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...iousness. His hand reached out and plucked strands of her hair like they were harp strings. “Let’s have dinner.” “When?” she asked, too eager... ... slicked back, and wearing the thin-lapelled coat that came almost to his knees. A string tie wound beneath the oversized collar of his white shirt... ... Not understanding Bobby’s intentions, her hands in her lap became rigid striking instruments. But he had a startling personality change. T... ... come to black tie.” He still had on the thin-lapelled coat, white shirt and black string tie she’d seen him wearing when he’d released her from Hi... ...s amazed that she could swallow the remaining bites with her throat as tight as bow strings. Quin came in with two plates of rib roast surrounded b... ...The Roston Tab had printed an ‘Extra’. It likely kept Tommy Gene Sweet up all night stringing purple prose. The front-page headline blazed HANNAH ...

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...ish and MightyWords (partly owned by Barnes and Noble) were the last in a string of resounding failures which cast in doubt the business model under... ... original and when - plagiarized?". Should the test for plagiarism be more stringent than the one applied by the Copyright Office? And what rights ar... ...y) it demands "privatization" of the medium. This harps on very sensitive strings in every Western soul: the efficient allocation of resources which... ... domain. Q. PG has a mirror site in Australia where copyright law is less stringent. A. Actually, they are a totally separate organization, using... ...solicited Commercial E-mail. But Congress is curiously reluctant to enact stringent laws against spam. Reasons cited are free speech, limits on stat... ...rman who denied the presence of a storm he saw out his window because his instruments indicated clear skies with a light breeze. The impact of t... ... will interact through the Intranet. They will swap notes, play their own instruments, make comments by e-mail, play together using an appropriate s... ... The problems inherent in legislating in the financial realm with its new instruments and techniques which include financial computing, special cont... ...gerprinting, phone tapping, electronic surveillance, satellites - are all instruments of more effective law enforcement. In a broader sense, ALL tec...

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... behalf of Lizzie Hexam.’ Miss Potterson was stooping to loosen the bonnet-strings of the dolls’ dressmaker. She looked round rather angrily , and sai... ...k- ing-brush on the family’s boots, instead of performing on enormous wind instruments and double-basses, and that he conducted himself with cheerful ... ...or Bella to have Pa’ s escort back. The dimples duly tied up in the bonnet-strings and the leave-taking done, they got out into the air, and the cheru... ...ould be argueyfied,’ said the Deputy Lock, cunningly harping on the strong string of her terror; ‘he ought to have handed her over safe to the Parish....

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... saxhorn, and the like. If the Germans cannot draw harmony from the mighty instruments of Liberty, yet to play all instruments of music comes to them ... ...state of health. It was a first performance of a piece in which Schmucke’s instruments were all required. “The old gentleman is failing,” said the flu... ...he will lead you; she will torment you, you will be like a cockchafer on a string. The doctor will say that you must have plenty to drink, and she wil... ...r, allowed it to steep there while he talked, and drew it out again by the string when he went away. The trace of tarnished copper, commonly called ve... ...ner symphonies, of that heavenly music for which Saint Cecile let fall her instruments, he was at once Beethoven and Paganini, creator and interpreter...

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...g that in fu- ture national emergencies He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security. NOTE. We are indebted for a copy of thi... ... legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinar... ...No such man could be elected from any district in a slave State. You think Stringfellow and company ought to be hung; and yet at the next Presidential... ...esidential election you will vote for the exact type and representative of Stringfellow. The slave-breed- ers and slave-traders are a small, odious, a... ...ay the birthday promise of liberty by proclaiming the Declaration to be “a string of glittering generalities”; and the Southern Whigs, working hand in... ... and, under the Constitution, a just one. Twenty- five years later, a more stringent law was proposed and defeated; and thirty-five years after that, ... ... at least a foot lower than our time. Brayton and his assistants timed the instruments, the best instruments 244 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V o...

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...erson had considerable doubt whether Evans’s device, essentially a revolving string of buckets used to move grain, actually counted as “an invention.”... ...grain, actually counted as “an invention.” “The question then whether such a string of buckets was invented first by Oliver Evans, is a mere question o... ...rom his library example after example of references to the “Persian wheel”—a string of buckets to move water. The display of scholar- ship is effortle... ... copyrighted content. Unlike earlier expansions—longer copyright terms, more stringent penalties, the shrinking of exceptions and limitations, expansi... ...ne “testifying” to their faith. From rhythm and blues it takes the choice of instruments, some of the upbeat tempo, and the distinctly worldly and sec... ...he basic chord structure of the twelve-bar blues or the habit of introducing instruments one at a time, from quietest to loudest. There are only so ma... ...arly off limits. Though they come to a conclusion that, if anything, is more stringent than Judge Duffy’s, they do so very differently. In their words... ...s do. Or we can correct for them, like a pilot who is trained to rely on his instruments rather than his faulty perceptions when flying in heavy cloud.... ... to help us counteract that bias. Like the pilot in the cloud looking at his instruments, we might learn that we are upside down. But what do we do ab...

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...multiyear ocean-drilling project that is attempting to sample, and place instruments on the faults that cause violent, large-scale earthquakes. No... ...hiko. Hula kahiko is danced to chant and accompanied only by traditional instruments such as ipu (gourds), pahu (drums) and ‘ili‘ili (water-smooth... ... or modern hula, danced to tuneful songs with lively lyrics. More modern instruments accompany them, including the guitar, played in kī hō‘alu, or... ...s “leaping fea,” which may refer to the lively movement of fngers on the strings. Throughout the world, Honolulu- based Kamaka Hawai‘i Inc., is kno... ...916, the Kamaka family has been fashioning and manufacturing the musical instruments out of Hawaiian koa, an acacia wood with fne grain highlights... ...- generation artisans continue the legacy, making several models of four-string, six-string and even eight- string ‘ukulules in a small, family- own... ...lulu. Among the specialists are hearing-impaired employees who tune the instruments by “listening” to vibrations. 89 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINES... ...g fea,” which prob- ably refers to the musician's fngers fying along the strings. Above, a concert ‘ukulele made by the world- famous Kamaka Hawai‘...

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...ons of refined taste, many books, drawings, pots of flow- ers, and musical instruments. A cheerful fire blazed upon the hearth. At a piano, singing an... ... intoxicated to do duty, now sprang all at once to their feet and to their instruments, and, scrambling upon their table, broke out, with one accord, ... ... upon fainting outright. Upon second thought, however, she opens her purse-strings and delivers the specie. Now this, I say, is a diddle minute—for on... ... had no room, of course, for any thing except a few posi- tively necessary instruments, some provisions, and the clothes upon our backs. No one had th... ... word, he was short of breath. He thought it extravagant to play upon wind instruments. He was the inventor of self-mov- ing fans, wind-sails, and ven...

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...s of the twentieth century must work together in new ways, so that all the instruments of national power can be combined. Congress needs dramatic chan... ... directive as the embodiment of a comprehensive new strategy employing all instruments of national power to eliminate the al Qaeda threat. Clarke, how... ...g their training flights. In early October, they took the Stage I exam for instruments rating at Jones Aviation and failed. V ery upset, they said the... ...opriation for their activities, and therefore does not control their purse strings. He has little insight into how they spend their resources. Congres... ...rterrorism agenda might respond by being less inclined to loosen the purse strings than they would have been if offered a convincing countert- erroris... ...cal for any agency head or chief executive officer: (1) control over purse strings, (2) the ability to hire or fire senior managers, and (3) the abili... ...s on:“It includes gaps in intelligence, but also intelligence that, like a string of pearls too precious to wear, is too sensitive to give to those wh...

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...mself unable to invent any new form of poetry; his lyre did not have seven strings, it had one; and having played on that one string so long, the publ... ...s a phoenix. And why should I go in search of compliments only to pull the string of a shower-bath of horrid looks from some disillu- sioned female?” ... ...ng gaiety perhaps, an utter malignity, or an almost sublime goodness. Like instruments which the hand of art can never fully waken, these beings, high... ...ous phrases, the tin- sel of his promises; he chanted his love on the best strings of his lyre, I know he did. If, as soon as this noble lover finds o... ...analis,—a 191 Balzac man who thinks of himself only, whose ‘I’ is the one string to his lute, whose mind is so fixed on himself that he has hitherto ... ...reat man; he had not only torn off his mask, but he had made him untie the strings himself; and he laughed like an author over his own play,—that is t...

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...sing hymn tunes, or the British national song for the time being, to these instruments, but latterly she has been silent and even careful over her wor... ...to him quite friendly when they ain’t busy, about using up all the ends of string, and about his soul. He takes a lot of notice, do Mr. Maynard, 12 T... ...shing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string, perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of... ... and then let it go at him. The first time I missed, but the next time the string caught his legs beautifully, and wrapped round them again and again.... ...ressed only in a coarse flannel nightdress, that fell apart and showed the stringy neck, seen now as my own body, I cannot describe its desolate decre... ...ly that nothing supernatural could happen, and to pass the time I began to string some rhymes together, Ingoldsby fashion, of the original legend of t... ...ut the room were traces of numerous students: hand-bags, polished boxes of instruments, in one place a large drawing covered by newspaper, and in anot... ...oise of keys rattling on split rings as lockers were opened and dissecting instruments taken out. Hill was already standing by his table, and his box ...

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...winds and waves, so he still declared, when the decree was brought and the instruments of death made ready. The hour had come, and a few moments more ... ...ions, during which the Major could hardly control his fingers to touch the strings, Ivan succeeded in laying his hands upon it, just when the old man ... ...Lady More having been persuaded in her old age to learn to play on various instruments, including the flute. The daughters were early given in marriag... ... from the three Russian chapel-tents. The archers held their arrows on the string, the gunners stood with lighted matches. The copper- clad domes of t... ...eir young men were to be carried way from them, and made the defenders and instruments of those who were murdering their King, overthrowing their Chur...

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...se two, therefore, a league was struck, and those hands which had been the instruments of war became now the mediators of peace. Matters were thus r... ...o say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading strings. “At last, my lover (for so he was) thought proper, in a most sol... ... hallowing, together with a strange noise that seemed to proceed from some instruments; but could hardly be allowed the name of musci! indeed, to favo... ...s embar rassed how to defend himself, than if she had touched that tender string at which his conscience had been alarmed. By some examination he pre... ... Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream; The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a ... ... catcall to the best advantage; by which means, I have known those musical instruments so well prepared, that they have been able to play in full conc...

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... urge, that it is a secret over ruling Decree that hurries us on to be the Instruments of our own Destruction, even tho’ it be before us, and that we ... ... Cape deVerd Islands also, lay not far off from the Coast. But as I had no Instruments to take an Observation to know what Latitude we were in, and di... ...r’s, and Carpenter’s keeping, three or four Com passes, some Mathematical Instruments, Dials, Perspectives, Charts, and Books of Navigation, all whic... ...oung Goat, and lam’d another so as that I catch’d it, and led it Home in a String; when I had it Home, I bound and splinter’d up its Leg which was bro... ...dge upon the Life and Death of a Man. At length I contriv’d a Wheel with a String, to turn it with my Foot, that I might have both my Hands at Liberty... ...t should be all spent. I made a Collar to this little Creature, and with a String which I made of some Rope Yarn, which I always carry’d about me, I l... ...hen I went to the three Kids, and taking them one by one, I tyed them with Strings together, and with some Difficulty brought them all home. It was a g... ...oasting a Piece of the Kid; this I did by hanging it before the Fire, in a String, as I had seen many People do in England, setting two Poles up, one ...

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...once more. ’Tis for the last time (probably) these fingers shall sweep the strings. E. L. B. L. NOONDAY IN CHEPE ’TWA S NOONDA Y IN CHEPE. High Tide i... ... delicious romance by Sloman, or a melody by Weber, that, thrilling on the strings of the instru- ment, wakened a harmony on the fibres of the heart; ... ...stoughd bird in a shooting gallery, which a chap histed up and down with a string. I sugseaded in itting the hannimle pretty well. I bought A wker’s ‘... ...ephants set up a scream, the trumpeters and drummers clanged away at their instruments. I never heard such a din before or after. How I trembled for m... ...here, where I had left ingots, sacks of bright tomauns, kopeks and rupees, strings of diamonds as big as ducks’ eggs, rubies as red as the lips of my ... ... as big as ducks’ eggs, rubies as red as the lips of my Belinda, countless strings of pearls, amethysts, emeralds, piles upon piles of bank-notes—I fo... ...lags were flying, the drums, gongs, tambourines, vio- loncellos, and other instruments of Eastern music, raised in the air a strange, barbaric melody;... ...s were placed. Two or three executioners stood near, with strange- looking instruments: others were blowing at a fire, over which was a caldron, and i... ...e, over which was a caldron, and in the embers were stuck other prongs and instruments of iron. The crier came forward and read my sentence. It was th...

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...e. The operating chair is under your nose, facing you, with the cabinet of instruments handy to it on your left. You observe that the professional fur... ... eign accent.) THE DENTIST (putting it down on the ledge of his cabinet of instruments). That was my first tooth. THE YOUNG LADY (aghast). Your first!... ...this fashion: he chuckles secretly as he proceeds to clean and replace his instruments. She shakes her dress into order; looks inquisitively about her... ... his landlord. Mr. Fergus Crampton is a man of about sixty, tall, hard and stringy, with an atro- ciously obstinate, ill tempered, grasping mouth, and... ... lighted; but the curtains are not drawn. The window stands wide open; and strings of Chinese lanterns are glowing among the trees outside, with the s...

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...d him to just conclusions; but to calculate the necessary formulae for the instruments he had conceived was often beyond him, and he must fall back on... ...ot only brings in money, it infallibly spreads reputation; and my father’s instruments enter anonymously into a hundred light-rooms, and are passed an... ...The Floating Beacon – why was that denied me? or The Wreck Ashore? Sixteen-String Jack whom I did not even guess to be a highwayman, troubled me awake... ...ght pump of T . P . Cooke. Skelt, to be sure, had yet another, an oriental string: he held the gorgeous east in fee; and in the new quarter of Hyeres,... ...anda I perceive a pair of my ancient aspirations: Wreck Ashore and Sixteen-String Jack; and I cherish the belief that when these shall see once more t... ...hall utter its genuine voice; in the second, according circumstances, like instruments in tune, shall build up a trivial but desirable incident, such ...

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...so old a hawk; nay, he could turn a letter for some unlucky swain, or even string a few lines of verse that should clinch the business and fetch the h... ...leuse, ed. Pantheon, p. 237. 124 Robert Louis Stevenson society. He could string off verses, which is always an agree- able talent; and he could make... ...ear from Monstrelet that Charles was a very well educated person. He could string Latin texts together by the hour, and make ballades and rondels bett... ...who sang the destruction of the T urks; or again Jehan Rognelet, player of instruments of music, who played and danced with his wife and two children;... ...e music to the country girls. But he himself, though he could play so many instruments and pass judgment in so many fields of art, remained an amateur...