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...ove by D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...cs Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...ly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed thr... ...frightened. There was a long pause, whilst Ursula stitched and Gudrun went on with her sketch. The sisters were women, Ursula twenty-six, and Gudrun t... ... said Birkin. ‘Were you really?’ said the girl. ‘ And then he explored the Amazon,’ said Birkin, ‘and now he is ruling over coal-mines.’ The girl look... ... go about naked.’ ‘Oh really!’ exclaimed Halliday. ‘Where?’ ‘South America—Amazon,’ said Gerald. ‘Oh but how perfectly splendid! It’s one of the thing... ...olour, all dutifully smoking their long white pipes, and sitting in a half-moon in the comfortable, soft-lighted drawing-room, round the logs that fli...

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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/gr... ... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... address). Simpson's first husband was Earl Winfield Spencer. The King met her on January 10, 1931 but was not impressed. Even in the months af... ...losely related to bees and wasps. They are so numerous that in some habitats - the Amazon forest, for instance - their combined weight is four time... ...ii. During the day, it is buried deep in the sand. It emerges to hunt at nightfall. Moonlight is its mortal enemy: conveniently for its predators, t... ... 1889. During the first world war, in 1917, the US War Industries Board called on women to stop buying metal-rich corsets. Some 28,000 tons of met... ...ased on the true story of Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, two ravishing and witty women murderers who became celebrities in the 1920s. When asked... ...uthernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa052999.htm Head Shrinkers A few tribes in Amazonian Ecuador used to shrink heads as part of their post war...

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... Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 ... ...s, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) ISBN: ... ...book) ISBN: 1-4033-8038-4 (Paperback) ISBN: 1-4033-8039-2 (Dustjacket) This book is printed on acid free paper. ... ...h their so-called sacred ’rumels’ (a scarf or cord) and secretly burying their bodies. They lived on the proceeds of their homicidal activities and ... ...of the bazaars, invited him to make love to her, to take her as as he would a prostitute. ‘These women are my friends,’ she giggled. ‘They have show... ...y again so soon?’ ‘He knows he must produce an heir. There is no one in India among the European women that he wishes to make his wife and, frankly,... ...ht. The sweet scent of jasmine and other exotic perfumes wafted towards her and looking up at the moonlit sky, she wondered why the stars seemed big... ...going to tease her again, ‘Helen Forsythe, you never fail to surprise me. Am I marrying a little Amazon? Ah, here we are.’ The carriage turned into... ...back in the case. ‘You amaze me, Madam French. Which of these women are you really? The intrepid Amazon who can shoot and ride as well as any man, t...

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...Excerpt: A Midsommer Nights Dreame; Actus Primus -- Enter Theseus, Hippolita, with others. Theseus. Now faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in Another Moon: but oh, me thinkes, how slow This old Moon wanes; She lingers my desires Like to a Step- dame, or a Dowager, Long withering out a yong man?s revennew. Hip. Foure daies wil qu...

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...Excerpt: The Life of Timon of Athens; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and Mercer, at severall doores. Poet. Good day Sir. Pain. I am glad y?are well. Poet. I have not seene you long, how goes t...

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...ication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...HOOL A PROCESSION of schoolboys having to meet a procession of schoolgirls on the Sunday’s dead march, called a walk, round the park, could hardly go ... ... their ignominious weekly performance; and they could not avoid reflecting on it, as a thing done over again: it had them in front and in rear; and it... ...ou’re going to be men,” meaning some- 5 George Meredith thing better than women. There was a notion that Matey de- spised girls. Consequently, never ... .... She won a victory right away and out of hand, on behalf of her cloud-and-moon sisters, as against the sunny-meadowy; for slanting intermediates are ... ...g its phrasy trumpet. And, somehow, the sacrifice of an enormous number of women to Lord Ormont’s glory seemed natural; the very thing that should be,... ...: she seemed a foreigner, walked like a Goddess, sat her horse the perfect Amazon. Rumour called her a Spaniard. “Not if she rides!” Lady Charlotte cu... ...dy Charlotte’s glances right and left—idle flights of the eye of a mounted Amazon across hedges at the canter along the main road of her scheme; which...

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...dith Wharton Part Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two is a publication of the ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... The words had been spoken by their friend Alida Stair, as they sat at tea on her lawn at Pangbourne, in reference to the very house of which the libr... ...t of a country place in one of the southern or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carried their problem straight to Alida Stair,... ...t I have walked through Lethe. The past has melted like a cloud before the moon. I never lived until I saw you.” 41 Wharton She made no answer to his... ...a friend of mine did; a very brilliant man; and he told me it was best for women—not to …” A shudder ran around the room. Mrs. Leveret coughed so that... ... of no less than one thousand one hundred and eighteen miles, entering the Amazon near the mouth of the latter river. The upper course of the Xingu is... ... how she could!” and Miss Van Vluyck said, picking up her note-book: “Some women stop at nothing.” “—but if,” Mrs. Plinth took up her argument impress... ...rmia Croft, at the last Grafton Gallery show, stopped me before Gisburn’s “Moon-dancers” to say, with tears in her eyes: “We shall not look upon its l...

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