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...miles from Paris. With Versailles, Fontainebleau, Saint-Germain, and Saint-Cloud within easy reach of their capital, the later French sovereigns had l... ...ich latter, by the way (excuse the afterthought), is not on the Loire. The platforms, the bastions, the terraces, the high-perched windows and balconi... ...tform; and as soon as the car was full she jolted us into the town through clouds of the thickest dust I ever have swallowed. I have had occasion to s... ...s just beneath the castle, beside the Rhone. The booths, the barracks, the platforms of the mounte- banks, the bright-colored crowd, diffused through ... ...all, that the submer- sion of the roads would forbid it. Since morning the clouds had gathered again, and by noon they were so heavy that there was ev... ...r to the head-spring of the Sorgues. When the critical moment arrived, the clouds were hanging over Avignon like distended water-bags, which only need...

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... eye we are in that other world! We should scarcely note the change. Not a cloud would have gone from the sky. It might be the remote town below would... ...ation might transiently smile, a smile that would be like the passing of a cloud. All the mountain wilderness about us would be radiantly lit. (You kn... ..., transfer tax, legacy and forfei- ture, returning to the sea. Between the clouds and the sea it will run, as a river system runs, down through a grea... ...ves and measure something of what we might have been?” The botanist’s face clouds. He rolls over, sits up abruptly and puts his lean hands about his k... ... little lead-paned window, through which we see a village sleep- ing under cloudy moonlight go flashing by. Then a skylit lake, and then a string of s... ...topia rials as kindly as once he took to stone. The gay and swiftly moving platforms of the public ways will go past on either hand, carrying sporadic...

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... grand- mother, with every mark of reverence, “Old Master.” Thus early did clouds and shadows begin to fall upon my path. Once on the track—troubles n... ...nitiated into my new home, and entered upon my peculiar duties, with not a cloud above the horizon. 91 Frederick Douglas I may say here, that I regar... ...ISTRESS—HOW SHE COM- MENCED TEACHING ME TO READ—WHY SHE CEASED TEACHING ME—CLOUDS GATHERING OVER MY BRIGHT PROSPECTS—MASTER AULD’S EXPOSITION OF THE T... ... she felt it to teach me, at least to read the bible. Here arose the first cloud over my Baltimore prospects, the pre- cursor of drenching rains and c... ...ssedly holy men, did not serve to strengthen my religious convictions. The cloud over my St. Michael’s home grew heavier and blacker than ever. It was... ...drive the Almighty presence from the councils of the nation. Resting their platforms upon the fugitive slave bill, they boldly asked the people for po...

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...ruly its end was Peace on that sea-shore that morning. So settled and orderly was everything seaward, in the bright light of the sun and under the tra... ..., and its effect was very striking. A compre- hensive benevolent prayer dismissed the throng, and in seven or eight minutes there was nothing left in ... ...rely might be almost read, with- out book, by this time! Welcome Monsieur the Cure, later in the day, jolting through the highway dust (as if you had ... ...hrough the service, but dead citizens have got into the very bellows of the organ, and half choked the same. We stamp our feet to warm them, and dead ... ...I came to myself and looked about. The day broke mistily (it was autumn time), and I could not disembarrass myself of the idea that I had to climb tho... ...rew them, and did not overcharge their strength. What is to be done with those unoffending per- sons? I will not run amuck and vilify and defame them,...

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...ind, he saw the high and narrow fronts of tall houses under the gloom of a clouded sky; and on muddy quays he saw the shabby, high-shouldered figure—t... ...oolish, like the prattle of chil- dren.” “Many, many times have I seen the cloudy sky and have heard the wind of the rainy seasons,” said Babalatchi, ... ... impressively. “And where is your wisdom? It must be with the wind and the clouds of seasons past, for I do not 45 Joseph Conrad hear it in your talk... ...high above, in the transpar- 46 An Outcast of the Islands ent sky, little clouds rushed past the moon, now ap- pearing in her diffused rays with the ... ..., stepped boldly into the river, shooting over it in a close row of bamboo platforms elevated on high piles, amongst which the current below spoke in ... ...ght on a stormy daybreak that darts evanescent and pale through the gloomy clouds: the forerunner of sun- rise and of thunder. CHAPTER SEVEN THERE ARE... ...y in- dividual of the multi-coloured groups that, stand- ing on the flimsy platforms of tiny reed dwellings built over the water, waved their hands an...

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...nce and of displeasure, “it is but Richard Varney; but even the first grey cloud should be acceptable, when it lightens in the east, because it announ... ... Queen as she entered the great hall, and he at once perceived there was a cloud on her brow. Her jealous eye had noticed the martial array of armed g... ...r presence a doubting and an accused subject; your goodness penetrated the clouds of defa- mation, and restored me to my honour, and, what is yet dear... ...o bask in, if they could; but anon came a storm from a sudden gathering of clouds, and the thunder fell in a wondrous manner on all alike.” [Nugae Ant... ...weeping line of outward walls, ornamented with battlements and turrets and platforms at every point of defence, with many a banner streaming from its ... ...himself in a subordinate situation to Leicester, was now wear- ing a heavy cloud on his brow; a circumstance which had not escaped the Queen, who hope...

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...dly knew that he was on horse- back, so completely was he enveloped in the cloud of his own thoughts. In the first place, that alternative which it ha... ...ur, let her come forward now without delay; let her now bear thee off on a cloud if there be one to whom thou art sufficiently dear! But there is no s... ... and then who so happy, sitting at his ease in the London inn, blowing his cloud from a long pipe, with measureless content, as Mr Reddypalm? Mr Reddy... ... about him, and lauded him at public meetings; who shook hands with him on platforms and drank his health at dinners; but he had no friends who could ... ... she had done, as she looked first at her father and then at her mother. A cloud came over the squire’s brow as for a minute he went on turning over t... ...the course of projection by Sir Louis; and Frank went about the house with clouded brow, as though finally resolved to neglect his one great duty. Poo...

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..., our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertil- ity, with glimpses through its drifti... ...udy atmosphere eloquent of fertil- ity, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded... ... may be the gases of the firing caused the Martians inconve- nience. Dense clouds of smoke or dust, visible through a powerful telescope on earth as l... ... or two gaily dressed ladies among the others. It was glaringly hot, not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind, and the only shadow was that of the ... ... seemed indeed black, and it was as hot and close as the day. Overhead the clouds were driving fast, albeit not a breath stirred the shrubs about us. ... ...quad of police came into the station and began to clear the public off the platforms, and my brother went out into the street again. The church bells ...

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... possibility of still more violent stresses; so that what is as yet a mere cloud of criticism and resentment at our lawyer-politicians and privileged ... ...g that all these four women writers have jostled one another upon suffrage platforms, and that they all suffered blows and injuries in the same cause,...

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...ginations, through the dimness of the theogonies, like phantoms wrapped in cloud. Only the beardless priests understood Salammbo; their wrinkled hands... ...iscover the wound. By a ray of the moon which was then gliding between the clouds, Spendius perceived a gaping wound in the middle of the arm. He roll... ... is far away and quite inacces- sible! The splendour of her beauty forms a cloud of light around her, and at times I think that I have never seen her—... ...mbo. “What ails you, mistress? The blowing of the breeze, the passing of a cloud, everything disquiets you just now!” “I do not know,” she said. 40 S... ... as the conscience of a man in a dream. It contracted, creating Desire and Cloud, and from Desire and Cloud there issued primitive Matter. This was a ... ...and vats filled with oil, and built furnaces. Stones were heaped up on the platforms of the towers, and the houses bordering immediately on the rampar... ...y the roofs of the huts; and streams of flints and pebbles poured from the platforms of the towers. At last the rams broke the gates of Khamon and Tag...

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...closed a fine emerald with diamonds, and just then the sun passing beyond a cloud sent a bright gleam over the table. “How very beautiful these gems ar... ...ture— logically.” Will could not resist this imperturbable temper, and the cloud in his face broke into sunshiny laughter. “Come now, my friend—you wi... ...ch needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 170 Book II — Old and Young. “I... ...rising as if to go away to Mr. Featherstone. Of course Fred felt as if the clouds had parted and a gleam had come: he moved and stood in her way. “Say... ... The distant flat shrank in uniform whiteness and low hanging uniformity of cloud. The very furniture in the room seemed to have shrunk since she saw i... ... called for as Brother Bulstrode in prayer meetings, speaking on religious platforms, preaching in private houses. Again he felt himself thinking of t...