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...uly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch and the ogre; and please don't have any moral, only let everybody 'live in peace and die in a pot of gr...

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...anet Musick Books by Barbara M. Hodges The Blue Flame The Emerald Dagger The Sword and the Flame THE BLUE FLAME FOR SEVEN YEARS, Regan has thought ... ...twin to the one she bears on her shoulder – he tells her a tale of a land of magic where his queen and Regan’s sister Kelsey are battling one man’s m... ...und, Maggie, they enter a rift and find themselves in Daradawn, a land where magic, both good and evil, surrounds them. The first night in Daradawn, R... ...nce reunited with Kelsey, Regan learns of her sister’s plans for her and her magic. A test of Regan’s power leaves her in the hands of Darrian Silvert... ... a black spell. A great battle rages but, with the aid of Peter and Regan’s magic, Raya is saved. But the cost is high, for Dirkk escapes through a d... ... Raya is saved. But the cost is high, for Dirkk escapes through a doorway of magic. Regan tells Rourk of his wife and son, kept all these years from h... ...hat she’d taken for a 30 The Emerald Dagger hump on his back was a sheathed sword. With a yelp, she sprang forward and wrapped her arms around his ne... ...ubt you could even lift a blade, let alone parry with it.” He unsheathed the sword upon his back, held it with both hands and swung it before him. “A ... ...oat. “This blade used to belong to a great warrior,” Angus said. He held the sword so the sun glinted across its honed edge. “Queen Tessa added it to ...

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... 10 A Woman of Thirty eyes, caught a distinct sound of spurs and clank of swords echoing up under the sonorous peristyle. And suddenly there appeared... ...red ribbon of the Legion of Honor rose and fell on his breast, and a short sword hung at his side. At one and the same moment the man was seen by all ... ...“Long live the Emperor!” There was something preternatural about it—it was magic at work, a counterfeit presentment of the power of God; or rather it ... ...tainly fallen in love with you.” That last phrase roused the Countess like magic. Her in- voluntary start and smile took the Marquise by surprise. So ... ...ike some young bride beneath her veil, or a maiden waiting to yield to the magical enchantments of Love. Arthur led her with a lover’s care, helping h... ...d past? For me the daylight is full of gloom, my thoughts pierce me like a sword, my child is and is not. “Oh, when Helene speaks to me, I wish that h... ...is it?” spoken in thrilling tones grown persua- sive with the heart’s soft magic, she was careful not to reply. The delicious question bore witness to... ...lls working within, it is difficult to resist the heart’s desires grown so magically potent. Cares are blunted, joy becomes ecstasy; pain, intolerable... ...er it might be? Had Helene avenged her father? Her jealousy surely was the sword of God. And yet when I looked at the mother I shiv- ered. What fearfu...

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...ve set forth for us in such mighty words; he felt the point of the Flaming Sword plunged into his side, and hurried in search of Melmoth. What had be-... ...g personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Aquilina The Magic Skin Claparon, Charles A Bachelor’s Establishment Cesar Birotteau... ... Firm of Nucingen A Man of Business The Middle Classes Euphrasia The Magic Skin Nucingen, Baronne Delphine de Father Goriot The Thirteen E...

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...d out to speak to a neighbour or so, and laughingly sold soap with his war-sword girded on him? Was there not Emile, billeted at the Clock- maker’s, ... ...t is realised at length! The golden bow”—he was getting on,—”struck by the magic 49 Charles Dickens hand, has emitted a complete and perfect sound! ...

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...in his temperament, the lieutenant-governor uplifted the heavy hilt of his sword, wherewith he so beat and banged upon the door, that, as some of the ... ...broken connection with the House of the Seven Gables; nor to show, as in a magic picture, how the rustiness and infirmity of age gathered over the ven... ...y beard; holding a Bible with one hand, and in the other uplifting an iron sword-hilt. The latter object, being more successfully depicted by the arti... ...ound, of a very high order of respectability, which, by some indescribable magic, not merely expressed itself in his looks and gestures, but even gove... ... a skull-cap, and a band, and a black cloak, and a Bible in one hand and a sword in the other,—then let Jaffrey smile as he might,—nobody would doubt ... ...sive patrimony, the gift of practical arrangement. It is a kind of natural magic that enables these favored ones to bring out the hidden capabilities ... ... frescoed. She showed the indenta- tions made by the lieutenant-governor’s sword-hilt in the 74 The House of the Seven Gables door-panels of the apar... ...s. The play and slight agitation of the water, in its upward gush, wrought magically with these variegated pebbles, and made a continually shifting ap... ...ed, poor Clifford’s wits), that the grinder might apply the article to his magic wheel, and give it back as good as new. Round went the busily revolvi...

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...er, wrought into every exquisite form of vase, and dish, and goblet; guns, swords, pistols, and patent engines of destruction; screws and irons for th... ...tatements of charities, and plans for new hospitals. A blunderbuss and two swords hung above the chimney-piece, for the terror of evil-doers, but the ... ...rror of evil-doers, but the blun- derbuss was rusty and shattered, and the swords were broken and edgeless. Elsewhere, their open display in such a co... ...ed Nicholas, ‘in quite another respect, for, whereas he brought within the magic circle of his genius, traditions peculiarly adapted for his pur- pose... ...NICHOLAS NICKLEBY should enlighten the world for ages, you drag within the magic circle of your dulness, subjects not at all adapted to the pur- poses...

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...posing overwhelming host for my—my Maggie. Well, I got the worst of it, my sword arm was broken—I fell, was stifled—crushed—in misery—all I could do w... ...onsider.” “It must be like the waiting in the dark between the slides of a magic lantern,” said Ethel; “I never like to be quiet. I get so unhappy.” “... ... his mind tolerably disengaged.” The scene that ensued that evening in the magic lantern before Margaret’s bed, did not promise much for the freedom o... ..., to hear the echo of Roland’s horn. And we saw the cleft made by Roland’s sword in the rocks.” “Oh! how delightful—and Spain too!” “ Ay , the Isle of... ...ta, when a man has been drawn, in self-sufficient security, to look into a magic mir- ror, and cannot detach his eyes from the confused, misty scene—w... ...Oxford was the great guardian nurse of truth! I am sure she cannot deal in magic mirrors or such frightful things. Do you know you are talking like a ... ...sts which, as Ethel had formerly said, shifted before her like scenes in a magic lantern, and, perhaps, with less of substance than in those earlier d...

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...ld certainly not expect him to come before the races, he walked, holding his sword and stepping cau tiously over the sandy path, bordered with flowers... ...f itself, a body full of life and consciousness of its own, and as though by magic, without thinking of it, the work turned out regular and well finish... ...ell! it’s shameful to confess, but I. . . I’m inexcusably happy. Some thing magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you’re frightened, panic ... ...eal” said Katavasov with a loud roar of laughter. “’I bring not peace, but a sword,’ says Christ,” Sergey Ivanovitch rejoined for his part, quoting as...

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...gy appears, an upright figure cut off at the knees, and in addition to the sword in his hand there is a metal one, with a blade waved like a Malay cre... ... far from “claiming peace,” St. George waves (or ought to wave) his wooden sword, as he clumps forth, exclaiming: In comes I, St. George, St. George, ... ...n comes I, St. George, St. George, that man of courage bold, With my broad sword and spear I won the crown of gold, I fought that fiery dragon, And dr... ...T urks, as I have been told, Therefore, thou T urkish knight, Pull out thy sword and fight, Pull out thy purse and pay, I’ll have satisfaction, or tho... ...l, I’ll battle thee, to see which on the ground shall fall. The two wooden swords clatter together till the Turkish knight falls, all doubled up, even... ...n a cypress’s thick foliage, and dead shrews bestrew the paths; though the magic effects of having a “sherry mouse” die in 105 Charlotte M. Yonge ...

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...t Badajos sieges and the like will ram his head into a hole bristling with sword blades rather than be beaten in the one department in which he has be... ...ize and provide the sup- ply, whereas the children must have them as if by magic, with nothing to do but rub the lamp, like Aladdin, and have their ne... ...Parents and Children with nightmares. And we see these few rising as if by magic into power and affluence, and forming, with the million- aires who ha...

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...cks opening night of all nights.” One foot still tangled in the knotted magician’s scarves that had betrayed and humiliated her father, Morgan d... ...ld clamor for a refund. And the shame of the Victoria Theatre presenting a magician who could not pull a scarf out of his sleeve without dropping h... ...n his fumbling fingers, not with his faulty memory. It seemed the only magic Rupert Gable would ever master was to make their small hoard of ren... ...ly act again, Papa,” she’d often pleaded with him. “That’s where your true magic lies.” “Ah, but the theater is not what it was, my dear, when y... ... of make-up and hair tonic, its brushes and combs and mirrors. More failed magic. Like the magic that once was the great acting couple, Rupert and... ...he fluttering tip of his ostrich feather plume. The battering of his wooden sword against unlucky chair legs, the grunting of the swordsman, and the... ...t flew into the air, and the rider was unseated. Both mop-horse and wooden sword bumped and racketed down the stairs. The gallant knight, eyes squ... ...mountainside. “Excuse me. Time for a rescue.” Jumping over the mop and sword, Daniel charged the stairway and scooped up the carrot-topped bund... ...re, Lydia mounted the stairs. The sweep of her skirts caught the discarded sword, and it followed behind her a few steps while Ronan pointed and gi...

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...s of the gods, and experience of powers of extra-sensory perception and of magic feats. Following upon these visions there came, as if in complete ref... ...a trance which, according to the spiritual and psychic development of the [magician], is more or less deep and more or less prolonged. The exercise, e... ...ppening in this yoga? Alexandra 38. Alexandra David-Néel, With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet (1931). (Penguin reprint of 1936), pp. 207-8. Hereafter ... ...he West in the practice of yoga. Generally the purpose has been to obtain “magical” powers, or simply to obtain more complete control over the body, r... ...he message of the Buddha did not have to be introduced and enforced by the sword, as was the case with Christianity in the West as the Roman Empire co... ...le, from George Fox (1648): Now was I come up in spirit through the flaming sword into the paradise of God. All things were new, and all the creation g... ...nothing unaccountable about mysticism. It is not in itself myste- rious or magical. As a religious form it simply means feeling that God is present, a... ... round him glorying in life, then he took his axe in his hand, he drew his sword from his belt, and he fell upon them like an arrow from the string, a... ... to be analyzed. It must be mentioned that one of the medicine men, George Sword or Long Knife, who was Walker’s central source, spoke of men doing th...

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... early just so I can go to the bathroom to freshen up, you know, to work my magic and get ready for Emilie. I'm standing at the urinal doing my thin... ...ady. I swear every time that I go clubbing, it's always a sausage fest, aka sword fight, especially at a club full of Asians, with the average guy-gi...

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.................................................................. 4 WELAND’S SWORD......................................................................... .................................................... 55 The Runes on Weland’s Sword ........................................................................ ...156 4 Puck of Pook’s Hill Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling WELAND’S SWORD Puck’s Song SEE you the dimpled track that runs, All hollow through t... ...to carve out a piece of turf from the centre of the Ring. ‘What’s that for—Magic?’ said Una, as he pressed up the square of chocolate loam that cut li... ...e square of chocolate loam that cut like so much cheese. ‘One of my little magics,’ he answered, and cut another. ‘You see, I can’t let you into the H... ...rves. ‘But it’s our own meadow,’ said Dan, drawing back. ‘Are you going to magic it away?’ Puck laughed. ‘I know it’s your meadow, but there’s a great... ... inland before they could come head to wind again. Butterfly-wings! It was Magic—Magic as black as Merlin could make it, and the whole sea was green f... .... I’ve 13 Rudyard Kipling forgotten their names, but he used to make them swords and spears. I think he claimed kin with Thor of the Scandi- navians.... ...the Ring,’ said Puck; and he nodded to the children as though he had never magicked away their memories a week before. The great horse turned and hois...

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...ng declarations. He had two of them, and this was the first. “I live by my sword.” It was said in an extraordinary dandified manner which in conjuncti... ...y delighted with my company. 12 The Arrow of Gold A man who “lived by his sword,” before my eyes, close at my elbow! So such people did exist in the ... ...ain, catholique et gentil-homme” completed by that startling “I live by my sword” uttered in a light drawing-room tone tinged by a flavour of mockery ... ...waiting for us, two youths and one shaven old man, with a thin nose like a sword blade and per- fectly round eyes, a character well known to the whole... ...but it left no darkness behind. On the contrary, it seemed to have kindled magically somewhere within me a glow of assurance, of unaccountable confide... ...ve books, too, at one time! They seemed to contain all wis- dom and hold a magic power, too. Tell me, Monsieur Mills, have you found amongst them in s... ...his head… “What, not even mine?” she coaxed as if she really believed in a magic power to be found in books. Mills shook his head again. “No, I have n... ...his head again. “No, I have not the power,” he said. “I am no more a great magician, than you are a poor mortal. Y ou have your ancient spells. Y ou a... ...“Good-bye, old En- chantress.” They shook hands cordially. “Good-bye, poor Magician,” she said. Mills made as if to speak but seemed to think better o...

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... dissolve and deface the laws of charity, and of human society. There be two swords amongst Christians, the spiritual and temporal; and both have thei... ... and place, in the maintenance of religion. But we may not take up the third sword, which is Mahomet’s sword, or like unto it; that is, to propagate r... ...to nourish seditions; to authorize con spiracies and rebellions; to put the sword into the people’s hands; and the like; tending to the subversion of... ...been seven times more Epicure, and atheist, than he was. For as the temporal sword is to be drawn with great circum spection in cases of religion; so... ... most neces sary, that the church, by doctrine and decree, princes by their sword, and all learnings, both Christian and moral, as by their Mercury r... ...India; and was that, which the Macedonians called thunder and lightning, and magic. And it is well known that the use of ordnance, hath been in China ...

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...hey easily got away; and the dragoons only gave blows with the back of the sword, which hurt but did not wound. I was as close to them as I am now to ... ...armed, having probably broken into gunsmiths’ shops and taken the guns and swords. They were about a hundred. These were followed by about a thousand ... ...s on Charles Albert that mother and son had now fixed their eyes as on the sword-bearer of Italy. On Fleeming’s sixteenth birthday, they were, the mot... ...had been crowned in the capitol of reviewing. Croquet, charades, Christmas magic lanterns for the vil- lage children, an amateur concert or a review a... ... own, so that the very weap- ons of the fight were changed in his grasp to swords of pa- per. Certainly the church is not right, he would argue, but c... ...if the reader recollects; on either side of this on brackets, his father’s sword, and his father’s telescope, a gift from Admiral Buckner, who had use...

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...se murmur arose from the company; every man touched, first the hilt of his sword, and then the tip of his nose, with appalling significance. ‘What a p... ...t is called in play-bills a terrific combat, with two of those short broad-swords with basket hilts which are commonly used at our minor theatres. The... ...ble, who emphatically adjured them to strike a little more fire out of the swords, and they couldn’t fail to bring the house down, on the very first n... ... boys.’ The two combatants went to work afresh, and chopped away until the swords emitted a shower of sparks: to the great satisfaction of Mr Crummles... ...s left hand, and fought most desperately until the tall sailor chopped his sword out of his grasp. Now, the inference was, that the short sailor, redu... ...gilding with refulgent light our dreamy moments, and laying open a new and magic world before the mental eye, the drama is gone, perfectly gone,’ said...

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...I; and one Is Merlin, the wise man that ever served King Uther through his magic art; and one Is Merlin’s master (so they call him) Bleys, Who taught ... ...c art; and one Is Merlin’s master (so they call him) Bleys, Who taught him magic, but the scholar ran Before the master, and so far, that Bleys, Laid ... ...ir liege. ‘And near him stood the Lady of the Lake, Who knows a subtler magic than his own— Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful. She gave th... ...n white samite, mystic, wonderful. She gave the King his huge cross-hilted sword, Whereby to drive the heathen out: a mist Of incense curled about he... ... ‘There likewise I beheld Excalibur Before him at his crowning borne, the sword That rose from out the bosom of the lake, And Arthur rowed across and... ...phantom king, Now looming, and now lost; and on the slope 14 Tennyson The sword rose, the hind fell, the herd was driven, Fire glimpsed; and all the ... ... and upheld: And drops of water fell from either hand; And down from one a sword was hung, from one A censer, either worn with wind and storm; And o’e... ...r come 21 Idylls of the King From Fairyland; and whether this be built By magic, and by fairy Kings and Queens; Or whether there be any city at all, ... ...by evil tongues From all his fellows, lived alone, and came To learn black magic, and to hate his kind With such a hate, that when he died, his soul B...