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...light a city for a year, fight a fleet of battleships, or drive one of our giant liners across the Atlantic; but we should also have a clue that would... ...e num- ber of steel workers. ‘Shouldn’t wonder if they didn’t get chucking bombs,’ said Barnet’s informant, hovered for a moment, and then went on his... ...ng, coffin-shaped box which contained in its compartments the three atomic bombs, the new bombs that would con- tinue to explode indefinitely and whic... ...he steersman. The gaunt face hardened to grimness, and with both hands the bomb-thrower lifted the big atomic bomb from the box and steadied it agains... ...distance. Then very quickly he bent forward, bit the stud, and hoisted the bomb over the side. ‘Round,’ he whispered inaudibly. The bomb flashed blind... ...d had nothing to eat nor drink since Epsom.’ A number of monoplanes, ‘like giant swallows,’ he notes, were scouting in the pink evening sky. Barnet’s ... ...er had gathered his fly- ing machines together, and now he threw them as a giant might fling a handful of ten thousand knives over the low country. An... ...the searchlights wandering over the country-side like the uneasy ghosts of giants. The king sat forward and looked at these flitting whitenesses, and ... ...up to those serenities. Be- yond that blue gulf, in which whole forests of giant deodars seem no more than small patches of moss, rise vast preci- pic...

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...fe. 14 Spoon River Anthology Robert Fulton Tanner IF a man could bite the giant hand That catches and destroys him, As I was bitten by a rat While de... ...e her no delight at all, in very truth, But ever and anon she spoke of the giant strength Of Willard Shafer, and of his wonderful feat Of lifting a tr... ...all alien to me, Deserted by hands I called my own. Then just as I felt my giant strength Short of breath, behold my children Had wound their lives in... ...ich you huddle, Bawling through the megaphone of big type: “This is I, the giant.” Thereby also living the life of a sneak-thief, Poisoned with the an... ...e seventy feet, I unhooked the rope from my waist, And laughingly flung my giant arms Over the smooth steel lips of the top of the tower— But they sli... ...ing smiles, Sharper than bayonets. Y ou were not smitten down By invisible bombs. Y ou were not rejected By those for whom you were defeated. Y ou did...

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...heerful as the April dawn; the song of labor in a city built—it seemed—for giants. II There was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was ... ...at we also stand second in the manufacture of package-butter, sixth in the giant realm of motors and automobiles, and some- where about third in chees... ... he escaped. He heard them giggling. He was embarrassed. While he was most bombastically agreeing with the coat-man that the weather was warm, he was ... ...these strikers are 273 Sinclair Lewis nothing in God’s world but a lot of bomb-throwing social- ists and thugs, and the only way to handle ‘em is wit... ...e, they look just about like you and me, and I certainly didn’t notice any bombs.” Drum complained, “Oh, you didn’t, eh? Well, maybe you’d like to tak... ...f I hadn’t kept my eye skinned there would ‘ve been. All those fellows had bombs in their pock- ets. They’re reg’lar anarchists. ’ “‘Oh, rats, Clarenc... ... I says, ‘I looked ‘em all over care- fully, and they didn’t have any more bombs ‘n a rabbit, ’ I says. ‘Course,’ I says, ‘they’re foolish, but they’r...

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...w!” wailed the muffled voice of little Hopkins as the thunder burst like a giant pistol overhead, and he buried his head still deeper in the bedclothe... ...persistent theme, a dwindled and uncre- ative human life living amidst the giant ruins of preceding times, as worms live in the sockets of a skull. Fo... ...o let the happy hours slip by, more and more sensitive to the reminders in giant ruin and deserted cell, in a chance en- counter with a string of guns... ... Everybody is think- ing about the Near Things that concern himself.” “The bombs they threw yesterday? The Cossacks and the whips?” “Nudges. Gestures ... ...If everybody was think- ing of the Res Publica would there be any need for bombs?” He pursued his advantage. “It’s all nonsense to suppose people thin... ...eized the illustration at hand. “Here we are in War- saw—not a month after bomb-throwing and Cossack charg- ing. Windows have still to be mended, smas... ...French cannons were still under repair. “The assassin stood just here. The bomb fell there, look! right down there towards the gate; that was where th... ...ze.” Another de- clared untruthfully but impressively: “Six Zeppelins drop Bombs over the Doomed City.” He had bought all the evening papers, and had ...

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...y broke out at every point of the social and political edifice. And then a bomb burst at Sarajevo that silenced all this tumult. The unstable polity o... ...and most unsparing knowledge of ev- ery detail in the life of that supreme giant of English litera- ture. He had even, it was said, acquired a Scotch ... ...n they saw the nasty thing “up there,” and felt helpless as it dropped its bombs. They had both hated it. “There didn’t ought to be such things,” said... ...nty-seven people were killed and injured within a mile of this by Zeppelin bombs…. Every one loses some one…. Because through all that time men like m...

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...; and now and then we had the thrilling surprise of bursting suddenly upon a tremendous white mass like the distant and dominating Jungfrau, or some k... ...ite shore of the lake we could see some villages, and now for the first time we could observe the real difference between their proportions and those ... ... lofty summits. We were soon dressed and out of the house, watching the gradual approach of dawn, thoroughly absorbed in the first near view of the Ob... ...ning, when we looked out of our windows, we Mark Twain 180 saw a wonderful sight. Across the valley, and apparently quite neighborly and close at han... ...fety. Toward sunset we entered a beautiful green valley dotted with chalets, a cozy little domain hidden away from the busy world in a cloistered nook... ...ic list: Paris, 27; Glasgow, 27; London, 28; Vienna, 28; Augsburg, 28; Braunschweig, 28; K:onigsberg, 29; Cologne, 29; Dresden, 29; Hamburg, 29; Berli... ...blended splendors. Meantime the nearest bridge had been illuminated, and from several rafts anchored in the river, meteor showers of rockets, Roman ca...

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...t suddenly a shiver froze my blood, and my dizzy anguish returned, as if a giant hand had swung me over a dark abyss. It was some vision of the earth ... ... of my head I felt a violent shock like that produced by the bursting of a bomb, with another under my feet and a third more violent still on my chest...

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...rieking with agony, plunged madly into the Mahratta ranks, followed by his giant brethren, tossing, like chaff before the wind, the affrighted kitmatg... ...ended simply by a couple of gabions, a very ordi- nary counterscarp, and a bomb-proof embrasure. On the top of this my flag was planted, and the small... ...c soldiery of Carlos Quinto. I am alone, in the most inaccessible and most bomb-proof tower of our little fortalice; the large casements are open—the ...

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...and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats ................. 7 days From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .....................13 “ From Bombay to Calcutta, by ... ...nd the bank robber, Phileas Fogg. Send with out delay warrant of arrest to Bombay. Fix, Detective. The effect of this dispatch was instantaneous. The ... ...9th of October, at Suez. The Mongolia plied regularly between Brindisi and Bombay via the Suez Canal, and was one of the fastest steam- ers belonging ... ...ts an hour between Brindisi and Suez, and nine and a half between Suez and Bombay. Two men were promenading up and down the wharves, among the crowd o... ...as to take in a fresh coal supply.” “And does she go from Suez directly to Bombay?” “Without putting in anywhere.” “Good!” said Fix. “If the robber is... ...d with betel. It stood upright upon the figure of a prostrate and headless giant. Sir Francis, recognising the statue, whispered, “The god- dess Kali;...

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... and things like that. And that was all he saw! He would have dropped this bombshell into the world as though he had discovered a new species of gnat,... ...ere in an enormous amphitheatre, a vast circu- lar plain. the floor of the giant crater. Its cliff-like walls closed us in on every side. From the wes... ...get reinforced. Heaven alone knew what tremendous engines of warfare—guns, bombs, terrestrial torpedoes—this unknown world below our feet, this vaster... ...ere twenty or thirty people, a sort of irregular investment of people, all bombarding me with dumb interrogation, with infinite doubt and suspicion. I... ...ched across a shiny darkness of floor 167 H. G . Wells to the foot of the giant stairs. Then began a vast throbbing hum, that mingled with the music....

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..., the way train, grumbling through Minnesota, imper- ceptibly climbing the giant tableland that slopes in a thou- sand-mile rise from hot Mississippi ... ...hat hope? Carol’s head ached with the riddle. She saw the prairie, flat in giant patches or rolling in long hummocks. The width and bigness of it, whi... ...th the smoke from the engine clinging to the 217 Sinclair Lewis fields in giant cotton-rolls, in a low and writhing wall which shut off the snowy fie... ...ter. “Do you see that object on the pillow? Do you know what it is? It’s a bomb to blow up smugness. If you Tories were wise, you wouldn’t arrest anar...

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... us find our cabin. I believe it is down this companionway.’ She turned and saw a blond, bearded giant of a man, dressed in Highland military unifo... ... lips. He departed with a swish of his kilt and Helen turned to see Rosita’s amused smile. ‘That giant is obviously smitten, my girl. For Gavin’s sa... ...ing at the prow of a dragon ship, wearing the horned helmet of a Viking war lord. It must be his giant frame, that blond hair and beard and those in... ... on his cheek, an impulse which she immediately regretted because as she began to draw back, the giant caught her up in his arms and bending her hea... ...ue to his word, John MacGregor never mentioned the word ‘love’ again, but Helen knew that in this giant Scot, she had found the staunchest friend. ... ...*** The next day the Prince George sailed into the lovely, deep-water, island- studded harbour of Bombay. Helen recalled its strange history. This ci... ...rriage to Charles II. From a small fishing village and a chequered history as a base for pirates, Bombay had grown into a prosperous commercial cent... ...tion master told them with pride, ‘This is the first section of railway to be constructed between Bombay and Calcutta.’ The carriages were not as lu... ...ighness. As for my impressions of India, from what I have observed on my journey to Mirapore from Bombay, it is a fascinating country and one which I...

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... lasted an interminable time to Graham’s sense. His eyes rose to the still giant at whose feet the Council sat. Thence they wandered at last to the wa... ...n Westminster, embedded out of sight, arched over and covered in among the giant growths of this great age. The Themes, too, made no fall and gleam of... ...es, from the crow’s nest very well. Six huge blank areas they were, with a giant “carrier” stage on each. The choice of descent was equally circumscri... ... and for the rest they lived much as many people had lived in the new-made giant hotels of the Victorian days, eating, reading, thinking, playing, con... ...ical sarcasm in odd corners, through a number of grades to such fifty-foot giants as that which had first hooted over Graham. This place was unusually... ... towards the evening, the day was a clear serenity. Ostrog it seems had no bombs at com- mand and in all the earlier phases of the battle the aeropile... ...rush of flame shot overhead into the darkling sky. “Two!” he cried, with a bomb from overhead bursting as it fell, and forthwith he was beating up aga...

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...ainly I could see that we were being hemmed in; that the great net of that giant Warfare had us in its toils. Many times we had seen the lev- ies that... ... thither. Even as they looked, a truckful of fuel was shot into one of the giants, and the red flames gleamed out, and a confusion of smoke and black ... ...nds and cleared out. The evening newspapers called my den the Kentish Town Bomb Factory. And now I cannot part with the things for love or money. “If ...

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...ry to another. The waggons became useless, too, so that the trans- port of bombs, shot, and so forth, could not be performed except upon the backs of ... ...d be overlooked, and even approved. He composed, therefore, a confused and bombastic discourse in the style of M. de Noyon, full of pompous phrases, t... ..., which capitulated on August 4th (1695). The Marechal de Villeroy in turn bombarded Brussels, which was sorely mal- treated. The Marechal de Bouffler... ...rself take this office. But refusals still followed upon refusals, and the bomb thus at length was ready to burst. The King, who at last ordered the d... ...dingly on the night between the 10th and 11th of May, after fourteen days’ bombardment. We abandoned one hundred pieces of artillery; one hundred and ... ...rkable: the one raised by force of trickery, heaping up mountains like the giants, leaning on vice, lies, audacity, on a cabal inimical to the state a... ...h the surface; faults and errors were multi- plied, and decay came on with giant strides; without, how- ever, opening the eyes of that despotic master...

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...n the clay precipices, etc. The caves did good service during the six weeks’ bombardment of the city—May 8 to July 4, 1863. They were used by the non ... ...e sky is cobwebbed with the criss crossing red lines streaming from soaring bomb shells, and a rain of iron fragments descends upon the city; descend... ...d six weeks of it, and that wore the novelty all out; they got used to being bomb shelled out of home and into the ground; the matter became commonpla... ...ront yard—a ton of it, sometimes. No glass left; glass couldn’t stand such a bombardment; it was all shivered out. Windows of the houses vacant—looked... ...d I hadn’t seen for a while, and saying, ‘Drop into our cave to night, after bombardment; we’ve got hold of a pint of prime wh—.’ Whiskey, I was going... ...ned and bought for that single night’s use; and in their train all manner of giants, dwarfs, monstrosi ties, and other diverting grotesquerie—a start... ... Croix; and anon we see bursting upon us the domes and steeples of St. Paul, giant young chief of the North, marching with seven league stride in the ...

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...g. “Oh, the rare old Whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be A giant in might, where might is right, And King of the boundless sea.” —Whal... ...righted ladies. Regent Street is not unknown to Lascars and Malays; and at Bombay, in the Apollo Green, live Y ankees have often scared the natives. B... ... sailor-belt and sheath-knife. Here comes another with a sou’-wester and a bombazine cloak. No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one—I ... ...ls snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds. Not by beef or by bread, are giants made or nourished. But Queequeg, he had a mortal, barbaric smack of ... ...waves; there, that blood-dripping head hung to the Pequod’s waist like the giant Holofernes’s from the girdle of Judith. 301 Herman Melville When thi... ...e and sentimentalist in Truth. But clear Truth is a thing for sala- mander giants only to encounter; how small the chances for the provincials then? W... ...on. It will sometimes burst from out that cloudless sky, like an exploding bomb upon a dazed and sleepy town. Towards evening of that day, the Pequod ...

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...inancial force of the day. The word THRIFT perched right up on the roof in giant gilt letters, and two enormous shield-like brass-plates curved round ... ..., at about lunch- time, with something very much in the nature of a deadly bomb in his possession. But he knew better than to throw it on the public p...

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...ll delight Of Bacchic sports, sweet dance and melody, We keep this lawless giant’s wandering flocks. _30 My sons indeed on far d... ...clift by clift, rocks bend and lift Their frowning foreheads as we go. The giant-snouted crags, ho! ho! How they snort, and how they blow! ... ...shrank and brake like bandages of straw _190 Beneath a wakened giant’s strength. She knew her glorious change, And felt in apprehension un... ...ells the intermingling din; the jar Frequent and frightful of the bursting bomb; The falling beam, the shriek, the groan, the shout, The ceaseless cla... ...less Tyrant’s horrible curse With stubborn and unalterable will, Even as a giant oak, which Heaven’s fierce flame Had scathed in the wilderness, to st... ... perfectness. ‘Even Time, the conqueror, fled thee in his fear; That hoary giant, who, in lonely pride, So long had ruled the world, that nations fell... ...One million are bards, who to Heaven aspire, And stuff their works full of bombast, rant, and fire, T’other million are wags who in Grubstreet attend,...

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...,” said Couture. “Nucingen, you see, had neatly and skilfully put a little bomb- shell under the colonnades of the Bourse, and towards four o’clock in... ...9 it was too well known that Claparon was a man of straw set up by the two giants; he fell from his pedestal. Shares that had fetched twelve hundred a...