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...Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...ntella" is related to tarantism. It was played for days on end to manic patients by groups of travelling musicians as a kind of music therapy. The ... ...Primary (or compression) and secondary (or shearing) body waves (that travel in the rocks under the surface of the Earth at speeds of up to 7 kilome... ...y Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the pa... ...) - which represents 38,000 mental health professionals - joined other professional groups in supporting the right of homosexual (gay and lesbian) ... ...twice (1922 and 1923), who was 5- foot-7 and weighed 140 pounds (c. 65 kg.). Norman Rockwell, the painter, was on the panel of judges in 1923. Ca... ....com/def/f106.htm http://3.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FE/FELO_DE_SE.htm The "winter blues" are supposed to cause suicidal ideation. There is even a ...

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...lute song NOBODY knew where the man who sat on the corner where two main roads intersected had come from or why he played the blues. But came he d... ...ag, all the while mumbling words that didn’t make much sense. Soon after breakfast, he’d produce his flute and start playing the blues. I had a ve... ...loser to the four corners of the earth; corners erected by the Head Creator. Some days, especially Sundays, we’d sit on a big rock that was below ... ...ad preached to her but they couldn’t get through. She took out a notebook to scribble things. “You know why monkeys gather in groups?” When the... ...he saw the one who asked it that she knew she was experiencing neither. She didn’t know. She didn’t even know monkeys gather in groups. “No, why?...

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... along that road are in the habit of rest- ing. This company, divided into groups that were more or less numerous, presented a collection of such fant... ...t sumptuous, dress of a few individuals dispersed here and there among the groups, where they shone like flowers. In fact, the blue linen trousers of ... ...e few in- dividuals on whose fidelity the Republic might count among these groups, almost entirely made up of men who four years earlier were at war w... ...eads defiantly. They covertly examined the woods, and paths, and masses of rock which flanked the road, after the manner of a dog with his nose to the... ...inhabitants of the west of France called all the soldiers of the Republic “Blues.” This nickname came originally from their blue and red uniforms, the... ...still so fresh as to render a description superfluous. A detachment of the Blues was therefore on this occasion escorting a body of recruits, or rathe... ...of the Directory and the movement of this troop of men under escort of the Blues. It may not be superfluous to add that these finely patriotic Directo... ...n their declivities other and lesser valleys full of dewy freshness. These rocky heights made a vast enclosure, circular in form, in the centre of whi... ...old blockhead. A pretty time to choose to let fools sail the ship! English rockets from all the head- lands, and those cursed Chouan cockchafers in th...

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...o men who gather salt in the salt-marshes) con- trasts vigorously with the blues and browns of the peasantry and the original and sacredly preserved j... ...ing to Croisic for sea-bathing (thought to have greater virtue among those rocks than at Boulogne or Dieppe) is still an immense event. The peasants c... ...of the Bocage; hands which had pulled an oar in the Marais to surprise the Blues, or in the offing to signal Georges; the hands of a gue- rilla, a can... ...t their lodgings last year to men with beards, who were suspected of being Blues; they sang wicked songs which made those virtuous women blush and wee... ... and, finally the mighty ocean tossing its foaming fringe upon the granite rocks as if the better to bring out their weird formations—that sight uplif... ...me. I am not the dupe of his professed desire to go to Croisic and see the rocks and the dunes and the salt-marshes without me. He meant to leave us a... ...rcase was crowded by fashionable women ranged on the stairs or standing in groups below it, awaiting the an- nouncement of their carriages. Beatrix wa...

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...an was a sav- age, a being scarcely articulate, sheltering in holes in the rocks, armed with a rough-hewn flint or a fire-pointed stick, na- ked, livi... ... rough-hewn flint or a fire-pointed stick, na- ked, living in small family groups, killed by some younger man so soon as his first virile activity dec... ...en, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron ore and the promise of sword and spear; he froze to deat... ...ry; millions of people at different times must have watched steam pitching rocks out of volcanoes like cricket balls and blowing pumice into foam, and... ...en, surveyed a pass- ing tram-car, laden with warm light, against the deep blues of evening, dripping and trailing long skirts of shining re- flection... ...roadways; and everywhere in solitary steadings, amidst ricks and barns, in groups by the wayside, in straggling villages, each with its fine old churc... ...ers. And everywhere along the roads taken by the marching armies clustered groups and crowds of impartially observant spectators, women and chil- dren...

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...proprietor who was once my schoolfellow at City Mer- chants’, to Mr. J. D. Rockefeller—all of them men in their several ways and circumstances and pos... ...map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big fossil bones, and above that hangs the portrait of a b... ...d enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper. Among these rocks a number of survivors from a Noah’s Ark made a various, dangerous, al... ..., and I remember disconnectedly quite a number of brightly lit figures and groups walking about, and a white gate between orchard and garden and a lar... ...by throwing open folding doors, and it was all carefully done in greys and blues, for the most part with real Sheraton supplemented by Sheraton so ski... ...rtain amount of open-air speaking in the dinner hour outside gas-works and groups of factories. Some special sort of people was, as it were, secreted ... ... its long, hazy, crowded smok- ing-room with innumerable little tables and groups of men in armchairs, its magazine room and library upstairs, have ju... ...woodsmen are off the stage. These are the brilliant ones—the smart and the blues… . They cost a lot of money, you know.” So far Mrs. Redmondson, but t... ...ked in the of- fice. She made a white-robed, dusky figure against the deep blues of my big window. I sat at my desk and tore a quill pen to pieces as ...

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...and after reaching about the same elevation, expired side by side. “Them’s rockets, sir—ain’t they?” said one of the men in a muffled voice. “Aye, roc... ...o windward and beyond a maze of broken water, sandspits, and clus- ters of rocks, the black hull of the yacht heeling over, high and motionless upon t... ...been brought up in the middle of a broad belt of clear water. To the north rocky ledges showed in black and white lines upon the slight swell setting ... ...as the man. Swift and trim she flitted amongst the islands of little known groups. She could be descried afar from lonely headlands, a white speck tra... ...western shore of the oval lagoon; and in the pure freshness of the air the groups of brown houses reflected in the water or seen above the wav- ing gr... ... men of two races. Lingard and Mrs. Travers crossed it rapidly between the groups that moved out of the way on their passage. Lingard threw open the c... ...o, in one way or another. The way don’t matter.” “Ough! You would give the blues to the funny man of a blooming circus. What would my missus say if I ...

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...nd dying. Fire, storm, and darkness. Numbers of the drowning thrown upon a rock. There, and through it all, my dear physician was a hero. Calm and bra... ...ing my scarred face to her lovely cheek, bathing it with tears and kisses, rocking me to and fro like a child, calling me by every ten der name that ... ...ot that I blame them for going; I merely say I don’t go. This desk is your rock, sir!” Mr. Vholes gives it a rap, and it sounds as hollow as a coffin.... ...gnificance in the Roman’s hand to night or in the flutter of the attendant groups to give him the late warning, “Don’t come here!” It is a moonlight n... ...w that very well, Mrs. Bagnet. I’ll tell you how, one way and another, the blues have got to be too many for me. Here was this poor lad. ’Twas dull wo... ...s she goes up the steps the old man came down to his grave, past murderous groups of statuary repeated with their shadowy weapons on the wall, past th... ...adow by the cheerful town, where cricket players were assembling in bright groups and a flag was flying from a white tent that rippled in the sweet we...

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...ave a pair of shillyshallying children like Rone and Ted. I may not be any Rockefeller or James J. Shakespeare, but I certainly do know my own mind, a... ...nd floor of the Reeves Building. The Reeves Building was as fireproof as a rock and as efficient as a typewriter; fourteen stories of yellow pressed b... ...writer. “Why say, the letters that boy sent me on his trip to the Canadian Rockies, they just absolutely make you see the place as if you were standin... ...y.” The real convention consisted of men muttering in hotel bedrooms or in groups amid the badge-spotted crowd in the hotel-lobby, but there was a sho... ...ceful tappers. They run 1-2 under the wire. Provin and Adams will blow the blues in their laugh skit “Hootch Mon!” Something doing, boys. Listen to wh... ...son, and Mayor Prout. The young negro boot- black hummed “The Camp Meeting Blues” and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so ta... ...tle belly, and his round little mouth petu- lant as he piped to chattering groups on corners. “Move on there now! I can’t have any of this loitering!”...

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...osite side under the soft haze of distance. On the other side, the wall of rock was bordered by gardens, with streamers of ivy or periwinkle here and ... ...our guests.’ Sophy gave a black look, and she retreated, but presently the groups coalesced, and Maria Drury and Sophy ran out to call Genevieve into ... ...s often incurring her displea- sure, and risking that of Lucy, by the deep blues and sober browns which alone looked fit to be seen with those beetle ... ... emerged on the bowling-green, where stood the two bright targets, and the groups of archers, whose shafts, for the most part, flew far and wide. ‘Whe... ...hish—hiss, with steady swiftness, up shot in the dark purple air the first rocket, bursting and scattering a rain of stars. There was an audible gasp ... ...x—vexatious, too, to be treated with dry reserve, and probably viewed as a rock in the course of true love; and provoking to see perpetual tete- a-tet... ...nee, she mixed and she painted, and tried to catch those purples and those blues with unabated ardour. Suddenly a great trailing frond of mountain fer...

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...ody gave him a welcome last year, that was not the fault of the Yellow-and-Blues. Eh, my boys? Groans and cheers. Right sure was spokesman that Squire... ...o telling how conduct like this might have been received by the Yellow-and-Blues if Mr. Barrett had not spoken. “You mean everything when you say “Uni... ...ighted. She was informed by several voices that they were the Yel- low-and-Blues, and not the Blues: that she must not go to the wrong set: and that t... ... answer, “With papa,” and then stopped as he was walking off to one of the groups. “After all, it won’t do for us to listen to the whims of an invalid... ...stipulation that he should occupy so large a portion of them has made them rock top-heavy, to the forfeit of their stability. He main- tains that a st... ...is seat. Merthyr, Georgiana, and the footman were on the other side of the rock, measuring the place to see whether, by a partial ascent of the slopin...

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.... She would join in a high keening of Yata grief. As one the village would rock back and forth in an outpouring of mourning, and TripStone would ro... ...r families quickly and unceremoniously. One after another, clusters of kin groups repaired to their huts. Zai continued to wait with the others kee... ..., lifting himself to the summit. After days and nights of clinging to ice, rock, and snow, Ata knew the wind so well, and the gusts trying to pull ... ... light gleamed golden off cairns that pointed the way, disguised as natural rock formations. Birds screeched, squabbling over territory. No, not ter... ...ine cloth, its floor strewn with opulent pillows in purple and gold, bright blues and greens, yellows and reds. A few patrons, still clothed, sat at... ...side her head, its knots and fabrics folding back on each other as Yata kin groups intertwined, split off, recombined. Her boots clacked on Crossroa...

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...e date 1542, standing by itself, means little or nothing to us; but when one groups a few neighboring historical dates and facts around it, he adds pe... ...scorted the Frenchmen to the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks above the present city of Alton they found some rude and fantastic ... ... the Gulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and... ...hel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I’m ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo oop! S... ...Now what could these banished creatures find to do to keep from dying of the blues during the low water season! Once, in one of these lovely island ch... ...se for them to pursue, and they pursued it. They came forward in couples and groups, and proffered their twelve dollars and asked for membership. They...

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...d me in my present situation. To the north, and not far away, a group of naked rocks thrust above the sea, on one of which could distinguish a lightho... ...brutality distorted and emphasized by the sickly yellow of the sea lamps which rocked back and forth with the ship. Through the dim smoke haze the bu... ... to the amusement of the sailors and hunters, who made a point of gathering in groups to witness my exit. The strain was too great. sometimes thought ... ... grave. And so I. To crawl is piggish; but to not crawl, to be as the clod and rock, is loathsome to contemplate. It is loathsome to the life that is ... ...; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which... ...pon him. He was quiv ering to it. He had reasoned himself into a spell of the blues, and within few hours one could look for the devil within him to ... ...arkable effect upon him. The previous evening he had reasoned himself into the blues, and I had been waiting momentarily for one of his characteristic...

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...med emphatically, “Damn!” Chapter II U ncomfortable as the night, with its rocking move ment, and salt smells, may have been, and in one case undoubte... ...ughby, whose discomfort as he listened was manifested by a slight movement rocking of his body, said awkwardly, “Oh, surely, Helen, a little religion ... ...showed that she belonged to the lower orders; neverthe- less she took up a rock-like position, looking about her to see that no gentry were near befor... ...hour being still early, the whole view was exquisitely light and airy; the blues and greens of sky and tree were in- tense but not sultry. As they dre... ... worn round their heads, and primitive carvings coloured bright greens and blues. Somehow or other, as fashions do, the fashion spread; an old monaste... ...it would be to join the ranks of the married women—no longer to hang on to groups of girls much younger than herself—to escape the long solitude of an... ...able joining to another tea-table, and deck- chairs serving to connect two groups. But even at a dis- tance it could be seen that Mrs. Flushing, uprig... ... was now laid with great breadths of sunlight, and at the careless, casual groups of people who were standing beside the solid arm-chairs and tables. ...

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...at Bessie’s request, and was playing that he was her baby and that she was rocking him to sleep. She sat beside him, swing- ing the hammock to and fro... ...lds, and at last found themselves on a grassy elevation studded with mossy rocks and red cedars. Just beneath them, in a great shining curve, flowed t... ...ulations of the horizon. It was a meadow on the edge of a wood, with mossy rocks protruding through the grass and a little lake on the other side. It ... ...he grassy desolation of the Campagna. As the season went on and the social groups began to constitute themselves, he found that he knew a great many p... ... many a weary hour; but it was a long lane that had no turning. Roderick’s blues would not last forever. Rowland’s interest in Miss Garland’s relation...

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...r the stream like a leviathan, her companion floated off with the sense of rocking violently at her side. More than prepared, however, for that excite... ...over was brief, for she next became aware of the presence on a fragment of rock, twenty yards off, of the Tauchnitz volume the girl had brought out an... ...the descent of the path and as a sequel to a sharp turn that was masked by rocks and shrubs, appeared to fall precipitously and to become a “view” pur... ...welled for the midsummer daylight; and she was all in the palest pinks and blues. She didn’t think, at this pass, that she could “come” anywhere—Milly... ...ey even went so far as to impose themselves as 225 Henry James one of the groups of social phenomena that fell into the scheme of his public letters.... ..., but visibly unused—it defied familiarity—and furnished in the ugliest of blues. He had immediately looked with interest at the closed doors, and Kat... ...it would 273 Henry James doubtless have been hard to say which of the two groups now played most of a part. He was kept face to face with this young ... ...again; the air was like a clap of hands, and the scattered pinks, yellows, blues, sea-greens, were like a hanging-out of vivid stuffs, a laying-down o...

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...t back to the Vampire. He was getting a little squirmy. Sitting back on his rock hard stomach, I gave the stake another tap in hopes that the vamp w... ...enities about me under his breath. Note to self: Try not to think about the rock hard abs or the pokey thing tapping at my back door that was not a... ...rapped by the confines of a legally binding birth certificate. The crossbow rocked against my shoulder as the bolt flew — yet another future bruise ... ...e was Sasha tricking the night she disappeared?” “Not far from the House of Blues. Way I hear it. Sash had a thing for Blues men.” “That still doe... ...yed look for a second but a shake got him to spilling. “Down by the House of Blues. ‘Bout two streets over from there on Conti Street.” “Bingo!” F... ... to go cautiously and scout out the area first. If he is operating near the Blues, he wouldn’t be so stupid as to have his resting place so close to... ...old me the other two Slayers assisting me in looking for Rudolpho encountered groups of newborns last night.” “Shit! I was afraid of this. He is p...

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... and his family. These people had no idea what rain was and so individual groups hindered Noah’s efforts. One in particular was the Eco-terrorists, ... ... they wanted to be kept sacred. By the time the rains came, the different groups were ready to stone each other. It had been a busy time for angels, ... ...ime. Feeling an irresistible urge for revenge, Snakelex picked up a large rock and hurled it at the ornament. “It’s payback time.” Snakelex snarled,... ...ers, barely conscious, arose from the remnants of the cherub plucking the rock from his face. 19 CHAPTER 4 One can see from the main street many hou... ...ways the same. Stella continued to walk around the schoolyard talking with groups of excited children. She had no idea that six hundred enthusiastic ... ...m look and whilst rubbing her tummy, one did not have to have an IQ of a rocket scientist to see her imagination exaggerated her condition. “Come on... ...ival, Snakelex thought the child had given new meaning to the term, ‘baby blues’. He would definitely have to write a paper on this one. The demon p...

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...ge as she, Alex was thought feminine, very pretty and petite in Air force blues. With her superior remaining silent, Roxanne lowered her tone and co... ...er, they just did. The group 30 beat her with sticks and pelted her with rocks. They hovered over her like vultures to pick her clean and leave her... ... She’s never touched him. Library and others are behind this. He gets his rocks off whilst they watch and play with experimental programming. You ca... ...he favour, having personally sat with him in the memorial tunnel, silently rocking him in her arms while he’d grieved the loss of his wife. Shaun kne... ... this to take full control of the Aus Com mainframe. Isaac would lead two groups to the other side of the city and destroy the automated assembly pl... ...re not picking up any activity whatsoever. Alex’s unit separated into two groups, one was to enter through the front, the other, the rear of the bui...

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...table. A twelve-by-twelve abstract painting hung on an unfinished brick wall. The blues, the blacks, would never be found at Jakova. Well, Sammie... ...ra Kate smiled indulgently because her mama never made eye contact unless her faded blues caught someone’s eyes by accident. Laura Kate gave her a p... ... 61 Bobby’s eyes dropped to the ground. He rubbed the toe of his shoe along some rocks. “Not yet.” “Hope it’s nobody we like,” Guy said. He wi... ...ust then. And he had the gestures to go with the words. Guy strode ahead up the rocky slope. She studied his broad back and the way his hair was... ...ially to someone who could go off on a tangent. A sudden wind gust sent a porch rocker twisting. “We’re going inside,” Johnelle said, grabbing ... ...er in the timber industry in this state. Stays in hot water with the environmental groups.” “That’s pretty easy to do. With us, it’s hunting and r...

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... the senti- ment came home to each, ‘The Anchor’s Weighed’ was true for us. We were indeed ‘Rocked on the bosom of the stormy deep.’ How many of us co... ...having a studious enough eye to the complete effect; for I thought these melting greens and blues so beautiful that afternoon, that I would have given... ... before he retired, worn almost through in some places, but in others making a good show of blues and oranges, none the less harmonious for being some... ...oad leading downwards to the sea. Dunure lies close under the steep hill: a haven among the rocks, a breakwater in consummate disrepair, much apparatu... ... the tidemark. It was daubed on to the sills of the ruin: it roosted in the crannies of the rock like white sea-birds; even on outlying reefs there wo... ... work of Richelieu complete. It is a people of lace-makers. The women sit in the streets by groups of five or six; and the noise of the bobbins is au-...

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...d went further. He gave a perfect Brock’s benefit of diagrams—exactly like rocket trajectories they were; and the gist of it—so far as it had any gist... ...at this rate, they ought to be a bird for show, rank as they are. Plymouth Rocks won’t be in it. Had a scare last night thinking that cat was at them,... ...pullet! You know the keen insistence of the hungry hen! There was Plymouth Rock in these birds, I am told, and even without Herakleophorbia that is a ... ...horizontal band of squares, in which crimson and purple, orange and lemon, blues and greens, in many hues and many shades, did themselves honour. Thes... ...e clubs were better informed. They clus- tered round the tape or talked in groups in their smoking- rooms. “He has no weapons. He would have gone to S...

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...e country of the Navajos, down by the Aga Thia Needle—a great blade of red rock jutting from out the desert, like a knife thrust. Then on and on throu... .... It always will be.” Vanamee clasped his head between his clenched fists, rocking himself to and fro. “Oh, the terror of it,” he murmured. “The horro... ...d his small black valise at the foot of the porch steps, and sat down in a rocker on the porch itself, fanning himself with his broad-brimmed hat, and... ... petticoats. On the row of chairs that went around three sides of the wall groups began to settle themselves. For a long time the guests huddled close... ...he conversation grew louder as the timidity of the early moments wore off. Groups at a distance called back and forth; conversations were carried on a... ... wide-open main door of the barn had some- what thinned out and in the few groups that still remained there he had suddenly recognised Mr. and Mrs. Tr... ... dred tints and colours—opalescent, purple, wine-red, clouded pinks, royal blues, saffrons, violets so dark as to be almost black. Under foot, the car...

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...eart and soul, with one of the two great parties that divided the town—the Blues and the Buffs. Now the Blues lost no opportunity of opposing the Buff... ...y of opposing the Buffs, and the Buffs lost no opportunity of opposing the Blues; and the conse quence was, that whenever the Buffs and Blues met tog... ...ty question. If the Buffs proposed to new skylight the mar ket place, the Blues got up public meetings, and denounced the proceeding; if the Blues pr... ...nly very tender hearted, but they pierced his, to the very core. The widow rocked herself to and fro, and wrung her hands. ‘“Oh, the deception and vil... ...the coach rolls swiftly past the fields and orchards which skirt the road, groups of women and children, piling the fruit in sieves, or gathering the ... ...ck his fancy in his ramblings, seat himself on some fallen fragment of the rock, and bury ing his face in his hands, remain there for hours—some tim... ...uds. All this was gall and wormwood to the heart of Gabriel Grub; and when groups of children bounded out of the houses, tripped across the road, and ...

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...tle plaintiff or defendant who was promised 9 Bleak House – Dickens a new rocking horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled has grown up, po... ...amily, do it somehow or other, like good souls, and suffer him to ride his rocking horse!” 74 Bleak House – Dickens It was plain enough that Mr. Jarn... ... to Allegory and meditation. By this time the news has got into the court. Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts o... ... at all.” At length, one afternoon a little before sunset, when the bright groups of figures which have for the last hour or two 164 Bleak House – Di... ... stern decision which had worn into my godmother’s face, like weather into rocks, was so completely wanting in the face before me that it could not be... ...present dozed; some read the newspapers; some walked about or whispered in groups: all seemed per fectly at their ease, by no means in a hurry, very ... ...w that very well, Mrs. Bagnet. I’ll tell you how, one way and another, the blues have got to be too many for me. Here was this poor lad. ’Twas dull wo...

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...tting in silence, felt awkward; but I was too shy to break into any of the groups that seemed absorbed in their own affairs. Miss Waterford was a good... ...art was a desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous shoals if I could only have change — change and the e... ...cy than the approach to Tahiti. Murea, the sister isle, comes into view in rocky splendour, rising from the desert sea mysteri- ously, like the unsubs... ...a kitchen. There was no furniture except the mats they used as beds, and a rocking-chair, which stood on the veran- dah. Bananas with their great ragg... ...words can hardly tell what a troubling emotion they gave. They were sombre blues, opaque like a delicately carved bowl in lapis lazuli, and yet with a...

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...through the day became at sundown a mystery of deep translucent colors, of blues and purples, of somber and vivid reds, of strange bright clearnesses ... ...s chilled and checked. Numbers of men stood about the streets in knots and groups, as corpuscles gather and catch in the blood-vessels in the opening ... ...le inactive, but there were a lot of people standing dispersedly in little groups, and with a general direction towards the gates of the Bantock Burde... ...escended, the houses and buildings rose up, the presence of those watching groups of people, the tension of the situation; and one forgot the sky. Pre... ...I had gone by excursion to places on the Welsh coast whose great cliffs of rock and mountain backgrounds made the effect of the ho- rizon very differe... ...rrelevance. What had these things to do with me? With a shuddering hiss, a rocket from a headland beyond the village leapt up and burst hot gold again... ...eat uprush of dust, a whirling cloud, leapt out of the headland whence the rocket had come, and spread with a slow deliberation right and left. Hard o...

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...gave way before their popular manners and more diffused intimacies: little groups were formed, and everybody grew comfortable. Fanny felt the advantag... ... man he is to attach himself to such a creature— to a woman who, firm as a rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted t... ...o much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues for the sake of that horrid Lord Stornaway, who has about as much sen...

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... Some of them had already started and those that were left now set off, in groups of two or three. “You’d better come along with me, Carey,” said the ... ...- ward to eat a sandwich and drink a glass of beer . All round were little groups of students, talking and laughing; and here and there was a family ,... ... fine night; and Philip looked curiously at the people, here little family groups, there a knot of men with odd-shaped hats and beards talking loudly ... ...fferent crowd that watched them, went up to her, took her in her arms, and rocked her gently to and fro as if she were a baby . When they were gone a ... ...ow that if you put an electric blue in the window it’ll kill all the other blues?” He looked round the department ferociously, and his eye fell upon P... ... the chimney-piece an elaborate arrangement of shells stuck on a miniature rock; and on each side mugs, `A present from Southend’ in Gothic letters, w...

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...ing uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me to help him, and was soon apologiz... ...sting under trees, I became aware that the crowd had scattered into small groups. How hungry we were! How thirsty! Then more dancing and, with tiny ... ...ate, a Nike on chalcedony, a nude girl on jasper, a fighting lion on rock crystal... Sappho is enjoying her collection: the sun, in her bedr... ...a spear. He can’t believe he’s wounded. It’s not his blood spattering the rocks... “A man lies beside his shield, a hole in his side. He can’t belie... ...ng, men falling, dying, their helmets of fear, helmets of pain...yellows, blues, greys, reds. On Friday, June 6, 1505, I began to paint the Anghiari... ...contend with it? I will urge Congress to pass an aid bill. I will propose groups of citizenry who can advise. The White House Saturday evening ...

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...Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bellagio provided an inspiring beginning. The Ford,... ...s the emergence of an area of concern, the coming together of very different groups around a shared problem—an imbalance in the rules that define prop-... ...alized network of hob- byists, amateurs, universities, businesses, volunteer groups, professionals, and retired experts and who knows what else. It is... ... I do not mean to trivialize them. I worked with a couple of civil liberties groups in opposing the hapless Communications Decency Act, The Internet T... ...ncti- monious preening of those who cast each junior downloader of corporate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative l... ... How would the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they hav... ...uld the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they have devel... ... musician, “his own sound” was the product of a number of musical traditions—blues and gospel particularly. It is out of those traditions that “I Got ... ...s Brown, and Aretha Franklin. If one can pin- point a moment when gospel and blues began to merge into a secular version of gospel song, it was in 195...

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...She, for the future of her strength convinced. And that her honour was a rock, or mole, Exceeding sagely from that hour dispensed With any k... ...ts; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve’s rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a ne... ...he sea dashes round the promontory, And the loud breaker boils against the rock, And sober suns must set at five o’clock. Byron’s Don Juan “Cant... ...sus, nor anything that ‘s his; Thou shalt not bear false witness like ‘the Blues’ (There ‘s one, at least, is very fond of this); Thou shalt n... ... Like a backgammon board the place was dotted With whites and blacks, in groups on show for sale, Though rather more irregularly spotted: So... ... or gold or diamond flings Great lustre, there is much to be forgiven; Groups of bad statues, tables, chairs, and pictures, On which I cannot ... ...ameleons some slight tinge of fear, Open’d the gate call’d ‘Kilia,’ to the groups Of baffled heroes, who stood shyly near, Sliding knee deep i... ...such credit, That future bridegrooms swore, and sigh’d, and paid it. The Blues, that tender tribe who sigh o’er sonnets, And with the pages of...

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... could earn more at making sword- knots.—He told me that Steinbock means a rock goat, a chamois, in German. And he intends to mark all his work in tha... ...th questions and wring his secret from him. Hortense’s adorer conceived of groups and statues by the hundred; he felt strong enough to hew the marble ... ...ign for a candlestick on his counter, or for a fender or a table, than for groups or stat- ues. Everybody must have such things, while he may wait mon... ...nd drawing her on to his knee. “I will do odd jobs—a wedding chest, bronze groups—” “But, my children,” said Lisbeth; “for, as you know, you will be m... ...foe, the luckless foe, of Hulot. That Marquis, killed by the balls of the “Blues,” had confided the interests of his young brother to the Re- publican... ...lf: “What a woman she must be! How she has sealed up that heart!” “He is a rock!” said Bixiou in an undertone, imagining that the whole thing was a pr...

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.................................. ........................ 43 A CURE FOR THE BLUES ........................................................................ ... he whispered the decree. CHAPTER X Was it Heaven? Or Hell? A CURE FOR THE BLUES BY COURTESY OF M R. C ABLE I came into possession of a sin gular b... ...ession; but I trust, sir, like the Eagle, I shall look down from the lofty rocks upon the dwellings of man, and shall ever be ready to give you any as... ...the bar, says, “I trust, sir, like the Eagle, I shall look down from lofty rocks upon the dwellings of man,” we know who is speaking through that boy;... ...anger and the traveler. Surrounded as he was by hills on every side, naked rocks dared the efforts of his energies. Soon the sky became overcast, the ... ...cted to have been; however, they still leaned upon their arms in dispersed groups; some were walking the streets, others were talking in the Major’s b... ...ong down. Each has his group of homage payers. In the navy, there are many groups; they start with the Secretary and the Admiral, and go down to the q... ...the Admiral, and go down to the quartermaster—and below; for there will be groups among the sailors, and each of these groups will have a tar who is d...

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...band, growing like a rose out of a 26 The Amazing Marriage weather-beaten rock, proved she was that, among those hand- some foreign officers poorly r... ...was nothing, either in physic or assistance, he was like a great corner of rock. You may indeed imagine grief in the very rock that sees its flower fa... ...w plank, and up a steep and stony pathway, almost a water- course, between rocks, to another meadow, level with the house, that led ascending through ... ...er down, the body became a ball, a cock, a little lizard, nothingness. The bluest bright day of the year was shining. Chillon led the descent. With hi... ...o the line of promenaders, a river of cross-currents by the side of seated groups; and the willowy swish of silken dresses, femi- nine perfumery, ciga... ...er, told of plea- sure reigning. 77 George Meredith Fleetwood scanned the groups. He had seen enough in a moment and his face blackened. A darting wa... ...ignificance of gambling. The brilliant lights, the band music, the sitting groups and company of promenaders were novelties; the Ball of the ensuing n... ...ort of mortal curiosity!’ The soundest men among us have their fits of the blues, Fleetwood was told. ‘Not wholesome!’ Chummy shook his head resolutel...

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...d went unsteadily to the rail, keeping, as he threaded his way through the groups that covered the transport’s after deck, a little of his cowboy’s bo... ...tain and the top ser- geant had disappeared. The men sat about, huddled in groups, sinking as far as they could into their overcoats, stamping their n... ...s military tone. “Companee dis-missed!” said out the sergeant jovially. In groups, talking with crisp voices, cheered by the occur- rence of events, t... ...d was the pandemo- nium of the guns ahead and behind. Every now and then a rocket would burst in front of them and its red and green lights would ming... ...urer.” “God, I wish it had made me into anything so interest- ing.” “Tie a rock on to your scruples and throw ‘em off the Pont Neuf and set out … . O ... ...eets where, in the misty sunlight, grey-green and grey-violet mingled with blues and pale lights as the col- ors mingle in a pigeon’s breast feathers.... ...ce all the time. It’s not as it is in Brittany … .” Marcel paused. He sat, rocking a little on the stool, holding on to the seat be- tween his legs. A...

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...n gave way before their popular manners and more diffused intimacies: — little groups were formed and every body grew comfortable. Fanny felt the adva... ...nate man he is to attach himself to such a creature — to a woman, who firm as a rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapt... ...ot so much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues, for the sake of that horrid Lord Stornaway, who has about as muc...

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...why were you out travelling at this hour?’ She dropped her head, and began rocking to right and left. While they talked the noise of waggon-wheels was... ...would rather have known his father,’ said the smiling fellow, yawning, and rock- ing on his chair. ‘Y ou would, possibly, have been exceedingly intima... ...ey Court. The Countess smiled, and in the few paces that separated the two groups, whispered to her brother: ‘Miss Jocelyn, my dear.’ The eye-glasses ... ...earth combine to exclude from their little games, under the designation of blues, or strong- minded women: a kind, if genuine, the least dangerous and... ... on a hump in the middle of the mound which defied the dance. Watteau-like groups were already couched in the shade. There were ladies of all sorts: t... ...ight you should quit this house to-morrow morning.’ Her ladyship commenced rocking in her chair, and then added: ‘May I ask, have you madness in your ...