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...ge of the Jolly Seventeen. IV The Jolly Seventeen (the membership of which ranged from fourteen to twenty-six) was the social cornice of Gopher Prairi... ...nd fought herself, and lost the battle. Spitting did not identify him with rangers riding the buttes; it merely bound him to Gopher Prai- rie—to Nat H... ...e shining thought into action. She bustled to the kitchen, stoked the wood-range, sang Schumann while she boiled the kettle, warmed up raisin cookies ... ...ly enough in the kitchen, with its crisp new plaster, its black and nickel range, its cream separator in a corner. Mrs. Erdstrom begged her to sit in ... ...e gasoline engine to the house, to cut the cords of poplar for the kitchen range. Kennicott had given the order; Carol knew nothing of it till she hea... ...he west. She was conscious of an unbroken sweep of land to the Rockies, to Alaska, a dominion which will rise to unexampled great- ness when other emp...

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...th which it was scummed put my teeth on edge, — I reached across a hot cooking range to the offending utensil, unhooked it, and wedged it securely int... ...retty sight, leaping and flying toward us, and evidently bound to pass at close range. The wind had been momentarily increasing, and the sun, after a f... ...he sea and beyond the bulge of the earth and with that heaven rolling mountain range of clouds moving slowly down upon us. Wolf Larsen did not seem af... ...eir rifles. The latter were rarely taken in the boats, for a seal, shot at long range with a rifle, invariably sank before a boat could reach it. But ea... ...Maud,” I said. “Maud.” She turned her head and beheld the sight. “It cannot be Alaska!” she cried. 180 The Sea Wolf “Alas, no,” I answered, and asked... ...nd tried in vain,” I answered. “I remember Winters, a newspaper fellow with an Alaskan and Siberian reputation. Met him at the Bibelot once, and he wa... ...s as frightened as I at the prospect, and we had reason to be, gazing at close range at the gleaming teeth and dog like mouths. “I always thought they...

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...hey had a force of negation which elimi- nated everything beyond their own range of perception. Gryce and Miss V an Osburgh were, in short, made for e... ...ed with Gwen V an Osburgh. George Dorset’s talk did not interfere with the range of his neighbour’s thoughts. He was a mournful dyspeptic, intent on f... ...by the stress of the ascent, her eyes wandering peacefully over the broken ranges of the land- scape. Selden stretched himself on the grass at her fee... ...en, prompt to perceive her hesita- tion, had already opened the packet and ranged its contents on the table. All the letters had been pieced together ... ...ake my place with Mattie Gormer this summer. They’re taking a party out to Alaska next month in their private car, and Mattie, who is the laziest woma... ...lf. The Gormers have both taken a tremendous fancy to you, and the trip to Alaska is—well—the very thing I should want for you just at present.” Miss ... ...l they realize how much they miss you.” MISS BART WENT with the Gormers to Alaska; and the expe- dition, if it did not produce the effect anticipated ... ...npleasant form of continuing to cling to her hosts after their return from Alaska. Little as she was in the key of their milieu, her immense social fa... ... to the W est, whence he came back only to learn that she was starting for Alaska with the Gormers. The revelation of this suddenly-established inti- ...

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...bert Louis Stevenson string band. His repertory of songs was, besides, inexhaust- ible, and ranged impartially from the very best to the very worst wi... ...lies open before him into the distance, and shows him the far-off spires of some city, or a range of mountain-tops, or a rim of sea, perhaps, along a ... ...nd threw quite a glow on the floor. Twelve cockle-shells and a half-penny china figure were ranged solemnly along the mantel-shelf. Even the spittoon ... ... shadows of the old bandits’ haunt, and shows shapely beards and comely faces and toilettes ranged about the wall. The bowl is lit, and the punch is b... ...es and falls behind another; and if you climb an eminence, it is only to see new and father ranges behind these. Many little rivers run from all sides... ...ls, and you shall fancy yourself in some untrodden northern territory—Lapland, Labrador, or Alaska. Or, possibly, you arise very early in the morning;...

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...: The Sleeping Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Alaska c1900 Part I The Wild I The Trail of the Meat D ARK spruce fore... ...th a start. The she wolf was less than a yard from him. Mechanically, at short range, without letting go of it, he thrust a brand full into her open a... ...that they might devour them and continue to live. They crossed low divides and ranged a dozen small streams in a lower lying country before their ques... ...le the life that was in them flickered and died down. One Eye was desperate. He ranged far and wide, and slept but little in the lair The Gray Cub 41 ... ...ve epitomized life as a vora cious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting an... ...losing gates without the rider’s dismounting. Time and again and many times he ranged the horse up to the gate in the effort to close it, and each tim...

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...-breed maidens in the South, and fantastic huntings for gold in mysterious Alaska. Above all, they told the story of the building of old San Francisco... ...wledge; conse- quently, accidents do not exceed the regular percentage ar- ranged by the devil for each class and climate under the skies. But the fre... ...teen hundred feet high, wooded from crest to heel. As far as the eye could range forward were columns of steam in the air, misshapen lumps of lime, mi... ...hange. She lived in New Hampshire. Accordingly, she had dragged them up to Alaska and to the Yosemite Valley, and was now returning leisurely, via the... ...ness of Adam’s curse, by saying that such things dower a man with a larger range of thoughts and higher aspirations. They do not say, “Free yourselves... ...n editorial waste-basket, to chevying Cana- dian schooners up and down the Alaska Seas. It is perfectly impossible to go to war with these people, wha... ...s own simple phraseology:—”Not by a darned sight. No, sir.” Ransom at long range will be about the size of it—cash or crash. Let us revisit calmer sce...

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...ways he remem bered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as th... ...in when Sol leks was once more brought forward. But he circled just beyond the range of the club, snarling with bitterness and rage; and while he circ... ... tell you straight, I wouldn’t risk my carcass on that ice for all the gold in Alaska.” “That’s because you’re not a fool, I suppose,” said Hal. “All ... ...s reputation was made, and from that day his name spread through every camp in Alaska. Later on, in the fall of the year, he saved John Thornton’s lif... ... per haps, but one that put his name many notches higher on the totem pole of Alaskan fame. This exploit was particularly gratifying to the three men...

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...hem selves into his vision. To the east his eyes, leaping the miles be tween range and range and between many ranges, brought up at last against the... ...ems that broke through the main trend of the sea of mountains. To the west the ranges fell away, one behind the other, diminishing and fading into the... ...A band of caribou passed by, twenty and odd animals, tantalizingly within rifle range. He felt a wild desire to run after them, a certitude that he cou... ...rge house and proceeded to spend. Porportuk was known as the richest Indian in Alaska. Klakee Nah was known as the whitest. Porportuk was a money lend... ...e traders and rotund officials of the great companies, cowboys from the Western ranges, sailors from the sea, hunters and dog mushers of a score of nat... .... But we will return. I have seen much of the world, and there is no land like Alaska, no sun like our sun, and the snow is good after the long summer... ...w that.” He scarcely followed her. He had heard it all before, many times. The range of her thought was limited, and she was ever harking back to the ...

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...ng to the environment between these two candidates is what we should do in Alaska on the Arctic National Refuge Plain (19). George W. Bush has stated ... ...n Jettmar, who works as a backwoods guide based in Anchorage, has lived in Alaska for 27 years (Behr 19). She tells a story of how she has stood alone... ...as stood alone on the plain, looking across it towards the Brooks Mountain Range. “There isn’t a human within fifty miles around, and the landscape is... ...ndscape is just so big and amazing,” she states (Behr 19). With so much of Alaska’s coast already cleared for oil de- velopment, why can’t this one pi... ... The next day we all took a trip to an all-girls’ public school. The girls ranged in age from seven to thirteen. There were about three hundred girls ...

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... We lost the American colonies because we interfered with their fiscal ar- rangements, and it was Napoleon’s attempt to strangle the Continental trade... ...rld; he is far nearer to the ruler of to-day in knowledge and intellectual range than he is to the working man of fifty years ago. The politician or b... ...e skilled maker of woodcuts by a photographer, and so on through the whole range of our activities. Change of function, arrest of specialisation by in... ...at State is in- deed no state at all. That will be an argument outside the range delimited by these definitions. 73 H. G . Wells Now what is intended... ...g without the amount of mutual understanding and mutual explanation such a range of characterisation in our novels implies. The success of civilisatio... ...ng. We are dealing here with a continu- ous area of land which is, leaving Alaska out of account alto- gether, equal to Great Britain, France, the Ger...