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...g more carefully examined, the last letter was found to be G. There was no record or legend of any prisoner with those initials, and many fruitless gu... ...ead had surveyed it, when it was finished, two centuries ago. Up the broad flight of shallow steps, Monsieur the Mar quis, flambeau preceded, went fr... ...stworthy. The spy would have been no spy if he had failed to see it, or to record it in his mind. Having made, at least, this one hit, whatever it mig... ...ds. Now, you know me; you know I am incapable of all the higher and better flights of men. If you doubt it, ask Stryver, and he’ll tell you so.” “I pr... ...lder ment, astounding noise, yet furious dumb show. “The Prisoners!” “The Records!” “The secret cells!” “The instruments of torture!” “The Prisoners!... ...d never shone, past hideous doors of dark dens and cages, down cav ernous flights of steps, and again up steep rugged ascents of stone and brick, mor... ...orth, and South, be that as it would; and whosoever hung, fire burned. The altitude of the gal lows that would turn to water and quench it, no functi...

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...ut subjecting one’s self to some odious conjecture? Half way down the next flight, she smiled to think that a char-woman’s stare should so perturb her... ... horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight. She could not herself have explained the sense of buoyancy which se... ... he felt as though her heart were beating rather with the stress of a long flight than the thrill of new distances. Then, drawing back with a little s... ...sted, or what was the decisive stroke which finally, after a lapse of time recorded in minutes by the clock, in hours by the precipi- tate beat of her... ...take part must proverbially forego. No one could have kept a more accurate record of social fluctuations, or have put a more unerring finger on the di... ...e more as the “beautiful Miss Bart”in the interesting journal de- voted to recording the least movements of her cosmopolitan companions—all these expe... ...s; but that was because she looked down on them from above, from the happy altitude of her grace and her beneficence. Now that she was on a level with...

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...brated by a dinner or a breakfast. It was already hard upon October before I was ready to set forth, and at the high altitudes over which my road lay ... ...my own, merely human, shoulders. It remained to choose a beast of burden. Now, a horse is a fine lady among animals, flighty, timid, delicate in eatin... ...en he had been content with black bread for him- self; but this, according to the best authorities, must have been a flight of fancy. He had a name in... ...fficacy of these carnal arguments among the Buddhists in China? Not only was life made intolerable in Languedoc, but flight was rigidly forbidden. One... ...rting visions. They dealt much more in blood, both given and taken; yet I find no obsession of the Evil One in their records. With a light conscience,... ..., a dark mili- tary-looking wayfarer, who carried a game-bag on a baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record. For when I asked him if h...

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...ing jib boom, and fastened there the mystic symbol of the ban. This put to flight a party of girls who had been observed swimming toward us. Toss- ing... ...wings over us, and then skimmed away silently as if from a plague-ship. Or flights of the tropic bird, known among seamen as the “boat- swain,” wheele... ...aghast at its scattered contents, and with one wandering hand tak- ing the altitude of a bump on his head. 39 Melville CHAPTER XII. DEATH AND BURIAL ... ...have sealed our fate in the end), when a sharp cry shot by my ear like the flight of an arrow. It was Salem: “All ready for’ard; hard down!” Round and... ...h we afterward used for cups. On the second day nothing happened worthy of record. On the third, we were amused by the following scene. A man, whom we... ...hips touching in her harbours. It is a significant fact, and one worthy of record, that while the influence of the English missionaries at T ahiti has...

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...retended astrolabe in the next room, where we heard him shouting the sun’s altitude, and consulting its willingness for the impatient young man to be ... ...iot’s aunt came to see me, I lived systematically out of myself in extreme flights of imagi- nation, locking my doors up, as it were, all the faster f... ...dead sister of the sea. By a careful examination of my watch and the sun’s altitude, I was able to calculate what would, in all likelihood, have been ... ...a sort of airy majesty pertaining to one who can command so wide and far a flight. We were supplicated by the margravine to appease her brother’s prid... ...r, I dare not say. Few take the precaution to build a 271 George Meredith flight of steps inside—it is not a labour to be proud of; fewer like to let... ...whose society was sure to be at least myself, a creature much re- duced in altitude, but without the cramped sensations of a man on a monument. My hea... ...o not permit of their being dispensed from a stout smoking bowl. I have to record no pathetic field-day. My father was never insincere in emotion. I s...

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...ohn o’ Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be. Then John he did him to record draw, And John he caste him a gods-pennie; But for every pounde that... ..., with the intention of plunging among the trees, and making his escape by flight, from what he now esteemed a den of murderers, but Merrilies held hi... ...oped up where he 189 Sir Walter Scott had neither room for resistance nor flight. Meg Merrilies seemed equally on the watch. She bent her ear to ever... ... in fictitious narrative. How little I expected to have had such events to record in the course of a few days! and to witness scenes of terror, or to ... ... Mac-Candlish,’ said Glossin, “there’s been many cases such as that on the record—,doubtless he was seeking revenge where it would be deepest and swee... ...nded by a party of jolly compan- ions, and disposed for what he called his altitudes. On the present occasion, the revel had lasted since four o’clock... ...he extracted amusement from him. When the man of law began to get into his altitudes, and his wit, naturally shrewd and dry, became more lively and po... ...remely superstitious—carefully no- ticing the formation of the clouds, the flight of particular birds, and the soughing of the winds, before attemptin...

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...slid slowly to the floor at her side, and the clock, from its com- manding altitude, kept time with the dispiriting click of the in- strument under he... ...latives, had appeared in the light of literary compositions rather than as records of personal experience. Now she could not but wish that Evelina had... ...be told before she could be soothed into consent. After the news of Ramy’s flight she had had brain fever, and had been sent to another hospital where...

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...t 11 which, pricked me like so many needles; and besides, they shot another flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, f... ...ions are often attended with fatal acci dents, whereof great numbers are on record. I myself have seen two or three candidates break a limb. But the ... ...eet high, and the trees so lofty that I could make no com putation of their altitude. There was a stile to pass from this field into the next. It had... ...an imperial fleet in my hand, and perform those other actions, which will be recorded for ever in the chronicles of that empire, while poster ity sha... ...after a different manner from those of his trade in Europe. He first took my altitude by a quad rant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described ... ...performed. Upon inquiry I was told, “that their names were to be found on no record, ex cept a few of them, whom history has represented as the viles... ...their capital ships, and take a fourth, which was the sole cause of Antony’s flight, and of the victory that ensued; that the youth standing by him, h... ...field; which my persecutors having sooner discovered, was the cause of their flight. The horse started a little, when he came near me, but soon recov ...

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...re. The Himalayas are not more different from the Sahara. On the one hand, and chiefly in groups of from eight to a dozen, volcanic islands rise above... .... Then the sun rose, pierced a gap in these debris of vapours, and displayed an inconsiderable islet, flat as a plate upon the sea, and spiked with pa... ...disputing bound- aries. Fancy overhears the shrillness of their disputation mingle with the surf and scatter sea-fowl. It was admirable to observe the... ...the proper country of the dead, unhappy, nowise hurtful. And this severely classic opinion doubtless represents the views of the enlightened. 142 In ... ...aid the spirit. ‘It is the land-wind blowing down the mountains, where some beast lies dead.’ It appears it was still night when they reached Manu’a—t... ...the owner of the grove was in a tree-top drawing palm-tree wine; it chanced that he looked down, and the king at the same moment looking up, their eye... ...ce, that I begin to think it time to reward good resolution; and his account of Tembinatake agrees so well with the king’s, that it may very well be (...

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...th, 1945, at 8:15 A.M., Japanese time, a B- 29 heavy bomber flying at high altitude dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. More than 4 square mil... ...r that the effect of a single atomic bomb could be determined. The weather records showed that for five years there had never been two successive good... ...ties, among them Hiroshima. The planes approached the coast at a very high altitude. At nearly 8:00 A.M., the radar operator in Hiroshima determined t... ... Hiroshima and Nagasaki to rise vertically and finally mushrooms out at an altitude of about 25,000 feet depending upon meteorological con- ditions. T... ...grees depend- ing upon the color of the fabric. A number of instances were recorded in which persons wearing clothing of vari- ous colors received bur... ...rations and necrosis (breakdown of tissue) followed. Blood counts done and recorded by the Japanese, as well as counts done by the Manhattan Engineer ... ...uried so that their services in rehabilitation were not available, a panic flight of the population took place from both cities immediately following ... ...bombed cities. This terror, resulting in immediate hysterical activity and flight from the cities, had one especially pronounced effect: persons who h... ...e been pinned under the wreckage or who have been lost sight of during the flight. There is no help for the wounded and some die. No one pays any atte...

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...a Bow Street magistrate, and in that office combined an equally honourable record with a longer tenure. Fielding was born at Sharpham Park in Somerset... ...persuaded to try the “Portugal Voyage,” of which he has left so charming a record in the Journey to Lisbon. He left Fordhook on June 26, 1754, reached... ...pon very little warranty of scripture. The truth is, that as the foregoing record—which, brief as it is, is a sufficiently faithful summary—will have ... ...le world on his shoulders, or looks down on a whole world from his natural altitude. The worlds are different, but they are worlds; and though the att... ...s trusted rather to his innocence than his heels, and, without thinking of flight, which was easy, or resistance (which was impos- sible, as there wer... ...; and if there be any modern so outrageously brave that he cannot admit of flight in any cir- cumstance whatever, I say (but I whisper that softly, an... ...ile. Now Rockwood had laid fast hold on the parson’s skirts, and stopt his flight; which Joseph no sooner perceived than he levelled his cudgel at his...

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...re of dysfunctional disconnection from reality has spread like wildfire. The flight into abstract games is the latest mass craze of a mass consumer... ...side this dynamic balance? This question is unanswerable because there is no record or trace of how we lived 90,000 years ago. But one thing is obv... ...tivation is the human subconscious mind. Even down to the most basic fight-or-flight chemical reaction of their hormone balance. Why? Because even... ...f human misery-pain-trauma on all levels, and in all ways. The entire span of recorded human history is a history of this endless repetitive cycle. ... ...cumulate material things. As a result of this… there are almost no fossil records of the first modern humans, there is no way of knowing how the... ...s. Their immigration is a confession of hopelessness and resignation. Their flight is also their fear of fighting and struggling against the stacke... .... They took what the Germans did and did it back to them ten times worse, at altitudes so high: the German anti-aircraft guns couldn’t even reach t...

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...unlike his usual minute characters. There remain only two curious facts to record. Indisputably there was some connection be- tween Eden and Elvesham,... .... The third photograph represents him at one-and- twenty, and confirms the record of the others. There seems here evidence of the strongest confirmato... ...curious fact for psychologists that he thought clearly during his backward flight, and wondered whether he should hit the chemistry cupboard or the bl... ...ible, because, from the earthly standpoint, it was far underground. On the altitudes, so soon as the earthly day began, the world became visible to hi... ...before him. She was a paying student; she descended inconceivable so- cial altitudes to speak to him. At the thought of the education she must have ha... ...oratory, this Wedderburn, in some backstairs way, had access to her social altitudes, and could converse in a pol- ished argot that Hill understood pe... ...r photographic apparatus and spectroscope, and this appliance and that, to record this novel, astonishing sight, the destruction of a world. For it wa... ...l, centripetal,” he said, with his chin on his fist. “Stop a planet in its flight, rob it of its centrifugal force, what then? Centripetal has it, and... ...the murmur of the flood. And thus it was with millions of men that night—a flight nowhither, with limbs heavy with heat and breath fierce and scant, a...

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...g to the footfalls of angels and demons. “No man,” Poe himself wrote, “has recorded, no man has dared to record, the wonders of his inner life.” In th... ...ville. He left that institution after one session. 7 V olume One Official records prove that he was not expelled. On the con- trary, he gained a cred... ... prove that he was not expelled. On the con- trary, he gained a creditable record as a student, although it is admitted that he contracted debts and h... ...le somebody. He could not have been more than two feet in height; but this altitude, little as it was, would have been sufficient to destroy his equil... ...ix o’clock. I was still rapidly ascending, and my barometer gave a present altitude of three and three-quarter miles. Immedi- ately beneath me in the ... ..., body of air incumbent upon our globe. It is also calcu- lated that at an altitude not exceeding the hundredth part of the earth’s diameter — that is... ... terrestrial fastenings, flies with him, forthwith, to the satellite. The “Flight of Thomas O’Rourke,” is a jeu d’ esprit not altogether contemptible,... ...ekeeper of an Irish peer, whose eccentricities gave rise to the tale. The “flight” is made on an eagle’s back, from Hungry Hill, a lofty mountain at t... .... By this time the cries had ceased; but, as the party rushed up the first flight of stairs, two or more rough voices in angry contention were disting...

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...ty-five. Travelers who write their travels are con- stantly called upon to record that number, so that it may now be considered as a superlative in lo... ...ed with gradual pauses, so that time for oblivion may accrue, and no exact record be taken. No such meal is known at American hotels. It is possible t... ...e first place there is a great national expenditure incurred in moving old records and in keeping double records, in moving the li- brary, and, as I h... ...above. This smaller fall is again divided; and the visitor, passing down a flight of steps and over a frail wooden bridge, finds himself on a smaller ... ...hant’s. This is attached to a huge gra- nary or barn; but in order to give altitude within the barn for the necessary moving up and down of this trunk... ...ised himself some- what above the crowd, becomes sooner dizzy with his own altitude. An American of mark, though always anx- ious to show his mark, is... ...III. with his cackling was certainly not efficacious in restraining such a flight. But it is gratifying to see how this new people, when they had it i...

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...e labored in collecting his material. He speaks frankly of his methods. He recorded the talk of Johnson and his associates partly by a rough shorthand... ...ars; as I acquired a fa- cility in recollecting, and was very assiduous in recording, his conversation, of which the ex- traordinary vigour and vivaci... ...be the illustrious character whose various excellence I am to endeavour to record, and Nathanael, who died in his twenty-fifth year. Mr. Michael Johns... ...one of those drunken,—nay, drunken is a coarse word,— none of those vinous flights.’ Sir Joshua. ‘Be- cause you have sat by, quite sober, and felt an ... ...eed; and though troubled with a shortness of breathing, laboured up a long flight of steps, till we came to the place where the wonderous chest stood.... ...ade it like something real.’ Mr. Wilkes remarked, that ‘among all the bold flights of Shakspeare’s imagination, the bold- est was making Birnamwood ma... ... and Buckram’d by Mason.’ Sir Joshua Reynolds having said that he took the altitude of a man’s taste by his stories and his wit, and of his understand...

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...d be wanted again when you come to the other half and get into one of your flights, has Arthur told you what he means to do about the business?’ ‘He h... ...l gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. While it roared throu... ...ground had so risen about Bleeding Heart Y ard that you got into it down a flight of steps which formed no part of the original approach, and got out ... ...o Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business—such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps—might 263 Little Dorrit ... ... Dorrits of Dorsetshire.’ He then went on to detail. How, having that name recorded in his note- book, he was first attracted by the name alone. How, ... ...from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on ... ...ried his head high: having plainly got up his castle now to a much loftier altitude than the two square towers of Notre Dame. Building away with all h...

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... on his own fool- ish quests. Except for some stir it the branches and the flight of four startled magpies; there was neither life nor sound about the... ... broken laths, and the walls were scrawled with names, sentiments, and hop records. “They’ve been keeping pigeons here,” she cried. “And you could dri... .... Cloke threw on act and inci- dent were more amazing than anything in the record. There- fore the Chapins listened delightedly, and blessed Mrs. Shon... ...uld give a sniff and a snort, just loud enough to call my attention to the flight. Garm might go out forty times in the day and Vixen would never stir... ...ampled alighting- board. “Excuse me,” she began, “but it’s my first honey- flight. Could you kindly tell me if this is my—” “—own hive?” the Guard sna... ...n a two-thousand foot slant at an angle (the dip-dial and my bouncing body record it) of thirty-five. Our turbines scream shrilly; the propellers cann... .... 2s. 6d. SANGERS WEATHERS OF THE WORLD. 4s. SANGER’S TEMPERATURES AT HIGH ALTITUDES. 4s. HAWKIN’S FOG AND HOW To AVOID IT. 3s. VAN ZUYLAN’S SECONDARY...

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... to the value of what I was leaving. But all my dreams were soon put to flight by an order from the officer to trim the yards, as the wind was ge... ... he stared upon us for a moment, and then spread his wide wings and took his flight. - 17 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana CHAPTER VI ... .... She was like a bird which had been frightened and had spread her wings in flight. After the topsails had been sheeted home, the head yards braced a... ...e over eighty days from Boston to Callao, which is one of the short- est on record. There, they left the Brandywine frigate, and other smaller Amer... ..., clear day, the captain got a lunar observation, as well as his meridian altitude, which made us in lat. 47 deg. 50’ S., long. 113 deg. 49’ W.; Ca... ...aw. On such voyages as these, there are many cases of outrageous cruelty on record, enough to make one heartsick, and almost disgusted with the sigh... ... from his having been the victim of one of the most painful tragedies in the records of the criminal law. I tried the experiment of calling upon him...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the 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 ...

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...st xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Man... ...l Centers p. 15 Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defense Sector p. 32–33 Flight paths and timelines p. 49 Usama Bin Ladin p. 64 Map of Afghanistan p... ...eviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being st... ...nk the Congress and the President. Executive branch agencies have searched records and produced a multitude of documents for us.We thank officials, pa... ...bright Security. 13 The checkpoint featured closed-circuit television that recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, as they were screened. At... ...14, it had climbed to 26,000 feet, not quite its initial assigned cruising altitude of 29,000 feet.All communications and flight profile data were nor... ...arted Logan Airport at 8:14. By 8:33, it had reached its assigned cruising altitude of 31,000 feet.The flight attendants would have begun their cabin ... ...codes twice within a minute.At 8:51, the flight deviated from its assigned altitude, and a minute later New Y ork air traffic controllers began repeat... ...n keep remaining sitting.We have a bomb on board. So, sit.”The flight data recorder (also recovered) indicates that Jarrah then instructed the plane’s...