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....................................................4 The Crucifix Across the Mountains .................................................................... ...916 1916 1916 ITALIANS IN EXILE THE RETURN JOURNEY The Crucifix Across the Mountains THE IMPERIAL ROAD to Italy goes from Munich across the T yrol, th... ...uch simpler it would all be. The imperial procession no longer crosses the mountains, going South. That is almost forgotten, the road has almost passe... ... great bishops, must have planted the holy idol like a new plant among the mountains, there where it multiplied and grew according to the soil, and th... ...sciousness one evening, going alone over a marshy place at the foot of the mountains, when the sky was pale and unearthly, invisible, and the hills we... ...to know the joy of man who has got the earth in his grip, bound it up with railways, burrowed it with iron fin- gers, subdued it. He wanted this last ... ... to slave-work, building roads or labouring in quarries or mines or on the railways, purposeless, meaningless, really slave-work, each integer doing h... ... swarmed within the disintegration, like maggots in cheese. The roads, the railways are built, the mines and quarries are excavated, but the whole org... ...seems as though we should be left at last with a great system of roads and railways and industries, and a world of utter chaos seething upon these fab...

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...herents of each of the four French parties – Legitimists, Orleanists, Imperialists, and Republicans – in this little mountain-town; and they all hate,... ...oses, or to give each other the lie in a tavern brawl, they have laid aside even the civility of speech. ’Tis a mere mountain Poland. In the midst of ... ...t; every one was anxious to be kind and helpful to the stranger. This was not merely from the natural hospitality of mountain people, nor even from th... ...destine did wonders for the rest of the fore-noon, and I had a breathing space to look about me. It was Sabbath; the mountain-fields were all va- cant... ...stones, an amiable stripling of a river, which it seems absurd to call the Loire. On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky foot- paths, pra... ...rades at sundown. The company in the inn kitchen that night were all men employed in survey for one of the projected railways. They were intelligent a...

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...seen Alpini sitting restfully and staring with speculative eyes across the mountain gulfs to- wards unseen and unaccountable enemies. I have seen trai... ... plain of Lombardy. When at last I motored away from Udine to the northern mountain front I passed through Campo- Formio and saw the white-faced inn a... ...uipment of a modern army advancing. Everywhere I saw new roads being made, railways pushed up, vast store dumps, hospitals; everywhere the villages sw... ...ear, and Italy is the most fortunate land in the world for road metal; her mountains are solid road metal, and in this Venetian plain you need but to ... ... Italians had just captured the east- ern half. Behind this again rose the mountains to the east of the Isonzo which the Austrians still held. The Iso... ...which the Austrians still held. The Isonzo came towards me from out of the mountains, in a great westward curve. Fifteen or sixteen miles away where i... ... and British camps and batteries creep forward, the stores, the dumps, the railways creep forward, in their untiring, victorious thrust against the Ge...

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...the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it. There... ...s than a planet will serve the purpose of a modern Utopia. Time was when a mountain valley or an island seemed to promise sufficient isolation for a p... ...l Bedretto, and Villa and Fontana and Airolo try to hide from us under the mountain side—three-quarters of a mile they are verti- cally below. (Lanter... ...er, a universal tongue would serve you there. While I sit here among these mountains—I have been filing away at them for this last aeon or so, just to... ...nsiently smile, a smile that would be like the passing of a cloud. All the mountain wilderness about us would be radiantly lit. (You know those swift ... ... pierce the mountain masses and tunnel under the seas. These may be double railways or monorails or what not—we are no engi- neers to judge between su... ...ons and thinning as the population thins. And running beside these lighter railways, and spreading beyond their range, will be the smooth minor high r... ...figures one of the more urban highways, one of those along which the light railways of the second order run, such as that in the valley of Urseren, in... ...t us come back to Utopia. We were speaking of travel. Besides roadways and railways and tramways, for those who go to and fro in the earth the Modern ...

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...here was strength to borrow and use…. Then suddenly man woke up to it, the railways spread like a network over the globe, the ever enlarging iron stea... ... an equal speed atomic engines of various types invaded industrialism. The railways paid enormous premi- ums for priority in the delivery of atomic tr... ...e Steel Trust is scrapping the whole of its plant,’ he shouted. ‘The State Railways are going to scrap all their en- gines. Everything’s going to be s... ...n’t.’) Barnet saw the last days of the coal-steam engines upon the English railways and the gradual cleansing of the Lon- don atmosphere as the smoke-... ...rilliance with the motor bicycles, aeroplanes, and ski-men among the Swiss mountains, and a sudden swoop upon Vienna; the thing was to listen—and wait... ... a great crimson flare leap responsive to each im- 79 H G Wells pact, and mountainous masses of red-lit steam and flying fragments clamber up towards... ...R AR AR AR AR S S S S Section 1 ection 1 ection 1 ection 1 ection 1 ON THE MOUNTAIN-SIDE above the town of Brissago and com- manding two long stretche... ...h arise great precipices very high and wild. Above the asphodel fields the mountains climb in rocky slopes to soli- tudes of stone and sunlight that c... ...aria Maggiore and by boat up the lake to Brissago; thence he walked up the mountain, a pleasant path set with oaks and sweet chestnut. For provision o...

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...so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, nor all the king’s horses and all the king’s men... ... before him into the distance, and shows him the far-off spires of some city, or a range of mountain-tops, or a rim of sea, perhaps, along a low horiz... ... me only for a moment as I followed the footpath. Wendover lay well down in the midst, with mountains of foliage about it. The great plain stretched a... ..., like a refraction, magnified and deformed, of the Bass Rock; and there were the chiselled mountain-tops of Arran, veined and tipped with snow; and b... ...rovingian wars; a legend as of some dead religion. 117 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER VI—A MOUNTAIN TOWN IN FRANCE A FRAGMENT 1879 ORIGINALLY INTENDE... ... scheme of things upon this earth, and how a turn of fashion in England can silence so much mountain merri- ment in France. The lace-makers themselves...

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... and olive; and it was crowned above by opalescent clouds. The suffusion of vague hues deceived the eye; the shadows of clouds were confounded with th... ...e the Casco, from the north, they proved in- deed the least conspicuous features of a striking coast; the surf flying high above its base; strange, au... ..., that giraffe of vegetables, so graceful, so un- gainly, to the European eye so foreign, was to be seen crowding on the beach, and climbing and fring... ... fringing the steep sides of mountains. Rude and bare hills embraced the inlet upon either hand; it was enclosed to the landward by a 6 In The South ... ...ill cause a whole party to walk in clouds of darkness. The hamlet of Anaho stands on a margin of flat land be- tween the west of the beach and the spr... ... roads lay desert, or were only visited by men in arms. It is for this very reason that it wears now so smiling an appearance: cleared, planted, built...

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...mi-circular and unroofed temple open to the ocean, with its walls of lofty mountains hung with the mourning draperies of cloud. On one side of this br... ...of snow. Then, as the midday sun withdraws from the gulf the shadow of the mountains, the clouds begin to roll out of the lower valleys. They swathe i... ... Ribiera (such was the dictator’s name) had come pelting eighty miles over mountain tracks after the lost battle of Socorro, in the hope of out- dista... ... plain by dwarfs mounted and on foot, yelling with tiny throats, under the mountain that seemed a colossal embodiment of si- lence. Never before had G... ...) had been tolerable—even pleasant— quite tolerable. But the trip over the mountains to Sulaco was another sort of experience, in an old diligencia ov... ...cases outrageous pre- tensions as to price had been raised. But the man of railways prided himself on being equal to every emergency. Since he was met... ... to understand a word now and then. Directly he had done, the financier of railways turned to Mrs. Gould— “You were good enough to say that you intend... ...Señores, have no apprehension. Go on quietly making your Ferro Carril—your railways, your tele- graphs. Your—There’s enough wealth in Costaguana to pa... ...ble. Have you met the impossible face to face—or have you, the Napoleon of railways, no such word in your dictionary?” “Is she bound to have a very ba...

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...ed it. We were now on those great plains which stretch unbroken to the Rocky Mountains. The country was flat like Holland, but far from being dull. Al... ...country than the other. All Sunday and Monday we travelled through these sad mountains, or 24 Across the Plains over the main ridge of the Rockies, w... ...t seen them; not a tree, not a patch of sward, not one shapely or commanding mountain form; sage-brush, eternal sage-brush; over all, the same wearifu... ...n Indian on a pony. We then turend the other way, and run up the side of the Mountain, and hid behind some cedar trees, and stayed there till dark. Th... ... Dean Swift; a kind of leering, human goat, leaping and wagging your scut on mountains of offence. I do my best to keep my head the other way, and loo... ...away up there, which was at that time far beyond the northernmost extreme of railways, hard upon the shore of that ill-omened strait of whirlpools, in...

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...und the World in 80 Days showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways. He took the carpet-bag, opened it, and slipped into it a goodly r... ... its ruined walls whereon date-trees were growing, was sighted, and on the mountains beyond were espied vast coffee-fields. Passepartout was rav- ishe... ...andallah and Pounah; and, passing Pauwell, they entered the defiles of the mountains, with their basalt bases, and their summits crowned with thick an... ... master.” The conversation fell again. During the night the train left the mountains behind, and passed Nassik, and the next day proceeded over the fl... ...d not be done on the railway. The train entered the defiles of the Sutpour Mountains, which separate the Khandeish from Bundelcund, towards evening. T... ...of being built. This line, owing to the capricious turnings of the Vindhia Mountains, did not pursue a straight course. The Parsee, who was quite fami... ...now! Earth and sea had seemed to be at his master’ s service; steamers and railways obeyed him; wind and steam united to speed his journey. Had the ho... ...ty days. T o do this he had em- ployed every means of conveyance—steamers, railways, car- riages, yachts, trading-vessels, sledges, elephants. The ecc...

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...o can take an undying interest in uniforms and reviews. And lastly, of our railways, let me merely remark here that 7 H. G . Wells we have always ins... ...reedom and happiness to arrange it so; but when steam rail- ways or street railways are involved we have our rails in com- mon, and we have an excelle... .... Let us make one to reach up to the table.” We dispute whether it isn’t a mountain railway we are after. The bare name is refreshing; it takes us bac... ...le time when we all went to Wengen, wind- ing in and out and up and up the mountain side—from slush, to such snow and sunlight as we had never seen be... ...sh, to such snow and sunlight as we had never seen be- fore. And we make a mountain railway. So far, we have never got it up to the table, but some da... ...ion on the floor, with shunts and sidings to each. The peculiar joy of the mountain railway is that, if it is properly made, a loaded car—not a toy en...

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...Mary on board the Valdivia; and, in spite of all Miss Ponsonby’s horror of railways, he persuaded her to trust herself under his care to Liverpool. Sh... ... lection which would lead to repining. And when at Cape Horn, a mighty ice mountain drifted within view, spired, pinnacled, encrusted with whiteness, ... ...ions, snowy, white-winged albatross, leaping flying-fish, and white-capped mountain-coast, had been joined in her mind with some- thing higher, deeper... ...a district with the bleakness, but not the beauty, of the neighbourhood of mountains; the fresh September breeze was laden with smoke, and stations st... ...ld habits. They drove through two miles of brown flat heath, with far-away mountain outlines, which she greeted as dear friends. Here and there the en... ...y O’er the great Andes chain, and, looking down, On flaming Cordilleras, mountain thrown O’er mountain, vast new realms. —The Creation—Re...

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... the wood; to the last it seemed still but a little way beyond the distant mountains. For this reason this story has been called The Research Magnific... ...hen he had picked up his strength, his father was to join him and take him mountain- eering, that second-rate mountaineering which is so dear to dons ... ...d, be- fore even he reached Montana; he was afraid of the steepness of the mountains. He had to drive ten or twelve miles up and up the mountain-side,... ...w in their cities if they will. It is in the lonely places, in jungles and mountains, in snows and fires, in the still observatories and the silent la... ... pipes, tire- some. He wanted to wander in deserts of ice and see over the mountains, and discover what it is to be benighted on a preci- pice. And gr... ...e a united world, Benham, as a matter of course. That was settled when the railways and the telegraph came. Telephones, wireless telegraphy, aeroplane...

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...time. Owing to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as... ...l were supposed to approach was, during my sojourn, always guarded by vast mountains of flour barrels. Looking up at the windows of the building, I pe... ...commands a magnificent view of one of the valleys into which the Alleghany Mountains is broken. Harrisburg is immediately under the range, probably at... ...scribe the manner in which I accomplished the descent. In running down the mountains to Pittsburg an acci- dent occurred which in any other country wo... ...s scenery it is beautifully situ- ated, being at the foot of the Alleghany Mountains, and at the juncture of the two rivers Monongahela and Alleghany.... ... Ohio. Nothing can be more picturesque than the site, for the spurs of the mountains come down close round the town, and the rivers are broad and swif... ...very few available roads running North and South through these States. The railways came before roads; and even where the railways are far asunder, al... ...ances without. Consequently such roads as there are run later- ally to the railways, meeting them at this point or that, and thus maintaining the comm... ...nt or that, and thus maintaining the communication of the country. Now the railways were of course in the hands of the armies. The few direct roads le...

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...stract air of his; and he was ral- lied. He confessed to being absorbed in railways, the new lines of railways projected to thread the land and fast m... ... prompted an impulse in Redworth to speak to her at once of his venture in railways. But what would she understand of them, as connected with the migh... ...k. He wanted, he said, to have a talk with Lady Dunstane. Evidently he had railways on the brain, and Sir Lukin warned his wife to be guarded against ... ...dworth nodded assent. It might be surmised that he was brooding over those railways, in which he had embarked his 49 George Meredith fortune. Ah! tho... ...eenly comrade, 65 George Meredith and a spirit leaping and shining like a mountain water. She did not seduce, she ravished. The judgement was taken c... ...ve to endure. They are really trifles, and I should once have thought them mountains!’ 114 Diana of the Crossways For the moment Diana stipulated tha... ...ng foot- path, the first closed buds, the sharper air, the uprising of the mountain with her ascent; and pleasant too was her hun- ger and the nibble ... ...ed and shrouded her. She had none, save for the upper air, the eyes of the mountain. Which was the dream—her past life or this ethereal exist- ence? B... ...e most guarded and clearest-eyed of young men to meet at early morn upon a mountain side? 139 George Meredith CHAPTER XVI TREATS OF A MIDNIGHT BELL, ...

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...a matter of many weeks now—diversified indeed by some long drives into the mountains behind us and a memorable sail to Genoa across the blue and purpl... ...ivory, the Gulf of Liguria gleaming sapphire blue, and cloud-like baseless mountains hanging in the sky, and I think of lank and coaly steamships heav... ...ragged hearthrug where lived certain china Zulus brandishing spears, and a mountain coun- try of rudely piled bricks concealing the most devious and e... ...nsent to live in the houses the Victorians built, travel by their roads or railways, value the furnishings they made to live among or esteem, except f... ...co. I should have had military manoeuvres, training ships, aeroplane work, mountaineering and so forth, in the place of the solemn trivi- alities of g... ...sly and I had formed a very good working idea of this round globe with its mountains and wildernesses and forests and all the sorts and conditions of ... ...ap in your works; it wasn’t your foresight that joined all England up with railways and made it possible to organise production on an altogether diffe... ...nk of agricultural midland between the Great Western and the North Western railways. I was going to “take hold” at last, the Kinghamstead Division was... ...re was the first immediacy of my dream of ports and harbours and cit- ies, railways, roads, and administered territories—the vision I had seen in the ...

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...gaberdine still reeked of the 7 Rudyard Kipling stinking artemisia of the mountain passes. ‘O Children, what is that big house?’ he said in very fair... ...ments of R17 and M4–quite true. It concerned all manner of out of the way mountain principalities, explorers of nationali ties other than English, a... ... changars–the women who have taken all the embankments of all the Northern railways under their charge–a flat footed, big bosomed, strong limbed, blue... ...caught were in an unknown tongue, for they spoke some common speech of the mountains. The woman seemed to ask questions which the lama turned over in ... ... other Sahibs. ‘Yes, and thou must learn how to make pictures of roads and mountains and rivers to carry these pictures in thine eye till a suitable ... ...iscover news today it may be of far off things, tomor row of some hidden mountain, and the next day of some near by men who have done a foolishness ...

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...states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was n... ...here the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again ... ...ept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to be right be... ...ning began to creep round us. This was emphasized by the fact that the snowy mountain top still held the sun set, and seemed to glow out with a delic... ...to hold on. The road grew more level, and we appeared to fly along. Then the mountains seemed to come nearer to us on each side and to frown down upon... ...scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda, relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit, in fact all that might be usefu...

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...d—as they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railways— with trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and ter- tiary l... ...mpared with the world behind the Allies the Turkish Empire is a country of mountains, desert and undeveloped lands. T o develop these regions into a s... ...rous undertaking for Germany. She may open mines she may never work, build railways that others will enjoy, sow harvests for alien reaping. The people... ...struction, any increase in public officials, any “conscription” of land or railways or what not for the urgent civil needs of the State. They will hav... ...e-union rules, set out to stop the biggest avalanche that ever came down a mountain-side. And since I am by no means alto- gether pessimistic, in spit... ...oth in social and military efficiency, and she is so suffering because her railways, instead of being planned as one great and simple national distrib... ...ialist State than it is to-day, but, as a mat- ter of fact, the ships, the railways, the coal and metal supply, the great metal industries, much engin...

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... 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 58 Br... ... into distant woodlands winds a mazy way, reaching to overlapping spurs of mountains bathed in their hill side blue. But though the picture lies thus ... ...utherner, and from his fine stature, I thought he must be one of those tall mountaineers from the Alleganian Ridge in Virginia. When the revelry of his... ... though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains. A curious sight; these bashful bears, these timid warrior whalem... ...to drop the axe and snatch the whale lance. Many are as green as the Green Mountains whence they came. In some things you would think them but a few h... ...separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the...