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...avy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. Thi... ...ritish have left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A f... ...riage and they would have consented, but my father discovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like al... ...How fortunate you are, Sir James, to have such a beautiful surgeon. Our field surgeons are stout fellows, but hardly the stuff of dreams.’ He laughe...

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...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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...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... ...ica. She, Gabriele, spit her snuff into an empty beer can as she drove. This odd and unusable vision was not, to his knowledge, reflective of any psyc... ...ere to return she would be stoned or clodded based upon their whims. In this odd corner behind the skyscrapers and away from the Houston Symphony, the... ...ting tracelessly, later to be sucked up into a Heraclitus shaped cloud. The odd weather, which was becoming less odd annually, concerned her especial... ...rummed discordantly within her. Restraining herself, she said mildly, "Okay fellows, better put the game aside and eat this stuff or I'll feed it to ...

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...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... ...ot die, but he found it difficult to sit down for a few days. Many of my fellows applauded, but many were appalled. Such a punishment was surely "c...

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...ing hairline. He writes prescriptions during the flu season, delivers the odd baby, stitches cuts and signs death certificates that usually state, ‘... ...gon of port weekly, supposedly for medicinal purposes and indulges in the odd cigar on special occasions. Residing only a kilometre from the main st... ...hill’. They are rarely seen in the pub and only a handful come in for the odd counter meals. Mind you, Morris does a booming trade out of those on t... ...ee if it was on. “Good morning sisters and brothers!” John Carter’s strong American accent shook the foundation, rocked the pews and set a new trend ... ...n Carter went on and on and on about his hometown and how charismatic the American churches had become. He gave a run down on Christian activities, ... ... a buzz of new gossip, lent itself as a venue for Christian ridicule. The American couple became the flavour of Morris’s bad taste in humour. He amu... ... to these women was to form a group, which would bring women together in fellowship. Within a few days, Mrs. Carter was standing in front of several... ...the elderly Jim Spikes accepted the position, assuming he had voted for a fellowship lunch on the coming Sunday. All the while, no one took any notic... ...ation and listening to what God wants for the church. Do you know why the fellowship lunches stopped?” 134 “No one could be bothered going?” Darcy t...

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... of Mythology, Roy Chapman Andrews' The New Conquest of Central Asia (The American Museum of Natural History, 1932), the ubiquitous 11th edition of ... ...nd who has ever and always been a faithful and loyal friend. Other of my odd research requests have been expertly fulfilled by the library staff of... ...me popping from island to island. The magnetic forces are new; they have odd effects on us. I can feel sight alterations within me. No real harm ... ...oing no magic. He was a receptacle. He harvested; he sucked away at his fellows. The dragons drew the Lights over the setting sun like a shroud. ... ...o Rue's radical views, especially his comments about eggs. He was saying odd things and challenging ideas she'd never thought to question. After al... ...e Pendragon, who would one day rise against chaos to form a great simian fellowship. He would fall, betrayed by a friend -- always one of life's gr...

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...es by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication American Notes by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Rudyard Kipling American Notes by Rudyard Kipling Intr Intr Intr Intr Introduction oduction... ...iness slide once in a way and 23 Rudyard Kipling kick up my heels with my fellows. The tale of the resources of California—vegetable and mineral—is a... ... sometimes for days; and they need not be distressed by the sight of their fellows running about in the fear of death. All they know is that a man on ...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...rms, and Mr. Babcock thought Goethe perfectly splendid. He often tried, in odd half-hours of conversa- tion to infuse into Newman a little of his own ... ...iging friend, he had suf- 73 Henry James fered the warmth of ancient good-fellowship somewhat to abate. Besides, he had no taste for upholstery; he h... ...re bullied or coaxed or bribed, or all three together, into marrying nasty fellows. There is no end of that always going on in the Fifth Avenue, and o... ...er was a good fellow, and he had a presentiment that on this basis of good fellowship they were destined to understand each other. Only, if there was ... ...s, and that if a day ever came to try it, they should see. His talk was an odd mixture of almost boyish garrulity and of the reserve and discretion of... ... trees have crooked branches, old houses have queer cracks, old races have odd secrets. Remember that we are eight hundred years old!” “Very good,” sa...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...he first opined would not hold more than two enormous portmanteaus in some odd corner out of sight (portmanteaus which could now no more be got in at ... ... wards in their school, where they sang a chorus in praise of Liberty: an odd, and, one would think, rather aggra vating, theme for prisoners. These... ...d to the paraphernalia of Westminster Hall, an American Court of Law is as odd a sight as, I suppose, an English Court of Law would be to an American.... ...discourse after this manner: ‘Who are these — who are they — who are these fellows? where do they come from? Where are they go ing to? — Come from! W... ...’ — Another walk, and pat ting the Bible under his left arm: ‘What! These fellows are coming from the wilderness, are they? Yes. From the dreary, bli... ...t peril and danger, with this’ — two more: ‘They can come, even these poor fellows can come, from the wilderness leaning on the arm of their Beloved, ...

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...Excerpt: The Man Who Hunts and Doesn?t Like It. It seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their name and number is legion. If we were to deduct from the hunting- crowd farmers, and others who hunt because hunting is brought to their door, of the ...

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... BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE THE MAN WHO HUNTS AND DOESN’T LIKE IT I t seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their ... ...er battery of general feminine artillery ever so powerful. She is like the American woman, who is always wanting your place in a railway carriage, and... ...divided by dykes, and made safe from all intru- sions. Let him talk to the American farmer of English hunting, and explain to that independent, but so... ...alk in life, no man can walk well who does not walk with the esteem of his fellows. Now those little walks by the covert sides, those pleasant little ... ...unjust fashion. Popular masters of old-established hunts sin against their fellows in the same way. But when it comes to a man to fill up all these po...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...nvicted, a challenge to consumption—they smiled at each other in confirmed fellowship. “Do you call it subtly? It’s a plain poor tale. Besides, you’re... ...pse figured to him as a symbol, a symbol of his long grind and his want of odd moments, his want moreover of money, of opportunity, of positive dignit... ...a- tively safe—that having his young friend at his side would have been an odd feature of the work of redemption; and this quite in spite of the fact ... ...things, were to be learned at least cost, and in which all sorts of clever fellows, compatriots there for a purpose, formed an awfully pleas- ant set.... ...patriots there for a purpose, formed an awfully pleas- ant set. The clever fellows, the friendly countrymen were mainly young painters, sculptors, arc... ...me indiffer- ence and independences that had struck the latter as fresh—an odd and engaging dignity. He lived at the end of an alley that went out of ...

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...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...receives him, when his manhood begins, and he enters into contact with his fellows. He is then studied for the first time, and it is imagined that the... ...ressors and the oppressed. The man who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his activity and even his opinions ... ... equal of any one of them; but when he comes to survey the totality of his fellows, and to place him- self in contrast to so huge a body, he is instan... ...he New World. There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember that I read the feudal play of Henry...

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...he very shadow, indeed, projected by the image of the (i pater patriae)— one of them remarked to the other, “It seems a rum- 4 An International Episo... ... “I daresay not,” rejoined the other. “Oh, I say!” cried his comrade. This animated discussion was checked by their arrival at the hotel, which had be... ...der of the young English- men unfolded his napkin. His companion took no notice whatever of this decla- ration. “I say,” he resumed in a moment, “I su... ...icent young man with a waxed mustache, and a shirtfront adorned with diamond buttons, who every now and then dropped an absent glance over their multi... ...e starlight, to make out the line of low, mysterious coast. The young Englishmen tried American cigars—those of Mr. Westgate—and talked together as th... ...young girl declared. “Certainly, from what I have read about English society, it is very different.” “Ah well, you know,” said her companion, “those t... ...ess intentness, as if they were looking for something to buy, and who, tripping in and out of their vehicles, displayed remarkably pretty feet. It all...

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...n the hori- zon. I heard her say yesterday to an English gentleman— a very odd Mr. Antrobus, the only person with whom she converses—that she was afra... ...a demoi- selle bien-elevee should not write. I don’t know whether it’s the American air; if it is, all I can say is that the American air is very char... ... Leverett are always inviting me to walk. Both of these gentlemen, who are Americans, have asked leave to call upon me in New York, and I have said, M... ...ery brief, I wished to put an end to the reclamations of my daughter. Many Americans had 13 Henry James assured her that she was wasting her youth in... ...ess, but an extreme dread of complications. The men strike me as very good fellows. I think that at bottom they are better than the women, who are ver... ...light of a railway lamp, which rattles above my left ear; it being only at odd moments that I can find time to look into everything that I wish to. Yo... ...e to look into everything that I wish to. You will say that this is a very odd moment, indeed, when I tell you that I am in bed in a sleeping-car. I o...

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...this custom or approve it. He leaned over the bulwarks of the Donau as the American passen- gers crossed the plank—the travellers who embark at Southa... ...d at Southampton were not of the greasy class; they were for the most part American families who had been spending the summer, or a longer period, in ... ... be an aspect to study, like every- thing else. He had known in Dresden an American family in which there were three daughters who used to skate with ... ...m and indulgence, as if they would be disappointing if they weren’t rather odd and yet might be dangerous if not carefully watched. Our young man had ... ... extracting promises from the ruler of fifty mil- lions of people. What an odd place to meet her, her old shipmate thought, and how little one could t... ...iced on the altar of the American girl, an altar at which those other poor fellows had poured out some of the bluest blood in Germany and he had himse...

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...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ... traffic. Bank Holiday times always bring out old stored-away vehicles and odd people; one saw tricars and electric broughams and dilapidated old raci... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF... ... machines had never looked so hopelessly disreputable. He thought of their fellows who were “out,” and of the approaching disputations of the afternoo... ...was no escape. He thought the whole duty of man was to be smarter than his fellows, get his hands, as he put it, “on the dibs,” and have a good time. ... ... and Lower Broadway, one to the Brooklyn Bridge, dropping from among their fellows through the danger zone from the distant guns smoothly and rapidly ... ...or three others and one woman were bolting across the road- way. They were odd little figures, so very small were they about the heads, so very active... ...ody, magazine guns projected on either side. One thing that was strikingly odd and wonderful in that moment of revelation was that the left upper wing...

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...ves of foreign lands were very numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The... ...xpected in savages and prize-fighters, for they are born and educated to it; but to find it in such perfection in these gently bred and kindly natured... ...nsciousness is not allowed. Again: if under the sudden anguish of a wound the receiver of it makes a grimace, he falls some degrees in the estimation ... ... Go”ttingen, to fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts t... ...only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. Once I wished to examine some of the swords, ... ...ayers would being at the beginning and do the entire opera over again with only that one individual in the vast solemn theater for audience. Once he t... ...ol words, so I am obliged to put blanks where they occur. “Yes indeedy! If I ain’t an American there ain’t any Ameri- cans, that’s all. And when I hea... ...day, and consequently everybody was taking a “pleasure” excursion. Hot! the sky was an oven—and a sound one, too, with no cracks in it to let in any a... ...nd come over; and I’m glad you did, for I shouldn’t have felt much flattered if you had gone out of this room without recognizing me. Sit down, sit do...

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...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America... ...Next came a young fellow wounded, sitting in a rope swung from a pole; two fellows bearing him, two running behind for a relief. At last about eleven,... ...masese. The line of the beach was one con- tinuous breastwork; some thirty odd iron cannon of all sizes and patterns stood mounted in embrasures; plen... ...lowance is to be made for the character of the people of Manono, turbulent fellows, boastful of tongue, but of late days not thought to be answerably ...

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...will not call them), who are now at large and working more piracies in his American ocean, which the Pope gave him. (He and the Pope should guard it, ... ... come?” Rene shook his head, and then he blew his nose. You don’t know how odd a man looks blowing his nose when you are sitting directly above him. I... ...shore. None’ll hinder you. They’re all gone mad on these coasts—French and American together. ’Tisn’t my notion o’ war.” Pierre was an old King Louis ... ...s are a seemly, quiet people, and they’d had trouble enough from white men—American and English—during the wars, to keep ‘em in that walk. They lived ... ...n: ‘Ai Lumai, Lumai, Lumai! Luludia! Ai Luludia!’ He passed from one odd tune to another, and quite forgot the children. At last Puck asked him ... ...about the city— mostly in Drinker’s Alley and Elfrith’s Alley—and they did odd jobs till times should mend. But whatever they stooped to, they were ge... ...of the church,” he cried. “My business is to save souls, not to enter into fellowships and understandings with accursed beasts.” ‘“Have it your own na... ...ur fire chip by chip to eke it out, and they made me sit over it, the dear fellows, when I was too weak to object. Meon held me in his arms the second... ...im out of the storm to humble me, a fool.” ‘“I won’t ask you to enter into fellowships and understand- ings with any accursed brute,” said Meon, rathe...

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...cknowledged by the profession, with whom, in truth, he had never claimed a fellowship; nor had he ever assumed, of his own accord the medical title by... ...the port, who followed the East and West Indian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit ... ...ndian, the African and the South American trade, it was supposed that this odd philosopher was in the habit of im porting choice monstrosities in the... ... a sixpence and shakes his horse whip at him. Had the grim Doctor been an American, he might have had the vast antipathy to rank, without the trace o... ...n his infancy and youth. He was a gem of coarse texture, just hewn out. An American with a like education would more likely have gained a certain fine... ...ent is but sickly and disgusting. Another sort of culture, which it seemed odd that this rude man should undertake, was that of manners; but, in fact,... ... befalls many a man with less cause than drew the public attention on this odd humorist; for, dwelling in a town which was as yet but a larger village... ...erted the poor schoolmaster. “Not so hard,” replied Colcord. “These little fellows are an unruly set, born of parents who have led rough lives,—here i... ... in one spot till the day of judgment. No; turn about, I say, to these old fellows. As long as they can decently be called dead men, I let them 71 Ha...