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...an to wonder how far out to sea it would drift. Would the current carry it north or south? South, probably, till it drifted in sight of Celebes, as fa... ... warehouses with their long and straight avenues of gin cases and bales of Manchester goods; the big door swinging noiselessly; the dim light of the p... ...se entrances himself only knew, Lingard used to take his assorted cargo of Manchester goods, brass gongs, rifles and gunpowder. His brig Flash, which ... ...self, would on those occasions disappear quietly during the night from the roadstead while his compan- ions were sleeping off the effects of the midni... ... then said— “I am almost happy to-night, Nina. I can see the end of a long road, and it leads us away from this miserable swamp. We shall soon get awa... ...rass guns covered with verdigris and only a few broken cases of mouldering Manchester goods reminded him of the good early times when all this was ful... ... heightened by the difficulty of penetrating far inland, especially on the north-east coast, where the Malays and the river tribes of Dyaks or Head-hu... ...e above charm, were Mrs. Almayer’s only theological luggage for the stormy road of life. Mrs. Almayer had at least something tan- gible to cling to, b... ...here Maroola’s men were warm- ing themselves during the cold nights of the north-east mon- soon, while their master had long conferences with the Tuan...

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...hose southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us.” —Captain Cowley’ s V oy- age Round the Globe, A.D. 1729. ... ...e Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...he whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.” —From “Some- thing” unpublished. “It is impossible to ... ...s; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, 72 Moby Dick other fragments of the la... ...y go, all cursing, and here I don’t. Fine prospects to ‘em; they’re on the road to heaven. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a squall! But those chaps there... ...ntry houses you will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the road-side door. When the porter is sleepy, the anvil-headed whale would be ... ...f fin-backs and other whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call “the only...

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...hese southern seas, as I may say, by a hundred to one; than we have to the northward of us.” Captain Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe. A.D. 1729. * * *... ...e whale ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover a passage through it to ... ...he whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North West Passage.” From “Something” unpublished. “It is impossible to mee... ...s; even pirates and privateers, though following the sea as highwaymen the road, they but plunder other ships, other fragments of the land like themse... ...y go, all cursing, and here I don’t. Fine prospects to ’em; they’re on the road to heaven. Hold on hard! Jimmini, what a squall! But those chaps there... ...ntry houses you will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the road side door. When the porter is sleepy, the anvil headed whale would be... ...of fin backs and other whales. Likewise, I have heard that in the museum of Manchester, in New Hampshire, they have what the proprietors call “the only...

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... men and boys out of every ninety nine and a quarter. Except when a branch road joins the main one, there is seldom more than one track of rails; so t... ...ns the main one, there is seldom more than one track of rails; so that the road is very narrow, and the view, where there is a deep cut ting, by no m... ...pelessness of there being anybody to get in. It rushes across the turnpike road, where there is no gate, no policeman, no signal: nothing but a rough ... ...ed with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere in the same manner. I happened to arrive at the fi... ...ge; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes – Dickens... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ... height of summer again. At seven we started for New York on board a great North River steamboat, which was so crowded with passengers that the upper ... ...ng English artisan, who had been in New York a fortnight, to a friend near Manchester, whom he strongly urged to follow him. One of the officers broug...

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...rong impres- sion that it was a wall painting upon some public building in Manchester or Birmingham or Glasgow, but very possibly I am mistaken about ... ... by cheap tickets at Bank Holiday times, was a sterile ridge of very clean roads and red sand pits and pines and gorse and heather. The Three Ps could... ...leak and rather fine like the New England mind, and the wide rough country roads and hills and woodland of New York State. But none of these change sc... ... had reached the sta- tus of an Improver, and he dressed the window of the Manchester department. By all the standards available he dressed it very we... ... the street door, and made a rapid transit along the street front past the Manchester window, and so into the silkroom door. He could not linger long,... ...ave given all the story telling very readily for a few adven- tures on the road. He wanted these nice people to live more and yarn less. He liked the ... ... his beard Mr. Polly sur- veyed the Fishbourne High Street once again. The north side was much as he had known it except that Rusper had van- ished. A...

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..., what would you do if you were married to an engineer, and had to live in Manchester, Mr. Denham?” “Surely she could learn Persian,” broke in a thin,... ...ld- erly gentleman. “Is there no retired schoolmaster or man of letters in Manchester with whom she could read Per- sian?” “A cousin of ours has marri... ...e could read Per- sian?” “A cousin of ours has married and gone to live in Manchester,” Katharine explained. Mr. Denham muttered something, which was ... ... breeding distinguished men. They had sailed with Sir John Franklin to the North Pole, and ridden with Havelock to the Relief of Lucknow, and when the... ... Strand he supposed that they would separate, but instead they crossed the road, and took their way down one of the narrow passages which lead through... ...arine and Rodney had come out on the Embankment. When they had crossed the road, Rodney slapped his hand upon the stone parapet above the river and ex... ...terly lost touch with the problems of high philosophy. He looked along the road, and marked a lamp-post at a distance of some hundred yards, and decid... ...arbles, and gray days without any sun. She’s a typical example of the cold northern nature. I come from Devonshire—” Had they been quarreling, Mary wo... ...you take me for?— a Cockney like you?” She then told him exactly where the north lay, and where the south. “It’s my native land, this,” she said. “I c...

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...less. Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped for... ...urney, cannot but think of it with a sweet and tender regret. Where is the road now, and its merry incidents of life? Is there no Chelsea or Greenwich... ...an made me re- mark that we drove very slow for the last two stages on the road, because Sir Pitt was on the box, and because he is pro- prietor of th... ...evening at a wonderful small cot- tage in a street leading from the Fulham Road—one of those streets which have the finest romantic names—(this was ca... ...tuous dark green carriage, a prospect of speedy knighthood, and a house in Manchester Square) that her grief at weaning the child was a sight that wou... ... staunch old True Blue Tory, and his fa- ther a small coal-merchant in the north of England), this aide- de-camp of the Marquis never showed any sort ...

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...llels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices o...

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... A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND ... ...dwork and the research group 15 * To the reader 18 I. A VILLAGE IN NORTHERN THAILAND Environment of my life (interviews) 20 About exper... ...Srii Muod Klao, central plains village 53 * Ban Mae Kong Nya, village of northern plains 57 * Ban Dong, the last forest village 58 Village hous... ...d out of a Chinese hotel in Sob Tui, near Lampang station, and crossed the road to the corner of the Phahonlyothin road. It was midday and the heavy h... ...rossing is still there, it is as potholed as before, but the Phahonlyothin road has become a wide boulevard. Where there used to be junk shops and rep... ...the villages of this book in Lampang, having set foot on the Phahonlyothin road. For me, this land, Lampang Province and its three villages mean numer... ...rancois 1986. The Postmodern Condition. Theory and History of Literature. Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester. Marlière, M. 1976. Les ceremonies...

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...ay they have 62% ... Five titans dominate the (defense) industry, and one of them, Northrop Grumman ... made a surprise (successful) $5.9 billion b... ... cycle models. There are longer-term effects. According to Martin Eichenbaum from Northwestern University, productivity in the manufacturing secto... ...ool of foreign exchange reserves. The "poor" (the South) now lend to the rich (the North) and are in the enviable position of net creditors. The We... ...rt Performance and the Role of Foreign Direct Investment - N Pain, K Wakelin - The Manchester School, 1998 Exports, Foreign Direct Investment an... ...s, countries can (and do) appeal directly to consumers (ads targeted at tourists or road shows aimed at investors). They present themselves and wha... ...dia and with specialized publications. Press conferences, presentations, contests, road shows, one-on-one meetings or briefings, seminars, lobbying... ... pitch and enliven the sales process. They are as indispensable in mass-attendance road shows and in retail marketing (e.g., of tourism packages) a...

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...ew up, and (it being a windy day) half-a-dozen men were tacking across the road under a press of paper, bearing gigantic announcements that a Public M... ...ere his dog. The words were scarcely uttered when Newman darted across the road, slunk among the crowd, and disappeared in an instant. 26 THE LIFE AN... ...emblazoned, in all the legibility of gilt letters and dark shading, on the north-country coaches, take Snow Hill to be? All people have some undefined... ...OF HIS LEAVE-TAKING AND HIS FELLOW-TRAVELLERS, AND WHAT BEFELL THEM ON THE ROAD IF TEARS DROPPED into a trunk were charms to preserve its owner from s... ...had dwindled down to one. Mr Gregsbury, the great member of parliament, of Manchester Buildings, Westminster, wanted a young man, to keep his papers a... ... fro like the troubled ghosts of Complete Letter-writers departed. This is Manchester Buildings; and here, at all hours of the night, may be heard the... ...inding of organs and clashing and clang- ing of little boxes of music; for Manchester Buildings is an eel-pot, which has no outlet but its awkward mou... ...ht Reverend the Bishop of Llandaff, Sir Mulberry Hawk, of Mulberry Castle, North Wales, to Catherine, only daughter of the late Nicholas Nickleby , Es... ...ke, ever to have dined with the Grimbles of Grimble Hall, somewhere in the North Riding, do you?’ said the good lady , addressing herself to him. ‘ A ...

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...ntern she recognized a watchman; through him she was guided into the right road; and in ten minutes more, she found herself back at the door of No. 29... ...ck 27 Thomas de Quincey from the provinces to the capital. On every great road in the kingdom, continual arrests were made of vagrants and ‘tramp- er... ...ed for trial at the next sessions; and it is needless to say, that, on his road to prison, he was pursued by mobs so fierce, that, under ordinary circ... ...he scene of this murder was at a rustic inn, some few miles (I think) from Manchester; and the advantageous situation of this inn it was, out of which... ...heir execution, the bodies were privately exhibited by the surgeons of the Manchester Infirmary, as objects of statuesque interest. On the other hand,... ...urse. With the landlord, however, on his re- turn about eight o’clock from Manchester, one of the broth- ers entered into a lively conversation; invit... ... stepped on a day of October, 1797, into that same suite of rooms at Bath (North Parade) from which, six hours before, the great man had been car- rie... ... was exclusive of the troops in garrison—of the forces left by Monk in the North—and above all of the entire army in Ireland,—it can- not be doubted t...

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...rom all parts of the world, this hardy old cruiser has last touched at the North Pole, when, as the ice- plates are being removed, the following words... ...it far?’ ‘Is which far?’ asked the boy, upon his guard, and again upon the road to Canterbury . ‘T o your father’s?’ ‘It’s a goodish stretch, sir. I c... ...if it were his peg-top, made for home. His home was in the Holloway region north of London, and then divided from it by fields and trees. Be- tween Ba... ...iden-Lane way—out Holloway direction—and you’ve only got to go East-and-by-North when you’ve fin- ished here, and you’re there. T wopence halfpenny an... ...loosed it?’ Chapter 7 MR WEGG LOOKS AFTER HIMSELF SILAS WEGG, BEING on his road to the Roman Empire, ap- proaches it by way of Clerkenwell. The time i... ...rs Boffin wants an orphan quite nineteen, who drives a cart and waters the roads.’ Mr Milvey referred the point to Mrs Boffin in a look; on that smili... ... going to say, the king is generally dressed in a Lon- don hat only , or a Manchester pair of braces, or one epaulette, or an uniform coat with his le...

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...VII: NIAGARA ...................................................................................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI ...........................................................

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...e by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ........................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST................................................................ ...; and this route we followed. From Boston to Portland we traveled by rail- road—the carriages on which are in America always called cars. And here I b... ...ern world must throng into these lands by means of this rail- 39 Trollope road, and, as at present arranged, through the harbor of Portland. At prese... ...Falls, namely, of Montmorency. They are eight miles from the town, and the road lies through the suburb of St. Roch, and the long, straggling French v... ...rs have thriven, and houses have been packed on to houses, till London and Manchester, Dublin and Glasgow have been produced. Poor men have built, or ... ...ight perhaps place near to a railway terminus in such a city as Glasgow or Manchester, but on which no living Englishman would expend his money in a t... ...untry. Lowell also is in little to Massachusetts and to New En- gland what Manchester is to us in so great a degree. It is the largest and most prospe...

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... in Iraq. Is it that the instinct for violence lashes out when the social restraints are removed? Is it that our need for power will take any road t... ...utes of sunlight a day they could get all the D they need. This may be easy in the southern U.S. and in the low latitude countries, but in the northe... ... by increasing their self esteem and increasing their social involvement. By the time they are about five years old they should be well on the road f... ...here is always a rationalization to justify people‘s behavior. For the soccer hooligans it might be that Britain is better than France or that Manche... ... is a common substitute for not being successful on the playing field. Just pretend that you have the power of your automobile. Don‘t forget road r... ...ate that in 670 AD the Arab conqueror, Uqba ibn Nafi crossed the deserts of Egypt and began the first Muslim conquest of the Maghreb region of North ... ...ilitary campaigns in the Maghreb, the Arabs had driven the Byzantines from their garrisons in Carthage and become masters of the provinces of North ...

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...site for preparing that beautiful and happy invention, without which these northern parts of the world could scarce have afforded a very comfortable h... ...ment must always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either ... ...parts of Africa, and all that part of Asia which lies any considerable way north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, the ancient Scythia, the modern T art... ... adventure succeeds, it is likewise the most profitable, is the infallible road to bankruptcy. The presump- tuous hope of success seems to act here as... ...not exercised in England at the time when it was made. The manufactures of Manchester, Birming- ham, and Wolverhampton, are many of them, upon this ac... ...shed surplus, therefore, 127 Adam Smith must belong to the landlord. Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage... ...Lon- don petitioned the parliament against the extension of the turn- pike roads into the remoter counties. Those remoter counties, they pretended, fr...

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...nds of the valleyside to Bunker’s Hill, branching off there, and run- ning north to Beggarlee and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of Der... ...ushes under the long wall. The garden was a narrow strip, bounded from the road, that cut transversely between the blocks, by a thick thorn hedge. She... ...e for it.” “Have you seen Hose?” called a very small woman from across the road. It was Mrs. Anthony, a black-haired, 34 Sons & Lovers strange little... ...d on his coat, blew out his candle, took his lamp, and went. Down the main road the lights of the other men went swinging. There was a hollow sound of... ... out. The children drew back with beating hearts. A great train, bound for Manchester, drew up. Two doors opened, and from one of them, William. They ... ...e between was traced, violated by a great train rushing south to London or north to Scotland. The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkn... ...hey both looked up the road that ran in shadow right under the glow of the north-west sky. On the crest of the hill, Selby, with its stark houses and ...

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...ngs on their passage. Oliver took her hand. He led her steadily to a cross road, and she did not know if they walked amid rocks or tombs. She heard th... ...ized with a devouring lust for the gutter, and he would go to Liverpool or Manchester and throw himself among the very dregs of the people. He used to... ...te herself entirely to Margaret’s welfare. Susie walked some way along the road to post this letter and then went to her room. It was a wonderful nigh... ...n lanes and of the waste places with their scented heather, the fair broad roads that led from one old sweet town to another, of the Pardons and thei... ...heat, and even at that hour the streets were sultry and airless. The train north was crowded, and it seemed impossible to get a breath of air. Her hea... ...hanging, they reached Venning. She had expected a greater coolness in that northern country; but there was a hot blight over the place, and, as they w...

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...times alone, sometimes with chance met gipsies of their own land. From the North Cape to the Blue Grotto at Capri they wandered, because the next stea... ... the next steamer headed that way, or because some one had set them on the road. The doctors had warned Sophie that Chapin was not to take interest ev... ... so far as they could, judge in the bumpy dark- ness, twice as many from a road. Trees, kine, and the out- lines of barns showed shadowy about them wh... ... twinkled before the racing hound, and a hawk rose, whistling shrilly. “No roads, no nothing!” said Sophie, her short skirt hooked by briers. “I thoug... ...s inside. Hissing softly, “162” comes to rest as level as a rule. From her North At- lantic Winter nose-cap (worn bright as diamond with bor- ing thro... ...red in the glare of Sheerness Double Light. The gale will have us over the North Sea in half-an-hour, but Captain Purnall lets her go composedly—nosin... ...“Hear him, Mummy!” “I did though! I wish I could show you the sample. Some Manchester chaps said it was as good as any Sea Island cot- ton on the mark...

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...gain. That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once more. The road we were on, struck the turnpike within half a mile of the point where ... ... my school-days in Georgetown were spent at the school of John D. White, a North Carolinian, and the father of Chilton White who represented the distr... ...one would form going there now. I had been east to Wheeling, Virginia, and north to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, west to Louisville, and south to Bou... ...tains, and over which canal boats were trans- ported. In travelling by the road from Harrisburg, I thought the perfection of rapid transit had been re... ...nd to which I did not know the way, depending upon making inquiries on the road, and if I got past the place without knowing it, instead of turning ba... ...the United States and New Mexico—another Mexican state at that time—on the north and west. An empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population... ...s to what should be done. Sherman marched his troops from Goldsboro, up to Manchester, on the south side of the James River, opposite Richmond, and th... ... favor of the Union, or, as they called it, in favor of the North. Even in Manchester, which suffered so fearfully by having the cot- ton cut off from...

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...omantic nonsense, erotic ecstasy, or the stern asceticism of satiety (“the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom” said William Blake; for “you ... ... by instinct. Our ideal prosperity is not the prosperity of the industrial north, but the prosperity of the Isle of Wight, 20 GB Shaw of Folkestone a... ...books of chivalry. The city papers prate of the competition of Bombay with Manchester and the like. The real competition is the compe- tition of Regen... ...ethodist, moved from Colchester to a house in the neighborhood of the City Road, in London, where, mistaking the Hall of Science for a chapel, she sat... ...0 GB Shaw THE CHAUFFEUR. I’d have done it under fifteen if I’d had a clear road all the way. TANNER. Why do you do it? Is it for love of sport or for ... ...tones: Spanish magnifi- cence and Spanish economy everywhere. Not very far north of a spot at which the high road over one of the passes crosses a tun... ...the hill. He springs up and points excitedly forward along the road to the north. THE GOATHERD. Automobile! Automobile! [He rushes down the hill and j...

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...ht into relation with the Nifl and Muspel (Darkness and Light) of the antique North, it may be enough to say, that its correctness of deduction, and de... ... falls, but to morrow thou findest it swept away; already on the wings of the North wind, it is nearing the Tropic of Cancer. How came it to evaporate,... ...from a far Country; more or less footsore and travel soiled; has parted with road companions; fallen among thieves, been poisoned by bad cookery, blis... ...olling un der its mountains of men and luggage, wended through our Village: northwards, truly, in the dead of night; yet southwards visibly at eventi... ...s not quite insignificant reflection (so true also in spiri tual things): Any road, this simple Entepfuhl road, will lead you to the end of the World! ... ... that will rise in the Traveller, when turning some hill range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its groves and green n... ...ain gowns, for a second skin of tanned hide? By which change Huddersfield and Manchester, and Coventry and Paisley, and the Fancy Bazaar, were reduced ...

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...e Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s house... ...thing then,” she said to herself, still walk- ing quickly along the bridle road through the wood. “It would be my duty to study that I might help him ... ...houghts by the appearance of a cantering horse- man round a turning of the road. The well-groomed chestnut horse and two beautiful setters could leave... ... away from Tipton Grange, he slackened his pace, and at last turned into a road which would lead him back by a shorter cut. V arious feelings wrought ... ...mphrey. He talks well.” “Yes. Mr. Brooke says he is one of the Lydgates of Northumberland, really well connected. One does not expect it in a practiti... ...plosive laugh, “you know very well that Lydgate is of a good family in the North. He never heard of Bulstrode before he came here.” “That is satisfact... ...field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open-hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives who will ...