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...t; four sons of the chief merchant, and two sons of the county judge, became pilots. Pilot was the grandest position of all. The pilot, even in those ... ... like sardines at the long St. Louis wharf, and very humbly inquired for the pilots, but got only a cold shoulder and short words from mates and clerk... ...nati to New Orleans. This gave me a chance to get acquainted with one of the pilots, and he taught me how to steer the boat, and thus made the fascina... ... imposing sofa; leather cushions and a back to the high bench where visiting pilots sit, to spin yarns and “look at the river”; bright, fanciful “cusp... ... got to learn this troublesome river both ways. The pilot house was full of pilots, going down to “look at the river.” What is called the “upper rive... ...undance of room for them in our great pilot house. Two or three of them wore polished silk hats, elaborate shirt fronts, diamond breast pins, kid glov... ...man. An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him, sir.” At eight o’clock, pro... ...ey break camp and go for the woods.” After rounding out and finishing up and polishing off the alligator business, he dropped easily and comfortably i... ...h wedge sticking from under her dress and letting on to be half of her foot. Polished air tight stove (new and deadly invention), with pipe passing th...

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...en and mustached counte- nance. I got up from the table and greeted him in Polish, with, I hope, the right shade of consideration demanded by his nobl... ...ot, sharing the exile of her husband and representing no- bly the ideal of Polish womanhood. Our uncle Nicholas was not a man very accessible to feeli... ...hal Marmont; afterward captain in the 2d Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom establishe... ... Nicholas B. was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and that he had also the Polish Cross for valour Virtuti Militari. The knowledge of these glorious f... ...distinctly understood that it is not I, but my granduncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Cheva- lier de la Legion d’Honneur, etc., who in his ... .... His grandfather (I think) was a dignitary of a kind, the Syn- dic of the Pilots. I made acquaintances among these people, but mainly among the pilot... ...on of le petit ami de Baptistin I was made the guest of the corporation of pilots, and had the freedom of their boats night or day. And many a day and... ...he way I employed my time, and I rather fancy that my artless tales of the pilots and so on entertained Madame Delestang so far as that ineffable woma... ...ight on which I went out for a service cruise as a guest of the Marseilles pilots! Not a footstep, except my own, not a sigh, not a whispering echo of...

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...n and moustachioed countenance. I got up from the table and greeted him in Polish, with, I hope, the right shade of consideration demanded by his nobl... ...riot, sharing the exile of her husband and representing nobly the ideal of Polish womanhood. Our Uncle Nicholas was not a man very accessible to feeli... ...l Marmont; afterwards Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the Polish Army—such as it existed up to 1830 in the reduced kingdom establishe... ... Nicholas B. was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and that he had also the Polish Cross for valour Virtuti Militari. The knowledge of these glo- rious... ...distinctly understood that it is not I but my grand-uncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, &c. &c., who, in hi... ...ts. His grandfather (I think) was a dignitary of a kind, the Syndic of the Pilots. I made acquaintan- ces amongst these people, but mainly amongst the... ...ilots. I made acquaintan- ces amongst these people, but mainly amongst the pilots. The very first whole day I ever spent on salt water was by invitati... ...on of le petit ami de Baptistin I was made the guest of the Corporation of Pilots, and had the freedom of their boats night or day. And many a day and... ...he way I employed my time, and I rather fancy that my artless tales of the pilots and so on entertained Madame Delestang, so far as that ineffable wom...

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...ess ‘Sufficiently’ (he said) ‘his approbation Of all the customs of this polish’d nation. ‘For his own share—he saw but small objection To s... ... Achilles’ self was not more grim and gory Than thousands of this new and polish’d nation, Whose names want nothing but — pronunciation. Still ... ...ould be Now under arms. Ho! Katskoff, take him to (Here he call’d up a Polish orderly) His post, I mean the regiment Nikolaiew: The strang... ...them, The rudest brute that roams Siberia’s wild Has feelings pure and polish’d as a gem,— The bear is civilised, the wolf is mild; And wh... ...yours) Was left upon his way to the chief city Of the immortal Peter’s polish’d boors Who still have shown themselves more brave than witty.... ...Peace, war, the taxes, and what ‘s call’d the ‘Nation’? The struggle to be pilots in a storm? The landed and the monied speculation? The joys ... ... ‘s quite enough, Especially when we are ill at ease; They are but bad pilots when the weather ‘s rough, Doctors less famous for their cures...

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...by its own rapidity. Exact disposi- tion, just thought, correct elocution, polished numbers, may have been found in a thousand; but this poetic fire, ... ... the watery plains, And waft the sacrifice to Chrysa’s shores, With chosen pilots, and with labouring oars. Soon shall the fair the sable ship ascend,... ...inds arise, Shoot their long beams, and kindle half the skies: So from the polish’d arms, and brazen shields, A gleamy splendour flash’d along the fie... ... tied, Sustain’d the sword that glitter’d at his side: His youthful face a polish’d helm o’erspread; The waving horse-hair nodded on his head: His fig... ...he casque, enraged, amidst the Greeks he threw; The Greeks with smiles the polish’d trophy view. Then, as once more he lifts the deadly dart, In thirs... ...rs, to the god of day.” 91 He heard, and madly at the motion pleased, His polish’d bow with hasty rashness seized. ’T was form’d of horn, and smooth’...

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...at was made of oak, which had grown dark with age, but had been rubbed and polished till it shone as bright as mahogany. It was very large and heavy, ... ...he room, opposite to a tall looking glass, stands our beloved chair, newly polished, and adorned with a gorgeous cushion of crimson velvet tufted with... ...in a corner of the room stands his gold headed cane, made of a beautifully polished West India wood. Somewhat such an aspect as this did Sir William P... ...construe Virgil. Poor Virgil! whose verses, which he took so much pains to polish, have been misscanned, and misparsed, and misinterpreted by so many ... .... They wore swords with beautiful hilts, either of silver, or sometimes of polished steel, inlaid with gold.” “Oh, I should like to wear a sword!” cri... ...inually surrounded by councillors, represen tatives, clergymen, captains, pilots, and all manner of people, with whom he consulted about this wonderf...

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...gives.” Instead of laying to heart the sensible advice which the cleverest pilots of the Parisian archipelago gave him, Savinien took it all as a joke... ... in treaty for the purchase of the estate. Mademoiselle is to marry a rich Polish count; and Monsieur du Rouvre himself left the neighbourhood the day...

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...ng to remain one. T raining, experi ence, association, can temporarily so polish him, improve Mark T wain 91 him, exalt him that people will think h... ...how to translate entrails. Caesar Augustus’s education received this final polish. All through his life, whenever he had poultry on the menu he saved ... ...ians these many, many years. They have to make him write that graceful and polished and flawless and beautiful poem before he escaped from Stratford a... ...e years of Shakespeare numbers—there are still findable two or three river pilots who saw me do credit able things in those ancient days; and several...

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... would not work. The latter people has been, or soon will be, exterminated—polished off the face of creation, as the Americans say—which fate must, I ... ...the heavy, rough works of the Welsh coal metropolis than to the finish and polish of Birmingham. “Why cannot you consume your own smoke?” I asked a ge... ... than his brethren. Our friend was very angry against England. “When we’ve polished off these accursed rebels, I guess we’ll take a turn at you. You h... ...igence of the Yankee gives place gradually to the softer, and perhaps more polished, manner of the Southern. But the change thus experienced is not gr... ...t hit it in a direct line. The boats are also roofed in with iron; and the pilots who steer the vessel stand incased, as it were, under an iron cupola... ...x, I think, in number—were scalded to death by the escaping steam. The two pilots up in the cupola were destroyed in this terrible manner. As they wer...

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... quite outstripped, clung for a noisy moment to her quarter; the stipulated bread, rum, and tobacco were passed in; a moment more and the boat was in ... ...in the smoke of the family hearth. Head-hunting, besides, still lives around my doorstep in Samoa. And not ten years ago, in the Gilberts, the widow m...

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... have told me something of the joy they were in at the sight of a boat and pilots, to carry them away to the person and place from whence all these ne... ...erry with. In short, he told us there was a great caravan of Muscovite and Polish merchants in the city, preparing to set out on their journey by land...

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...eing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I con- cluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, wh... ...of travel, I say, may not be the very best mode of attaining a high social polish. Still, for the most part, that sort of thing is to be had anywhere.... .... The area before the house was paved with clam-shells. Mrs. Hussey wore a polished necklace of codfish vertebra; and Hosea Hussey had his account boo... ...led like any barbaric Ethiopian em- peror, his neck heavy with pendants of polished ivory. She was a thing of trophies. A cannibal of a craft, trickin... ...g, be it known, in addition to his other officers, was one of the licensed pilots of the port—he being suspected to have got himself made a pilot in o... ...lted, remains at midsummer. At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us b... ...eviously come to me that this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale’s jaw. “A ye, he was dismasted off Japan,”...

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...ad received at that time to write the history of the King, was employed to polish and ornament his pleas. Nothing was left undone by M. de Luxembourg ... ...e Prince’s suite, was present, but had been ill. There was drinking in the Polish fashion, and he tried to be let off. The Prince pleaded for him; but... ...moreover, bold, audacious, talk- ing loudly and always with authority; was polished, how- ever, and of good manners when she pleased. Being the most i... ... news of him, that they had come out to meet him, and that they would send pilots to Rambure, to conduct him up the river to Edinburgh, where all was ... ...e had at first been merely suffered, but in which she soon shone, had much polished; and ornamented with knowledge of the world, and which gallantry h... ...lasted some time, being appeased, the Regent thanked the company in brief, polished, and majes- tic terms; declared with what care he would employ for...

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...THE ATTACK LOOMS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final ... ...n. Sixteen seconds after that transmis- sion,ATC instructed the aircraft’s pilots to climb to 35,000 feet.That message and all subsequent attempts to ... ...the flight crew (reported by a flight attendant and one pas- senger). Both pilots had been killed (reported by one flight attendant).The eye- witness ... ...stro.The flight attendant reported that the flight had been hijacked, both pilots had been killed, a flight attendant had been stabbed, and “WE HAVE S... ... was simply not the FAA’s place to order the air- lines what to tell their pilots. 68 We believe such statements do not reflect an adequate appreciati... ...ween Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer (discussed in chapter 7) and a Polish report that personnel at the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence in B...

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...one side, and on the other making friends with the people of the Old Town, pilots, coasters, sailors, workers of all sorts. He pretended rather absurd... ...ttle wretch. The top of his head shines like a billiard ball. I believe he polishes it every morning with a cloth. Of course they didn’t get further t... ... a rotunda with many windows. It was long enough for two fireplaces of red polished granite. A table laid out for four occupied very little space. The...

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...ng eyes a sparkling grace, And breath’d a youthful vigor on his face; Like polish’d ivory, beauteous to behold, Or Parian marble, when enchas’d in gol... ... prepar’d: Bounteous of treasure, he supplied my want With heavy gold, and polish’d elephant; Then Dodonaean caldrons put on board, And ev’ry ship wit... ... navy sends: Men, horses, captains, arms, and warlike stores; Supplies new pilots, and new sweeping oars. Meantime, my sire commands to hoist our sail... ...l design’d, (The vanquish’d and the victor shall be join’d,) T wo darts of polish’d steel and Gnosian wood, A silver studded ax, alike bestow’d. The f... ...sh his fortune, or to bear. T wo gates the silent house of Sleep adorn; Of polish’d ivory this, that of transparent horn: True visions thro’ transpare... ...that of transparent horn: True visions thro’ transparent horn arise; Thro’ polish’d ivory pass deluding lies. Of various things discoursing as he pass...

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... Hrisanfitch, had on a uni- form with new braiding, his boots had an extra polish, and he greeted every visitor with “A Happy New Year to you!” It was... ... water and lan- guidly opened its jaws with two rows of teeth. The harbour pilots are delighted, they stop to see what will come next. After playing a... ... from head to foot; one of the weights falls out and frightens the harbour pilots, and striking the shark on the ribs goes rapidly to the bottom. Over...

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...ad, The sun falls on his crispy hair and mustache, falls on the black of his polish’d and perfect limbs. I behold the picturesque giant and love him, ... ...e roses sweet scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish’d breasts of melons. And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavi... ...the slender serpentine pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilothouses, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 168 The white wak... ... Grass –Whitman 212 Wielding all day their axes. Behold, on the lakes, thy pilots at their wheels, thy oarsmen, How the ash writhes under those musc... ...n 496 The lyrist’s measur’d beat, the wrought out temple’s grace—column and polish’d arch forgot? But thou that revelest here—spirit that form’d this... ...in front on the lead, To calm, devoted engineers—to over ardent travelers—to pilots on their ships, To many a lofty song and picture without recogniti...

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...t of the coast or sea-side are marble. But, my dear Boys, unless marble be polished and dressed, it is a very coarse-looking stone, and has no more be... ...to take claret to their barley-meal porridge. On complaining to one of the pilots of the badness of his boat’s sails, he replied to the author with so... ...er months, when inspection is scarce possible, it must seem a vain toil to polish the brass hand-rail of the stair, or to keep an unrewarded vigil in ... ...e vociferous thoroughness of the man, upon the clean- ing of lamps and the polishing of reflectors. In building, in road-making, in the construction o...

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...ran- deur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of... ...p him of his wild disguise, Melt down his dross, refine his massy ore, And polish that which seem’d rough-cast before, Search his deep sense, unveil h... ...atins and anniversaries in the choir, I make withal some crossbow-strings, polish glass bottles and bolts, I twist lines and weave purse nets wherein ... ...l strange and unknown terms with as much heedfulness and circumspection as pilots of ships use to avoid the rocks and banks in the sea. Chapter 2.VII.... ...in public, or present him- self in company, that hath not been pretty well polished in the shop of Minerva. I see robbers, hangmen, freebooters, tapst... ...id watch and ward, and not one was exempted from carrying the basket. Some polished corslets, varnished backs and breasts, cleaned the headpieces, mai... ...page, furniture, or provision you please, together with 487 Rabelais such pilots, mariners, and truchmen as you have a mind to, and with the first fa... ... the T rojan state. He like- wise picked out for his use so many mariners, pilots, sailors, interpreters, artificers, officers, and soldiers, as he th... ...tored with a good quantity of Pantagruelion. All the officers, droggermen, pilots, captains, mates, boat- swains, midshipmen, quartermasters, and sail...

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...of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners? One piece of good sense would be more memorable than ... ...st trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steer ing like pilots by certain well known beacons and head lands, and if we go beyond o... ...ce in the sand, and then resumed his work. By the time he had smoothed and polished the staff Kalpa was no longer the pole star; and ere he had put on...

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...oe, as he leaned an arm against the wall. ‘What do you mean?’ John Baptist polished his knife in si- lence. ‘Do you mean that I have not represented t... ...o gentlemen sitting face to face at a large and easy desk, one of whom was polishing a gun-barrel on his pocket-handkerchief, while the other was spre... ...itted it into its place in the case before him, and took out the stock and polished that, softly whistling. ‘Mr Wobbler?’ said the suitor. ‘What’s the... ...’ said Plornish tautologically. ‘I see.’ ‘Ah! And there’s manners! There’s polish! There’s a gentle- man to have run to seed in the Marshalsea jail! W... ...credit, he had but to hold his tongue, keep the bald part of his head well polished, and leave his hair alone, had had just cunning enough to seize th... ...ces are on your own head), I will say this much: that I shape my course by pilots, strictly by proved and tried pilots, under whom I cannot be shipwre...

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...SOCRATES GLAUCON Heavens! my dear Glaucon, I said, how energetically you polish them up for the decision, first one and then the other, as if they w... ...ws, and in the second place, reflections in water and in solid, smooth and polished bodies and the like: Do you understand? Yes, I understand. Imagine... ... consider the nature of the qualification just think what would happen if pilots were to be chosen according to their property, and a poor man were r...

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...oe, as he leaned an arm against the wall. ‘What do you mean?’ John Baptist polished his knife in si- lence. ‘Do you mean that I have not represented t... ...o gentlemen sitting face to face at a large and easy desk, one of whom was polishing a gun-barrel on his pocket-handkerchief, while the other was spre... ...itted it into its place in the case before him, and took out the stock and polished that, softly whistling. ‘Mr Wobbler?’ said the suitor. ‘What’s the... ...’ said Plornish tautologically. ‘I see.’ ‘Ah! And there’s manners! There’s polish! There’s a gentle- man to have run to seed in the Marshalsea jail! W... ...credit, he had but to hold his tongue, keep the bald part of his head well polished, and leave his hair alone, had had just cunning enough to seize th... ...ces are on your own head), I will say this much: that I shape my course by pilots, strictly by proved and tried pilots, under whom I cannot be shipwre...

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...of volcanic or igneous ori- gin! In its hardness and translucency — in its polish, equal to that of the finest oliva-shell — in the bad smell given ou... ... substances harder than the enamel of teeth, and coloured surfaces as well polished as those of a fresh shell, reformed through inorganic means from d... ...- stance resembling shell.” It is deposited in fine, transpar- ent, highly polished, brown-coloured laminae, possess- ing peculiar optical properties,... ... itic rocks are coated by a black substance, appearing as if they had been polished with plumbago. The layer is of extreme thinness; and on analysis b... ...l waves; and as the rivulet slowly trickles down, the surf must supply the polishing power of the cata- racts in the great rivers. In like manner, the... ...iven against the steep outside edges of this wall of stone, yet the oldest pilots know of no tradition of any change in its appearance. This durabilit...

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...The barrier between men and animals also. We read of Towianski, an eminent Polish patriot and mystic, that “one day one of his friends met him in the ... ... is, while leaning entirely on the con- duct of his Superiors, who are the pilots of his vessel, and keep watch for him continually. It is no small th... ... into our hearts and thrilled them. The words have now perhaps become mere polished surfaces for us; but lyric poetry and music are alive and signific...