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Silence's Bell (Haiku)

By: Florentin Smarandache

...streets - the North wing, with empty pockets. White statues in the sifted lava of time. The violins pass their strins through our ears. Lattice of ... ...ioned, preserving the energy resulting from the touch of opposite semantic fields. But the impact will be always unforeseeable (…). The paradigm of ne... ...how the spring comes and how the Zephyr wanders through the world, how the fields show their hunger, how the shoots grow, how the cranes come, and how...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

... a colorful assortment of flowers that cascaded down like a waterfall into a three-tiered lava stone pond with giant Koi fish. “I’ll let Mrs. Stone... ...s encircling the area, and a three-tiered waterfall off to one side cascading down into a lava pond with more colorful Koi fish swimming around as i... ...begin. His eyes unexpectedly flooded with tears, and then the emotions rushed up like hot lava, he couldn’t stop them. He buried his face into his h... ...ed?” “This is just a guess of course, but it appears that some forms of electromagnetic fields might have an affect.” “How would they be delivere... ...t’s hear it, or I guarantee that NASA will be scrubbing for Martian meteorites on the ice fields of Antarctic.” Barkley was glad his old friend sho...

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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...tion-still know me as liThe Cookie Man." They say, with apologies to Mrs. Fields and Pep­ peridge Farm, that I am the world's most eminent cookie mak... ...o matter what it was-vis­ iting him at the plant, taking a shower with his Lava soap and al­ most removing my skin, having him take me for my monthly ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...their Anglo-Christian counterparts particularly in the business and medical fields. So the ideas of the traditionalists and the idealists often chan... ...ve today with our present yield per acre. But today’s farming requires huge fields which would be largely occupied by those 15 billion people. Of co... ...s eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD only buried a few thousand people under the lava at Herculeneum and the ash at Pompeii. Krakatau’s eruption in Indone... ...ren are often economic assets. They are the necessary hands for tilling the fields and they are the essential old age security for their parents.” ...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ng shadows of trees and their counterparts, the light, on the rich verdant fields and on the rough and uneven wooden strips of the rotting platforms o... ...t memory--a morning with shanty stations as gateways to shanty towns, rice fields and banana orchards with coconut trees occasionally spewed in, thick... ...ese new sexual urges were as a volcano spewing out old molten churnings of lava. So of a volcano, he thought, so of a human psyche. He accepted this c... ...ide himself as he remained seated a few feet from the window) the swath of fields and outlying roads of small towns hurried past him in an incessant g... ...oilet and the big hole in the urinal leading to the train tracks, the rice fields and the wild grasslands, the water buffalo and the starving dog at N... ... were their antecedent, extruded from his fissures in an incessant cursive lava flow of amicable contempt. The howling was as undecipherable as the cr... ...ck and that he would not relent, allowing neediness to surge over him like lava, incinerate him and heave residuals homeward? If he relented by callin... ...er any distress outside of blowing strands of disheveled hair. He bypassed fields and water buffalo, feeling the exhilaration of the wind, cold as it ...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...ture. He occupies an eternal and timeless present. He is a fossil caught in the frozen lava of a volcanic childhood. The narcissist does not keep a... ....html "You should not trust indiscriminately. No one is completely trustworthy in all fields. Most often our disappointments stem from our inabili... ...precede inflated, grandiosity-laden statements made by the narcissist and pertaining to fields of human knowledge and activity in which he is sorely...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...hn Davis in the straits which bear his name........................... 518 Ice-fields of the Arctic................................................ 52... ...tors, the most intrepid explorers, and the most valorous adventurers in virgin fields, of which the annals of two thousand years afford any account. A... ...down, but everybody knows Paul was in Malta, and Ætna still sends out fire and lava, and what better proof can be asked. APPARITIONS AND PHANTOMS OF T... ... of his dominions, of the number of slaves and wives he possessed, of the vast fields in which his yams were raised, of the numbers of his oxen and bu... ...estroyed; the power of our nobles is gone. We are robbed of the produce of our fields; our sons are torn from us for sacrifices and our daughters for ... ... above the sea. But at this elevation they found the country as luxuriant with fields of maize, and as populous with towns and villages as the level l...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

... cold in Hahira Wildlife Park. While Laura Kate welcomed a brisk walk through bird fields with a shotgun cracked over an arm, for conversation she m... ... turn the brim up on one side. Know what I mean?” She knew. Royce strode the bird fields looking for all the world like he was on safari. “Did you... ...ed against her chest and the adrenaline racing in her veins threatened to erupt like lava from the top of her head. Holy Shit. I’ve been run down...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...lex mathematical equations, not into a religious dogma. This chapter unifies fields of scientific knowledge and religious ideas of intelligent desi... ...n order to make sense out of scientific data and information: the specialized Fields of Science must be interconnected with each other. Until Scienc... ...ack and field’. Recreating the time when we were tracked by killers over open fields that had no trees we could climb to safety. Their pelvic bon... ... we were designed to do… is buried under 25 million years of volcanic ash and lava and obsidian, pumice in Africa. But the basic story can be piece... ...peer example we copied and learned before we ever walked out onto the killing fields of the Serengeti Plain? It was the leopard, who taught us first.... ...ions and Jackals and Hyenas and Wild Dogs. They left the Lions their killing fields of wild animals. They only protected their own domesticated he... ...maining evidence is buried too deep, under thousands upon thousands of feet of lava, earth, sediment, rock, etc. Study African cultural symbolisms. ... ... The gored Continent of Africa: gored by volcanic gorings… bleeding blood-red lava for 25 million years. The gored continent of Africa: emptied out... ...d meanings. It contains billions years of history. It contains the writhing lava-flow of the Molten Earth being slowly cooled into an unmoving dea...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...t and exhausting be- cause of the irregnlar and crumb- ly character of its lava-coated slope. Toluca, althongh reaching a height above sea-level of 14... ...838 feet is relatively easy of ascent. Its most interesting feature is the lava dome in its crater which hears a striking analogy to the Pel6e cone. T... ...op at ^'Pat's'M The Williams Union Billiard Parlors On Saturday's Football Fields Dartmouth 15 Auihorst 10 Harvard '.) S. T. f^chool 5 Carlisle 2() U,... ...ave been unable to account for the floods in summer which fertilized their fields, com- ing as they did under cloudless skies. The only alternative in... ...nton r w, 1 w. Gray Van Gorder,Sbiland re, 1 o, McGnire C, Brown 1 c, r o. Fields Jenkins 1 w, r w. Gnillow D. Brown op, op. Emerson MoDongall p, p, C... ...of an opportunity of wit- nessing the |)erformanoe of a Will- iams team on fields near their own home. The limitation of contests in any one sport to ...

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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

...sequence of the disas- trous eruptions last Easter Day, which covered with lava and ashes the poor and scanty vegetation upon which four thou- sand pe... ...r severely; “and why, pray?” “Because this crater is evidently filled with lava and burn- ing rocks, and therefore—” “But suppose it is an extinct vol... ...extends along a low and marshy level, between two hills. An immense bed of lava bounds it on one side, and falls gently towards the sea. On the other ... ...nely farm, called a boer built either of wood, or of sods, or of pieces of lava, looking like a poor beggar by the wayside. These ruinous huts seemed ... ...ng trachyte, basalt, and tuffs and agglomerates associated with streams of lava, have made this a land of supernatural horrors. I had no idea of the s... ...es provided for; that is to say, he had economically let them loose in the fields, where the poor beasts had to content themselves with the scanty mos... ...y-five leagues from it; and during thaws the white bears, borne by the ice fields from the north, are carried even into Iceland. But never mind that. ... ...shadows reposed upon their lower wreaths; and often, between two separated fields of cloud, there glided down a ray of unspeakable lustre. But it was ...

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...farer?Last, will it mark sufficiently that I mean my wife?And first, how about blunders?I scarce wish it longer. Have had a swingeing sharp attack in ... ...en I look back on my cleared grass, and count myself an ally in a fair quarrel, and make stout my heart. It is but a little while since I lay sick in ... ...y nainsel; back and piped again, and now dinner nearing. Take up this sheet with nothing to say. The weird figure of Faauma is in the room washing my ... ...is here running steady and pretty full; strange these intermittencies—and just a little below the main stream is quite dry, and all the original brook... ...n the surveyor, the expedition struck forty yards due west till it struck the top of a steep bank which it descended. The whole bottom of the ravine i... ...nd dangerous to walk among; no water in the course, scarce any sign of water. And yet surely water must have made this bold cutting in the plateau. An... ... present for ‘the chief of the great powers. ’I should say the gifts were, on the proper signal, dragged out of the field of food by a troop of young ...

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A Second Home

By: Honoré de Balzac

...her work with a sigh, glancing at her daughter with so strange a look that Lavater himself would have found it difficult to inter- pret. Admiration, g... ...utter- flies in the azure air, as illogical as the melodious murmur of the fields, and, like it, full of mysterious love. At that season is not the ru... ...ed villages, its horizon of blue hills, its church towers, its meadows and fields, whence a murmur came up, to die on her ear like the swell of the oc... ... tell you, young man, the events of life have swept over my heart like the lavas of Vesuvius over Herculaneum. The town is there—dead.” “Those who hav...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...upted by this incident. For two hours we followed these sandy plains, then fields of algae very disagreeable to cross. Candidly, I could do no more wh... ...n diam- eter, and 30 feet in height. It was composed of black and vitreous lava, mixed with fragments of felspar. And lastly, on the 10th of March, a ... ...ain of stones and scoriae, a large crater was vomiting forth tor- rents of lava which fell in a cascade of fire into the bo- som of the liquid mass. T... ...e extreme limits of the horizon. I said that the submarine crater threw up lava, but no flames. Flames require the oxygen of the air to feed upon and ... ...f the air to feed upon and cannot be developed under water; but streams of lava, having in themselves the prin- ciples of their incandescence, can att... ...ntact. Rapid currents bearing all these gases in diffusion and torrents of lava slid to the bottom of the mountain like an eruption of Vesuvius on ano... ...th a pre- cision which quite charmed Conseil; icebergs or moun- tains, ice-fields or smooth plains, seeming to have no limits, drift-ice or floating i... ...taken when he saw the thin threads of bluish water trickling along the ice-fields; and I had no doubt that he had already ventured into the midst of t... ...t of these Antarctic seas before. On the 16th of March, how- ever, the ice-fields absolutely blocked our road. It was not the iceberg itself, as yet, ...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...en often picked up a passage in the sermons he heard at St. Giles’s-in-the-Fields from the Rev. J. Endell Tyler, and would give his home-oracles no pe... ...at most beautifully situated of public schools, whose de- lightful playing fields, noble trees, broad river, and exquisite view of Windsor Castle give... ...luctant and half-interested sojourner was ever looking back to the playing-fields of Eton, or forward to the more congenial sphere of a country parish... ...ed that 93 Yo n g e Coleridge Patteson devoted himself to the more remote fields abroad? I think we shall find that his judgment was right. Alfington... ...oup of islands came next—Great Banks Isle, or in the native language Vanua Lava, Valua or Saddle Isle, a long narrow ridge of hills, Mota or Sugarloaf... ...d a pair of scarlet braces were purchased for two beautiful bows. At Vanua Lava, or Great Banks Island, on the 20th, a large canoe with seven men came... ... but there was an exchange of civilities with the Saddleites, and in Vanua Lava, the largest member of the group, a beautiful harbour was discovered, ... ... men were the departed spirits of deceased friends. A walk inland at Vanua Lava disclosed pretty villages nestling under banyan trees, one of them pro... ... world—no yellow fever, no snakes, &c. I think of the Banks Islands, Vanua Lava, with its harbour and streams, and abundance of food, and with eight o...

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The Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Martha Dickinson Bianchi

...ugh the village, Sauntered as soft away! So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, T oo late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago. 1... ...D for chaff, and earning wheat Was haughty and betrayed. What right had fields to arbitrate In matters ratified? I tasted wheat,—and hated chaff... ...is, and my heart beside, This, and my heart, and all the fields, And all the meadows wide. Be... ...sed the school where children played At wrestling in a ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. We paused before a house... ...— ’T was a small town, Lit with a ruby, Lathed with down. Stiller than the fields At the full dew, Beautiful as pictures No man drew. People like the ... ...ly And South America, I judge from my geography. V olcanoes nearer here, A lava step, at any time, Am I inclined to climb, A crater I may contemplate,...

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Tales of Unrest

By: Joseph Conrad

...des were streaked with the green of narrow ravines; at their foot lay rice-fields, plantain-patches, yellow sands. A torrent wound about like a droppe... ... bushes; bamboo fences glittered, running away in broken lines between the fields. A sudden cry on the shore sounded plaintive in the distance, and ce... ..., with a great murmur, passionate and gentle. After sunset, far across the fields and over the bay, clusters of torches could be seen burning under th... ... 31 Joseph Conrad campongs, full of white faces, are surrounded by fertile fields, but every man you meet is a slave. The rulers live under the edge o... ...rtyards of chiefs who were no better than slaves. We lost ourselves in the fields, in the jungle; and one night, in a tangled forest, we came upon a p... ...he outburst of a volcano, the almost imperceptible progress of a stream of lava, creeping languidly over a convulsed land and piti- lessly obliteratin...

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The Princess

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

...d age Jumbled together; celts and calumets, Claymore and snowshoe, toys in lava, fans Of sandal, amber, ancient rosaries, Laborious orient ivory spher... ...nd wires and vials fired A cannon: Echo answered in her sleep From hollow fields: and here were telescopes For azure views; and there a group of gir... ...answered, ‘or with fair philosophies That lift the fancy; for indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns, Where paced the Demigods... ... Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. ‘Fresh as the first b... ...Psyche. Not though Blanche had sworn That after that dark night among the fields She needs must wed him for her own good name; Not though he built up...

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The Door in the Wall and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

...whole side of Cotopaxi slipped out in one vast convulsion, and a tumult of lava poured out so high and broad and swift and liquid that in one day it r... ...y; towns and villages with their pagodas and trees, roads, wide cultivated fields, millions of sleepless people staring in helpless terror at the inca... ...es the volca- noes were spouting forth to salute its coming. Above was the lava, hot gases and ash, and below the seething floods, and the whole earth... ...wly, might creep back to their ruined cities, buried granaries, and sodden fields. Such few ships as had escaped the storms of that time came stunned ... ...hem under an indistinct bridge, and vanished into the dim haze of the flat fields towards Burslem. “That’s the cone I’ve been telling you of,” shouted... ...as still so hot that it punished my hands, and I scraped out the crumbling lava-like mass with a chisel, and hammered it into a powder upon an iron pl... ...for all beautiful things, and it seemed to him that the glow upon the snow-fields and glaciers that rose about the valley on every side was the most b... ...n. His eyes went from that inaccessible glory to the village and irrigated fields, fast sinking into the twilight, and suddenly a wave of emotion took...

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

...n spite of its otherwise insignificant quality, may find place here:— “The fields on which I first looked, and the sands which were marked by my earli... ... little mill and bridge, another slight eminence arose, divided into green fields, tufted and bor- dered with copsewood, and crested by a ruined castl... ...et and past the mill; from which point we could either journey through the fields below the old castle, and the wood which sur- rounded it, or along a... ...ay of which it passed. The former track led through two or three beautiful fields, the sylvan do- main of the keep on one hand, and the brook on the o... ...hung over the water! The road which passed the castle joined, beyond these fields, the path which traversed them. It took, I well remember, a certain ... ...l as yourself. “If I go to Vesuvius, I will try to carry away a bit of the lava, which you wish for. There has lately been a great eruption, as it is ... ...t breaking-out of hot ashes and fire, and of melted stones which is called lava. “Miss Clark is very kind to take so much pains with you; and I trust ... ...well whether in any. Not till after good study did you see the deep molten lava-flood, which simmered steadily enough, and showed very well by and by ... ... I define them, were the mere scoriae and pumice wreck of a steady central lava- flood, which truly was volcanic and explosive to a strange degree, bu...

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