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...ouen. At Rouen salutes were fired, the National Guard on both sides of the river paid military honors to the body; and over the middle of the suspensi... ...e, as report goes, by the patriots assembled there. It is now lying on the river, near the Invalides, amidst the drifting ice, 25 Thackeray whither t... ...re the Hotel had gone away too. The Imperial Barge had been dragged up the river, and was lying lonely along the Quay, examined by some few shivering ...

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...out of our camp; the French, in theirs of Arlieu and about Arras. A little river, the Canihe I think ’twas called, (but this is writ away from books a... ... airing on horseback, being too weak for military duty,) they came to this river, where a number of English and Scots were assembled, talking to the g... ...llibly have sent him to the provost-marshal had he been on our side of the river. Whilst this parley was going on, three officers on horseback, on the... ...dged the salute, and looked at us hard. Even the idlers on our side of the river set up a hurrah. As for the Royal Cravat, he ran to the Prince’s stir... ...as dreadfully gloomy for a long time, though living in a fine house on the river, and carrying on a great trade to all appearance. At length Esmond sa... ... blacksmith’s forge yonder among the trees, across the green, and past the river, on which a mist still lay sleeping. Next Esmond opened that long cup... ...d heights, the fair yellow plain cheerful with crops and corn, the shining river rolling through it towards the pearly hills beyond; all these were be...

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...d my tongue, bow my head, and drift to the grave, as all water runs to the river. What could I try to do? I should like to grind them all— Adeline, he... ... I care for one of the marble children that play at the feet of one of the river-gods in the T uileries. If I do not come home to dinner, he dines qui... ...ndered along by the parapet of the Quai Voltaire, in fancy suppressing the river and walk- ing along the opposite bank, she recognized the artist as h... ...n ace of yielding to the evil prompting that bid him fling Crevel into the river and throw himself in after. On reaching the Rue du Dauphin, which had... ...n. This rash speech, in which the words “my own son” came out as full as a river in flood, was, by the end of the hour, ratified as a formal promise t... ... Grenadier Guards, and I was one of them. Our columns held one bank of the river, the batteries were on the other. Three times they tried for the brid... ...ere to be bought in any shop. These two types of luxury are divided by the river Million. A mirror, if unique, is worth six thousand francs; a mirror ...

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...or, and separated from the highway by a broad field; its bound ing on the river, which the owner said protected it by its fogs from frosts in the spr... ... above all, the recollection I had of it from my ear liest voyages up the river, when the house was con cealed behind a dense grove of red maples, t... ... rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammot... ...s have noble villages of men. If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker... ... had with drawn so far within the great ocean of solitude, into which the rivers of society empty, that for the most part, so far as my needs were co... ...ttle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon... ... another without any perceptible change in the atmosphere. I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were... ... be required to reflect a green tint I have never proved. The water of our river is black or a very dark brown to one looking directly down on it, and... ...inds: a long and shallow one, steel colored, most like those caught in the river; a bright golden kind, with greenish reflections and remarkably deep,...

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...laying shuttle-cock at the doors, he opened his window and leaned out. The river, that makes of this quarter of Rouen a wretched little V enice, flowe... ... their irregu- lar clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path. A river flowed under a bridge; through the mist one could distin- guish build... ...nd Beauvais roads, at the foot of a valley watered by the Rieule, a little river that runs into the Andelle after turning three water-mills near its m... ...ep straight on to the top of the Leux hill, whence the valley is seen. The river that runs through it makes of it, as it were, two regions with distin... ...e, and the lazy borough, growing away from the plain, has naturally spread riverwards. It is seem from afar sprawling along the banks like a cowherd t... ...her had gone one hundred and fifty miles in a straight line, and swum four rivers; and his own father had possessed a poodle, which, af- ter twelve ye... ... heat, moreover, which, on account of the aqueous vapours given off by the river and the considerable number of cattle in the fields, which, as you kn... ...owned in the fog that lay reeking in the moonlight along the course of the river. In the middle of the room, pell- mell, were scattered drawers, bottl... ...times, showed to their foot the garden walls whence a few steps led to the river. It flowed noiselessly, swift, and cold to the eye; long, thin grasse...

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...NTS OF THE UNITED STATES 37 Great Lakes and beyond the sources of the great rivers which communicate through our whole interior, no country was ever ... ...ature has done so much for us by intersecting the country with so many great rivers, bays, and lakes, approaching from distant points so near to each ... ...ead in vast numbers along the whole coast and on both sides of every bay and river as high up in each as it might be navigable for ships of war. By th... ...g States a free passage to the ocean, through the Province ceded, by several rivers, having their sources high up within their limits. It secures us a... ...DRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 55 Twenty five years ago the river Mississippi was shut up and our Western brethren had no outlet for ... ...outlet for their com merce. What has been the progress since that time? The river has not only become the property of the United States from its sour... ...all its tribu tary streams (with the exception of the upper part of the Red River only), but Louisiana, with a fair and lib eral boundary on the wes... ...d in establishing the blessings of self government in val leys of which the rivers flow to the Pacific. The world beholds the peaceful triumphs of th... ...great interests of agriculture, commerce, and manufac tures, to improve our rivers and harbors, to provide for the speedy extinguishment of the publi...

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...t, when a city shall be as it were besieged and blocked about, her navigable river infested, inroads and incursions round, defiance and battle oft rum... ...g clouds do often rest; Meadows trim, with daisies pied; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees,... ...till she revived, And underwent a quick immortal change, Made Goddess of the river. Still she retains Her maiden gentleness, and oft at eve Visits the...

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...ple; so he spake, And turning, left them there; and with brief pause, Girt with a throng of revellers, bent his way To the cool region of the groves h... ...re he climb the pass— The gentian-flower’d pass, its crown With yellow spires aflame; Whence drops the path to Allière down, And walls where Byron c... ... keep from his capricious play His genuine self, and force him to obey Even in his own despite his being’s law, Bade through the deep recesses of our ... ...ut cruel is she! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea.” 50 Matthew Arnold The Future A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship... ...Where the snowy mountainous pass, Echoing the screams of the eagles, Hems in its gorges the bed Of the new-born clear-flowing stream; Whether he first... ...Whether in sound of the swallowing sea— As is the world on the banks, So is the mind of the man. Vainly does each, as he glides, Fable and dream O... ...s Moses felt 51 Selected Poems When he lay in the night by his flock On the starlit Arabian waste? Can rise and obey The beck of the Spirit like him?... ... on its breast, our minds Are confused as the cries which we hear, Changing and shot as the sights which we see. And we say that repose has fled For e... ...er will those on its breast See an ennobling sight, Drink of the feeling of quiet again. But what was before us we know not, And we know not what shal...

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...ssael, and very soon got a post as rector in a semi nary in a town on the river Volga. XIII MEANWHILE the yard porter Vassily was marching on the ope... ...tled with his wife on the Liventsov estate, in a dis tant province on the river Volga. Peter Nikolaevich was always fond of order, and wanted things ... ... The Forged Coupon and other stories schoolmistress in a small town on the river Volga. Turin lived near that town, on his father’s estate. He often c... ...and owner. The refreshments were magnificent, and the champagne flowed in rivers. Though I was fond of cham pagne I did not drink that night, becaus...

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...- tinctness. The entire absence of ocean or sea, and indeed of any lake or river, or body of water whatsoever, struck me, at 63 V olume One first gla... ...hrow our eyes upon the town and neighboring country. “What broad and rapid river is that which forces its way, with innumerable falls, through the mou... ... short and narrow but populous thoroughfare, not far from the banks of the river, and at a distance of some two miles, in the most direct course possi... ...just been towed ashore by some fishermen, who had found it floating in the river. Upon seeing the body, Beauvais, after some hesitation, identified it... ...Five V olumes was, even if we presume that Marie Rogêt was thrown into the river within three hours after she left her mother’s house, only three days... ...mated soon enough to have enabled her murderers to throw the body into the river before midnight. Those who are guilty of such horrid crimes, choose d... ...se darkness rather the; light… . Thus we see that if the body found in the river was that of Marie Rogêt, it could only have been in the water two and... ...ictim of a gang of desperadoes—that by these she had been borne across the river, maltreated and murdered. Le Commerciel,* however, a print of extensi... ...n, and there was every evidence of a struggle. Between the thicket and the river, the fences were found taken down, and the ground bore evidence of so...

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...essengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behol... ...acles, O Israel! 6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and a... ...ss on to Azmon: 5 And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea. 6 And as for ...

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...erlooking the Neva. Claire, a robust young English lady, is leaning on the river wall. She turns expectantly on hearing the garden gate opened and clo...

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...y. Think of these terms: • Ice lenses • Tesla’s atmospheric friction electrical generation (7 atmospheres) • ‘Root- cellar’ water barrels • Rivers- in- the- sky ...and think of Galileo, the Toronto School Board of Education, Copernicus, and ...GURBIN!...

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... How do of Ontario’s Elliot Lake region affect us? Why can’t we question an industry without threats by the sector? Is it that concerned that Serpent River residents, and Pangnurtung residents of the north will expose something hat nuclear doesn’t want to deal with? CLG ...

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...ry. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held and occupied by descendants o... ...had a family of nine children, and was drowned at the mouth of the Kanawha River, Vir- ginia, in 1825, being at the time one of the wealthy men of the... ...eamer for Louisville or Cincinnati, or the first steamer going up the Ohio River to any point. Before I left St. Louis orders were received at Jeffers... ...arracks, at the end of twenty days. I knew my regiment had gone up the Red River, but I was not disposed to break the letter of my leave; besides, if ... ... grounds on the res- ervation at Fort Jessup, about midway between the Red River and the Sabine. Our orders required us to go into camp in the same ne... ...Grand Ecore, about three miles from each, and on high ground back from the river. The place was given the name of Camp Salubrity, and 25 U. S. Grant ... ...a state belonging to the repub- lic of Mexico. It extended from the Sabine River on the east to the Rio Grande on the west, and from the Gulf of Mexic... ..., never had exer- cised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Mexico had never recognized the inde- pendence of... ...r, Fort Jessup, twenty-five miles away, vis- iting the planters on the Red River, and the citizens of Natchitoches and Grand Ecore. There was much ple...

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...nic came in to warm himself. Then on St. Alexey’s Day the ice broke on the river and the district policeman turned up, and he was chatting with you al... ...bridge was being built. From the village, which stood up high on the steep river-bank, its trellis-like skeleton could be seen, and in foggy weather a... ...appened that the engineer’s wife came to see him. She was pleased with the river-banks and the gorgeous view over the green valley with trees, churche... ...ney; and from early morning till evening he sauntered at leisure about the river or about the village; if he saw, for instance, a peasant carting a lo... ...Lytchkovs, father and son, the village elder and V olodka, punted over the river in a boat and went to a hamlet on the other side where there was a ta... ... fair, and slender. There was a fragrance of scent about them. “I like the river and the forest and the village,” Elena Ivanovna went on; “I could liv... ...ence… . What does it matter?” Elena Ivanovna looked at the broad, tranquil river, ponder- ing, and tears flowed down her cheeks. And Rodion was troubl... ...ival of the village church. The Lytchkovs, father and son, went across the river early in the morning and returned to dinner drunk; they spent a long ... ...grown used to the sight of the bridge, and it was difficult to imagine the river at that place without a bridge. The heap of rubble left from the buil...

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...ings that be right, are the Gardens beneath whose shades the 62 The Koran rivers flow. This the immense bliss! Verily, right terrible will be thy Lor... ...h the masses of fresh and salt water which are in contact at the mouths of rivers, etc. See Sura [lxviii.] xxvii. 62; [lxxxvi.] xxxv. 13. 4 Lit. O ye... ...action, both small and great, is written down. Verily, amid gardens 3 and rivers shall the pious dwell. In the seat of truth, in the presence of the ... ...e Gardens–for the later Jews believed in more than one Paradise–and of the rivers and trees therein, will be found in Schr der Talm. Rabb. Judenthum, ... ... what was spoken: ‘Cast him into the ark: 8 then cast him on the sea [the river], and the sea shall throw him on the shore: and an enemy to me and an... ...e loftiest grades await them: Gardens of Eden, beneath whose trees 16 the rivers flow: therein shall they abide for ever. This, the reward of him who... ...ofty in point of situation, this frequently recurring phrase may mean that rivers run at its base. The Commentators, however, gener- ally understand i... ...se. The Commentators, however, gener- ally understand it to imply that the rivers flow beneath its shades or pavilions. 17 Lit. and there overwhelmed... ...people. Said he, “O my people! is not the kingdom of Egypt mine, and these rivers which flow at my feet? 13 Do ye not behold? Am I not mightier than ...

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...iews At Ev’ning from the top of FESOLE, Or in VALDARNO, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the ta... ...bitation, bend Four ways thir flying March, along the Banks Of four infernal Rivers that disgorge Into the burning Lake thir baleful streams; Abhorred... ...e inflame with rage. Farr off from these a slow and silent stream, LETHE the River of Oblivion roules Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthw... ...grew, there grows, And flours aloft shading the Fount of Life, And where the river of Bliss through midst of Heavn Rowls o’re ELISIAN Flours her Amber... ... What wonder then if fields and regions here Breathe forth ELIXIR pure, and Rivers run Potable Gold, when with one vertuous touch Th’ Arch chimic Sun... ... Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill. Southward through EDEN went a River large, Nor chang’d his course, but through the shaggie hill Pass’d ... ... might with this Paradise Of EDEN strive; nor that NYSEIAN Ile Girt with the River TRITON, where old CHAM, Whom Gentiles AMMON call and LIBYAN JOVE, H... ...taint Th’ animal Spirits that from pure blood arise Like gentle breaths from Rivers pure, thence raise At least distemperd, discontented thoughts, Vai... ...asie, e’re God had bid the ground be drie, All but within those banks, where Rivers now Stream, and perpetual draw thir humid traine. The dry Land, Ea...

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...er a murderous action with Tilly, who disputed with him the passage of the river. With the loss of half his army he reached the opposite bank, where h... ...as far as Minden. After an unsuccessful attack on Nieuburg, he crossed the river and overran the principality of Calemberg, in which he quar- tered hi... ...d his troops. The king conducted his op- erations on the right bank of the river, and spread his forces over the territories of Brunswick, but having ... ...au made himself mas- ter of the Elbe. All the lands on either bank of this river were at his command, and from them he could either attack the King of... ...nden, at the foot of the Hessian Mountains, and at the confluence of these rivers with the Weser. He soon made himself master of Goettingen, the key o... ...mself upon the Oder, at Gartz, above Stettin, in order, by commanding that river, to cut off the water communication of the town with the rest of Germ... ...o return by rapid marches to Magdeburg. Tilly encamped on this side of the river at Wolmerstadt; Gustavus on the same side, near Werben, not far from ... ...ration of its states, the number of its strong castles, its many and broad rivers, had long restrained the ambition of its neighbours; and frequently ... ... to him, as if to the native sovereign. No fortress was inac- cessible; no river checked his victorious career. He conquered by the very terror of his...

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...oss the Danube, throw ourselves on his line of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his w... ...UZOV FELL BACK TOW ARD V IENNA, destroying behind him the bridges over the rivers Inn (at Braunau) and Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian tr... ...nd Traun (near Linz). On October 23 the Russian troops were cross- ing the river Enns. At midday the Russian baggage train, the artillery, and columns... ...n, squeezed his way along; some- times like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the... ... through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers’ or company’s baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered... ...from the bridge, for the horizon as seen from the valley through which the river flowed was formed by the rising ground only half a mile away. At the ... ...followed them across and the last Cossacks quitted the farther side of the river. The two Pavlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up t... ... Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in t... ...left bank of the Danube and took up a position for the first time with the river between himself and the main body of the French. On the thirtieth he ...

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... was not a fool could, like Bunyan’s hero, look back from the brink of the river of death over the strife and labor of his pilgrimage, and say “yet do... ...e, place and circumstance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysterie...

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...hing doesn’t often run in the female-line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know—it comes out in the sons. Clever sons, clever mo... ... kind as to propose a second favorite song of his—”Flow on, thou shin- ing river”—after she had sung “Home, sweet home” (which she detested). This har... ...r from his passion for another as joy in the morning light over valley and river and white moun- tain-top differs from joy among Chinese lanterns and ... ...eptibility accumulated in the consciousness of the author one knows of the river by a few streaks amid a long-gathered deposit of uncomfortable mud. T... ...t. To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the on- coming oar, not discerning the f... ...r lemons, and don’t look dull any more, Lucy. I’ll drive you and Louisa to Riverston to-morrow.” CHAPTER LVII They numbered scarce eight summers when ... ...s in the carrying business, which warranted his purchase of a mansion near Riverston already furnished in high style by an illustrious Spa physician—f... ...ing more intention in this interjectural naming than if they had said “the Riverston coach” when that vehicle appeared in the distance. Mr. Hawley gav... ...ch by making it known that she invites clergymen and heaven-knows-who from Riverston and those places.” “W e can hardly blame her for that,” said Mrs....

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...sure to hear something noteworthy. Nay, perhaps to hear a whole se ries and river of the most memorable utterances; such as, when once thawed, he wou... ... from below; the little Kuhbach gushing kindly by, among beech rows, through river after river, into the Donau, into the Black Sea, into the Atmospher... ... spirit, yet spiritualized, vapor ized. Fact unparalleled in Biography: The river of his History, which we have traced from its tiniest fountains, an...

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...cal. Moscow seen from the Poklonny Hill lay spaciously spread out with her river, her gardens, and her churches, and she seemed to be living her usual... ...w was on fire in several places. The buildings in Carriage Row, across the river, in the Bazaar and the Povarskoy, as well as the barges on the Moskva... ...iver, in the Bazaar and the Povarskoy, as well as the barges on the Moskva River and the timber yards by the Dorogomilov Bridge, were all ablaze. Pier...

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... voice of the latter sign; but if not, thou shalt take of the water of the river,” &c. (88) Indeed, if any one considers without prejudice the re- cor...

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...xist; and will only act ac cording to their own laws. We can not make the river run backwards; but we do not therefore say that watermills “are not m...

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...slow onset periods, for example; • salinised irrigation systems that helped bring down civilisations such as the Sumerian states on the Euphrates river some 4,000 years ago, • deforestation leading to desertification and or massive erosion is a particularly widespread and pernicious example, • human induced climate change may be another that is unfolding before o...