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...o welcome when the tyrant is awake, So welcome when the bigot’s hell-torch flares; ’Tis but the voyage of a darksome hour, ... ... _605 Such tiny twinklers as the planet orbs That ministering on the solar power With borrowed light pursued their narrower way. Earth floated t... ...am-wrought waterfalls Fed from a thousand storms—the fearful glow Of bombs flares overhead—at intervals The red artillery’s bolt mangling among them f... ...ble. 37. 37. 37. 37. 37. ‘Such are the thoughts which, like the fires that flare In storm-encompassed isles, we cherish yet ...

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...cart. Thus, gradually the Sol’s Arms melts into the shadowy night and then flares out of it strong in gas. The Harmonic Meeting hour arriving, the gen... ... Cathedral of Our Lady to say a word or two at the base of a pillar within flare of a rusty little gridiron full of gusty little tapers; without the w... ... sea bronze on the judicial countenance, and a strip of bark peeled by the solar rays from the judicial nose, who calls in at the shell fish shop as h...

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...cart. Thus, gradually the Sol’s Arms melts into the shadowy night and then flares out of it strong in gas. The Harmonic Meeting hour arriving, the gen... ... Cathedral of Our Lady to say a word or two at the base of a pillar within flare of a rusty little gridiron full of gusty little tapers; without the w... ... sea bronze on the judicial countenance, and a strip of bark peeled by the solar rays from the judicial nose, who calls in at the shell fish shop as h... ...t want them for themselves, but they remind me of the sun. There’s nothing solar about legs of beef and mutton. Mere animal satisfaction!” “This is ou... ...le world—tremendous orb, nearly five miles round—is in full swing, and the solar sys tem works respectfully at its appointed distances. Where the thr... ...her there? On the waste where the brick kilns are burning with a pale blue flare, where the straw roofs of the wretched huts in which the bricks are m...

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...people without a training in science can realise the huge isolation of the solar system. The sun with its specks of 21 H G Wells planets, its dust of... ... Wall and other stories men had never before seen, and where the volcanoes flared red against the cloud canopy there descended torrents of mud. Everyw... ...er- ing the mass and temperature of the missile that was flung through our solar system into the sun,” one wrote, “it is as- tonishing what a little d... ...nd see,’ she cried—I can hear her now—’come and see the sunrise upon Monte Solaro.’ “I remember how I sprang to my feet and joined her at the balcony ... ...We were at Capri—” “I have been there,” I said. “I have clambered up Monte Solaro and drunk vero Capri—muddy stuff like cider—at the summit.” “Ah!” sa... ... a little bay, a little beach still in shadow. And out of that shadow rose Solaro straight and tall, flushed and golden crested, like a beauty throned... ...k cell, and outside was the darkling sea and a light to the southward that flared and passed and came again. “‘We must get out of this place,’ I said ... ...ones?” “Cones, my man, cones. I’ll show you one nearer. The flames used to flare out of the open throats, great—what is it?—pillars of cloud by day, r... ...fuel into the thing. Ev- ery now and then the cone dips, and out comes the flare.” “I see,” said Raut. He looked over his shoulder. “The moon gets bri...

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...e buggy came down, the receiver of the lamp smashed, and suddenly poured a flare of blazing oil, a thud of white flame, into the struggle. That was th... ... Then the doctor had grasped the opportunity, that mo- mentary respite the flare afforded, and was out of the brickmaker’s sight below battering the d... ...will,” said Redwood. They meditated. “We shall have to rig up some sort of flare if we do go in,” said Redwood. They went up a little path of white sa... ...y—which you have about as much claim to control as you have to control the solar system. The thing is as old as the hills. There was Hypertrophy in th...

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...Professor in his vicarious conduct of those extensive researches of his in solar physics—researches which are still a matter of perplexity to astronom... ...le on the dressing-table alight, that was all—sometimes one or other would flare up into a tall, lean, astonished flame for a space. And queer things ... ...ied, one gets at the brain champagne fashion and does nothing good for the solar plexus, and what I want—and what, if it’s an earthly possibility, I m... ...haviour been. Then he made a raid upon a coffee stall, hurled its paraffin flare through the window of the post office, and fled laughing, after stunn... ...nd see,’ she cried—I can hear her now—’come and see the sunrise upon Monte Solaro.’ “I remember how I sprang to my feet and joined her at the balcony ... ...We were at Capri—” “I have been there,” I said. “I have clambered up Monte Solaro and drunk vero Capri—muddy stuff like cider—at the summit.” “Ah!” sa... ... a little bay, a little beach still in shadow. And out of that shadow rose Solaro straight and tall, flushed and golden crested, like a beauty throned... ...k cell, and outside was the darkling sea and a light to the southward that flared and passed and came again. “‘We must get out of this place,’ I said ...

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...g on Sundays. Young Cupids were wont to flit like moths round the paraffin flare of that centre of High Church hymn-singing. I fancy she stood singing... ...ones?” “Cones, my man, cones. I’ll show you one nearer. The flames used to flare out of the open throats, great—what is it?—pillars of cloud by day, r... ...fuel into the thing. Ev- ery now and then the cone dips, and out comes the flare.” “I see,” said Raut. He looked over his shoulder. “The moon gets bri... ...ble, in order to enhance the brilliance of the stars observed. The lantern flared as Woodhouse entered his circular den, and the general darkness fled... ...pture than anything else I can re- member upon earth. These I knew for the solar corona, though I had never seen anything of it but a picture during t... ... the earth: the earth was leaving me, and not only the earth but the whole solar system was streaming past. And about me in space, invisible to me, sc... ...o longer see. So with a stately swiftness, in the profoundest silence, the solar system fell from me as it had been a garment, until the sun was a mer... ...confused glittering of the remoter light. I was no longer a denizen of the solar system: I had come to the outer Universe, I seemed to grasp and compr... ...s, Aldebaran, and Sirius; so that the other world must be somewhere in the solar system, and, at the utmost, only a few hundreds of millions of miles ...

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... swayed and whirled and tore themselves to pieces, that sprang towards the flare. My ears were smitten with a clap of thunder that left me deaf on one... ...ility came rushing into my mind. Suddenly I saw, as in a vision, the whole solar system threaded with Cavorite liners and spheres deluxe. “Rights of p... ...nd made this crest of fiery tongues against the sky, but indeed it was the solar prominences I Saw, a crown of fire about the sun that is forever hidd... ...his Lunar Sea,” says Cavor, in a later passage “is not a stagnant ocean; a solar tide sends it in a perpetual flow around the lunar axis, and strange ...

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...le of meteorology a great variety of gratuitous fireworks which banged and flared away of a night after sup- per and drew me abroad to see them better... ...er that was liked by hostesses. And the other side of my nature that first flared through the cover of restraints at Locarno, that too had had opportu... ...will no doubt figure as a momentous conflict. Yet except for an occasional flare of bill-sticking or a bill in a window or a placard-plastered motor-c... ...umming and saying “‘Ear, ‘ear!” One might as well think of hounding on the solar system. So after one or two attempts to lift my audiences to the leve... ...ross the river was the hunched sky-line of Doulton’s potteries, and a kiln flared redly. Dimly luminous trams were gliding amidst a dotted line of lam... ...e. The long smouldering antagonism to my endowment of motherhood ideas had flared up into an active campaign in the Expurgator, and it would be altoge...

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...t want them for themselves, but they remind me of the sun. There’s nothing solar about legs of beef and mutton. Mere animal satisfaction!” “This is ou... ...le world—tremendous orb, nearly five miles round—is in full swing, and the solar sys tem works respectfully at its appointed distances. Where the thr... ...her there? On the waste where the brick kilns are burning with a pale blue flare, where the straw roofs of the wretched huts in which the bricks are m...

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...ore than waver. ‘You see how I meet it: water off a duck’s back, or Indian solar beams on the skin of a Hindoo! I despise it hardly worth contempt;—Bu... ...n of the poor little woman, her case was not unexampled, though the sudden flare of it startled rather. Mrs. Victor could read men and women closely. ...

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...ake-weight piece of amusement, shame-facedly and edgewise. Thus, I observed that it was necessary for the mem- bers to be knocked on the head with Gas... ...arge; and they had just now been thrust into the otherwise empty grate to make two iron pots boil. There was some fish in one, and there were some pot...

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...epeated Fanny, with unbounded scorn, as if he were the last subject in the Solar system that could possibly be near her mind. ‘No, Miss Bat, it is not... ... the sun, and left the wilderness blank. At some turns of the road, a pale flare on the horizon, like an exhalation from the ruin-sown land, showed th...

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...y of his life; and you—why, between you, you tell thirty thousand; yet you flare up here in a lurid hypocritical horror because I tell that child a be... ...but the coldness of a winter moon, whose beams can produce no fruit, whose solar light is not its own, but borrowed from the great dispenser of effulg... ... my word, I had never heard of smoke before. Soon brilliant yellow and red flares shot up through the smoke, and I named them in an instant— flames—an...

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...t drove me out of my mind. Then, as the marsh winds made the fire glow and flare, I thought I heard the voice outside, of the man with the iron on his... ... taken, and when the bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives, the fire to flare for them, the 31 Charles Dickens smoke to hurry away in pursuit of t... ...r was, seemed a combination of impossi- bilities, geographical and social, solar and lunar. Yet in the London streets, so crowded with people and so b... ...of a few hours had made me. I lighted my fire, which burnt with a raw pale flare at that time of the morning, and fell into a doze before it. I seemed... .... Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick. Whom I had looked for, I d... ... hey? – when he come for to hear that – hey? –” In his savage taunting, he flared the candle so close at me, that I turned my face aside, to save it f...

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...ppeared Such tiny twinklers as the planet orbs That there attendant on the solar power With borrowed light pursued their narrower way. _225 Ear... ... work o’er the wide earth frightfully: The dreadful stench of her torches’ flare, Fed with human fat, polluted the air: The curses, the shrieks, the c...

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...dour. Melkarth’s pavilion, which was of fine purple, sheltered a petroleum flare; on Khamon’s, which was of hyacinth colour, there rose an ivory phall... ...o 226 Salammbo see whether their number corresponded with the days of the solar year; but others were brought, and it was impossible to distinguish t...

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... Francaises, Gardes Suisses: marching hither; in silent regularity; in the flare of torchlight! There are Sappers, too, with axes and crowbars: appare... ...ury; have seized guns and cannons, three money- bags, paper-heaps; torches flare: in few minutes, our brave Hotel-de-Ville which dates from the Fourth... ...e messenger of Destiny. Chapter 1.7.IX. Lafayette. Towards midnight lights flare on the hill; Lafayette’s lights! The roll of his drums comes up the A... ... will save him; handsomely declines since they will not; then dies, in the flare of torchlight, with politest composure; remarking, rather than exclai... ...tle magic rod which she calls badine, such as the Beautiful then wore. The flare of Lafayette’s Car- riage, rolls past: all is found quiet in the Cour... ...sculottism has many aspects and tints: but the brightest tint, really of a solar or stellar brightness, is this which the Armies give it. That same fe...

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...ned Each blade towards the light And solar systems have evolved From chaos and dark night, ... ...t up and ran off.” “What for, if you had no object?” Mitya’s wrath flared up. He looked intently at “the boy” and smiled gloomily and malignan... ...vitch, with extraordinary softness. “No, I’m not wrong, at all!” Mitya flared up again, though his outburst of wrath had obviously relieved his he... ...o the moment when, seeing his father peering out of the window, his hatred flared up and he pulled the pestle out of his pocket, he suddenly, as thoug... ...he was proud and could not stand contempt. She was one of those people who flare up, angry and eager to retaliate, at the mere suggestion of contempt....

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...epeated Fanny, with unbounded scorn, as if he were the last subject in the Solar system that could possibly be near her mind. ‘No, Miss Bat, it is not... ... the sun, and left the wilderness blank. At some turns of the road, a pale flare on the horizon, like an exhalation from the ruin-sown land, showed th...