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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ribed as a "very charming adventurer, very good looking, well bred and an excellent dancer". He lived at 18 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London (a pres... ... that advice would be appealing over the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles... ...allies and enemy powers. The document was declassified in 1974. It was only the last of many such color-coded contingency plans. http://www.st... ...erved more than 7. He contracted syphilis which affected his brain and in his last years in seclusion he has mentally regressed to the age of ... ...ord puzzles only in 1942. http://www.factmonster.com/spot/crossword1.html D Dance, St. Vitus Dancing manias - a form of mass hysteria - we... ... late as 50 years ago, during and after the second world war. The Italian folk dance, "Tarantella" is related to tarantism. It was played for d...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

... Williams- town fire department and Doctor Barrett, we welcome you to this last conflict between the two lower classes. It is unfortunate that we have... ... but had gotten tanked by spending too much time in the swimming pool. "At last the world beyond Will- iams is hugiunnig to appreoiate the importance ... ... technical improve- ment; but the spiritual element had begun to wane. His last great work was his Sistiue Madonna. After this, none of his works may ... ...0. The concert, which will be held in .Harmony hall, will be followed by a dance. Several other concerts, to be given after that in Troy, are under co... ...with an aim to producing highest grade work only. Commencement Invitations Dance Invitations Dance Programmes Banquet Menus Class& Social Stationery- ... ...with an aim to producing highest grade work only. Commencement Invitations Dance Invitations Dance Progframmes Banquet Menus Class& Social Stationery ...

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Vailima Letters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...six hundred feet above the sea, embowered in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars. I went crazy over outdo... ...I shall see where it goes and get a guess perhaps of what it means. To-day I know no more than— there it is. A little higher the brook began to trickl... ... then to fill. At last, as I meant to do some work upon the home- ward trail, it was time to turn. I did not return by the stream; knife in hand, as l... ...ng them with whips, the whole in high good humour on both sides; infinite noise; and a his- toric event—Mr. Clarke, the missionary, and his wife, as-... ...as off early to the Mission, where the politics are thrilling just now. The native pastors (to every one’s surprise) have moved of themselves in the m... ...’s surprise) have moved of themselves in the matter of the native dances, desiring the restrictions to be removed, or rather to be made dependent on t...

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Dynevor Terrace Vol. Ii

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Mind, Captain,’ said Louis,’ it wasn’t I that made the boat late this time last year.’ ‘Well! I might be wrong, I fancied you cast an eye that way. Th... ... little longer, becoming more confused and distressed every minute, and at last came to the point abruptly. ‘In short, Isabel, my dear, what can you h... ... with the young men at Ebbscreek?’ ‘I sent a note to my cousin Fitzjocelyn last night,’ said Isabel, with such calmness, that the old gentleman fairly... ...n a course of lectures on history, to be given in the evenings, the atten- dance to be voluntary, but a prize held out for proficiency. Louis took up ... ...she was only laughed at for her English precision, and the pretty creature danced away to her stolen pleasure. She came in, all glory and delight at t... ...and the laughing-stock of her school. Oh! for that first ball where no one danced with me but Mr. Richardson, and I was not a mere peg for the display...

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Dynevor Terrace

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...stiff starched, elderly woman standing just within the door, and heard her last words. ‘Well! as I said, ’tis no concern of mine; only I thought it th... ...on a languishing Dresden shepherdess and her lover on the mantelpiece, and danced on the ceiling, reflected from a beautifully chased sil- ver cream-j... ...d Lord Ormersfield, with a look nearly approach- ing a smile, ‘you are the last person I ought to invite, if I wish to keep your nephew unspoiled.’ ‘I... ...Jem,’ she added. ‘If he were yours, what would you say to such hours?’ The last words were aimed at a young man who came briskly into the room, and as... ...elyn. ‘And always will be, I suspect. So much for my bargain with Clara to dance with her at her first ball!’ ‘You like dancing?’ exclaimed Isabel, re... ...ith fresh spring flowers, And call a train of laughing hours; And bid them dance, and bid them sing: And thou, too, mingle in the ring. —Wordsworth TH...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...nd in person superintended the brilliant wed- ding. He himself led off the dance with the tiny bride, con- ducting her through its mazes with fatherly... ...ered severely from the sickness that prevailed in St. Quentin, when in the last August the Admiral de Coligny had been besieged there by the Spaniards... ...Beranger, too honourable to accuse her, underwent the same tempest; and at last both were soundly rapped over the knuckles with the long handle of Mad... ... populous; the pulpit remained a mere mossy bank, more suggestive or fairy dances than of Calvinist sermons, and no one remained on the scene save Ber... ...nd weary indeed he seemed, for as the ground became so steep that the beck danced noisily down its chan- nel, he could not keep up the needful speed, ... ... and sister they had ever since considered themselves, and only within the last few months had possibilities been discussed among the elders of the fa...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

...e rose up. 34 And the next day the elder said to the younger: Behold I lay last night with my father, let us make him drink wine also to night, and th... ...ile they were looking upon them. 42 But when the later coming was, and the last conceiving, he did not put them. And those that were lateward, became ... ...emost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last. 3 And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seve... ...in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord,... ...of singers. 19 And when he came nigh to the camp, he saw the calf, and the dances: and being very angry, he threw the tables out of his hand, and brok... ...t not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abun- dance of all things: 48 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

...ourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. 2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and he... ..., O LORD. 19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last. 20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dain... ...l in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. 21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath trium... ...e fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! 11 And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done un... ...use, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daugh... ...ne- yards; 21 And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man...

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Citadel of Machaerus

By: Gustave Flaubert

...thou art like them!” she cried; “Dost regret the loss of the Arab girl who danced upon these very pavements? Take her back! Go and live with her—in he... ...ias, who watched him narrowly. “Who is that maiden?” the tetrarch asked at last. Herodias replied that she did not know, and her fierce demeanour sudd... ... 13 Herodias CHAPTER II T he ramparts were thronged with people when at last Vitellius entered the castle gates, leaning on the arm of his interpre... ...begging for alms. They rent their clothing and jostled one another; and at last, in order to drive them back, several slaves, armed with long staves, ... ...e days of her blooming youth. 33 Herodias Immediately the damsel began to dance before the tetrarch. Her slender feet took dainty steps to the rhythm... ...n the vision faded. But this beautiful thing before him was no vision. The dancer was Salome, the daughter of Herodias, who for many months her mother...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...ll under his eyes, what lay to his hand—as the Facetiae of Poggio, and the last sermonnaires. In the course of one’s reading one may often enough come... ...een most satisfactorily and most completely worked out. M. Brunet said the last word on the subject in his Researches in 1852, and in the important ar... ...k. Louis Guyon, in his Diverses Lecons, is still more positive: ‘As to the last book which has been included in his works, entitled l’Ile Sonnante, th... ... green grass, to the sound of the merry flutes and pleasant bagpipes, they danced so gallantly, that it was a sweet and heavenly sport to see them so ... ...y glutton. At fair and softly passeth Lent. At the morris dance. At the forked oak. At feeby. ... ...c(h)ough. At the vine-tree hug. At the crane-dance. At black be thy fall. At slash ...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...grees it passed into a Doubt, a Relation, some faint Possi- bility; and at last into a highly-probable Nonentity. Follow- ing Locke’s footsteps, the F... ...oyed, so contaminated with pride and other poor or bad admixtures, was the last which thinking men were to experience in Eu- rope for a time. So it is... ...of his kind in Europe; the wildest, the gloomiest, and it may be hoped the last. For what good is it to ‘whine, put finger i’ the eye, and sob,’ in su... ...ere were still something on them to see. Suddenly I saw a most lovely girl dance upon the very tips. She was smaller, but pretty and lively; and as sh... ...n my formal Sunday clothes. I made gestures, and leaped, as I had seen the dancers do at the fair-theatre. In the midst of this I looked in the glass,... ...n the porteress who came out perfectly resembled the delicate girl who had danced upon my fingers in the dream! She greeted me as if we were already a...

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