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...adcast screeches to a sickening but familiar halt. Faint cries, the Doppler wail of sirens, air surgically hacked by chopper rotor blades, the voice... ...k her when she boarded?" The driver negotiates the dense circulation, manoeuvring among a fleet of barely visible compacts. The noise distracts him... ...Arab stink up this bus!" My neighbour half rises from our common seat, grabs her extended arm and affixes it firmly behind her back. She screams t... ..., those purgatories of squeals and whimpers and shaking of the bars, draped tight in sooty air. I spent a month in these conditions and was about t... ... planks, and am reminded of my past. A light ray meanders diagonally across the carpet. The air is Flemish. The fitting light, the shades, the atmos... ... was weeping bitterly. A giant cotton swab was thrust into his elbow pit and he folded him arm, holding onto it tightly. One jerky movement, it fel... ...r lipstick an insinuated crimson. Eli blinks at the sun and shields his eyes under a sinewy arm, flanked by two thick and raven eyebrows. "They sho...

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...oing?’, until the answer came.” “Just like that, it appeared out of thin air?” asked the interviewer. “Yes. It’s a question of focus. The brain i... ...erine asked. “Let’s go into this park, there is a different smell in the air. Australia has a different smell. I’ve been here once before. I hav... ...book and drew herself at the age of 7, laughing as if she was floating on air, with the innocent facial expression of a 7-year-old, who had gorgeous ... ...g house. It was beautiful, with other buildings spread out around it. A fleet of four cars and heavy machinery was parked under a huge covered are...

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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the sol...

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.... “Your Department of Defense has been our major customer. Both air surveillance and ground work. The Iraq War ruined the American public‟... ...deciphering non-verbal language, like one‟s tone of voice or understanding arm and hand movements. We are humanizing the plastic souls of the ramblin... ...t. “We have improved on the machine that pulls water vapor from the air. Many homes and businesses have one. This cuts down on the water vapor... ...s were invented you had to tie your collars together to keep out the cold air. But when that practical use was no longer necessary you kept the tradi... ... die hard and often too slowly. I wonder if we will ever see the lions of Fleet Street and Wall Street in shorts and flip flops in the August heat?” ...

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...l worked without any battery or other external source of energy other than the occasional winding of the crown. Usually, though, the movements of the arm would be enough to wind up the spring of that beautiful automatic watch. The elaborate, damn expensive wristwatch with its anachronistic technology was a sweet reminder of Zhū Lìyè, a beautiful young lady who had donated ...

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...wn intaglio, a small wooden carving, first one ship and then another. Our fleet had sailed back to us! I watched from the terrace, unable to speak. ... ... corner? Why hadn’t fast rowers raced to tell us? Had the fog tricked the fleet? Changing my clothes, putting on new sandals, I walked to the pier a... ...alm, as if it had been smothered by the fog or dreaded the arrival of our fleet. I had pictured the ships as fast moving, bright on bright water. A... ...ake me to my room... You haven’t forgotten the way, have you?” I took his arm and the Parthian opened the door and servants bowed about us; yes, I t... ...the Parthian opened the door and servants bowed about us; yes, I took his arm and silently we climbed the stairs to his room, his clothes rough agai... ...s no wonder Alcaeus calls him a “stick of driftwood.” He has an abandoned air that begs to be found and picked SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 15 up. “The ... ...he party went on. After many songs and a lot of wine, Alcaeus slipped his arm through mine and suggested we go upstairs. It was all very obvious, of... ...umption of our love...and, as I leaned against a hillside olive, the salt air fresh about me, I accepted defeat, aware that my loneliness would appe... ...in? Something about the late afternoon—its hammered out sun, its tempered air, its windlessness, its smell of spring—seemed unreal even as it happene...

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...slid down and she gaped. Jewels was fixated on the President's cybernetic arm. No wonder he didn’t do vids! The public would not take kindly to the ... ... corner across the room. The President grimaced and touched his cybernetic arm. "Colonel Manroe, didn't your mother teach you not to sneak up on peop... ...s tawny fur shone from his morning grooming. A palpable tension filled the air and it was a pleasant one to his senses. It meant alert warriors and s... ...e in the artificial lighting. The gentle roar of the waterfall filled the air as its water spilled into the pool below. In the middle floated a dais... ...“See, my stepson, that wasn’t so hard, was it?” She cooed and stroked his arm...slowly. She watched his face. There, his customary flash of contempt.... ...e waiting, she grabbed her jacket and fled her room for the cooler outside air. She didn't really have a destination in mind. As long as she was away... ...u. Our three ships on the outer edges of this galaxy have reported that a fleet of Lupine ships are on there way here.” Leftclaw cursed. “How many?” ... ... the bridge of his dreadnought. His ship, along with the other nine in his fleet, had used the galactic gates to get to the Milky Way Galaxy in hour... ...e topic of the Queen's confinement. Added to the chaos was an approaching fleet of Lupine dreadnoughts. Things were going to be dicey soon and the pe...

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...s in their gross gluttony to have everything before death that the marvel of air rushing into one's lungs or the feel of a spring breeze brushing agai... ... mother and father from the window. He feels the plane move and rise in the air. He shuts his eyes briefly. Then he opens them widely in amazement.... ...se men nor, as he knew, would they to him. Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim. Reality sang another tune. There was this ... ...ad sentences with those vocabulary words like "A tall boy hits a ball in the air." "How many people are there?" "There is one person," they would ... ...dog came out. "Anyong hashimnika," greeted Sang Huin as he touched the man's arm so that he would know he was addressing him. "Anyong haseyo" (informa... ...r two stood with legs arched and bulging hominid-like--the eldest with right arm erect and out from her body and the hand half-clenched into a fist. G... ... Huin (Shawn most of the time to Seong Seob) grabbed his blind friend by the arm and awkwardly yanked him nudgingly to the child's bed. It was a cocky... ...e meaning of others' presence in his life, which without exception seemed so fleeting. His mind was in a torture chamber of its own making. He yearn... ...tone of Daffy Duck. Words, wisps of vibrating air, which should have been as fleetingly unreal as any passing wind, were such indelible things. They ...

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...s to damage her beauty! ... his governess Euryclea moaned and crying fleeting tears she spoke: “Why dear creature, is this thought in your ... ...ality or on a reality based on fantasy. We all have the right to breathe air that is not polluted and we all had the right to live for nine months... ...ians, the Laestrygonians devour the crews from 11 of the ships in Ulysses’ fleet, and Ulysses can do nothing to stop them. Ulysses can only swallow...

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Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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... Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The War in the Air by H. G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A A... ...icial-looking per- sons had signalled to him by means of flag flapping and arm waving. On the whole a guttural variant of English prevailed in the sen... ...ut now he was beginning to realise that the military rather than the civil arm was concerned about him. He was quite involuntarily playing that weird ... ...of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire of the world. Later, just b... ...TER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV CHAPTER IV: : : : : THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET THE GE... ... GERMAN AIR-FLEET THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET THE GERMAN AIR-FLEET 1 1 1 1 1 OF ALL THE PRODUCTIONS of the human imagination that make t... ...., the Emperor forgave him and placed him in control of the new aeronautic arm of the German forces. 72 The War in the Air This he developed with mar...

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...The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....

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...c fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fish- ing-fleet. “That Cheyne boy’ s the biggest nuisance aboard,” said a man in a fr... ... to-night; but in a general way o’ speaking’, we’re all among the fishing- fleet now . We’ve shaved three dories an’ near scalped the boom off a Frenc... ...n a low , gray mother-wave swung out of the fog, tucked Harvey un- der one arm, so to speak, and pulled him off and away to leeward; the great green c... ...t by a lamp hung against a huge square beam. A three-cornered table within arm’s reach ran from the angle of the bows to the foremast. At the after en... ... the crosstrees!” Dan laughed; and Harvey held on, for the boat lay in the air above his head. “Lower away ,” Dan shouted, and as Harvey lowered, Dan ... ... ,” shouted Dan. “Don’t scatter! Uncle Salters is the best splitter in the fleet. Watch him mind his book!” Indeed, it looked a little as though the r... ... doleful tombs, hain’t he?” A horrible stench of de- cayed fish filled the air as the pillar of white sank, and the water bubbled oilily . “Hain’t ye ... ... rocking fully a mile away, but when Dan up-ended an oar he waved his left arm three times. “Thirty fathom,” said Dan, stringing a salt clam on to the... ... half the North Atlantic at their backs, and the dory followed them in the air, landing with a clatter. “Nary snarl,” said Tom Platt as he dripped. “D...

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... helped him out of that castle saw how shamefully he was led, anon she let arm her, and set a shield upon her shoulder; and therewith she mounted upon... ...ds of arms on horse- back. Alas, said Launcelot to King Bagdemagus, I will arm me and help Sir Lamorak. And I will ride with you, said King Bagdemagus... ...ntagil, and one of them his neck was nigh broken in twain. Another had his arm stricken away, the third was borne through with a spear, the fourth had... ... with Palomides, came to joyous Gard; and of Palomides and Sir Tristram. F air knight, said Sir Tristram unto Sir Launcelot, of whence be ye? I am a k... ...he king. Sir, there is here beneath at the river a great stone which I saw fleet above the water, and therein I saw sticking a sword. The king said: I... ...ts went with him, and when they came to the river they found there a stone fleeting, as it were of red marble, and therein stuck a fair rich sword, an... ...nce rove himself through the thigh; and how she was known for the devil. F air sweet Father, Jesu Christ, ne let me not be shamed, the which was nigh ...

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... year 1663, whither, they say, it was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come into Holland again....

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...from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It matte... ... the dead. Others saw appa- 22 Journal of the Plague Y ear ritions in the air; and I must be allowed to say of both, I hope without breach of charity... ...nd figures, representations and appearances, which had nothing in them but air, and vapour. Here they told us they saw a flaming sword held in a hand ... ... hanging directly over the city; there they saw hearses and coffins in the air carrying to be buried; and there again, heaps of dead bodies lying unbu... ...don, the next year after the plague; and of the second sort, the Monument, Fleet Ditch with its bridges, and the Hospital of Bethlem or Bed- lam, &c. ... ...low Gravesend. So that by the latter end of October there was a very great fleet of homeward-bound ships to come up, such as the like had not been kno...

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...ATCHMAN. I pray the gods to quit me of my toils, To close the watch I keep, this livelong year; For as a watch-dog lying, not at rest, Propped on one arm, upon the palace-roof Of Atreus? race, too long, too well I know The starry conclave of the midnight sky, Too well, the splendours of the firmament, The lords of light, whose kingly aspect shows-- What time they set or cl...

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... this livelong year; For as a watch dog lying, not at rest, Propped on one arm, upon the palace roof Of Atreus’ race, too long, too well I know The st... ...s journey drear, As forceless as a child, as light And fleeting as a dream of night Lost in the garish day! Bu... ...y! antistrophe 3 And then the elder chief, at whose command The fleet of Greece was manned, Cast on the seer no word of hate, But veered be... ..., And bearing unto Troy destruction for a dower, And overbold in sin, Went fleetly thro’ the gates, at midnight hour. Oft from the prophets’ lips Moan... ...ower, laid hand upon our helm, Snatched us or prayed us from the powers of air, And brought our bark thro’all, unharmed in hull: And saving Fortune sa...

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...est who, beneath his gown, had only the devil and love. He put on a lordly air, and saluted her with a courtesy by no means ungraceful; and then the s... ...nd said, “What is it?” to the redoubt- able cardinal. He taking him by the arm led him to the staircase, looked him in the white of the eye and said w... ...rein, like a swallow in its nest, and leaned her head maliciously upon her arm like a child that sleeps; but in making her prepara- tions she opened f... ...that are called perfect in Touraine, because they take no hurt in the open air, and are always fresh. You can imagine that the page, burned by his des... ...lets, and other things. He was sitting on a great marble bench in the open air, and was amusing himself by making shine again the splendid trappings w... ...man that I don’t know.” Thereupon the constable rose, took his wife by the arm to cut her speech with a blow of the sword, but she, casting upon him a... ...ield, in order to have a good breed of horses, because the said animal was fleet of foot, as handsome as an abbot, and so high and mighty that the ad-...

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...KE GRAY AND DULL. The clouds hung heavily , and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child ... ...each of the sofas were three big cushions. There was a cushion too in each arm-chair . All these he had taken and, with the help of the gilt rout chai... ... released her- self gently. Mr. Carey took the boy on his knee and put his arm round him. “ Y ou mustn’t cry ,” he said. “Y ou’re too old to have a nu... ...nd the other had none and was called the wife. Mrs. Carey never sat in the arm-chair: she said she preferred a chair that was not too comfortable; the... ...movements of goldfish in a bowl. The windows were never opened ex- cept to air the room for a few minutes in the morning, and it had a stuffy smell wh... ...ave him the look of a priest, and in his youth he had possessed an ascetic air which added to the impression. He often related that on one of his holi... ...as beautiful? The letter pro- ceeded. I wonder you can bear it. I think of Fleet Street and Lincoln’s Inn now with a shudder of dis- gust. There are o...

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... liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England?s Elizabeth....

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...hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted... ...re! Like the poor plant that, from its stem Divided, feels the chilling air. “Nor, cruel Earl! can I enjoy The humble charms of solitude; Your ... ...?” said Giles Gosling, drinking off the cup, and smacking his lips with an air of ineffable relish,—”I know nothing of superlative, nor is there such ... ...ight grows older.” With his white napkin gracefully arranged over his left arm, his velvet cap laid aside for the moment, and his best silver flagon i... ...e-hound to track the wounded buck over hill and dale, but he hath also the fleet gaze-hound to kill him at view. Thou art the lyme-hound, I am the gaz... ...er, I command thee to follow me!” As he spoke he advanced and extended his arm, as with the purpose of laying hold upon her. But she shrunk back from ... ...ing one of T ressilian’s passes in his cloak, wrapped as it was around his arm, and ere his adversary could, extricate his rapier thus en- tangled, he... ...f such chemists or apothecaries as he should point out, in walking through Fleet Street, and permit him to make some necessary purchases. T ressilian ... ...e, he alternately urged and restrained his horse, desirous to maintain the fleetest pace that was consis- tent with the idea of an ordinary journey on...

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........................................................................................................................ 19 Oh! there are spirits of the air, ..................................................................................................................................... 19 TO WORDSWORTH. .......................................................................

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............................................. 19 Oh! there are spirits of the air, ......................................................................... ...ey breathe their spells towards the departing day, Encompassing the earth, air, stars, and sea; Light, sound, and motion own the potent sway, Respondi... ...Editor’s Note. Dakrtsi Dioso Potmon ‘Apotmon. Oh! there are spirits of the air, And genii of the evening breeze, And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fair ... ... _5 And so they followed hard— But Helen clung to her brother’s arm, And her own spasm made her shake. 32 V olume Two NO NO NO NO NOTE ON ... ...s heavily, _10 And behind the tempest fleet Hurries on with lightning feet, Riving sail, and cord, and plank, Til... ... _25 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. There our tent shall be the willow, And mine arm shall be thy pillow; Sounds and odours, sorrowful Because they once wer... ...t the steps of him who drinks of it; For the light breezes, which for ever fleet Around its margin, heap the sand thereon. 80 V olume Two FRA FRA FRA... ... oracle. _75 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. Within the surface of Time’s fleeting river Its wrinkled image lies, as then it lay Immovably unquiet, a... ...d her nurse are now Upon the steps of the high portico, Under the withered arm of Media She flings her glowing arm ... … step by step and stair by sta...

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... 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not be joined together 16. Getting on 17. Missing 18. A Castle in the Air 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air 20. Introduces the next 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor 22. Who Passes by this Road so late? 23. Mistress Affery makes a Conditional Promise, respecting her Dreams 24. The Eve...

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...ould not be joined together 16. Getting on 17. Missing 18. A Castle in the Air 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air 20. Introduces the next 21. T... ...of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva. The air there was charged with the scent of gathered grapes. Baskets, troughs, ... ... the thin, hard, stony wine, which after all was made from the grapes! The air had been warm and transparent through the whole of the bright day. Shin... ...in the corner with her baby at her breast; the man who had frozen with his arm raised to his mouth in fear or hunger, still pressing it with his dry l... ...nger of the two ladies, the gentle- 10 Charles Dickens man put his wife’s arm over his shoulder, lifted her up, and carried her away. His friend, bei... ...sing the fingers of his right hand, and wafting the kiss the length of his arm towards Heaven. As who should say, I devote him to the celestial Powers... ... to smoke. The admired piratical ship had blown up, in the midst of a vast fleet of ships of all rates, and boats of all sizes; and on the deep was no...

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...s and herbs, was stained anew that day by dying men, and marked its frightened way with an unnatural track. The painted butterfly took blood into the air upon the edges of its wings. The stream ran red....

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...ed way with an unnatu ral track. The painted butterfly took blood into the air upon the edges of its wings. The stream ran red. The trodden ground b... ...nish style, which is a free and joyous one, I am told, deriving a delightful air of off hand inspiration, from the chirping little castanets. As they ... ...he elastic grass beneath their feet, the boughs that rustled in the morning air the flashing leaves, the speckled shadows on the soft green grou... ...ith her two elbows, like a spread eagle, and reposed her head upon her left arm as a preliminary to the formation of certain cabalistic char acters,... ...the Doctor, looking at the fire, ‘when you and he, Grace, used to trot about arm in arm, in his holiday time, like a couple of walking dolls. You reme... ... a mother to her, ever, and she loved her as a child! Could draw the passive arm about her neck when lying down to rest it seemed to cling there, ... ...ll the preparations. Many a time that day (as well as many a time within the fleeting month preceding it), did Clemency glance anxiously, and almost f... ...fitful flight; and now there were a thousand little bells at work; and now a fleet of flying skirts was ruffled by a little tem pest, when the music ...