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...Snow’s and Drew’s newest version has been slightly retitled and almost totally rewritten to reflect radically changed politicalmilitary realities. Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy addresses not only traditional strategy ...

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...Far above the clouds, stars, moon and sun, was fairyland. It was a magnificent place filled with exotic flowers of rainbow colors, snow-dusted mountains, sapphire lakes, and trees greener than green itself. Of course, there were many fairies too, dazzling the exquisite land as far, and farther than eyes can see. The loveliest fairy in the fairyland, was ...

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...land. It was a magnificent place filled with exotic flowers of rainbow colors, snow-dusted mountains, sapphire lakes, and trees greener than green its... ...because if the sun rays ever fall upon you, Candleena will be melted away like snow on fire, said the cruel wizard. Oh, no please... no, pl- That ...

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... when lying in the fields near to the Carrick-Miln, I was all covered with snow in the morning. Many nights have I lain with pleasure in the churchyar... ... 34 degrees, with the wind at east, ac- companied by occasional showers of snow, and the marine barometer indicated 29.80. At half-past seven the sea ... ...ind was from the south, blowing fresh breezes, accompanied with showers of snow. In the morning the snow showers were so thick that it was with diffic... ...d make his way to the rock through the drift. But at the Bell Rock neither snow nor rain, nor fog nor wind, retarded the progress of the work, if unac... ...m- eter was generally about 29.50. We had not only hail and sleet, but the snow on the last day of May lay on the decks and rigging of the ship to the... ...cascades, and streamed down the walls of the building in froth as white as snow. To leeward of the lighthouse the collision or meeting of the waves pr...

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... fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites as History of Jack the Giant-Killer, The Frog Prince,Rumpel-stilts-ken, and Snow-white and Rose-red, among many others. Children of all ages will enjoy these stories. (Summary by Paul Williams)...

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...Have you seen a human fairy? Meet Alice Morrow, the dainty fairy of the snows, who will dance her way right into your heart! Get ready to laugh and cry as you follow the antics and trials of the Morrow family, living in early 20th Century Cincinnati. (Introduction by Anne Elizabeth)...

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...arly. Two days ago we were fighting rain. Yesterday we woke up to an inch of snow, and it was still coming down. Seemed like most of our riding was... ...g down. Seemed like most of our riding was in the dark or near dark… and the snow didn’t help. I was also worried about Spirit. Strong a horse as ... ...The sun must’a gone down a while ago because it was almost dark and the light snow’d started up again. This is not how I’d planned my return home. ... ...other hour had passed and it was pitch black except for the slight glimmer of snow in my eyes. That’s when I saw it. Up ahead, maybe half a mile…a ... ...y and reminded me of my sister. “You’ve got a deal, Mr. Montana.” With the snow still coming down, I looked around in the firelight and came on a... ...had finally dropped and, though I couldn’t see very well yet, it appeared the snow had stopped, too. It took me a few minutes to clear out the co... ...but I’d like to take advantage of it. Driving this team through the wind and snow isn’t my idea of fun. You go on ahead, Montana. Maybe the fates w... ...We’d been traveling for over two weeks now and both of us were exhausted. The snow stopped the morning we left Jesse’s camp and, other than a few f... ...so fat you’ll have to ride me!” I saddled him up and we were off. The light snow from last night was still on the trees and bushes, and it made th...

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...come our guests!” announced the house. Immediately, the plates lined up on a snow-white tablecloth, and next to them the forks, knives, and spoons ne...

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...s and neighbor's tree houses; bicycle radios fastened to handlebars; selling snow cones to passing cars; bicycle routes; meatloaves, potatoes, and oni... ...as at a distant relative's house and how he and his sister had played in the snow with a "cousin" the whole day; his sister.... Oh, how painful! He di... ... up by the neck. But this time she threw it outside into a light surface of snow that had fallen an hour earlier. Frothy top layers sometimes drifted... ...in the trailer was irritating his eyes. A silver light from the glare of the snow with its power to make objects (even the baby) seem blindingly unrea... ...uccessfully trying to pull his brother on a sled in the superficial layer of snow and left over hail. Too many weeds were blocking their progress. T... ...d overdone it. The temperature was already above freezing and the traces of snow were evaporating tracelessly, later to be sucked up into a Heraclitu... ..., she trudged back home in early evening through the marshland of the melted snow that was refreezing treacherously. Then she detoured a block west fr... ...house, she was aided by the verdant colors of the yard half the year and the snow and holly during the other half, the mellifluous smells of clean col... ...uthorityﾁOs promptings. "No, I didnﾁOt spike you drink none so relax there, Snowflake. I just prepared my special." "What is in this special of your...

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...numbers to tell her so; the morning’s pea-soup fog and the slight dusting of snow on the lawn had done that. She turned and stared at her reflection i... ...me slowed as panic raced through him. He felt as if he trudged through heavy snow as he moved toward his daughter. A fenris’ena leapt. Delilah twisted...

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...lid Korean with a beauty radiant as sunlight reflected off a hard crested snow bank?--at least, at times she remembered him as that, and it was rein...

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...s Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty; Little Red Riding Hood; Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Ugly Duckling, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and Rose Red, The Wild Swans, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, and 4 others that are not so famous. The stories included were based upon the those that various famous men remembered as their favorites when children(Sum...

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...ith fun and laughter. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. When Jack and Jill tumble off of their sled on the first good snow of the season, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months putting an end to their fun and frolics. Their parents and friends fill their days with the joys of Christmas preparations, a theatrical production...

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...On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th century Austrian master Adalbert Stifter, influenced Thomas Mann and others with its suspenseful, simple, myth-li...

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... always obliged to be careful of them. They tell me that you are afraid of snow or wet for that fine horse of yours; how often do you ride him? That i... ...her they leaned forward to look out upon a majestic cloud country, full of snows and glaciers and fantastic moun- tain peaks with gray stains of shado... ...full of light than the fields of sky. The brig had set all her canvas. The snowy sails, swelled by the strangely soft wind, the labyrinth of cordage, ...

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...sian style. The old curly birches of the gardens, all their twigs laden with snow, looked as though freshly decked in sacred vestments. He walked alon... ...ope in a new, better life, he reached home before nine o’clock at night. The snow of the little quadrangle before the house was lit up by a light in t... ... valuable cows was just behind the house. Walking across the yard, passing a snowdrift by the lilac tree, he went into the cowhouse. 90 Anna Karenina... ... the train had started, she could not help listening to the noises; then the snow beating on the left window and sticking to the pane, and the sight o... ...king to the pane, and the sight of the muffled guard passing by, covered with snow on one side, and the conversations about the terrible snowstorm ragi... ...ontinually the same again and again: the same shaking and rattling, the same snow on the window, the same rapid transitions from steaming heat to cold... ...ove heater, that he was looking at the thermometer, that it was the wind and snow bursting in after him at the door; but then everything grew blurred ... ...htful. The Part I — Chapter 30 97 voice of a man muffled up and covered with snow shouted something in her ear. She got up and pulled herself together... ...t a little air. It’s very hot in here.” And she opened the door. The driving snow and the wind rushed to meet her and struggled with her over the door...

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...hare the produce of his labor at the halves; in winter, to shovel away the snow from the sidewalk, or open paths to the wood- shed, or along the cloth... ...y place for a young person to be in. It lets in the wind and rain, and the Snow, too, in the garret and upper cham- bers, in winter-time, but it never... ...e high respectability of his aspect, as did also a neckcloth of the utmost snowy purity, and the conscientious polish of his boots. His dark, square c... ...el-tracks of ancient vehicles in Herculaneum. The butcher’s cart, with its snowy canopy, was an acceptable object; so was the fish-cart, heralded by i... ...ll straw bonnet, nor her little kerchief, any more than 141 Hawthorne her snowy stockings—had ever been put on before; or, if worn, were all the fres... ...her way. It was an inclem- ent night; the southeast wind drove the mingled snow and rain into her thinly sheltered bosom; her satin slippers were wet ... ...e last attack of the gout, to five diurnal glasses of old sherry wine; the snowy whiteness of his linen, the polish of his boots, the handsomeness of ... ... scrupulously neat in his attire, but for a broad crimson stain across his snowy neckcloth and down his shirt- 232 The House of the Seven Gables boso...

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...y against them was small, but that it was decreasing. How quickly does the snowball grow into hugeness as it is rolled on;—but when the change comes i... ...wife a new gown, or his children boots to keep their feet from the mud and snow. ’ Then he paused a mo- ment, but the serious tone of his voice and t... ...to his father on that night. On the next morning there was a heavy fall of snow, but nevertheless everybody managed to go to church. The Duke, as he l... ...is girl, he thought as he saw her walking briskly and strongly through the snow, with every mark of health about her, with every sign of high breeding... ...s sitting and asked him to take a walk with her. Was she not afraid of the snow? ‘Perhaps you are, ’ she said laughing. ‘I do not mind it in the least... ...be seen both to the right and to the left. Though the sun was shining, the snow under their feet was hard with frost. It was an air such as one someti... ... people prone to run and skip. ‘You are not going to sit down with all the snow on the bench, ’ said Silverbridge. On their way thither she had not sa...

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...ed against the evening sky, except where the crowning peaks bore a veil of snow. Behind, the sky was pure gold, gradually shading into pale green, and... ...were. Presently there began to fall little square lumps, neither hail, nor snow, nor rain; it grew very cold, and rain came on. It would have been gre... ... own set. Those four were really like a poem. There was little Meta in her snowy whiteness, looking like inno- cence itself, hardly knowing of evil, o... ...undaunted by the giddy heights she attained, bravely crossed the fields of snow, supported the bitter cold, and finally, though suffering severely, ar... ... the most fascinating of sports. There is the soft foamy mass, like driven snow, or like whipped cream. Blanche bends down to blow “a honeycomb,” hold... ...was a tray of luncheon for the two who were about to depart, and the great snow-white cake was waiting for Flora to cut it. She smiled, accomplished t... ...okery! Oh! Ethel, you would have been wild with delight in those places!” “Snowy mountains! Are they not like a fairy-dream to you now? You must have ... ...days. He was a slight small man, much sunburned, nearly bald, and his hair snowy, but his eyes were beautiful, very dark, soft, and smiling, and yet t... ...y beneath the palm tree, be- neath the glowing summer sky, while the first snow-flakes hung like pearls on her pall. But as they laid her by her mothe...

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...ks of the tall silent houses that hem him round about. In winter-time, the snow will linger there, long after it has melted from the busy streets and ... ...L SENTIMENT, THAT THE BEST OF FRIENDS MUST SOMETIMES PA RT THE PAVEMENT OF SNOW HILL had been baking and frying all day in the heat, and the twain Sar... ...ew again, faded gilding was re-bur- nished, stained rotten canvas looked a snowy white, the very beggars’ rags were freshened up, and sentiment quite ... ... before them. T o render these recollections the more vivid, it came on to snow as night set in; and, passing through Stamford and Grantham, and by th...

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...l romp through every page! And the mercury shiver perpetually in the vicinity of zero! And every foot of earth be crusty-brown and bare with no white snow at all till the very last moment when you'd just about given up hope! And all the heart of the story is very,—oh very young! For purposes of propriety and general historical authenticity there are of course parents in th...