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...nglish history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning of the Civil War on 22 August 1642." Edward abdicated from the throne on ... ...menian calls for autonomy were deemed a danger to the disintegrating realm, now at war with Russia. When the first world war broke, Turkey allied ... ...in Van province, Mussa Dagh, Shabin Karahisar and Urfa - as well as setbacks in the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian popu... ...ncis, who survived his first execution, described it thus: "My mouth tasted like cold peanut butter. I felt a burning in my head and my left leg,... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ...vice exam and had to join Reuters as a journalist. There he successfully covered a spy trial in Russia (1929-32). He then joined a British investm... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...on to a hospital after the second world war were abandoned with the outbreak of the Cold War. The September 11 attack demolished 400,000 sq. feet... ... of taste and smell are connected. That is why we fail to taste well when we have a cold. But in snails the functions are separate. One pair of ant...

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...Her published novels include, The Blue Flame, The Emerald Dagger, and The Silver Angel, the first three fantasy novels in her Daradawn series. She has also co-authored, Shadow Worlds, a science fiction suspense work with Darrell Bain, and ...

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...ed down across his chest to disappear inside the folds of the cloak. Dirkk’s cold green eyes flicked over the waddling figure. A brown robe stretched... ...d smiled again, his lips curling with malice. “You will what?” “Enough.” The cold word sent both Thomas and Talix spinning to face the cave. Dirkk’s g... ...a pair of handcuffs at a yard sale. They’d go per- fect with the rest of her war collection. Maggie had a rawhide bone, and Ben a pair of Rockport san... ...sey?” Peter said. “Kelsey?” the man repeated, a shudder shaking his frame. A cold dread flooded Peter. “I want to see my sister.” The man stared at Pe... ...“Aye. Kelsey is Tessa’s Queen’s-Commander.” 34 The Emerald Dagger “When the war with Dirkk ended, I went home,” Kelsey said. “Regan fell in love with... ...ilith too,” Regan said. Kelsey’s stomach twisted with dread. Daradawn would war against dragons? Who would win? One thing she knew; many lives would ... ...d he mean? His son? She felt her stomach do a summersault. Was Rourk’s son a spy? Did he hate his father so much? Dirkk’s hand cupped her breast and, ...

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...splaced and disoriented by the expansive empty house, its furnishings, its coldness. New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 57 He kept expecting to... ...s cluttering the shelf, a gallimaufry of hardcover titles—the prerequisite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and cont... ...uttering the shelf, a gallimaufry of hardcover titles—the prerequisite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contempo... ...y the images of illness—mental?—and of prana gone wrong, shivered from the cold spots he'd touched. Edge fidgeted beneath his gaze and Kelly could fee... ...id. But ... hell, Dag. This talkin' thing is wearing thin too." A blast of cold knifed through Kelly's body, so sudden and unexpected in the high spri... ... all's fair in love..." Tyler leaned in, nibbled and sucked her neck. "And war..." Kelly groaned, pushed against him. She couldn't let him get into th...

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...to the Azores in 1582 and the following year, and on the conclusion of the war returned to Spain in the autumn of 1583, bringing with him the manuscri... ... new year, 1605. It is often said that “Don Quixote” was at first received coldly. The facts show just the contrary. No sooner was it in the hands of ... ... he secured in February. No doubt it was received with something more than coldness by certain sections of the community. Men of wit, taste, and discr... ...ervantes, and fourteen years after his death gives him only a few lines of cold commonplace in the “Laurel de Apolo,” that seem all the colder for the... ...s” as he afterwards called them, with a view to making a book of them. The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedi- cation to the Con... ...in his head.” “Hush, friend Sancho,” replied Don Quixote, “the fortunes of war more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations; and moreover I... ...- with all the sweet and delectable course of his achievements in love and war. Handed down from that time, then, this order of chivalry went on exten... ...e of an Arnaut, 309 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. in company with a Greek spy; but whether he regained his liberty or not I cannot tell, though I fan... ...l this good man to come in; but take care first of all that he is not some spy or one of my assassins.” “No, my lord,” said the page, “for he looks li...

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...ctitious composi- tion, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by the existing generation wi... ...rmy, were an ancient and high-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of war and of peace, brave to romance, and exhibiting a character turning upon... ...passion, and gave to the judicial proceedings against him an appearance of cold-blooded revenge on the part of govern- ment; and the following argumen... ... the Chevalier’s conduct may have af- forded grounds for charging him with coldness to the suffer- ings of his devoted followers. One of these was a s... ...ts companion; and so standing still like a post, out of mere faintness and coldness of heart, while all the world were driving full speed past thee. T... ...med to avoid human society, and to remain un- perturbed amid the elemental war, it seemed that to speak to him at that moment would have been to addre... ...’— ’hafflins gentle,’ and at length, the still more alarming epi- thet of ‘spy,’ began to be buzzed about, and I was heartily glad when the apparition... ...n, and have a faint recollection of hear- ing some crying, ‘Kill the young spy!’ and others, as I thought, interposing on my behalf. But a second blow... ... may have mis- interpreted the motives, and considered Darsie Latimer as a spy. His influence, I believe, is great among the disorderly people you spo...

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...best way to start a relationship but it sure gets her in more trouble than she bargained for. With two days to stop an insane vampire from starting a war between vamps and humans, Savannah and Donatello discover there's more to life than saving the world -- like falling in love. www.DesertBreezePublishing.com...

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...lf from taking in the total package with a woman’s eye, instead of the stone cold Slayer I’d been trained to be. Oh yeah! Totally hawt, even for a... ...I’m with VCI, Vampire Central Intelligence.” “So, you’re a super vamperific spy?” Cool, like OO-Negative of the spy world. “Not really, the VCI de... ...of the night and have to start looking again tomorrow.” For a Vampire super spy Donnie didn’t seem to know a whole lot about being a detective. On... ...idn’t seem to know a whole lot about being a detective. Once the trail grew cold, you had to go all cold case to find anything out. “There isn’t g... ...reams had made me feel all squishy and more than a little drained. A shot of cold water and my trusty pink scrunchy would hopefully wake me up enoug... ...n their eyes and see us for the threat we are. It was my hope that when the war began, my race would crawl from their mediocrity and return to the ... ... from their mediocrity and return to the old ways.” “You decided to start a war because you don’t like how the world turned out while you went sies... ...somebody doesn’t stop him. He came right out and told me he wants to start a war between humans and Vampires. With all the newborns he’s been makin... ... brother,” he said pulling up beside me. “That doesn’t give you the right to spy on me.” I came to a halt and threw my arm across his chest. “Sorr...

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... Pg 287 Freedom and Irresponsibility Pg 288 Ownership Pg 290 Law Pg 291 War Pg 296 Conclusion Chapter Six ‘A’: Civilization The Beginning... ...verse are: long-short, large-small, past-present, dark-light, empty-full, hot-cold, up-down, attraction-repulsion, weak-strong, fast-slow, far-near,... ...and attacked and killed by the pack animals that arrived in such numbers that war broke out. It saved them from the chaos of fighting over a kill. ... ...that slit finally reached the surface of Africa to create the Rift Valley. War is created by breaking the peace. When was the first peace broken?... ...ts hypnotic flames which they stared at… deadening their awareness during the cold evenings and nights. The fire itself prevented these apes from b... ...nids from their eco-system, their place in Nature. They could now survive in colder climates. It was a major shift of imbalance: perceptually, eco... ...He betrayed everyone, and I mean everyone. When the Weimar Govt. sent him to spy on the doings of the National Socialist party, instead of spying o... ... Governor of Massachusetts whose wife betrayed the British cause and became a spy for the colonists. He did not kill her for that treason. He sent... ..., or cared about you, or spent time with you. You are an active saboteur and spy; living secretly inside the lower working class: doing the upper c...

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...ich greatly displeased the Almighty Father, who gave the massive sphere a cold shower, this defused the situation for a time. Now back at the drawing... ... run for the twentieth century. The boss and his cronies instigated World War one; however, again the Almighty opponent upstairs got the last laugh ... ...o the immature demon swearing he had deliberately latched onto the ark to spy on the Noah family. The gatekeeper, the position the angel held, shook ... ...ng white teeth, two angels sat in the gutter with Mr. Adams. Decorated in war paint, imps danced about, trying to maintain the old man’s attitude of... ...wo legs with his eyes to the ground. The truth of the matter, Kelvin, out cold, had no idea that courier angels were assisting him. Snakelex and his ... ...rk for the world than to work for God. It is easier to read magazines and novels than to read God’s word. It is easier to donate time or money to on... ...er own appearance. The Carters had indeed made an impact. Imps adorned in war paint and wearing wool bearing dags on their heads were again dancing ... ...hell was prayed over by the Pastor and quickly dunked forward into murky, cold waters. In all his excitement and shivering, John had not noticed a l...

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...might be apt to forget, that, although no great historical events, such as war or insurrection, mark the existence of the Anglo-Saxons as a separate p... ...ke his companion, but a strong hack- ney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a ch... ... a black varnish of soot. On the sides of the apartment hung implements of war and of the chase, and there were at each corner folding doors, which ga... ...atisfied the most prejudiced enemy of the tribes of Israel. Cedric himself coldly nodded in answer to the Jew’s repeated salutations, and signed to hi... ... emblematical personification of the Win- ter season. Having dispelled the cold, he turned eagerly to the smoking mess which was placed before him, an... ...red by a cloak of scanty dimensions, neither fit to defend the wearer from cold or from rain, and the only purpose of which appeared to be to display ... ...ully boy, bully boy, Come, trowl the brown bowl to me: Ho! jolly Jenkin, I spy a knave in drinking, Come, trowl the brown bowl to me.” “Now, that is n... ...ush affords, and shun exposing themselves to the shot of our cross-bows? I spy neither banner nor pennon among them, and yet will I gage my golden cha... ...rate courage. 273 Sir Walter Scott wing of the night raven. Nothing can I spy that can mark him further—but having once seen him put forth his streng...

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...th such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the mos...

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...mpt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simp... ...und himself in a few minutes seated by a comfortable supper, for which his cold ride gave him a hearty appetite. 23 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER II. —Co... ...hough they afterwards adopted the Norman surname of Bertram. They had made war, raised rebellions, been defeated, beheaded, and hanged, as became a fa... ...y pinched and pared, rose early and lay down late, ate dry bread and drank cold water, to secure to Abel the means of learn- ing. Meantime, his tall, ... ...ere placed within sight of each other, that, in times of invasion or civil war, they might. communi- cate by signal for mutual defence and protection.... ...battered by the ships of the Parliament under Deane, during the long civil war, this part of the castle was much more ruinous than the rest, and exhib... ...en years after the catastrophe related in the fast chapter, that, during a cold and stormy night, a social group had closed around the kitchen fire of... ...n is also applicable to one or two similar passages, in this and the other novels, introduced for the same rea- son.] But the truth is undeniable; the... ...” “Oh, the curly-headed varlets! I must come to play at Blind Harry and Hy Spy with them.—But what is all this?” added Pleydell, taking up the plans;—...

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...vel Newspaper, 143]) and (London: N. Bruce, 72 pp., 1842 (Series: Standard Novels, 5]). It also appeared by itself as “Imagination: A Tale for Young W... ...ted with writer’s block while composing his first best-selling novel, “The Spy”. Coo- 5 Tales for Fifteen per had envisaged a series of five stories,... ...imagination gets the better of her, presumably because of reading romantic novels. This, of course, was a commonplace notion in the 1820s, except that... ...Charles Weston with emphasis. “As her heart, Sir,” repeated the young lady coldly. The last adieus were hastily exchanged, and Anna Miller was handed ... ...arge than otherwise. Miss Emmerson had been educated immediately after the war of the revolution, and at a time when the intellect of the women of thi... ... the justice to say, that instantly I thought of the danger of your taking cold and drew you into the house.” “Oh! you ran from another clap,” said Ju... ... have learnt from acts of desper- ate courage that he had performed in the war which had so recently terminated; or perhaps he might have even distin-... ...ontinued peacefully to wander amid the academic bowers, until the blast of war rung in his ears, and called him to the field of honour. Edward was eve... ...ur plea- sures with those we love. What heart of sensibility has stood and coldly gazed on a scene over which the eye, that it loves to admire, is rov...

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...hom I took for the chief mate. He wore a broad-brimmed Panama hat, and his spy- glass was levelled as we advanced. When we came alongside, a low cry r... ...t two countenances before me were familiar. One was that of an old man-of- war’s-man, whose acquaintance I had made in Rio de Janeiro, at which place ... ...nd very old. Fit- ted for a privateer out of a New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after ... ...g near the shore, the grim, black spars and waspish hull of a small man-of-war craft crept into view; the masts and yards lined distinctly against the... ...her things which looked somewhat strange in a ship’s forecastle, a capital spy- glass, and on the present occasion we had it in use. When the boat nea... ...id. But no sooner was the announcement made, than he came running on deck, spy-glass in hand, and clapping it to his eye, turned round with the air of... ...y saunter too, looking me pleasantly in the eye, and merely exchanging the cold salute of the road:—”Yar onor, boyoee,” a mere sidewalk how d’ye do. A... ...arty, and sleeping overnight among the mountains, awoke one morning with a cold in his head; and some wag of a courtier had no more manners than to vu... ...nd lady-like little damsel there was not in all Imeeo. 242 Omoo She was a cold and haughty young beauty though, this same little Loo, and never deign...

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...ay here be allowed to point out the depraving effect of the necessities of war upon certain minds who venture to act in domestic life as if upon the f... ...e ministers who succeeded each other in that office. She put Bridau on the war-path to save her grocer. That incorruptible official—one of the virtuou... ...cretary paid to the un- fortunate Madame Descoings, he was struck with the cold, calm, innocent beauty of Agathe Rouget. While consoling the widow, wh... ...ow came to live on the third floor of a house standing at this damp, dark, cold corner. Opposite, rose the Institute buildings, in which were the dens... ... are penning the words, this menagerie has already been removed from these cold and cheerless buildings, and taken to the elegant Palais des Beaux-Art... ...d ear- nest a mortal enmity to the Bourbons, never reported himself at the War department, and even refused opportunities which were offered to him fo... ...poetry of Lord Byron, the painting of Gericault, the music of Rossini, the novels of Walter Scott. “Every one to his taste, maman,” he would say; “but... ...avior before the Court of Peers proves him to have been either a dupe or a spy; he is, as you say, ninny enough to have been duped by the great player... ...de any form of vengeance impossible. Benjamin was his innocent and devoted spy. The Vedie trembled before him. Flore felt herself deserted and utterly...

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...suppose I should ever have set down my recollections if the hazards of the war had not taken me to Ta- hiti. There, as is notorious, he spent the last... ...ught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success. Now the war has come, bringing with it a new attitude. Y outh has turned to gods we... ...lves that their day is not yet over; they shout with the lustiest, but the war cry sounds 11 Somerset Maugham hollow in their mouth; they are like po... ...er, I was in- troduced to it. It is long since I frequented it, and if the novels that describe its present singularities are accurate much in it is n... ...e combined a masculine intelli- gence with a feminine perversity , and the novels she wrote were original and disconcerting. It was at her house one d... ...ng freely. I was extraordinarily touched. I felt indignant at Strickland’s cold cruelty , and I promised to do all I could to bring him back. I agreed... ...ll our hearts, set there to watch that we do not break its laws. It is the spy seated in the central stronghold of the ego. Man’s desire for the ap- p... ... anger that had seized Mrs. Strickland, and her pallor was the pallor of a cold and sud- den rage. She spoke quickly now , with little gasps. “I could... ...agine what the winters are like in those coun- tries, so long and dark and cold. They like to think that Italy is like my pictures. That’s what they e...

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...e second. “For whom is this, Miss Jemima?” said Miss Pinkerton, with awful coldness. “For Becky Sharp,” answered Jemima, trembling very much, and blus... ...ead under the neckcloth, shaking very much—”that is, yes—what abomina- bly cold weather, Miss”—and herewith he fell to poking the fire with all his mi... ...d?” said her husband, “and that a woman of your years and size is to catch cold, in such an abominable damp place?” ‘The children must have someone wi... ...ys. So these worthy people sat down to dinner presently. They talked about war and glory, and Boney and Lord Wellington, and the last Gazette. In thos... ...the presentation of the living, Hodson; none of that breed shall get it, I war’nt”; and Mr. Hodson said he was quite right: and I have no doubt from t... ...quarrelled, all his outgoings and incom- ings you know, as if you were his spy. V ery soon then after her arrival, Rebecca began to take a regular pla... ...s well as the particulars of the night’s conver- sation; the politics; the war; the quarter-sessions; the famous run with the H.H., and those heavy an... ...rd Steyne, the drawing room door opening suddenly, dis- covered the little spy, who but a moment before had been rapt in delight, and listening to the... ...wn, and it is believed that La Petite Vivandiere, as she was called, was a spy in the French interest), and the delighted people are permitted to marc...

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...am, and rolls of brown smoke there, variously undulated, curved to vanish; cold blue sky ashift with the whirl and dash of a very Tartar cavalry of cl... ...g of his blood was by comparison electri- cal; he had not the sensation of cold, other than that of an effort of the elements to arouse him; and so qu... ...m on his restful bank of bluefish smack-o’-cheek red above Whitechapel, to spy where his last puff of icy jav- elins pierces and dismembers the vapour... ... young heart upon two Columbines at once! Vic- tor felt the boy within him cold to both: and in his youth he had doated on the solitary twirling spang... ...e in the sparkle, as of a soul at holiday. Eyes had been given this man to spy the pleasures and reveal the joy of his pasture on them: gateways to th... ...ad pretty cheap, and were accounted tasty. Skepsey’s main thought was upon war: the man had dis- coursed of pigs. He informed the man of his having he... ...heir own, the pork-butcher said; and he praised Old En- gland for avoiding war. Skepsey nodded. How if war is forced on us? Then we fight. Suppose we ... ...e been under prompting of Nataly when he derided Dudley; but Victor was at war with the picture of her, in her compression of a cruel laugh, while her... ...the traces of grief. Satisfied in being a superficial observer, he did not spy to see more than the world would when Nataly entered the dining-room at...

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... placed his powers at the service of Finot’s vices and idleness. Always at war with necessity, he was one of the race of poverty-stricken and superior... ...e looked at the furniture in the room; the paved floor, red, polished, and cold, was poorly covered with a shabby carpet worn to the string. A little ... ...depths of hu- man nature, but his calmness was terrible in its rigidity; a cold alp, snow-bound and near to heaven, impenetrable and frown- ing, with ... ...bench under a trellis on which the April sun fell gently; she seemed to be cold and trying to warm herself; her compan- ions looked with interest at h... ...loys Louchard to hunt up the girl, will certainly be sharp enough to set a spy at your heels, and everything will come out. To-night and to-morrow mor... ...ssions as strange as himself. 74 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The civil war caused by the Constitution of 1812 in Spain, whither this energetic man... ...ambitious youth’s harness. Clotilde de Grandlieu unconsciously served as a spy for her father and mother. A few days since she had led Lucien into a r... ... has undertaken to pay Nucingen out if the Baron takes it into his head to spy on us; and he is quite capable of it; he spoke to me of the incapacity ... ...y, so completely was he endowed with the talents indispensable to a man at war with society; but the master had succeeded in persuading his slave to d...

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... maternal grandfathers having been leading characters in the Revolutionary War; their descen- dants still maintaining a dignified social position. All... ...s experiences to be preserved in ‘White Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of- War.’ Thus, of Melville’s four most important books, three, ‘Typee,’ ‘Omoo,... ...phi- losophy and his theories of life. The shade of Aristotle arose like a cold mist between myself and Fayaway. We have quite enough of deep philosop... ...to put away the objective side of his life, and to shut himself up in this cold north as a cloistered thinker.’ I have been told by Dr. Coan that his ... ...felt impelled to write Mr. Russell in regard to one of his newly published novels, and received in answer the following letter: July 21, 1886. My Dear... ...to the author’s earlier style. In ‘White-Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War’ (1850), Melville almost regained it. This book has no equal as a pictu... ...ho!’ The captain, darting on deck from the cabin, bawled lust- ily for his spy-glass; the mate in still louder accents hailed the masthead with a trem... ... Pacific whose course from island to island might be traced by a series of cold-blooded robberies, kidnappings, and murders, the iniquity of which mig...

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... “But that must be in the summer only, old boy. How about winter, when the cold Cossacks come clattering and jingling? How about winter, old boy?” 11... ...mmen,” he eagerly answered, as if his memory, before suddenly frozen up by cold charity, as sud- denly thawed back into fluidity at the first kindly w... ...muscular, martial-look- ing man, a Tennessean by birth, who in the Mexican war had been volunteer chaplain to a volunteer rifle-regiment. “Charity is ... ...kind and degree of decorum which, under the circum- stances, seemed almost coldness. After some words, not over ardent, and yet not exactly inappropri... ...to good works the sum of eleven thousand two hundred millions; which would war- rant the dissolution of the society, as that fund judiciously expended... ...ind, not only in vanities, but miseries. Consider that bloody spendthrift, War. And are mankind so stupid, so wicked, that, upon the demonstra- tion o... ...r the less improbable if it be considered that, after poring over the best novels professing to portray human nature, the stu- dious youth will still ... ...u take me not for the honest envoy, but I know not what sort of unheard-of spy. Sir,” he less lowly added, “this mis- taking of your man should teach ...

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...ulous as a bride that has donned her marriage robe; does it not invite the coldest soul to be happy? What heart could remain unthawed, and what lips c... ...er up her coffee, nicely sweetened with white sugar. And she loves reading novels, poor dear soul! Well, and I would rather see her wearing out her ey... ...st to see her. It was the beginning of September 1816, and the weather was cold; she chose a green /grenadine/ trimmed with chinchilla. As soon as she... ... him, and then knocked at his door pretty loudly, for the bitter wind blew cold about his calves. At last the old lodgekeeper pulled up the latch; and... ...lness, and dying by some other hand than mine.” “You caught me playing the spy,” said the Count. “Whether on foot or in a carriage, and at whatever ho...

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...nstairs, intercepted the parlor-maid, and cut himself a slice of bread and cold meat. As he did so, the dining- room door sprang open, a voice exclaim... ...t to Italy. They say Switzerland’s very lovely in the snow, except for the cold. But, as you say, the great thing is to finish the book. Now let me se... ...ay mattress off one’s bed, and lay it on the floor, to fill a pitcher with cold coffee, and to sweep a long table clear for plates and cups and saucer... ...r feelings? That’s what I can’t make out. And poetry’s all about feelings— novels are all about feelings.” She cut a cake vigorously into slices, and ... ...iefless 129 Virginia Woolf barrister lodged in a garret, writing immortal novels by the light of a farthing dip. But the romance which fell upon the ... ...es. She was matching him, presumably, with cer- tain characters in the old novels, for she came out, after a pause, with: “Um—um—Pendennis—Warrington—... ... its excitement. “You’ve not read ‘The Idiot’!” she exclaimed. “I’ve read ‘War and Peace’,” William replied, a little tes- tily. “‘War and Peace’!” sh... ...e to his wife. He could not control the tele- phone. He could not play the spy. She might be making any arrangements she chose. Yet the thought did no...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...s, piling the surf on the beach, hissing the rain across my roof. It is cold and the light of my terra cotta lamp is cold. Some say that a storm ... ... and I will gaze across the bay—and Alcaeus will not be here. My feet are cold and the lamp is weak and the wax hard, and I must go to bed. P Yest... ...at sea, her mast broken, her tangled sail and rigging dragging. Will the war never end? P Fog, as grey as a shepherd’s cloak, ruffled the bay for ... ...aring around me like the recent storm. I couldn’t speak. I felt that the war was forever between us and I hated those years, those battles, the lin... ...confusion? The soldiers I met, after their drunken reunions, spoke of the war with bitterness. Ten years, they said. Ten years, for what? And how man... ...lashing and soaking us. We finally discovered a shepherd’s hut, but I got colder and colder in its windowless gloom. Lying on the floor, among stiff ... ...nday. I am threatened by various authorities for such “misdemeanors.” Men spy on me and plot against me for acts of kindness. Kindness has reached th... ...ginian, Ward Hill Lamon, of Danville days. Hill is my volunteer guardian, spy, Rabelaisian crony, scribe. Time and again he bundles up and sleeps al...

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...attle. -- Genghis demands the daughter of Umcan for a wife -- Refusal leads to war -- Ceremony performed by the astrologers to forecast the result -- ... ... -- A meeting with the Tlascalans -- Their Independence maintained by constant war with Montezuma -- Wonderful walls about their capital city -- A blo... ...of the Buccaneers -- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti -- Poi... ...ence of a southern continent -- Sailing of the fleet -- In a region of intense cold -- Angling for albatrosses -- A separation of the ships -- Examina... ...the health of the men -- Unpleasant familiarities of the natives -- Fishing in cold weather -- A Chuckchie potentate -- Sending letters home -- The ce... ... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ...r north as Iceland. He was absent two years, and attained a latitude where the cold was so severe that he came near perishing with his crew. He certai... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...he Indian Ocean and on the coast of Africa. This man, who had really come as a spy for the purpose of ascertaining the strength of the squadron, was w...

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...un- tenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itse... ...barbarous system for no less than five years, at length fell a victim to a cold in the head, beneath which he gradually sunk until he fell into a pers... ...s all.’ Mr Nickleby snatched the letter from his assistant, and fix- ing a cold look upon him, opened, read it, put it in his pocket, and having now h... ... accordingly. The only difference between them was, that Mrs Squeers waged war against the enemy openly and fearlessly , and that Squeers cov- ered hi... ...ped forward, and bowed. ‘What do you do here, sir?’ asked Mr Gregsbury; ‘a spy upon my privacy! A concealed voter! You have heard my an- swer, sir. Pr... ...‘V ery ,’ replied Mr Lillyvick, with some vehemence of man- ner. ‘It’s the war time that I speak of; the last war. It may be a cheerful language. I sh... ...Mantalini; ‘we must have some discount out of old Nickleby to carry on the war with, demmit.’ ‘Y ou can’ t want any more just now ,’ said Madame coaxi... ...urt Road; and who let out by the day, week, month, or year, the newest old novels, whereof the titles were displayed in pen-and-ink characters on a sh... ...it might be about—’ ‘ About what, in the devil’ s name?’ said Ralph. ‘Y ou spy and speculate on people’s business with me, do you?’ ‘Dear, no, sir! I ...

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...nts; whilst, I say, these things were either being warmed up or brought in cold, the gentleman induced the waiter to retail certain frag- ments of tit... ...ptacle for odds and ends, and brought the day to a close with a portion of cold veal, a bottle of pickles, and a sound sleep. The following day he dev... ...night out of doors in such weather.” “No, we cannot. The night is dark and cold,” added Selifan. “Hold your tongue, you fool!” exclaimed Chichikov. “W... ...ong, for a mazurka started, to be followed by “Marlborough has gone to the war,” and to this, again, there succeeded an anti- quated waltz. Also, long... ...rgan was like, he was forced once more to hear how Marlborough went to the war. “Then, since you don’t care to give me any money for it,” persisted No... ...ult *The great Russian general who, after winning fame in the Seven Years’ War, met with disaster when attempting to assist the Austrians against the ... ... wherein ladies and gentlemen customarily express themselves in high-class novels which have been written by experts more qualified than I am to descr... ...o. Next, to the question of whether or not he considered Chichikov to be a spy, he replied in the affirmative, and added that, as long ago as his and ... ...ir minds about it, and declare you to be either a brigand in disguise or a spy. Yesterday the Public Pros- ecutor even died of it, and is to be buried...

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...s ies ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. War and Peace by Leo T olstoy/T olstoi BOOK ONE: 1805 CHAPTER I “WELL, PRIN... ... ou know everything.” “What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonapa... ...inine arts. But as soon as the prince had gone her face resumed its former cold, artificial expression. She returned to the group where the vicomte wa... ...ed fixedly at her through his eyeglass. “Go in, Annette, or you will catch cold,” said the little princess, taking leave of Anna Pavlovna. “It is sett... ... they both knew. CHAPTER XIV ON NOVEMBER 1 Kutuzov had received, through a spy, news that the army he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. Th... ...y, news that the army he commanded was in an almost hopeless position. The spy reported that the French, af- ter crossing the bridge at Vienna, were a... ...m him in from two sides. Kutuzov chose this latter course. The French, the spy reported, having crossed the Vienna bridge, were advancing by forced ma...

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...: V ol. 1 out, I found the epithet as justifiable as it was picturesque. A cold, black southerly wind, with occasional rising show- ers of rain; it wa... ...abandon it. An emeute of disappointed fishers was feared, and two ships of war are in the bay to render assistance to the mu- nicipal authorities. Thi... ...0. TUESDAY. – The riots were a hum. No more has been heard; and one of the war-steamers has deserted in dis- gust. The Moonstone is frightfully intere... ...ch dirty jobs. The first day, I forgot to mention, was like mid-winter for cold, and rained incessantly so hard that the livid white of our cold-pinch... ...pe to get it up like a shot. What fun you three must be having! I hope the cold don’t disagree with you. – I remain, my dear mother, your affec- tiona... ... head, remarked apropos of nothing and with almost defiant conviction, ‘Er war ein feiner mann, der Herr Doctor,’ and was answered by another with ‘Ya... ...nough possibly; possibly far the most part of it comes from bad historical novels and the disquieting statu- ary that garnishes some facades. On the w... ...seeing an old place, very much as, according to my favourite text, Scott’s novels and poems do for one. His account of the monks in the Scriptorium, w... ...ssy. Now in middle age (bar lucre) all seems mighty placid. It likes me; I spy a little bright cafe in one corner of the port, in front of which I now...

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...t double the money might now with difficulty be suffi- cient.’ Amidst this cold obscurity, there was one bril- liant circumstance to cheer him; he was... ...; though it is painful to think, that he had but too much reason to become cold and callous, and discontented with the world, from the ne- glect which... ...ent visitor at the house of Mr. Richardson, authour of Clarissa, and other novels of extensive reputa- tion. Mr. Hogarth came one day to see Richardso... ...t was committed, as this had the appearance of put- ting a man to death in cold blood, and was very unlike his Majesty’s usual clemency. While he was ... ...ended in the years 1745 and 1746, those years which were marked by a civil war in Great-Britain, when a rash attempt was made to restore the House of ... ...every thing English prevailed much in France after Lord Chatham’s glorious war, he said, he did not wonder at it, for that we had drubbed those fellow... ...formed a clear and settled opin- ion, that the people of America were well war- ranted to resist a claim that their fellow-sub- jects in the mother-co... ... rest may be considered as barbarous.’ Boswell. ‘Pray, Sir, is the Turkish Spy a genu- ine book?’ Johnson. ‘No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her Life, says th...

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...to be praised for courage and be huzza’d at with tear choked voices as the war worn regiment marches past the worshiping multitude with flags flying a... ...the case in the book here. The man lives three miles up town. It is bitter cold, snowing hard, midnight. He is about to enter the horse car when a gr... ...d his weeping family and marches out to manfully expose himself to hunger, cold, wounds, and death. Is that seeking spiritual comfort? O.M. He loves p... ...at mere public opinion could force a timid and peaceful man to— O.M. Go to war? Yes—public opinion can force some men to do anything. Y.M. Anything?... ...nd flourish, and ended in producing a surprising fruitage—in the fields of war. The history of man is full of such accidents. The accident of a broken... ...hich it hasn’t. It is merely a thermometer: it registers the heat and the cold, and cares not a farthing about either. Y.M. Then we must not claim th... ... third rates, of worn and commonplace and juiceless forms that makes their novels such a weariness and vexation to us, I think. We do not mind one or ... ... empty lip affection in place of the love which her heart hungers for; who spy upon her in the interest of her waiting heirs, and report and exagger ...

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...ke a certain South Ameri- can general who used to say that no emergency of war or peace had ever found him “with his boots off”; but I may say that wh... ... time. The time was about a month before the entrance of Roumania into the war, and though, honestly, I had seen already the shadow of coming events I... ...ong ago—in his giddy youth maybe—were about. And the books in question are novels, or, at any rate, were written as novels. I proceed thus cau- tiousl... ...he lifetime of one fleeting generation. 11 Joseph Conrad II OF ALL BOOKS, novels, which the Muses should love, make a serious claim on our compassion... ...rendre c’est tout pardonner. And in this benevolent neutrality towards the war- ring errors of human nature all light would go out from art and from l... ...oo weary, too guileless to raise the black standard of insurrection. He is cold and homeless and starving. He remem- bers the warmth and the food of t... ...ed. Those persons with gold-rimmed spectacles whose usual occupation is to spy upon the obvious have remarked audibly (on several occasions) that poet... ...y was duly produced, and an exceptionally in- telligent audience stared it coldly off the boards. It ceased to exist. It was a fair and open execution... ...at much questioned and mysteri- ous bird, the phoenix, he sits amongst the cold ashes of his predecessor upon the altar of morality, alone of his kind...

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...as with the Prince of Lies and Darkness, we do at all times wage internecine war. This assurance, at an epoch when puffery and quackery have reached a... ...you traced rather confusion worse confounded; at most, Timidity and physical Cold? Some indeed said withal, he was “the very Spirit of Love embodied:”... ...n! Some men wear an everlasting barren simper; in the smile of others lies a cold glitter as of ice: the fewest are able to laugh, what can be called ... ...ands in legible print. Over such a universal medley of high and low, of hot, cold, moist and dry, is he here strug gling (by union of like with like,... ...ous sports of skill or strength, the Boy trains himself to Co operation, for war or peace, as governor or governed: the little Maid again, provident o... ...awn two ways at once, and in this im portant element of school history, the war element, had little but sorrow.” On the whole, that same excellent “P... ...character. At first we find our poor Professor on the point of being shot as a spy; then taken into private conversation, even pinched on the ear, yet p... ...ecret. Nor are Sacred Books wanting to the Sect; these they call Fashionable Novels: however, the Canon is not completed, and some are canonical and o... ...e, appears something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directi...

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...lier. Additional sconces were set in various parts of the hall, out of the war, and a flambeau, emitting sweet odor, was placed in the right hand of e... ...colors than a pirate runs up, one after the other, when chased by a man-of-war. “Are you quite sure he said that? W ell, at all events I am in for it ... ...is invariably mistranslated and misconceived. “Cui bono?” in all the crack novels and elsewhere,—in those of Mrs. Gore, for example, (the author of “C... ...e threw open her two peepers to the itmost, and thin it was a little gould spy-glass that she clapped tight to one o’ them and divil may burn me if it... ...idn’t spake to me as plain as a peeper cud spake, and says it, through the spy-glass: “Och! the tip o’ the mornin’ to ye, Sir Pathrick 62 EA Poe O’Gr... ...ume Five Hippocrates!—smelt of asafoetida—ugh! ugh! ugh!—caught a wretched cold washing him in the Styx—and after all he gave me the cholera morbus.” ... ...k, and Harry to strip me of my coffins, and my clothes, in this wretchedly cold climate? In what light (to come to the point) am I to regard your aidi... ...it seems, of Allamistakeo) had a slight fit of shivering—no doubt from the cold. The Doctor immediately repaired to his wardrobe, and soon returned wi... ...he expediency, Taste con- tents herself with displaying the charms:—waging war upon Vice solely on the ground of her deformity—her dispropor- tion—her...

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...ack in the dark ages. But talking of books, there is Southey’s `Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. Y ou know Southey?” “No” said Mr. Cas... ...ding is the most healthy of exercises.” “I am aware of it,” said Dorothea, coldly. “I think it would do Celia good—if she would take to it.” “But you ... ...ur pattern of a lady.” Dorothea looked straight before her, and spoke with cold brusquerie, very much with the air of a handsome boy, in amusing contr... ...be laying herself open to a demonstration that she was somehow or other at war with all goodness. But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode ... ...ing. There’s a sharp air, driving. W on’t you sit down, my dear? Y ou look cold.” Dorothea felt quite inclined to accept the invitation. Some times, w... ...n the numerous visitors of the house. She found time also to read the best novels, and even the second best, and she knew much poetry by heart. Her fa... ...ical awe of an elegant- minded canary-bird, seemed to present herself as a spy watch- ing everything with a malign power of inference. Here, towards t... ...n the mouth and a venom in the glance which would almost justify declaring war in spite of past benefits. He was much obliged to Casaubon in the past,...

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...Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan...

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...ment 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B... ...adin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghani... ...10. WARTIME 325 10.1 Immediate Responses at Home 326 10.2 Planning for War 330 10.3 “Phase Two” and the Question of Iraq 334 11. FORESIGHT—AND... ...l attacks. 96 The threat of Soviet bombers diminished significantly as the Cold War ended, and the number of NORAD alert sites was reduced from its Co... ...ign organizational structures, including those of terrorist organizations. Cold War adversaries used very hierarchical, familiar, and predictable mili... ...als col- lection grew at a geometric rate.At the same time, the end of the Cold War and the resultant cuts in national security funding forced intelli... ...With the Cold W ar over, and the intelligence community roiled by the Ames spy scandal, a presidential commission chaired first by former secretary of... ...lapse of the Middle East peace process and, in April, a crisis over a U.S.“spy plane” brought down in Chinese territory. The new administration also f... ...amera–wielding Bay- oumi, who Hazmi seemed to think was some sort of Saudi spy . Just over a week after moving in, Hazmi and Mihdhar filed a 30-day no...

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...the roofs are steeper-pitched; even a hill farm will have a massy, square, cold and permanent appearance. English houses, in comparison, have the look... ...less interest and conviction. The first shock of English society is like a cold plunge. It is possible that the Scot comes looking for too much, and t... ... boy adopts in his imagination, is but a little part of that, and avowedly cold, sterile and unpopulous. It is not so for nothing. I once seemed to ha... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...e of the Book of Snobs. So I might go on for ever, through all my abortive novels, and down to my later plays, of which I think more tenderly, for the... ...to civilities; his hail at sight of me began to have less of the ring of a war- slogan; soon, we never met but he produced his snuff-box, which was wi... ...mon, and the old, eloquent lighthouse prayer. In fine weather, when by the spy-glass on the hill the sea was observed to run low upon the reef, there ... ...it in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men’s ... ... is none that I love so wholly. There are many spiritual eyes that seem to spy upon our actions – eyes of the dead and the absent, whom we imagine to ...