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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and ...

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...wn of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called “Gopher Prairie, Minne- sota.” But... ...ers showing layer under layer of paste- smeared green and streaky red. The grove of oaks at the end of the street suggested Indians, hunting, snow-sho... ...ed a tiny creek bowered in pussy- willow buds. She was nearing a frivolous grove of birch and poplar and wild plum trees. The poplar foliage had the d... ...limbs of a Pierrot. The cloudy white blossoms of the plum trees filled the grove with a springtime mistiness which gave an illusion of distance. She r... ...4 Main Street mented, “Pretty nice, over there,” as they approached an oak-grove where shifty winter sunlight quivered in the hollow between two snow-... ..., and the Dyers was not only moral but inevitable. They drove to the birch grove on the south shore of Lake Minniemashie. Dave Dyer was his most clown... ...rn moon; puddles and rocks glistened with inner light. They were passing a grove of scrub poplars, feeble by day but looming now like a menacing wall.... ...Pasa- dena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions and orange-groves; they viewed Monterey and San Fran- cisco and a forest of sequoias. ...

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...nge gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: 4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to... ...e king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook... ...fted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah. 7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his p... ...less there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God. 4 And Je... ...m. 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their tr... ...t to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and ... ...h his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 Also he b... ... and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven im ages, before he was humbled: behold, they are written... ...h year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4 And they brake down...

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...am: A petty railway ran: a fire-balloon Rose gem-like up before the dusky groves And dropt a fairy parachute and past: And there through twenty posts... ...den light Dazed me half-blind: I stood and seemed to hear, As in a poplar grove when a light wind wakes A lisping of the innumerous leaf and dies, Ea... ... My father heard and ran In on the lists, and there unlaced my casque And grovelled on my body, and after him Came Psyche, sorrowing for Aglaïa. But ... ...owing from the west, a land of peace; Gray halls alone among their massive groves; Trim hamlets; here and there a rustic tower Half-lost in belts of h...

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...re, And swept it with a kindred measure, Till Avon’s swans, while rung the grove With Montfort’s hate and Basil’s love, Awakening at the inspired stra... ...road river swept along, To claim, perchance, heroic song; Though sighed no groves in summer gale, T o prompt of love a softer tale; Though scarce a pu... ...es sever From his true maiden’s breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, ...

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...e on the shore a high cluster of bam- boo huts perched upon piles, a small grove of tall palms all bowed together before the blast like stalks of gras... ...at is bigger than a man in the water. Tell the rowers to pull for the palm-grove and cease when an oar, thrust down with a strong arm, touches the bot... ... again the quick vision of a white beach, the in- clined palm-trees of the grove, the stockade by the sea, the forest far away: a vast landscape myste... ...en of the fields, the clumps of palm trees, the fenced-in plantations, the groves of fruit trees, made up a picture of sumptuous prosperity. Above the... ...y talked together, passing and repassing between the rugged pillars of the grove near the gate of the stockade. The escort away in the oblique sunligh... ... leant over the taffrail, looking across the lagoon on the houses and palm groves of the settlement. “All the guns and powder I have got together so f... ...alf-concealed roofs, over the brilliant fields and amongst the sombre palm groves. But it might have been a deserted settlement decorated and abandone... ...pestuous murmur. Presently the lights went away processionally through the groves of trees into the armed stockades. The distant glare vanished in the... ... streamers above the brown roofs of the large Settlement, the stir of palm groves, the black shadows inland and the dazzling white beach of coral sand...

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...e; un- noticed to-day (says one), it will be found flourishing as a Banyan-grove (perhaps, alas, as a Hemlock-forest!) af- ter a thousand years. “He w... ... Anthropopha- gous bosom, arose there mysteriously under Clothes; a mystic grove-encircled shrine for the Holy in man. Clothes gave us individuality, ... ...nt, from the wide-opened doors, fair out- look over blossom and bush, over grove and velvet green, stretching, undulating onwards to the remote Mounta... ... mons. It was a Calenture,” adds he, “whereby the Youth saw green Paradise-groves in the waste Ocean-waters: a lying vision, yet not wholly a lie, for... ...range in his desert road, he descries lying far below, embosomed among its groves and green natural bulwarks, and all diminished to a toy-box, the fai...

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... lake the lingering morn! How sweet at eve the lover’s lute Chime when the groves were still and mute! And when the midnight moon should lave Her fore... ... broken vow, Or is it all a vision now? XXXIV . At length, with Ellen in a grove He seemed to walk and speak of love; She listened with a blush and si... ...cession gay, Deep waving fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between:— These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the bi... ...iend and foe! “— Like reeds before the tempest’s frown, That serried grove of lances brown At once lay levelled low; And closely shoulde...

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...ou an escort and to help you home, do as I bid you; you will see a beautiful grove of poplars by the road side dedicated to Minerva; it has a well in ... ...d her whip with judgement. As the sun was going down they came to the sacred grove of Minerva, and there Ulysses sat down and prayed to the mighty dau... ...s to Thrace and laughter loving V enus to Cyprus and to Paphos, where is her grove and her altar fra grant with burnt offerings. Here the Graces hath... ...With this I left the ship and went up inland. When I got through the charmed grove, and was near the great house of the enchantress Circe, I met Mercu... ...who are her house maids, set about their work. They are the children of the groves and fountains, and of the holy waters that run down into the sea. ... ...f Oceanus, you will reach the fertile shore of Proserpine’s country with its groves of tall poplars and willows that shed their fruit untimely; here b... ...eir water. This had been made by Ithacus, Neritus, and Polyctor. There was a grove of water loving poplars planted in a circle all round it, and the c... ...holy hecatomb through the city , and the Achaeans gath ered under the shady grove of Apollo. Then they roasted the outer meat, drew it off the spits,...

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...erned gallant youth. She waited for him, in the darkness beyond mysterious groves. When at last he could slip away from the crowded house he darted to... ... will also send blank regarding store properties in Floral Heights, Silver Grove, Linton, Bellevue, and all East Side residential districts. ... ...ums we can pick for you— some genuine bargains that came in to-day: SILVER GROVE.—Cute four-room California bungalow, a.m.i., garage, dandy shade tree... ...s, the Great Northern and wheat- plateaus, the Southern Pacific and orange groves. 62 Babbitt They talked to the secretary of the Zenith Foundry Com-... ...e Athletic dining-room, “Here’s the new director of the First State Bank!” Grover Butterbaugh, the eminent wholesaler of plumbers’ supplies, chuckled,... ...would be on a long motor tour, exploring mountains, pic- nicking in a pine grove high above a valley. Her frailness touched him; he was angry at Eddie... ...e-needles and rough with roots, among the bal- sams, the ferns, the sudden groves of white birch. He 259 Sinclair Lewis became credulous again, and r...

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...ee in the pic- tures of the shipping of the seventeenth century. The vast groves and towers, domes and quays, tall minarets and spired spread- ing mo... ...ey’s Pillar must stand like a mountain, in a yellow plain, surrounded by a grove of obelisks as tall as palm-trees. Placid sphinxes brooding o’er the ... ...purple city, with forts, and domes, and spires; the green fields, and palm-groves, and speckled villages; the plains still covered with shining inunda...

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...o itself—tops of walls, a great cupola, gleams of white miradors in a vast grove of orange trees—lies between the moun- tains and the plain, at some l... ...vening the empty material trains of flat cars circled round the dark green grove of Sulaco, and ran, undulating slightly with white jets of steam, ove... ... shut up, crumbled behind the nailed doors, and what may be described as a grove of young orange trees grown in the unpaved patio concealed the utter ... ...hich at that time constituted the seaport of Sulaco. Far away to the south groves of palm trees edged the curve of the harbour shore. The distant peak... ...ng front of the Custom House, there appeared the extent of the town like a grove of thick timber on the plain with a gateway in front, and the cupolas... ...He flitted along the shore like a pur- sued shadow between the sombre palm-groves and the sheet of water lying as still as death on his right hand. He... .... He had forgotten the dogs. He swerved sharply, and plunged into the palm-grove, as into a wilderness of columns in an immense hall, whose dense ob- ... ...ll about the loading of the sil- ver… . The lighter was cut in two. He was grovel- ling in abject terror before Sotillo, but he remembered that much. ... ...up. For a word, for one little word, he felt he would have knelt, cringed, grovelled on the floor before the drowsy, conscious stare of those fixed ey...

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...f this excess of human attention, the garden side of life, the creation of groves and lawns and vast regions of beau- tiful flowers, has expanded enor... ...f panels in some public arcade, a row of carven figures along a terrace, a grove, a pavilion. Or they give them- selves to the penetration of some sti...

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...e- sent the pains of a woman in travail; and that the Amathusians call the grove in which they show her tomb, the grove of Venus Ariadne. Differing ye... ...he second, from Tatius, T atienses; the third, Luceres, from the lucus, or grove, where the Asylum stood, whither many fled for sanctuary, and were re... ... betook himself to a country life, and in a solitary manner frequented the groves and fields consecrated to the gods, passing his life in desert place... ... made their rendez- vous in certain holy places, the one called the Arsian grove, the other the Aesuvian meadow. When they came into ac- tion, Aruns, ... ...must follow such a battle), and the armies laid to rest, they say that the grove shook, and uttered a voice, saying that the Tuscans had lost one man ... ... considering this, transferred the court outside the gates to the Peteline Grove, from whence there is no prospect of the Capitol. Here his accuser we... ...ame place, there was the fane of Androcrates, environed with a thick shady grove. And that the oracle might be accomplished in all particulars for the... ...t haste they could, yet a considerable time was likely to be lost. For the grove of Marica, (as she is called,) which the people hold sacred, and make... ...age that was carried for his accommodation to the ship, passed through the grove, all the rest immediately, with the same readiness, accompanying him....

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...es of the fish-frys of long ago, Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove, Of what Abe Lincoln said One time at Springfield. Hod Putt HERE I li... ...d Bill and other grew in wealth Robbed a traveler one Night near Proctor’s Grove, Killing him unwittingly while doing so, For which I was tried and ha... ...n, Before I joined the church, I killed a Swede At the saw-mill near Maple Grove. And they wanted a terrible man, Grim, righteous, strong, courageous,... ...r else you hear the rustle of skirts Like the girls when dancing at Little Grove. To Cooney Potter a pillar of dust Or whirling leaves meant ruinous d... ... and Mrs. Bandle quarreled As to whether Ipava was a finer town than Table Grove. I awoke one morning with the love of God Brimming over my heart, so ... ...for power. But what did he do but send me along The path that leads to the grove of the Furies? I followed the path and I tell you this: On the way to... ... of the Furies? I followed the path and I tell you this: On the way to the grove you’ll pass the Fates, Shadow-eyed, bent over their weaving. Stop for...

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... when she clasped a noose round her neck. Her death even the nymphs of the grove bewailed; and of all the tears for her that they shed to earth from t... ... that river and ye shall behold the towers of Cytaean Aeetes and the shady grove of Ares, where a dragon, a monster terrible to behold, ever glares ar... ...and on the other side the plain of Ares and the The Argonautica 79 sacred grove of that god, where the serpent was keep ing watch and ward over the ... ...ho had taken upon him to perform the heavy task, he would hew down the oak grove above the wooded hill, and burn the ship and her crew, that so they m... ...onautica 113 contest or to T aenarus, or to Lerna’s water, or through the grove of Hyantian Onchestus, and thereafter passes even to Calaureia with h... ... her right hand in his; and she bade them row the swift ship to the sacred grove near at hand, in order that, while it was still night, they might sei... ...them ashore. (ll. 123 161) And they two by the pathway came to the sacred grove, seeking the huge oak tree on which was hung the fleece, like to a cl... ...l wise; and all round the long banks of the river echoed and the boundless grove. Those heard it who dwelt in the Colchian land very far from Titanian... ...till Jason himself bade her turn back towards their ship, and she left the grove of Ares, dusky with shade. And as a maiden catches on her finely wrou...

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...ge before he encounters it. We met on the morning in question at Bingham’s Grove. There were not above twelve or fifteen men out, all of whom, or near...

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...hee light, as thou dost lend to other." This said, she hasteth to a myrtle grove, Musing the morning is so much o’erworn, And yet she hears no tidings...

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... the same with the places at the desks and forms. It was the same with the groves of deserted bedsteads I peeped at, on my way to, and when I was in, ... ...partments. Having ob- tained from this clerk a direction to the aca- demic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfel...

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...ay from all signs of the sea’s neighbourhood, mounting an in- land, irrigated valley. A great variety of oaks stood, now 6 se... ...the valley, laden with perfume. Up at the top stood Mount Saint Helena, a bulk of mountain, bare atop, with tree-fringed spurs, and radiating warmth. ... ...hold stuff, settlers going to occupy a ranche they had taken up in Mendocino, or perhaps Tehama County; another, a party in dust coats, men and women,...

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...riefs are; Here they’re but felt, and seen with mischief’s eyes, But like to groves, being topp’d, they higher rise. CLEON: O Dionyza, Who wanteth fo...