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...len understood that besides the crew, there were the usual company of marines and a platoon of a Highland Regiment (some of whom were accompanied by... ...land Regiment (some of whom were accompanied by their wives). ‘This platoon of the Seventy-Eighth Highlanders,’ said Uncle Terence, ‘is part of the ... ...ear Mirapore and he and his wife, you and Rosita, will be escorted to Mirapore by the platoon of Highlanders.’ All this Sir Terence explained to He... ... just dined for the last time with Captain White and were standing by the ship’s rails watching a school of dolphins playfully swimming alongside th... ... dress her hair into a more sophisticated chignon, which was the style she had adopted in medical school to emphasise her maturity and professionali... ...t English. Helen, surprised said, ‘You speak English, sir.’ ‘Yes, I was sent to one of your hill schools when I was a boy and taught by the good Ch... ... here in the valley of Mirapore with its Alpine climate, the heat was never as stifling as in the plains of India. The monsoons were not very far of...

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...er where he was: Muguk, Chongju, Seoul, or "Miguk." Sometimes at the primary school in Muguk he would ask, "Where are you from?" Then once, in a coac... ...ear Umsong to be rid of scenery so bland. Although the bus traveled down the highway as a solid, jitterless mass, he jittered into more drowsiness. T... ...earched though his billfold for a calling card. He went to the front of this high-tech bus and made a call. "Yoboseyo." "Yoboseyo. Yang Lin bakwa chus... ...m imnidad" responded Sang Huin (I am an American). Sung Ki, accompanied by a high school friend, took him to eat kimbop (a Korean version of sushi). H... ...idad" responded Sang Huin (I am an American). Sung Ki, accompanied by a high school friend, took him to eat kimbop (a Korean version of sushi). He spo... ...Korean version of sushi). He spoke in English the entire time neglecting his school friend from the conversation. After visiting a couple museums, Sun... ...n went into the bathroom to fall like a child through specious mountains and plains of crackling soap bubbles. There she would allow the steam to rel...

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...e middle of a drab paddock with about as much vegetation as the Nullarbor Plains. A local told me it was up for sale. The owners have separated and ... ...now this is a dangerous mission, but think of it this way; you’ll go to a higher greener plain in the sky. It’s for a good cause, my stomach. Oh, bu... ...was little, but I have never believed in ghosts. We were taught at Sunday school, we go to Heaven when we die. I saw no white light, well, not that ... ...!” “Hey, it’s a whole new way of travel for us.” Steven’s definitely on a high. “You ought to try it, it’s a scream.” He disappears. It’s awfully har... ...nk, you can play with any guy’s arse to your heart’s content.” Steven has high expectations, I’m just dying to hear what he’s got planned for himsel... ... the time, we reached the front gates, the back of the car looked liked a school of kids had had a food fight. How was I to know that food passes ri... ...e can manage a smile. Her arms are thicker than my body, you could hide a school bus behind her and I bet when she was alive, she had dirt floors in...

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...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I ACROSS THE PLAINS LEA VES FROM... .................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140 4 Across the Plains whom I take to have been an emigrant agent, was all over the place... ...the hour; and as I saw, one after another, pleasant villages, carts upon the highway and fish- ers by the stream, and heard cockcrows and cheery voice... ... I am at a loss to name their parallel in England. A butler perhaps rides as high over the unbutlered, but then he sets you right with a reserve and a... ...inly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They considered themselves too highly to accept. They would even resent the offer. As for him and me, we... ...ements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working in – . It is a good country. You can get from 5... ... folks get along.” And so ends this artless narrative. The little man was at school again, God bless him, while his brother lay scalped upon the deser... ...keep pigs. Gun-powder and print- ing, which the other day we imitated, and a school of man- ners which we never had the delicacy so much as to desire ...

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...Excerpt: Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Colebrook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall which defends it from the sea. Beyond the sea-wall there curves for miles in a vast and regular sweep the barr...

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... A COUNTRY DOCTOR, and lives in Cole- brook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds ... ... rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall which defends it from the sea. Beyond the sea-... ... Infinite with a heroic uncouthness. The end of his carter’s whip quivered high up in the blue. Kennedy discoursed. “She’s the eldest of a large famil... ...the miraculous Holy Image in the yard of the Carmelite Convent down in the plains where, before he left his home, he drove his mother in a wooden cart... ...ll under the showers. As the day advanced, some children came dashing into school at Norton in such a fright that the schoolmistress went out and spok...

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...Excerpt: SUFFOLK. As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, ...

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...UFFOLK, YORK, SOMERSET, and BUCKINGHAM, on the other .] SUFFOLK: As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procura... ...bating to and fro How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe, And had his highness in his infancy Crowned in Paris in despite of foes? And shall th... ...m pleased again. [Enter Messenger .] Messenger: My lord protector, ’tis his highness’ pleasure You do prepare to ride unto Saint Alban’s, Where as th... ...scene iv 21 Spirit: Let him shun castles; Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains Than where castles mounted stand. Have done, for more I hardly can... ..., Act I, scene iv 22 Let him shun castles; Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains Than where castles mounted stand.’ Come, come, my lords; These ora... ...ast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the ...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without producing any other effect upon the ...

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...rs Later by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] The Vicomte de Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of the month of May, in the year 166... ...the wing of the castle in which is the window of Mary de Medici, so that Madame never fails to say: ‘Could one believe it possible that Mary de Medici... ...ed till one of them was close to his saddle-bow: then stooping towards him, in a clear, distinct voice, which was perfectly audible at the window wher... ...d, he went in search of the painter who was to paint the sign; and he was soon found. He was an old Italian, a rival of the Raphaels and the Caracci, ... ... D’Artagnan, whose horse, long sword, spurs, and 126 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 martial air they very much admired. But above all, they admired his st... ...hy,” replied Athos, “but for the respect and admiration I entertain for your royal highness.” “Monsieur de Bragelonne,” said the prince, “is a good of... ...nan perceived, within half a league at most, the blue and marked profile of the rocks of Belle-Isle, dominated by the majestic whiteness of the castle... ...t of Porthos had, by swelling, burst his stockings; all the strength of his huge body was converted into the rigidity of stone. Porthos moved no more ...

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...ut I know it was remarkable enough to attract my notice, even though his figure was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench, and mine was high above him, so steeped in the glow of an angry sunset, that I had shaded my eyes with my hand before I saw him at all....

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...figure was foreshortened and shadowed, down in the deep trench, and mine was high above him, so steeped in the glow of an angry sunset, that I had sha... ...he Line, he turned himself about again, and, raising his eyes, saw my figure high above him. “The Signal Man” Charles Dickens 3 “Is there any path ... ...el of damp air, and could he never rise into the sunshine from between those high stone walls? Why, that depended upon times and cir cumstances. Unde... ...e” Charles Dickens 34 angelic little wife, and where is the boy I went to school with?” I entreated the phantom to be comforted, and above all thin... ...and above all things to take heart respecting the loss of the boy he went to school with. I represented to him that probably that boy never did, withi... ...rged that I myself had, in later life, turned up several boys whom I went to school with, and none of them had at all answered. I expressed my humble ... ...On the other hand, a young antelope of transcendent beauty from the fruitful plains of Camden Town (whence she had been brought, by traders, in the ha...

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........................................... 210 210 210 210 210 CHAPTER XVII: HIGH UP O CHAPTER XVII: HIGH UP O CHAPTER XVII: HIGH UP O CHAPTER XVII: HIG... ...I: HIGH UP O CHAPTER XVII: HIGH UP O CHAPTER XVII: HIGH UP O CHAPTER XVII: HIGH UP OVER VER VER VER VER THE CA THE CA THE CA THE CA THE CATHEDRAL SQ T... ...ent. “Ay!—lop-sided though.” “Put something on, you two!” came the woman’s high im- perative voice, from the kitchen. “We aren’t cold,” protested the ... ...er only child. She had done well in her shop. She had wanted Aaron to be a schoolteacher. He had served three years apprenticeship, then suddenly thro... ...ity, crossed by a white bridge. The city lay close clustered, ruddy on the plains, glittering in the clear air with its flat roofs and domes and squar... ...lity of beauty. That was a cross hard to bear. Yet even that she bore. And schooled herself into a fretful, petulant manner of indiffer- ence. Her odd... ...o Rome?” He spoke in precise, par- ticularly-enunciated words, in a public-school manner, but with a strong twang of South Wales. “Why, Angus,” came t...

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...saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray?s poems several years ago, I found that they had not been correctly printed for ...

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...t. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...ited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...t. Edited with Notes By William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 Preface When I first saw Mr. Osgo... ...ited with Notes By William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 Preface When I first saw Mr. Osgood’s ... ...sked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and house- hold use; and the present volume is the result. The text ... ...owing Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action includes Six Days, and the tran... ... and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between:— These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; The stran...

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...use-master, at all commanding respect; nor did Foxy, the subtle red-haired school Sergeant, trust them. His business was to wear tennis-shoes, carry b... ...Foxy knew the manners of his quarry; but Providence moved Mr. Prout, whose school-name, derived from the size of his feet, was Hoofer, to investigate ... ...d among the inland trees. They were looking into a combe half full of old, high furze in gay bloom that ran up to a fringe of brambles and a dense woo... ...lky pinched him a tergo. Down that tunnel they crawled. It was evidently a highway for the inhabitants of the combe; and, to their inexpressible joy, ... ... were in your combe,” McT urk began, and he told his tale alternately as a schoolboy and, when the iniquity of the thing overcame him, as an indignant... ...ut they’ll know you again.” He dismissed them with many compliments by the high Lodge-gate in the split-oak park palings and they stood still; even St... ..., took half his supplies to save him the bother o’ luggin’ ‘em back to the plains, and all the ammunition he could get at, and, consilio et auxilio Ru... ...’ me laugh till I cried. Macnamara bundled the whole lot of us down to the plains next day. We were a walkin’ hospital.” “Stalky told me that Macnamar...

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...h LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I LOVE AT A SCHOOL A PROCESSION of schoolboys having to meet a procession of schoolgirl... ...t forced a resemblance. T ouching the old game, Cuper’s fold was a healthy school, owing to the good lead of the head boy, Matey Weyburn, a lad with a... ...ght about girls. His emulation, the fellows fancied, was for get- ting the school into a journal of the Sports. He used to read one sent him by a spor... ...ls caused it to be suspected that he had ideas concerning girls. They were high as his head above the school; and there they were left, with Algebra a... ...ys. They remembered several of Matey’s doings and sayings: his running and high leaping, his bowling, a maxim or two of his, and the tight strong fell... ...e midst of his gathering warriors, was a handsome piece of daring, and the high-handed treatment of the Prince was held by his advocates to be justifi... ...k on the working world below them as, we’ll say, the scavenger dogs on the plains of Ilium were seen by the Achaeans. And my failure would be no loss ...

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...tory. It plays too small a part in novels. Plato and Confucius are but the highest of a great host of minds that have had a kindred aspiration, have d... ...lliam, to Mr. Evesham, to a certain news- paper proprietor who was once my schoolfellow at City Mer- chants’, to Mr. J. D. Rockefeller—all of them men... ...rnt and felt during the career that has ended now in my divorce. I climbed high and fast from small beginnings. I had the mind of my party. I do not k... ... There were hundreds of them, many hun- dreds. I could build six towers as high as myself with them, and there seemed quite enough for every engineeri... ...ng periods; through the spring and sum- mer I was mostly out of doors, and school and classes caught me early. And in the retrospect I see them all no... ...e in Kent under the old Science and Art Department, and “visiting” various schools; and our resources were eked out by my mother’s income of nearly a ... ...he tropics, to frozen wildernesses gashed for gold, to vast temple-studded plains, to forest worlds and 214 The New Machiavelli mountain worlds, to p...

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...rred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but ... ...ched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board fence, and disappeared over it. His aunt Polly stood surprised... ...om Sawyer 5 marvels of low cunning. Said she: “Tom, it was middling warm in school, warn’t it?” “Yes’m.” “Powerful warm, warn’t it?” “Yes’m.” “Didn’t... ... that ate into Tom’s vitals. The more Tom stared at the splendid marvel, the higher he turned up his nose at his finery and the shabbier and shabbier... ...e he caught him out.” To which Tom responded with jeers, and started off in high feather, and as soon as his back was turned the new boy snatched up ... ...arranging to begin on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for Sunday school. Mary gave him a tin basin of water and a piece of soap, and he we... ...faloes and go on the warpath in the mountain ranges and the trackless great plains of the Far West, and away in the future come back a great chief, b...