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...-length, animated film, Fire and Fur might more properly be called "Smart Dragons, Dumb Choices.? It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major characters are dragons and cats. Of course, the cats do speak (often caustically) since a few dragons are interesting enough (cats can still speak but no one is interesting enough to talk to anymo...

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...will continue to be both an inspiration and "goad." The references to Chinese mythology and the Gobi desert were inspired by The LaRousse Encycl... ...gons, Dumb Choices.” It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major characters are dragons and cats. Of course,... ...lue eyes. Ao Rue moved quickly to him, gathered up the fragile body, and rocked it within the cradle of his own body. He shuddered uncontrollably ... ...going to bother talking to you." It turned and gracefully slid among the rocks. "Oh yea," Erh-lang yelled after it. "You think I'm dumb! Wait'll... ...here, stone-white pools of thirst. Spongy effervescent clay clung to the rocks. It was half-covered by wet, clinging sand. Dead sea life was stre... ...he loathsome yellow to yellow-gray clay and sand where they sucked at the rocks, he could see a pattern, a demented correctness. This horror was ri... ... Ch'ang-o had been the funniest. So glad to be groveling in the clay and rock for gold together. Didn't have the heart to tell them it was because...

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...he question took quite another shape. The monster became a small island, a rock, a reef, but a reef of indefinite and shifting proportions. On the 5th... ...night in 27º 30' lat. and 72º 15' long., struck on her starboard quarter a rock, marked in no chart for that part of the sea. Under the combined effor... ... continued its route without apparent damage. Had it struck on a submerged rock, or on an enormous wreck? They could not tell; but, on examination of ... ...oln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extrem- ity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sail... ...f speed. For its part, the narwhal, imitating the frig- ate, let the waves rock it at will, and seemed decided not to leave the scene of the struggle.... ...d have made one of those beautiful furs so sought after in the Russian and Chinese markets: the fineness and the lustre of its coat would certainly fe... ... exclaimed. The Malays, who carry on a great trade in these birds with the Chinese, have several means that we could not employ for taking them. Somet...

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...eralogy in the University of London, and while working upon the auriferous rocks of North Wales, after a brief holiday spent in agitating for women’s ... ...the wind and is itself a part of the atmosphere. Once started, it does not rock nor sway; you cannot feel whether it rises or falls. Bert felt acutely... ...re instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells. T o the normal high-strung en- ergy of New Y... ... and wonderful in the evening light, serenely regardless of the occasional rocket explosions and flashing shell-bursts in the lower air. It was a paus... ...en mixed together as though they had been no more than Moors, or Zulus, or Chinese. Lower New York was soon a furnace of crimson flames, from which th... ... reeds from imaginary hawks. “Beaten,” he whispered. “Beaten and done for… Chinese! Yellow chaps chasing ‘em!” At last he came to rest in a clump of b... ...r- haps three minutes, then he sprang to his feet and went off towards the Chinese aeronaut’s gun hidden among the weeds. 8 8 8 8 8 There was no prete... ...lders with certain inert matter that had once been Lieutenant Kurt and the Chinese aeronaut and a dead cow, and much other uncongenial company, in the... ...s the weltering confusion, the horrible mess of the ex- ploded Prince, the Chinese aeronaut upside down, the limp- ing and bandaged bird-faced officer...

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...light above their heads, bowed earnestly over the plates, three wire cages rocked and rattled to the rest- less jumping of the hungry canaries; and th... ...shioning the whole width of the road. One end touched the slummy street of Chinese shops near the harbor, the other drove straight on, without houses,... ...aterworks on the hill coming at a loping can- ter down the middle to get a Chinese shopkeeper 16 End of the Tether for supper. Captain Whalley was no... ...solidated Docks Company, with its three graving basins carved out of solid rock, its wharves, its jetties, its electric- light plant, its steam-power ... ...d scowled at everybody connected with the Sofala ex- cept, perhaps, at the Chinese firemen who served to get her along. Their use was manifest: they w... ...made him peep over the side. His peering eyes, set aslant in a face of the Chinese type, a little old face, immovable, as if carved in old brown oak, ... ... the east a massive headland closed the view, with the tilted edges of the rocky strata showing through its ragged clothing of rank bushes and thorny ... ...mbling a squadron of dismasted hulks run in disorder upon a foul ground of rocks and shoals. Some of these fragments of land appeared, indeed, no bigg... ... urging their way from all the points of the horizon to sleep on the outer rocks of the group, unrolled the converg- ing evolutions of their flight in...

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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... ...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... ...xt. It was patchwork, but the patch- work of the poor; no glowing shreds of old brocade and Chinese silk, shaken together in the kaleidoscope of some ... ...own away; and there was Ailsa Craig, like a refraction, magnified and deformed, of the Bass Rock; and there were the chiselled mountain-tops of Arran,... ...tinais, where they border with the wooded hills of Fontainebleau. Here and there a few grey rocks creep out of the forest as if to sun themselves. Her...

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... of these three white men; for a negro is counted a white man, and so is a Chinese! a strange idea, but common in the islands. It was a board house wi... ... on the top of the hill, and the entrance was on the far side, between two rocks, like the entrance to a cave. I went as far in as the bend, and, look... ...buried under a wagonful of earth, and glad it was no worse, for one of the rocks at the entrance of the tunnel was fired clean into the air, fell with... ...I am only concerned to see the back of you.” And with that he rang for his Chinese servant, and had Keawe shown out of the house. Now, when Keawe was ... ... for his bath, he spied upon his flesh a patch like a patch of lichen on a rock, and it was then that he stopped singing. For he knew the likeness of ... ...For he knew the likeness of that patch, and knew that he was fallen in the Chinese Evil.* Now, it is a sad thing for any man to fall into this sicknes... ... without on the rain falling on the houses, and the surf beating among the rocks, and the sighs arose in his throat. “Keawe of the Bright House is out... ...miracle, than his mind was changed within him, and he cared naught for the Chinese Evil, and little enough for Kokua; and had but the one thought, tha... ...arth were spoken there; the French, the Dutch, the Russian, the Tamil, the Chinese. Whatever land knew sorcery, there were some of its people whisperi...

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...t under his armpit like a lance, but with both hands, he charged madly the rocking house with the force of a battering-ram, burst- ing open the door a... ...collected, as if carrying something holy, fragile, and precious. The earth rocked at times under his feet. IX WITH MOVEMENTS of mechanical care and an... ...road on a perpendicular wall of ba- salt wound itself around a buttressing rock, and at last we emerged from the gloom of a deep gorge upon the upland... ...heads patches of snow hung in the folds and crevices of the great walls of rock. The little lake was as round as a star- ing eye. The garrison of the ... ...n her knees. At our first camp I saw her dur- ing the night walking about, rocking the child in her arms and gazing down at it by the light of the moo... ... from a good friend of mine in Paris, specifically to see my collection of Chinese bronzes and porcelain. My friend in Paris is a collector, too. He c... ...re, and must remain exquisite even if approaching to the mon- strous. Some Chinese bronzes are monstrously pre- cious. And here (out of my friend’s co... ... unruffled manner was that. But then he was not of bronze. He was not even Chinese, which would have enabled one to contemplate him calmly across the ...

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...ture a year or so before the war, you would most certainly have pronounced Chinese. He belonged to a Northumbrian bat- talion; it does not matter exac... ...e carts seem as strange among the grey shapes of modern war transport as a Chinese mandarin in painted silk would be. They are the most individual of ... ..., Austrian shells began to come over. They do not use shrapnel because the rocky soil of Italy makes that unneces- sary. They fire a sort of shell tha... ...te crags, making perhaps a hundred metres of ascent each day, hiding under rocks and in holes in the daylight and receiving fresh provisions and ammun... ...held out invincibly; this was the Castelletto, a great natural fortress of rock standing out at an angle of the mountain in such a position that it co... ...e in all history. The business began in January, 1916, with surveys of the rock in question. The work of surveying for excavations, never a very simpl... ...alked out through the em- 34 War and the Future brasure of a big gun in a rock gallery, and saw the highest points upon the hillside to which the Aus... ...s needless and obsolete now in war as the masks and shields of an old-time Chinese brave. Liberal- minded people talk of the coming dangers of militar...

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...iver thought fit altogether to re strain it. So is it not in China. For the Chinese sail where they will, or can; which showeth, that their law of ke... ...s. “We have burials in several earths, where we put divers cements, as the Chinese do their porcelain. But we have The New Atlantis – Bacon 31 the... ... of salt, and others by art do turn fresh water into salt. We have also some rocks in the midst of the sea, and some bays upon the shore for some work...

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... a fort, nor a trading post, nor a buf falo range in the whole sweep of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains that we don’t know as well as we kno... ... University he found skeletons of horses no bigger than a fox, bedded in the rocks, and he said they were ancestors of my father. My mother heard him ... ...She set to work and organized the Sixteen, and called it the First Battalion Rocky Mountain Rangers, U.S.A., and she wanted to be bugler, but they ele... ...n the men salute me, and I return it. I am privileged to be present when the Rocky Mountain Rangers troop the colors and I stand solemn, like the chil... ...n the dark like sparks and stars. The Lieutenant General said, ‘If I had the Rocky Mountain Rangers here, we would make those creatures climb a tree.’... ...pted my savings box and given the money to a mission that was civilizing the Chinese and sweetening their lives and softening their hearts with the ge...

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...burned red. All was scrupulously clean and perfect. A baby was cooing in a rocker-less wicker cradle by the hearth. The mother, a slim, neat woman wit... ...l we light them as we fix them,” asked Robert, “or save them for one grand rocket at the end?” “Oh, as we do them,” said Cyril Scott, who had lacerate... ...ining. Fortunately the women had brought shoes. They slipped these on. Jim rocked through the crowd, in his tall hat, looking for the flautist. At las... ...bit by bit,” said Lilly. Jim was twisting in his chair, and looking like a Chinese dragon, dia- bolical. The room was uneasy. “What gives you such a b... ...” They hurried across the Charing Cross Road, where great buses rolled and rocked, crammed with people. Her heels clicked sharply on the pavement, as ... ...tu- ally managed to put them to rights. Great sigh of relief when the vans rocked out of the market. Again there was a particular page-boy in buttons,... ...ples worth knowing. I can’t do with folk who teem by the billion, like the Chinese and Japs and orientals altogether. Only vermin teem by the billion.... ...He wanted her—ha, didn’t he! But the husband sat there, like a soap- stone Chinese monkey, greyish-green. So, it would have to be another time. He ros...

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...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... ...dy beach was sacred to high spirits and the young. Art muslin and banjoes, Chinese lan- terns and frying, are leading “notes,” I find, in the impres- ... ...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... ... as I have told it to you. “And there, where those little skerries of weed rock run out to the ebb, beyond the headland, is Bungalow village. What did... ...y had come to these marksmen, who had dropped asleep tensely ready for the rocket that should wake the whirr and rattle of their magazines. At the sig...

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... crops; NA% meadows and pastures; NA% forest and woodland; NA% other; mostly rock with sparse scrub oak, few trees, some commercial salt ponds Environ... ...32% Buddhist and indigenous beliefs Language: Malay (official), English, and Chinese Life expectancy: 73.7 Literacy: 45% Labor force: 68,128 (includes... ...tive Burmese Ethnic divisions: 68% Burman, 9% Shan, 7% Karen, 4% Raljome, 3% Chinese, 2% Indian, 7% other Religion: 85% Buddhist, 15% indigenous belie... ...dian(s); adjec- tive Cambodian Ethnic divisions: 90% Khmer (Cambo- dian), 5% Chinese, 5% other minorities Religion: 95% Theravada Buddhism, 5% other L... ...perate; warm, dry, summer precipitation very erratic Terrain: steep, rugged, rocky, volcanic Land use: 9% arable land; NEGL% per- manent crops; 6% mea... ...n, $320 per capita (1983) 44 Cayman Islands Natural resources: salt, basalt rock, pozzo- lana, limestone, kaolin Agriculture: main crops bananas, cof... ...,064,147,038 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 0.99% Nationality: noun Chinese (sing., pi.); adjective Chinese Ethnic divisions: 93.3% Han Chine... ..., Taoism, and Buddhism; about 2-3% Mus- lim, 1% Christian Language: Standard Chinese (Putonghua) or Mandarin (based on the Beijing dialect); also Yue ... ...xclusive fishing zone: 200 nm Territorial sea: 3 nm Boundary disputes: none; Rockall conti- nental shelf dispute involving Iceland, Ireland, and UK Cl...

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... thoughts strayed to a time when he was very young and sat on this same ancient rock with his grandfather. "The warrior is like a hunter who waits p... ...t would be long after his death. Seattle shifted his position on the worn flat rock that laid, per­ haps, for centuries beside the Green River. His ... ..., and with hardly a move the gnarled hand flicked the silver fish onto the flat rock. The fish gasped for air and then, after a moment, lay still. T... ...been hallowed by some fond me.mory or some sad experience of my tribe. Even the rocks, which seem to lay dumb as they swelter in the sun along the s... ...trail he had just come from, which was really no trail at all, only a dried up, rock strewn river bed that snaked from the wooded forest that he had... ...n solve it. 'IS Johnathan Cross It won't be easy, but it is solvable. As the Chinese say, 'In every crisis there is opportunity'." River Song gr...

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...ip of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing o... ...nderstanding with the natives -- Hostile natives frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville... ...7 The market place of Mecca................................................ 91 Chinese War-ship of the time of Polo...................................... ...ims, and in which we read descriptions of the peoples of the New World, as the Chinese had found them; but they are so mixed with legend, and traditio... ...given in the Sagas, but by the discovery of what is called the Dighton Writing Rock, which was found in the 16th century on the very spot where the No... ...en in Thorfinn's name. In the lower left hand corner of the inscription on the rock is also a figure of a woman and child, and also the letter S, whic... ...e, made a trip to the regions of the far east and abode with the great Khan of Chinese Tartary for a period of twenty-six years. A description of this... ...able miseries. From the island of Japan, Marco Polo started on a voyage to the Chinese Sea, around the Malay Archipelago, and thence to India, having ... ...Heaven. A hundred years before Vasco sailed from Portugal an immense number of Chinese, driven from their native country by causes at the present day ...

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...rn for the mutually exclusive: an America contained and a regime-changed Iraq. The Chinese are more pragmatic - though, bound by what is left of th... ...ese views the preserve of the arthritic upper echelons of the precariously balanced Chinese Communist party. In an interview he granted to Xinhua,... ...vision of International Strategy of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reiterated his conviction th... ...ld never have made it even this far without its ostensible foe. Thousands of bright Chinese students train in the United states. American technologi... ...ter than alone - has thus evaporated. The outcome was the shots and explosions that rocked the United States (and the world in tow) on January 20, 2... ...e interpreted the "Turkish model" in most peculiar ways, being often closer to the Chinese model than the Turkish one. I think Turkey is again tr... ... slated to join the European Union (EU) in May next year - are between the American rock and the European hard place. The Czech republic, Hungary an... ...nary people crave law and order - or, at least a semblance thereof. Hence Putin's rock idol popularity. He caters to the needs of the elite by coz... ...n price for crude, Russia's domestic fields are not worth developing. Between the rock of contract-freezing sanctions and the hard place of Americ...

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... nm around clutchinl defense secrets to your bosom only to find a detailed expose in Missiks and Rockets or the WashiPllton Post or find it to be the ... ...abouts of a classified machine or classified key felt upon watching one of his precious items 10 rocketing off'into spaee? Of course, we decided that ... ...suppress that whacking greatspike first seen in 1943. At any rate. when they tumed over tbe next rock. they found the acoustical problem UDder it. Phe... ...ince earliest times, one of the baic principia of warfare has been surprise. In fact, some early Chinese writings on the subject are quite eloquent. A... ...l witb cryptographic questions, system selection, application, and the like. We are travelling a rocky road in these mutual endeavors because, quite a...

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...sh! Carrying them down to the boat one of my nigger chaps dropped one on a rock and it smashed. How I lammed into the beggar! But sweet it was, as if ... ... perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this. It took me some time to do, because every now and... ...nto a better understanding. If I’d had any means of digging into the coral rock I’d have buried him. I felt exactly as if he was human. As it was, I c... ...ctly black until he emerged again—and through 64 The Country of the Blind rocks and trees and solid obstacles, and when he was taken to his own room ... ..., because going upstairs seemed to lift him thirty or forty feet above the rocks of his imaginary island. He kept saying he should smash all the eggs.... ...his way and that, may mean I can’t get a notion. And what’s the writing?” “Chinese,” said the man with the map. “Of course! He was a Chinee,” said Eva... ...dy. It lay in a clear space among the trees. Near by was a spade after the Chinese pattern, and further off lay a scattered heap of stones, close to a...

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... His Excellency Tseng lodged with me here for three weeks.” He mouthed the Chinese Excellency at me with great unc- tion, though the specimen of the “... ...d him, and then three more along the coast to where a group of uninhabited rocky islets en- closed a sheltered anchorage. There you would have to lie ... ...curves and pinnacles like the gorgeous and stony efflorescence of tropical rocks. Y ou had nothing to do but to wait fretfully for the bal- ance of yo... ... before us, and felt the fresh breath of the river—fresh, but tainted. The Chinese theatres across the water made, in the sparsely twinkling masses of... ...ann’s ship he stopped the engines; and a profound silence reigned over the rocks, the shore and the sea, for the time it took him to raise his hat alo... ...d and precipitated clapping, the tug shot out of the deso- late arena. The rocky islets lay on the sea like the heaps of a cyclopean ruin on a plain; ... ...posed they had been starving in boats or on a raft— or perhaps on a barren rock. “She did not sink then?” I asked in surprise. He nodded. “We sighted ...

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...arities which run to rarities of beauty, as 41 George Meredith the ripple rocks the light; mouth, eyes, brows, nostrils, and bloomy cheeks played int... ...n his eyelids, and starting up beheld the many pin- nacles of grey and red rocks and shadowy high white regions at the head of the gulf waiting for th... ... swung on board like the last seaman of a launch, and crouched as the boat rocked away to the stream; and still Count Henri leaned on the scull, not i... ...leave his rival standing. It occurred that the boat’s brief resistance and rocking away agitated his arti- ficial equipoise, and, by the operation of ... ...overnably in his face,—as if he were seeing her withdraw her foot from the rock’s edge, and had that instant rescued her. But how came it she had been... ...f the middle-class, colonel. They have their thinking done for them as the Chinese have their dancing. But, Nevil, your Dr. Shrapnel seems to treat th...

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...e recollect the time she shot the Moosehorn Rapids to pull you and me off that rock, the bullets whipping the water like hailstones? — and the time of... ...irits speculated on desertion and the possibility of crossing the un explored Rockies to the east, and thence, by the Mackenzie Valley, of gaining th... ...sh, the seal, and the otter; and our homes shouldered about one another on the rocky strip between the An Odyssey of the North 69 rim of the forest a... ...no word of the ship, nor in Kadiak, nor in Atognak. And so I came one day to a rocky land, where men dug great holes in the mountain. And there was a ... ...ain. And there was a schooner, but not my schooner, and men loaded upon it the rocks which they dug. This thought childish, for all the world was made... ...e what was inside, and, after being sick for a week, the man had died. But the Chinese had not complained to the French devils that ruled over Tahiti.... ... work the miles of sugar cane where once our horses pastured, they brought the Chinese slaves from over seas. And with them came the Chinese sickness ... ... say to you it is unjust to steal a man’s land, to make that man sick with the Chinese sickness, and then to put that man in prison for life.” “Life i... ...h which Koolau the Leper 367 to work the stolen land, they had brought in the Chinese coolies, and with them had come the sickness. And now, because ...

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...from one’s windows. Nor are there pleas- ant rambling paths down among the rocks, and from one short strand to another. There is excellent bathing for... ...d perhaps indecent; but I love to jump into the deep, clear sea from off a rock, and I love to be hampered by no outward impediments as I do so. For o... ...e very beautiful. Some have large, well-kept lawns, stretching down to the rocks, and these, to my taste, give the charm to Newport. They extend about... ... to be pilgrims, and as such they first placed their feet on that hallowed rock at Plymouth, on the shore of Massachu- setts. They came here driven by... ... had an indefinite idea that they formed an intermediate stage between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies; and that they were inhabited either by... ...teresting city. It is the third biggest city in the known world, for those Chinese congregations of unwinged ants are not cities in the known world. I... ... the In- dian mutiny should be put down was a matter of course. That those Chinese rascals should be forced into the har- ness of civilization was a g...

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........253 BOOK XIX. SEA DRIFT ................257 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ....................................................257 As I Ebb’... ...ining eidolons. Densities, growth, facades, Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees, Far born, far dying, living long, to leave, Eido... ...lo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong breasted bull, Of earth, rocks, Fifth month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze, Havi... ...countenance, persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 32 All hold spiritual joys an... ... sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark color’d sea rocks, and of hay in the barn, The sound of the belch’d words of my voice... ...ants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Na...

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...f. He was a Lascar, a Kharva from Bulsar, familiar with every port between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British ... ... Spruce, with sumach and little juniper bushes, and the other half is grey rock and boulder and moss, with green streaks of brake and swamp; but the h... ... tipped the coupe over in a hidden brook before she came out on a ledge of rock where all the horses had gathered, and were switching flies. The Deaco... ...tted up nuzzling and wickering for theirs, till we emptied it on the clean rocks. They were all standing at ease, on three legs for the most part, tal... ...anks, or Alix, or Directum, who hev. Don’t you try to back off acrost them rocks. Wait where you are! Ef I let my Hambletonian temper git the better o... ...ronicle of the Book of Chinn by heart. It lies in a worn old ledger on the Chinese lacquer table behind the piano in the Devonshire home, and the chil... ...nd when Mr. Wardrop saw the dismal little harbour, with its ragged line of Chinese junks, its one crazy tug, and the boat-building shed that, under th... ...y knows the use o’ copper. They ought to have cut away the pipes. And with Chinese junks coming here, too. It’s a special interposition o’ Providence....

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...le tremors of hope now shook my nerves: if they shook from that inevitable rocking of the waters that follows a storm, so much might be par- doned to ... ...ng is come—when our poor Kate, that had for fifteen years been so tenderly rocked in the arms of St. Sebastian and his daughters, and that hence- fort... ...h this? It was dark; and she stood, as you may see an Etonian do at times, rocking her little boat from side to side, until it had taken in water as m... ...e upper chambers of the Cordille- ras. They had reached a billowy scene of rocky masses, large and small, looking shockingly black on their perpendicu... ...ally, the tragical retribution to Zebek-Dorchi at the hunting-lodge of the Chinese emperor;—all these situ- ations communicate a scenical animation to... ...China, therefore, and as their first rendezvous to the shadow of the great Chinese Wall, it was settled by Zebek that they should direct their flight.... ...ng state paper upon the subject of this Kalmuck migration, drawn up in the Chinese language by the Emperor himself. Parts of this paper have been tran... ...two to three thousand feet high. About eleven o’clock in the forenoon, the Chinese cavalry reached the sum- mit of a road which led through a cradle-l... ...nt. The Bashkirs, beginning to perceive here and there the approach of the Chinese cavalry, felt it prudent—wheresoever they were sufficiently at leis...

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... Understand Bulakan Know Baliwag page 27 4. Spanish Period page 45 5. The Founding Families of Baliwag page 50 6. Tsinoys page 129 7. Dr. Rizal’s Chinese Ancestors page 165 8. Año 1733 The Making of a Town page 170 9. Let us learn about the Agustinian Friars page 189 10. Añ0 1800 What Transpired page 219 11. Año 1850 The Natives Got Their Family Name page 226 12....

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... Understand Bulakan Know Baliwag page 27 4. Spanish Period page 45 5. The Founding Families of Baliwag page 50 6. Tsinoys page 129 7. Dr. Rizal’s Chinese Ancestors page 165 8. Año 1733 The Making of a Town page 170 9. Let us learn about the Agustinian Friars page 189 10. Añ0 1800 What Transpired page 219 11. Año 1850 The Natives Got Their Family Name page 226 12....

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... Understand Bulakan Know Baliwag page 27 4. Spanish Period page 45 5. The Founding Families of Baliwag page 50 6. Tsinoys page 129 7. Dr. Rizal’s Chinese Ancestors page 165 8. Año 1733 The Making of a Town page 170 9. Let us learn about the Agustinian Friars page 189 10. Añ0 1800 What Transpired page 219 11. Año 1850 The Natives Got Their Family Name page 226 12....

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... Understand Bulakan Know Baliwag page 27 4. Spanish Period page 45 5. The Founding Families of Baliwag page 50 6. Tsinoys page 129 7. Dr. Rizal’s Chinese Ancestors page 165 8. Año 1733 The Making of a Town page 170 9. Let us learn about the Agustinian Friars page 189 10. Añ0 1800 What Transpired page 219 11. Año 1850 The Natives Got Their Family Name page 226 12....

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... Understand Bulakan Know Baliwag page 27 4. Spanish Period page 45 5. The Founding Families of Baliwag page 50 6. Tsinoys page 129 7. Dr. Rizal’s Chinese Ancestors page 165 8. Año 1733 The Making of a Town page 170 9. Let us learn about the Agustinian Friars page 189 10. Añ0 1800 What Transpired page 219 11. Año 1850 The Natives Got Their Family Name page 226 12....

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...ppeared ready to take their order. Brand just ordered a double bourbon on the rocks. Alex ordered a glass of white wine. "Anything else," the waiter ... ...el,” Cardona replied, fixing himself a scotch on the 166 J.Cross/Artemis rocks. “Want a drink?” “No. I’ve got a meeting later.” “This Mafia ... ...n his arms and wailed, "This is my son!" Oshiro pressed him to his breast and rocked him as tears flooded down his 215 J.Cross/Artemis face. A... ...nd Triads, what do you suggest," Gallucci asked, still feeling hungry. "The Chinese do not like either of the societies; and their position on all ... ...m. It will take a great deal of money." "How much are you willing to pay the Chinese to stop the Societies that traffic in heroine, opiates, or any... ...nging of birds filled the silence. "We will commit ten-billion dollars to the Chinese. We will also make arrangements for more economic trade with J... ...ridge when we get to it," Radcliff answered. "The Yakuza must deal with the Chinese first and secure an agreement to quash the Tongs and Triads dru... ...and secure an agreement to quash the Tongs and Triads drug trade. Knowing the Chinese, and their hatred of any secret society, plus the billions they... ...d Guard, Soule’ decided to wait out the war in Iran. Then the cable came that rocked his world forever: the Americans had bombed his city of Ur taki...

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...n mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts t...

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... and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―the wasps’ secret‖ and then develop printing b... ...ve, nonverbal mnemonic methods. They used crude tools, such as sticks, rock, and bone, to draw pictures on the walls of caves. They also notched ... ...twenty-six letters 7 seem minuscule when compared to the thousand basic Chinese characters or the hundreds of hieroglyphs or cuneiform signs. ABCs... ... In 2011 the United States is less than half that age. CHAPTER 6 ―Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and a cent... ...cried the absence of such decorative embellishments in printed books. Chinese writing serves multiple tongues Chinese reigns as the oldest wri... ...ten language in continuous use since the time of its invention. Royal Chinese priests, according to the Oriental Institute‘s Christopher Woods, ... ...gles, Saxons and Jutes come in waves The cradle of the English we speak rocked in the homelands of invading Germanic tribes. About the time the... ...entage of the national economy down through history, only that of John D. Rockefeller exceeded Carnegie‘s, according to the blog Neatorama. At th...

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...authority told them it was acceptable.(3) I guess that we shouldn‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chines... ... counted on to break into song with the repertoire of Sophie Tucker, that 1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked... ...ies or kindergarten teachers or 37,000 female grape pickers— would the number of breast cancer cases have been the same? What if we took 37,000 Chines... ...ome imams salves their power drives with votives of violence. ―It‘s much easier for poor youths to burn cars and buses and to throw rocks ... ...us minority. It is incomprehensible to most of us the inhumane horrors that some human minds have conjured and carried out. Waterboarding, the Chines... ...b screws and iron masks pale to the rack, being lowered face down in boiling oil or lead, being tied to a wide wooden wheel and rolled down a rocky ... ...rives and interests. Another element of Jung's thinking is of more importance today. Jung saw psychological meanings in the teachings of the Chines... ... person releases strong emotional feelings against something, or someone, who was not the actual cause of the anxiety. A student might throw a rock t... ...was definitely a peak experience. ―Another was approaching Saturn‘s rings. And one of the big ones was returning to earth, seeing the Rockie...

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...ant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now . ” – ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB www.HawaiianLegacyHardwoods.com For more information call (... ...ca’s Most Diverse State White 24.7% Asian (mostly Filipino, Japanese, Chinese and Korean) 38.6% Mixed Race 23.6% Native Hawaiian or Pacifc Is... ...fags will be the 13th and 14th on the mountain. In May 2011, American and Chinese scientists and engineers met in Beijing to iron out technical asp... ...ng came six months after the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences signed on as an international observer, joinin... ...y and the National Central University Graduate Institute of Astronomy in Chinese Taiwan. In its quest to discover more about the sun, America’s Nat... ...direction on the top of the swell. “If the Swell drives him close to the rocks before he is overtaken by its break, he is much prais’d,” King wrote...

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...d from an ash-barrel of a station called Charing Cross. They were to go to Rockett’s—the farm of one Cloke, in the southern counties—where, she assure... ...he assured them, they would meet the genuine England of folklore and song. Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a station, and, so fa... ...Rambler,” said the old man. “He’s been, at my swill-pail again. Staying at Rocketts, be ye? Come in. Ah! you runagate!” The hound broke from him, and ... ...- dred acres go with the house—the old man told me. Five farms altogether. Rocketts is one of ‘em.” “I like Mrs. Cloke. But what is the old house call... ... the miles; their discoveries, always to- gether, amid the farms—Griffons, Rocketts, Burnt House, Gale Anstey, and the Home Farm, where Iggulden of th... ...ed, for it had come to be a permanent Castle in Spain between them. “Black Chinese furniture and yellow silk brocade,” she an- swered, and ran downhil... ... out of the south fled be- neath us, their ventilated hulls whistling like Chinese kites. Their market is in the North among the northern sanatoria wh...

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...d with people of dif- Best of Freshman Writing 5 ferent nationalities—the Chinese, Japanese, Romans, and Indians with their feather headdresses and a... ...camping in the woods. My brother had already awakened. He was sitting on a rock waiting for other people to wake up and smiling happily to see that it... ... or the cliffs?” I asked, gesturing to the singing frogs behind me and the rocky face that we had nestled our tent under the previous night. We had be... ...side. Our exploration had begun. There was life team- ing in the niches of rock and trees. Flowers were everywhere and a delightful green moss that co... ...at I had made a horrible miscalculation. My chest smashed into the slanted rock and my hands dug deep into the dirt, trying to grab for life granting ... ... sweat was burning my eyes and making my already unsure grip on the smooth rock lip even more precarious. I was slipping more. In a last ditch effort ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 RESPONSIBILITIES 97 THE GREY ROCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 TO A WEALTH... ... UPON GOD I PASSED along the water’s edge below the humid trees, My spirit rocked in evening light, the rushes round my knees, My spirit rocked in sle... ...shone, Around me shone keen eyes of men: I laughed aloud and hurried on By rocky shore and rushy fen; I laughed because birds fluttered by, And starlig... ...red trees; Or when along the wintry strands The cormorants shiver on their rocks; I wander on, and wave my hands, And sing, and shake my heavy locks. ... ...old. 16 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS THE STOLEN CHILD WHERE dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where ... ...r traffic in the grasshoppers or bees. THE TOWER 209 II When Loie Fuller’s Chinese dancers enwound A shining web, a floating ribbon of cloth, It seemed...

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...o I took my bucket of grease and climbed up to the royal mast head. Here the rocking of the vessel, which increases the higher you go from the foot of... ... inequali- ties upon its surface. At length we could distinguish trees and rocks; and by the afternoon, this beau- tiful island lay fairly before ... ...the ladies; furniture; and in fact, everything that can be imagined, from Chinese fire works to English cart wheels—of which we had a dozen pairs w... ... knavery. Trappers and hunters, who occasionally arrive here from over the Rocky mountains, with their valuable skins and furs, are often enterta... ...aking the place of steersman. As we drew in, we found the tide low, and the rocks and stones, covered with kelp and sea weed, lying bare for the dist... ...o the Pueblo the next day, we picked our way again over the green, slippery rocks, and pulled aboard. By the time we reached the vessel, which was so... ...isco, I visited three of the Episcopal churches, and the Congregational, a Chinese Mission Chapel, and on the Sabbath (Saturday) a Jewish synagogu... ...y) a Jewish synagogue. The Jews are a wealthy and powerful class here. The Chinese, too, are numerous, and do a great part of the manual labor and ... ...t home the Pilgrim, spent many years in command of vessels in the Indian and Chinese seas, and was in our volunteer navy during the late war, comman...

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...e station fly has gone. The captain emerges from the pantry with a tray of Chinese lacquer and a very fine tea-set on it. He rests it provisionally on... ...m Mangan with his usual abruptness, and collects the empty tea-cups on the Chinese tray]. MANGAN [irritated]. See here, Captain Shotover. I don’t quit... ... to marry Mr Mangan? 103 GB Shaw CAPTAIN SHOTOVER [never looking up]. One rock is as good as another to be wrecked on. ELLIE. I am not in love with h... ... one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks. MAZZINI. Very true, no doubt, at sea. But in politics, I assure you,... ...VER [savagely]. Nothing but the smash of the drunken skipper’s ship on the rocks, the splintering of her rotten timbers, the tearing of her rusty plat... ...nowhere to lay his head this night. CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. The Church is on the rocks, break- ing up. I told him it would unless it headed for God’s open s...

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...our disposal on which rest the labours of a solitary man in his study, the rock on which have been built commonwealths whose might casts a dwarfing sh... ...e inhabitants had flocked in their tens of thousands to an amphitheatre of rocks; they were penguins; but the holy man, rendered deaf and purblind by ... ...the forest, the great flood, the jungle, the rapid river, and the menacing rock dwell in the memory of the reader long after the book is closed. He do... ...spirit of an honest, of an artistic, per- haps of a sublime creation. This Chinese monstrosity, disguised in the trou- sers of the Western Barbarian a... ...essed of wisdom, of great fame, of a fine conscience—not an obscure hollow Chinese monstrosity ornamented with Mr. Stiggins’s plug hat and cotton umbr... ...panse, the piles of paving material looking ominously black, like heads of rocks on a silvery sea. Who was it that said that Time works wonders? What ... ... less than a year. It was on the same occasion that I had my only sight of Chinese firemen. Sight is the exact word. One didn’t speak to them. One saw... ... that strikes your ship is not so very dif- ferent from a sharp, uncharted rock tearing her life out of her in another way. At a greater cost of vital...

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...h an air of restrained animation as he stood sip- ping tea from a delicate Chinese handleless cup before a table on which tea and a cold supper were l... ...aters of the confluence of the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic back... ...king into the nursery. Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rock- ing the baby. “Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” t... ...sandth time and lay down. But hardly had he done so before he felt the bed rocking backwards and for- wards beneath him as if it were breathing heavil... ...hich rose above the other sounds, did not cease for a moment. The mistress rocked and hushed her baby and when anyone came into the cellar asked in a ... ... of Alexander’s people, Moscow with its in- numerable churches shaped like Chinese pagodas.” “Well?” asked Napoleon. “One of Platov’s Cossacks says th... ...t is the highest class, re- spected by everyone. All the kings, except the Chinese, wear military uniforms, and he who kills most people receives the ... ... again lazily smacked his lips. Cautiously withdrawing her breast, Natasha rocked him a little, handed him to the nurse, and went with rapid steps tow...

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...arying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese -- you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in the forty miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow, or of dialect as in the hundred miles between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Book English has gone round the...

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... aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French, or Chinese – you shall scarce meet with so marked a difference of accent as in... ...re form and old straw hat from the garden in the lap of the hill, with its rocks overgrown with clematis, its shadowy walks, and the splendid breadth ... ...he moss under the Shearer’s Knowe, and makes one pool there, overhung by a rock, where I loved to sit and make bad verses, and is then kidnapped in it... ...th a sudden, loud haw-haw, hearty but somehow joyless, like an echo from a rock. His face was permanently set and coloured; ruddy and stiff with weath... ... us the pirate and the Lord of the Isles; I was with him, too, on the Bell Rock, in the fog, when the Smeaton had drifted from her moorings, and the A... ...his tongue could utter audible words; and once more with him when the Bell Rock beacon took a “thrawe,” and his workmen fled into the tower, then near...