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...s that sound of pattering feet? And that rise and fall, like the murmur of breakers on pebbles? He put out a languid hand to reach his watch from the ... ... platforms on either side, and carried away against their will. They would spring off so soon as they were beyond the thick of the confusion, and run ... ...g and answering questions. It was a day full of the promise and quality of spring. The touch of the wind warmed. The sky was an intense blue and 107 ...

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...old mortal all at once sinking into a decline, she might, some dark night, spring a leak and carry us all to the bot- tom. However, she played us no s... ...nother boat, and then darted into the cabin to tell the captain the news. Springing on deck again, he drove down into the forecastle for a couple of ... ...et. Eight ahead, and so near that my heart stood still, was a long line of breakers, heaving and frothing. It was the coral reef girdling the island. ... ...this, she had been kept three or four points free, so as to close with the breakers. Her headway now shortened, I steadied the helm, keeping the sails... ...d cook thundered on the forecastle with a handspike, “Break- 78 Omoo ers! breakers close aboard!—’bout ship! ‘bout ship!” Up came the sailors, starin... ...pe Yarn, crawling close up to him. “Avast! avast!” roared Jermin, making a spring toward Bembo, and dashing two or three of the sailors aside. At this... ... fiercely round. “Over with them together, then,” exclaimed the carpenter, springing forward; but the rest fell back before the coura- 80 Omoo geous ... ...oner we saw, in which he traded among the neighbouring islands. The breeze springing up again just after nightfall, Viner left us, promising his old s... ... in. Being toward noon, the wind was fast leaving us, and, by the time the breakers were roaring on either hand, little more than steerage-way was lef...

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...the surf flying high above its base; strange, austere, and feath- ered mountains rising behind; and Jack and Jane, or Adam and Eve, impending like a p... ... of one Cockney titterer will cause a whole party to walk in clouds of darkness. The hamlet of Anaho stands on a margin of flat land be- tween the wes... ...nt from the table. It was in these circumstances that we skirted the windward shore of that indescribable island of Ua-pu; viewing with dizzy eyes the... ...beach the town shows a thin file of houses, mostly white, and all ensconced in the foliage of an avenue of green puraos; a pier gives access from the ... ...d the European properties employed offer a seizing contrast to the imagination. Yet more striking is another incident of the very year when I was ther... ...f noble palms, sheltering the house of the trader, Mr. Keane. Overhead, the cocos join in a continuous and lofty roof; blackbirds are heard lustily si... ...at intervals above the organ-point of surf. And the thought of this depopulated capital, this protracted thread of annular island with its crest of co... ...ne metallic ring when struck. Here and there you come upon a bank of sand, exceeding fine and white, and these parts are the least productive. The pla... ... sea-fowl. It was admirable to observe the completeness of their flight, like that of hi- bernating birds; nothing left but empty houses, like old nes...

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...esides, if I didn’t, I should be playing bezique with my aunt at Richfield Springs.” “That’s almost as bad as marrying Dillworth,” he agreed, and they... ...ilway tea and nectar. There was, however, one topic she could rely on: one spring that she had only to touch to set his simple machinery in motion. Sh... ...worrying!” she exclaimed. “Unless it’s the electric light—” she reflected, springing up from her seat and lighting the candles on the dressing-table. ... ...ed be- neath its rush or landed triumphantly beyond the reach of envi- ous breakers; and she was apt to display a remarkable retro- spective insight i... ...ancing across flower-strewn sward in the rhythmic postures of Botticelli’s Spring. tableaux vivants depend for their effect not only on the happy disp... ...lf!” The name, as Gerty saw with a clutch at the heart, had loos- ened the springs of self-pity in her friend’s dry breast, and tear by tear Lily pour...

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...nd faded, that the ship had gone out and come home again, and it was broad spring al ready in the Coburg Dock at Liverpool. I have not inquired among... ...arpet bag, high and dry, like a couple of coal—barges. Suddenly I see them spring into the air, and behold the looking glass, which is nailed to the ... ...down on her side in the waves, with her masts dipping into them, and that, springing up again, she rolls over on the other side, until a heavy sea str... ...e vicinity had been announced very early in the disaster by a loud cry of ‘Breakers a head!’) and much backing of paddles, and heaving of the lead int... ...l influence on the spirits. We went on next morning, still by railroad, to Spring field. From that place to Hartford, whither we were bound, is a dis... ...ng with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire legs, two spring legs — all sorts of legs and no legs — what is this to him? And in w...

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...terest, an interest of ambition in its subversion. As matters stood in the spring of 1834, the patron of each benefice, acting under the severest rest... ...e under Sir Jacob Astley at 17 Thomas de Quincey Stow-in-the-walds in the spring of 1846. Any other fighting in that century belonged to mere insulat... ..., she began to find herself invaded or modified from within, by influences springing up from Methodism. This last effect became more conspicuously evi... ...presbyteries, as being the effectual electoral bodies, are really the main springs of the ecclesiastical administration. To govern them, was in effect... ...ion anticipating the more remote conse- quences yet to be expected. In the spring of 1834, as we have sufficiently explained, the General Assembly ven... ...s employed— expressly for showing false signals, and leading right amongst breakers. That hortus siccus of pet notions, which had won Pope’s fancy in ...

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... suicide the easiest and best. Covent Garden Market at sunrise too, in the spring or summer, when the fragrance of sweet flowers is in the air, over p... ...‘It will never check hers, ’ said the old man looking steadily at me, ‘the springs are too deep. Besides, the children of the poor know but few pleasu... ... passing so long upon your attention. Good night.’ ‘There’s one good thing springs out of all this,’ said Richard Swiviller to himself when he had rea... ...for that purpose, the historian takes the friendly reader by the hand, and springing with him into the air, and cleaving the same at a greater rate th... ...—one of nature’s beacons, warn ing off those who navigated the shoals and breakers of the World, or of that dangerous strait the Law, and ad monishi... ...er,’ said Short; ‘that’s where it is. We takes the East of Lon don in the spring and winter, and the West of England in the summer time. Many’s the h...

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...this discussion, Ellangowan was somewhat like a woodcock caught in his own springe. He turned his face alternately from the one spokesman to the other... ...ir haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring Or chasms of wat’ry depths— all these have vanish’d; They live no lo... ...and the pal- sied to labour. He detected poachers, black-fishers, orchard- breakers, and pigeon-shooters; had the applause of the bench for his reward... ...e other side, for uniformity’s sake, was a precautionary annuncia- tion of spring-guns and man-traps of such formidable pow- ers, that, said the rubri... ...es his rounds with a loaded fowling-piece. He mentioned even man-traps and spring-guns. I should be loath to affront my father’s old friend in his own... ...t liberty amid the grandest scenes of nature; while, during my winters and springs, I am not only cabined, cribbed, and confined in a miserable garret...

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...sion of repose for one of intense listening. “Already!” exclaimed the boy, springing to his feet, as Leonillo bounded forward to meet a stout hardy fo... ... secure your own pardon.” “Out, miscreant!” shouted Adam; and was about to spring at him again, but the powerful arm collared him, and he recognized a... ...the maintainer of the laws, and defender of the oppressed against covenant breakers; and when the appeal to arms was at length made, he saw the white ... ...n to exalt ourselves, but as a trust for the welfare of others. It was the spring of action that was with him through life.” “It was,” murmured Richar... ...er poor father!” “How is it with him then, Gammer?” demanded Sir Rob- ert, springing to the ground with the alacrity of a doctor anxious about his pat... ...m the ladies’ tent; adding, however, “But what’s the use of leaving a pert springald like thee in charge? Thou wilt sleep like a very dormouse, I’ll w...

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...l, paint and powder, with shrill gaiety , to recover the illusion of their spring. The wiser go their way with a decent grace. In their chastened smil... ... wining and George Road. We were all writers. It was a fine day , early in spring, and we were in a good humour. We talked about a hundred things. Mis... ...r their lives. And above all, ceaseless like time, is the dull roar of the breakers on the reef. But here there was not a sound, and the air was scent... ...ellows that died with an unnatural passion into a green as fragrant as the spring and as pure as the sparkling water of a mountain brook. Who can tell...

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...tions, never repeating themselves exactly. The bursting out of leaves in the Springtime is an infinite permutation of the original infinite burstin... ...tems of the African veldt are the only ecosystems on earth powerful enough to spring back from total drought and devastation in a single season. Why... ... Also there would be less injuries… because there will be no specialized bone breakers to get up a 20-yard head of steam, and no 400-lb monsters to f... ..., meticulously researched book on the poisonous effects of DDT called: “Silent Spring.” It was too revolutionary for its time. The entire scientif... ...cientific findings of Rachel Carlson’s scientifically researched book: Silent Spring. The Scientific Community has carefully avoided studying the ef... ...pensive houses… while the middle-income population shrinks, and 99 cent Stores spring up everywhere. Consumer goods are being polarized into t items...

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..................................................................... 140 THE SPRING RUNNING ............................................................... ...y might hurt the Man-cub. We must wait and see how the mohwa blooms.” That spring the mohwa tree, that Baloo was so fond of, never flowered. The green... ...der the yoke. So low was I brought that I think I should not have dared to spring if he had been loose. Wou!” Mowgli laughed. “Yes, we be great hunter... ... wish so, very greatly,” bleated a young fawn, who had only been born that spring, and did not at all like it. Wretched as the Jungle People were, eve... ...lazy. Each wished to eat where he lay, as sometimes we can do now when the spring rains are good. Tha, the First of the Elephants, was busy making new... ...rhead they could hear furious short yells that were drowned in a roar like breakers—the roar of the wings of the Little People of the Rocks. Some of t...

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...y, a summer’s day; Summer’s indeed a very dangerous season, And so is spring about the end of May; The sun, no doubt, is the prevailing rea... ... Although one must be damn’d for you, no doubt: I make a resolution every spring Of reformation, ere the year run out, But somehow, this my v... ... According to direction, then received A lecture and some money: for four springs He was to travel; and though Inez grieved (As every kind of... ...being well aware That a tight boat will live in a rough sea, Unless with breakers close beneath her lee. The worst of all was, that in their con... ...he frequent fog banks gave them cause to doubt— Some swore that they heard breakers, others guns, And all mistook about the latter once. As morn... ...for land, and thus their course they ran, Though right ahead the roaring breakers lay: A reef between them also now began To show its boilin... ...f your champagne, When o’er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring dew of the spirit! the heart’s rain! Few things surpass old wine... ...e bless’d sherbet, sublimed with snow, Nor the first sparkle of the desert spring, Nor Burgundy in all its sunset glow, After long travel, enn... ... There ‘s not a sea the passenger e’er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. ‘T was a raw day of Autumn’s bleak beginning,...

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...ow rock, ever in fresh procession, and fly clustering among the flowers of spring, and some on this hand and some on that fly thick; even so from ship... ...s, freighted with trouble for Priam and the T rojans; and we round about a spring were offering on the holy altars unblemished hecatombs to the immort... ...e many tribes of thick flies that hover about a herdsman’s steading in the spring season, when milk drencheth the pails, even in like number stood the... ... that lived by the goodly river Kephisos and possessed Lilaia by Kephisos’ springs. And with them followed thirty black ships. So they marshalled the ... ...watersmeet and join their furious flood within the ravine from their great springs, and the shepherd heareth the roaring far off among the hills: even... ...nded over the broad backs of the sea they would run upon the crests of the breakers of the hoary brine. Then Erichthonios begat Tros to be load over t...

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...an inn in the provincial town of N. there drew up a smart britchka—a light spring-carriage of the sort affected by bachelors, retired lieutenant-colon... ...secondary, or even of tertiary, importance. Yet, despite the fact that the springs and the thread of this romance will not de- pend upon them, but onl... ... good and trustful woman, and that she does a great deal for me. The tears spring to my eyes as I think of it. Do not detain me. As an honourable man ... ...instance, look at wheelwright Michiev. Never was there such a one to build spring carts! And his handiwork was not like your Moscow handiwork—good onl... ... shining bevy that was redolent of every species of per- fume—of roses, of spring violets, and of mignonette; so much so that instinctively Chichikov ... ...u, and you, and you, ’ he said, ‘do not even know your duties. You are law-breakers.’ Yes, he trod every man of them under foot. At length the General...

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... with a crusher alongside the head that made everything crack, and seemed to spring every joint in my skull and made it overlap its neighbor. Then th... ...s got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape... ...s have generally been, it was the genuine article. I stood here, at the very spring and source A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark Twa... ... be fore he was born; good land! a man can’t keep his functions regular on spring chickens thirteen hundred years old. But come — never mind about ... ...t the general idea; and enough of it, too, to be ashamed. It was not fair to spring those nineteenth century technicali ties upon the untutored infan... ...hey jailed us together in the general apart ment for brawlers and petty law breakers, as was the cus tom; and what might — Just then my antagonist t...

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...of being loved by a Potentate!’ Here Silas is rather alarmed by Mr Venus’s springing to his feet in the hurry of his spirits, and haggardly confrontin... ...arily objects to the match; but his consent has been dispensed with, and a spring- van is delivering its load of greenhouse plants at the door, in ord... ...ays no jealousy of T wemlow’ s elevation. So, it has come to pass that the spring-van is strewing flow- ers on the rosy hours and on the staircase, an... ...ream through the summer and the Long V acation. It was not summer yet, but spring; and it was not gentle spring ethereally mild, as in Thomson’ s Seas... ...s not gentle spring ethereally mild, as in Thomson’ s Seasons, but nipping spring with an easterly wind, as in Johnson’s, Jackson’s, Dickson’s, Smith’... ...ns?’ Mr Sampson perceiving his frail bark to be labouring among shoals and breakers, thought it safest not to refer back to any particular thing that ...

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... loped after his master. “Base coward! false gentleman!” cried D’Artagnan, spring- ing forward, in his turn, after the servant. But his wound had rend... ...t, M. de Treville was highly aston- ished to see his protege make a sudden spring, become crim- son with passion, and rush from the cabinet crying, “S... ...ound theory, redoubled his agility. Jussac, anxious to put an end to this, springing forward, aimed a terrible thrust at his adver- sary, but the latt... ...hing,” said Bicarat. “As you are my commander, it is my duty to obey.” And springing backward, he broke his sword across his knee to avoid the necessi... ...e time, each having recognized his man. “Ah, this time,” cried D’Artagnan, springing to his sword, “this time he will not escape me!” Drawing his swor... ... friend.” “Ah, good, then,” replied Athos, “we will teach them, these door breakers!” The gentlemen had drawn their swords, but they found themselves ...

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...TER I STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH, TRAVELS AND EXCURSIONS, 1868-1873 Letter: SPRING GROVE SCHOOL 12TH NOVEMBER 1863 MA CHERE MAMAN, – Jai recu votre let... ...k fairly like summer this morning; the trees are black- ening out of their spring greens; the warmer suns have melted the hoarfrost of daisies of the ... ... as from the earth he came.’ There is more latent life, more of the coiled spring in the sleeping dog, about a recumbent figure of Michael Angelo’s th... ...have done, and mercifully forgive you all the evil. And next time when the spring comes round, and everything is beginning once again, if you should h... ...he first time householders in Germany – real Teutons, with no decep- tion, spring, or false bottom. About half-past one there began such a trumpeting,... ...l not 123 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 be for long; I hear the breakers roar; I shall be steering head first for another rapid before many...

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...mmentary upon the propositions just advanced. Residing in Paris during the spring and part of the summer of 18—, I there became acquainted with a Mons... ...aye had some property. Had opened an account with his banking house in the spring of the year—(eight years previously). Made frequent deposits in smal... ... the sash. It resisted all my efforts, as I had anticipated. A con- cealed spring must, I now know, exist; and this corroboration of my idea convinced... ...s at- tending the nails. A careful search soon brought to light the hidden spring. I pressed it, and, satisfied with the discovery, forbore to upraise... ...A per- son passing out through this window might have reclosed it, and the spring would have caught—but the nail could not have been replaced. The con... ...w of the Bristol Channel ; and, in fifteen minutes afterward, the line of breakers on the coast appeared immediately beneath us, and we were fairly o... ...ing dizzily around, was, at first, struck with the idea of our being among breakers; so terrific, beyond the wildest imagination, was the whirlpool of...

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.... He walked with a stiff, brittle dignity, as if his head were on a wooden spring. His nature was cold and shrewd. Generous where he intended to be ge... ...ht o’clock, when the light was put out, and he could watch the fire-flames spring over the darkness of the walls and ceiling; could watch huge shadows... ...e old brick wall 132 Sons & Lovers by the Statutes ground burned scarlet, spring was a very flame of green. And the steep swoop of highroad lay, in i... ...proudly; and inside the warehouse all the morning, the boy had a vision of spring outside. When he came home at dinner-time his mother was rather exci... ...t on their way, crowding to the back of the hills that were rousing in the springtime. The water of Nethermere lay below, very blue against the seared... ...e went up the great sweeping shore of sand towards Theddlethorpe. The long breakers plunged and ran in a hiss of foam along the coast. It was a warm e... ... had gone along and the light had spilled from her pail as she walked. The breakers ran down the shore in long, hoarse strokes. Tiny seagulls, like sp... ... subsided, her shoulders in a pool of liquid silver. He jumped through the breakers, and in a moment her hand was on his shoulder. He was a poor swimm...

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...t night, it was only to imagine myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a spe... ...ards, the company were seized with unspeakable consternation, owing to his springing to his feet, turning round several times in an appalling spasmodi... ...ze and slime and other dregs of tide, what yards of ship-builders and ship-breakers, what rusty anchors blindly biting into the ground though for year... ...along Cheapside and slanted off to Little Brit- ain, while the lights were springing up brilliantly in the shop windows, and the street lamp-lighters,... ... was with- drawing my head to go quietly away, I saw a great flaming light spring up. In the same moment, I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a w... ...time, upon him himself – who would not be intent on the tiger crouching to spring! – that I knew of the slightest action of his fingers. When he had d...

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... grate, and kept her own counsel. “What I want to know,” said George, when Spring was coming, and the gardens needed thought. “is who will ever pay me... ...tting on a log, with my feet in a swamp. But we’ve found out where the old spring is, and we’re going to pipe it down to Gale Anstey next year.” “I’ll... ...le Anstey woods to consider the rebuilding of a footbridge carried away by spring floods. George Lashmar Chapin wanted all the bluebells on God’s eart... ...safe (I was that man, and he sat down before me, his teeth bared, ready to spring), and how he would stop eating at the word of command. I had no more... ...riving down Piccadilly.” He points to the pillars of light where the cloud-breakers bore through the cloud-floor. We see nothing of England’s outlines... ...lessed be Sargent, Ahrens, and the Dubois brothers, who invented the cloud-breakers of the world whereby we travel in security! “Are you going to lift... ... things on the leaves as I hand ‘em!” “I see,” said Jimmy, capering like a springbuck. “Upward and onward, eh? First, he’ll reach out for—how infernal...

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...ant proved entitled to it. The camp was on a high, sandy, pine ridge, with spring branches in the valley, in front and rear. The springs furnished an ... ... in mass. On the 19th General Taylor, with is army, was encamped at Walnut Springs, within three miles of Monterey. The town is on a small stream comi... ... hills of moderate el- evation. T o the north, between the city and Walnut Springs, stretches an extensive plain. On this plain, and entirely out- sid... ...er Generals Butler, T wiggs and Worth. The troops went into camp at Walnut Springs, while the engineer officers, under Major Mansfield—a Gen- eral in ... ...nt ordered to remain in charge of camp and the public prop- erty at Walnut Springs. It was supposed that the regiment would return to its camp in the ... ...rf-boats; General Scott had pro- vided these before leaving the North. The breakers were some- times high, so that the landing was tedious. The men we...

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...into visibility in the mysterious deeps; and Reverence, the divinest in man, springs forth undying from its mean envelopment of Fear. Wouldst thou rat... ...to highest, and oftener to frightfullest results, may there not lie the first spring of tendencies, which in my Life have become remarkable enough? As ... ...lstorms have all alone their work, and to our prayers and martyrdoms the new Spring has been vouchsafed.” That in the environment, here mysteriously e... ... and I as yet knew not the solution of it; knew not that spiritual music can spring only from discords set in harmony; that but for Evil there were no... ...royal champaign, the sovereign and owner of which were Love only. Such music springs from kind hearts, in a kind environment of place and time. And ye... ...ieces the ancient idols; and, though themselves too often reprobate, as idol breakers are wont to be, mark out the sites of new Churches, where the tr...

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...close beside him knelt, Stared on the mournful wonder of his eyes, Even as Spring upon the ancient skies, And pondered on the glory of his days; And a... ...r said If but this wind were in the south.’ ‘You cry aloud, O would ’twere spring Or that the wind would shift a point, And do not know that you would... ... know that you would bring, If time were suppler in the joint, Neither the spring nor the south wind But the hour when you shall pass away And leave n... ... fling Where the proud, wayward squirrel went, Taking delight that he could spring; And he, with that low whinnying sound That is like laughter, sprang... ... grieved May be a quiet thought to wife and mother, And children when they spring up shoulder high. LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION WHEN have I last looked... ...hey can spread out what sail they please for all I have to say, Be but the breakers of men’s hearts or engines of delight: I knew a phoenix in my yout...

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...ich underlays this vast energy and contains the prin- ciples which are its springs of action, reflects to a great extent the mixed character of its au... ...? That which ye sow– Is it ye who cause its upgrowth, or do we cause it to spring forth? If we pleased we could so make your harvest dry and brittle t... ... water which fell in torrents, And we caused the earth to break forth with springs, and their waters met by settled decree. And we bare him on a vesse... ...ight, and hath placed there the sun as a torch; And God hath caused you to spring forth from the earth like a plant; Hereafter will He turn you back i... ...down the rain from Heaven with its blessings, by which we cause gardens to spring forth and the grain of harvest, And the tall palm trees with date-be... ... and twist your head round backward, or curse you as we cursed the sabbath-breakers:14 and the command of God was carried into effect. Verily, God wil...

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...e upon any- one, and it was clear that the kitten had settled down only to spring up with more energy and again play with her cousin as soon as they t... ... trees, came a high, light blue Viennese caleche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn by six horses at a smart trot. Behind the caleche gallope... ...d with long steps. Behind the company the sound of wheels, the creaking of springs, and the tramp of horses’ hoofs were heard. Kutuzov and his suite w... ...and sat plunged in thought. Five minutes later, gently swaying on the soft springs of the carriage, he turned to Prince Andrew. There was not a trace ... ...usly beside the harnessed horses. Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring. Among the limbers lay several dead men. One ball after another pass... ...on- cern him at all. Chichagov, one of the most zealous “cutters-off” and “breakers-up,” who had first wanted to effect a diver- sion in Greece and th...

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... of November, when we were there, being in all the freshness and beauty of spring, appeared covered with trees. These were chiefly aromatic, and the... ...yrtle. The soil is very loose and rich, and wherever it is broken up, there spring up presently radishes, turnips, ground apples, and other garden fr... ...ars as far from the boat as we could, and took hold of the gunwale, ready to spring out and seize her when she struck, the officer using his utmost st... ...ng and bawling, got her well off. We watched them till they were out of the breakers, and saw them steering for their vessel, which was now hidden i... ...e topsails!’’ shouted the captain, as soon as the first man showed himself. Springing into the rigging, I saw that the Ayacucho’s topsails were loos... ...nd the guys; while the topmast stud ding sail boom, after buckling up and springing out again like a piece of whalebone, broke off at the boom iro... ...here, that the whole bay, for a league out, was filled with the foam of the breakers, and seas actually broke over the Dead - 55 - Two Years Before ... ...ed her till towards night, when she snapped her cable and drove up over the breakers, high and dry upon the beach. On board the Pilgrim, everyt... ...cited by the salt sea breeze, and by the continual roar and dashing of the breakers. From the beach we returned to the town, and finding that the fu...

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...A Scottish child hears much of shipwreck, outlying iron skerries, pitiless breakers, and great sea-lights; much of heathery mountains, wild clans, and... ...asant memories; nor yet, for all its smallness, that nameless trickle that springs in the green bosom of Allermuir, and is fed from Halkerside with a ... ..., as to the trunk and aboriginal taproot of the race. A thousand interests spring up in the process of the ages, and a thousand perish; that is now an... ... to the other, where you shall be able to mark, on a clear, surfy day, the breakers running white on many sunken rocks. I first saw it, or first remem... ...e and the iodine, the lap of the billows among the weedy reefs, the sudden spring- ing up of a great run of dashing surf along the sea-front of the is... ...nd then, at a fit junc- ture, the subject, the quarry of two heated minds, spring up like a deer out of the wood. Not that the talker has any of the h... ...ein pleasure lies. The very best talker, with me, is one whom I shall call Spring-Heel’d Jack. I say so, because I never knew any one who mingled so l... ...e book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand colo...