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...ng the Seeker com- mander. She grabbed her other gun from his newly fallen corpse and hopped onto her motorcycle. The other Seekers must have been di... ...r brain on the people 39 7 Scorpions: Rebellion behind her. The lifeless corpse fell to the asphalt with a thump. “I want to know who that woman on ... ...Vincent both fred a round each into the chest of the bandit, dropping his corpse to the road. “So, what about the other two who lived?” asked Lexi. ... ...d on her shoulder. “We’re going to have a squad charge. We know where the mines are so we can get by them just fne.” The woman fdgeted. “Have you fo... ... the ground. Afer a few seconds, the balls began to burst, detonating all mines nearby. The tanks came plowing through the cloud of smoke. They didn... ...on’t make them mad.” Adrian showed her hands and slowly opened her door. “Des- tiny, c’mon, let’s get out.” “Move it, now!” the armed man shouted aga... ...t right over them, dropping these litle metal ball things, and all of the mines detonated. I still can’t believe we weren’t followed out of there,” ...

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...n the heat of June with no water. He wrote of the overpowering stench of urine, vomit, excrement, corpses and sweat and when at last, after ten appa... ...nd are called “garrials”. They are very useful for disposing of the half-charred remains of Hindu corpses, which float down the river from Benares.’... ...te as a sleepy crocodile opened its reptilian eyes and slid down the river bank. Had it spotted a corpse amidst all the flotsam and jetsam of the mu... ...ch were another European power that had endeavoured to control India through their own Compagnie des Indes Orientales. Their rivalry with the Britis... ...es ordered the tightening up of the defences. The ditch surrounding the fort had been scarped and mines and shells buried and horizontal row of pole...

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...everyone indoors, where they kept to themselves. Either that, or the damned mines and quarries broke too many backs. WindTamer rolled his shoulders ... ...the long walkway to the house, her rifle slung over one shoulder and a Yata corpse over the other. Sweat and grime matted her pelt. TripStone met h... ...had heaved them from her gut, expelled them from her lungs. Adzon, like the corpses before him, would follow her into her dreams. His grinning skull... ...to trade. All the Yata bodies became nothing more than memories once their corpses were slung over Masari shoulders and carried back to Crossroads. ... ... continued to stand even as the rain etched them slowly away. Quarries and mines lined Promontory's outskirts, dug into the hillsides. The city's h...

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...ollicitis mortalibus addere curam, Noscant venturas ut dira per omnia cla des Bit subitum quodcunque paras, sit cæca futuri Mens hominum fati, licea... ...mmon father of the Sicilians from so imminent a danger, he had ten Attike mines awarded him. Thus Fortune in her directions exceedeth all the rules ... ...d, who cast backe Gods good gift before he call for it; leave their faire corps-de-guarde ere their Generall discharge them; hope to be deified for ... ... eating or drinking, would never come from off his bed, and when the dead corps was removed thence he followed it, and lastly flung himself into the... ...nderstanding he had done so three daies and nights together, commanded the corps to be enterred and tooke the dog along with him. It fortuned one day... ...as Euripides saith, Les oeuvres de Dieu en diverses Facons, nous donnent des traverses. Gods workes doe travers our imaginations, And crosse our w... ... -----la lumiere comnune, L'ail du monde; et si Dieu au chef porte des yeux, Les rayons du Soleil sont ses yeux radieux Qui donnent vie a to... ...alamities. Certaine Spaniardes, coasting alongst the Sea in search of mines, fortuned to land in a very fertile, pleasant and well peopled count... ...s they deemed might suffice for the digging, working and service of their mines: So that divers of their chieftains have beene executed to death, ev...

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...isigoth went down and took every one with her—ships generally do that; the corpses don’t cumber the sea for some time. ‘What did I do? I kept all the ... ...me! Shout, boys, shout! for it makes you jolly and free. —The Ramrod Corps. PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN, say that one of the quaintest spec- tacles of ... ... she is mine. MRS. G. (Quickly.) Because she is yours or because she is me mineself? CAPT. G. Because she is both. (Piteously.) I’m not clever, dear, ... ...ge these things, and should, also, work despite his blindness. In In- dian mines where they cut into the solid coal with the pick and clear it out fro... ...ld find in Janki’s house and run with Kundoo to a land where there were no mines, and every one kept three fat bullocks and a milch-buffalo. While thi... ...nfantry. In its prime it held ten thousand men and filled its ditches with corpses. ‘At peril of his head,’ sang Lalun again and again. A head moved o...

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...La Reserve, with whose arbor the reader is already familiar. The apartment des- tined for the purpose was spacious and lighted by a number of win- dow... ...st.” At this moment, and as Villefort had arrived at the corner of the Rue des Conseils, a man, who seemed to have been waiting for him, approached; i... ... where the lighthouse stood, on the right, and were now opposite the Point des Catalans. It seemed to the prisoner that he could distinguish a feminin... ... with a sneaking air, that the track is lost.” “Yes, but they have found a corpse; the general has been killed, and in all countries they call that a ... ...eries of science, as worthy of digging out as the gold and diamonds in the mines of Guzerat and Golconda, which he could just recollect hav- ing visit... ... united them. In this pas- sage he proposed to drive a level as they do in mines; this level would bring the two prisoners immediately beneath the gal... ...were surrounded by purple circles, while his lips were white as those of a corpse, and his very hair seemed to stand on end. “Tell me, I beseech you, ... ...be separated forever. When I become quite motionless, cold, and rigid as a corpse, then, and not before, — be careful about this, — force open my teet... ... you a man for the substantials, and is gold your god? taste this, and the mines of Peru, Guzerat, and Golconda are opened to you. Are you a man of im...

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...troke of thunder, they treated him with the utmost contumely, dragging his corpse from the bier, as it was carried to his funeral. On the other side, ... ... Arabians about the mountain Amanus, himself entered Syria, and finding it des- titute of any natural and lawful prince, reduced it into the form of a... ...ought from Pharnaces, with several dead bodies of the royal blood, and the corpse of Mithridates himself, which was not easy to be known by the face, ... ... mother many days. Pompey had prepared all things for the interment of her corpse at his house near Alba, but the people seized upon it by force, and ... ...erved the Egyp- tians, against their wills, not only kept Sparta, in those des- perate convulsions, by his sole act, safe from overthrow, but even was... ...g his speech with the remarkable say- ing, that Caesar was now not working mines, but planting batteries to overthrow the state. But when Caesar had m... ... their destruc- tion having, as it were, run its course, repeated by their des- perate deed the former calamity of their forefathers, who after the ve...

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... this for a holy thing by a perpetual or- dinance. 11 He that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is therefore unclean seven days, 12 Shall be sprinkled... ... day, he cannot be cleansed on the seventh. 13 Every one that toucheth the corpse of a man, and is not sprinkled with this mixture, shall profane the ... ...nor binding over it, shall be unclean. 16 If any man in the eld touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or hi... ...nce of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills are dug mines of brass: 10 That when thou hast eaten, and art full, Book of Deuter... ...to Moab, for in its ower it shall go out: and the cities thereof shall be des- olate, and uninhabited. 10 Cursed be he that doth the work of the Lord... ...nd of Israel: They shall eat their bread in care, and drink their water in des- olation: that the land may become desolate from the multitude that is ... ...shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have made their land waste and des- olate, for all their abominations which they have committed. 30 And th... ...done in the land of Spain, and that they had brought under their power the mines of silver and of gold that are there, and had gotten possession of al...

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...in of his Rome in embers; or in thy arrogance to trample on this ill-fated corpse, as the ungrateful daughter trampled on her father Tarquin’s? Tell u... ...ee himself on the high-road and in position to be given the com- mand of a corps before long; but Fortune was against him, for where he might have exp... ...ity at the distress he saw your father suffer on missing you; he therefore des- patched four of his servants in quest of you, and here we all are at y... ... after that unlucky ad- venture of the galley slaves, and the other of the corpse that was going to Segovia, my master and I ensconced ourselves in a ... ... round and said, “It’s a courier from my lord the duke, no doubt with some des- patch of importance.” The courier came in all sweating and flurried, a... ...e me my din- ner, and then let it rain cases and questions on me, and I’ll des- patch them in a twinkling.” The majordomo kept his word, for he felt i... ...e importance and nature of the cure deserves, the treasures of Venice, the mines of Potosi, would be insufficient to pay thee. See what thou hast of m...

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...Then eat the ashes and die. The pronouncement of Christian last words over a corpse: “Ashes to Ashes…can be logically explained by our past. Afte... ...ow to value something dead: was by preserving it in some way. Combine the corpse of a once living person they were once closely connected to, wit... ... and Ethiopians experimenting with chemicals… trying to preserve deified dead corpses for eternity because these deified dead rulers were terrified ... ...must destroy living things. To produce newspaper you must kill trees… to dig mines, pave roads, drill for oil, build cities, dams, factories, or hig... ...hey do not even realize they can actually walk out of those killing poisonous mines. They can actually leave the filthy poisonous, ugly coal towns: ... ...upon how many hands it has passed through. You can go to the Nairobi diamond mines and buy a diamond directly from the worker who sweated to get it…...

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...Will you budget for giving food to poor countries? Will you send in Peace Corps type people to help people help themselves? Will you forgive the fin... ... Chinese and Japanese generally immigrated as contract workers for farms, mines and construction. Japanese have achieved just a bit below the Chines... ...egimes of Africa have added millions to the recent international count of corpses. ―Rapes and murders of rural women in Pakistan were coward... ...times they are exempted from the war, sometimes they serve in the medical corps. Others just don‘t want to be killed and escape to a non-belligerent ...

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... in death?" Feng-po grunted as he and Ao Rue carefully settled Kuan-ti's corpse into the deepest of the air-filled caverns. "He'll be happy here ... ... one had seen Ao Rue leave during Erh-lang's show. By Chih-nil's rotting corpse, that silver eel could fly. Scary! Now his mind shifted with the ... ...What are you trying to tell me? You think that bad livers turn into good corpses? Do you?" "I'm not sure what I think. Right now I'm wondering h... ...s. Been eating at me. When Lei-kung had my will, when I groveled in the mines, I hated you for your freedom. Wanted you suffering with me. Sorry... ...m on the vast dead plain. Strings of dragons radiated out from it to the mines. The chorten's four curved sides absorbed the sun's reflection from... ...udience. Look, my strings of jewels all coming to admire you." From the mines, from inside the chorten, from everywhere, dragons were coming. The...

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...mas de Quincey that, except as a liberal courtesy, the very idea of a call des- tined to be inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two m... ...ges, when silver was chiefly employed, it gave place occasionally to gold. Mines of this metal were well known in Palestine; but there is no evidence ... ..., for example, Thevenot (tom. iii. p. 352) says—‘Le Roi fait assez souvent des presens a ses Khans, &c. L’on appelle ces presens Kalaat.’ Chardin. (ii... ...ed between the general and his council. NOTE 14. And from the fact of that corps in Charlemagne’s army, which effected the passage, having been comman... ...nastic accomplishment in which they had severally excelled. [See the Acad. des Inscriptions, about the year 1725.] At the time of Marathon, fought aga... ...he individual men, had prevailed in Greece. The enormous amount of Persian corpses buried by the Greeks, (or perhaps by Persian prison- ers,) in the P...

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...er than the crowd o’ the passengers, apparently alive and conversible, but corpses, all of them to lie their length in fifteen minutes.’ ‘And you, Fen... ...u’ve been a bulwark to your friends.’ ‘ All, Fenellan, all-stocks, shares, mines, companies, indus- tries at home and—abroad—all, at a sweep, to have ... ..., you will see to-morrow.’ Nataly nodded, as required. ‘Good news from the mines?’ she said. He answered: ‘Dartrey is—yes, poor fellow! Dartrey is con... ...our claim counts in a number of millions. The same with the gold. But gold-mines are lodgeings, not homes.’ ‘Oh, Victor! if money … ! But why did you ... ...goes the world before them. And we see how much would be due for this to a corps of ladies like Miss Graves, not allowed to remain too long on the sta... ...less fair woman living under their roof, a contrast of very life, with the corpse and shroud; and she seen by him daily, singing with him, her breath ... ...e remembered having at times murmured, dissented. And it would have been a des- perate proud thought to comfort a slave, that never once had she known... ...ns toward their ‘com- mon tongue’; together with the rumour of a design to des- patch an American rival emissary to Japan. Nesta listened, inquired, c... ... entangling himself in a passion for maid or widow of the Wells and it was des- perate, a fever. Mr. Stuart Rem charitably remarked on his taking it s...

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... and so descended to the grave, after two bailiffs had quarrelled over his corpse. Rebecca was seventeen when she came to Chiswick, and was bound over... ...rning with military ardour to resist the French Invasion. Colonel Dobbin’s corps, in which old Mr. Osborne himself was but an indifferent corporal, ha... ...to more liberal husbandmen. He speculated in every possible way; he worked mines; bought canal-shares; horsed coaches; took government contracts, and ... ...ok fortunes with them to America. For want of proper precautions, his coal-mines filled with water: the government flung his contract of damaged beef ... ...oolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am become); after dinner, M... .... They are a good deal worn now; but, you know, we poor girls can’t afford des fraiches toilettes. Happy, happy you! who have but to drive to St. Jame... ...were left her in the world. And the business of her life, was—to watch the corpse of Love. To death she looked with inexpressible longing. Then, she t... ...” it said, “this is the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland, by which the des- tinies of Europe were twice decided. Then, as after Austerlitz, as aft... ...nd more favourable: at last an aide-de-camp actually reached Brussels with des- patches for the Commandant of the place, who placarded pres- ently thr...

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... gambling-houses or in petty trading, grubbed out of earth, sweated out in mines, on railway lines, in deadly jungle, under heavy burdens — amassed pa... ...the fires out, the engines broken down, the ship ready to roll over like a corpse. He was anxious not to get muddled and lose control 50 Typhoon of h... ...et a dull stare directed at his face. He was amazed that there had been no corpses; 61 Joseph Conrad but the lot of them seemed at their last gasp, a...

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... than again seeing my country, my friends, my little lodging by the Jardin des Plantes, my dear and precious collections— but nothing could keep me ba... ...cabin is ready for you.” I bowed, and desired to be conducted to the cabin des- tined for me. The Abraham Lincoln had been well chosen and equipped fo... ...ir. And the Babiroussa would have been installed in its cage in the Jardin des Plantes, and have drawn all the curious people of the capital!” “As you... ... under the waves, but sadder still was the sight of the bridge, where some corpses, bound with ropes, were still lying. I counted five—four men, one o... ...ot that I know of.” “Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which h... ...of light whitened the sur- face of the ocean. CHAPTER X THE SUBMARINE COAL-MINES THE NEXT DAY, the 20th of February, I awoke very late: the fatigues o... ... men follow the trade of miners here, then, Cap- tain?” “Exactly so. These mines extend under the waves like the mines of Newcastle. Here, in their di... ... shovel in hand, my men extract the coal, which I do not even ask from the mines of the earth. When I burn this combustible for the manufacture of sod... ...ng like the waves breaking on the shore. Captain Nemo steered close to the corpse of the creature. Two of his men mounted its side, and I saw, not wit...

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...it and time-honoured name, whose matter he knew well, and would have given mines to have, in any form, upon the narrow shell beside his bed at Mr Peck... ...star,’ returned John Westlock, laughing; ‘whose parents, or guardians, are des- tined to be hooked by the advertisement. What! Don’t you know that he ... ...uld be glad to know what he meant by terrifying delicate females ‘with his corpses;’ and giv- ing it as her opinion that he was quite ugly enough to k... ...itude. ‘Ah!’ said Mrs Gamp, walking away from the bed, ‘he’d make a lovely corpse.’ She now proceeded to unpack her bundle; lighted a candle with the ... ... the mob were mad; or did it spring up, armed and booted from the earth, a corps of yeomanry full-grown! Mr Pecksniff’s duty to society could not be p...

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...; but only made possible perhaps by the un- swerving loyalty of the marine corps and voluntary re- sumption of loyalty among influential sections of t... ...licated gun-deck life, which like every other form of life, has its secret mines and dubious side, the side popularly disclaimed, Captain Vere did not... ...it be he who lies within there,” designating the compartment where lay the corpse. “But the prone one there will not rise to our summons. In effect, t...

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...rible fumes choked with ghastly rubbish of smashed brickwork and mutilated corpses. He had such a distinct per- ception of ruin and death that he shud... ... was work undertaken for the same reason as the work in potteries, in coal mines, in fields, in tool-grinding shops. It was labour, whose practical di... ... ou couldn’t know.” “I couldn’t,” breathed out Mrs V erloc. It was as if a corpse had spoken. Mr V erloc took up the thread of his discourse. “I don’t... ...com- plete irresponsibility and endless leisure, almost in the manner of a corpse. She did not move, she did not think. Neither did the mortal envelop... ...ce. He felt half dead. He leaped a foot high. Unexpectedly Mrs V erloc had des- ecrated the unbroken reserved decency of her home by a shrill and terr...