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...ty yards. He approached the mass, surprised at the size and more so at the shape, since most meteorites are 10 The War of the Worlds rounded more or ... ...lf, staring at its strange appearance, aston- ished chiefly at its unusual shape and colour, and dimly per- ceiving even then some evidence of design ... ...see the Thing more clearly. He fan- cied even then that the cooling of the body might account for this, but what disturbed that idea was the fact that... ...ed that, very slowly, the circular top of the cylinder was rotating on its body. It was such a gradual movement that he discovered it only through not... ...d ceased, and a thin circle of bright metal showed between the top and the body of the cylinder. Air was either entering or escaping at the rim with a... ...can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance. The peculiar V- shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the ab... ...s apex, arrested by these phenomena, a little knot of small vertical black shapes upon the black ground. As the green smoke arose, their faces flashed... ...more than on Mars, albeit his muscular strength would be the same. His own body would be a cope of lead to him. That, indeed, was the general opinion.... ... five, however, that a field gun reached Chobham for use against the first body of Martians. About six in the evening, as I sat at tea with my wife in...

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...avering multitude, 4 Can play upon it. But what need I thus My well known body to anatomize Among my household? Why is Rumour here? I run before King... ...r’d; And since we are o’erset, venture again. Come, we will all put forth, body and goods. MORTON: ’Tis more than time: and, my most noble lord, I he... ...ligion: Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts, He’s followed both with body and with mind; And doth enlarge his rising with the blood Of fair King... ...konings: all the other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry. You that are old consider not the... ... and that we now possess’d The utmost man of expectation, I think we are a body strong enough, Even as we are, to equal with the king. LORD BARDOLPH :... ...e fighting o’ days and foining o’ nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven? [Enter, behind, PRINCE HENRY and POINS, disguised .] FALST... ...ike, I see no reason in the law of nature but I may snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end. [Exit.] ACT IV SCENE I: Yorkshire. Gaultree Fore... ... say, if damn’d commotion so appear’d, In his true, native and most proper shape, You, reverend father, and these noble lords Had not been here, to dr... ...s it apprehen sive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth,...

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...ul’s palace is become a prison: Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body Might in the ground be closed up in rest! For never henceforth shall... ...n, Never, O never shall I see more joy! RICHARD: I cannot weep; for all my body’s moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace burning heart: Nor can... ... MARGARET : But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam; But like a foul mis shapen stigmatic, Mark’d by the destinies to be avoided, As venom toads, ... ... of kings, Beseeching thee, if with they will it stands That to my foes this body must be prey, Yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope, And give ... ...s far beyond a prince’s delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason waits on ... ...n him. [Alarum. Enter a Son that has killed his father, dragging in the dead body .] Son: Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. This man, whom hand... ...ake an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body; To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part, Like... ... the crown, And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell, Until my mis shaped trunk that bears this head Be round impaled with a glorious crown.... ..., like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, And set the murderous Machiavel to sc...

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...f their joint international relationships. It may be a queerly constituted body at first; it may be of a merely diplomatic pretension; it may be calle... ...gain with one another. They, too, will be forced to create some overriding body to prevent so suicidal a possibility. America too, it may be, will dev... ...ago- nistic to bold reconstructions of our national methods is that vaguer body, the body of investing capitalists, the savers, the usurers, who live ... ...a vast class, but a feeble class in comparison with the other two; it is a body rather than a class, a weight rather than a power. It consists of all ... ...f doing well in war or peace under the orders of detected fools. This vast body will constitute a very stimulating congrega- tion of spectators in any... ...ll sorts, which were flour- ishing in 1914, exist to-day only as names, as shapes, as empty shells. Their staffs have been shattered, scattered, recon... ...iances. That is to say, that primary human unit, the home, was altering in shape and size and frequency and colour and effect. A steadily increasing p... ...al boundaries of south-western Asia for the last three thousand years. The shapes and colours come and go—now it is Persia, now it is Macedonia, now t... ...; the monarchs splash the water and break up the mirror in endless strange shapes; nev- ertheless, always it is tending back to its enduring forms; al...

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...uld not be able to cope with this monster. He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stoli... ...youth thought the damp fog of early morning moved from the rush of a great body of troops. From the distance came a sudden spatter of firing. He was b... ...im of tragedies—hid-den, mysterious, solemn. Once the line encountered the body of a dead soldier. He lay upon his back staring at the sky. He was dre... ... a hand were stroking it. He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the a... ...hind the walls of smoke. A sketch in gray and red dissolved into a moblike body of men who gal- loped like wild horses. The veteran regiments on the r... ...dreams were never perfect to him afterward, but remained a mass of blurred shapes. Presently he began to feel the effects of the war atmosphere— a bli... ...Afterward the center careered to the front until the regiment was a wedge- shaped mass, but an instant later the opposition of the bushes, trees, and ... ...f it were not for a few corpses that lay thrown and twisted into fantastic shapes upon the sward. At sight of this tableau, many of the men in blue sp... ...led out and away, but many lay still, their bodies twisted into impossible shapes. The youth looked once for his friend. He saw a vehement young man, ...

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...er loved till ne er worth love, Comes dear d by being lack d. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying ... ...dus! LEPIDUS: What manner o thing is your crocodile? MARK ANTONY: It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is jus... ...in triumph, with SILIUS,and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead body of PACORUS borne before him.] VENTIDIUS: Now, darting Parthia, art th... ...une does of Marcus Crassus death Make me revenger. Bear the king s son s body Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes, Pays this for Marcus Crassus. A... ... She creeps: Her motion and her station are as one; She shows a body rather than a life, A statue than a breather. CLEOPATRA: ... ...ath fought to-day As if a god, in hate of mankind, had Destroy d in such a shape. CLEOPATRA: I ll give thee, friend, An armo... ... Come on, then; He may recover yet. [Exeunt with the body.] Act IV , scene ix 99 SCENE X: Between the two camps. [Enter MARK A... ...ptain is Even such a body: here I am Antony: Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave. I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen, Whose heart ...

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... a swell of magnificent chords, felt his harmonic spirit ready to desert his body on being answered by the ghastly rattle of empty keys, and in the co... ...ve the knight, noble baron,” said the friar. “He urges not his reason in the shape of a preconceived in tent, but in that of a subsequent extenuation... ...n by the name of choice fellows and comical dogs, to be the genuine tangible shape of the cream of a good joke. CHAPTER VI What! shall we have incisio... ...my gratitude.” The knight made a wry face under the double pain of heart and body caused at the same moment by the material or martial, and the metaph... ...ked in my life,” said the baron; “I stood my ground manfully, and covered my body with my sword. If I had had the luck to meet with a fighting friar i... ...ever ventured to find her in the wrong, much less to enjoin any thing in the shape of pen ance, as was the occasional practice of holy confessors, wi... ...ain pos session of the lady by force of arms; and accordingly col lected a body of troops, and marched upon Arlingford castle. A letter, conveyed as... ... the retreat of the baron’s men and the foresters, who had all gone off in a body to wards Sherwood forest. Harpiton suggested that it would be desir... ... Friar Tuck, of Sherwood forest. Truly, I have a chapel here hard by, in the shape of a hollow tree, where I put up my prayers for travellers, and Lit...

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...ce, and no land beside. 146 Bast. Madam, and if my brother had my shape 147 And I had his, sir Roberts his like him, 148 And if my... ...Lest men should say, looke where three farthings goes, 152 And to his shape were heyre to all this land, 153 Would I might neuer stirre from... ...aue beene merrier. 1585 Art. ’Mercie on me: 1586 Me thinkes no body should be sad but I: 1587 Yet I remember, when I was in France, 1... ...a powre 1829 For any forraigne preparation, 1830 Was leuied in the body of a land. 1831 The Copie of your speede is learn’d by them: 1832... ... Euen at my gates, with rankes of forraigne powres; 1970 Nay, in the body of this fleshly Land, 1971 This kingdome, this Confine of blood, a... ... 2629 And from the organ- pipe of frailety sings 2630 His soule and body to their lasting rest. 2631 Sal. Be of good comfort (Prince) f... ... 2632 To set a forme vpon that indigest 2633 Which he hath left so shapelesse, and so rude. 2634 Iohn brought in. 2635 Iohn. I mar...

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... of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy’s forces from leaving Richmond and falling in over- whelm... ...2. TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES: I herewith return to your honorable body, in which it origi- nated, an act entitled “An act to provide for addi... ...ENS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRE- SENTATIVES: I herewith return to your honorable body, in which it origi- nated, the bill for an act entitled “An act to sup... ...e moral Sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a f... ...e. A glance at the map shows that, territorially speaking, it is the great body of the Republic. The other parts are but marginal borders to it, the m... ...be expected. It is important to the enemy that such a force shall not take shape and grow and thrive in the South, and in precisely the same proportio... ...at confusion at first, take 312 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six shape and fall into more regular channels, so that the necessity for strong... ...is to say that such protection would be given. I cannot know exactly what shape an act of emancipation may take. If the period from the initiation t...

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...In the late 21st century on Earth, new technology allowed man to create machines merged with the body of their fallen comrades of war. These ?manchines? fought and won the war for the West. Discarded, the manchines learned of their worth and fought back for their own freedom, destroying half of the population of mankind....

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...el-like material never used before. The exterior was sleek and well defined in the shape of a silver bird. He circled the ship and looked upon it as ... ...ht Saron out of his thoughts. He rushed to her side. When he saw Saria's still body yards away, he didn't speak. He turned on his heels and flew... ...et their warm faces. They ran into the thick, green grass until they found Saria’s body amidst the children. Her small body shivered violently. ... ...re in front of him was a forest suspended in the sky. Silver streaked ships of all shapes and sizes zoomed beneath him in and out and between the clo... ...ane of platinum hair sat a crown with different colored jewels carved into various shapes. “We have been traveling a while before we reached All... ...utes ago. Slowly, she closed his eyelids and backed away as her guards took his body and carried him to the palace. As she turned she peere... ...o much since he left. But he knew otherwise. He would do anything to feel her soft body against his in that moment. He jumped, noticing that he ... ...r, why can’t you help your brother?” “An ailment is simple to cure in a mortal body because it is simply replacing your natural defense. A wound... ... They do want more. They want us. And that...” She pointed to the eye of the beast-shaped skylight. “The center of our people. The Eye of Alloria. T...

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...t Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the... ...ities they are cannibals -- Kubla Khan suppresses an insurrection -- Defeats a body of 500,000 cavalry -- Orders the execution of the leader by tossin... ...fants are attended by their fathers -- A gold and silver monument set over the body of a King -- Its dazzling beauty -- The lion hunters of Cintiqui -... ...ith an enormous quantity of gold, jewels and other valuables -- Surprised by a body of 300 Spaniards -- The capture of a wonderfully rich treasure -- ... ... Cook - - Repulse of the mariners -- Forcing a surrender of portions of Cook's body -- Slaughter of Natives -- Desolation on the shore -- Burial at se... ... Cape Cormoran and the Island of Zealand were connected and composed one large body of land. Malacca and Sumatra were also joined, as is shown by Ptol... ...rom bursting. He describes also having seen most remarkable fish, not only mis-shapen, but of such enormous size that from their bones and ribs a chur... ...cock for the battle- doors of Austria and Italy. BELIEF RESPECTING THE EARTH'S SHAPE. But though sails had long whitened the great sea, and adventurou... ...ls that were built thousands of years ago. The Ark, whatever may have been its shape, from dimensions given must have had a tonnage of 15,000, not qui...

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..., it took time for the feeling to return to his legs. It didn't matter that his body could not move with the ease of his youth. His mind was agile a... ... lifted the silver fish gently, and admired the rainbow that was painted on its body by the Great Spirit. The sun was now beginning to settle into t... ...ith her back toward him; her black-dyed, deerskin dress fit snugly on her tall, shapely fig­ ure. Long black straight hair flowed down to her waist, ... ...pely fig­ ure. Long black straight hair flowed down to her waist, caressing her body as it blended into the soft ebony dress. Unconsciously, a guttu... ...long slit in her dress ended, exposing her tantalizing flesh. He scanned up her body, and finally settled on her deep, green eyes that were the colo... ...however," she admonished. Richard nodded. She then picked up the thin triangle shaped silver object and fingered the dotted pattern and the connect... ...lute silence. A whisper of fear passed through him; he was alone. His mind and body seemed suspended in an immense void. A strange dream, he though... ...ly butler opened the door and showed him into the foyer that was formed in the shape of a rotunda. Huge Greek and Roman stat­ ues were perched in pr...

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...rom Spain to India, the incessant friction and fertilizing interactions with Islam shaped Western values, beliefs, doctrines, moral tenets, politic... ...d on its erstwhile allies and either conquered or otherwise absorbed them into its body politic. Roman commanders and procurators meddled in the i... ... willing", are hesitant. Japan contributes close to one fifth of the international body's regular budget. Yet, disillusioned by its inability to ga... ...media mogul, has it in recent interviews? Or, paradoxically, has this international body been strengthened by its faithful depiction of resistant wo... ...ivilizations: "The transmission of the European miracle (the European Union as the shape of things to come) to the rest of the world has become Eur...

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... be pursued. By the end of October this kind of warfare had taken definite shape: it had become clear to all what could be ventured against the French... ...drops were still falling from the trees. Near the watchman’s hut the black shapes of the Cossacks’ shanties and of horses tethered together could be s... ...ies and of horses tethered together could be seen. Behind the hut the dark shapes of the two wagons with their horses beside them were discernible, an... ...were particularly brilliant. Cold shivers ran down his spine and his whole body pulsed rhythmically. “Well, is ev’wything weady?” asked Denisov. “Bwin... ...ir riders into the ravine. Petya rode beside Denisov, the pulsation of his body con- stantly increasing. It was getting lighter and lighter, but the m... ...the un- mistakably lifeless attitude—very familiar to him—in which Petya’s body was lying. “Done for!” repeated Dolokhov as if the utterance of these ... ...d at night there were the campfires; the lice that devoured him warmed his body.) The one thing that was at first hard to bear was his feet. After the... ...nd with a gloomy face, walked be- hind some Cossacks who were carrying the body of Petya Rostov to a hole that had been dug in the garden. *”Get along...

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... summer, it was generally feared, could not last. But that only made every body the more eager to lose no hour of an enjoyment that might prove so fle... ...ative state of the eye under this nervous apprehensiveness, I continued to shape into images of Agnes forms without end, that upon nearer approach pre... ...my innocent wife— in a dungeon. As the morning light began to break, some- body knocked at the door; it was Hannah: she took my hand—misery levels all... ...ght at all; for the hour was now rapidly approaching, when thinking in any shape would for some time be at an end for me. That day, as the morning adv... ... the desponding, and the dissolute, there might be very naturally a larger body of contagion lurking than according to their mere numerical expectatio... ...und all day long; and doubtless my excited state, and irri- table habit of body, had offered a peculiar predisposition that 45 Thomas de Quincey favo... ...by morbid habits in that un- easy yoke-fellow of the intellectual part—the body. He at all events was a man to justify in his own person this way of t... ... anly shame—of matronly dignity—of insulted innocence, from every mode and shape of public display. Combine all these circumstances and elements of th... ...tions would follow, and at last all the solemnities of a great trial would shape themselves and fall into settled im- ages. The audience was assembled...

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...y did spend a sad and bloody hour, As by discharge of their artillery, And shape of likelihood, the news was told; For he that brought them, in the ve... ...sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of the day’s beauty: let us be Diana’s foresters, g... ... of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing cross. First Carrier: God’s body! the turkeys in my pannier are quite starved. What, ostler! A plague o... ... I cannot blame him: at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation ... ...tell you once again that at my birth The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds Were strangely clam... ...great heart! Ill weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now ... ...f I be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy: [Throwing the body down .] if your father will do me any honor, so; if not, let him kill ...

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... too, is beautifully situated. It is on a long promontory, which takes the shape of a peninsula, for the neck which joins it to the main-land is not a... ...but the trees themselves have shallow roots, and grow up tall, narrow, and shapeless. It necessarily is so with all timber that is not thinned in its ... ...may be said in its favor—that drainage and gas-pipes come easier to such a shape, and that ground can be better economized. Nevertheless, I prefer a s... ...feet above the ground when I was there, shall be an octagonal building, in shape and out- ward character like the chapter house of a cathedral. This s... ...een made in a river carrying in its channel such or any approach to such a body of water. Up above the falls for more than a mile the waters leap and ... ...waters here have been turned by the is- land, and make their leap into the body of the river below at a right angle with it—about two hundred yards be... ...—still in the States—and on what is called the Ameri- can side of the main body of the river. Advancing beyond the path leading down to the lesser fal... ...d the cautious measures by which he endeavored to bring his vast untrained body of men under discipline were such as did at that time recommend themse... ...t of a man’s brow; but labor carried to excess wearies the mind as well as body, and the sweat that is ever running makes the bread bitter. There is, ...

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... out flashed the long lash, completely curling about the offend ing creature’s body. Carmen — for it was Carmen — cowered in the snow, cried piteously... ...f wilderness. Ruth returned to her husband, while Malemute Kid cut up the warm body of one of the dogs, the skull of which had been crushed by the axe... ...nt pines. A single stroke of his hunting knife would release them and send the body high in the air. Ruth had received her husband’s last wishes and m... ...ntimes he must re verse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped. To those who have the protean faculty of adaptability, the nove... ...ated, the pressure of the altered environment is unbearable, and they chafe in body and in spirit under the new restrictions which they do not un der... ...hings as a dainty menu for rough fare, of the stiff leather shoe for the soft, shapeless moccasin, of the feather bed for a couch in the snow, is afte... ... after all a very easy matter. But his pinch will come in learning properly to shape his mind’s attitude toward 3 First magazine publication in Overla... ...ver; mebbe not then.” The manufacture of snowshoes and moccasins ceased. Some body called the name of an absent member, who came out of an an cient ... ...nto the air from great clusters of waxen bells. Creamy white were these bells, shaped like lilies of the valley, with the sweetness of perfume that is...

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...that had formerly burned there and constituted its charm. Now her face and body were of all that one saw, and her soul was not visible at all. All tha... ...re moments when the old fire did kindle in her hand- some, fully developed body she was even more attractive than in former days. Since their marriage... ...r, but by some- thing else—indefinite but firm as the bond between her own body and soul. To fluff out her curls, put on fashionable dresses, and sing... ...pose of marriage is the family. If the purpose of dinner is to nourish the body, a man who eats two dinners at once may perhaps get more enjoyment but... ...tern expression of the lofty, secret suffering of a soul bur- dened by the body appeared on her face. Nicholas gazed at her. “O God! What will become ... ...re. In his place was his father-Prince Andrew—and his fa- ther had neither shape nor form, but he existed, and when little Nicholas perceived him he g...

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...raciously allowing each the privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, back, and bosom—which in the fashion of those days were ... ... told she sat upright, glancing now at her beautiful round arm, altered in shape by its pressure on the table, now at her still more beautiful bosom, ... ... imbecility and a constant expression of sullen self-confidence, while his body was thin and weak. His eyes, nose, and mouth all seemed puckered into ... ... entered the study, rubbing his small white hands. Pierre turned his whole body, making the sofa creak. He lifted his eager face to Prince Andrew, smi... ...ne, and his arm trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip as he sat on the sloping ledge. As he began slipping down, his... ...ses, the count’s niece, entered with a cold, stern face. The length of her body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs. Prince V asili tur... ... “I know she’s a scamp of a girl, but I like her.” She took a pair of pear-shaped ruby earrings from her huge reticule and, having given them to the r... ...ey both understood without naming. The princess, who had a straight, rigid body, abnormally long for her legs, looked directly at Prince V asili with ...