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...- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The Strength of the Strong, 373 -- War, 391 -- The Mexican, 398 -- Told in the Drooling Ward, 428...

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...To Build a Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 South of the Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 The Chinago . . . ... ... it knew, where were the other food providers and fire providers. South of the Slot 15 O LD SAN FRANCISCO, which is the San Francisco of only the othe... ...f only the other day, the day before the Earthquake, was divided midway by the Slot. The Slot was an iron crack that ran along the center of Market st... ...lot was an iron crack that ran along the center of Market street, and from the Slot arose the burr of the ceaseless, endless cable that was hitched at... ...s hitched at will to the cars it dragged up and down. In truth, there were two slots, but in the quick grammar of the West time was saved by calling t... ...e West time was saved by calling them, and much more that they stood for, “The Slot.” North of the Slot were the theaters, ho tels, and shopping dist... ...district, the banks and the staid, respectable busi ness houses. South of the Slot were the factories, slums, laundries, machine shops, boiler works,... ...undries, machine shops, boiler works, and the abodes of the working class. The Slot was the metaphor that expressed the class cleavage of Society, and... ...lifornia, and it was as a professor of sociology that he first crossed over the Slot, lived for six months in the great labor ghetto, and wrote “The U...

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...ke, and the light falls on my face. Then, looking aside, I hear the little slotting noise which tells me they are opening the lemon gardens, a long pa... ...me they are opening the lemon gardens, a long panel here and there, a long slot of darkness at irregular intervals between the brown wood and the glas... ... H. Lawrence enormous box. It is true, there are long strips of window and slots of space, so that the front is striped, and an occasional beam of lig...

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... lid, that was now sliding sideways from off the pit it had covered into a slot prepared for it. Had it not been for Cavor I think I should have remai... ...and staring into the enor- mous gulf below, until at last the edges of the slot scraped me off and hurled me into its depths. But Cavor had not receiv...

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...iced amidst a great running and shouting of boys, a shoving through letter slots, openings of windows, spreading out upon book-stalls. For the space o...

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...as not above sending stories of love and death to the drop-a- penny-in-the-slot journals. It was my fate to sit still while Charlie read me poems of m...

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...ove to ford the river T eign, Cador, the huntsman, came winding upon their slot. The Saxons were dismayed beyond measure, and without stay or delay fl...

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... the beer-handles,’ she went on, ‘and they’ve got one of them penny-in-the-slot cash-machines, so if you get wrong by a penny at the end of the day—bu...

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...ally enough that there wasn’t. ‘I’ll just put it aside o’ the penny-in-the-slot, and Heather’s greengrocers’ll fetch it about half past eight,’ he sai...

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...uries—a low wall about three feet high began; in this wall was a groove or slot, repeated above in the beam by which the wall of each facade was sup- ...

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... plague on thee, and thy advice!” said the pious hermit; “I tell thee, Sir Slothful Knight, that when I doff my friar’s frock, my priesthood, my sanct... ...e wise, and let me go, ere the misfortunes which track my foot- steps like slot-hounds, shall involve thee also in their pursuit.” “Nay,” said Rebecca... ...nt once more at her bridle rein. Athelstane, who, as the reader knows, was slothful, but not cowardly, beheld the female form whom the Templar pro- te... ... to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer. The other is Y orkshire bred, and has twanged his bows...

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...t lady!” “The ring! the ring!” exclaimed the dwarf impatiently; “false and slothful knight, return the ring, which thou art unwor- thy to touch or to ... ...riest; “for it is the nature of this sort of blood hound never to quit the slot of the prey he has once scented.” “Say no more of it,” said the Marqui...

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...s I have told you, nor never was earthly king so praised as he, until that a slothful will came upon him and he began to lose the pleasure in doing la... ... he entered into a great forest and looked in the way before him and saw the slot of the King’s horse and followed the track a long space, until 16 T... ... knight, “For this is no more than you have deserved. They take you to be as slothful of deed as you are of word, and they saw that you were come thro... ...ccording to the tenor and custom of the castle if that through perversity or slothfulness you durst not take me when you have won me.” “Damsel,” saith...

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... was they who would carry out her aspiration. Her campaign against village sloth was actually begun! On what specific reform should she first loose he... ...mes had the mention of Barney Cahoon, the town drayman, like a nickel in a slot produced from Kennicott the apocryphal story of Barney’s directing a m...

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...kshire hills To keep him bright and clean as heretofore, He rooted out the slothful officer Or guilty, which for bribe had winked at wrong, And in the... ...e-collect the shape Of one that in them sees himself, returned; But at the slot or fewmets of a deer, Or even a fallen feather, vanished again. So ...

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...f, panting, he pushed her roughly to the outer door, and thrust her forth, slotting the bolt behind her with a bang. Then he went back into the kitche... ...the electric light went out; there was a bruising thud in the penny-in-the-slot meter. He did not stir, but sat gazing in front of him. Only the mice ...