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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...to talk to him again." Yang Lin had told him that his father suspected all male callers and that Sang Huin would have to give a defense of his acqua... ...ecognized different buildings, and the curves of the street near a hard dirt tennis court. This was Ne Doc Dong. "Do you want me," said one, "or do yo... ...lination for a central government for governments are only needed to control malevolent men. When the scattered men unified for monthly reproductive s... ...y and that boy hadn't slipped away from the influence of the mother toward a male role model, she would have been branded a homosexual by one impact o... ...es and wait for that person there. There were video pangs (VCR rooms); table tennis rooms; noripangs (Karaoke singing rooms); outdoor vendors and rest... ... bad. Better, she would have eagerly challenged Michael to a racket ball or tennis competition or played badminton or croquet with the whole family. ...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... ....................................................... 30 TRADITION AND MALE POWER ................................................................... ...e on the lower end of the scale to voluntarily undergo sterilization. For males or females with no children for every point on the IQ scale that a ... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...ing jobs to become barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. Marriage for the male university graduates was more likely to be with less educated women. ... ... We aren‟t encouraging what the Chinese are doing, like identifying table tennis talents at age 4 or 5 then sending them on to special schools to dev... ...n occurred after years of having many of the best football and basketball players at the major Mormon university, Brigham Young University, being Af...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...saying one thing while doing something different? Why don‘t more American males wear condoms if they are going to have sex. ―Look at the risin... ...r occupation. When you take courses in art history, music appreciation or tennis you are preparing to enjoy your non-working life. When you are faci... ...ier church council seriously debated whether females even had souls. If a male fetus younger than four weeks old is aborted, was it a human life? ... ... come from valid basic assumptions. But, as with the case of the Taliban, male supremacy reduced women and non-believers to a nearly non-human status... ... have Judaism, Sikhism, Bahai, Shinto and others that may seem like major players but each has less than 1% of the world‘s population as adherents. M... ...t color. ―A few years ago a fatwa was issued against a female tennis player who was a Muslim because she wore short skirts, but no fatwa...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...e should he penetrate and split? Everythingness or Nothingness? He lost his male aggressiveness and confidence. As a result of his indecisiveness,... ...ch he could split all over again. In case you haven’t noticed; the Energy of male Impetus likes to penetrate things… and then go around and come ba... ... fast-slow, far-near, forward-back, degeneration, re-composition, life-death, male-female, in-out, positive polarity- negative polarity. The ... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...frustration, and misery. The only reason there is any fun at all in playing tennis is because one of the rules is that you can only keep on playin... ... the lines of the court. If that rule did not exist, then nobody would play tennis to ‘win’ or play anything competitively. THE PATH OF SPLITNESS... ...world actually refused to compete with the other half… What if you went to a tennis court and nobody wanted to play to win at all… What if all they...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...ew York Cutting School Spring Street, Wlllamstown Prank L. Siazenger Golf, Tennis and Hockey Supplies 8 West 28th St., New York H.E, Kinsman& Go. Coll... ... delivered. Q. 5. Azhderian Dealer in Pine Footwear, Gent's Furnish- ings, Tennis, Athletic and Gymnasium Goods. Agent for Collins and Fairbanks' Cele... ...gs I have a Shorthand System, easily as good as the best now taught in any American Business College, that 1 can teach In twelve (12) evenings. Tui- t... ...aw in Rochester, N. Y. ^ Cbe Richmond Tdc Ulcllington north /Idams. IDass. AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PLAN E. M. Moore, Mgr. W. S, Underwood Go. it PIANOS, i... ...r Surgeon to City Hospital. Oowlin Block Nertli Adams WRIGHT & DITSON Lawn Tennis Football Basketball Hockey Sticks Hockey Skates Skating Shoes Sweate... ...Mr Bradman ^ THE HAHflPTON AilJaoBnt to Post Offioo European Plan, $1andUp American Plan, $2m50 to$4 Om Am Koelef, Propm Northampton, Mass. B,K Browni... ... will leave tomorroow ai'ning The possibility of ns- in.r any fresliiiia!! maleriul. as was dciie la'it year, is removed by the .ru'o, passed since th... ....Songs , . - ].00 New Songs for llollege Glee Clubs . . .tlO New SonKS for Male tjuartrts - - - .BO Songsof the Unlvcrsily of Pennsylvania . l.BO Song... ...in Painting: and Decorating Special itlsniion given to Summer Homes. Eatl- malea Furnlahed and Satlelacllon Guaranteed. LOCK BOX 48 1 , VMLLIAMSTOMl'N...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ily member abuse and in prisoner abuse and torture? When I was at Stanford, Dr. Zimbardo, who was a psychologist, recruited a couple of dozen male s... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...s certainly not a universal. Eleanor Roosevelt got hers from her brains, as did Marie Curie. But back to Ardrey. He gives many examples of how male a... ...on. Was it really just searching for orgasm? ―Some species are prepared to die for sex. The preying mantis bites off the head of its male m... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ng those who threaten us with their own brand of power--different gang colors, a policeman's uniform, an expensive car, or even a new pair of tennis... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...lly if you are using your power over an entity that is more powerful and more organized than you are. It is one thing to try with your eleven player... ...on-Western countries to get their slant on this issue. A couple of women from Japan related how their 1964 Olympic Gold Medal volleyball team player...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

... heart. Transfixed by the face of the purple presence, which seemed neither male nor female, froze his body, mind and spirit into an eternal momen... ... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...Not only because he had been newly appointed, but primarily because he was an American Cardinal, and the mood in the Vatican was to return the Papac... ...red the daylight into a dirty blue. A 60 J.Cross/Artemis couple of dozen players sat around assorted sized card tables with green felt that drap... ...ght forward and up front, as long as it was ‘off the record’. A stiff looking male receptionist, with a colorful array of ribbons, which decorated h... ... to run." Alex said. "Alright, one more question. A youngish, looking blond, male reporter asked, "What about alcohol, Senator? Teenage drinking is... ...me soon, and dinner is almost ready." "Okay, Mom," Joey said, and tucked his tennis shoes behind the sofa. "How was school today?" Joey's mom call... ...lso include within the Asian market, the Tongs and Triads. But they are minor players, primarily in distribution.” "You're not including the United...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ... even more salient stench. What he believed prior to sleep to be the fetid tennis shoes of this "sloven individual" of the lower bunk, this thief of w... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...inating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brou... ... skin whose scents, especially in their far from flowery holes, make silly male creatures repeat the delusion of intimacy time and time again like the... ...t not yet. It was the same brawny body that had amorously begotten another male in the phantasmagoria of this world. He thought of this child whom Nop... ...l, while moving out of the toilet and pondering this new justification for male promiscuity within the corridor between the two cars, he inadvertently... ... his hips down to his feet like a hoola-hoop and all in front of the other players looking down at his equipment. She laughed, thinking it was a joke,... ...re rather than the pleasure of victory, which was the norm for the clothed players. As far as he knew, this was a brother and sister whom he met on a ...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

... more than 4.1 million people in the United States. It afflicts 10 percent of Americans over 65 years of age and as many as 50 percent of those over... ...g to a report published in the October 22, 1977 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Ginkgo biloba extract can stabiliz... ...d obsessive-compulsive tendencies. The latter may affect as many as 7 million Americans. Home remedies for anxiety offer the best approach to comple... ...rs in individuals who do repetitive hand and wrist movements, such as typists, tennis players, grocery store clerks, and the like. It is most common ... ...dividuals who do repetitive hand and wrist movements, such as typists, tennis players, grocery store clerks, and the like. It is most common in women... ...ns there are some very powerful home remedies for cystitis. Urethritis in the male is most often contracted as a result of sexual contact. Many condi... ... lung and kidney function. Increases blood flow to brain, heart. • Increases male potency, female vitality. Improves appetite and sleep. 4. Ginseng... ... obesity and depression are also definite causes. Additionally, a reduction in male hormones, rise in male infertility and a global decrease in sperm...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...mehow out of focus; yet it seems I hear the flute and lyre of the ceramic players. I dreamed I talked with Cyprus-born... No, that is a poor li... ...was our first excursion around the whole island, in years. We sailed past Malea Point to Eresos, to Antiss, then Methymn, and round our island, back ... ...lleviate my longing. Her perfume, kisses and caresses were not the crude, male love I wanted. However, I was half in my dreams and I remembered the ... ...haraxos...no, harshness is not in keeping with a wedding. I can hear the male chorus. I hear the surf... Below us, the ocean eats at its rocks, ab... ...I shake hands with old trees. At the château I have watched the King play tennis: they are having a tournament. Francis plays with ugly ferocity. Hi... ...ly ferocity. His partners play warily. I see that diplomacy begins on the tennis courts. VOICES FROM THE PAST 268 Studio September 3, 151...

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The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...she had drifted from state to state with an entirely different man, a Thai-American, whom she had met at a convenience store and whom she had shagge... ...nger with the wistful gaze of the poor youth, mostly Hispanic and African American, who stared enviously at products behind shop windows. Here she wa... ..., as though it oozed quietly through the chocolate). Behind the counter, a male clerk, or an indefatigably ruthless manager, was ordering a female wo... ... the natural state, and that the natural state was the true design of the malevolent designer. Institutions like that of legal rape in marriage exist... ...g his vainglorious love for his own lewdness, in doing so displaying that male virility that was dominant in him and all his kind. His look suggested... ...d put it. Back then, wasn't there a belief that this family of indigenous American Indians and pseudo-animists of a Catholic nuance, this seemingly e... ...ies in the right way to achieve maximum pleasure, and for this one needed players; but marriage was more than play--it could not be had with sports... ... the swingers, the joggers, a player throwing a racket when he had lost a tennis ball, fully cognizant of that which everyone knew and rarely conside...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ...same good jolly kind of guff, ‘bout autos, politics and stuff and baseball players of renown that Nice Guys talk in my home town! “Then when I entered... ...turity. On Saturday they played golf, jeering, “As a golfer, you’re a fine tennis-player,” or they motored all Sunday afternoon, stopping at village l... ...itor and acquired an excellent man. Young Fritz was a curly-headed, merry, tennis-playing youngster. He made customers welcome to the office. Babbitt ...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

...nts and children differ extremely from ours. For, since the con junction of male and female is founded upon the great law of nature, in order to prop... ... own capacities, as well as inclinations. I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female. The nurseries for males of noble ... ... the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but al... ...nes gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all fours, and shelter ... ...ption of lineages, by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains, and pickpockets. I was chiefly disgusted with modern h... ...ies I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans. The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a f...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...als, permitted her to experiment with her perilous versatility. She played tennis, gave chafing-dish parties, took a graduate semi- nar in the drama, ... ...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...te flannel trou- 341 Sinclair Lewis sers. He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, any- thing but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street. A vi... ... Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament. It proved that he had learned to play in Minneapolis; th...

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The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

...h other again, in London, some three months previously, at a dinner at the American Embassy, and when she had caught sight of him her smile had been l... .... Her husband had struck him as a characteristic speci- men of the kind of American as to whom one is not quite clear whether he lives in Europe in or... ...er high sweet voice and of her quick incessant gestures.She was clearly an American, but with the loose native quality strained through a closer woof ... ... was false from head to foot!” “False—?” In spite of time and satiety, the male instinct of ownership rose up and repudiated the charge. Miss Viner ca... ...I only meant externally! Y ou see, she often used to come to my room after tennis, or to touch up in the evenings, when they were going on; and I assu... ...ace, at the same moment, underwent the same change, shrinking into a small malevolent white mask in which the eyes burned black. “Thank you—thank you ... ..., as though the russet covert through which he trudged were the heart of a maleficent jungle... Snatches of his companion’s talk drifted to him interm... ...cian, in the same rapt fixity of attention with which she had followed the players at the Francais. The accident of her having fallen into the same at...

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Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...,” and Vera and Paula hardly knew the game, they had always played at lawn tennis; but they were delighted to learn, for Uncle Redgie proved to be a v... ...ed to help her two elder sisters in preparations for the next day, placing tennis nets, arranging croquet hoops, mustering chairs by the verandah, and... ... laughed Aunt Jane. “We saw it rise and saw it fall; and here come all the players, the revival. Well, how went the game?” So the party collected, and... ...to rely on him, as a woman with unaccustomed property is glad to do with a male relation. And to him, the society of the Goyle was a new charm. He had... ...eir surroundings at the Goyle. And when letters arrived from Hubert at the American Vale Leston, asking questions requiring some research in books, ei... ...of property of her own to show off? There was Paula, too, playing animated tennis with that clerical brother of the bride, who had been talking to Mag... ... fleeting visit from Hubert Delrio, who had fin- ished his frescoes at the American Vale Leston, and came for a day or two to Mr. Flight’s. She had so... ...ng between Londonderry and Bristol. He, with another, who proved to be the American captain of the Afra, were at the gate of the hospital, where an am...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter... ...hey have not such flamboyant qualities then they are tepid and ineffectual players. Nor may the samurai do personal services, except in the matter of ... ...the man who was fool enough and cheap enough to become an expert. Cricket, tennis, fives, billiards——. Y ou will find clubs and a class of men to play...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...scheme of the nation, as being in a sense designed to take the crude young male of the more or less responsible class, to correct his harsh egotisms, ... ...uld have seen to it effectually enough that they didn’t get at croquet and tennis with the vicarage daughters and discover sex in the Peeping Tom fash... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ... and Moskowski, with great decision and effect, and hovered on the edge of tennis foursomes where it was manifest to the dullest intelligence that my ... ...nd nineteen, but a Cambridge “man” of two and twenty with a first and good tennis and a grow- ing social experience, is a fair contemporary for two gi... .... Next them are a group of anglicised Germans and highly specialised chess-players, and then two of the oddest- looking persons—bulging with documents...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ve a good time in her. You were—” “Well, I discovered I was too much of an American to be content to be a rich man’s son. You aren’t blaming me for th... ...riage!” Sophie exclaimed, a little awed; for to them the joke, which to an American means work, was only just beginning. “If it’s took in a proper spi... ...silence—not even hostility! The game was up to 21 Kipling them; the other players hid their cards and waited. Sus- pense, she felt, was in the air, a... ...he rest lay in the hands of beneficent advisers from Lon- don, or spirits, male and female, called up by Mr. and Mrs. Cloke from the wastes of the far... ...as his present keen interest. They set off to look at it, and the imported American scraper which had blighted the none too sunny soul of “Skim” Winsh... ... obsolete drone-comb, broad and high-shouldered, showing to what marks the male grub was expected to grow; and two-inch deep honey-magazines, empty, b... ...to short- lived triumph. I had never before seen a Law Lord dressed as for tennis, with a stump-leg barrel-organ strapped to his shoulder. But it is a... ...overed residence. A verandah at the south side gave on to a garden and two tennis courts, separated by a tasteful iron fence from a most park-like mea... ...s on the lawn of young men and maidens appropriately clothed, playing lawn tennis in the sunshine. “A pretty scene, ain’t it?” said Mr. M’Leod. “My go...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...ou have not read her,” said Richard. “She is incomparably the greatest fe- male writer we possess.” “She is the greatest,” he continued, “and for this... ...er. Read a chapter of Miss Appleby’s Adventure to Aunt E. P.M.—Played lawn-tennis with Mr. Perrott and Evelyn M. Don’t like Mr. P. Have a feeling that... ...it, Monk? The thought of the immortal passions, or the thought of new-born males to keep the Roman Catholics out? I assure you,” he said to Helen, “he... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the... ...taught,” her voice proceeded rhythmically as if checking the list, “and my tennis, and the village, and letters to write for father, and a thou- sand ... ...alise, the nature of the gulf which separates the needs and desires of the male from the needs and desires of the female… . At first they had been ver... ...enough about herself, and she asked whether they had come down to join the tennis tourna- ment. “The young people are very keen about it. It be- gins ...

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A Book of Golden Deeds

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...rone, he decreed that a pension should be given to the family as long as a male representative remained to bear the name of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI ha... ...astplate of British pearls that Caesar dedicated to Venus. A band of flute-players followed, and then came the white oxen that were to be sacrificed, ... ...nced fearlessly within his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their plac... ...g might have escaped through an open- ing that led from the vault into the tennis court. Presently, however, the King called to them to draw him up ag... ...lt, having a few days before caused the hole to be bricked up, because his tennis balls used to fly into it and be lost. In trying to draw him up by t... ...ntrast to Mr. Mompesson’s moral influence! Horrible crimes were committed. Malefactors were released from the prisons and convicts from the galleys, a...

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The Two Brothers Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ssion that opinions were free, to ex- press that opinion to several of his male and female custom- ers as he served them in the grocery. The citoyenne... ...the younger used for pencils, paper, charcoal and prints, the elder to buy tennis-shoes, marbles, twine, and pocket-knives. Madame Descoings’s passion... ...ery day be- yond the round tower built by Francois I., to look out for the American packet, enduring the keenest anxieties. Moth- ers alone know how s... ...rte table resounded more than once in the ears of the more peaceful boston players, who were watching Philippe surreptitiously. The exile showed such ... ...r handed him a card and a pin; he always inquired of certain well-seasoned players about the chances of the red or the black, and staked ten francs wh... ...mes, three hours apart, and each time for only ten minutes. Thorough-going players, ever since 1786, the time at which public gaming-houses were estab... ...le grand master, to pro- cure clandestinely, each one of you, twenty rats, male or fe- male as heaven pleases. Collect your contingent within three da...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...e said, one only daughter. His wife dying in 1670, and leaving him without male children, he determined, however much he might be afflicted at the los... ...ney, created Peer of France in 1581. It was a peerage which, in default of male successors, went to the female, but this descendant was not heir to it... ...inals gave rise to. The Bouillons wished to be recognised as descended, by male issue, of the Counts of Auvergne, and to claim all kinds of distinctio... ...ndome. Tournai was near. The Duc de Bourgogne went there to have a game at tennis. This sudden party of pleasure strongly scandalized the army, and ra... ...a private cabinet, when D’Antin arrived from Versailles. He approached the players, and asked what was the position of the game, with an eager- ness w... ...what we had seen, saying that this lackey played very well, and that chess-players played with everybody. M. de Chevreuse had not come to contradict h... ..., as long as he could make use of them. He had excelled in dancing, and at tennis and mall. On horseback he was admirable, even at a late age. He like... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...used himself at Fontainebleau during bad weather by seeing good players at tennis, in which he had formerly excelled; and at Marly by seeing mall play...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...g a tyrant, as so often befalls those whose skill ren- ders them valuable. Tennis became Coley’s chief recreation, enabling him to work off his superf... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...it to-day, and had a long talk with the physician and surgeon, and saw the male pa- tients, two of them natives. One of them is dying, and so I am to ... ...haps: two or three faint female voices, two or three rough most discordant male voices, all the attempt at singing. No instrument of any kind. The bur... ...to take), and am quite as much disposed as ever to wish for a good game at tennis or fives to take it out of me. ‘Your loving Brother, ‘J. C. Patteson... ...y from Kohimarama to St. John’s College. I got him to describe the game of tennis, and he warmed up and told me of games he had played at. ‘How that c... ... it is for all who wish to belong to it. He recognises no dis- tinction of male or female, bond or free.” 477 Yo n g e ‘Some of the elder men are bec... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave... ...tion, a sugar plantation has not been found a very advanced school for the American or West Indian negro, and as a matter of fact, the islander who ha...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...ted on the game, and, interested for the success of my wager, followed the players and their balls over rough and stony roads, procuring by this means... ...en scarcely ever forgive. Take the most sensible; the most philosophic fe- male, one the least attached to pleasure, and slighting her fa- vors, if wi... ...the walls of my chamber have ears. Surrounded by spies and by vigilant and malevolent inspectors, disturbed, and my attention diverted, I hastily comm... ... with mine. T o prove this by experience, I taught music gratis to a young American lady, Mademoiselle des Roulins, with whom M. Roguin had brought me... ... acquainted with M. de Legal, M. Husson, Philidor, and all the great chess players of the day, without making the least improvement in the game. Howev... ...ht be nearer at hand, I left my hotel at Quentin, and went to lodge at the Tennis Court, Rue V erdelet, which leads into the Rue Platiere, where M. Du... ...ll; I could never get my piece performed, and, tired of paying my court to players, I gave myself no more trouble 325 Rousseau about them. At length ... ... upon me, the detail has escaped my mind, since I communicated it to M. de Malesherbes in one of my four letters to him. This is one of the singularit... ...ly connected with him to pass his name over in silence. M. du Perou was an American, son to a commandant of Surinam, whose successor, M. le Chambrier,...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...ons, it is said, What a spectacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Plenipotentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane somew... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long- drawn files, hoarse... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked... ... us;—and now it is time to go to dinner. This, then, is the Session of the Tennis-Court, famed Seance du Jeu de Paume; the fame of which has gone fort... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...as Carlyle perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Congress, do the arrangements seem per- fect. A Senator has not hi...

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A Room with a View

By: E. M. Forster

...Mr. Beebe was walking up to the Torre del Gallo with the Emersons and some American ladies. Would Miss Bartlett and Miss Honeychurch join the party? C... ...they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl. You know the American girl in Punch who says: ‘Say, poppa, what did we see at Rome?’ And... ...to tell Miss Honeychurch that on the right lived Mr. Someone Something, an American of the best type —so rare!—and that the Somebody Elses were farthe... ...p and down the hillside all the afternoon. What it was and exactly how the players had sided, Lucy was slow to discover. Mr. Eager had met them with a... ...e lawn and smiled in at them, just as if she was going to ask them to play tennis. Then she saw her brother’s face. Her lips parted, and she took him ... ...s. They would descend—he knew their ways— past the shrubbery, and past the tennis-lawn and the dahlia-bed, until they reached the kitchen garden, and ... ...tation was just. “How tiresome!” she said. “Couldn’t you have es- caped to tennis?” “I don’t play tennis—at least, not in public. The neighbourhood is... ...hould desire a change.” Here, apparently, was one of those points that the male intellect misses. Mr. Beebe exclaimed: “So she says herself, and since... ...but they went by themselves. They alone of this little company will double Malea and plough the waters of the Saronic gulf. They alone will visit Athe...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ... by an untoward stroke, a hapless half orphan, with the place of immediate male parent swept bare and open to the next nearest sympathy. They had no o... ...lim sinuous and strong, and with practised passion, have been playing lawn tennis or endlessly and rhythmically waltzing. His love of music, unlike hi... ...Princess herself had welcomed the comparatively hushed hour—for the bridge players were serious and silent—much in the mood of a tired actress who has... ...aside her magazine, and moved slowly round the room, passing near the card players and pausing an instant behind the chairs in turn. Silent and discre...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working-classes too,— manufacturers, male and female, of laces, essences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever could... ...nt Bailly, aided by judicious Guillotin and others, has found place in the Tennis-Court of the Rue St. Francois. Thither, in long-drawn files, hoarse-... ... Strange sight was this in the Rue St. Francois, Vieux Versailles! A naked Tennis-Court, as the pictures of that time still give it: four walls; naked... ... us;—and now it is time to go to dinner. This, then, is the Session of the Tennis-Court, famed Seance du Jeu de Paume; the fame of which has gone fort... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...s mangy, undersized—a ti- gress worn with nursing, or a broken-toothed old male—and Bukta would curb young Chinn’s impatience. At last, a noble animal... ... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei... ...ires in light dust-coats danced out on two little excited ponies. The four players of the Arch- angels’ team followed, and the sight of their beautifu... ...eways at the narrowing space. If you know how a man feels to be cramped at tennis—not because he wants to run out of the court, but because he likes t... ...t Cottar was busy for eleven hours of the day. He did not care to have his tennis spoiled by petticoats in the court; and after one long afternoon at ... ... and the fat pony; they fell into the trout-ponds; they picnicked and they tennised; and they sat on gates in the twilight, two by two, and Georgie fo... ... secret fancies aloud, she does not care to have them trampled over by the male Philistine. They rode into the little red-brick street of Bassett, and...

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Darya Alexandrovna Spent the Summer with Her Children at Pokrovskoe, At Her Sister Kitty Levin’S

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... and these were all unlike those in use at Pokrovskoe. “Une partie de lawn-tennis,” Veslovsky proposed, with his handsome smile. “We’ll be partners ag... ...re I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, there ... .... After dinner they sat on the terrace, then they pro- ceeded to play lawn tennis. The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of a... ...er they sat on the terrace, then they pro- ceeded to play lawn tennis. The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of a tightly dra... ... tired that she sat down with Princess Varvara and simply looked on at the players. Her partner, Tushkevitch, gave up playing too, but the others kept... ...sums subscribed by the nobility of the province, the high schools, female, male, and military, and popular instruction on the new model, and finally, ...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...RS QUESTIONED When he had finished his speech, the president turned to the male prisoner. “Simeon Kartinkin, rise.” Simeon jumped up, his lips continu... ...alked away, swaying her arms briskly in front of her, and joined the other players. After this there grew up between Nekhludoff and Katusha those pecu... ...ook at the pictures?” he asked. “No, we put that off. We have been playing tennis at the Salamatoffs’ . It is quite true, Mr. Crooks plays remark- abl... ..., and, above all, how large her thumb-nail was and how like her father’s. “Tennis is a dull game,” said Kolosoff; “we used to play lapta when we were ... ...e afraid of him,” said Khoroshavka, who managed to exchange notes with the male prisoners and knew all that went on in the prison. “He’ll run away, th... ..., and some military men and some civilians stood near them. The clatter of male and female voices went on unceasingly. “Enfin! you seem to have quite ... ...218 Resurrection ers were planted in front of the steward’s house—over the tennis ground, now overgrown with dandelions, and along the lime-tree walk,... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...haracter—sympathy in some with mere misfortune—sympathy in others with fe- male frailty and guilt, not perhaps founded upon an abso- lute unwavering b... ...xperiments. This is the one creature of fifteen in all Spain, be the other male or female, whom nature, and temper, and provocation have qualified for... ...m, for many reasons, he could not be supposed to recognise—lapse of years, male attire, twilight, were all against him. Still, she might have the fami... ...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ...niary difference to Urquiza. Thus stood matters, when a party of strolling players strolled into Paita. Kate, as a Spaniard, being one held of the Pai... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet... ...com- pany kicked about the poor diabolic writer’s head as if it had been a tennis-ball. Coleridge, the yet unknown criminal, absolutely perspired and ...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...Castlewood (the second Viscount), of King Charles the First’s time, had no male issue save his one son, Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of t... ...ad stared at the player woman who acted the wicked tragedy-queen, when the players came down to Ealing Fair. She sat in a great chair by the fire-corn... ...ferring the title of Marquis of Esmond on my Lord Castlewood and the heirs-male of his body; his appointment as Lord-Lieutenant of the County, and Maj... ... comrade’s sight. They sported together, they drank, they played bowls and tennis: my Lord Castlewood would go for three days to Sark, and bring back ... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe... ...beheld him for the first time? The young king, in a flannel jacket, was at tennis with the gentlemen of his suite, crying out after the balls, and swe...

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Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...e! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving... ... that any smile would jar on them. “Thou who didst from the beginning create male and female,” the priest read after the exchange of rings, “from Thee... ...e, and these were all unlike those in use at Pokrovskoe. “Une partie de lawn tennis,” Veslovsky proposed, with his handsome smile. “We’ll be partners ... ...here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, ther... ... her. After dinner they sat on the terrace, then they proceeded to play lawn tennis. The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of... ...dinner they sat on the terrace, then they proceeded to play lawn tennis. The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of a tightly d... ...so tired that she sat down with Princess Varvara and simply looked on at the players. Her partner, Tushkevitch, gave up playing too, but the others ke... ...e sums subscribed by the nobility of the province, the high schools, female, male, and military, and popular instruction on the new model, and finally,... ...re of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American al liance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritu...

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