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...ould feel guilt when he disparaged others that seeped into his veins while ghosts of yesteryear suddenly vexed him making him feel numb and cold insid... ...hep could have had some type of a tom yam tasting popcorn. They called it Mexican." "Why didn't you get a girlfriend and bring her with you? Is... ...unaway trip into Bangkok) all were without faces but wandering around like ghosts in his thoughts. He could see the forms of these people in his head ... ...e wanted to hit against the wall that entrapped him. It was like he was a Mexican and America had deliberately concocted a wall to keep him out. If o... ...nfront this without losing his nerve, he reasoned, he could break from the ghosts of mother and father, the innate need for family, and the wish to be... ...Cars that infrequently passed the park were unreal and eerie as descending ghosts. No sooner had he awakened than a middle-aged woman in a red jacket ...

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...tion of exquisite and valuable gifts -- Cortez refused permission to visit the Mexican capital -- Cortez inflamed with passion -- A meeting in camp --... ... A journey through flowery vales and luxuriant landscape -- First sight of the Mexican capital -- A wonderfully inviting view -- Wealth and splendor o... ...e Mexican capital -- A wonderfully inviting view -- Wealth and splendor of the Mexicans -- Montezuma anticipates his fate -- His offer to become a vas... ...s his fate -- His offer to become a vassal to Charles V -- Cities of the great Mexican Valley -- A scene of bewildering splendor -- How Cortez was rec... ...lies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and returns to Mexico -- A slaughter of Mexicans while at their devotions -- A furious attack upon the Spaniard... ...successive generations, produces luxuriant fruit. Sailor literature is full of ghosts, for the sailor is a firm believer in the immortality of the sou... ...the horror of the affrighted officer as he stared death in the face. Sometimes ghosts appear only at the moment when their victims are passing into th... ...e on George's Banks and ran down the Andrew Johnson. For many years after, the ghosts of the drowned sailors would come on board the Hascall and go th... ...ove against wind and tide. The use of better lights on board ship banished the ghosts, for it is well known that no ghost can stand the glare of an el...

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... one of the many hotels and sit around the pool bar, sipping Margaritas while Mexican music floated through the air. He was scanning dozens of beauti... ...s written on the piece of paper that Cardona had given him. It was a palatial Mexican villa set on the hillside over looking a majestic ocean. A hos... ...prisingly, no one was there to greet him. Finally, a short, round middle aged Mexican woman wearing a black maids dress and wiping her hands on a wh... ..., of the command and control headquarters of the Cartels. But, what about the Mexicans, plus, all the rest of Central and South America?" "Colombia... ...ween them. The only common denominator, besides drugs, was that they were all Mexicans. Madero, the largest of the territorial drug lords and the ... ...shouted. "Do you know their names" Do you know where they are? They are like ghosts." Even Alvarez thought it was a stupid idea. "No," he said. "M... ... with targets to retaliate.against. No, it has to be Soule’, his men are like ghosts.” Radcliff took Cardona's words serious. If it were true, then...

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...ck, 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock rock. 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock, twelve o'clock rock - Ghosts won't find me. Ready or not we'll find you. Then there were those... ...s rife the world over. He saw into her mind and her hopes to cross over the Mexican border and veer off the main road through adobe hamlets, and cact... ... border and veer off the main road through adobe hamlets, and cacti and past Mexican Indians. When he woke from his epiphany he wasn't sure what to do... ...s passing in and out of memory, which was nothing but the night sky for such ghosts, what then, he asked himself, were one's dreams? The fantasies and... ... to say, "True she likes frijoles, jalape-os and the like, and the boys like Mexican food too" but her pain trod into the breath of the utterance like... ...eas of child psychologists like Piaget were mere abstractions, premises like ghosts without flesh. Maybe, she thought to herself, Nathaniel needed a d... ...ts and the pettiness of a personal life. Whenever she got bored with reading Mexican newspapers and memorizing new Spanish vocabulary she would go int... ...the world to hate her. She looked out to the distant machines--the medley of Mexican people folding dry clothes; putting wet ones in their carts, seat...

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... When the Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacienda life, Forward, Chi... ...ic study of haciendas through- out Mexico, and numerous articles about the Mexican haciendas. Bartlett was also an artist whose paintings, illustrati... ...his subjects.” Last night I lay awake most of the night, haunted by these ghosts. The past can be a simoom. Maybe it is a good thing when today’s pr... ...oft Library, the Richmond Art Institute, the Brooks Museum, the Instituto-Mexicano- Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many other galleries; and, thi...

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...s! But it seems to me that I can see it everywhere. Most jokes have a power punch line. Whether the butt of the joke is a Jew, an Irishman, a Mexica... ...aring your favorite team‘s jerseys is a non-violent type of association. Or look at the power groupings in prisons, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Mexica... ... ―Jung's belief in ghosts... ...y those same extra-sensory phenomena are being studied in reputable universities across the world. Mind reading or telepathy, the existence of ghosts...

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... When the Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacienda life, Forward, Chi... ...ic study of haciendas through- out Mexico, and numerous articles about the Mexican haciendas. Bartlett was also an artist whose paintings, illustrati... ...his subjects.” Last night I lay awake most of the night, haunted by these ghosts. The past can be a simoom. Maybe it is a good thing when today’s pr... ...ery corner of his workshop and yard. People. His Dolphin Boy. His Christ. Ghosts from his metal and chisel. We learned how to use the abacus togethe... ...emove me in their stinking chains. I have seen and heard them, ghouls and ghosts of this town and tower, seen and heard them cringe and bully, night... ...ed many a tedious journey with patience. October 1, 1615 Gargoyles and ghosts: they are always a part of pain. Here is a prescription: pulverize ... ...ict, his favorite; we talked of great castles, like Kenilworth, and their ghosts; we talked of kings and how to catch larks with a mirror and scraps ... ...a could out- hurdle any other...six foot six inches...then he talked about Mexican horses and Mexican saddles...you should see the one I got as booty... ...oft Library, the Richmond Art Institute, the Brooks Museum, the Instituto-Mexicano- Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many other galleries; and, thi...

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...competitive, their production and pricing decisions and actions constrained by the "ghosts" of potential and threatening newcomers. In a CRIEFF Dis... ...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. S... ... in Prague last year. The conference was attended by the Czech prime minister, the Mexican president, and the head of the Interpol. The most potent...

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... into their mouths. All that food in the dining room and somebody had gone out for Mexican. When Serpents Die 137 “Mike, would you e... ...e with them, when a callous voice dug into her wits. Leave, leave, leave me with my ghosts. When Serpents Die 169 “My God, my god,” ...

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... sacred God-Given rights of Citizenship? Horrors, never! Better to hate the Mexicans and Latinos who are poor and who work harder than I do to bar... ...e Hollywood film called: Field of Dreams. A son almost bankrupting himself so ghosts of the past can play baseball in his cornfields. The ghosts di... ...ields. The ghosts disappear into the cornfields and hide there. Just as the ghosts of all the fathers and mothers who ever came to America as alien... ...s at a feast they cannot truly enjoy or eat or digest. Spectators are living ghosts. Acting out the vicarious thrill our dead ancestors acted out ... ...by European aristocracy, pomaded white powder bleaching their faces into pale ghosts, until their clothes became a class-uniform of white silk and w... ...n his life who loved him and cared for him. The old man is visited by three ghosts of Christmas. Showing what was, what is, and what is to be. T...

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...times representeth strange apparitions, as their fathers and grandfathers ghosts, risen out of their graves, and in their winding sheets: and to othe... ...So was I sometimes wont to doe, and if I heard any body speake, either of ghosts walking, of foretelling future things, of enchantments, of witchcra... ... their disputations to their close-stoole, both suddenly yeelded up their ghosts on them), and exaggerate that divine vengeance by the circumstance ... ...gne/1xlvi.htm (4 of 6)4/10/2005 3:53:15 AM Montaigne's Essays Thinke you, ghosts buried, ashes dead, Care much how we alive are sped? What feeling ... ...e and to fall sicke, in spight of all physicke. It is the first lesson the Mexicans give their children; When they come out of their mothers wombes, ...

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...ticles published hy liiui this sum- mer, one entitled "iSome Little- Known Mexican Volcanoes " which api^eared in the August Popular Science Monthly, ... ...the contents of the July number of the Journal of Geology. The treatise on Mexican volca- noes is illustrated by seven excel- lent cuts made from phot... ...d to the mountain top, only to be drugged by the liquor offered him by the ghosts of Hendrick Hudson and his men, were recited by Mr. Kier- nan. Be ga...

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...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. ... ...ions of existence that we try to anthropomorphesize God Himself and to materialize ghosts. God is "angry" or "vengeful" or (more rarely) "forgiving...

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...ich create "perverse incentives" with regards to what it considers to be misguided Mexican public policies - such as refusing to float the peso. ... ...ions of existence that we try to anthropomorphesize God Himself and to materialize ghosts. God is "angry" or "vengeful" or (more rarely) "forgiving...

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... wheeling si- lently through the deserted streets of the decayed and dying Mexican town. It was the hour of the siesta. No- body was about. There was ... ...o bar-rooms, the hotel at the corner of the old Plaza, and the shops where Mexican “curios” were sold to those occasional Eastern tourists who came to... ...tel, Presley ate his long-deferred Mexi- can dinner—an omelette in Spanish-Mexican style, frijoles and tortillas, a salad, and a glass of white wine. ... ...n a corner of the room, during the whole course of his din- ner, two young Mexicans (one of whom was astonishingly handsome, after the melodramatic fa... ...ve-song to the ac- companiment of a guitar and an accordion. These Spanish-Mexicans, decayed, picturesque, vicious, and romantic, never failed to inte... ...Annixter, for the sake of say- ing something. “Afraid in the dark? What of—ghosts?” “N-no; I don’t know what. I wanted the light, I wanted— —” She dre...

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...id, too, because I knowed it was true, for that has always been the way with ghosts; so then I wouldn’t look any more, either. Both of us begged T om ... ..., and he’ll git come up with, one of these days, I says to myself, insulting ghosts that way. They’ll stand it for a while, maybe, but they won’t stan... ...a while, maybe, but they won’t stand it always, for anybody that knows about ghosts knows how easy they are Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 46 hurt, a... ...ut like a turtle’s tail, and that’s all. We’ve took California away from the Mexicans two or three years ago, so that part of the Pacific coast is our... ... got him. But I didn’t take no interest in the place, because there could be ghosts there, of course; not fresh ones, but I don’t like no kind. So the...

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...y, the sky colourless and cheerless. And up the hill I thought I could see ghosts. There several times, as I scanned the slope, I saw white figures. T... ... figures. They were mere creatures of the half light. “They must have been ghosts,” I said; “I wonder whence they dated.” For a queer notion of Grant ... ...Allen’s came into my head, and amused me. If each generation die and leave ghosts, he argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them. On tha... ...he import of these wells, to the ventilating towers, to the mystery of the ghosts; to say nothing of a hint at the mean- ing of the bronze gates and t... ...mong the specimens. In another place was a vast array of idols—Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And he...

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... towards the lake. Below, on the water, lanterns were coming alight, faint ghosts of warm flame floating in the pallor of the first twilight. The eart... ...nning up. ‘This is a ghostly situation,’ he said. ‘These houses don’t have ghosts—they’ve never had any personality, and only a place with personality... ...y, and found themselves in a vague, unsubstantial outdoors of dim snow and ghosts of an upper-world, that made strange shadows before the stars. It wa... ... the Futurists, he liked the West Afri- can wooden figures, the Aztec art, Mexican and Central American. He saw the grotesque, and a curious sort of m... ...ivity , they kindled themselves at the subtle lust of the Egyptians or the Mexicans. The whole game was one of subtle inter-suggestivity, and they wan...

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...had had a ‘Shilling Dreadful’ in your hand,” she proceeded, “something about Ghosts or Dynamite or Mid night Murder—one could understand it: those th... ...sed, “will Sylvie look and speak, in another ten years.” “You don’t care for Ghosts, then,” I ventured to suggest, unless they are really terrifying?”... ...are really terrifying?” “Quite so,” the lady assented. “The regular Railway Ghosts—I mean the Ghosts of ordinary Railway literature— are very poor af... ... merrily at my discomfiture. “It’s far more exciting than some of the modern ghosts, I assure you! Now there was a Ghost last month—I don’t mean a re... ...ve we any authority for it? In Shakespeare, for instance—there are plenty of ghosts there—does Shakespeare ever give the stage direction ‘hands chair ... ...e: and I have never seen them in any other part of the world. These two are Mexican—This one—” (He rose hastily, and carried it to the window, to exa...

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...” the farmer asked. “I should be speculating—deep—couldn’t hold myself in: Mexicans, Peroovians, Venzeshoolians, Spaniards, at ‘em I should go. I see ... ...s in all sorts of colours, Spaniards in black and white, Peruvians—orange, Mexicans—red as the British army. Well, it’s just my whim. If I like red, I... ... week or so, and you talk of coming down here and haunting the house! Such ghosts as you meet with strange treatment when they go about unprotected, l... ... letters, and beg you to follow the example. Old letters are the dreariest ghosts in the world, and you cannot keep more treacherous rubbish in your p... ...l she had in adoration kissed the feet of Napoleon, the giant of the later ghosts of history. It was a princely compliment. She received it curtseying...

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...the chest, wherefrom her mother extracted handfuls of shining guilders and Mexican dollars, let- ting them stream slowly back again through her claw-l... ...ouses for his ghost to frighten our women and children? Have we not enough ghosts about this place?” A murmur of approval interrupted him here. Mahmat... ...ill have the anklet if there is permission, for I have a charm against the ghosts and am not afraid. God is great!” A fresh outburst of noisy grief fr...

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...od beneath the touch, as time will seam and roughen a smooth hand. If ever Ghosts act plays, they act them on this ghostly stage. It was most deliciou... ...g an enormous banner, on which was inscribed, Mazeppa! T onight! Then, a Mexican chief, with a great pear shaped club on his shoul der, like Hercul... ...nd came bubbling up above it; and the water too; and here they stand, like ghosts on whom the other world closed suddenly, and who have no means of ge...

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...oe Framed a dark dwelling for their homeless thought, And, starting at the ghosts which to and fro Glide o’er its dim and gloomy strand, had brought T... ... _2570 By man, to be the home of things immortal, Memories, like awful ghosts which come and go, And must inherit all he builds below, When he is ... ...s! I fear we are pursued _3210 By wicked ghosts; a Phantom of the Dead, The night before we sailed, came to my bed I... ...from their boughs, and then Low, sweet, faint sounds, like the farewell of ghosts, Were heard: O, follow, follow, follow me! And then I said, ‘Panthea... ...rance, Were like those monstrous and barbaric shapes, 286 V olume One The ghosts of a no-more-remembered fame, Which, from their unworn obelisks, loo... ...r every aggravation of atrocity and variety of torture. The horrors of the Mexican, the Peruvian, and the Indian superstitions are well known. N N N N...

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... hungry and thirsty—a strange 13 Joseph Conrad theory of tenacious gringo ghosts suffering in their starved and parched flesh of defiant heretics, wh... ...sounds. The Violas had them in 24 Nostromo their ears as though invisible ghosts hovering about their chairs had consulted in mutters as to the advis... ... a grey sombrero with a silver cord and tas- sels. The bright colours of a Mexican serape twisted 114 Nostromo on the cantle, the enormous silver but... ...- tige. He told me after we made friends at a dance, in a Posada kept by a Mexican just outside the walls, that he had come here to make his fortune. ... ...rist Committee which sits, as far as I know, in a posada kept by a retired Mexican bull-fighter, a great politician, too, whose name I have forgotten.... ... Do you hear? A greater treasure than the one which they say is guarded by ghosts and devils on Azuera. It is true. I am resolved to make this the mos... ...nding a man to get the treasure that people said was guarded by devils and ghosts in the deep ravines of Azuera. “Señor,” he said, “we must catch the ... ... he used to do every evening on his way to play monte in the posada of the Mexican Domingo; or to sit in the place of honour, listening to songs and l...

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...o the stable-turret, we should find it to be a mere question of pen- dulum, but one that would hold us until dark. Then, should we fall to work, with ... ...f their own accord—where do they vanish until Monday morning? On the first Sunday that I ever strayed here, I expected to find them hovering about the... ... I would require a handsome sum of money to go aboard her, at midnight by the Dockyard bell, and stay aboard alone till morning; for surely she must b... ...shows in this Fair, and I had the pleasure of recognising several fields of glory with which I became well acquainted a year or two ago as Crimean bat... ...it had been poured out again that morning over sea and land, trans- formed into myriads of gold and silver sparkles. The ship was fragrant with flower...

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...d about how to keep tobacco from getting moldy, and from that they went into ghosts and told about a lot that other folks had seen; but Ed says— “Why ... ...uring forth its muddy mass of waters, and mingling with the deep blue of the Mexican Gulf. I never beheld a scene so utterly desolate as this en tran... ... great common sewer of the Western America, which pours out its mud into the Mexican Gulf, polluting the clear blue sea for many miles beyond its mout... ...ght, but went mad. In these days it seems incredible that people believed in ghosts so short a time ago. But they did. After asking after such other f...

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...usetops among which they sat. ‘ As if,’ said Eugene, ‘as if the churchyard ghosts were rising.’ He had walked to the window with his cigar in his mout... ...to his arm-chair, and said: 148 Our Mutual Friend ‘ Apparently one of the ghosts has lost its way, and dropped in to be directed. Look at this phanto... ... Channel, on errands about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ...the City , on questions of the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ... private information about the Bourse, and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and premium and discount and three quarters and seven eight... ...of the City on questions of the Bourse and Greek and Spanish and India and Mexican and par and pre- mium and discount and three-quarters and seven-eig... ... crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked sp...

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...and the boat, swerv- ing sharply, vanished from the coast. And perhaps the ghosts of old adventurers nod- ded wisely their ghostly heads and exchanged... ... sentences floated in the still- ness around the still craft. “Yes, siree! Mexican war rifles—good as new—six in a case—my people in Baltimore—that’s ... ...d d’Alcacer walked forward alone looking unreal and odd like their own day-ghosts. Mr. Travers gave no sign of being aware of his wife’s presence. It ...

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.... Strange sights had been seen there by some of the older slaves. Shrouded ghosts, riding on great black horses, had been seen to enter; balls of fire... ...st white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition. I... ...son, engaged in building two large man-of-war vessels, professedly for the Mexican government. These vessels were to be launched in the month of July,...

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...ow a gardener may get rid of the dormice that eat his peaches.” Chapter 62 Ghosts. AT FIRST SIGHT THE EXTERIOR of the house at Auteuil gave no indicat... ... Trieste, but my naval army in India will have taken some galleons, and my Mexican pioneers will have discov- ered some mine.” “Very good, very good! ...

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... . . 373 War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 The Mexican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Told in the... ..., with the 86 JACK LONDON silence heavy upon us like a damp sea mist. And the ghosts of the past were in the air and all about us; and I saw the yell... ...ere was wind moaning and sobbing of water, and where I sought wisdom from the ghosts of old shamans in the trees and dead and gone. “And in the end, ... ... surface of the meadow. It was riderless, though on its back was a high horned Mexican saddle, scarred and discolored by long usage. The man brought u... ...n he indentured himself to labor for five years in the South Seas at fifty cents Mexican a day, he had thought him self fortunate. There were men in hi... ...rtunate. There were men in his village who toiled a whole year for ten dollars Mexican, and there were women who made nets all the year round for five ... ...heir hands in applause of the long shot by the man with the ginger beard. The Mexican 22 N OBODY knew his history — they of the Junta least of all. H... ...rifted, ever pur sued by the flitting shadows of the anthropophagi, themselves ghosts of evil that dared not face him in battle but that knew, soon or... ...emories of matings accomplished, of feasts forgotten, of desires that were the ghosts of desires, flaring, flaming, burning, yet unrealized in achieveme...

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...e cast out from the light of day, _340 To rule the ghosts of men, unblessed as they. 44. 44. 44. 44. 44. To whom thus Hermes s... ... _335 Have we not long since proved to demonstration That ghosts move not on ordinary feet? But these are dancing just like men and w... ...our ignorance of the cause of any event is that we do not know it: had the Mexicans attended to this simple rule when they heard the cannon of the Spa... ...ahma, the Hottentot worships an insect, the Negro a bunch of feathers, the Mexican sacrifices human victims! Their degree of conviction must certainly... ...ave Waved the desolate form of a storm-blasted yew, Around it no demons or ghosts dare to rave, But spirits of peace steep her slumbers in dew. ... ...death, Convulsed they recline on the blood sprinkled heath, Or the yelling ghosts ride on the blast that sweeps by, _15 And ‘my countrymen! vengeanc... ... _90 My affection will I prove, Where sheeted ghosts and spectres are! ‘For thou art mine, and I am thine, ‘Till the drea... ...te Poetical Works of P. B. S.”, 1870; dated 1812. Rossetti’s title is “The Mexican Revolution”. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Brothers! between you and me Whirlwinds...

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...ghboring towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.” The Mexicans also practised a similar purification at the end of every fifty tw... ... ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as... ...e woods, and the trumpet that sings of fame, and I felt as if I could spit a Mexican with a good relish, — for why should we always stand for trifles? ... ...pact utilitarian heap The present may sit down and go to sleep, Nor fear the ghosts who from the dim past walked, And with us by the unequal light of ... ... eyes there. Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heave...

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...ty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought, Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee, or far north or inlan... ...nts of the prairies, Chants of the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minne... ...ced sisters and the inexperienced sisters! Far breath’d land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! The compact! The Pennsylvanian! the Virgini... ... breast of the black venerable vast mother the Nile, I hear the chirp of the Mexican muleteer, and the bells of the mule, I hear the Arab muezzin call... ...ee the clear sunsets of the martyrs, I see from the scaffolds the descending ghosts, Ghosts of dead lords, uncrown’d ladies, impeach’d ministers, reje... ...hing—it is new moon and twilight, I see the hiding of douceurs, I see nimble ghosts whichever way look, Cache and cache again deep in the ground and s... ... rifle, a half ironical smile curving its phantom lips, Like one of Ossian’s ghosts looks down. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 528 WASHINGTON’S M ONUMENT ... ...alwart chieftains, medicine men, and warriors, As flitting by like clouds of ghosts, they pass and are gone in the twilight, (Race of the woods, the l...

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...ing towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.” The Mexicans also practised a similar purification at the end of every fifty tw... ...les or its smooth reflecting surface was re vealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as a... ...eap The present may sit down and go to sleep, Nor fear the ghosts who from the dim past walked, And with us by the unequal lig... ...yes there. Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heaven....

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...w, were I a rebel,” said Miss Joliffe, half aloud, “I might fancy that the ghosts of these ancient governors had been summoned to form the funeral pro... ...wondrous tale, that on the anniversary night of Britain’s discomfiture the ghosts of the ancient gov- ernors of Massachusetts still glide through the ... ...chambers of her own desolate heart, and made childhood’s fancy discern the ghosts that haunted there. Living so continually in her own circle of ideas... ...tly he had expended a legacy of a thousand or two of dollars in purchasing Mexican scrip, and thereby became the proprietor of a province; which, howe...

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...st white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition. I... ...ed that spring in building two large man-of-war brigs, professedly for the Mexican government. The vessels were to be launched in the July of that yea...

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...d cedar on its shores, hung with gray lichens, looked at a distance like the ghosts of trees. Ducks were sailing here and there on its surface, and a ... ... matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one, — that my body might, — but I fear bodies, I t... ...the first generation of them deserve a pension more than any that went to the Mexican war. Early the next morning we started on our return up the Penob...

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... as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts. Let us drop this idolatry. Let us give over this mendicancy. Let us... ... gives a value to the Egyp- tian hieroglyphics, to the Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols, however gross and shapeless. They denote the height of the h... ...to be shamed out of our nonsense of all kinds, and made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms. We are weary of glid- ing ghostlike through the world,...

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...ests, who wan- der about the long passages and deserted balconies like the ghosts of those of the summer visitors, who cannot rest quietly in their gr... ...l McClellan was not yet thirty- five. He had served, early in life, in the Mexican war, hav- ing come originally from Pennsylvania, and having been ed... ...e made on the purchase of war- rants for land. Soldiers returning from the Mexican wars were donated with warrants for land—the amount being 160 acres...

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...o the southward, and arrived, at nine P .M., over the northern edge of the Mexican Gulf. “April 10th. I was suddenly aroused from slumber, about five ... ...n it are imbued with the spirit of Eld. The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries; their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning; an...

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...hitening. See with what a ferocious air the gentleman who person- ates the Mexican chief, paces up and down, and with what an eye of calm dignity the ... ...re an overladen clothes-basket. Sea-sickness, however, is like a belief in ghosts—every one entertains some misgivings on the subject, but few will ac...