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...ng the ship. Above the roar she heard the helmsman shout, ‘Hard to Port’! This was the end: that mountainous swell would surely overpower her and sw... ...e Portuguese Princess, Catherine of Braganza, on her marriage to Charles II. From a small fishing village and a chequered history as a base for pira... ...ugh and Helen and the other passengers had the opportunity to study the unfolding Central Indian panorama as the train snaked its way through the gr... ...ral Indian panorama as the train snaked its way through the grand scenery of gorges, flat-topped mountainous regions, forests and wide rivers. At l... ... all the flotsam and jetsam of the muddy waters of Mother Ganga? The barges passed little Indian villages and British ‘stations’, small enclaves of... ...foothills of the Himalayas. There in the distance, the stupendous backdrop of the world’s highest mountains stretched, range upon range, towards the... ...n and there below them was the beautiful valley of Mirapore. Helen exclaimed with delight at the panorama below. Pine and cedar clad forested hills ... ...he owner of the gun which kills “Sher Saitan” the name given to a tiger, which is preying on the villages around the forest hunting site.’ ‘But is ... ... narrowed as he drew on his cigar. He was gazing upwards, as Helen often did, at the spectacular panorama of the everlasting snow-covered crests of ...

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...the same far-reaching dynamics of the counterculture and the war. "Menge's book reminds me of both Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos. It's a vast panorama with enormous attention to detail." David Willson, Vietnam War Fiction, Books in Review...

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...234. Morris is relocated from Sam Neua to a Lao village From Sam Neua, the group that included prisoner of war James Morris headed southwest, so far as he could determine from occasional glimpses of the sun through the canopy of leaves above the road on which the caravan ...

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... visits Doug Thomasek to show him his CO statement 106. Matt and Mary discuss Steward’s statement and their MV projects 107. Brandt drives over the mountains to visit Fr. Dan Riley 108. Brandt and Fr. Dan discuss political change and “sobering clarity” 109. Brandt and Fr. Dan watch a program on national discord 110. Brandt returns to find growing political tension in ...

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...iption of Marco's travels -- Tale of a devout shoemaker -- How faith removed a mountain -- The sight of a pretty girl's leg causes the loss of an eye ... ... even Cortez wept - - The retreat back to Tlascala -- A desperate fight in the mountain passes -- Capture of the sacred banner -- Cortez recovers from... ...nimals of impossible creation -- A fight with Patagonians and burning of their village - - How the natives cure the stomach ache 242- 251 CHAPTER XXII... ...ves -- A burning corncrib -- Disappointment following the capture of an Indian village -- A terrible storm -- In sight of Panama -- A foot race for th... ...ions for the crew -- Meeting with a pigmy race of Indians -- Visit to a Fuegan village -- Driven out to sea and loss of the Marigold -- A discouraged ... ...-- Splendid equipment of the expedition -- Among the Brazilians -- Lost on the mountains of Terre del Fuego -- Habits of the Fuegans -- An extraordina... ... was obtained. Under the spell of the landscape that spread out in picturesque panorama below him, Cortez stood in pious contemplation of how God had ...

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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... ...ont, was equally impressed by the stirring up and exchange of ideas in the villages due to the movement of the war. Charles Lamb’s story of the discov... ...ficulty to 18 War and the Future be met? In Macedonia there were T urkish villages that were Christian and Bulgarians that were Moslem. There were fa... ... practicable jumping-off place for an attack. (It has been made since; the village at which I peeped was in our hands a week later.) These trenches we... ... 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... ...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 ... ...an positions exposing plate after plate; one machine will get a continuous panorama of many miles and then come back straight to the aerodrome to deve...

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... Mr. Smallways’ aged father, could remember Bun Hill as an idyllic Kentish village. He had driven Sir Peter Bone until he was fifty and then he took t... ...r’s shop which he had set up in one of the smallest of the old surviv- ing village houses in the tail of the High Street had a sub- merged air, an air... ...nnot feel whether it rises or falls. Bert felt acutely cold, but he wasn’t mountain-sick; he put on the coat and over- coat and gloves Butteridge had ... ... piled in great snowy masses, so that he was half dis- posed to think them mountains; northward and eastward 49 H G Wells they were in wavelike level... ...h him far below, following him down there, indefatiga- bly, over the cloud mountains. Why should such a thing follow him? What could it be?… He had an... ...h cable-bearing red poles. He had just passed over a compact, whitewashed, village with a straight church tower and steep red-tiled roofs. A number of... ...far as he could see he might pass a week in the air. At first all the vast panorama below had been as silent as a painted picture. But as the day wore... ... “Here we are trying on slippers,” he said, “and the world going by like a panorama below. Rather a lark, eh? Look!” Bert peeped with him out of the w...

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...nited Public Workers (UPW) DFS Group Hawaii Pacific Health Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa, Hilton Grand Vacations Club Honolulu Star... ...st beautiful and extensive beachfront location in Waikiki, Hilton Hawaiian Village ® is uniquely positioned to provide the most creative and versati... ...st beautiful and extensive beachfront location in Waikiki, Hilton Hawaiian Village ® is uniquely positioned to provide the most creative and versati... ... the tropical inversion layer and one-third of Earth’s atmosphere, these mountain peaks ofer superb astronomy conditions: cloud-free, clear skies ... ...he dome housing the telescope will rise on a northern plateau within the mountain’s astronomy district. The isolated ledge below existing observat... ...cipation by India and China, whose fags will be the 13th and 14th on the mountain. In May 2011, American and Chinese scientists and engineers met i... ... from Hilo. The enormous panels parted silently, revealing a spectacular panorama. Looking out to the west, way above the clouds and across the ‘A...

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...its bosom. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the everflowing springs of fame;— “And thou ... ...issippi, the Ganges, and the Nile, those journey ing atoms from the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal... ... of the world. The heavens are not yet drained over their sources, but the Mountains of the Moon still send their annual tribute to the Pasha without ... ...eaven, an osier bough Were vessel safe enough the seas to plough.” Some village friends stood upon a promontory lower down the stream to wave us a ... ...are bound, And pale our sun with heavenly radiance round? Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current... ... it was too late to pluck it; but we were just gliding out of sight of the village spire before it occurred to us that the farmer in the adjacent mead... ...ervation of nature. Unlike the mariner, they have the constantly vary ing panorama of the shore to relieve the monotony of their labor, and it seemed...

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...e Man’s canoe and go to the Salt Water. Yes, bad wa ter, rough water, — great mountains dance up and down all the time. And so big, so far, so far aw... ...he days on his fingers), “all the time water, bad water. Then you come to great village, plenty people, just the same mosquitoes next summer. Wigwams o... ...d least of all, for he spent his time in Eastern Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, living over the scenes of his childhood. And most pathetic w... ...eyes were fixed upon the north. Unseen, behind their backs, behind the towering mountains to the south, the sun swept toward the zenith of another sky ... ...your priests, and your gods. And know this, for each white man who comes to my village, him will I make deny his god. You are the first, and I give you... ...l decision. Stockard went up to him. “It ’s this way, Baptiste. I came to your village minded to go up the Koyukuk. I intended no wrong. My heart was ... ...s; prisons and calabooses; tramps at water tanks — all the squalid and painful panorama of his odyssey after Rio Blanca and the strike. And, resplende...

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...all. When, early in a summer afternoon, we have been shaking the dust of the village from the skirts of our garments, making haste past those houses w... ...ions to Society. But it sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where ... ...uently, politics are not, for they are but as the cigar smoke of a man. The village is the place to which the roads tend, a sort of expansion of the ... ...r I believe that climate does thus react on man—as there is something in the mountain air that feeds the spirit and in spires. Will not man grow to g... ...generally on a grander seale, like our thunder and lightning, our rivers and mountains and forests and our hearts shall even correspond in breadth and... ...rtant to understand even the slang of today. Some months ago I went to see a panorama of the Rhine. It was like a dream of the Middle Ages. I floated ... ...oic age, and breathed an atmosphere of chivalry. Soon after, I went to see a panorama of the Mississippi, and as I worked my way up the river in the l...

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...odchild rode away from Carlisle at eight o’clock one forenoon, bound for the village of Hesket, Newmarket, some fourteen miles distant. Goodchild (who... ...hen he has nothing to do) had read of a certain black old Cumberland hill or mountain, called Carrock, or Carrock Fell; and had arrived at the conclu ... ...ved, there as elsewhere, thank God! (Mr. Goodchild’s remark.) By and by, the village. Black, coarse stoned, rough windowed houses; some with outer sta... ...servations of Messrs. Idle and Goodchild, as their conveyance stopped at the village shoemaker’s. Old Carrock gloomed down upon it all in a very ill t... ...t was in sight, like the rest of their race. The approach to the foot of the mountain resembled the approaches to the feet of most other mountains all... ...grew gradually rare, the road became gradually rougher, and the sides of the mountain looked gradually more and more lofty, and more and more diffi T... ...hey had one and all been on fire and were just put out—a dreary and quenched panorama, many miles long. Thus, Thomas and Francis got to Leeds; of whic... ... the window, and that he should amuse himself by look ing out at the moving panorama of humanity, which the view from it of the principal street pres...

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...d the king. “‘We then swam into a region of the sea where we found a lofty mountain, down whose sides there streamed torrents of melted metal, some of... ...at when we were even at the distance of a hundred and fifty miles from the mountain, it was impossible to see the whitest object, however close we hel... ...ee of darkness that, at Glaumba, which is more than fifty leagues from the mountain, people could only find their way by groping. During the eruption ... ...nce to my mind the Nubian geographer’s account of the _Mare Tenebrarum_. A panorama more deplorably desolate no human imagination can conceive. To the... ...ho saw her. She was buried—not in a vault, but in an ordinary grave in the village of her nativity. Filled with despair, and still inflamed by the mem... ...t, the lover journeys from the capital to the remote province in which the village lies, with the romantic purpose of disinterring the corpse, and pos... ...ad been mistaken for death. He bore her frantically to his lodgings in the village. He employed certain powerful restoratives suggested by no little m... ...tances, nine-tenths of the most fastidious of men would rest content. This panorama is indeed glorious, and I should rejoice in it but for the ex- ces...

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...pringing up strange desires. She too is enamoured of heavy winds, and vast panoramas, and green expanses of the sea. She has marked the kingdom of thi... ... blind to the beauties of an August wood. “‘Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height,’” he quoted, and touched her knee with his own. She flushe... ...he flushed again and said: “What height?” “‘Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height, What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang). In heig... ...tte, “Many thanks for your warning. When Mr. Emerson forgot himself on the mountain, you made me promise not to tell mother, because you said she woul... ... game with the view, and try to find in its innumerable folds some town or village that would do for Florence. Ah, how beautiful the Weald looked! But... ...ore her lay the rich champaign of Tuscany, dotted over with many a smiling village. The season was spring.’” Miss Lavish knew, somehow, and had printe...

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...whale ship, and sailed away for the Pacific. Henry remained at home in the village. At eigh teen George was a sailor before the mast, and Henry was t... ... At twenty six George was a wanderer, a tramp, and Henry was pastor of the village church. Then George came home, and was Henry’s guest. One evening a... ...o on and so on, picture after picture, incident after incident, a drifting panorama of ever changing, ever dissolving views manufactured by my mind w... ...nce of a gull, as related by a natu ralist. The scene is a Scotch fishing village where the gulls were kindly treated. This particular gull visited a... ...usion onclusion onclusion O.M. You have been taking a holiday? Y.M. Yes; a mountain tramp covering a week. Are you ready to talk? O.M. Quite ready. Wh... ... that it was so nourishing and so strength giv ing that the native of the mountains of the Madeira region would tramp up hill and down all day on a p... ...railway in the country. That state of things is all changed. There isn’t a mountain in Switzerland now that hasn’t a ladder railroad or two up its bac...

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...f General Lamarmora had been directed to proceed from Cremona to the small village of Le Grazie, which, on the line of the Mincio, marks the Austrian ... ... to Mantua. T wo hours had scarcely elapsed when a carriage drove into the village of Le Grazie, from which an Austrian 19 George Meredith major of i... ...ed by to-morrow either at Piubega or Gazzoldo, if not actually at Goito, a village, as you know, which marks the Italian-Austrian frontier on the Minc... ...a, and Cartel Venzago stretches to Lonato, Salo, and Desenzano, and to the mountain passes of Caffaro. In the last-named place the Garibaldians came t... ...n the T yrolese Alps the revolution is spreading fast in the more southern mountains of the Friuli and Cadorre, thus threatening the flank and rear of... ...ns have retired to the Lardara fortress, between the Stabolfes and T enara mountains, covering the route to Tione and Trento, in the Italian Tyrol. Th... ...them on the other shore, and another hour to have the ferry boat back. The panorama from the beach was splendid, the Po appeared in all the mighty pow...

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...for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave-slafe wigh an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports. She is rich and of good family... ...and nothing; and the day before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a heartrending scene.... It was a convoy of conscripts ... ...OOK TWO: 1805 CHAPTER I IN OCTOBER, 1805, a Russian army was occupying the villages and towns of the Archduchy of Austria, and yet other regiments fre... ...waters of the distant Danube shone. And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pin... ...esvitski. “They’ve made up splendid packs for me—fit to cross the Bohemian mountains with. It’s a bad lookout, old fellow! But what’s the matter with ... ...ia, he would have to march with no road into unknown parts of the Bohemian mountains, defending himself against superior forces of the enemy and aband... ...one some- what to the left and behind him and brightly lit up the enormous panorama which, rising like an amphitheater, extended before him in the cle... ...erre looked at the scene before him, spellbound by beauty. It was the same panorama he had admired from that spot the day be- fore, but now the whole ... ...Napoleon was standing among his troops on the Poklonny Hill looking at the panorama spread out before him. From the twenty-sixth of August to the seco...

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...ng women of such birth, living in a quiet country house, and at tending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as ... ...orothea had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village, and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting room which di... ...ght that a Christian young lady of fortune should find her ideal of life in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of “Female ... ...ere Torso in the Vatican and was looking out on the magnificent view of the mountains from the adjoining round vestibule. He was 152 Book II — Old and... ...at takes me at once as noble—something that I might compare with the Alban Mountains or the sunset from the Pincian Hill; but that makes it the greate... ... time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thi... ...s step on Lydgate; and it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yield...

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...oung women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as ... ...orothea had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village, and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room which di... ...ht that a Christian young lady of fortune should find her ideal of life in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of “Female ... ...Torso in the V atican and was looking out on the magnifi- cent view of the mountains from the adjoining round vestibule. He was sufficiently absorbed ... ... takes me at once as noble—some- thing that I might compare with the Alban Mountains or the sunset from the Pincian Hill; but that makes it the greate... ...at Caleb volunteered so long a speech, but his happiness had the effect of mountain air: his eyes were bright, and the words came without effort. “I c... ...s step on Lydgate; and it seemed to him as if he were beholding in a magic panorama a future where he himself was sliding into that pleasureless yield...