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... of relationships such as loving and caretaking. But the government has gone a step farther in certifying a person to be ready for parenthood. The... ...hich is choking the earth today does not allow for most people to move to greener pastures--unless they can bring their own seeds and fertilizer. Im... ... your country the number of diagnosed bipolar children and adolescents has gone up 40 times in the last ten years. Even if half were possibly misdiag... ...sterilized and processed into fertilizer for farming, oxygen regenerating green belts, and animal feed. You will see many of our environmental advan... ...orway it took me weeks to get a normal doctor‟s appointment. I could have gone to the clinics but they were inconvenient to get to and I might be re... ...ying to fill 200 television channels with 24/7 programs, open several new films a week, and sell as many recordings as you can-- you have to rely on ... ...have a more peaceful society in the meantime. “We wonder why your film producers insist on producing violent films when the research indicate... ...y don‟t understand that the bad guy usually gets caught at the end of the film. “We are not ready to declare that being ethical is genetically...

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...g. He looked again, straining his keen blue eyes, that had a touch of the Viking in them, through the shadowy pine trees as through a doorway, at the greengrassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log bridge up to the sunlit flowers. Tall white and purple columbines, and the butt-end of the old Hampshire cottage that crouched near the earth amid flowers, ...

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...iking in them, through the shadowy pine trees as through a doorway, at the green- grassed garden-path rising from the shadow of alders by the log brid... ...imeval, as when the Saxons came, so long ago. Ah, how he had loved it! The green garden path, the tufts of flowers, purple and white columbines, and g... ...urnt again into that old cot- tage, that was haunted already by so much by-gone, physical desire. You could not be in the dark room for an hour with- ... ... hour with- out the influences coming over you. The hot blood-desire of by-gone yeomen, there in this old den where they had lusted and bred for so ma... ...gs to be done, the house to be put into final repair after the workmen had gone, cushions and curtains to sew, the paths to make, the water to fetch a... ...ston of the gun sprang back, there was a sharp explosion, and a very faint film of smoke in the air. Then the other two guns fired, and there was a lu... ...n that shivers on the edge of the wild, gloomy country be- yond. There the green and creamy coloured tram-car seems to pause and purr with curious sat...

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...jaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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...d Zam Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot. There was some ... ...s father. Nine hundred first class dev ils, whose God was a Red Bull on a green field, would attend to Kim, if they had not forgotten O’Hara–poor O’H... ...bering O’Hara’s prophecies, ‘there will come for you a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and’ dropping i... ...t smelted these days; and the collector’s heart in the Curator’s bosom had gone out to it from the first. For no persuasion would the lama resume his ... ...efore him. ‘Hast thou been robbed?’ ‘It is my new chela [disciple] that is gone away from me, and I know not where he is.’ ‘And what like of man was t... ...e, as would a chela for his teacher. Suddenly was he sent. Suddenly has he gone away. It was in my mind to have taught him the Law upon the road to Be... ...ust do mysteries before fools; but have a care for thine eyes. Is there a film before them al ready? I save the babe, and for return thou–oh, shame...

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...Excerpt: Plashwater Weir Mill Lock looked tranquil and pretty on an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smoother shadow over the yielding grass. The voice of the falling water, like the voices of the sea and the wind, were as an outer memory to a contemplat...

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... an evening in the summer time. A soft air stirred the leaves of the fresh green trees, and passed like a smooth shadow over the river, and like a smo... ...te to help it to swing open presently, he noticed, lying to rest under the green hedge by the towing-path astern of the Lock, a Bargeman. The water ro... ...that blood, guiltily shed, does. Turning back towards his Lock (he had not gone out of view of it), the Rogue pondered as deeply as it was within the ... ...lying with his right hand clenched in his sleep and his teeth set, until a film came over his own sight, and he slept too. He awoke to find that it wa... ...e, so little! And now I have found that—oh, my goodness! there’s the other gone next! Oh no, it isn’t, here it is!’ With that, always sobbing and sear... ... ‘Oh, how good of you! Oh, my gracious! there was something else, and it’s gone out of my head! Oh no, it isn’t, I remember what it was. My grandmamma... ...he parental roof-tree. Be- hold Bella and Pa aboard an early steamboat for Greenwich. Were they expected at Greenwich? Probably. At least, Mr John Rok...

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...ne he looks down it. This last affords the most extensive view, and it is one of the loveliest that can be imagined, too. Out of a billowy upheaval of... ...belonged to social organizations called “corps.” There were five corps, each with a color of its own; there were white caps, blue caps, and red, yello... ...ere chatting together, and many were smoking cigarettes while they waited for the coming duels. Nearly all of them wore colored caps; there were white... ...ted white caps—they fell apart, apparently uncon- sciously, and left us an unobstructed pathway, but did not seem to see us or know we were there. If ... ...t, and I could not trust myself to do it, for I felt that I should desert to stay out. There was another wait of half an hour toward nine o’clock, but... ...ne music. While my seared soul was steeped in the healing balm of those gracious sounds, it seemed to me that I could almost resuffer the torments whi... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre... ... terracelike projections— a stairway for the gods; at its head spring several lofty storm- 205 A Tramp Abroad scarred towers, one after another, with...

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...t black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undi... ...eak House – Dickens Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among th... ...nwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of an cient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the ... ...mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere b... ... in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise, coppice topped, that makes a background for the falling rain. T... ...r, and the partridges and pheasants. The pictures of the Dedlocks past and gone have seemed to vanish into the damp walls in mere lowness of spirits, ... ...ty details might grieve me very much, Miss Summerson. But can I permit the film of a silly proceeding on the part of Caddy (from whom I expect nothing...

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...nt bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the green-and-purple class cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the other... ...ng to be a lawyer. I admit I fall down in sympathy sometimes. I get so dog-gone impa- tient with people that can’t stand the gaff. You’d be good for a... ...provement—tree-planting, town pag- eants, girls’ clubs. It had pictures of greens and garden- walls in France, New England, Pennsylvania. She had pick... ...build libraries to contain the Elsie books. I’ll make ‘em put in a village green, and darling cottages, and a quaint Main Street!” Thus she triumphed ... ...and a garden and everything, other end of town—can’t see it from here—I’ve gone past it when I’ve driven through here. Yes sir!” “Then, if he has all ... ...all me Sam—anyway, I’m going to call you Carrie, seein’ ‘s you’ve been and gone and married this poor fish of a bum medic that we keep round here.” Ca... ...ture theater called “The Rose- bud Movie Palace.” Lithographs announcing a film called “Fatty in Love.” Howland & Gould’s Grocery. In the display wind... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ... spread on the rack in the oven. She scampered up-stairs to bring down her filmiest tea-cloth. She arranged a silver tray. She proudly carried it into...

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...arrassment. “The way servants treat flowers!” she said hastily. She drew a green vase with a crinkled lip towards her, and began pulling out the tight... ...des. Happily the tropical suns had bleached the tapestries to a faded blue-green colour, and the mirror with its frame of shells, the work of the stew... ...tempt to deny it, and her next remark, “But didn’t they improve after we’d gone?” was unfortunate, for her husband answered with a droop of his should... ...isturbed on the surface by the passage of the _Euphrosyne_, beneath it was green and dim, and it grew dimmer and dimmer until the sand at the bottom w... ... music; she became a fanatic about music. All the energies that might have gone into languages, science, or literature, that might have made her frien... ...vies, and the people in India 44 The Voyage Out and Africa, and how we’ve gone on century after century, sending out boys from little country village... ...s room working, applying a stout blue pencil authoritatively to bundles of filmy paper. Papers lay to left and to right of 77 Virginia Woolf him, the... .... The thought had the same sort of physical discom- fort as is caused by a film of mist always coming between the eyes and the printed page. She did h... ... between the eyes and the printed page. She did her best to brush away the film and to conceive something to be worshipped as the service went on, but...

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...t black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full grown snowflakes—gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undi... ...ak House – Vol. One Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls deified among th... ...nwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of an cient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the ... ...mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out; the legion of bills in the suit have been transformed into mere b... ... in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise, coppice topped, that makes a background for the falling rain. T... ...r, and the partridges and pheasants. The pictures of the Dedlocks past and gone have seemed to vanish into the damp walls in mere lowness of spirits, ... ...ty details might grieve me very much, Miss Summerson. But can I permit the film of a silly proceeding on the part of Caddy (from whom I expect nothing...

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... “A house!” said Sophie, in a whisper. “A Colonial house!” Behind the blue-green of the twin trees rose a dark-blu- ish brick Georgian pile, with a sh... ... pile, with a shell-shaped fan-light over its pillared door. The hound had gone off on his own fool- ish quests. Except for some stir it the branches ... ...er side delicately moulded doors gave on to wool-lumbered rooms, whose sea-green mantelpieces were adorned with nymphs, scrolls, and Cupids in low rel... ...er creaked beneath their feet. From the broad landing they entered a long, green-panelled room lighted by three full-length windows, which overlooked ... ...George re-told the missing chapter as she sat on the bed. “Here to-day an’ gone to-morrow,” said Cloke warningly. “They’ve paid their first month, but... ...sn’t the faintest call upon you. Good night. Tell Dora, if she comes, I’ve gone on.” She strode away, munching her crust, and Sophie reeled breathless... ... that again is the strong westerly blow through which we rose. Overhead, a film of southerly drifting mist draws a theatrical gauze across the firmame... ...eling. The pits of gloom about us begin to fill with very faintly luminous films—wreathing and uneasy shapes. One forms itself into a globe of pale fl... ...ulder. “I’m chasing the night west.” The stars ahead dim no more than if a film of mist had been drawn under unobserved, but the deep airboom on our s...

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...l clear me: I know nothing about the knife being there, or the money being gone. Search me and my dwelling; you will find nothing but three pound five... ...hat which you have all seen me under, so that the thief must have come and gone while I was not in the body, but out of the body. But, I say again, se... ...k of keen reproach on him, and said, “William, for nine years that we have gone in and out together, have you ever known me tell a lie? But God will c... ... of the strong silken rope by which Nancy would have drawn him safe to the green banks where it was easy to step firmly, he had let himself be dragged... ...itton—he’s buying for Lord Cromleck—a fellow with a cast in his eye, and a green waist- coat. But I mean to stick to Wildfire: I shan’t get a better a... ...n all through the rest of the year, with red faces among the abundant dark-green boughs—faces prepared for a longer service than usual by an odorous b... ...ften the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the precious- ness of the fruit...

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... illuminated by cham- pagne. Below the bridge curved a railroad, a maze of green and crimson lights. The New York Flyer boomed past, and twenty lines ... ...n! ‘Stead of sticking to Lilidol, like I’ve re-peat-ed-ly asked her, she’s gone and gotten some confounded stinkum stuff that makes you sick!” 7 Sinc... ...ouring the whole sugar bowl on your corn flakes!” When Verona and Ted were gone and Tinka upstairs, Bab- bitt groaned to his wife: “Nice family, I mus... ...” to Sam Doppelbrau with more cordi- ality than he had intended. Babbitt’s green and white Dutch Colonial house was one 23 Sinclair Lewis of three in... ...y; the apple boughs were lit with 26 Babbitt fresh leaves like torches of green fire. The first white of cherry blossoms flickered down a gully, and ... ...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ... love of music, as a younger brother, to be petted and protected. Paul had gone into his father’s business, after graduation; he was now a whole- sale... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...rst-class hotel, that to the drummers loves to cater, across from some big film theayter; if I should look around and buzz, and wonder in what town I ...

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...sington would no more have called it that in cold blood than he would have gone out from his flat in Sloane Street clad in regal scarlet and a wreath ... ...usly, even in the growth of races, empires, planetary systems, and worlds, gone so:— And even in some cases so:— And he was explaining to them quite l... ...k the place there and then; on his way back to London he stopped at Dunton Green and closed with an eligible couple that had answered his ad- vertisem... ... He said they could go to the farm at once. He was doing nothing at Dunton Green except a little tailoring. “It ithn’t the thmart plathe I thought it ... ...the Feeding to be continued as directed. Food you mixed is pretty near all gone, and do not like to mix any more myself on account of the accident wit... ... and a half alto- gether, through the park and villages and then along the green glades of the Hickleybrow preserves. The trees were all dusted with t... ...d his hopes and faith of a greater world to come no more than the coloured film upon a pool of bottomless decay. Littleness invincible! So strong and ...

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...nd river; only there was a difference in the weeds and fishes, and the water itself was green instead of brown; but when the tide went out, in the bot... ...the Merry Men. I have heard it said that they run fifty feet high; but that must be the green water only, for the spray runs twice as high as that. Wh... ...or that which came with them. I would have liked better, under God’s pleasure, they had gone down into the sea, and the Merry Men were dancing on them... ...ir than ever I could win to un- derstand. He made the vales and the pastures, the bonny green yaird, the halesome, canty land – And now they shout and... ... been near it,’ said she. ‘What for would I go near it, Charlie lad? The poor souls are gone to their account long syne; and I would just have wished ... ... word or a look, following slowly after my impatient strides. The spring seemed to have gone out of his body, and he scrambled heavily up and down the... ...or behind him. Markheim stood and gazed at him with all his eyes. Per- haps there was a film upon his sight, but the outlines of the new comer seemed ... ...ady sunken in pearly greyness, and a great, pale moon came swinging skyward through the filmy poplars. The Doctor sang, the Doctor whistled, the Docto...

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...nst his fellow! In confusion, famine, desolation, regret the days that are gone; rueful recall them, recall us with them. To repentant prayers we will... ...-like, as ‘with stars dim-twinkling through. ’ And then, when the light is gone quite out, a National Legislature grants ‘ceremonial fu- neral!’ As go... ...able things the stone- walls spoke, during these five years! But it is all gone; To- day swallowing Yesterday, and then being in its turn swal- lowed ... ... that Oblivion covers so much; that all carrion is by and by buried in the green Earth’s bosom, and even makes her grow the greener. The Jacobins are ... ... Doom, once shook the world, there is pacific chaffering for poul- try and greens. The sacred National Assembly Hall itself has become common ground; ... ...manoeuvring: under the vernal skies, while Nature too is putting forth her green Hopes, under bright sunshine defaced by the stormful East; like Patri... ... which will stand no tear and wear! Beautiful cheap gossa- mer gauze, thou film-shadow of a raw-material of Virtue, which art not woven, nor likely to... ...lack powder or seedgrains in the hollow of his hand, this Oge; sprinkled a film of white ones on the top, and said to his Judges, “Behold they are whi...

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...e pier- heads. I watched the procession of head-lights gliding high and of green lights gliding low in the night, when suddenly a red gleam flashed at... ...st for months, for years, for all eternity, as though we had been dead and gone to a hell for sailors. We forgot the day of the week, the name of the ... ...nd. Suddenly it dawned upon me, and I shouted, ‘Boys, the house on deck is gone. Leave this, and let’s look for the cook.’ “There was a deck-house for... ... The house was shattered as if a shell had exploded inside. Most of it had gone overboard—stove, men’s quarters, and their property, all was gone; but... ... oozed here and there and everywhere in slender threads, in an invis- ible film, in an incomprehensible manner. It made its way into the cabin, into t... ... thing slip overboard. The heavy medicine-chest went that way, two bags of green coffee, tins of paint—fancy, paint!—a whole lot of things. Then I was... ...d along the shore, and the brown roofs of hidden houses peeped through the green foliage, through the big leaves that hung shining and still like leav...

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...he idea of Amelia’s departure; and, but for fear of her sister, would have gone off in downright hysterics, like the heiress (who paid double) of St. ... ...hs that rose almost to his nose, with a red striped waistcoat and an apple green coat with steel buttons almost as large as crown pieces (it was the m... ...the harp if they have handsome arms and neat elbows, and to wear Lin- coln Green toxophilite hats and feathers, but that they may bring down some “des... ...y went, Joseph very red and blushing, Rebecca very modest, and holding her green eyes downwards. She was dressed in white, with bare shoulders as whit... ...I shan’t have time to do it here,” said Rebecca. ‘I’ll do it when—when I’m gone.” And she dropped her voice, and looked so sad and piteous, that every... ... turn and rest, And gentle faces welcomed him. The dawn is up—the guest is gone, The cottage hearth is blazing still; Heaven pity all poor wan- derers... ...ghing about me to Joseph? Has he frightened him? Perhaps he won’t come.”—A film 61 Thackeray passed over her eyes, and her heart beat quite quick. “Y...