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...eas’, to the same subject. Within the last few, years American and English vessels engaged in the extensive whale fisheries of the Pacific have occasi... ...nothing but the tri-coloured flag of France trailing over the stern of six vessels, whose black hulls and bristling broad- sides proclaimed their warl... ...T o my eye nothing could be more out of keeping than the presence of these vessels; but we soon learnt what brought them there. The whole group of isl... ...ing the same religion and laws, have from time immemorial waged hereditary warfare against each other. The intervening mountains generally two or thre... ...figures a variety of spears and javelins, and other imple- ments of savage warfare. Outside of the habitation, and built upon the piazza-like area in ... ...lville smooth black stone which rose a few inches above the sur- face. The amphibious rabble at our heels plunged in after us, and climbing to the sum... ...drag some of them under the water, but I quickly repented my temerity. The amphibious young creatures swarmed about me like a shoal of dolphins, and s... ...six muskets pre- served in the Ti, and three or four similar implements of warfare hung up in other houses; some small canvas bags, partly filled with... ...g and treating it to a bath. No wonder that the South Sea Islanders are so amphibious a race, when they are thus launched into the water as soon as th...

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... a pleasure in its patternings and repetitions, shaped it into the form of vessels, and found that it would hold water. He watched the streaming river... ... which we live. They did not very greatly alter the weapons and tactics of warfare, the methods of agriculture, seamanship, their knowledge of the hab... ... always heating water, boiling it, seeing it boil away, seeing the lids of vessels dance with its fury; millions of people at different times must hav... ... intelligence had been sought to specialise in and work out the problem of warfare with the new appli- ances and under modern conditions, but a succes... ...lls then our own came up and asked them not to, and—the practice of aerial warfare still being unknown—they very politely desisted and went away and d... ...ly in its darker shading as to give an impression that homo sapiens was an amphibious animal. His roads and railways lay also along the lower contours...

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...ame manner, when the Christian knight, desirous to terminate this illusory warfare, in which he might at length have been worn out by the activity of ... ... so lately felt the force, while he showed his purpose of waging a distant warfare with missile weapons of his own. Planting his long spear in the san... ...s under the influence of these milder feelings which soften the horrors of warfare that the Christian and Saracen, who had so lately done their best f... ...ter. “That is the Venetian’s banner,” said the Duke; “but assur- edly that amphibious race, half nobles, half merchants, will not dare to place their ... ...ou call your wild enterprise, is like a large dromond [The largest sort of vessels then known were termed dromond’s, or dromedaries.] parting asunder ... ...im reverence as a military leader. 267 Sir Walter Scott “The misproud and amphibious caitiff puts the monk upon me,” said Richard to the Earl of Sali... ...n- not hope to prosper upon the land; and we have only to quarrel with the amphibious republic, to lose the means of retreat by sea!” “I will take car... ...Lambs roasted whole, and game and poultry dressed in pilaus, were piled in vessels of gold, and silver, and porcelain, and intermixed with large mazer...

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...e declared he could do no less than restore to the masters of the merchant vessels all their private property. This unexpected generosity caused some ... ...nd there could be no communication, according to the customs of honourable warfare. “In less than half an hour we were in the saddle, flying wildly th... ...d gorge fit for an ambuscade, in accordance with his genius for gue- rilla warfare. But his genius seemed to have aban- doned him to his despair. “It ... ...rad “I call him Crocodile because he lives half in, half out of the creek. Amphibious—see? There’s nothing else amphibious living on the island except... ...ing signed he could turn without misgivings to the thoughts of his private warfare. This time it was to be regular warfare. He sent two friends to Lie...

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...he words of Pope are as true now as ever they were—“the life of a wit is a warfare upon earth;” and a warfare in which poisoned missiles and every var... ...llen. They pushed their rejoinders beyond the limits of civilised literary warfare; and although Pope had been coarse in his language, they were coars... ...uld scarce be of their number on any consideration. The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth; and the present spirit of the learned world is such, th... ...ast, When husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last; Or when rich China vessels, fallen from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie! ... ...en, and perceptible parts, than by studying too much such finer nerves and vessels, the conformations and uses of which will for ever escape our obser... ...igh, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that, acting either part, The trifling head, or the corru...

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...ailed to beat. 340 Rotted as by a charm, my life became A floating island, an amphibious thing, Unsound, of spungy texture, yet withal Not wanting a fa... ...ith Eudemus and Timonides, Surrounded by adventurers in arms, When those two vessels with their daring freight For the Sicilian tyrant’s overthrow 425... ... whereunto The unhappy counsel of a few weak men Had doomed it, I beheld the vessels lie— 295 A brood of gallant creatures—on the deep I saw them in t... ... to avoid. 655 Giants in their impiety alone, But in their weapons and their warfare base As vermin working out of reach, they leagued Their strength ...

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...hip Hobomock. “It is generally well known that out of the crews of Whaling vessels (American) few ever return in the ships on board of which they depa... ...nail or two in the ship. People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing i... ... doctors, bakers, and bankers. And though this also holds true of merchant vessels, yet not by any means to the same extent as with whalemen. For besi... ...alrus spouts much like a whale, but the walrus is not a fish, because he is amphibious. But the last term of the definition is still more cogent, as cou... ... practised Right whale men to embark in the perils of this new and daring warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be hopefu...

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...g epidemics and leaving pestilential corpses in its train, that we have almost forgotten its original, the most healthful, if not the most humane, of ... ...per— the last work of industrious old hands, and the last earthly 90 In The South Seas amusement of a man that was much of a hero. In the sac- risty ... ... excessive; and in that preserve of sharks, fear hunted them. Again and again, Francois, the half-breed, would have desisted and gone down; but the wo...

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... of men, Like Peter the Apostle,— and he fish’d For wandering merchant vessels, now and then, And sometimes caught as many as he wish’d; T... ...tmen upon the look, Not as of yore to carry off an Io, But three Ragusan vessels, bound for Scio. Then came her freedom, for she had no mother, ... ...secure, as such digressions are fair, The Muse will take a little touch at warfare. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Six” 168 CANTO THE SEVENTH. O LOVE... ...was nine, when still advancing undismay’d, Within a cable’s length their vessels lay Off Ismail, and commenced a cannonade, Which was return... ...ted It adds an outward grace unto their carriage But to denounce the amphibious sort of harlot, ‘Couleur de rose,’ who ‘s neither white nor ...

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...th foam for fruit, And the fair heaven reflecting inner peace On righteous warfare, that asks not to cease. Forth of such passage through black fire w... ...s charioteers the reins, Dive down the fumy AEtna of their brains. Belated vessels on a rising sea, They seem: they pass! —But not Philosophy! —Ay, b... ...y swelled T o feed insurgent Europe: rear and van 421 Were haunted by the amphibious curse; Here flesh, there phantom, livelier after rout: The Seama... ...tles lost or won, Reveals the scheme to animate his race: How that it is a warfare but begun; Unending; with no Power to interpose; No prayer, save fo...

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...yal Breton was now a man of seventy-three; but his long-continued guerilla warfare with the Republic, his exile, the perils of his five crossings thro... ...ctor. “All Guerande is turned upside down about Calyste’s passion for this amphibious crea- ture, who is neither man nor woman, who smokes like an hus... ... alone sounded the moan of her waves at regular intervals, where boats and vessels tracked a vast ex- panse, and the girdle of green earth richly cult... ...elie (so completely happy until now) to a phase of do- 275 Beatrix mestic warfare produced in the bosom of all homes by some secret and alien interes...

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... of the Cunard steamer, off to-morrow, as the stocks in trade of several butchers, poulterers, and fishmongers, poured down into the ice-house; he was... ...Presently, I observed the Skipper overboard, but forbore to mention it, as he seemed in no wise disconcerted by the accident. Indeed, I soon came to r... ...hen the coats and waistcoats become insupportable, refer them to their source in the Upper Toady Regions. Gentlemen’s clubs were once maintained for p... ...s immortal part has departed; he is gone to the happy hunt- ing-plains.’ This belief leads to the logical sequence that when a man is buried, some of ...

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... 44 44. ‘How, to that vast and peopled city led, Which was a field of holy warfare then, _515 I walked among the dying an... ...on the earth, and brows anxious and pale _745 With the heart’s warfare, did I gather food To feed my many thoughts—a tameless multitude! 1... ... mien divine; Even then, methought, with the world’s tyrant rage A patient warfare thy young heart did wage, _860 When those ... ...rand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand, Matted with thistles and amphibious weeds, _5 Such as from earth’s embrace... ...s, and deny The apostolic power with which the Spirit Has filled its elect vessels, even from him Who held the keys with power to loose and bind, ...

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...iminution of the pasty, on which his guest was making desperate inroads; a warfare in which his previous pro- fession of abstinence left him no pretex... ...t thou best unfit for a speedy post, or for a careful shepherd, or for the warfare, or for the service of a hasty master, yet there be occupations — H... ...truments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and ... ...t, as if, after all, it had not been ill bestowed on such an equivocal and amphibious character as a titular abbot. He entitles his narrative, The Ear...

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...tor, but a great composer of speeches. Socrates under- stands that he is an amphibious animal, half philosopher, half politician; one of a class who ... ...es being perfect in the use of their bodies, are invincible in every sort of warfare; for they are capital at fighting in armour, and will teach the a... ...ch the art to any one who pays them; and also they are most skilful in legal warfare; they will plead themselves and teach others to speak and to comp... ...e of the carpenter? Nothing else, he said. And surely, in the manufacture of vessels, knowledge is that which gives the right way of making them? He a... ...poses wonderful speeches. SOCRATES: Now I understand, Crito; he is one of an amphibious class, whom I was on the point of mention- ing one of those wh...

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...ave found no less than fifteen different accounts of dust having fallen on vessels when far out in the Atlantic. From the direction of the wind whenev... ...h quantities as to dirty every- thing on board, and to hurt people’s eyes; vessels even have run on shore owing to the obscurity of the atmosphere. It... ...orting nostrils, appearing just above the water like a great shoal of some amphibious animal. Mare’s flesh is the only food which the soldiers have wh... ... was very different; he saved his life by betraying the in- tended plan of warfare, and the point of union in the Andes. It was believed that there we... ...n another half-century, be a wild In- dian northward of the Rio Negro. The warfare is too bloody to last; the Christians killing every Indian, and the... ... the Parana. At the foot of the cliff on which the town stands, some large vessels were at anchor. Before arriving at Rozario, we crossed the Saladill... ...h other only by a deserted border or neutral territory: the cause of their warfare appears to be the means of subsistence. Their country is a broken m... ...les and corners, and thus caught them. The Tahitians have the dexterity of amphibious animals in the water. An anecdote mentioned by Ellis shows how m...

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...y of bet ter model than usual. If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its stru... ... chivin is not yet a complete angler. Other fishes, methinks, are slightly amphibious, but this is a denizen of the water wholly. The cork goes dancin... ...s been known to rise twenty five feet in a few hours. It is navigable for vessels of burden about twenty miles; for canal boats, by means of locks, a... ...led by the morning fog which hangs over it, and the sails of the few small vessels which transact the commerce of Haverhill and Newburyport. But its r... ...els which transact the commerce of Haverhill and Newburyport. But its real vessels are railroad cars, and its true and main stream, flowing by an iron... ...well, Farwell, and many others whose families were distinguished in Indian warfare. We noticed there two large masses of granite more than a foot thic...

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...e earth must in the last instance be a history of a really very relentless warfare. Neither his fellows, nor his gods, nor his passions will leave a m... ...ous cheap store away there, below the grey curve of the earth. Cargo steam vessels have reached by this time a height of utilitarian ugliness which, w... ... us with so much fussy importance. Mines; Submarines. The last word in sea-warfare! Progress— impressively disclosed by this war. There have been othe... ... very characteristically “dead” sort of shock. I may fairly call myself an amphibious creature. A good half of my active existence has been passed in ...

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... takers) that the author’s name began with H. Not out of any love for that amphibious letter; on the contrary, being myself what Professor Wilson call... ...- ping them: thence perhaps to Alexandria, in order to benefit by the corn vessels: and from Alexandria the voyage to re- moter places would be pursue... ...e read the counsels of a murderer; of one rightly carrying such a style of warfare towards the ancient country of the assassins; of one not an apostat... ...much more powerfully stimulated. Such is the abstract of our latest public warfare on this great question through a period of nearly fifty years. And ... ...rs the great words of the Hebrew prophet, ‘Behold! YOUR WORK IS DONE; your warfare is accomplished.’ III. Such, then, being the unmerited disparagemen...

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... pleasure of it. This entereth into my veins,—the pissing tools and urinal vessels shall have nothing of it. I would willingly wash the tripes of the ... ...gousier conskites himself for fear, the poor drinker. He is not skilled in warfare, nor hath he any stomach for it. He knows better how to empty the f... ...as is most agreeable with his divine will, even as a potter fashioneth his vessels. Because, said Ponocrates, he came with the first to the fair of no... ... necessary members in a military camp, so fully in- structed in the art of warfare, so perfectly knowing and fol- lowing their colours, so ready to he... ...unds 156 Gargantua & Pantagruel English money.) of gold, in great antique vessels, huge pots, large basins, big tasses, cups, goblets, candlesticks, ... ...t part from this tranquillity and rest of study, thou must learn chivalry, warfare, and the exercises of the field, the better thereby to defend my ho... ...two-tongued adders. Sea-hares. Ascalabotes. Chalcidic newts. Haemorrhoids. Amphibious serpents. Footed serpents. Basilisks. Manticores. Fitches. Cench...

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...ing the eyes on the spot where they should look. Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools—let them be drawn ever so correctly—lose all effect so s... ...tch a glance of a system in transition. Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousne... ... great gods of fame? And they too loom and fade before the eternal. We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two ele- ments, having two sets of facul... ...t other ends of the world. But in a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common sense still goes on. Four, or six, or ten years, the...