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...-- Discoveries of Erik the Red -- On Greenland's frigid shores -- The Sagas of old Icelandic history -- Discovery of America in the year 889 -- Verdan... ...ailor -- Unnatural forms of the deep -- Portents of safety and disaster -- The old time sailor -- Odds and ends of strange fancies -- Curious beliefs ... ...re built and propelled -- The fight for Zipangu -- Invasion of Japan -- Houses covered with gold -- A story of wealth that exceeded the caves of Genii... ...fitable intercourse with the natives -- Hospitable but thievish -- Meeting the old chief of Amsterdam - - Description of the people -- An Utopian Repu... ... -- Discovery of the skeletons of giants -- Incredible sufferings of a Spanish colony -- Capture of four Spanish vessels -- Torture of a Spanish messe... ...ad, and where deep seas now roll in perpetual unrest a verdant plain or forest-covered country once invited the energies of man? RISE AND FALL OF NATI... ...tzerland, very far from land, though that the sea could have ever swept in and covered mountain peaks so lofty at a comparatively recent date is a mat... ...er to attract favorable attention to the country, in which he hoped to found a colony. The result was that, as he had anticipated, large numbers of Ic... ...Icelanders and Norsemen emigrated to Greenland and there founded a flourishing colony at the point where Gotthaab, or Godhaven, is now situated, which...

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...d horses: The charioteer wears a laurel wreath. Sappho, about 30 years old, her hair braided around her head, naked, sandaled, saunters along ... ...go to bed. P Yesterday, the wine workers gathered at a nearby vineyard, old men and girls, in tattered clothes, some lazy, some hard-working, pres... ...o speak. Atthis ran up to me. Anak- toria came. Gyrinno came. Boys yelled. Old men rushed past the house. Dogs barked. Someone banged a drum. Such cl... ...ays stream in, so yellow, they might be made of acacia. The cooling light covers my desk and bookshelves and relinquishes its hold of my vase. A fra... ...they flew over and onward, apparently at the same speed. Twice the flocks covered the sun and our town darkened, tiled roofs turning grey. SAPPHO’... ...nd I wandered through the bed- rooms, to see about my girls. Atthis needed covering and as I arranged her cov- ers she murmured, “Mama, mama.” Before ... .... It required four days for men to move it, by windlass and rollers, to a site alongside the Town Hall: how carefully we worked, the statue suspende... ...e arts, dapper, young, fluent in Italian, he brought a portfolio of exqui- site architectural renderings of Parisian commissions. I showed him my dra... ...ntry against all enemies. I supplied ships for the Queen. In Virginia, my colony is dedicated to all that England stands for. Sirs, I protest! Ju...

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...of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet their < requirements. Comments and queries m... ... 31 British Indian Ocean Territory (continued) British Virgin Islands Type: colony administered by United Kingdom Capital: none Government leaders: W... ...ds; international service good to adjacent Sabah and Sarawak; radiobroadcast cover- age good; 27,000 telephones (11.0 per 100 popl.); Radio Brunei bro... ...local and intercity ser- vice; international service is good; radiobroadcast coverage is limited to the most populous areas; 49,597 telephones (1982/8... ...and Khabarovsk areas); short section with North Korea is indefinite; British colony of Hong Kong will become a Special Administrative Region in 1997; ... ...st); about 95% in agriculture, mostly sheepherding Government Official name: Colony of the Falkland Islands Type: British dependent territory Capital:... ...te population Religion: Evangelical Lutheran Language: Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish Literacy: 99% Labor force: 17,585; largely engaged in ... ...name: Republic of Ghana Type: military; 31 December 1981 coup ended two-year-old civilian government, suspended constitution and political activity Ca... ...agistrate and Chairman of the Island Council (since 1985) Suffrage: 18 years old and 3 years resi- dency Elections: annual; Island Magistrate elected ...

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...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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...Y A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...re in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished... ...l the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. Etymology “... ...e sleeps.” MONTAINGE. — Apology for Raimond Sebond. “Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if it is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Mose... ...etti Whales, but did not take any till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them.” Colnett’s Voyage for the Purpose of Extending the Sperm... ... ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from t... ...ey all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin. The more ... ...e ship touched there. The whale ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Australian settlement, the emi... ...n of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in. Besides, this ... ...ook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder clotted brows upon the sites of populous river capitals, where now the polite broker sells you lan...

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...ile produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wi... ...ict may be smiling with farms, passing trains shaking the mountain to the heart, many- windowed hotels lighting up the night like factories, and a pro... ...e pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. South Vallejo is typical of many Californian to... ...oss- ing in the breeze, the glimpses of distance, the descents into seemingly impenetrable thickets, the continual dodging of the road which made hast... ...the manzanita, the buck-eye, the maple; he showed me the crested moun- tain quail; he showed me where some young redwoods were already spiring heavenw... ...e hard by to serve as a museum, where photographs and petrifactions were retailed. It was a pure little isle of touristry among these solitary hills. ... ... from all the scientific people who had visited the spot; and he flung about such words as “tufa” and “scilica” with careless freedom. When I mentione... ...ures of its own. There is nothing here to remind you of the Rhine or Rhone, of the low cote d’or, or the infamous and scabby deserts of Cham- pagne; b... ...ng us milk. To take a cow would have involved taking a field of grass and a milkmaid; after which it would have been hardly worth while to pause, and ...

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...o- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishin... ... sailed from San Fran- cisco towards the end of June 1888, visited the eastern islands, and was left early the next year at Honolulu. Hence, lacking c... ... or mark of life, whether of man or beast, in all that quarter of the is- land. Winged by her own impetus and the dying breeze, the Casco skimmed unde... ... A grove of palms, perpetually ruffling its green fans, carpets it (as for a triumph) with fallen branches, and shades it like an arbour. A road runs ... ...m-tree wine, a thing forbidden by law; and when the wind thus suddenly revealed them, they were doubtless more troubled than ourselves. At the top of ... ...him!’ He was a poor man; he had no choice of gifts; he had only a pig, he repeated; and I had refused it. I have rarely been more wretched than to see... ...y incline him to be sad; and sadness detaches him from life. The melancholy of the Hawaiian and the emptiness of his new life are striking; and the re... ...er power, Ima Hati or the French: deciding in favour of the captain, because, though the French had the most ships, he had the more money. He marked T... ...ess movement and congregation of natives in the street. But it was not before half-past one that a sudden hubbub of voices called us from the house, t...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...re in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and gram- mars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellish... ... the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. “While you t... ...leeps.” — Montaigne. —Apology for Raimond Sebond. “Let us fly, let us fly! Old Nick take me if is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses i... ...tti Whales, but did not take any till the first of May, the sea being then covered with them.” —Colnett’ s V oyage for the Purpose of Extend- ing the ... ... ark rocked so furiously. On one side stood a long, low, shelf- like table covered with cracked glass cases, filled with dusty rarities gathered from ... ... the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival, down went his mark oppo- site that article upon the paper. Every once in a while Peleg came hobbling... ...- ship touched there. The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony. Moreover, in the infancy of the first Austra- lian settlement, the ... ... and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the oppo- site hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side;—all these, wi...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...ledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed. The reader may recognize an old friend under new circum- stances in the principal character of this leg... ...n the principal character of this legend. If the exhibi- tion made of this old acquaintance, in the novel circumstances in which he now appears, shoul... ...there is a look of humanity in that smoke,” returned 8 The Pathfinder the old seaman, “which is worth a thousand trees. I must show it to Arrowhead, ... ...boy has run no great risk, after all.” “Only the risk of being shot from a cover, as he forced the canoe up a swift rift, or turned an elbow in the st... ...e, as they drew nearer to the outskirts of the fort, and had no longer the cover of the woods. The Oswego, just at that place, was a deep dark stream ... ...at channels of military communication between the inhabited portion of the colony of New Y ork and the fron- tiers which lay adjacent to the Canadas,—... ...I know, Ser- geant, and is as likely to wear on that account as any in the colony.” “Then you are my friend,” squeezing the other’s hand,— “my tried, ... ... an hour it was necessarily conceded that a youth who had been born in the colony of New York, and who coming of Dutch extraction, was the most expert...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...ice with its shingle-tortured man- sard, the red brick minarets of hulking old houses, factories with stingy and sooted windows, wooden tenements col-... ...is and Peking. Through the building crawled the scrubwomen, yawning, their old shoes slapping. The dawn mist spun away. Cues of men with lunch-boxes c... ... as Floral Heights. His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particu- lar, neither butte... ...ssed up like a plush 22 Babbitt horse! You’re a great old girl, hon.!” He covered his betrayal of softness with a complaining: “Say, don’t let Tinka ... ...ws-and-miscellany shop, and bought the electric cigar-lighter which he had coveted for a week. He dodged his conscience by being jerky and noisy, and ... ...ntion. Orators were announcing that “Galop de Vache, the Capital City, the site of Kremer College and of the Upholtz Knitting Works, is the recognized... ... found an advertisement which he read aloud, to applause and laughter: Old Colony Theatre Shake the Old Dogs to the Wrollicking Wrens The bonniest bev... ...doned race-track on the outskirts of Chicago, a plot excellent for factory sites, was to be sold, and Jake Offut asked Babbitt to bid on it for him. T...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...l. 2 North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON The site of the present City of Washington was chosen with three special views:... ...seems to answer the expectation of the builders; but at Munich there is an old city as well, and commerce had already got some con- siderable hold on ... ... of them are well known, and they are very fine. They now stand within the old chamber of the Representative House, and the pity is that, if el- evate... ...the other represents a melancholy, weak figure without any hair, but often covered with feathers, and is intended to typify the red Indian. The red In... ...d- age to it which was unintelligible, it was no more to me than any other old white hat. But had I been a man of science, what a tale it might have t... ...ful spot—having all the attractions of a fine park in our coun- try. It is covered with grand timber. The ground is varied and broken, and the private... ...mitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same unless such admission be agreed to b... ...ereign in its municipal system, having preserved the boundaries of the old colony, to- gether with the liberties and laws given to it under its old co...

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... great house of Human Interest Brothers, and have rather a large connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and... ...self to have our co-religionists buried in our ground, and according to our rites. May our heavenly Father reward you for your acts of humanity and tr... ...churchyard in the years to come; I thought of the many people in Australia, who would have an interest in such a shipwreck, and would find their way h... ...igwy. CHAPTER III W APPING WORKHOUSE M Y DAY’S NO-BUSINESS BECKONING me to the East- end of London, I had turned my face to that point of the metropol... ...inking in my idle manner of Tippoo-Sahib and Charles Lamb, and had got past my little wooden midshipman, after affection- ately patting him on one leg... ...on rested his profile on the bar, and gurgled in a sarcastic manner. ‘There must be somebody comin’. They don’t go a headerin’ down here, wen there an... ...ectionate a nature, that I take a particular interest in assuring myself that they are unchanged. I never was in Robinson Crusoe’s Island, yet I frequ... ...public din- ners, which led to a dancing worse than speech-making. So is the cave where the flaring eyes of the old goat made such a goblin appearance... ...is all very well, but we have no proof of the results, sir, no proof. On the first head of local advantages and special selection. Would Limehouse Hol...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...g artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the pictur- esque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine the caves there. Halfway down the pr... ...not a cert, you know,” he remarked.” There’s a cliff like that at Lulworth Cove—as high, anyhow—and a little girl fell from top to bottom. And lives t... ... and round for evermore.” He stood with his hand circling “It’s all right, old chap,” said Isbister with the air of an old friend. “Don’t worry yourse... ...ind on it—steadily enough to tell you.” He stopped feebly. “Don’t trouble, old chap,” said Isbister. “I think I can un- derstand. At any rate, it don’... ...ars ago, I was down at Boscastle with a box of water- colours and a noble, old-fashioned ambition. I didn’t expect that some day my pigments would glo... ...tive people, run- ning against the movement so as to keep themselves oppo- site to him. “Stop the ways,” they cried. Agile figures ran up swiftly from... ... the higher ways. Abruptly he noted a contrast. The buildings on the oppo- site side of the way seemed deserted, the cables and bridges 70 When the S... ... view of aeronautics, the religious quar- ters had flung out an attractive colony of devotional chapels, 132 When the Sleeper Wakes while a host of b...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University ... ... of religion, such as would now be called that of a sound Churchman of the old school, thoroughly devout and scrupulous in observance, ruling his fami... ... Coleridge Patteson ing him, step by step, from grace to grace. Five years old is in many cases an age of a good deal of thought. The intelligence is ... ...imself as a future clergyman. Reverence was strongly implanted in him. His old nurse (still his sister’s valued servant) remembers the little seven ye... ... he grasped it, and was able to regain his feet in safety, but did not re- cover his perceptions enough to make any sign of gratitude 15 Yo n g e bef... ... already extends to a distance of perhaps half a mile on each side of this cove, on which the principal part of it is built. Just in the centre of the... ...land. ‘My dear Arthur,—I am tired with my Sunday work, which is heavy in a colony, but I just begin my note on the anniver- sary of your dear, dear fa... ...canar and San Cristoval to him. In 1594, he obtained permission to found a colony on San Cristoval, and set forth with his wife and four ships. But th... ...mand of Mendana, nearly three hundred years ago. They attempted to found a colony there, but after a short time were compelled, by illness and the dea...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...er faith. The account of these captors was a great difficulty, till in the old Universal History I found a description of Algeria which tallied wonder... ...name is Ulysses, and we are going to seek for him.’ ‘Oh! I hope that cruel old Mentor is not coming to tumble us down over a great rook, like Telemaqu... ... exception that, in consideration of their being only nine and seven years old, their hair was free from powder. Estelle’s light, almost flaxen locks ... ...e inn with a high roof, and a trellised passage down to the landing-place, covered by a vine, hung with clusters of ripe grapes. Here the travellers s... ...d on anchoring. It was a rocky coast, with cliffs descending into the sea, covered with verdure, and the water beneath was clear as glass. ‘Have we es... ...uced them to spare the prisoners in case their assistance should be requi- site to gain full possession of the plunder. Estelle and Victorine were com... ...sion of Gibraltar and Minorca to enforce a like treaty. There was a little colony of European merchants—English, French, and Dutch—in the lower town, ...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...in all mat- ters except his opposition to unjust taxation, and he wore the old-fashioned cocked hat and knee-breeches until his death, in 1832, thus b... ...own as ‘the hero of Fort Stanwix.’ This fort was situ- ated on the present site of Rome, N.Y.; and there Gansevoort, with a small body of men, held in... ...e his father ‘of winter evenings, by the well- remembered sea-coal fire in old Greenwich Street, used to tell my brother and me of the monstrous waves... ...renewed, lasting for quite a long period. I have seen his portrait,—a rare old daguerrotype,— 8 Typee and some of his letters to our author. One of h... ...f the Sire de Nesle.’ Vari- ous efforts were made by the New York literary colony to draw him from his retirement, but without success. It has been su... ... a biscuit’s toss of the merry land, riding snugly at anchor in some green cove, and sheltered from the boisterous winds. * * * ‘Hurra, my lad... ...eir number an old salt, whose bare arms and feet, and exposed breast, were covered with as many inscriptions in India ink as the lid of an Egyptian sa... ... The islanders, while employed in erecting this tenement, reminded me of a colony of beavers at work. T o be sure, they were hardly as silent and demu...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University ... ... so well by the side of Giorgio Viola the Garibaldino, the Idealist of the old, humanitarian revolutions. For myself I needed there a Man of the Peopl... ...one stretched from a green-clad coast at the end of a slender neck of sand covered with thickets of thorny scrub. Utterly waterless, for the rainfall ... ... would care to venture a naked sole before sunset. On the Little Isabel an old ragged palm, with a thick bulging trunk rough with spines, a very witch... ...reasure in silver ingots, failed completely. Even the little hotel kept by old Giorgio, standing alone halfway between the harbour and the town, escap... ...lication of the British and Foreign Bible Society, bound in a dark leather cover. In peri- ods of political adversity, in the pauses of silence when t... ...less Europeans that are a moral eyesore to the respectability of a foreign colony in almost every exotic part of the world. The young ladies of Sulaco... ...y uncle may make with their chief. One word. He will want no more.” On the site of the roadside hut there remained noth- ing but an enormous heap of e...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...m those vices are seen to recoil. And I submit that their recoil upon that old man, in his unhonoured age, is not a mere piece of poetical justice, bu... ...a murderer and a vagabond, so we never fail to meet, in the records of all old families, with innumerable repeti- 7 Charles Dickens tions of the same... ... the conclu- sion to which they lead, are triumphant and irresistible. The old lady, naturally strong-minded, was nevertheless frail and fading; she w... ...’ cried the old man, looking quickly up, and hurriedly drawing beneath the coverlet the paper on which he had been writ- ing. ‘No.’ She had moved a pa... ...d the old man, moaning impatiently, as he tossed one restless arm upon the coverlet; ‘why do you talk to me of friends! Can you or anybody teach me to... ...ansaction of their business, and had already got so far as to mark out the site. Which is a great way in America. The office- door was wide open, and ... ...rm; to physic cats; what did it matter to me? I was going out to a distant colony (I had recently got the appointment, which, as Mr Westlock knows, I ...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...even the most distant resemblance. The tale was origi- nally told me by an old servant of my father’s, an excellent old Highlander, without a fault, u... ...ory, as in any part of his creed. A grave and elderly person, according to old John MacKinlay’s account, while travelling in the wilder parts of Gallo... ...se of his journey. He halted at length before a re- spectable but solitary old mansion, to which he was directed as the abode of his father’s friend. ... ...thing but bleak fields, and naked trees, hills obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did for some time suffer melancholy to prevail... ... the bay, opposite to the old castle, was a sloping and varied promontory, covered chiefly with copsewood, which on that favoured coast grows almost w... ... minary. Still greater scope was given to evil tongues by the removal of a colony of gipsies, with one of whom our reader 56 Guy Mannering is somewha... ...hich the castle was situated, which frowned from the sum- mit of its rocky site upon the still agitated waves of the bay beneath. “I believe,” said th... ...tions relating to a large and splendid house, which was to be built on the site of the New Place of Ellangowan, in a style correspond- ing to the magn...

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... SAN FRANCISCO?MONTEREY, 117 -- CHAPTER XXVII ? THE SUNDAY WASH-UP?ON SHORE?A SET-TO?A -- GRANDEE???SAIL HO!???A FANDANGO, 122 -- CHAPTER XXVIII ? AN OLD FRIEND?A VICTIM?CALIFORNIA -- RANGERS?NEWS FROM HOME?LAST LOOKS, 128 -- CHAPTER XXIX ? LOADING FOR HOME?A SURPRISE?LAST OF AN OLD -- FRIEND?THE LAST HIDE?A HARD CASE?UP ANCHOR, FOR HOME!?HOMEWARD -- BOUND, 136 -- CHAPTER ...

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.... . . . . . . . . . 122 GRANDEE—’’SAIL HO!’’—A FANDANGO CHAPTER XXVIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM H... ... FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAST OF AN OLD FRIEND—THE LAST HIDE—A HARD CASE—UP ANCHOR, FOR HOME!—HOME- . . . . ... ...affrail at each turn, and was not a little surprised at the coolness of the old salt whom I called to take my place, in stowing himself snugly away u... ... rigging becomes slack, (which is continually happening,) the seizing and coverings must be taken off, tackles got up, and after the rigging is bow... ...kles got up, and after the rigging is bowsed well taught, the seizings and coverings replaced; coverings which is a very nice piece of work. There ... ...s came driving towards us, extending over that quarter of the horizon, and covering the stars, which shone brightly in the other part of the heavens... ...of the men of the American vessels while on the coast. In this way, quite a colony of them had become settled at San Diego, as their headquarters. S... ...in half a mile of the hide houses without a general alarm. The father of the colony, old Sachem, so called from the ship in which he was brought out, ... ...ce of rope, and dragging the hand cart behind us, and followed by the whole colony of dogs, who were always ready for the bush, and were half mad wh...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1998 The Pennsylvania State University... ...ing fate, commonly called necessity, they are em ployed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves ... ...may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the ... ...ted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for ... ...irst, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important wo... ... In our climate, in the summer, it was formerly Walden 25 almost solely a covering at night. In the Indian ga zettes a wigwam was the symbol of a da... ...Gookin, who was superintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses are covered very n... ... best contentment has.” When Winslow, afterward governor of the Plymouth Colony, went with a companion on a visit of ceremony to Massasoit on foot t... ...pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and button...

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...seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieve... ...u may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in th... ...rusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do you try and find that you can. Old deeds for ... ..., first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important ... ... unnecessary. In our climate, in the summer, it was formerly almost solely a covering at night. In the Indian gazettes a wigwam was the symbol of a da... ...Gookin, who was su perintendent of the Indians subject to the Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses are covered very... ...e Massachusetts Colony, writing in 1674, says, “The best of their houses are covered very neatly, tight and warm, with barks of trees, slipped from th... ... the best contentment has.” When Winslow, afterward governor of the Plymouth Colony, went with a com panion on a visit of ceremony to Massassoit on f... ...e pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and butt...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...shawls. As soon as we approached near, they suddenly all turned round, and covering the path with their shawls, sung with great energy a wild song, be... ...the neighbouring coast. It rests on an- cient volcanic rocks, and has been covered by a stream of basalt, which must have entered the sea when the whi... ...ty of soldiers being sent, the whole were seized with the exception of one old woman, who, sooner than again be led into slavery, dashed herself to pi... ...he meals, it was the em- ployment of a man to drive out of the room sundry old hounds, and dozens of little black children, which crawled in together,... ...visited the forest in which these Planariae were found, in company with an old Portuguese priest who took me out to hunt with him. The sport consisted... ...he Plata. About fifty years ago, under the old Spanish government, a small colony was established here; and it is still the most southern position (la... ... October 15th. — We got under way and passed Punta Gorda, where there is a colony of tame Indi- ans from the province of Missiones. We sailed rap- idl... ...South America. The horse was first landed at Buenos Ayres in 1537, and the colony being then for a time deserted, the horse ran wild;* in 1580, only f...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) 1518 94: Christ at th... ... E MERSON THE M USKETAQUID, or Grass ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized hi... ...n Sudbury and Wayland the meadows acquire their greatest breadth, and when covered with water, they form a handsome chain of shallow vernal lakes, res... ...s, adorned with scattered oaks, where the cranberry is found in abundance, covering the ground like a moss bed. A row of sunken dwarf willows borders ... ...w is not reclaimed so fast as the woods are cleared. Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows in his “Wonder working Providence,” which... ...urpose of a ship, so our boat, being of wood, gladly availed itself of the old law that the heavier shall float the lighter, and though a dull water f... ...Mountains to the sea,—and behold a city on each successive plateau, a busy colony of human beaver around every fall. Not to men tion Newburyport and ... ...1683, it was granted to Jonathan Tyng in pay ment for his services to the colony, in maintaining a garrison at his house. T yng’s house stood not far... ...e for the defence of the fron tiers, in February, 1676, he petitioned the Colony for aid, “humbly showing, as his petition runs, that, as he lived “i...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...o hear him, as he explains the state of the existing poor laws to the deaf old women in the board-room passage on business nights; and to hear what he... ...othing he ever did, or was concerned in, appears to have prospered. A rich old relation who had brought him up, and openly announced his intention of ... ...g clerks below him, died off as if there were a plague among them; but the old fellows over his head, for the rever- sion of whose places he was anxio... ... if he were absent. (Here Mr. Bung telegraphed to a friend near him, under cover of his hat, by contracting his left eye, and applying his right thumb... ...toil down the park side of Piccadilly, on 51 Charles Dickens their way to Covent-garden, and, following each other in rapid succession, form a long s... ... back down Maidenlane, with the intention of passing through the extensive colony ly- ing between it and Battle-bridge, which is inhabited by propriet... ...ers of horse-flesh, makers of tiles, and sifters of cinders; through which colony we should have passed, without stoppage or interruption, if a little... ...so it was. ‘I knew how it would be, ’ said Dumps, as he turned round oppo- site the Mansion-house at half-past eleven o’clock on the Friday morning. ‘...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...ent (or V enta Belgarum, as the Romans called Winchester) and Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum). It can still be traced at Hursley, and fragments of another lea... ... consists principally of sand or gravel. T owards the west, it is entirely covered with wood, not in general bearing trees of large size, but some bea... ... been found built into the stone-work of the tower. And on the wall of the old Otterbourne Church a very rude fresco came partially to light. T raced ... ...ng and bishop were reconciled; and the lat- ter spent a pious and penitent old age, only taking one meal a day, and spending the surplus in charity. H... ...e fields, which were known as “Thomas’s Bar- gain,” till one was used as a site for the Vicarage. Several surnames still extant in the parish are foun... ...ly is found as suing for the price of property sold to Charles II. for the site of the King’s house at Winchester), lived with Sir Isaac Newton, was v... ...ience of Chandler’s (or Chaloner’s) Ford Sta- tion, and a large and rising colony, on the confines of five parishes, Otterbourne, North Stoneham, Ampf... ...iam de Ffarlee, Vicar 1348-1363 William de Middleton, Vicar 1363-1392 John Cove, Vicar 1392-1412 Walter Cowper Vicar 1412. John Langshaw, Vicar before...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...g fellows are either sleep- ing off the last debauch, or hulking about the cove ‘in the horrors.’ The cave is deep, high, and airy, and might be made ... ...ry. I have been reading a good deal of Herbert. He’s a clever and a devout cove; but in places awfully twaddley (if I may use the word). Oughtn’t this... ...g or other that looks fallible, it would be a relief. I sometimes wish the old Colo- nel had got drunk and beaten her, in the bitterness of my spirit.... ...t is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstro... .... Of course, I was glad to hear from you; you know, you and I have so many old stories between us, that even if there was nothing else, even if there ... ...able present I have made you. Even the copy was dear to me, printed in the colony that Penn established, and carried in my pocket all about the San Fr... ...oper inter- vals by ‘Jerry Abershaw: A Tale of Putney Heath’ (which or its site I must visit), ‘The Leading Light: A Tale of the Coast,’ ‘The Squaw Me... ...sed excursiolorum to the Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, and kindred sites. If the excursiolorum goes on, that is, if moyennant finances comes o...

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... head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarce... ...er known wonder on the subject, each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Pro fessor Owen, and driven Charles’s ... ...s proclaiming, through that brassy speaking trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility. A y... ...e best of my remembrance, my grand mother was the wickedest and the worst old woman that ever lived. If I got a little pair of shoes by any chance, s... ...lled with them. Sissy sat all the time upon the ground, still sobbing, and covering her eyes. Mr. Gradgrind and his friend Bounderby stood near the do... ...f there is any blame, is mine, not yours.’ ‘Dear Miss Louisa,’ said Sissy, covering her eyes, and sob bing yet; ‘I came home from the school that aft... ...to the Bank, and showed her letter from him with his address, at a working colony, one of many, not upon the main road, sixty miles away. Messengers w... ...passing near a wreck of bricks and beams overgrown with grass, marking the site of deserted works. They followed paths and tracks, however slight. Mou... ...my own weak seln.’ Louisa hearing what he said, bent over him on the oppo site side to Rachael, so that he could see her. ‘You ha’ heard?’ he said, a...

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...n En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University ... ... his consent than force me to go without it; that I was now eighteen years old, which was too late to go apprentice to a trade or clerk to an attorney... ...ter about two years, an odd circumstance presented it- self, which put the old thought of making some attempt for my liberty again in my head. My patr... ...elf so, yet it relieved me greatly, gave me breath, and new courage. I was covered again with water a good while, but not so long but I held it out; a... ... recovered a little before the return of the waves, and seeing I should be covered again with the water, I re- solved to hold fast by a piece of the r... ...e I secured first, with some powder-horns and a small bag of shot, and two old rusty swords. I knew there were three barrels of powder in the ship, bu... ...ns, as malefactors, to be delivered over to justice at the first En- glish colony he could come to; and I found that the captain himself was very anxi... ...he East Indies; this was in the year 1694. In this voyage I visited my new colony in the island, saw my successors the Spaniards, had the old story of... ...of my Story. 261 Daniel Defoe To ReTuRn To The elecTRonic classics seRies siTe, go To http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm. To ReTuRn To...

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... in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University ... ...incidence, when the door of our apartment was thrown open and admitted our old acquaintance, Monsieur G—, the Prefect of the Parisian police. We gave ... ...some of our police officers. W e also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most j... ...ual emergency—by some extraordinary reward—they extend or exaggerate their old modes of practice, without touching their principles. What, for example... ...ained of my weak eyes, and lamented the necessity of the spectacles, under cover of which I cautiously and thoroughly surveyed the whole apartment, wh... ... THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE Truth is stranger than fiction. —OLD SA YING HA VING HAD OCCASION, lately, in the course of some Oriental in... ...nce, but which, nevertheless, had been built in the middle of the sea by a colony of little things like caterpillars’”* “Hum!” said the king. “‘Leavin... ...atent. [Quatrain composed for the gates of a market to he erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris.] I WA S SICK—sick unto death with ...