...This surprisingly explicit sample of Victorian erotica follows the sexual awakening and subsequent adventures of its author, Kate Percival, the belle of the Delaware. Content warning: this one is definitely NC-17 rated. (Summary by wildemoose)...

...In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of research, consulted various experts, and produced his own scientific analysis of the martian climate and atmospheric conditions...

...sachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Lowell was born into Brookline's prominent Lowell family, sister to astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell. She never attended college because her family did not consider that proper for a woman, but she compensated with avid reading and near-obsessive book collecting. S...

... unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions from the Check Stations and brilliant physicist Dr. Percival (“Steve”) Stevens is aboard the Arcturus on a fact-finding mission to find out what's really happening, and hopefully save the honor of the brave pilots of the space-liner Arcturus from the desk-jockeys' in the Check...

...ilmister C. Combinatorial physics. World Scientifc, 1995. 10. Gisin N. and Percival I. C. Quantum state diffusion: from foundations to applications. a... ...plications. arXiv: quant-ph/9701024. 11. Diosi L., Gisin N., Halliwell J., Percival I. C. Phys. Rev. Lett., 1995, v. 74, 203. 12. Percival I. C. Proc....

... Reader, he was—‘killed:’ that is all; and in com- pany with Sir Robert de Percival; which again argues his Somersetshire descent: for the family of L... ... his Somersetshire descent: for the family of Lord Egmont, the head of all Percivals, ever was, and ever will be, in Somersetshire. But how was he kil... ...er, are the facts; which, in writing a romance about Sir Wellerand and Sir Percival, I shall have great pleasure in falsifying. But how, says the too ...

...no small portion of the mental existence of the invalid—were, * Watson, Dr Percival, Spallanzani, and especially the Bishop of Landaff. ...

...y correspon- dent, glanced at the letter, and read the address, to ‘Antony Percival Fotheringham, Esquire, British Embassy, Constantinople.’ She start... ...e could find something for him to do. Lady Fotheringham asked her nephew, Percival, if he could not put him in the way of get- ting some appointment.... ...wn element; and in truth it was as if there was nothing that came amiss to Percival Fotheringham, who was equally ready for deep and schol- arly disse... ...d.’ ‘She went with her mother to live in Lancashire, with old Mr. and Mrs. Percival, at Elsdale. There she lost her mother.’ ‘How long did it go on be... ...presently. ‘On her next birthday. Well, then came considerations. Old Mrs. Percival was nearly blind, and could hardly move from her chair, the grandf... ...uld not leave them in her grandfather’s lifetime, and that afterwards Mrs. Percival should come to our home, Brogden, as we thought it would be. Indee... ...elen devote herself, saying, she would never have permitted it but for Mr. Percival, for what would become of him without his granddaughter—hoping the... ...ink how this talking over our travels has brought it back. As long as Mrs. Percival lived we did pretty well. She made Helen take care of herself, and... ...sup- pose this was done a long time ago?’ ‘When she was quite a girl. Mrs. Percival gave it to me; it was taken for her long before. I used not to lik...

.......................................................................... 80 Percival Sharp ............................................................... ...r change—alas!—to swallows, To twitter amid cold winds and falling leaves! Percival Sharp OBSERVE the clasped hands! Are they hands of farewell or gre...

... saints. 5 “The astonishment of science.”—Her medical attendants were Dr. Percival, a well-known literary physician, who had been a correspondent of ... ...ader. We found it in a book written for the use of his own children by Dr. Percival, the physician who attended at Greenhay. Dr. P . was a literary ma... ...t enemy as the first in an attitude of unconquerable defiance. Here is Dr. Percival’s story, which (again I warn you) will collapse into nothing at al...

...yesterday not to remem- ber—not to consider; well, I think I will write to Percival about it.” And he had written to Percival (who answered him in a r...

...am much more comfortable, and live greatly cheaper. He is a friend of Mrs. Percival’s; about my age, an Oriel man, and a very superior person. I think...

...he world, Friedmund von Adlerstein looked on chivalry with the temper of a Percival or Galahad, and regarded it with a sacred awe. Eberhard, though tr...

...sibly be referred to in the “Elucidation” prefixed to the rhymed version of “Percival le Gallois” under the name of “Master Blihis”, but this vague an...

...es clients: “Say, uh, I think I got just the house that would suit you—the Percival House, in Linton.... Oh, you’ve seen it. Well, how’d it strike you...

... studied ambiguity to a cousin on his mother’s side. His father’s brother, Percival 437 George Meredith Barrett, to whom the estates had gone, had of...

..., have you? BENTLEY. Y es. Thats an idea of mine. I knew a chap named Joey Percival at Oxford (you know I was two months at Balliol before I was sent ... ...pockets]. HYPATIA. [thoughtful] Bentley: couldnt you invite your friend Mr Percival down here? BENTLEY. Not if I know it. Youd throw me over the mo- m... ...aking off his goggles] Youre really more than kind. BENTLEY. Why, its Joey Percival. PERCIVAL. Hallo, Ben! That you? TARLETON. What! The man with thre... ...ERCIVAL. Hallo, Ben! That you? TARLETON. What! The man with three fathers! PERCIVAL. Oh! has Ben been talking about me? TARLETON. Consider yourself as... ... do me the honor. And your friend too. Wheres your friend? 38 Misalliance PERCIVAL. Oh, by the way! before he comes in: let me explain. I dont know h... ...he way! before he comes in: let me explain. I dont know him. TARLETON. Eh? PERCIVAL. Havnt even looked at him. I’m trying to make a club record with a... ...rned you off into the flower bed, and then lighted beside you like a bird. PERCIVAL. How he kept his head I cant imagine. Frankly, I didnt. The Passen... ...h the pavilion with Johnny and the two ladies. The Passenger comes between Percival and T arleton, Mrs T arleton between Lord Summerhays and her husba... ...on, Mrs T arleton between Lord Summerhays and her husband, Hypatia between Percival and Bentley, and Johnny to Bentley’s right. TARLETON. Just discuss...

... ‘O ay, ’ said Vivien, ‘that were likely too. What say ye then to fair Sir Percivale And of the horrid foulness that he wrought, The saintly youth, th... ... the dead!’ And Merlin answered careless of her charge, ‘A sober man is Percivale and pure; But once in life was flustered with new wine, Then pace... ... rose And pointed to the damsel, and the doors. So Arthur bad the meek Sir Percivale And pure Sir Galahad to uplift the maid; And reverently they bore... ...il From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called The Pure, Had passed into ... ...moke Above them, ere the summer when he died The monk Ambrosius questioned Percivale: ‘O brother, I have seen this yew-tree smoke, Spring after spr... ...ntom of a cup that comes and goes?’ ‘Nay, monk! what phantom?’ answered Percivale. ‘The cup, the cup itself, from which our Lord Drank at the last ... ...ave read. But who first saw the holy thing today?’ ‘A woman, ’ answered Percivale, ‘a nun, And one no further off in blood from me Than sister; and... ... of them, wonderful, Beautiful in the light of holiness. And “O my brother Percivale,” she said, “Sweet brother, I have seen the Holy Grail: For, wake... ...hat said the King? Did Arthur take the vow?’ ‘Nay, for my lord, ’ said Percivale, ‘the King, Was not in hall: for early that same day, Scaped thr...

...rlton Terrace?’ ‘Yes, I know that. ’ ‘And why not?’ ‘Would Lord Grex allow Percival to have his friends living here?’ Lord Grex was Lady Mabel’s fathe... ... to have his friends living here?’ Lord Grex was Lady Mabel’s father, Lord Percival was the Earl’s son;—and the Earl lived in Belgrave Square. All the... ... It’s just the sort of thing a son to do in these days. If I had a borough Percival would go down and make radical speeches there. ’ ‘There isn’t a be... ...dical speeches there. ’ ‘There isn’t a better Conservative in England than Percival, ’ said Lady Mabel, bridling up. ‘Nor a worse son, ’ said the fath... ...difference to me. As it is, having none, and knowing as I do that papa and Percival are getting things into a worse mess every day, I am obliged to ho... ...n arrangement had been suggested to him that his winnings should go to pay Percival’s losings. This was a mode of settling affairs to which the Earl w... ...he cut- ting off a certain entail under which money was to be paid to Lord Percival. This money had not yet been forthcom- 144 The Duke’s Children in... ...f?’ ‘I’m one myself. ’ ‘I suppose so. ’ ‘I’m utterly smashed. Then there’s Percival. ’ ‘I hope he has not lost much. Of course you know he is my broth... ...t Mr Tregear’s way of living. I can under- stand that Lord Silverbridge or Percival should lose money. ’ ‘Or me?’ ‘Or you, if you like to say so. ’ ‘O...

...were not attrac- tive, nor did they attract her—school groups, Watts’ “Sir Percival,” a dog running after a rabbit, a man running after a maid, a chea... ... come to Dunwood House, and had been distributed where each was seemly—Sir Percival to the drawing-room, the photograph of Stockholm to the passage, h...

...or an hour together, an- swering deferential questions about Sheridan, and Percival, and Castlereagh, and Heaven knows who be- side, with manifest del...

... Chartreuse of Gresset ; the Belphegor of Machiavelli; the *W atson, Dr. Percival, Spallanzani, and especially the Bishop of Landaff. — See “Chemica...

...or an hour together, an- swering deferential questions about Sheridan, and Percival, and Castlereagh, and Heaven knows who be- side, with manifest del...