev... ...or might lie; not in these remote solitudes of the sea,—where no shrine or saint’s well is to be looked for, no communing of pious pilgrims journeying... ...n the defeat of Varus. One of the four officers with Macnaghten was George Lawrence, a brother-in-law of Nat Barton; a distinguished man, and the fath...