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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... is the symbol of Canada?" "Snowmen," said Nawin as he chuckled, "and Canadian dollars." He was enjoying the conversation. "What are they: ... ... of course in Montreal." "Why don't they have kings now?" "Well, Canadians do have the British monarchy. Canada is a commonwealth." He... ... They flowed in tight brushstrokes of an earthy tone. They were of French-Canadian mannequins performing their perfunctory duties of marriage. A sum... ... to the table near the skeletons. I just do some reading. The doctors, the nurses, and the museum curator don't seem to mind. They just say, "Hi, Pigg... ... of a French complexion) was seated next to him. He remembered paying top Canadian dollars for this boy. "Just keep going." "You said that ...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

... enquire. "Up in the room" – he giggles – "Stuck with the whores. They claim to have been nurses in a hospital. When he revives, he will have to p... ...hnologies – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 ...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

...ry has agreed to go along with Russia and China.” “Why?” she asked between mouthfuls of Canadian bacon. “Russia and China were planning a nuclear... ...the called his wife and told her to come and pick him up. After a shouting match with the nurses and doctors, Garza released himself from the hospit...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...ut Reagan’s challenge to Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall; about the Canadian constitutional crisis; about Wayne Gretzky being traded to the Los... ... seed grower with two hundred em- ployees in three American states and two Canadian provinces. And then there were the endless government forms. It wa... ...usy restaurant. It was Friday night and the place was packed with doctors, nurses and technicians seeking R and R before heading home, or back to shif... ...us and who stand with us as we fight our illness. We thank the doctors and nurses who daily work to battle disease. We thank our God, or our spiritual... ...lming.” Lacey’s imagination kicked in: she lying on a bed, crying; two big nurses on either side of the bed, balloon comments floating above their hea... ... last time, conflicting feelings had en- gulfed her. It was a great little Canadian company. She’d been happy at her job – had derived enormous satisf... ... planned to do with her estate. She was be- queathing sums to the two main Canadian dying with dignity organizations and the Canadian Cancer Society, ... ...hat.” “I’m truly sorry, Dr. Sanderson. You’re the first to report that any Canadians were on that bus. We have, of course, heard about the incident. W... ... Jana waited for another hour and then tiptoed out, informed the RN at the nurses’ station that her mother had regained consciousness, and headed home...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... basic needs like housing, food and clothing. The results were similar to a Canadian study. 11 “To avoid this cruelty should prospective p... ...t for the aging populations with their increased illnesses, many doctors and nurses would have been societally superfluous. “Fewer people wer...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...a helpful, loving, often motherly minder commiserates with the tormented remainder of the self, nurses him and decides for him … with the deepest w... ...d Technologies – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ges than the rural areas. Atheists and agnostics make up 20 to 30% of the Canadian population. ―When we look at scientific studies of any... ...ny educated mind would certainly reject. Our problem is that every society nurses its 105 children with the mythological milk of its geography. S... ...r service to society. But others who serve society, like ghetto teachers, nurses or other people in non-profit organizations who do more than minist... ...this, ‗it‘s good for society‘ line of thinking we shouldn‘t tax doctors or nurses, grave diggers or street cleaners—and certainly not trash collector... ...rnment is more indebted than the states. School classes got larger, school nurses and librarians were cut. Parks went without maintenance or were clo... ... employ? How many waiters and cooks, manicurists and barbers, doctors and nurses do we need? Then, of course, people keep wanting more goods and ser... ...ups. It put the net cost to California residents at $433 per European and Canadian immigrant household, $1,240 per Asian immigrant household and $8,1...

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A Horse's Tale

By: Mark Twain

...her. Dear me, she’s in a nurs ery! and she’s got more than eighteen hundred nurses. It would distress the garrison to suspect that you think they can... ...ith the possessor of that great name. Buf falo Bill’s horse! Known from the Canadian border to the deserts of Arizona, and from the eastern marches o...

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The Young Step-Mother; Or a Chronicle of Mistakes

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rd the renewal of his broken story—the praise of his Emily, the fairest of Canadians, whom even the General could not dislike, though, thorough soldie... ...n, but he will not hear of it. He is like a brother or a father to me, and nurses me most tenderly, when he ought to be nursed himself. We are famishi... ... the smiling, confiding, animated face, not the less pleasant for a French Canadian grace that recalled Genevieve. ‘The right article for building a h...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...irectly Great Britain and France declare war, wrecked the country upon the Canadian side for nearly ten miles inland. They began to bring up men and m... ...rge marbled with froth and then away to the west the great crescent of the Canadian Fall shining, flickering and foaming in the level sunlight and sen... ...the wounded one by one into the nearest of the large hotels that faced the Canadian shore. The hotel was quite empty except that there were two traine... ...ore. The hotel was quite empty except that there were two trained American nurses and a negro porter, and three or four Germans awaiting them. Bert we... ...mpt to save Niagara. 177 H G Wells Round they swooped once again over the Canadian Fall, over the waste of waters eastward, until they were distant a... ...of the power-house. Some similar busi- ness went on among the works on the Canadian side. Mean- while more and more airships appeared, and many more f...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...aff officers in automo- biles whisk hither and thither, in which there are nurses and even a few inexplicable ladies in worldly costume, in which rest... ...in British military circles because he had “had no military train- ing”? A Canadian expressed the new view very neatly on be- ing asked, in consequenc... ...orned with large white crosses, who, regardless of the present shortage of nurses, were visiting ev- ery home in the place on some mission of invitati...

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A Personal Record

By: Joseph Conrad

...r- tered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Transport Company. A death leaves some- thing behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...thumped—and sixteen able-bodied kalashes stood round him like disconcerted nurses round a spoiled and passionate child. He whisked his tail incessantl...

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Some Reminiscences

By: Joseph Conrad

...hartered the ship to the, I will not say short-lived, but ephemeral Franco-Canadian Trans- port Company. A death leaves something behind, but there wa... ...ated never to cross the Western Ocean was the absolute cause of the Franco-Canadian Transport Company’s failure to achieve even a single passage. It m... ...thumped—and sixteen able-bodied kalashes stood round him like disconcerted nurses round a spoilt and passionate child. He whisked his tail in- cessant...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

... a week they have a ball, in which the Doctor and his family, with all the nurses and attendants, take an active part. Dances and marches are performe... ...ght of visitors, and some turned very pale. Some two or three had prisoner nurses with them, for they were very sick; and one, a fat old negro whose l... ...ch the changing rain bows made! I never stirred in all that time from the Canadian side, whither I had gone at first. I never crossed the river again... ... secret despatches for the self styled Patriots on Navy Island, during the Canadian Insurrec tion: sometimes dressing as a girl, and carrying them in... ... height and water, which lies stretched out before the view, with miles of Canadian villages, glancing in long white streaks, like veins along the lan...

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Essays of Travel

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...splayed its superscription, and I could read the name of Smethurst, and the designation of ‘Canadian Felt Hat Manufacturers.’ There was no more hope o... ...the hat manufactory, Smethurst himself was standing in the garden gate. He was brushing one Canadian felt hat, and several others had been put to awai... ...nd the text—rings still in my ear from my first childhood, and perhaps with something of my nurses accent. There was possibly some sort of image writt...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospitals, and more prayers to Heaven than—any other. God bl... ... view of the insecurity of life and property in the region adjacent to the Canadian border, by reason of recent assaults and depredations committed by...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...inter or 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 wer... ...u can see the mark!” So, as they drove up to St. Mary’s Hospital, with the nurses already laying out the instruments for an operation to save her life... ...ndaged head, bending over the steel table with its screws and wheels, then nurses holding ba- sins and cotton sponges, and a swathed thing, just a lif...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

... transform the great apartment into a forecastle, and the hurrying throng of nurses into the crew; and he would come to a sitting posture and shout, ‘... ...ch St. Paul now occupies, in June 1837. Yes, at that date, Pierre Parrant, a Canadian, built the first cabin, uncorked his jug, and began to sell whis...

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

... gentler breathings of April; the nights and morn- ings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure... ..., and very trustworthy, but for one fault—a fault common to a deal of them nurses and matrons—she kept a private bottle of gin by her, and now and the...

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

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ith a mo- notonous, not unpleasing refrain, reminded us of some old French Canadian ditties. I remember well the excitement when the Bishop sent up a ... ...ess upon me. I dare say I should be very impatient, and need kind soothing nurses. But I must hope for the best. ‘Just now we have some anxiety. There...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...oyalty. If the Canadas were to rebel now, I should be for putting down the Canadians with a strong hand; but not the less have I an idea that it will ... ...ot obliged to reach that place via Montreal. Quebec is the present seat of Canadian government, its 52 North America V ol. 1 turn for that honor havi... ... a separation shall ever take place, I trust that it may be caused, not by Canadian violence, but by British generosity. Such a separation, however, n... ...es from a richer to a poorer country. When I have said so, I have heard no Canadian absolutely deny it; though in refraining from denying it, they hav... ... staff in Canada than in the States. “I do not know that we are richer,” a Canadian says, “but on the whole we are doing better and are happier.” Now,... ... where, for a small price, they have an experienced physician and skillful nurses. An institute, with an extensive library, for the use of the mechani...

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Lady Hester : Or, Ursula's Narrative

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... till long after. Bertram was starting out on a sporting expedition with a Canadian gentleman, when about ten miles from Montreal they halted at a far... ...and blunt—but very kindly and friendly, was at work there with some French-Canadian labourers. Bertram’s friend knew him and often halted there on hun... ... seems that her name was Faith Le Blanc; she was half English, half French-Canadian, and lived in a village in a very unsettled part, where Captain Tr... ...er married this sturdy American, Joel Lea, who had bought some land on the Canadian side of the border, and her mother came home to live with them. Th... ...d with him; doctors saying that skill could not do it, but care might; and nurses knowing how to be more effective than I could be; yet while I durst ... ...lations whatever on his mother’s side, and though, if he had been healthy, nurses and tutors might have taken care of this baby lordship, even that wo... ...d cast off Fulk, and there was a pale changed look about her; and the rich Canadian, who could buy a baronetcy, and do anything she asked, tempted Mrs...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

... To claim a station in the firmament, Because thy humble cottage, or thy tub, Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue In the cheap sunshine or by shady spr... ...he says, for he is above that, but to “keep himself in practice,” he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he... ...ad so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here, — a Canadian, a wood chopper and post maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day... ...uld greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him h... ...t the world to be changed; but he answered with a chuckle of surprise in his Canadian accent, not knowing that the question had ever been entertained ...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...lared that she was right. But it almost led to a general expulsion of lady nurses. Of course she had to retire, and happily for her, Mother Constance ... ...is house, where his wife was equally kind. He fetched the priest, a French Canadian, and the doctor, and Lida has been watching over her most tenderly... ...eal to say of 229 Yo n g e the tyranny of the matron, the rudeness of the nurses to pro- bationers, the hardness and tedium of the work to which she ... ...—(M. A.) “Everything is such a comfort, Fernan and Marilda are the best of nurses and helpers, and I mourn for the folly that chaffed about them and b...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...n in the firmament Because thy humble cottage, or thy tub, Nurses some lazy or pedantic virtue In the cheap sunshine or by sha... ... says, for he is above that, but to “keep himself in practice,” he being a Canadian by birth; and when I ask him what he considers the best thing he c... ...ad so suitable and poetic a name that I am sorry I cannot print it here a Canadian, a woodchopper and post maker, who can hole fifty posts in a day, ... ...d greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well. When I approached him he ...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...r and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when... ...w that in that direction the Arctic Cir cle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Cop... ...from Lake The Wit of Porportuk 215 Le Barge, and, beyond, a half dozen French Canadian voyageurs, grouped by themselves. From afar came the faint cri... ...N don’t know anything about feebs. I’ve been acquainted with just thousands of nurses in my time. Some of them are nice. But they come and go. Most of...

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