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...e fact that being dark was never an attractive trait in Thailand where the lighter, Chinese skinned Thais were thought to have more material success, ... ...e former one. At least it appeared to be stronger. The sky had tubes of light paint oozing out into the darkness and the sky could not ascertain if... ... ride was just beginning and yet it was monotonous in the darkness and the light of the street lamps that refracted glaringly. The three of them still... ...curtailed to traffic jams exacerbated by infuriatingly influential traffic lights and accidents. Traffic accidents were such chaos because smashed ca... ... Even within Ayutthaya, which was conspicuously absent of operable traffic lights, he had never had an accident. There was that time that he had flown... ...an to tie up the tent of the mosquito net by stringing it up against light fixtures and unused nails that stuck out of walls. Suthep and Jatupon becam...

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...ddle of the night. Every time I rolled in my bed there was a sparkling of light [Laughs] and it was so funny for me—"What is this?" It was electrici... ... got up. The things that had astonished me that week had become permanent fixtures. I call all these events a calamity because from the point of view... ...e as though suspended from a varicolored, swollen ring—blue, brownish and light yellow—around his neck. His throat was swollen to a shape that made ... ... There is nothing mystical or spiritual about it. If I close the eyes some light penetrates through the eyelids. If I cover the eyelids there is stil... ...ght penetrates through the eyelids. If I cover the eyelids there is still light inside. There seems to be some kind of a hole in the forehead which ... ...d which doesn't show but through which something penetrates. In India that light is golden, in Europe it is blue. There is also some kind of light...

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...ack and moving shadow. To fend off these risks, the squid emits a blue glow from a "light organ". The luminosity perfectly matches the amount of moo... ...nlight filtering through the water, rendering the squid indistinguishable from its light-flooded environs. To generate the fine tuned radiance, the... ...oscopic "prisoners" with oxygen and amino acids - and they reciprocate with emitted light. The squid constantly monitors to what extent the night s... ... its body. It then adjusts an iris-like "shutter" to release the correct amount of light from his bacterial colony. The squid replaces the hosted v... ...he bacterial population doubles every 20 minutes - the quantity of luciferase (the light producing enzyme) remains constant for up to five hours. l... ...rinking fountains, 4200 electric clocks with sockets for another 2800, 16,250 light fixtures (250 bulbs are replaced daily), 7,754 windows, and 7 a... ...on frames within offices disappeared, and the shattered glass from windows and lamp fixtures melted and fused into stalactites….One engine, part of ...

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... complex, multilayered, interactive and versatile "activity" than the simple act of light penetration and its conveyance to the brain. Thus - separ... ...omic) system. It contains and applies rules of symmetry (left vs. right), physics (light vs. dark, colors), social codes (face recognition, behavio... ...ses on a few "privileged processes" at a time and thus makes them conscious. As the light of consciousness moves on, new privileged processes (hithe... ...g of the kind. When we see an image – it could be the result of an interaction with light outside us (objectively "real"), or the result of a dream,... ...through a solid object, levitate, look at the face of an analogue clock, or flick a light switch on and off. Moreover, it is not strictly true that ... ... prevail anachronistically and atavistically. Contradiction and change the only two fixtures of this tormented region. The women of the Balkan - bur...

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...er father. The morrow started fresh and new as the sun slowly rose, providing light for their journey. Aislinn glanced around and enjoyed her surro... ...dreds of windows, all with drapes pulled to the sides to allow as much natural light into the palace, dotted the entire facade. Massive towers climb... ...he again took in her surroundings like an underprivileged child. Thousands of light fixtures dotted the hall. The candles, not yet lit, would provi... ...in took in her surroundings like an underprivileged child. Thousands of light fixtures dotted the hall. The candles, not yet lit, would provide eno... ...ght fixtures dotted the hall. The candles, not yet lit, would provide enough light so that the castle would be as bright as the day despite the moo... ... day despite the moon’s progression in the nighttime sky. Beneath some of the light fixtures were grand chairs, similar to those in her father’s stu... ...espite the moon’s progression in the nighttime sky. Beneath some of the light fixtures were grand chairs, similar to those in her father’s study, al...

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...between the two lower classes. It is unfortunate that we have scarcely any light this even ing; the old moon and the new must be hiding behind Jesup B... ...t, fortunately, Diogenes Hughes has promised to bring his lantern so as to lighten Kelley 's worries. Even the horses are quiet. They stand like lambs... ... clearness of expres- sion in the faces, but is also an excellent study in light and shad ow. After the death of his wife, for some time his paintings... ... paintings bore a somewhat gloomy aspeot, but af- ter his second marriage, light again brightened his vCosks until a change of circumstances rendered ... ...lirst team until the fifth inning, when (Gillette replaced him. Pierce did light work, and made no exer tion to obtain speed, and was found by the sec... ...nent oould be eifeoted by placing portable brackets ur stationary pairs of fixtures on the tables as has indeed already been done in the west aaotion ...

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...m about atrocities in Kosovo "I am like a candle. I am melting away slowly, but I light the way for others." Adem Demaci, political representati... ...it tackled a Serb border patrol (April) and a Serb Police Station (August) in 1995. Light weapons and a crude bomb were used. The Serbs were not imp... ...h the same frequency. Under normal circumstances, group behaviour resembles diffuse light. Subject to trauma and abuse - it forms a malignant laser ... ... a society and culture that has often been described as narcissistic by the leading lights of scholarly research (e.g., Theodore Millon) and social ... ...Soviet rulers, the virulent, visceral hatred of the West Berlin, the tiny island of light in the sea of communist darkness was inspired by the geog... ... prevail anachronistically and atavistically. Contradiction and change the only two fixtures of this tormented region. The women of the Balkan - bur...

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...is, or for Post-it notes or windshield wipers that come on intermittently in light rain—and the in- novator and her investors make a bet that they can... ...ea from me, receives instruction him- self without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light with- out darkening me. That ide... ...t reason, that his father had exhibited himself in a ludicrous and degrading light. And thus he became so sore and irritable that at last he could not... ...f the rich against the poor” and goes on to paint it in the most unflattering light. “The lords and nobles were up- setting the social order, breaking ... ...oil sellers the right to define the rules under which the newfangled electric light companies would operate.) There would be no easy counterweight to t... ...n in the database right. Mark J. Davison and P . Bernt Hugenholtz, “Football Fixtures, Horseraces and Spinoffs: The ECJ Domesticates the Database Righ...

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...nd obligation to help other countries and nations" and to serve as the "the beacon lighting up the way for the development of other countries and n... ... and professional judges, the interlocking system of checks and balances and other fixtures of American life. Rome, like the USA, was a multicultur... ...an the fractured European "Union". Their dislike of what they regard as America's lightweight leadership and overt - and suspect - belligerence n... ...ian collaboration may shortly attain the limelight: the $800 million, 1000 megawatt light water reactor in Bushehr, an Iranian Persian Gulf port fac... ... Interest rates are prohibitively high and repayment terms onerous. The only ray of light in a decrepit financial system is the euro, Kosovo's offic... ...illage of 220 inhabitants. It has one heavily armed police constable flanked by two lightly equipped assistants. The hamlet is beset by a bunch of r... ... prevail anachronistically and atavistically. Contradiction and change the only two fixtures of this tormented region. The women of the Balkan - bur...

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...hey would flank, or, like a body-guard quite surround some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation....

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...of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. That signal object was the “Handsome Sailor” o... ...d once been a butcher- insultingly gave him a dig under the ribs. Quick as lightning Billy let fly his arm. I dare say he never meant to do quite as m... ...nd but the day previous turning over a copy of Andrew Marvell’s poems, had lighted, not for the first time however, upon the lines entitled Appleton H... ...n vexed him. When he spoke to his young topmates about it they were either lightly incredulous or found something comical in his unconcealed anxiety. ... ...se along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn’s light falling athwart the dark visage. It was on account of that scar and t... ...-deck wherever not blotted by the clear-cut shadows horizontally thrown of fixtures and moving men. On either side of the quarter-deck, the marine gua...

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...overing from an inflammatory complaint, brought on by overstudy, or perhaps by excess of some other kind. His convalescence demanded complete rest, a light diet, bracing air, and freedom from excitement of every kind, and the fat lands of Bessin seemed to offer all these conditions of recovery. To Bayeux, a picturesque place about six miles from the sea, the patient theref...

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...ex- cess of some other kind. His convalescence demanded com- plete rest, a light diet, bracing air, and freedom from excite- ment of every kind, and t... ...ir faces and their dresses are literally 6 The Deserted Woman part of the fixtures of the town, and the province in which they dwell. They are its tr... ...f he himself were an exception who had striven, and vainly striven, to en- lighten the rest. But any stranger so ill advised as to concur in any of th... ...re was burning on the hearth in spite of the mild weather, and by the soft light of the candles in the sconces he saw a young woman sitting on a high-... ...lzac pain was this! These thoughts flashing across M. de Nueil’s mind like lightning, left him very humble in the presence of the greatest charm with ... ...ner. She stretched her hand to the bell and rang it. “Jacques,” she said, “light this gentleman to the door,” and she looked with dignity at the visit...

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...e such adventurous, and perhaps much- 6 Sartor Resartus censured wanderer light on some out-lying, neglected, yet vitally momentous province; the hid... ... a state of gradual decay, and for 14 Sartor Resartus the present reflect light and resist pressure; that is, are visible and tangible objects in thi... ...and there through distant streets, are bearing her to Halls roofed in, and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only Vice and Misery, to prowl or to ... ...eir boxes. Gay mansions, with supper- rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the ... ...ot eyes look out through the darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: come... ...olid-grown and colorless? If those same primitive elements are the osseous fixtures in the Flesh-Garment, Language,—then are Metaphors its muscles and...

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...ozing it would seem, with his bandaged head drooping on one side. The only light in the room was the red glow from the fire—which lit his eyes like 9... ...ddy, shadowy, and indis- tinct to her, the more so since she had just been lighting the bar lamp, and her eyes were dazzled. But for a second it seeme... ...his chair, put up his hand. She opened the door wide, so that the room was lighter, and she saw him more clearly, with the muffler held up to his face... ... went away to get a lamp, and he rose and stretched himself. Then came the light, and Mr. Teddy Henfrey, entering, was confronted by this bandaged per... ...e worked with the lamp close to him, and the green shade threw a brilliant light upon his hands, and upon the frame and wheels, and left the rest of t... ...ing to himself, he examined the back of the counter and peered behind some fixtures. Then he stood doubtful. He had left the house door open and I sli... ...cart. I turned with spots of colour swimming before my eyes to the shadowy fixtures behind me. My excitement was giving place to a clear appre- hensio...

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...e hearth in the castle hall, in the full warmth of which there sat, with a light blue cloth cloak drawn tightly round him, a tall old man, of the gian... ...hort dark auburn hair, and eyes of the same peculiar tint, glancing with a light that once seen could never be forgotten; and the bearing was such, th... ..., so much I know; 15 Yo n g e my lands lie Carrick-wards,’ said Sir James lightly, ‘but I have been a prisoner so long, that the pedigree of my house... ...mself in the window-seat with his new book, making the most of the failing light, and asked him whether the Monk of Iona equalled his expectations. Ma... ...Sir James Stewart’s cheeks, and his tawny eye glanced with a fire like red light- ning, but he seemed, as it were, to be holding himself in, and answe... ...on have found it no haven of peace. The lay-brothers and old servants were fixtures, but the old faithful and devout ones looked forlorn and unhappy a...

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.... It was rather dark, certainly; but somebody said, ‘of course it would be light, at sea,’ a proposition to which we all assented; echoing ‘of course,... ...e who were in the secret, a mere frolic, to be sung about and whistled at! Light be her heart, and gay her merry eyes, for years! The state room had g... ... upon the decks which crackled with a sharp and cheerful sound beneath the lightest tread, was irresistible. And when, again upon the shore, we turned... ...an at the wheel, with the illuminated card before him, shining, a speck of light amidst the darkness, like some thing sentient and of Divine intellig... ...hing of the wind through block, and rope, and chain; the gleaming forth of light from every crevice, nook, and tiny piece of glass about the decks, as... ...far from popular) had not made away with any of the furniture, or sold the fixtures for his private benefit. After glancing at these loungers; who wer...

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...and some losses and a deal of experience. Girls are your first trial after fixtures and they try you even worse than what I call the Wandering Christi... ...thing wiser and better far than my own self, had moved me while it was yet light to sit in my bonnet and shawl, and as the shadows fell and the tide r... ... last it came in a solemn way—not in a flash but like a kind of pale faint light brought very slow to the face. She said something to me that had no s... ... that me and the Major have trav- elled with Jemmy in the dusk between the lights are not to be calculated, Jemmy driving on the coach-box which is th... ...inks in my place inside the coach and have come half awake by the flashing light of the fire and have heard that precious pet driving and the Major bl... ...r,” said my esteemed friend, fanning herself with a plate. “Thought he was light-headed!” “In those remarkable times, Gran and godfather, there was on...

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...s more widely understood. I was in this state when I first shrunk from the light as it twinkled on me once more, and knew with a boundless joy for whi... ...t had kept the door fast. But now, my sight strengthening and the glorious light coming every day more fully and brightly on me, I could read the lett... ...I, “as I have shut her out so long— though indeed, indeed, she is like the light to me—” Bleak House – Volume Two 9 “I know it well, Dame Durden, we... ...revocably past and gone, never to be looked back on any more, in any other light. I hope this may not seem trivial. I was very much in earnest. I took... ...nt, and there above me were the balus trades of the Ghost’s W alk and one lighted window that might be my mother’s. The way was paved here, like the ... ...e opinion of my friends, is a hollow bargain (taxes ridiculous, and use of fixtures included in the rent), and intend setting up profes sionally for ...

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...nt of the agony he endured on wet nights, hearing the music and seeing the lights in “Benmore,” with his toes tingling for a waltz and his head in a h... ...itten for at least two days and a half. It was the last flicker before the light went out. That letter made Agnes Laiter very unhappy, and she cried a... ...orses were picketed and waited for the storm to blow over. Then the little light that was left van- ished, and you could not see your hand before your... ...ose to the trembling horses, with the thunder clattering overhead, and the lightning spurting like water from a sluice, all ways at once. There was no... .... I want to go home. I want to go home. T ake me home.” I thought that the lightning and the black darkness had frightened her; so I said there was no... ... keep us three of course—me and the Memsahib and the other Eurasian. We’re fixtures. But he wouldn’t give us credit for a pipeful—not for anything. On...

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...draw slowly nearer. Last of all, it turned the corner and moved into our field of vision: two file of men and a corporal with a lantern, which he swun... ...east, he was a man of education; and of the others with whom I had any opportunity of speech, those that would not have held a book upsidedown would h... ...o not put your hand upon my shoulder. I cannot bear it. It is rheumatism,’ I made haste to add. ‘My shoulder is inflamed and very painful.’ He returne... ...ut here I interrupted him. ‘One word ere you go fur- ther. I am under no parole,’ said I. ‘I understood so much,’ he replied, ‘although some of you Fr... ...umility that befits a captive, that I declare, as I went to meet them, I might have afforded a subject for a painter. So much was high comedy, I must ... ...in young lady to my heart’s content—if it can ever be contented!— and to tell her some good news.’ ‘But there are still Ronald and the Major!’ she per...

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...at the bruises on the inter- nal aspect of the left leg, considered in the light of the distri- bution of the other abrasions and contusions, pointed ... ... Mr. Hoopdriver. Prints depend from the brass rails above them, behind are fixtures full of white packages containing, as in- scriptions testify, Lino... ...go round the corner at once, and hurry off into the next county—and always light up before dark. You mind just a few little things like that, Hoopdriv... ...l the steering. It’s fatal,” a voice that came from round a fitful glow of light, was saying. “ And clean the chain daily with black-lead. You mind ju... ...and at last agreed. They mounted, and rode on in silence, through the sun- light and the heather. Both were extremely uncomfortable and disappointed. ... ...lowing him me- chanically, saw a yellow milled edge glittering in the twi- light. Now your shop assistant is just above the tip-receiving class, and o...