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... I was a boy,—an acre or so of white, sweet smelling boards in each raft, a crew of two dozen men or more, three or four wigwams scattered about the ... ... quarters,—and I remember the rude ways and the tremendous talk of their big crews, the ex keelboatmen and their admiringly patterning successors; fo... ...rt of sea, and withal a very still and brilliant and lonely one. Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those remote “points;” instantly ... ...randeur created with a bit of pitch pine just before arriving at a town; the crew are grouped on the forecastle; the broad stage is run far out over t... ... literature will command when impartially divided up among twelve raftsmen’s crews, who have pulled a heavy skiff two miles on a hot day to get them, ... ...l crossing; the pilot not on watch takes his “cub” or steersman and a picked crew of men (sometimes an officer also), and goes out in the yawl—provide...

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...as Beard) came from Colchester to see the old man. She lived on board. The crew of runners had left, and there remained only the officers, one boy, an... ...simple hearts—all die … . No matter. “They loaded us at last. We shipped a crew. Eight able sea- men and two boys. We hauled off one evening to the bu... ...d, which contained the gal- ley, the cook’s berth, and the quarters of the crew. As we had expected for days to see it swept away, the hands had been ... ...nt down the leak took up. When it came to bending a fresh set of sails the crew demanded to put back—and re- ally there was nothing else to do. Boats ... ...her topsides. This was done, the repairs finished, cargo re-shipped; a new crew came on board, and we went out—for Bankok. At the end of a week we wer... ... oozed here and there and everywhere in slender threads, in an invis- ible film, in an incomprehensible manner. It made its way into the cabin, into t...

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...stamp to a playing-card; to a punt and last a pontoon. The two clerks, its crew, do not even look up as it comes into place. The Quebec letters fly un... ... that again is the strong westerly blow through which we rose. Overhead, a film of southerly drifting mist draws a theatrical gauze across the firmame... ...eling. The pits of gloom about us begin to fill with very faintly luminous films—wreathing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale fl... ...ulder. “I’m chasing the night west.” The stars ahead dim no more than if a film of mist had been drawn under unobserved, but the deep airboom on our s... ...ts cleared or came to rest. A big Hamburger was leaving Pont Levis and her crew, unshipping the platform railings, began to sing “Elsinore”—the oldest... ...r (Fowey—St. John’s) abandoned, leaking after weather, 46 151 N. 50 15' W. Crew rescued by Planet liner Asteroid. Watched to water and pithed by Posta... ...orm South McDonald Islands. No wreckage re- covered. Messages and wills of crew at all A. B. C. offices. FEZZAN—T. A. D. freighter Ulema taken ground ... ...lema taken ground during Harmattan on Akakus Range. Under plates strained. Crew at Ghat where repairing Dec. 13th. BISCAY, MARK BOAT reports Caducci (... ... letter, telegram, and consultation at the proper rates in a cinematograph-film of a bill. At the end of a month he said it looked as though M’Leod, t...

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... wisps of straight coarse hair dyed a mahogany tint, was the tindal of the crew—a kind of boatswain’s or serang’s mate. The other, sitting beside him ... ...lder of a position of dignity and ease. The kassab was the only one of the crew taking their evening meal who noticed the presence on deck of their co... ...the beggars got to windward of us by fair words, till one morning a boat’s crew from the Frenchman’s ship found the girl lying dead on the beach. That... ...y of them flat-nosed chaps we have to make shift with, instead of a proper crew of decent Christians. Fight- ing!” he went on with unexpected pugnacit... ...offer assistance. The general opin- ion among the seafaring portion of her crew was that little effective assistance could be expected from a vessel o... ...hat gave the impression of a clear blue abyss seen through a trans- parent film. And when she raised her eyes the same abysmal immobility seemed to re... ...first rate,” said Lingard, smil- ing at the nape of her neck, her ear, the film of es- caped hair, the modelling of the corner of her eye. He could se...

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...oor Of fire than water, spite of oaths and tears, Kept still aloof the crew, who, ere they sunk, Thought it would be becoming to die drunk. By... ...ight in heaven but a few stars, The boats put off o’ercrowded with their crews; She gave a heel, and then a lurch to port, And, going down hea... ...boats, as stated, had got off before, And in them crowded several of the crew; And yet their present hope was hardly more Than what it had b... ... so close, Because the sea ran higher every minute, And for the boat—the crew kept crowding in it. A small old spaniel,—which had been Don Jose’... ... lot, Since Noah’s ark went cruising here and there; She had a curious crew as well as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. ... ...e wish’d for shower at length was come, And the boy’s eyes, which the dull film half glazed, Brighten’d, and for a moment seem’d to roam, He s...

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...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...sengers, and therefore was afraid the law would be after him in case the matter got noised about or any accident happened. So I char- tered the raft a... ...e at work in the dewy fields by this time. The people often stepped aboard the raft, as we glided along the grassy shores, and gossiped with us and wi... ...The Neckar has always been used as a canal, and thus has given employment to a great many men and animals; but now that this steamboat is able, with a... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with... ... wedge, the Matterhorn. Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to ... ...n, and had filled up, the interstices of the rock-face, leaving only occasional fragments projecting here and there. These were at times covered with ...

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...lkestone to Boulogne, until at last, first little wisps and then a veil of filmy cloud hid the prospect from his eyes. He wasn’t at all giddy nor ver... ...The Adler hung at the zenith immediately alongside the flagship. The whole crew of the Vaterland assembled upon the hanging gallery; the crews of the ... ...HE THUNDERBOLT AGED SCIENTIST PERFECTS ELECTRIC GUN TO ELECTROCUTE AIRSHIP CREWS BY UPWARD LIGHTNING WASHINGTON ORDERS FIVE HUNDRED WAR SECRETARY LODG... ...ascended so swiftly and so far that mountain sickness overtook him and the crew and forced him down again; and Bert shared the dizziness and nausea. T... ... icily slippery over the metal they trod upon. But that was because a thin film of ice had frozen upon the gallery. He never knew how long his ascent ... .... Foolery! When the American airship dropped off at last, with most of its crew shot or fallen, Bert in his locker appreciated nothing but that the Va... ...ome one had caught it and wrung its neck and cast it aside. Several of the crew of the airship were standing about in silence, contem- plating the wre...

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...f aloft, As only child unto a sire bereaved, As land beheld, past hope, by crews forlorn, As sunshine fair when tempest’s wrath is past, As gushing sp... ..., blow on blow! LEADER Riddles bcyond my rede—I peer in vain Thro’ the dim films that screen the prophecy CASSANDRA chanting God! a new sight! a net,...

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...mermen, mermaids, and sea-horses that had come ashore upon the islands and attacked the crews of boats upon the sea; and my uncle, in spite of his inc... ...e is none near by to protect or even to help them; and the presence in such a spot of a crew of foreign adventurers – poor, greedy, and most likely la... ...look, followed this time by Rorie. I heard that the schooner was losing ground, but the crew were still fighting every inch with hopeless ingenuity an... ...or behind him. Markheim stood and gazed at him with all his eyes. Per- haps there was a film upon his sight, but the outlines of the new comer seemed ... ...ady sunken in pearly greyness, and a great, pale moon came swinging skyward through the filmy poplars. The Doctor sang, the Doctor whistled, the Docto...

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...ture theater called “The Rose- bud Movie Palace.” Lithographs announcing a film called “Fatty in Love.” Howland & Gould’s Grocery. In the display wind... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ... spread on the rack in the oven. She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth. She arranged a silver tray. She proudly carried it into... ...g out the wa- ter. And Pollock tries to repair it by reading poetry to the crew! Me, I want to yank it up on the ways, and fire the poor bum of a shoe... ...nees like water, her stomach revolving a thousand times a second, her eyes filmed, her ears full of roaring. She couldn’t reach the dining-room. She w... ...f Gopher Prairie as land-speculation and guns and automobiles. The feature film portrayed a brave young Yankee who conquered a South American republic...

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...d graves, And heard a thousand briny songs. 21 Her mission with her manly crew, Her flag unfurl’d, her title told, She took the Old World to the New,... ...d with determined beaks, In lurid anguish; but the Cretan king And all his crew were ‘ware of under-tides, That for the groaning vessel made a path, O... ...asts That die for us they eulogize! XXXVIII But these, of all the liveried crew Obeisant in Mammon’s walk, Most deferent ply the facial screw, The spi... ...nd gentle women choose their mates Most amorously from the gilded fighting crew: The human heart Bellona’s mad halloo Will ever fire to dicing with th... ...hanged with flavour for the adept: And merrily plied him captain, mate and crew. At last this dancer to the Polar star Sank, washed out within, and ov... ...ce plays T o bewitch, overcloud, illume. The dusty mote-images rose; Sheer film of the surface awag: They sank as they rose; their pain Declaring them... ...ring of space, By covert hoods and caves, Is promise of her secret face In film that onward waves. For darkness is the light astrain, Astrain for ligh... ...agrant wits that had Ideas buzzed; they were the feebly mad; Pursuers of a film they hailed ideal; But could be dangerous fire-flies for a brain Subdu...

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...dlers be, infer. 29 XL THE thought beneath so slight a film Is more distinctly seen,— As laces just reveal the surge, Or mists the... ... Its white foot tripped, Then dropped from sight. Ah, brig, good-night T o crew and you; The ocean’s heart too smooth, too blue, To break for you. ... ...89 The sweets of Pillage can be known 304 The thought beneath so slight a film 29 The treason of an accent 313 The way I read a letter’s this: 158...

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...wig, gave him a look of mystery. His eyes seemed shrouded in a transparent film; you would have compared them to dingy mother-of-pearl with a blue iri... ..., where he stood scrutinizing him for some minutes, as well as the curious crew of beggars among whom he found himself. The passage to the lock-up at ...

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...ain blows malicious mockery. BERNARDO: It was about to speak, when the cock crew. Hamlet, Act I, scene i 8 HORATIO: And then it started like a guil... ...ess Itself to motion, like as it would speak; But even then the morning cock crew loud, And at the sound it shrunk in haste away, And vanish’d from ou... ...ur soul, That not your trespass, but my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infec...

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...mers were rock- staked on the Nile outside the city, and that of all their crews there remained not one; and Khartoum was dead,—was dead,—was dead! Bu... ...ith white hair, and he said nothing till Dick began to de- scribe the gray film in the studio. ‘We all want a little patching and repairing from time ... ...gued, in the loneliness of his studio, henceforward to be decorated with a film of gray gauze in one corner, that, if his fate were blind- ness, all t... ...t it. It was true that the corners of the studio draped themselves in gray film and retired into the darkness, that the spots in his eyes and the pain...

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...ous Lingard, when, after a long contest, he boarded the craft, driving the crew over- board. This girl, it was generally known, Lingard had adopted, w... ...onal charms, of which she heard many a young brave warrior of her father’s crew express an appreciative admira- tion. There was in her the dread of th... ...to buy gutta-percha or beeswax, because he intended to employ his numerous crew in collecting trepang on the coral reefs outside the river, and also i... ...d. When he sighted us he ran inside the reefs and put the brig ashore. The crew escaped in boats be- fore we could take possession. As our boats neare... ...ve no fear, O master of my life, the sea is ever true.” Over their heads a film of dark, thread-like clouds, looking like immense cobwebs drifting und...

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...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y... ...Dobbin stood in the church-porch, looking at it, a queer figure. The small crew of spectators jeered him. He was not thinking about them or their laug... ... band playing “God Save the King,” the officers waving their hats, and the crews hurrahing gallantly, the transports went down the river and pro- ceed... ...nto the welcome shore-boat which was to take them from the ship, the whole crew, men and officers, the great Captain Bragg himself leading off, gave t...

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...armless, and the falchion flies.” Furious he said, and towards the Grecian crew (Seized by the crest) the unhappy warrior drew; Struggling he followed... ...broken rock the force of Pyrus threw, (Who from cold Ænus led the Thracian crew,) 102 Full on his ankle dropp’d the ponderous stone, Burst the strong ... ...sed the spoils of gallant Diomed. Struck with amaze and shame, the T rojan crew, Or slain, or fled, the sons of Dares view; When by the blood-stain’d ... ... To aid her, swift the winged Iris flew, Wrapt in a mist above the warring crew. The queen of love with faded charms she found. Pale was her cheek, an... ... if Jove’s great son he should pursue, Or pour his vengeance on the Lycian crew. But heaven and fate the first design withstand, Nor this great death ... ...l mists. “But to nobler sights Michael from Adam’s eyes the film removed.” “Paradise Lost,” xi. 411. 1...

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...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents 1. FILMER ....................................................................... ...4 Twelve Stories and a Dream Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells 1. FILMER 1. FILMER 1. FILMER 1. FILMER 1. FILMER IN TRUTH the mastery of ... ... all honoured names none is so grotesquely and tragically honoured as poor Filmer’s, the timid, intellectual creature who solved the prob- lem over wh... ...ss of his science found such an amazing exemplifica- tion. Much concerning Filmer is, and must remain, profoundly obscure—Filmers attract no Boswells—... ... gether. And this is the story one makes, putting this thing with that, of Filmer’s life and death. The first authentic trace of Filmer on the page of... ...es, about—but noise- lessly. He had an impression of many eyes, of a dense crew of squat bodies, of long, many-jointed limbs hauling at their mooring ... ...y ached. We all messed to- gether in the Sanderses’ cabin—it was a curious crew, all of- ficers and no men—and there stood the diving-dress wait- ing ... ...rs—if they were Lascars—and the Chinaman and the negro who constituted the crew, fished him out and took him aft to Bingham and his friend to play cri... ...e he hurled himself against the impassable barrier, and then with all that crew of mocking ghosts about him, hurried back in dire con- fusion to Vince...

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...tish, and Austrian,and Hungarian,and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground. None of it that I... ... cargo, silver sand and boxes of earth. At noon set sail. East wind, fresh. Crew, five hands…two mates, cook, and myself, (cap tain). On 11 July at ... ...s off soon. At dark passed into Archipelago. On 13 July passed Cape Matapan. Crew dissatisfied about something. Seemed scared, but would not speak out... ...eemed scared, but would not speak out. On 14 July was somewhat anxious about crew. Men all steady fellows, who sailed with me before. Mate could not ... ..., but all was quiet. On 16 July mate reported in the morning that one of the crew, Petrofsky, was missing. Could not account for it. Took larboard wat... ... was a rain storm, when he saw a tall, thin man, who was not like any of the crew, come up the companionway, and go along the deck forward and disappe...