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...perate for money, the brothers become goldsmiths and melt down their remaining treasures . . . only to find that the spirit of the King of the Golden River resides with a molded tankard, and knows the secret of the riches of the Golden River. (Introduction by Xenutia)...

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...he Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own murder and turns back into the backwoods, downriver yokel he started as, and in the process springing a slave, Jim, from bondage.Huck and Jim experience life as ...

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...Gwendoline Wynn, our heroine, is an orphan-heiress who lives on the river Wye. She will live with aunt until she comes of age and her money. Vivian Ryecroft, our hero and a captain in the Hussars, is on a leave of absence in Herefordshire, salmon fishing on the Wye. Gwen and Vivian have a cha...

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...Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold and crystal on the tables of ‘Society’. A tale of murder, treachery, jealousy and love, takes us first to a rowing boat on the Thames, where the Hexhams have found a body in the water and are bringing...

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...Roads, as the common Harbour where the Ships might wait for a Wind for the River. We had not however rid here so long, but should hive Tided it up the... ...iver. We had not however rid here so long, but should hive Tided it up the River, but that the Wind blew too fresh; and after we had lain four or five ... ...tur’d to make to the Coast, and came to an Anchor in the Mouth of a little River, I knew not what, or where; neither what Latitude, what Country, what... ...what, or where; neither what Latitude, what Country, what Nations, or what River: I neither saw, or desir’d to see any People, the principal thing I w... ...t of Sight of the Boat, fearing the coming of Canoes with Savages down the River; but the Boy seeing a low Place about a Mile up the Country rambled t... ...g’d to for fresh Water; my Design in Daniel Defoe 21 this was to make the River Gambia or Sennegall, It is to say, any where about the Cape de Verd, ... ...s gotten upon the Coast of Guinea, or the North Part of Brasil, beyond the River Amozones, toward that of the River Oronoque, commonly call’d the Grea... ...ver Amozones, toward that of the River Oronoque, commonly call’d the Great River, and began to consult with me what Course he should take, for the Shi... ...tion, was, if we might happen into some Bay or Gulph, or the Mouth of some River, where by great Chance we might have run our Boat in, or got under th...

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...y, anyway, I’ll come up with something. Michael and I take a stroll by the river. It’s bloody cold, but his coat keeps us both warm whilst we take in... ...lk, bread and the odd items. We walk onto this footbridge spanning a wide river; it’s quite high and long, painted dark green and has old-fashioned ... ...en curses. “He said it was an import!” “Yes,” Bertram adds, “imported from Riverside Road Toorak.” “Oh shit.” I roll my eyes. “He’s a puff cake yuppie... ...n bucks on the line. I would crawl through broken glass and swim infested rivers just to be at his side. I know all this emotional crap and I can se...

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... stamps. Riparian rights Special rights of people who own land that runs into a river bank (a “riparian owner” is a person who owns land that runs ... ...e, Izard, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Logan, Lonoke, Madison, Marion, Miller, Mississippi, Monroe,... ... Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Orange, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San F... ...ulf, Hamilton, Hardee, Hendry, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Holmes, Indian River, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Lee, Leon, Levy, Libert... ...house, Natchitoches, Orleans, Ouachita, Plaquemines, Pointe Coupee, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. ... ...Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Rankin, Scott, Sha... ...gher, Mineral, Missoula, Musselshell, Park, Petroleum, Phillips, Pondera, Powder River, Powell, Prairie, Ravalli, Richland, Roosevelt, Rosebud, Sand... ..., Columbia, Coos, Crook, Curry, Deschutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Lincoln,... ...y, Codington, Corson, Custer, Davison, Day, Deuel, Dewey, Douglas, Edmunds, Fall River, Faulk, Grant, Gregory, Haakon, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Harding...

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...es be bygones. Several years ago, her uncle, Wallace Langey, was found dead in the river that bordered his plantation. When she’d gotten home for ... ... The jade was etched in jet script: “Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river. Lao Tse. “What was Royce working on, I wonder?” “Ro... ...he said. “Or gotten rid of.” Johnnie got more ruthless as the years went by. “The river’s getting crowded, Johnnie,” he joked. Ignoring the i... ...et’s metal pole, a suitcase being zipped, hitting the floor. Her tears gushed like a river in flood, with her standing on the bank, alone, ready for ... ... relaxed now. “Royce told me Hiram’s got several haunts, the bridge going over the river is one, then he goes to the shelter for a meal, comes back... ...a Kate didn’t see Bobby Tower’s Suburban until it made a left off Cotton Street onto River Street. When Bobby’s truck lingered at the four-way stop,... ...t in the Suburban, I’ll be back in a minute.” The parking lot looked out over the river. She nosed the Volvo up against a railroad tie that kept ... ...g their cars too close to the steep incline that led through thick scrub pine to the river. Something had gone over the side recently. Branches wer... ...liquor store.” Bobby laughed at Hannah’s wit, and said, “He sometimes goes to the river, but not to bathe. He hangs around with other tramps at t...

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...reminiscence of his boyhood) he was walking on the dangerous thin ice of a river, unable to turn back… . Sud- denly it parted from shore to shore with... ...gratiate himself with the natives. He would arrive in some settlement up a river, make a present of a cheap carbine or a pair of shoddy binoculars, or... ... small settlement. Some sixty houses, most of them built on piles over the river, the rest scattered in the long grass; 128 the usual pathway at the ... ...ve been of air into a dead, hot stagnation. “All the population was on the river-bank staring silently, as Malays will do, at the Sissie anchored in t... ... the clearing, the settlement slept already, the whole land of forests and rivers was asleep. “Davidson, seeing a solitary light in the massed darknes... ... the dark. “Davidson, relieved, but still very anxious, turned towards the river-side. He had not made two steps in that direction when another shriek... ...f him, and turned to run for life again. “This time she was making for the river, but not in a straight line. Her shrieks circled about Davidson. He t...

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...ess might bring to Paris. The windows of those two rooms looked out on the river. From one you could only see the shores of the Seine, and the three b... ...me use of the poor boy for his black art. My house stands too close to the river as it is, and that risk of ruin is bad enough without bringing down f... ...oung man’s room, and from thence she descried her two lodgers crossing the river in the ferry boat. “They stand like two statues,” said she to herself... ...hands now to heaven and now to the earth. Sigier, to whom the paths by the river were familiar, guided the venerable stranger with particular care to ... ... ferry-boat pushed off. At the moment when the boat was afloat on the wide river, communicating its motion to the soul, the sun pierced the clouds lik... ...ke the Heavenly Jerusalem—a city whose name I may not speak. There, too, a river winds. But that city and its buildings, that river of which the lovel...

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...ast farewell of its dark towering rocks, its narrow cause- way and roaring river, trusting to my friend the landlady to see that my luggage was duly p... ...ved in per- fect bliss; and then again one comes upon distant views up the river courses, bounded far away by the spurs of the Alps, which are perfect...

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...u shall take a basket of food with you, and have a little picnic down by the river!” Bruno jumped, and clapped his hands. “That are nice!” he Sylvie a... ...is a wicked, Sylvie and Bruno Lewis Carroll 87 cruel, dangerous thing!” “River edge?” said Bruno. “What a funny word! I suppose oo call it cruel a... ... ‘cause, if oo wented too far and tumbleded in, oo’d get drownded.” “No, not river edge,” I explained: “revenge” (saying the word very slowly). But I ... ...g by way of a full stop when they got to the end. “Doos oo know, that was my river edge, Sylvie?” Bruno solemnly began. Sylvie laughed merrily. “What ... ... man who has himself arranged the landscape), “how the mists rising from the river fill up ex actly those intervals where we need indistinctness, for...

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...sea, were agitated at the same moment, and by the same mighty emotion. The river of diamonds which flowed round her Ladyship’s neck, seemed to swell a...

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...d to the barren site, and also to the twisting path from town - there were nearer and better camping places. Besides, it wrote, the “hot bend in the river" was no place to spend $20,000 of tax money. The Californian rallied the public to oppose the purchase, but the rival Bakersfield Morning Echo considered the old Barker property a fine place for a public park....

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...it against criticism. He warned, "You can't quote me too strongly on this matter, I am going to have three deputy sheriffs on the lookout at the Kern River park, and if anyone, man or woman, is caught bathing in the lake at that time of the day or night without a bathing suit, he or she will be arrested. I don't care who these mixed couples are. I have given instructions t...

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...f Rapidan going all the way back to my great grandfather’s time. There were tales of the Civil War, the railroad, milling, flooding of the Rapidan River at twenty year intervals, and other Rapidan themes. In organizing this diversity of information, I have primarily attempted to give a history of the “community” of Rapidan, Virginia over time. I’ve also included infor...

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... . . . . . . . . . . page 5. Chapter II. The Settlers. In 1772 at the area known as Alexander Waugh's Ford, wagons camped along the river carrying goods between the Shenandoah valley and Fredericksburg. A miller, and land grantee, "Gentleman Billy" Willis, petitioned the English King, George III, to grant a tract of land on which to build a grist mill to...

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...n 1851 and 1852. The “Shirley Letters”, as the collected whole later became known, gave true accounts of life in two gold mining camps on the Feather River in the 1850s. She described these camps in Northern California with vividness in portraying the wildness of Gold Rush life. The letters give detailed accounts of the vast and beautiful landscape that was the background ...

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... Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Strait of Gibraltar, Straits Settlements, Mississippi River, Three Rivers, Laughing Brook, Rocky Mountains, Blue Hills, Pike'... ...n, to the specific name, without forming an organic part of such name: the river Elbe, the desert of Sahara, the island of Madagascar. 3. Adjective... ... . . . . . he sought the lumberer's gang, Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang; Through these green tents, by eldest nature drest, He ro...

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...sadness and panic from those of relief that were coursing through her in a river of conflict, she tried to think. The household bank ac- count was per... ...rip, they chose to transit from Lake Simcoe to Georgian Bay via the Severn River canal system. They pored over the charts together, which showed a se-... ...at the north end of Lake Simcoe into Lake Couchiching, before entering the river system. The lockmasters helped them dock the boat in the locks on the... ...er the canal in less than an hour. Then they meandered through the canals, rivers and lakes that worm their way through East- ern Ontario to the Bay o... ...urier Hotel on the other. They shared their awe at the width of the Ottawa River, and then again at the gigantic locks in the St. Lawrence Seaway, whe... ...Lacey now handled like a pro. The three of them went locking in the Severn River system and slept on the boat overnight. It was an exciting experience... ...ident and purposeful.” They set off along the main boulevard and turned up Riveroll. It was hot. Walking purposefully without speaking, they traveled ...

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...tricting arrangements: monopolies, cartels, trusts and other illegal organizations. Rivers of inks were spilled over forests of paper to explain th... ...technologically advanced cultures cohabiting with stone age cultures (in the Amazon River basin, in Africa, in Asia). b. Even if we assume that th...

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... man will have thrown off all of his superstitions and irrational taboos." (Diego Rivera) "One calls 'barbarism' whatever he is not accustomed to... ...ng of technology and know-how - the firm prevents its competitors from crossing the river into its protected turf. Let little firms "develop" an i... ...ns of the universe (theories) tend to be continuous. Newtonian time is equated to a river. Space is a yarn. Einstein was the last classicist (relati... ... all this? Who, exactly, then, is Dan? II. Who is Dan? Buddhism compares Man to a river. Both retain their identity despite the fact that their in... ...g of technology and know- how - the firm prevents its competitors from crossing the river into its protected turf. Again, long a labor strategy. Org... ...y. We even issue patents for sequences of human DNA. And people do own forests and rivers and the specific views of sunsets. Some scholars raise th... ...rame, a coincident pattern, and sets of teleological aims, ideas and values. Juan Rivera is right that Freud's claims about infantile life cannot ...