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...olumns of the temple of Zeus, in Athens, stand white against the moonlit sky. A woman walks among columnar cypress, her sandals scraping sand an... ...res. Below, somewhere on the bay, a ship winked and made me feel that the sky had gotten below us. A warm wind and some scarves, that was all I nee... ...P Thousands of white herons flew over our island this morning, making the sky a sky of motion. They flew almost all morning, flying toward the mainl... ...nts to amuse himself? Phaon... I see you against every wall, against the sky, in the dark, in the sun under the trees. My flesh aches, my arms melt... ...rge canvas, with a flock of white birds in the sky, carrying a blue tree. October, November—bad months for sickness. But by December he was up, skin... ...ons, labor, illness, age. LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 269 Cloux October 15, 1517 Francesco is copying this: I have been unable to write... ... talked about my Anghiari and she was eager to follow its progression. October 29th Masculine skies...feminine skies...at this season of the year... ...ns, the horse with man, the legs of frogs with the legs of men.” Cloux October 6, 1518 This is my second autumn at the château—cold, cold! Windy.... ...ormation I had recorded is spotty. Tomorrow we will begin with item 1. October 28, ’18 A lavish autumn! Gold leaves float on the river, and, as ...

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...ph B. Harris and Moses A. Meyer to form “Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange” in October 1891. A year later, the first Strowger exchange was inst... ...procate with emitted light. The squid constantly monitors to what extent the night sky is illuminated, using dedicated sensors on the surface of i... ...he Spring Equinox back to March 21, 10 days were dropped from the civil calendar in October 1582. Thursday, October 4 was followed by Friday, Octob... ... Moreover, though he upheld the Bolsheviks' anti-war stance, he opposed the 1917 October Revolution (the Bolshevik coup against the post-Tsarist ... .../inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa103197.htm H Halloween Centuries ago, October 31 was called in England "All Hallows' Eve". People pray... ...pare the souls of the departed for the Catholic All Saints' Day on November 1. October 31 was also the Celtic New Years' Eve - the "Samhain". O... ...bove or below the observer's horizon." UFO's are almost always observed high in the sky or even directly above the observer's head (zenith). Mirage... ...inking, stooping, etc. In looming an object below the horizon is projected into the sky. Objects under the horizon can thus appear to be above it. ... ... astronomical horizon. How much we see depends on our elevation, the width of the sky between the two horizons, and the distance to the objects, a...

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... as Doc says, he’s going to be our entry in the Great State Fair of Texas in October. Let him go, Doc.” Clint held his watch in his right hand and... ...week, it’d never been run at a minute-three. If Whisper can keep it up until October, he’ll win the state for sure.” “Montana,” Clint called out. ... ...n the range lately, the sun’s high and hot. There hadn’t been a cloud in the sky for over a week and it looked like more of the same. There were el... ..., following the tracks of his missing cattle. The sun was gettin’ low in the sky and the worst of the heat was starting to let up. We finally got t... ...omewhere up ahead. The sun was gettin’ lower with every mile and the prairie sky was startin’ to turn red. The sun’d be down in another hour and I ... ...lint and Tom may be good friends and do business together, but one day every October, they’re sworn enemies. I guess the news of another fast horse... ...n gets any lower… or your father will have my hide.” The sun was low in the sky when we rode under the Circle of Fire arch and up the drive to the... ...uor and stupidity. I also may have lost my only chance to win in Dallas come October, and without that win, we could lose part of the ranch.” “I’... ...ter of the world. To do that, we have to win first place at the State Fair in October. It’s just that simple. Now, I’m not even sure I have a horse...

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...t as Many Second Chances as You Want ............. 71 8 I Reached for the Sky But I Missed, So I Grabbed a Few Stars .... 85 9 10 11 12 13 14 ... ... carry my work record with me into the future and to my fertile mind, the sky was the limit. Success doesn't come to you; you go to it. With a winni... ...e and their money. The business struggled along as forlornly as ever. In October, 1988, their fortunes depleted, the Johnsons sold the business to ... ...pon­ sible long-term marriage partner and parent. 8 , Reached for the Sky But , Missed, So , Grabbed a Few Stars Success to me means spiritual... ...around two and a quarter million. This in turn creates I Reached for the Sky But I Missed, So I Grabbed a Few Stars • 87 an astounding six-billion-... ...ill hung out and changed his life forever. Over a game I Reached for the Sky But I Missed, So I Grabbed a Few Stars • 89 they chatted, and the stra... ...troubles. At the same time, of course, your fellow humans are helped! On October 6 I went to Phoenix, Arizona, for a speaking en­ gagement. This tim... ...ng Uncle Noname cookies in the stores by Christmas. It was now the end of October, and I had to move fast. Once home in Hawaii, I spent a few days s... ...ally Amos. The documents of agreement were mailed to me for signature on October 25, in New York, where I was attending the 1993 Hero Awards. A yea...

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... A Novel By John E. Richman Published by John E. Richman October, 2007 Without limiting the rights under copyrig... ... 1 Chapter 1 I remember that morning like it was yesterday. The sky was blue as a robin’s egg and there was a light breeze coming up f... ...enture. It was cold and rainy the morning Spirit and I left. It was only mid-October, but the winds of Call Me Montana – The Beginning 5 winter... ...ug and walked outside to the well. The sun was beginning to get low in the sky and I wondered what Daggot and the men would find back at the Car... ...tt should have gotten it. I guess I just got tired of the politics. It was in October of that year that I went west. Seems to me it was late Fall o... ...dry for a change. The late fall sun came up late, and stayed low in the hazy sky. Given it was almost December, I thought, conditions could have be... ...e weeks and John E. Richman 136 Wilson called me around the first week in October. So…I’m guessing he picked up the equipment mid-October, just... ...ide if that water on John E. Richman 140 your shirt earlier came from the sky,” Ellen said. She reached for my hand and escorted me out of th... ...was falling. Down and down I went until I could no longer see Taylor, or the sky, or anything. THUD! I hit the bottom. All I could think was tha...

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...ning star and waning moon glowing pale as light of morning spread over the sky. Then a cock crew somewhere at a distance, and Mrs. Shepherd’s cock ans... ...with pearly white, soft but dazzling, which varied the intense blue of the sky. Then he watched all the company sit or lie down on the shady side of t... ...et with the clock for striking four when he wanted it to be five, when the sky grew darker, and one or two heavy drops of rain came plashing down on t... ... the trees and fields glow with intense green against the deep grey of the sky, darker than ever from the contrast. Ellen stood up, and Alfred exclaim... ... Once he raised up his head, and saw through the window the deep dark-blue sky, and the stars, twinkling and spar- kling away; that pale band of light... ...r, just when he should have been their strength and stay. One afternoon in October, when Alfred was in a good deal of pain, Mr. Blunt said he would se...

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...ing-room, or under a long tent erected on the lawn, but the beautiful blue sky, studded with stars, had settled the question in favor of the lawn. The... ..., like a meteor seen passing inauspiciously between two clouds in a stormy sky. Chapter 81 The Room of the Retired Baker. THE EVENING OF THE DAY on wh... ... used. That Count of Monte Cristo is an original, who loves to look at the sky even at night.” “And where do the servants sleep?” “Oh, they have a hou... ... dipped in blood. He opened the window; a bright yellow streak crossed the sky, and seemed to divide in half the poplars, which stood out in black rel... ...e soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.” “That may possibly be tr... ...se, extend- ing his hand to Monte Cristo. “Only remember” — “On the 5th of October, Morrel, I shall expect you at the Island of Monte Cristo. On the 4... ...t is understood — is it not?” “But, count, do you remember that the 5th of October” — “Child,” replied the count, “not to know the value of a man’s wo... ...r had become entirely white. 485 Alexandre Dumas Chapter 117 The Fifth of October. IT WA S ABOUT SIX O’CLOCK in the evening; an opal-colored light, t... ...he count shudder. “My friend,” contin- ued Morrel, “you named the fifth of October as the end of the period of waiting, — to-day is the fifth of Octob...

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...e. “And then,” said she, “my son and I Must stroll in air ‘twixt earth and sky: Or else, shut out from heaven and earth, Fly to the sea, my place of b... ...m alive to tell you so. CHAPTER X TO STELLA, VISITING ME IN MY SICKNESS, OCTOBER, 1727. Pallas, observing Stella’s wit Was more than for her sex was...

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...al label attached on his envelopes: a flight of cranes floating in a blue sky, stretching their aerodynamic necks towards the desired horizon...It is... ... garden) is considered by itself a poem! - the course of a rocket in the sky! - the sound of a bagpipe too! Then a poem can be: an object, an in... ...idently and signs striking images (“Late in the night I put my ear on the sky/ as on a dead bird”). The big and final comparison takes good effects:... ...: 1. Out in the Left Side, Cactus Theater Company, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, October 1990. 2. The She-Trickster and the She-Bear, Buzesti Brothers High... ...lsruhe, september, 29, 1995; then staged by Student Theater of Timisoara, October 1995 (ia a tour through Morocco, germany and Romania); 5. Pacala,... ...y, ‘Antichambres-Antipoesies-Bizarreries’ in “Le Chalut”, Liege, Belgium, October, november, December 1989, no.126,127,128, p.XIII. Sagitaire, Jean... ...les de l’Academie des Lettres et des Arts du Perigord”, Bordeaux, France, October-December 1991, pp.41-42. Editor, ‘Paradoxist Literary Movement’, ... ...tura e Consciencia Social, Joao Pessoa, Brazil, ano V, no. 17, September/ October 1993, p.2. Editor, Escritores Internacionais Visitam a Revista, i...

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...nd can call for a car whenever I need one.” He took her to 54, high in the sky. The maitre d’ welcomed them. “Evening Mr. Edmonds, Sir.” They followed... ... in Toronto. It is beautiful. Lacey was impressed by Toronto’s magnificent sky- line, which she could see from the Gardiner Expressway. Funny, I’ve li... ... in the next busy weeks and met for lunch a few times. Then one day in mid October Jake said, “I’m free this weekend. I have a cabin at 53 A COURAGEO... ...s open, without pretense, and so obviously happy with her new experiences. October was a wonderful time to come to the cabin. He was glad it was a sun... ...ou want me, okay? And I’ll see you on the weekend.” They disconnected. The sky was dark. It looked like snow . Figures, Jana thought. Only the middle ... ...mps Elysees; in London on their many trips to book fairs; and on that warm October day so many years ago when they had played in the leaves like child... ...lian arrived to pick up Lacey for her biopsies. The moon was bright in the sky, reflecting light back from the snow . Their breath puffed out white cl... ...few weeks away from the cold will be a relief. 199 A COURAGEOUS BATTLE IN OCTOBER, Jana and Scott flew to New York. Jana was a bundle of nerves. They... ...gh the leaves on the pathway through the woods. Whenever she walked in the October colors she remembered Jake and the first wonderful walk she’d enjoy...

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... PACIFIC NORTHWEST TERRITORY PUGETSOUND THE SUN HAD descended in the afternoon sky and glowed bril­ liantly above the lush green of the forest, but ... ...­ ered with the wrinkles of time and wisdom. He raised his hand, pointed to the sky, and began to speak: . "Yonder sky that has wept tears of compas... ...White Chief sends us word that he wishes to buy our lands. How can you buy the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us .. .Ifwe do n... ...Aquarius, the Water Bearer and all the rest of the constellations. As the blue sky faded into darker and darker hues, Richard waited for the night ... ...his own existence; so far, both had eluded him. He fixed his mind on the night sky painting and continued to trace imaginary lines that melded his ... ...o over two million people who were 310 Johnathan Cross frolicking in the warm October sun. Surprisingly, there had been very few problems, some ma...

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...he middle ages -- The awe of boundless perspective -- Demons contending in the sky -- Dangers of an angry ocean -- Imagination of the sailor -- Unnatu... ...ture from Seville -- A voyage to the great unknown -- Terrifying sights in the sky -- The excitable historian -- A marvellous water-bearing tree -- Ma... ...depth of the ocean, fill the mind with amazement; the changing hues of sea and sky in times of calm, present a scene of most exquisite beauty, while t... ...ing clouds of the tornado, writhing and twisting like demons contending in the sky, the mountain waves crashing on the deck in watery avalanches, the ... ..., leaving the Philippines on the 1st of January, reached Acapulco on the 3d of October -- a passage which won for him great honor, as the voyage betwe... ..., fifty infantry, and 3000 Mexican soldiers, Cortez left Mexico on the 12th of October, 1524, for Honduras, which would necessitate a land march of 15... ...art of subordinates to know as little as possible. On Monday, the third day of October, the voyage really began, when the cliffs of Teneriffe faded fr... ...ain complaints began to arise among the men, but finally, on St. Ursula's Day, October 21, 1520, a bold headland appeared in view to the south-west, a... ...uinea, and believed Australia, as he viewed it, to be a cluster of islands. In October, 1616, a Dutch navigator named Theodoric Hertoge, on the way fr...

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.... The disease is only in the early stages and that has encouraged me. Last October was when I last had the tests. Yes, I believe in it a lot. I've hea... ...motorcycles, batteries flew and exploded, some car marques landed from the sky onto runways like jet planes, they defeated mountain giants, crossed br... ...entured in the guise of various animals in the world underground or in the sky among the stars. In the interpretations of Finno-Ugric peoples the real... ...ythology is also fundamentally shamanistic oral tradition, with the starry sky as the 'screen' and the configurations of stars still showing the trace...

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...ne of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between the skies and Bonaparte, then declared Consul for life,--a belief in which tha...

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...ich we now call “Empire.” Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The Fren... ...verybody knows she has her freaks,” remarked Catherine; “she looked at the sky before she went to bed, and I think the glitter of your bayonets in the... ...e of those fine mornings in March when the air is dry, the earth pure, the sky clear, and the atmosphere a con- tradiction to the leafless trees; the ... ...the diplomatic passport. Laurence crossed Switzerland in the first days of October, without paying the slightest attention to that glorious land. She ... ..., who was marching with the rapidity of lightning. At last, on the 13th of October (date of ill-omen) Made- moiselle de Cinq-Cygne was skirting a rive...

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...elf was “beastly.” And this afternoon, lured by the delusive blueness of a sky that was blue because the wind was in the east, he had come out in the ... ...ess face stooping over her children and pointing them to far horizons. The sky displayed the pearly 8 The History of Mr. Polly warmth of a summer daw... ...ke an unexpected hole in the universe, and the writing of “Death” upon the sky, but it did not tear Mr. Polly’s heartstrings at first so much as rouse... ...uzzled. “Of all the vertebracious animals man alone raises his face to the sky, O’ Man. Well,—why invert it?” Rumbold shook his head with a helpless e... ...ciety was in church or chapel; many, however, had been tempted by the blue sky and the hard freshness of spring to take walks inland, and there had be... ...concealed under his bed from the plump woman’s eye. September passed away, October came. And at last came that night in October whose happenings it is... ... Mr. Polly.” “Widow I presume?” said Mr. Polly. “Yes. This five years—come October.” “Lord!” said Mr. Polly in unfeigned surprise. “Found drowned he w...

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...of his own, whither he conveyed, or pretended to convey, the fugitives. In October 1885 a tren- chant state paper issued from the German consulate. T ... ... Yet it was long rumoured that he still lay in the harbour; and so late as October 7th, a boy, who had been paddling round the Carola, professed to ha... ...er Leary, of the Adams, the American captain, when he arrived, on the 16th October, and for some time after, seemed devoted to the German interest, an... ...months the municipality slumbered, Martin still in office. In the month of October, in consequence, the British and Ameri- can ratepayers announced th... ...At the same time I acknowledge the receipt of your high favour of the 14th October in reply to my communication of the same date, which contained the ... ...had vanished from the eyes of men – as the Samoan thinks of it, beyond the sky. Asi, Maunga, T uiletu- funga, had followed him in that new path of doo... ...ext the proclamation seem to have burst on the English consul from a clear sky; and he wrote on the same day, throwing doubt on Knappe’s author- ity t... ...aves, a monument of the sea’s potency. In still weather, under a cloudless sky, in those seasons when that ill-named ocean, the Pacific, suffers its v...

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...hen wrenched forth from its tap- estries in that fashion, on that Sixth of October 1789, 7 Thomas Carlyle such a victim? Universal France, and Royal ... ...ng rosy Boy, has she not the living emblem of hope! It is a murky, working sky; yet with golden gleams—of dawn, or of deeper meteoric night? Here agai... ...e and there: as of an April that were leading to leafiest Summer; as of an October that led only to everlasting Frost. Medicean Tuileries, how changed... ...vered Restorer of Liberty; but they could not continue. The month is still October when famishing Saint-Antoine, in a moment of passion, seizes a poor... ...ment of passion, seizes a poor Baker, innocent ‘Francois the Baker;’ (21st October, 1789 (Moniteur, No. 76).) and hangs him, in Constantinople wise;—b... ...nd, alas, shall be there again another day! The King himself comes to see: sky-rending Vive-le-Roi; ‘and suddenly with shouldered spades they form a g... ...alute then, Monsieur, don’t be unpolite;” and therewith she, like a bright Sky-wanderer or Planet with her little Moon, is- sues forth peculiar. (Narr... ... fire, shedding far a glimmer into the dubious wood. There, under the free sky, do tight-limbed Federates, with fairest newfound sweethearts, elastic ... ...in; it seems a cause doomed, forsaken of Earth and Heaven. On the Sixth of October gone a year, King Louis, es- corted by Demoiselle Theroigne and som...

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...osed. Frightful! The sun shines; serenely westering, in smokeless mackerel-sky: Paris is as if sleep- ing, as if dead:—Paris is holding its breath, to... ...ouriez finds ghastly symptoms in that camp; ‘latrines full of blood!’ (1st October, 1792; Dumouriez, iii. 73.) The chivalrous King of Prussia, for he ... ...ing around. ’ (Campagne in Frankreich, p. 103.) On the eleventh morning of October, the World-Poet, struggling Northwards out of Verdun, which he had ... ...man Democrats and no shadow of an Elector now:—so that in the last days of October, Frau Forster, a daughter of Heyne’s, somewhat democratic, walking ... ...erce onslaught on the September Massacres! For, one day, among the last of October, Robespierre, being summoned to the tribune by some new hint of tha... ...cs; Fabre d’Eglantine furnishes poetic nomenclature: and so, on the 5th of October 1793, after trouble enough, they bring forth this New Republican Ca... ...tant toto coelo, as they say: the whole breadth 181 Thomas Carlyle of the sky, and further if possible!—It is thus, however, that History, and indeed... ... first: not yet can they be changed to ashes, or to Sea-Nymphs; not yet to sky-rockets, O Ship l’Orient, nor became the prey of England,—before their ... ...or of a free people will now also be Priest and Prophet. He has donned his sky-blue coat, made for the occasion; white silk waist- coat broidered with...

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...is study an extraordinary figure of a cross within a circle appears in the sky , which probably has some connection with his scheme of nativity, for i... ...rough every crevice of the exquisite open fretwork, was the intensely blue sky of early autumn. The lower longer panes of the window were closed, and ... ...rk wall, crag upon crag, peak on peak, in purple masses, blending with the sky; and Hugh, pointing upwards to a turreted point, apparently close above... ...of accompanying her. It was a glori- ous sparkling Easter Day, lovely blue sky above, herbage and flowers glistening below, snow dazzling in the hollo... ...with rosy light at morn and eve, or contrasted with the purple blue of the sky; or that they stood marvelling at ice caverns with gigantic crystal pen... ...as still her own from day to day. “Art weary, my son?” asked Christina one October after- noon, as Ebbo lay on his bed, languidly turning the pages of...

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...ng whether the sun itself were not extinguished by so much moisture in the sky. Charley had already exhausted the less eager activity of the other chi... ...ing on the undertaking, made his first visit to the Indians on the 28th of October, 1646 at a place afterwards called Nonantum; a spot that has the ho... ...he sage, who, as a Frenchman expressed it, snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from a tyrant. Mr. Sparks must help you to the knowledg... ... or Germantown,—some of her brave sons were found slain upon the field. In October, 1777, General Burgoyne surrendered his army, at Saratoga, to the A... ...war. In 1781 General Greene drove the British from the Southern States. In October of the same year General W ashington com pelled Lord Cornwallis to...