Full Text Search Details
...udents/staff for reading. The first floor houses the main collection, the main reading area, and the reserve collection. It’s raining when he exit... ...idea. And that boy. That boy wasn’t supposed to help me but he helped all the same. Helped me in a very big way. By throwing stones at mangoes an...

Full Text Search Details
...s he prepared. She glanced aimlessly at a guava tree that shot among the trail of gravelled stones. My grandfather contemplated her awhile and then,... ...e shallow-looking depths. After that I have to purge my tattered sneakers with branches and stones wrenched out of the mucky soil around our barrack... ...the gunfire sounds, the streaking bullets that carved his flesh with long, brown scars. The raining glass that gouged his eye erupts anew. "I lost ...

Full Text Search Details
...dgment of the high priest, wherein God commanded Moses to place twelve precious stones, set in the purest gold, and having inscribed on them the nam... ... gold. And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stones of Ophir. And all her streets shall say, Allelluia; and they ... ... agitation, in this obscurity and darkness, in this fear and trembling, in this raining down of those beams of the which the gospel calleth stars, as... ...: “The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail-stones and coals of fire. Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered... ...ifficulty is in explaining how the city, after being built of living and chosen stones in the heavens, should descend to our globe, in order there t... ... gold. And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stones of Ophir. And all her streets shall say, Alleluia; and they sh...

Full Text Search Details
... a chariot wheel. I have spoken out publicly and this has raised dust and stones. People stare at me on the VOICES FROM THE PAST 46 streets. ... ...ay on old leaves, in the shadow of a wall, the waves grumbling behind the stones, coming up, as it were, through masonry and ground. I noticed her ... ...to load their baskets. Driftwood clutters the beach. P Men were hurling stones, grabbing them off the beach and throwing them. I heard them hit Pi... ...e wring his neck!” Beside him, the madman off the raft, howled and hurled stones. About a dozen men were circling Pittakos, most of them blabbing de... ...come. Sometimes it seems like a long walk to the château, sometimes it is raining. In the evening fif- teen courses are certainly gourmet adventures,... ...wander... I wander alone or with Francesco. Inside the château, if it is raining or cold or misty, we prowl through the halls and public rooms. Hal... ...hetically. Tonight, I am alone, writing: the manor house is still. It is raining hard, and has been raining hard throughout the day. The fire in th... ...n helmet of silver foil. It will be gala! Cloux I did not know it was raining until one of the King’s pages brought me a rain- spattered note, in... .... “Ed- inburgh is far... I’m sick with a cold...so much rain.” And it was raining as Jonson read me her letter, in his apartment. I opened a book of...

Full Text Search Details
...be some potentially interesting archeological formation. The digs yielded only stones and dust. The late afternoon sun slithered downward through s... ... Says she was driving too fast on Mullholland and went over the edge." "Was it raining?" "Boss, you gotta to be kidding. Haven't you heard, it does... ...st Gray Shadow. Later, as he walked along the river bank and skipped flat rock stones across the river, he marveled at how much he still enjoyed sk... ...ock stones across the river, he marveled at how much he still enjoyed skipping stones. Gray Shadow emerged from the forest ,"We have unfinished wo... ...he forest ,"We have unfinished words." Brent did not respond and kept skipping stones across the rap- ids. He decided to try a new tact. "If you do... ... "1 want to stand with you. I will fight your enemy, as if he were my own, with stones if necessary." "Why is this battle so important to you?" Gray...

Full Text Search Details
...around objects in its path naturally: just like water flows naturally around stones in a shallow stream and once having gone around the stone, it r... ... around objects in its path naturally; just like water naturally flows around stones in a shallow stream. And once having gone around the object, i... ...sharp cutting implements, chips of split stone: pieces of separated- segmented stones creating a sharp linear edge, a line. This was the third major ... ...: accumulation This creates a pile of waste. This creates a waste pile of stones. This creates a pyramidal pile of waste. The result was pyra... ... level capable of judging the angle, force, and accuracy needed for splitting stones into sharp-edged chips. This pushed hominid tool- use to a new ... ...ther is nice. Country people have to live in the country when it is cold and raining and freezing: not just when it is sunny and balmy. Humans hav... ...als will be caught literally napping. Approaching the burrows when it is not raining? The sound of a foot stepping on dry grass or twigs? Many sen... ... You cannot stop being ruled by a reigning monarch who pisses all over you. Raining death and oppression and hate and fear and terror and lies all ...

Full Text Search Details
.... It would seem ironic that someone who perceives books to be as lifeless as stones should be in a library watching the pages of a book occasionally t... ...rigerator is full." She was quickly becoming serious. She saw sharp little stones in the hands of the eldest one. Even a child was a brutal force o... ...turn to them to apologize they would probably pelt her and the car both with stones. She disliked egocentric children. She even disliked the refugee... ... of Seoul on that same street where he worked at a convenience store. It was raining and cold and his sickness was getting worse. Yang Kwam was wearin... ...g deaf, and it bedizened her ears like large cheap earrings containing bogus stones. "I saw you when you gave your lecture in Albany," said MF to Gabr... ... railing and looked at the dog again. His eyes dropped into the dogﾁOs like stones and the animal began to whimper. He glanced up at the darkening cl...

Full Text Search Details
...ee!— I was kneeling at its side, And it leaned its head on me! Crumbling stones and sliding sand Is the road to Heaven now; Icy at my straining kn... ...; Icy at my straining knees Drags the awful under-tow; Soon but stepping-stones of dust Will the road to Heaven be,— Father, Son and Holy Ghost, ... ...ite syringas Heavy with bees, a sunny sound; Still will the tamaracks be raining After the rain has ceased, and still Will there be robins in the ... ...g brass, Knowing well its altars ruined and the grass Grown up between the stones, yet from excess Of grief hard driven, or great loneliness, The wors...

Full Text Search Details
...Vite! Voleur! Brigand! Hi hi hi! En r r r r r route! Whip, wheels, driver, stones, beggars, children, crack, crack, crack; helo! 9 Charles Dickens ho... ...s tumbled, anyhow, out of the sky; having been first caught up, like other stones that tumble down from that region, out of fens and barren places, di... ...owing in, from the north, as made the walk delightful: though the pavement stones, and stones of the walls and houses, were far too hot to have a hand... ...d again behind us: and entered a narrow court, rendered narrower by fallen stones and heaps of rubbish; part of it choking up the mouth of a ruined su... ...d, to see that all the little company are there; sits down upon a mound of stones; throws 19 Charles Dickens up her arms, and yells out, like a fiend... ... arches, alternately, in a sort of pattern. But it is profoundly dark, and raining heavily; and I shouldn’t know it to morrow, if I were taken there t... ...ous torches; others, gathered round one coach, and sticking to it; others, raining oranges and nosegays at an obdurate little lantern, or regularly st... ...ash ing of the fire in our faces, and the shower of red hot ashes that is raining down, and the choking smoke and sulphur; we may well feel giddy and...

Full Text Search Details
...f the hotel, and walked up a narrow, sloping street, paved with big, rough stones and guiltless of a foot-way. It was a splendid starlight night; the ... ...di- ously. The streets, narrow, tortuous, and dirty, have very wide cobble-stones; the houses for the most part are shabby, without local color. The l... ...y gravity, its strong proportions or of the lonesome look of its renovated stones as I sat there while the October twilight gathered. It is a real wor... ...ath it, and with a platform at either end, but destined to rattle over the stones like the most vulgar of omnibuses. To complete the oddity of this co... ...ce under one of the arches. This road has a wide margin of grass and loose stones, which slopes upward into the bank of the ravine. You may sit here a... ...y cold, the other day, at Avignon; for though there was no mistral, it was raining as it rains in Provence, and the dampness had a terrible chill in i... ...in kept me practically housed for the first twenty-four hours. It had been raining in, these regions for a month, and people had begun to look askance... ...mes XXXIV. FORTUNATELY, it did not rain every day (though I believe it was raining everywhere else in the department); other- wise I should not have b... ...r. On the present occasion the mountains of the Ardeche, where it had been raining for a month, had sent down torrents which, all that fine Friday nig...

Full Text Search Details
...d in the golden breast pin. He had learnt it all from Ruskin (Author of ‘The Stones of Venice,’ ‘Seven Lamps of Architecture,’ ‘Modern Painters,’ and ... ...is transport held its place: Within a little moment’s space Quick tears were raining down his face His heart stood still, aghast with fear; A wordless...

Full Text Search Details
...rallel this Cock, there be divers fishes that cast their spawn on flags or stones, and then leave it uncovered, and exposed to become a prey and be de... ...the water a hundred yards from him: Gesner says much farther: and that his stones are good against the falling sickness; and that there is an herb, Be... ...tre, the tempestuous sea; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots and pebble stones, which broke their waves, and turned them into foam; and sometimes I... ...r, my direction for fly fishing is ended with this shower, for it has done raining. And now look about you, and see how pleasantly that meadow looks; ... ... I learnt it, that I have forgot a part of it. But, come, now it hath done raining, let’s stretch our legs a little in a gentle walk to the river, and... ... be the medium of sounds, by demonstrating it thus: “That if you knock two stones together very deep under the water, those that stand on a bank near ... ...office, and then hide it most cunningly, and cover it over with gravel and stones; and then leave it to their Creator’s protection, who, by a gentle h... ... is the opinion of Pliny. And Cardanus undertakes to give a reason for the raining of frogs: but if it were in my power, it should rain none but water...

Full Text Search Details
...t set in conse- quence to farmering. I stuck a good while on the way up, for the path there is largely my own handiwork, and there were a lot of sprou... ...pped: it was long before we had time to remark that the axle was twisted like the letter L. Our first care was the horses. There they stood, black wi... ...he crypt of the wood, and shine in the open end of the road, as bright as moonlight at home; but the crypt itself was proof, blackness lived in it. Th... ...ere digging up soil and bringing it by the boxful to the verandah. Lloyd and I and Belle, and sometimes S. (who came to bear a hand), were filling th... ...rings. A good many fishes in the brook, and many cray-fish; one of the last with a queer glow-worm head. Like all our brooks, the water is pure as air... ...d his style, de’il ha’e him!And much I care, if the tale travel! 87 V ailima Letters FRIDAY, FEB.?? 19TH? Two incidents to-day which I must narrate. ... ...ch serves here for ‘What’s your business?’ as well. It proved to be Lafaele’s friend; I bade a kitchen boy, Lauilo, go with him to see the spot, for t... ...ard and the great Abdul, his high-caste Indian servant, imported by my wife, were sitting up for me with supper, and I suppose it was twelve before I ... ...n have been playing with spears. Up by the plantation I took a short cut, which shall never be repeated, through grass and weeds over the horses’ head...

Full Text Search Details
...of V ouvrillons, returned from the Crusades laden with crowns and precious stones; rather differently from some who, rich when they set out, came back... ...unt, but much more did they desire the gold embroidered dress, the foreign stones, the white diamonds, and the chains with which the little darling pl... ...g sleeves of scarlet, little shoes and a high hat ornamented with precious stones, and a gold waistband that showed off her little waist, as slim as a... ... was buried in the drawer, “sweetheart, you were not made to sell precious stones, but to receive them, and if you were to give me all the little ring... ...at the penitentiary’s, had caused him by accident to tumble over a heap of stones gath- ered together to raise the statue of St. Christopher. At first... ...nothing but cries of “Murder! Help! Come some one!” and in the house blows raining down and the Mau-cinge said with his gruff voice: “Death to the wen...

Full Text Search Details
...d they satisfied it. They had to; it is the law. Training is potent. T raining toward higher and higher, and ever higher ideals is worth any man’s... ...take. He will always be true to his make and training. IV T T T T Tr r r r raining aining aining aining aining Young Man. You keep using that word—tra... ... the case of the owner of it is an ass, too, and is going to remain one. T raining, experi ence, association, can temporarily so polish him, improve ... ...wling, singing the “Marseillaise,” and pelting our windows with sticks and stones; for we have Italian waiters, and the mob demanded that they be turn... ...mobs: the growing roar of the oncoming crowd; the ar rival, with rain of stones and a crash of glass; the with drawal to rearrange plans—followed b... ...ke a rest—there ain’t no hurry. They can’t hold the funeral without you.” Stones were a bother to me. Even the smallest ones gave me a panic when I w... ...mself with watching me fall at long range. There was a row of low stepping stones across one end of the street, a measured yard apart. Even after I go... .... Even after I got so I could steer pretty fairly I was so afraid of those stones that I always hit them. They gave me the worst falls I ever got in t...

Full Text Search Details
...ldren were continually littering the floor with fragments of toys, sticks, stones, stubble, leaves, and other rubbish, which I could not prevent their... ...ave done so to-day, if I had not been in time to stop him. I believe it is raining, Miss Grey,’ added he, more quietly, observing that I had put aside... ...d you would not have me to return in the dark: besides, it has nearly done raining now—so good- evening, Nancy. Good-evening, Miss Grey.’ 87 Anne Bro... ...ice, Miss Murray left the church. We had to stand in the porch, for it was raining, and the carriage was not yet come. I wondered at her coming forth ... ...had an umbrella too, and offered me the benefit of its shelter, for it was raining heavily. ‘No, thank you, I don’t mind the rain,’ I said. I always l...

Full Text Search Details
...utside air began to make them- selves felt, there were exclamations: “It’s raining.” “Why, it’s raining right down.” It was true. Abruptly the weather... ...epressing consciousness of a hard day’s work at hand. Outside it was still raining, the room was cold, heated only by an inadequate oil stove, and thr... ...I know a place where you can get the best steak in America. It has stopped raining. 47 Frank Norris See,” he showed her the window. “But, Landry, we ... ...- pid? Lady Mary, ready.” “‘See, the clambering roses have wrapped the old stones in a loving embrace. The birds build in the same old nests—’” “Well,... ... come back to return a copy of a book I had loaned him—’Jane Eyre’ it was. Raining! I never saw it rain as it did that night. He was drenched, and eve... ...gled with a sonorous, pro- longed note from the pipes. “My word, how it is raining,” whispered Aunt Wess’, as the pour upon the roof suddenly swelled ... ...eading, too. It’s so hard to find time. But I’ll make time. I’ll get that ‘Stones of Venice’ I’ve heard you speak of, and I’ll sit up nights—and keep ...

Full Text Search Details
...oceeded perhaps as far as the middle of the brake, when suddenly it ceased raining, and the atmosphere around us became close and sultry beyond expres... ...r- falls, pouring over into deep basins, or splashing wildly upon heaps of stones. From the narrowness of the gorge, and the steepness of its sides, t... ...abrupt rise of ground waving with the rich- est verdure, a number of large stones were laid in successive courses, to the height of nearly eight feet,... ...er, was reserved in front of the dwelling, upon the summit of this pile of stones (called by the natives a ‘pi- pi’), which being enclosed by a little... ...mainder of the floor presented only the cool shining surfaces of the large stones of which the ‘pi-pi’ was composed. From the ridge-pole of the house ... ... admiration of the scene around me. From the verdant surfaces of the large stones that lay scat- tered about, the natives were now sliding off into th...

Full Text Search Details
... other divers and workmen sheltered themselves, and where they had kept Christmas-day with rum and roast beef, to the de- struction of their frail chi... ... its owner, than in all the would-be celestial pairs of bellows that have ever blown con- ceit at me. We climbed towards the little church, at a cheer... ...some trees by the wayside (which, I suppose, never will grow leafy, for they never did) guarded here and there a dusty soldier, or field labourer, bak... ...er, or field labourer, baking on a heap of broken stones, sound asleep in a fiction of shade, I began to recover my travelling spirits. Coming upon th... ...n to be fraught with ruin, some- how or other, to that rickety national blessing, the British farmer; and at last I was rattled, like a single pill in... ...Plase God, surr; ’tis the slape I want, surr; ’tis my breathin’ makes the nights so long.’ ‘He is a careful fellow this, you must know,’ said the Doct...

Full Text Search Details
...inico up the hill of Podgora. Lucinico is nothing more than a heap of grey stones; except for a bit of the church wall and the gable end of a house on... ...on in the air. The streets are strangely quite and grass grows between the stones. The Hotel de Ville and the cathedral are now mostly heaps of litter... ...e incoming shell from the enemy. You see suddenly a flying up of earth and stones and anything else that is movable in the neighbourhood of the shell-... ...nvy. I understand now better the story of the man who stared at the sparks raining up from his own house as it burnt in the night and whis- pered “Lov... ... battle the other day one of the Alpini silenced a machine gun by throwing stones. In the West African campaign we have employed troops armed with bow...