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... 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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...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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...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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... 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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...pointing South, where, lo, The daintiest, fleetest-footed doe Led o’er the fields and thro’ the furze Beyond: her lively delicate ears Prickt up erec... ...rose, T ook glory in the great repose, And over every postured form Spread lava-like and brooded warm, – And fixed on every frozen face Beheld the rec... ...ce. And silverly the river runs, And many a graceful wind he makes, 60 By fields where feed the happy flocks, And hedge-rows hushing pleasant lanes, ... ...minstrels, melodious With the invisible joy that wakes dawn o’er the green fields of England. Summer glows warm on the meadows; then come, let us roam... ...ind the hazel-leaf Are brown as the squirrel that hunts them free, And the fields are rich with the sun-burnt sheaf, ‘Mid the blue cornflower and the ... ...ed height with thee compare! Not those vine-terraced hills that seethe The lava in their fiery cusps; Nor that high-climbing robe of snow, Whose summi... ...beit Thy gentle nature is of joy alone, And loves the pipings of the happy fields, Better than all the great parade and pomp Which forms the train of ...

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...d, now shorn of his splendour, had to lurk in barns, to roam over harrowed fields, panting for life; and to wait under eavesdrops, and 21 Thomas Carl... ...astrous along the deep highways of Champagne; spreading out also into ‘the fields, of a tough spongy red- coloured clay;—like Pharaoh through a Red Se... ...ged in. ‘That under such circumstances one saw, in ditches, in meadows, in fields and crofts, dead horses enough, was natural to the case: by and by, ... ...e compared to that of a swoln river which has been raging over meadows and fields, and is now again obliged to press itself through a narrow bridge, a... ...w in the Catacombs, fattening the passes of Argonne Wood, of Valmy and far Fields; he, such chief criminal, shall not even come to the bar?—For, alas,... ...cated, mon- ied, respectable class prescribe? That is to say: the volcanic lava-flood, bursting up in the manner described, will ex- plode and flow ac... ...d right-hand, Lasource having done: and descends from the Mountain, like a lava-flood; his answer not unready. Lasource’s probabilities fly like idle ... ...‘redouts of cotton-bags;’ hemming them in, ever closer, with his Artillery-lava? Never would that Ci-devant d’Autichamp arrive; never any help from Bl...

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...was to buy a cork-screw in a shop, and go apart into a secret place in the fields. And there he 72 Robert Louis Stevenson tried to draw the cork, but... ... more than will keep me in comfort; and the rest of that land is the black lava.” “Let us go to the lawyer,” said Lopaka; “I have still this idea in m... ...inments Above, the forest ran up into the clouds of rain; below, the black lava fell in cliffs, where the kings of old lay buried. A garden bloomed ab... ... the maiden’s head; she heard his voice in the breach of the surf upon the lava, and for this young man that she had seen but twice she would have lef...

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...e wondered. A future of cities and factory smut where now are loping empty fields? Homes universal and secure? Or placid chateaux ringed with sullen h... ...heat-shocks marched like soldiers in worn yellow tabards. The newly plowed fields were black banners fallen on the distant slope. It was a martial im-... ...oden houses broke the plains scarcely more than would a hazel thicket. The fields swept up to it, past it. It was unprotected and unprotecting; there ... ...onceivably. The people—they’d be as drab as their houses, as flat as their fields. She couldn’t stay here. She would have to wrench loose from this ma... ...t in a new piston. But we’ll take a team, so we can get right out into the fields. Not many prairie chickens left now, but we might just happen to run... ...wshares and wheels of discarded cultivators. Hard- ened trampled mud, like lava, filled the pig-pen. The doors of the house were grime-rubbed, the cor... ...ngland mill-towns with the hands living in rows of cottages like blocks of lava. A rich farming-center in New Jersey, off the railroad, furi- ously pi... ...g at the base of the mountain. A volcano does occasionally drop a river of lava on even the best of agriculturists, to their astonishment and consider...

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...lls resentative parliamentary government, coupled with the opening of vast fields of opportunity in other directions, had withdrawn the best intellige... ...hid the world below. Over great spaces those banks lay as even as a frozen lava-flow and almost as still, and then they were rent by ragged areas of t... ...the imperceptible, is never entirely exhausted, and to this day the battle-fields and bomb fields of that fran- tic time in human history are sprinkle... ... and poppy. The hostile advance came blindly and unsuspiciously across the fields below and would have been very cruelly handled indeed, if some one a... ... over nations destroyed, over churches smashed or submerged, towns ruined, fields lost to mankind for ever, and a million weltering bodies. Was this l... ...out of which arise great precipices very high and wild. Above the asphodel fields the mountains climb in rocky slopes to soli- tudes of stone and sunl...

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...able avenue to a dreary plain again. Plenty of vines there are in the open fields, but of a short low kind, and not trained in festoons, but about str... ...re staring down into the moat; other strange little towers, in gardens and fields, and down lanes, and in farm yards: all alone, and always round, wi... ...lready gathered in, and mules and horses were treading out the corn in the fields. We came, at dusk, upon a wild and hilly country, once famous for br... ...e contemplation of the black rocks, the tremendous heights and depths, the fields of smooth snow lying, in the clefts and hollows, and the fierce torr... ...e of water turned to marble, at its height—and that is what is called ‘the lava’ here. Some workmen were digging the gloomy well on the brink of which... ...ards on either side of them, and emerge upon a bleak bare region where the lava lies confusedly, in enor mous rusty masses; as if the earth had been ...