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...to irrational combustion, as by live cinders blown across the Channel from France in flames. The event converted into irony for a time those spirited ... ...and the naval crown of crowns for him at Trafalgar. To the mutineers those battles, and especially Trafalgar, were a plenary absolution and a grand on... ... goes to make up scenicnaval display, heroic mag- nificence in arms, those battles, especially Trafalgar, stand unmatched in human annals. 16 Billy B... ...o invent something touching the more private career of Claggart, something involving Billy Budd, of which something the latter should be wholly ignora... ...eply felt, he added, the serious responsibility assumed in making a report involving such possible consequences to the indi- vidual mainly concerned, ... ...s manhood in battle might not prove altogether reliable in a moral dilemma involving aught of the tragic. As to the First Lieutenant and the Sailing M...

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...ere a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the S... ...cations yet received through any of the chick ens of the Cock lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister ... ...ome fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were grow ing trees, when that sufferer was put t... ...ous creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses... ...ung lady , whose anguish in giving it they had witnessed, came to nothing, involving the mere little innocent gallantries and politenesses likely to p... ...s of a very frugal kind: not only because that was the safest way of life, involving the least offence to the people, but because they were not rich, ... ...ens 317 no better man? Tell her, to night, what you know of her danger as involving her child and her father. Dwell upon that, for she would lay her ...

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...t several of the boys upon Dido’s history, but Heriot was condemned to the battles with T urnus. My share in this event secured Heriot’s friendship to... ...until I could have dropped my finger on it blindfold. Two or three pitched battles brought us to a friendly ar- rangement. The colonel exacted my prom... ...are so, you English, when not intoxicated. And so censorious! You win your battles, they say, upon beer and cordials: it is why you never can follow u... ... pleas- ant smooth-sailing days, she consented to cruise off the coasts of France and England. Adieu to the sands. Throughout the cruise she was placa... ...uld demand explanations of my father with re- gard to this terrible rumour involving Ottilia, I found my- self in the box of the City widow, Lady Samp... ...son.’ ‘But you must know that he sets his face against legal pro- ceedings involving exposure.’ ‘But surely, Richie, exposure is the very thing we cou... ...say. Was there not some funny story abroad of a Pretender to the Throne of France? she asked, wrinkling her crow’sfeet 378 The Adventures of Harry Ri... ... of a person for whom he professed ex- traordinary respect. The Dauphin of France was announced. A mild, flabby, amiable-looking old person, with shel...

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...not to flourish, on their half-decayed roots, oftener than in En- gland or France. It came down in a broad track from the Middle Ages; but, at epochs ... ...torial art, devoutly exercised, might effect in behalf of religious truth; involving, as it does, deeper mysteries of revelation, and bring- ing them ... ...s, had only sufficed to make that handful of precious ashes the nucleus of battles, long ages after her death. A little beyond this point, the sculpto...

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...from our opposing thumbs. This entire evolutionary development and process involving millions of years: left the bottom half of our ancestors rel... ...evolving and not our bodies. Until. hominids could focus narrowly upon a task involving a high degree of hand-eye coordination and this adaptive tra... ... trait became its primary means of survival... all as an evolutionary process involving millions of years. The concentrated pyramidal focus needed f... ...he culture of lions is based upon hatred, blood-letting and constant wars and battles against all other animal species in their territory. THE P... ...ges down the throats of his subjects. When Napoleon single-handedly revamped France’s legal system; he threatened the old status quo of all Europe. ... ...rope. By arbitrarily and single-handedly changing the entire legal system of France: Napoleon threatened the entire Old European Social Order. By i... ...King was ousted, thanks to Bonaparte’s new, more egalitarian legal system; and France finally became a Republic in name only… as it was the Emperor’s... ... Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal battles over the ownership of his patents. And what has happened since... ...n Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal battles over the ownership of his patents. And what has happened sinc...

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...le, “Memoirs of the Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement ... ...king, Louis XIII, whom God preserve! Sometimes their play degenerated into battles, and in these battles the king was not always the stronger. The blo... ...uis XIII had surrounded himself, this second, or rather this first king of France, became desirous that he, too, should have his guard. He had his Mus... ...vals vied with each other in procuring, not only from all the provinces of France, but even from all foreign states, the most celebrated swordsmen. It... ... That’s the whole story. What the devil, Captain, one cannot win all one’s battles! The great Pompey lost that of Pharsalia; and Francis the First, wh... ...cited who would neither have won their spurs in the first place, nor their battles afterward, without the purse, more or less fur- nished, which their... ...an, he was the enemy of the car- dinal; and she doubtless would succeed in involving him in the vengeance by which she hoped to destroy the young Musk...

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... places of learning. I’ll go and visit the Universities abroad. I’ll go to France and Italy. I’ll go to Padua.—And I’ll mind my business. For an Athen... ...en accompanying two beautiful young ladies* with their mother on a tour in France, he was seriously angry that more at- tention was paid to them than ... ...; for General Paoli, after Corsica had been overpowered by the monarchy of France, was now no longer at the head of his brave country- men, but having... ...s; I mean real authentick history. That certain Kings reigned, and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the colouring, all... ... a physician who was known to him and Dr. Johnson, and said, ‘I fight many battles for him, as many people in the country dislike him.’ Johnson. ‘But ... ... gentleman who we 470 Boswell’s Life of Johnson apprehended was gradually involving his cir- cumstances by bad management. Johnson. ‘Wasting a fortun...

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...reat Britain at the time of James Madison’s second inauguration. Most of the battles had occurred at sea, and the physical reminders of war seemed rem... ...other countries, and not only of permitting but compelling them to fight its battles against their native country. They have not, it is true, taken in... ...tes on a principle of defense, continue still in force. The negotiation with France for the regulation of the commercial relations between the two cou... ...nsfer of American control to the new government is of such great importance, involving an obligation resulting from our intervention and the treaty of... ...Martin Treptow—who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Divi sion. There, on the western front, he...

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...phasis on the State and political action, and to certain movements outside France which have some affinity with Syndicalism—notably the I. W . W . in ... ...at before his time there were Socialist theo- ries, both in England and in France. It is also true that in France, during the revolution of 1848, Soci... ...the workers are victori- ous, but only for a time. The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever-expanding union ... ... industrial labor, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of nation... ...o ordinary citizens. In its general doctrines there is nothing essentially involving violent methods or a virulent hatred of the rich, and many who ad... ...[Literary Digest, May 2 and May 16, 1914.] Many other instances of pitched battles could be given, but enough has been said to show the peculiar chara... ...oint Committee of Parliament and the Guild Congress for decid- ing matters involving the interests of consumers and produc- ers alike. The view of the... ..., neat, 111 Bertrand Russell giving a stimulus to industrious habits, and involving no waste of a sort that could be tabulated in statistics or accou...

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...is Own Time , though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the his torical part of the Annual Register, from the beginn... ...son to fears, wishes, and affections, which enable them to accept a theory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logic... ...er of the fortunate circumstances in my edu cation, a year’s residence in France, to Mr. Bentham’s brother, General Sir Samuel Bentham. I had seen Si... ...t. In 1820 they invited me for a six months’ visit to them in the South of France, which their kindness ultimately prolonged to nearly a twelvemonth. ... ... the foot of the singular mountain of St. Loup. During this resi dence in France I acquired a familiar knowledge of the French language, and acquaint... ...any active concern in temporary politics, and from any literary occupation involving personal communication with contributors and others, I was enable... ...hest, next to that of Secretary, in the East India Company’s home service, involving the general superintendence of all the correspon dence with the ...

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...st be simply ascribed to the subject’s having a large sub- liminal region, involving nervous instability. This is often the subject’s own view of the ... ...tions were of a different order.” Here is another one of Starbuck’s cases, involving a luminous element:— “I had been clearly converted twenty-three y... ... ridiculous as my indecision. Now marriage, now solitude; now Germany, now France hesitation upon hesitation, and all because at bottom I am un- able ... ...y take are often pathetic enough. The early Quakers, for example, had hard battles to wage against the worldliness and insincerity of the ecclesiastic... ...ression, and which no man may seek to give an account of without his words involving sin. “Whosoever has had no experience of the trans- port knows of... ...it takes the whole of us to spell the meaning out completely. So a “god of battles” must be allowed to be the god for one kind of person, a god of pea...

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...y that America had attacked Islam;America is responsible for all conflicts involving Muslims.Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palest... ...’s agenda stood out.While his allied Islamist groups were focused on local battles, such as those in Egypt, Algeria, Bosnia, or Chechnya, Bin Ladin co... ...ons, and convictions. Counterterrorism and counterintelligence work, often involving lengthy intelligence investigations that might never have positiv... ...pply for and use traditional criminal warrants. For intel- ligence matters involving international terrorism, however, the rules were different. For m... ...ge taking in the 1970s. In June 1976, Palestinian terrorists seized an Air France plane and landed it at Entebbe in Uganda, holding 105 Israelis and o... ...wearing Western clothes and occasionally renting cars for trips to Berlin, France, and the Netherlands. 71 As a student, Shehhi was less than a succes... ...ice from three Algerian friends, all of whom were wanted by authorities in France for their roles in past terrorist attacks there. Ressam also acquire...