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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ripped and went in for a bathe, leaving Bukta by the clothes. A white skin shows far against brown jungle, and what Bukta beheld on Chinn’s back and r... ...ith all this unexplained pride and glory in the air I felt like watch- ing fireworks without knowing the festival. When the maid had removed the cloth... ... as well as I that one rocket would bring the Breslau. He’ll no be wastin’ fireworks for nothin’. Hear her ca’!’ “The Grotkau whustled an’ whustled fo... ...e Grotkau whustled an’ whustled for five minutes, an’ then there were more fireworks—a regular exhibeetion. 198 Rudyard Kipling “‘That’s no for men i... ...becoming a pauper? The curious economy in the use of a half-sheet of paper shows that some idea of that kind might have flashed through his mind, and ...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

... half annually, which, allowing for time spent in the cradle and so forth, shows a commendable industry.” “Yes, the old Master’s saying of him has bee... ...or him what my mother and women of her generation felt for Christ. It just shows that one can’t do without something.” She then fell into a sleep, whi... ...slackened and human feelings began to peep again, as they do when daylight shows at the end of a tunnel. “Try a turn with me,” Ridley called across to... ... opened like a flower, and 139 Virginia Woolf fell in a shower of drops. “Fireworks,” they cried. Another went up more quickly; and then another; the... ...ll, never said a word to each other, and kept accu- rately apart. Then the fireworks became erratic, and soon they ceased altogether, and the rest of ... ...lights… . I want to 211 Virginia Woolf combine them… . Have you ever seen fireworks that make figures? … I want to make figures… . Is that what you w...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...sing years of the reign of the “Grand Monarch,” Louis XIV: whom the author shows to be anything but grand—and of the Regency. The opinion of the Frenc... ...CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XIV HERE I WILL RELATE an adventure, which shows that, how- ever wise and enlightened a man may be, he is never infal-... ...adame la Duchesse de Bourgogne. He thanked the Prevot des Marchand for the fireworks upon the river, and said that Monseigneur and Madame had found th... ... well treated by the King as if they had never undertaken it; a fact which shows their art and ascendency. I have dwelt too long perhaps upon this mat... ...ound the officers of the stable in a state of great delight, and preparing fireworks to welcome Beringhen back. He prohibited all these marks of rejoi... ... back. He prohibited all these marks of rejoicing, and would not allow the fireworks to be let off. He had these little jealousies. He wished that all... ...a week. Whole nights were passed in coteries, games, fetes, illuminations, fireworks, in a word, fancies and fripperies of every kind and every day. S... ...at I relate, soon escape the knowledge of poster- ity; and that experience shows us how much we regret that no one takes upon himself a labour, in his... ...e, beneath a dais, he heard the end of the concert, and afterwards saw the fireworks. The lesson of the Marechal de Villeroy, so often and so publicly...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...rish pulsations of that organ), when, oh, provoking! the bell rang for the fireworks, and, a great scuffling and running taking place, these interesti... ...ble object—to walk with you through the Fair, to examine the shops and the shows 185 Thackeray there; and that we should all come home after the flar... ...ustle and mystery of a ruined man: those letters from the wealthy which he shows you: those worn greasy documents promising support and offering condo...

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Mrs. Lirrimers Legacy

By: Charles Dickens

..., but still I must remember that Joshua Lirriper has his good feelings and shows them in being always so troubled in his mind when he cannot wear mour... ...is lovely lovely Paris, Gran?” I says “Jemmy I feel as if it was beautiful fireworks being let off in my head.” And very cool and refreshing the pleas...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...other side sends for him quietly, and away he goes vith the messenger, who shows him in;— large room—lots of gen’l’m’n—heaps of papers, pens and ink, ... ... right behind the box, I heerd ‘em laughing and saying how they’d done old Fireworks.’ ‘Old who?’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘Old Fireworks, Sir; by which, I’... ...’ There is nothing positively vile or atrocious in the appellation of ‘old Fireworks,’ but still it is by no means a re spectful or flattering design... ...Weller began to speak; it wanted but a feather to turn the scale, and ‘old Fireworks’ did it. ‘I’ll follow him,’ said Mr. Pickwick, with an emphatic b...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...here came into the world a lusty young baron, in whose honour a great many fireworks were let off, and a great many dozens of wine drunk; but next yea... ...se, but it was let off to an importer of otto of roses. Madame Mantalini’s shows-rooms were on the first- floor: a fact which was notified to the nobi... ...; ‘Miss Nickleby and I understand each other; she declares on my side, and shows her taste. Y ou haven’t a chance, old fellow. Time, Snobb?’ ‘Eight mi... ...he stood upon her head on the butt-end of a spear, surrounded with blazing fireworks.’ ‘You astonish me!’ said Nicholas. ‘She astonished me!’ returned... ...ith a look of disappointment. ‘What do you think of a brilliant display of fireworks?’ ‘That it would be rather expensive,’ replied Nicholas, drily . ...

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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

By: Edgar Alfred Bowring

...his mountains, of his vales, Sweetly blow the balmy gales; All for whom he shows affection, Who are worthy his protection, Gladly follow his direction... ...whole in the smallest thing thou must see. WATER its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. TRANSPARENT appears the radiant ai... ... borne afar, Who on the cross for us expired. The triumph to yon realms He shows,— Remote from earth, where star ne’er glows, The triumph He for us ac... ...down in the plains of despair, As by the motionless spectre I’m awed, that shows me the fair one Far away: of a truth, open the garden-door stands! An... ... must in the wine-vats, Every corner and nook resounding at night with the fireworks, Blazing and cracking away, due honour to pay to the harvest. But... ...despise; The fate that on its axis turns the earth From day to night, here shows he to our eyes, Raising, through many a work of glorious birth, Art a...

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Young Folks, History of England

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...who held them. We have this list still, and it is called Domesday Book. It shows that a great deal had been taken from the English and given to the No... ...n the gunpowder plot was to have taken effect—there should be bonfires and fireworks, and Guy Fawkes’ figure burnt, but people are getting wiser now, ... ...g and pining. It is a sad his- tory, where both were much to blame; and it shows how hateful to the king she must have been, that, when Napo- leon die...

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