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...get a tingle in the back of my head, it kind 5 7 Scorpions: Rebellion of points me in the direction and I react. You guys have a with- drawal plan?”... ... answered, “That’s Drunk Running. We’ve got a pre-laid course with check points. Each check point has someone like me set up. The driver has to sto... ...tion of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of frearms, projectile weap- ons, air guns, and explosives within, the importation ther... ...nfrmed. “How do they plan on doing that, it’s unstoppable. It has no week points in the armor that I’ve ever heard of, there are no un- explained ope...

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... feld gives rise to a mapping of the distance D= r−r 0 between two points r, r 0 ∈ into (M g ,g g ). Thus, r becomes a parameter for the spac... ...ny point r∈ . The point-mass and the test particle are located at the end points of an interval along the real line through r 0 and r. The distance b... ...interval along the real line through r 0 and r. The distance between these points is D= r−r 0 . In (M s ,g s ), r 0 and r may be thought of as... ...this metricr r 0 is usually assumed. Now in (1) the distanceD between two points on a radial line is given by, D=|r 2 −r 1 | =r 2 −r 1 . (3) Furtherm... ... a coordinate and a radius (distance). However, the correct description of points by the spatial part of (1) must still be given in terms of distance.... ...ng to recall Newton’s comments in Principia that follow the First Law [6]: Projectiles continue in their motions, so far as they are not retarded by t... ...ematic from an empirical perspective. No experiment can be devised where a projectile will move in the absence of gravity. Thus, there can be no cause... ...be devised on our planet for the purpose of observing what the motion of a projectile would be when there is no force acting upon it. According to New...

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...grunts. A portion of the map was a shiny, polished black. Heng-chiang's projectiles bounced off it. The silt was repelled. The one spot remained... ...h up. Once these mountains had been no more than islands, craggy resting points punching out of the sea. The terraforming had changed so much. If... ...ew the head toward the sun and scattered the legs and arms to the compass points. Heng-chiang's golden arm pinwheeled into oblivion. The scavenger... ...med by touching tails, crouched in the smallest crevices. They were like points of color amid great smears of pure minerals. Their blacks, gray... ...d the orb. Within the glowing sphere was a brown pellet, a mud- encrusted projectile. No one will ever know how Ao Rue came so quickly. He was a ...

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... forced to set out immediately to sea to save it from destruction. Getting the points of the compass again, he sailed westward and then south-west, an... ... of demons. One such travels up and down the Irish coast, appearing at various points once in seven years; another is seen from time to time off the c... ...sed by the Romans and Greeks in their earliest wars, by which great stones and projectiles of as much as three hundred weight were cast over the walls... ...d to have no end. From time to time landings were made along the shore at such points as seemed to afford shelter from the almost constant storms, but... ...d the islands of the Caribbean, Spain sent ships, supplies, and men to several points which appeared favorable for settlements, and over those establi... ... in a few months there arose out of the ashes of Mexico new buildings, in many points equalling in grandeur those which they replaced; at the same tim...

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...r into it like a hole. The baby was a gift, and more a choice and for these points a sacred responsibility to which, she told herself, she would rect... ...miliation that perhaps they all felt at a wad of snuff coming at them like a projectile. She hoped that they would not interpret it as racial hatred.... ...ous users; life as the frivolous extroverted game of using others to rack up points; a smile as an artifice; society as billiard balls slapping agains... ...tead, he had made a truthful statement. She thought that she had to give him points for at least that; but as she pondered this he pulled out a cigar,... ...sons to hate me so who am I to stop her? Needless to say I didnﾁOt score any points on the phone asking that she give me Rick too. She was justifiabl... ...erving cleverness? I think so. The last thing I wanted to do was to score points with that snobbish hag ("My family often goes to art auctions to ...

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...the Governor Higginson and the Colum- bus had observed it at two different points of the chart, separated by a distance of more than seven hundred nau... ...7. This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles. Thus the Abraham... ...This kindly light reanimated us. My head got better again. I looked at all points of the horizon. I saw the frigate! She was five miles from us, and l... ...en to reflect. The story told by each one, entirely agree- ing in the main points, convinced me of your identity. I know now that chance has brought b... ...e the longitude; and glasses for day and night, which I use to examine the points of the horizon, when the Nautilus rises to the surface of the waves.... ...a valve, worked by a spring, allowed to escape into a metal tube. A box of projectiles in a groove in the thickness of the butt end contained about tw... ...e, Captain Nemo did not appear on the platform; but, if one of the conical projectiles had struck 268 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea the shell of the N... ...desire of vengeance animated every soul. I went down at the moment another projectile struck the Nautilus, and I 269 Jules Verne heard the Captain ex... ...m to draw nearer. Besides, the reports were heard more distinctly, and the projectiles, labouring through the am- bient water, were extinguished with ...

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...cupy a good portion of your time here in drawing your attention to certain points in it. Such of you as may have read this document will have perceive... ..., but I only ask your attention to it for the purpose of making one or two points upon it. If you will read the copyright essay, you will discover tha... ...that all these conflicting elements should be brought, while at dag- gers’ points with one another, to support him, is a feat that is worthy for you t... ...be allowed to construe and en- force the Constitution as you please on all points in dispute between you and us. Y ou will rule or ruin, in all events... ...ncoln of and by which you seek to obtain his opinions on certain political points, has been received by him. He has received others of a similar chara... ...ourteen pounds each. The reports show- ing the superiority of this gun and projectile, both as regards range, accuracy, and execution, for field servi... ...fixed ammunition to each gun, viz., 225 shells, 225 canister, and 50 solid projectiles, weighing about 24 pounds each, and also 200 shells, 100 canist... ...ing about 24 pounds each, and also 200 shells, 100 canister, and 100 solid projectiles for each of the guns of the fourteen batteries named above, wei...

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...ew, or did not throw, into the enemy’s line of battle at Fribourg. His person had undergone a change, analogous to the change in his dress; his figure... ...spurred his horse on and pursued his road, followed by Planchet at the same pace. In ten minutes D’Artagnan reached the end of an alley regularly plan... ...nviction than a less able man would be. He would enter into the minister’s schemes with the more ardor, because his natural activity would be doubled ... ...him, monsieur.” “Come near to us from time to time, as if to speak; but do not speak, and do not listen. That little stratagem may serve to keep off i... ...ng, as his pupil described him, often recalled the pro- found erudition, the witty and caustic satire of Athos to Raoul; but as regarded grace, delica... ...und, gave Friquet a slash with his whip which made him scream with pain. “Ah! devil’s coachman!” cried Friquet, “you’re meddling too! Wait!” And regai... ... of his sword, had re- course to its point. But this last and dreaded resource served only to exasperate the multitude. From time to time a shot from ...

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...gn. This matter being arranged in very few words (as in England, upon most points, is the laudable fashion), the French Chambers began to debate about... ...partially healed); nay, that a man generally dies after receiving one such projectile on his chest, much more after having his bosom furrowed by a sco...

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... H G Wells verse swims. Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and all around i... ...o dispense with muscular exertion at a pinch. But I did not consider these points at the time, and so my reasoning was dead against the chances of the... ...and stare towards Sunbury. As I did so a second report followed, and a big projectile hurtled overhead towards Hounslow. I expected at least to see sm... ...e; then the dull resonance of the shots the Martians fired, and the clumsy projectile whirling over the trees and houses and smashing amid the neighbo... ...hem to form a clearer picture of these offensive creatures. In three other points their physiology differed strangely from ours. Their organisms did n... ...n us, I taking the northern side and he the southern, we played for parish points. Grotesque and foolish as this will seem to the sober reader, it is ... ...ther investigations upon the latter. Spectrum analysis of the black powder points unmis- takably to the presence of an unknown element with a bril- li...

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...sap- peared. His failure to discover any mite of resemblance in their view points made him more miserable than before. No one seemed to be wrestling w... ... troops. Far in front he thought he could see lighter masses protruding in points from the forest. They were suggestive of un-num- bered thousands. On... ...cken. He lost the direction of safety. Destruction threatened him from all points. 38 The Red Badge of Courage Directly he began to speed toward the ... ...mixed masses slowly getting into regular form. The sunlight made twinkling points of the bright steel. To the rear there was a glimpse of a dis-tant r... ...ted remnant was coming slowly back. The men, having hurled them- selves in projectile fashion, had presently expended their forces. They slowly retrea... ...ack against their comrades, screaming that they were being fired upon from points which they had considered to be to- ward their own lines. At this cr...

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...lame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disap- pear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech—and nothing happened. Nothing could ... ...an yet. It was an extraordinary find. Its title was, ‘An Inquiry into some Points of Seamanship,’ by a man Tower, Towson— some such name—Master in his...

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... words—not of propitiation or deprecation, but simply in explanation as to points that would otherwise be open to misconstruction. 1. The paper on “Mu... ...ited also by the mystery which invested the murders; mystery as to various points but especially as respected one important ques- tion, Had the murder... ...at had intercepted those explanations as to the extent of fiction in these points which in this case it would have been so natural to make. Indeed, co... ... was ignorant of theology, as a direct and sepa- rate branch of study, the points are so many at which theol- ogy inosculates with philosophy, and wit... ...uman experience. It must not be supposed that I regarded my own particular points of superiority, or that I used them, with any vanity or view to pres... ...is worthy of notice; for it is as if, in a question about the force of any projectile, a man should urge the resistance of the air, not as a limitatio...

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...og, “Semitic or not, I’ve got no use for decency.” 71 H G Wells We argued points and Hatherleigh professed an unusually balanced and tolerating attit... ...therleigh 73 H G Wells to convey the quality of her; just simply and with projectile violence: “My God! Benton had heard of a woman who lived with a ... ...th Denson; he was an orator and not a dialectician, and he missed Denson’s points and displayed a disposition to plunge into untimely pathos 91 H G W... ...ude ill-regulated appe- tites, his clumsy gestures—he kept emphasising his points by prodding at me with his finger—the ill-worn, costly, grey tweed c... ...he phrase. That and the drives in dog-carts were only the first of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. ... ...ng guided to it. Now a thing ceases to be beautiful to me when some finger points me out its merits. Beauty is the salt of life, but I take my beauty ...

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...hem, almost biting the kerb on the other side. Sutton aimed his car like a projectile, staring ahead. He did not want to know, to think, to realize, h... ...lf.’ ‘It depends what you call proper,’ said Fanny. ‘But he’s got his good points—’ ‘Oh, he’s a nice fellow, and I like him, I do like him. Only, as I...

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... rapture upon that quivering little smudge of light among the shining pin- points—and gazed. My troubles had to wait for him. “Wonderful,” he sighed, ... ...London, and a number of shabbily dressed men coming and going in this with projectile swiftness, and within this fac- tory companies of printers, tens... ...he Great Change will find much that I am telling inconceivable. Upon these points I cannot appeal, as I have appealed for other confirmations, to the ... ...ou belong to each other. I have thought it over and looked at it from many points of view. I happened to want—impos- sible things… . I behaved badly. ...

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...d every morning by the barber from the Ecole Polytechnique, described five points on his low forehead, and made an elegant setting to his face. Though... .... “Had you there, Poiret!” “Poir-r-r-rette! she had you there!” “Score two points to Mamma Vauquer,” said Vautrin. “Did any of you notice the fog this... ...his clear insight into the principles involved, his appre- ciation of weak points in the way that the system worked, would have thought that here was ... ..., but there are, no less, natures so robustly protected, that this sort of projectile falls flat and harmless on skulls of triple brass, as cannon-sho...

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...o cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to irony. Her taste on many points differed from that of her husband, and though she made frequent con-... ...these extremely dissimilar characters would have found any very convenient points of contact. They were, indeed, as different as possible. Newman, who... ...I feel as if I must arrive at some conclusion and fix my belief on certain points. Art and life seem to me intensely serious things, and in our travel... ...Newman. “That is the trouble with you Frenchmen; you must be always making points. Well,” he added, “be short. But if you are going in for this kind o... ...zed the arm of M. Stanislas Kapp, just scratching the flesh. M. Kapp’s own projectile, meanwhile, had passed at ten good inches from the person of Val... ...sense of the becoming, and was prepared to be urbane and taste- ful on all points. He was always furnished with a smile (which pushed his mustache up ...

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... GA ONICA GA ONICA GATHERS THERS THERS THERS THERS POINT POINT POINT POINT POINTS OF S OF S OF S OF S OF VIE VIE VIE VIE VIEW W W W W P P P P Par ar a... ...al,” said Mr. Manning, and glanced round hastily for further horticultural points of in- terest in secluded corners. None presented themselves to save... ... closing in from the sides to intervene. The little old lady struck like a projectile upon the resounding chest of the foremost of these, and then Ann...

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...im- portunity, for reasons, for interests and advantages, from motives and points of view, of their own. Some of these promptings, evidently, would be... ... so exactly that the portions of the subject commanded by them as by happy points of view, and accordingly treated from them, would constitute, so to ... ...int of his own. The great wonder was not that in spite of everything these points had helped him; the great wonder was that they hadn’t helped him mor... ...c clamour, as soon as touched. Kate re- flected sharply enough on the weak points of this fond fiction, with the result at last of a certain chill for... ... a man of their world, would have spotted him straight as to many of these points; a man of their world, so far as they had a world, would have been t... ...he was full, because she had something in com- mon, even in repose, with a projectile, of great size, loaded and ready for use. That indeed, to Susie’... ...t Densher felt himself turn pale. His mind rebounded for the moment like a projectile that has sud- denly been met by another: he stared at the strang...

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... several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 15 the road between the Concord a... ...wever late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers’ ends in the morning. Sydney Carton, idlest and most ... ...ssamer gnats circling about them in lieu of the Furies, quietly mended the points to the lashes of their whips; the valet walked by the horses; the co... ...as out of spirits, and out of temper, and kept an iron pot lid by him as a projectile for the correction of Mrs. Cruncher, in case he should observe a... ...n the sofa in Doctor Manette’s con sulting room, and to be debating these points outside the Doctor’s bedroom door in the early morning? Within a few... ...repeated the Doctor, bending his head with reverence. “There are two other points,” said Mr. Lorry, “on which I am anxious to be instructed. I may go ...

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...o facing it, when a party of five footfarers, who had met from differ- ent points of ascent some way below, and were climbing the mountain together, s... ... to, and Brescia, and Bergamo, and Cremona, and Venice had spoken upon all points through their emissaries, the two latter cities being represented by... ...of the leaders, and the amount of resistance to be expected at the various points indicated for the outbreak, her hands disjoined, and she stretched h... ... gates. Artillery and infantry were in motion before sunrise, from various points of the city, bearing toward the Palio and Zeno gates, and the people... ...st supine, accord- ing to his remembered system; for the inspiration which points to the right course does not come during mental strife, but after it... ... couple thickly. Windows were thrown up;, forth came a rain of house- hold projectiles. The cry of “Blood! blood!” was repeated by numbers pouring on ...

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...nough, al- though he felt that the return to Maltby’s yard might have many points of interest. But the spirit had gone out of him. 67 H G Wells 12 12... ...a view his own, only so does he incorporate it. These are our real turning points. The signifi- cant, the essential moments in the life of any one wor... ...iting. It is one of those ideas that seem to appear simultaneously at many points in the world, and it is impos- sible to say now how far Benham was a... ...s fall. The Emperor satisfied turned away, unmindful of the fact that this projectile he had launched had caught among the bushes below, and presently...

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...its best days—the illicit, you understand. Further, to quote Mr. Timothy’s points of view, the Radi- cal orator has but two notes, and one is the draw... ... He was an admirable mimic, perfectly spontaneous, with- out stressing any points, and Beauchamp was provoked to laugh his discontentment with the eve... ...Stukely Culbrett had said, ‘Then there is the man, for he is undoubtedly a projectile’; nor were politically-hostile punsters on an arrow- head inacti... ...His belief that they would do so was the revolu- tionary sign. ‘ Are there points of likeness between Radicals and T ories?’ she inquired. ‘I suspect ... ...onel looked straight in her face, with an elevation of the brows. To these points of interrogation she answered with a placid fall of her eyelids. He ... ...et him against his class; you embroil him with his family …’ ‘On all those points,’ interposed Dr. Shrapnel, after dash- ing a hand to straighten his ...

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...uite a French name. He then married, having had in his eye a little French girl, from whose parents he extorted a rea- sonable dowry by showing them w... ...e great tower, ex- cept a gallery which he has had built over the sphere: there are little strings and brass wires to which the sun and moon are hooke... ...eed as follows: — A company, with a 151 Dumas capital of forty thousand livres, and formed for the pur- pose of carrying out an idea conceived by M. ... ..., will give up the whole for fifty thou- sand livres. Come, come! that is impossible. The lieuten- ant is impossible. But then I must have no fraction... ...en- ant is impossible. But then I must have no fractions; I can- not divide my troop into two, and act upon two points, at once, without another self,... ...selle de la V alliere with delight. “Yes, madame, as maid of honor.” The old lady’s head sank down as if the blow had been too severe for her. But, al...

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...s very handsome, flushed, and confident in dreadful knowledge. T wo little points of light glinted on Gerald’s eyes. ‘Why do they call you Pussum, bec... ...cattered broad- cast on the pond, tiny radiant things, like an exaltation, points of exaltation here and there. Why did they move her so strongly and ... ... the lake was pale as milk in one part. Away at the landing stage, tiniest points of coloured rays were string- ing themselves in the dusk. The launch... ...e difficult to blow out. Everywhere the lights were gone save the coloured points on the sides of the launch. The blueygrey, early night spread level ... ... work!’ he repeated, leaning forward, his eyes two darknesses, with needle-points of light. ‘No, it is noth- ing but this, serving a machine, or enjoy... ...nd which she did not practise. The he seemed to sweep out of life, to be a projectile into the beyond. And often, when he went away, she talked to the...

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... to the gate. With lively curiosity everyone tried to get a glimpse of the projectiles as they flew over their heads. Several people came round the co... ...how cannon balls had fallen on a house close to them. Meanwhile still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with... ...all sitting in the cellar, lis- tening. The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the othe... ...erre lis- tened to him, straining each faculty to understand the essential points of the impending battle, but was mortified to feel that his mental c... ...i- gious awe of his genius, related to Napoleon’s orders to deal with four points—four different orders. Not one of these was, or could be, carried ou... ...ubts. This could not be done, as from the spots selected by Napo- leon the projectiles did not carry to the Russian works, and those 102 guns shot int... ...id not notice the sound of the bullets whis- tling from every side, or the projectiles that flew over him, did not see the enemy on the other side of ... ... had ordered him to and as he himself had seen and understood it. “All the points of our position are in the enemy’s hands and we cannot dislodge them... ...dy founded; all that remained was to organize it. Satisfied on these great points and with tranquility every- where, I too should have had my Congress...

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...re women with dragon-croups were round a great fire, standing erect on the points of their tails. The blood- coloured moon was shining within a pale c... ... passed over eminences lit up by the moon; then stars would tremble on the points of the pikes, the helmets would glimmer for an instant, all would di... ...low; the eyebrows, which were like arches of ebony , met each other at the points; golden dust sparkled in the frizzled hair, and the face was so wan ... ...perfumes. Salammbo looked at the polar star; she slowly sa- luted the four points of heaven, and knelt down on the ground in the azure dust which was ... ...polas, marble architraves, Babylonian buttresses, obelisks poised on their points like inverted torches. Peristyles reached to pediments; volutes were... ...tents. Galleries of rushen hurdles were raised as a protection against the projectiles. The Carthaginians shut themselves up within them and stirred o... ...ables, which held back a great beam bearing a spoon for the recep- tion of projectiles; its base was caught in a skein of twisted thread, and when the... ... table before a slender meal with their hearts big with sighs. These cruel projectiles bore engraved letters which stamped themselves upon the flesh;—... ... that they might have been taken for an assemblage of large tortoises. The projectiles slid over these oblique masses. The Carthaginians threw down mi...

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...s come bunched up under the number one guard: they know that they are mere projectiles, and that it’s no use trying to fight. The wounds are mostly br... ...ere! Then he must have climbed down from the— RAINA (seeing him). Oh! (She points.) CATHERINE (scandalized). Well! (She strides to the left side of th... ...t in the landscape. With a little gush of paternal affection and pride, he points her out to them and says) She’s dreaming, as usual. SERGIUS. Assured... ...ow what you said just now? BLUNTSCHLI. I do. RAINA (gasping). I! I!!! (She points to herself in- credulously, meaning “I, Raina Petkoff, tell lies!” H...

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...ehindhand in our mechanical knowledge and invention M. Blériot’s aeroplane points also to the fleet. The struggle for naval supremacy is not merely a ... ...presses, tubes, motor-buses and motor cars are just the bright, remarkable points—is this: that it dissolves almost all the reason and necessity why m... ...and South Africa. Is it not manifest that from the economic and busi- ness points of view each of these is an entirely separate en- tity, a system apa... ... and checking of a Labour representative at the same tribunal upon trivial points—irritate quite disproportionately. Lawyer and working man are antipa... ... into trouble indeed be- fore this business is over. They will score their points, they will achieve remarkable agreements full of the possibility of ... ... and lets loose motor-cars, bicycles, wireless telegraphy, aeroplanes, new projectiles of every size and shape, and a multitude of ingenious persons u...

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...ly are principles which contain the principia, the beginnings, or starting-points of evolution, out of which any system of truth is evolved. Now, it m... ...ld the advent of a Church of the Future. 53 Thomas de Quincey the Future, points to the Prussian minister’s (Bunsen’s) Kirche der Zukunft; but in the... ...no! They bound upwards like ar- rows, cleaving the seas above with as much projectile force as the glittering water-works of Versailles cleave the air... ...ruth, and the secret implications of the truth, have escaped at a thousand points in vast arches above our heads, rising high above the garden wall, a... ...he former public to give the law preferably to the latter public, upon all points which concern its own separate interests. In past gen- erations, no ... ...p- portioned a death which allowed of no medical explanation.* *In neutral points, having no relation to morals or religious philosophy , it is not co...

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...on will not increase any farther. The legislator has to look solely to two points: that no obstacle shall exist to prevent those who have the means of... ...tical Economy, which there is between the art of gunnery and the theory of projectiles, or between the rules of mathematical land-surveying and the sc... ...ellent professor of abstract science; for a person may be of great use who points out correctly what effects will follow from certain combinations of ...

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... in the in- creased range of his faculties of observation, which yield him points of interest wherever fresh objects meet his eyes. The pastoral natio... ...ative and readily accepts the testimony of negative facts, as every shadow points to the sun. By a divine necessity every fact in nature is constraine... ...ncy, but we cannot find whereat this dainty emotion, this wandering gleam, points. It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to o... ... evolution was not from one central point, but coactive from three or more points. Life has no memory. That which proceeds in suc- cession might be re... ...ch can touch only in a point, and whilst they remain in contact, all other points of each of the spheres are inert; their turn must also come, and the... ... one as he. What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse, of this flattery and balking of so many well-meaning cr...

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...ving good naturedly. Her own ears, with a snuggling movement, laid their sharp points backward and down against the head for a moment, while her mouth... ... refuge. Then, and not until then, would he flash from his hiding place, a gray projectile, incredibly swift, never failing its mark — the fleeing squir... ...y passing judgment, ‘White Fang, you are smarter than I thought.”’ From hidden points of vantage the family watched the performance. But it was a fizzl...

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...dislodged him by a volley of clods, stones, lumps of bread, and such other projectiles as were at hand. 4 Cashel Byron’s Profession On this rainy spr... ... any good in the world.” “If you will be so kind. There are just the three points: the necessity for greater—much greater—application to his stud- ies... ...e having eyes in the back of the head. She had never seen herself from all points of view be- fore. As she gazed, she strove not to be ashamed of her ... ...he eminent composer, had opened the piano-forte, and was illustrating some points in a musical composition under discussion by making discordant sound... ...you are or who you are; and I believe you have tried to mystify me on both points—” “ And you never shall find out either the one or the other, if I c...

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...ill make a song for the ears of the President, full of weapons with menacing points, And behind the weapons countless dissatisfied faces; And a song m... ...p to literature, science, art, amours? These ostensible realities, politics, points? Your ambition or business whatever it may be? It is well—against ... ...y would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view; To me these and the like of these are curiously answer’d ... ...tle. We fought the fight in detachments, Sallying forth we fought at several points, but in each the luck was against us, Our foe advancing, steadily ... ... digging, Wharf hemm’d cities, railroad and steamboat lines intersecting all points, Factories, mercantile life, labor saving machinery, the Northeast... ... past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past? (As a projectile form’d, impell’d, passing a certain line, still keeps on, So t...

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...n the can- non, sketched a plan of the position. He made some notes on two points, intending to mention them to Bagration. His idea was, first, to con... ...was re- peated. Before five in the evening the battle had been lost at all points. More than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French.... ...ntity of other reasons, the num- ber depending on the endless diversity of points of view, presented themselves to the men of that day; but to us, to ... ...w cannon balls had fallen on a house close to them. Mean- while still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with... ...e all sitting in the cellar, listening. The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the othe... ...erre listened to him, straining each faculty to under- stand the essential points of the impending battle, but was mortified to feel that his mental c... ...doubts. This could not be done, as from the spots selected by Napoleon the projectiles did not carry to the Russian works, and those 102 guns shot int... ...id not notice the sound of the bullets whis- tling from every side, or the projectiles that flew over him, did not see the enemy on the other side of ... ...owds of wounded men and stretcher-bearers came back from that direc- tion. Projectiles began to fall still more frequently in the battery. Several men...

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...she enacted again the past hour, each time the brand came down at the same points, till the mark was burnt in, and the pain burnt out, and at last she... ...in rushing south to London or north to Scotland. The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley cl... ... away from the sun, along a path embedded with innumerable tiny glittering points, Paul, walking alongside, laced his fin- gers in the strings of the ... ...g at the lights scattered on the night before them, handfuls of glittering points, villages lying high and low on the dark, here and there. “Like trea...