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...lley, Helen,’ called out Lady Cameron, whose dandy had come alongside the riders. ‘The climate is alpine. Look, there are clumps of autumn heathers ... ... although Helen was assured by her European friends that here in the valley of Mirapore with its Alpine climate, the heat was never as stifling as i... ... and swords of mutinous cavalry, and the murder of inhabitants at every British station along the route of the mutiny. Audrey Blankenhagen 328 S... ...men of the garrison to break through the breached wall and the two forces - besieged and relief - routed the mutineers. The slaughter was horrific a... ...ossible for Helen to reply. * * * * * * Before they left for India, this time by the shorter sea route of the newly- constructed Suez Canal, Gavin t...

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...439 m Telecommunications: fair system of wire, radio-relay, and troposcatter routes; high frequency used extensively for military/ Cuban links; 2 Atla... ... loca- tion at the crossroads of central Europe with many easily traversable Alpine passes and valleys People Population: 7,569,283 (July 1987), avera... ...ys: 5,150-8,046 km navi- gable waterways (includes 2,575-3,058 km main cargo routes) Ports: 2 sea (Chittagong, Chalna), 7 inland Pipelines: 650 km nat... ...on Special notes: strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia Population: 8,960,749 (July 19... ...d largest country in world; strategic location between USSR and US via polar route Population: 25,857,943 (July 1987), aver- age annual growth rate 0.... ...tes: strategic location 500 km from African coast near major north-south sea routes; important communications station; important sea and air refueling... ... question with Austria; Trieste question with Yugoslavia Climate: temperate; Alpine in far north Terrain: mostly rugged and mountainous; some plains, ... ...noun Norwegian(s); adjec- tive Norwegian Ethnic divisions: Germanic (Nordic, Alpine, Baltic) and racial-cultural minority of 20,000 Lapps Religion: 94...

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...w days. A sergeant repaired her sandals. They followed an ancient caravan route, asking for help. They lived with Gabra nomads—borrowing a white cam... ...essful with their lives? These men know ambition and is ambition the safe route? Verily, verily “all is vanity and vexation of spirit,” if we listen... ...tor, fanatic. His bigotry alarmed me; all bigotry alarms me. I prefer the Alpine heights and passes to heavenly promises; I prefer rivers and lakes ... ...we returned to the manor, preferring the paths and the road to the tunnel route. How fitfully I slept while in Cesare Borgia’s camp...like Alexand... ...he best season for a climb. He will ask his father to accompany him on an Alpine trip...he’s eager to return to his beautiful Vaprio. I certainly un... ...nd lack freedom. This condition must not con- tinue. Education is the sure route toward freedom. Thursday My Desk If A can prove, however conclu...

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...neither a systematic theology nor a summary of Paul's lifework, but it is by common consent his masterpiece. It dwarfs most of his other writings, an Alpine peak towering over hills and villages. Not all onlookers have viewed it in the same light or from the same angle, and their snapshots and paintings of it are sometimes remarkably unalike. Not all climbers have taken th...

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...f wilt say, That grim Sir Roderick owns its sway. The Saxon scourge, Clan- Alpine’s pride, The terror of Loch Lomond’s side, Would, at my suit, thou k... ...What may we for the Douglas fear? What for this island, deemed of old Clan-Alpine’s last and surest hold? If neither spy nor foe, I pray What yet may ... ...ng they could hear, Those thrilling sounds that call the might Of old Clan-Alpine to the fight. Thick beat the rapid notes, as when The mustering hund... ..., Retreat borne headlong into rout, And bursts of triumph, to declare Clan-Alpine’s congest—all were there. Nor ended thus the strain, but slow Sunk i... ...cember’s leafless trees. The chorus first could Allan know, ‘Roderick Vich Alpine, ho! fro!’ And near, and nearer as they rowed, Distinct the martial ... ...for I came to the inn last night with the express purpose of learning your route, that I and my followers might ease you of your charge by the road. B...

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...em, though we had had a little assistance here and there. After breakfast they found us trying to blast some infor- mation out of the dumb hotel clerk... ...ere is a poor devil, this is manifest.” When we saw a stately accumulation, we said, “Here is a banker.” When we encountered a country-seat surrounded... ...ght away the organist would let go another avalanche. The commerce of Lucerne consists mainly in gimcrackery of the souvenir sort; the shops are packe... ...s all. Bonjour—I am very glad to have made your acquaintance, ladies. Guten tag.” CHAPTER XXVIII The Jodel and Its Native Wilds THE RIGI-KULM IS an im... ...f dreamland. All the circumstances were perfect—and the anticipations, too, for we should soon be enjoying, for the first time, that wonderful spectac... ...n landlady gave us neat rooms and nice beds, and when I and my agent turned in, it was with the resolu- tion to be up early and make the utmost of our... ...d at the summit, but Harris preferred to ask a lot of ques- tions—as usual, of a man who didn’t know anything—and he told us to go back and follow the... ...me. One does not understand why rocks and landslides do not plunge down these declivities daily. A landslip occurred three quarters of a century ago, ... ...portier of the hotel would be able to tell us how to find our way. And so it turned out. He showed us the whole thing, on a relief-map, and we could s...

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...sks, waggons discreetly veiled, columns of infantry, cavalry, batteries en route. Every waggon that goes up full comes back empty, and many wounded we... ...hed my historical memories; it was rather like leaving a card on Gibbon en route for contemporary history. By devious routes I went on to certain batt... ...cable offensive front of Italy. From the left wing on the Isonzo along the Alpine boundary round to the Swiss boundary there is mountain warfare like ... ...far more deliberate than upon a level. An engineered road or railway in an Alpine valley is the most vulnerable of things; its curves and viaducts may... ... Slav friendship; they understand the plain necessity of open and friendly routes towards Roumania. It was an Italian who set out to explain to me tha... ...irst Arm in modern war. The factory hand and all the material of the shell route from the factory to the gun constitute the second Arm. Thirdly comes ...

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...f the tale. The next opens in the passes of the Alps, whither by vari- ous routes, of seven or eight hundred miles in extent, these men had threaded t... ...nube to the Tiber did this band of robbers severally pursue their perilous routes through all the difficulties of the road and the jealousies of the m... ...hrough all the depths of the Illyrian forests, and the difficulties of the Alpine passes. It is not easy to find words 15 Thomas de Quincey commensur... ... their road, having probably at first intentionally deviated from the main route, and wandered about through the whole night, until the early dawn ena... ...reakfast nor cæna, but something of the kind. He had received a present of Alpine cheese, and he ordered some for supper. The trap for his life was ba... ... they passed through that country and Spain; cap- tured Tarragona in their route; crossed over to Africa, and conquered Mauritania. At the same time, ...

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...tion; and, on our return in the evening, when we reached that point of our route from which the retreat was secure to Greenhay, we took such revenge f... ...n a distant retrospect than the danger which accomplishes its mission. The Alpine precipice, down which many pil- grims have fallen, is passed without... ...roaches for the last few miles, I had lost, in consequence of the stealthy route of by-roads, lying near Uxbridge and Watford, through which we crept ... ... at some place, which is as little within my dis- tinct remembrance as the route by which we reached it. For what had we come? To see London. And what... ...the regular outlets were closed at an early hour. In such a di- lemma, any route, that was barely practicable at whatever risk, must be traversed by t... ...ng that he and the elephant which he rode had been summoned to ex- plore a route through seventeen similar nuisances,—he went on to mention the one so...

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...nd his every species there, even to the meanest pond- weed or the remotest Alpine blossom…. Only when he had gathered that last and turned about to fi... ...obtrudes his personality again. His thoughts have travelled by a different route. “I know,” he says, “that she will be happier here, and that they wil... ...e Ruskins of to-morrow, but a thin spider’s web of inconspicu- ous special routes will cover the land of the world, pierce the mountain masses and tun... ...ess of the San Gotthard Pass, we should descend that nine miles of winding route, and so arrive towards twilight among the clus- tering homes and upla... ...eat impressions. The time I first saw the Matterhorn, that Queen among the Alpine summits, I was distracted beyond appreciation by the tale of a man w... ..., the sole thing to need attention in the room, is one little bowl of blue Alpine flowers. The same exquisite simplicity meets one downstairs. Our lan... ...erable unfrequented lines upon the sea. Some are dan- gerous and laborious routes; some merely desolate; and there are even some sea journeys that one... ...e overtaking you?” “Two men mustn’t start from the same office on the same route within six hours of each other. If they come within sight of each oth...

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...th other heads of the Town there; having already ordered by what Gates and Routes the mutineer Regiments shall file out. Such colloquy with these two ... ...ome bloody: the mutinous Regi- ments are on march, doleful, on their three Routes; and from Nanci rises wail of women and men, the voice of weeping an... ...e is off Northwards; Madame, his Prin- cess, in another, with variation of route: they cross one another while changing horses, without look of recogn... ...e- Menehould to utmost Pont-de-Sommevelle, in all Post-vil- lages; for the route shall avoid Verdun and great Towns: they loiter impatient ‘till the T... ...to victorious thunder. Comparable, say rather, to the first stirring of an Alpine Avalanche; which, once stir it, as here at Sainte-Menehould, will sp... ...ide- de-camp, Romoeuf, riding a franc etrier, on that old Herb- merchant’s route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten...

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...selves on a fresh plateau, traversed by wild water-courses, and browsed by Alpine herds; and again the green dome was distant. They came to the highes... ...nd his sister one word? Surely Mr. Pericles will have made known our exact route to him? And his uncle, General Pierson, could—I am certain he did— ex... ...5 George Meredith be among the Germans in a day and a night. I ‘ve got the route, and I pronounce the name of the chateau very per- fectly—”Schloss So... ...o,’ said the Signor Antonio. ‘She has seen him, and if he meets her on the route to Meran, she will think it her fascination.’ Looking at his watch an... ..., our visit to Venice may be deferred. Our doctor, monsieur, indicates our route. If my brother can get 155 George Meredith leave of absence, we shal... ... and of perched old castles and white villas and sub- 213 George Meredith Alpine herds. She burst from the fascination as from a dream, but only to f... ... ribs, my poor soul!’ Angelo quitted him. The tremendous excitement of the Alpine solitudes was like a stringent wine to his surcharged spirit. He was... ... offered rewards for the able exercise of his wits. He remained at the sub-Alpine inn until his servant Wilhelm (for whom he had despatched the duches... ...spised his prayer to her. He was under Colonel Corte, operating on the sub-Alpine range of hills along the line of the Chiese South-eastward. Here the...

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...urous coaches in dry weather, became the Dover Road, and was presently the route first of one and then of several daily coaches. The High Street was d... ...om any station to any station in Great Britain by the nearest and cheapest routes… . 80 The New Machiavelli Codger lodged with a little deaf innocent... ... and out one tumbled to get coffee in Switzerland… . I have been over that route dozens of times since, but it still revives a certain lingering youth... ...educational bias came later. The swelling ambitions that have tramped over Alpine passes! How many of them, like mine, have come almost within sight o... ...of our youth deeper. We would go in the morning sunlight along some narrow Alpine mule-path shouting large suggestions for national re-organisation, a... ...l interest in young men. The tandems would be steered by weird and devious routes to evade the bare chance of his bloodshot eye. My aunt seemed to hav... ...ey—fear of the mosquito had driven her mother across Italy to the westward route—and now she could fill up her gaps and see the Titians and Paul Veron...

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...ve soon produced a sympathetic ripple in the Bun Hill establishment. Grubb routed out his flying- machine model again, tried it in the yard behind the... .... “I’ll have to be more careful next time. No good wastin’ drink.” Then he routed about for matches to utilise Mr. Butteridge’s cigars; but here again... ...avour to leave the country and come to us with your plans by the customary routes—either via Dover, Ostend, Boulogne, or Dieppe. We find it difficult ... ... over hose- pipes and nearly let him down. He was wearing Mr. Butteridge’s Alpine cap, and his little shoulders were in Mr. Butteridge’s fur-lined ove... ...egrees 40 minutes N.—longitude, 40 degrees 30 minutes W.—where’s that?” He routed out his map again, and stared at it with eyes that did not see. “Der... ...wrecking of Broadway. He directed the air-fleet to move in column over the route of this thoroughfare, dropping bombs, the Vaterland leading. And so o... ...und was strewn with glaciated boulders and supported nothing but a stunted Alpine veg- etation of compact clustering stems and stalkless flowers. No r... ...sisted this concentration in the battle of the Alps, and then, leaving the Alpine glaciers and valleys strewn with strange wreckage, divided into two ...

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...wever, and accordingly the wait- ress was shocked, as one might be at a heresy, to hear the route that I had sketched out for myself. Everybody who ca... ...kable of old for inhumanity. One of these vaults where the snow had drifted was that ‘black route’ where ‘Mr. Alane Stewart, Commendatour of Crossragu... ...ome one will be always breaking out into a bar or two of opera bouffe. Before we get to the Route Ronde here comes Desprez, the colourman from Fontain... ... a stand. The artillery is practising in the Quad- rilateral, it appears; passage along the Route Ronde formally interdicted for the moment. There is ... ...reflections in the Rhine or Danube. You may pass the spinal cord of Europe and go down from Alpine glaciers to where Italy extends her marble moles an... ...AS, at the best, a certain prison-like effect on the imagination, but a mountain valley, an Alpine winter, and an invalid’s weakness make up among the... ... accompaniment but the crunching of your steps upon the frozen snow. It is the curse of the Alpine valleys to be each one village from one end to the ... ... and these enchantments vanish, you will find yourself upon the farther side in yet another Alpine valley, snow white and coal black, with such anothe... ...les into its pri- vate chambers, and silently recognises the empire of the Fohn. CHAPTER XI—ALPINE DIVERSIONS THERE WILL BE NO LACK of diversion in an...

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... his knowledge for the being a man of the world:— as all do, that have not Alpine heights in the mind to mount for a look out over their own and the w... ...utes; Barmby, intonation; in all, nine of us; and by the dear old Normandy route, for the sake of the voyage, as in old times; towers of Dieppe in the... ...d to the capi- tal! Just three days in Paris, and home by any of the other routes. It’s the drive we want. Boredom in wet weather, we defy; we have ou... ...n; and well-planned to let them discover it.’ ‘This is really my favourite route; I love the saltwater and the night on deck.’ ‘Go on.’ ‘How?’ 123 Ge... ...night; particularly of the excellent idea of the expedi- tion by this long route at night; the prospect of which had disfigured him with his grimace o... ...ounced certain views of the country to be marched over on the road by this route to Paris, for the dictation of terms of peace at the gates of the Fre...

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... who can be trusted to let no stranger scrape acquaintance with him on the route. Tell no one—absolutely no one—but your messenger of the turn this ma... ...be really relied on to let no stranger scrape acquaintance with him on his route? There was but one man at hand who combined all those requisites in h... ... Dor. “Adieu, my charming niece!” he said, turning to Marguerite next. “En route, my friend, for Neuchatel!” He tapped V endale lightly over the breas... ...ctly stated. But, on the whole, the Simplon appearing to be the hopefuller route, V endale decided to take it. Obenreizer bore little or no part in th... ... it had hardened into a sullen frost. In a sombre-yellow sky, they saw the Alpine ranges; and they saw enough of snow on nearer and much lower hill-to... ...re out of temper. “This is not a time of year, or a state of things, on an Alpine Pass, that you gentlemen holiday- travellers know much about.” “Y ou...

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...lls. Then glad emerge we to the cheering day, Some sun-ranged height, or Alpine snowy crown, Or Chimborazo towering far away O’er the great Andes ... ...meet them abroad, and began magniloquently talking of his courier, and his route, and while he was looking for the map, the two cousins smiled, and Cl... ...ing to watch every word or gesture. The talk was all Switzerland and Italy—routes and pic- tures, mountains and cathedrals—all by rote, and with no sp...

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...ancient block of lichen-covered granite, still upright in the depths of an Alpine gorge; the other, watching the course of the flood to turn it to acc... ...on now in vogue) to have a soul as white as new fallen snow on the highest Alpine crests. How had she solved in such short space the Jesuitical proble... ...of the country are en- graved for each generation; and if the names of the routes are different, they still lead to the same capital city. In the cour...

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...ad the addresses on my letters!’ ‘Did you not supply him with our proposed route and the time for starting?’ ‘Pistols!’ exclaimed Mrs. Pagnell. ‘One w... ...an to supplicate. He could imagine seeing Lord Ormont’s eyebrows rising to alpine heights. Lady Charlotte seized his arm. ‘Go at once. Do as you are t... ...tuated… . Mr. Morsfield heard of our expedition through her. I changed the route. I was not in want of a defender. I could have defended myself in cas... ...ield and Cumnock shrugged at the bumpkin artifice. They left their line of route to be communicated to the chariot, and chose, with practised acumen, ... ...ed her. Weyburn named the Spring holiday time, the season of the flowering Alpine robes. He promised welcome, pressed for a promise of the visit. Warm... ...f, begged him to stay and tell her of 225 George Meredith Switzerland and Alpine flowers and herbs, and the valleys for the gold beetle and the Apoll... ...d an Oberland jodel returned his hail. The school retreating caught up the Alpine cry in the distance. Here were lungs! Here were sprites! Lord Ormont...