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Bunner Sisters

By: Edith Wharton

...iety applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Acad- emy o... ...nt tinge of pink still lingered on her cheek-bones, like the reflection of sunset which sometimes colours the west long after the day is over. When sh... ...oking at Mr. Ramy, and not at the flowers. “I guess we might go to Cendral Park some Sunday,” their visitor suggested. “Do you ever go there, Miss Eve... ...Ann Eliza, warn’t it heavenly?” VI FOR FOUR DAYS after their Sunday in the Park the Bunner sis- ters had no news of Mr. Ramy. At first neither one bet... ... was still oppressed by the recollection of her interminable Sunday in the Park; but, obedient to Evelina’s imperious glance, she finally faltered out... ...gain on the ferry-boat. W ater and sky were grey, with a dividing gleam of sunset that sent sleek opal waves in the boat’s wake. The wind had a cool t... ...t you? Miss Mellins sent it down to me this morning. She had her aunt from Brooklyn to dinner. Ain’t it funny it just so happened?” “I ain’t hungry,” ...

...en New York?s traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter bordering on Stu...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...ildings, and dropped to within shouting distance of the crowds in West End Park and on the slope of Gilmorehill. The thing flew quite steadily at a pa... ...ce grounds, that classic starting-point of aero- nautical adventure, about sunset, re-entered his shed with- out disaster, and had the doors locked im... ... and seen the fly-like mechanism, its rotating planes a golden haze in the sunset, sink humming to the harbour of its shed again, they turned back tow... ...ide its wireless telegraph steeple; here and there were large chateaux and parks and white roads, and paths lined with red and, white cable posts were... ...fting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop s... ...visible again. The air-fleet dropped slowly to the middle air, and towards sunset they had a glimpse of the disabled Barbarossa far away to the east. ... ...the great business buildings of Wall Street and Lower Broadway, one to the Brooklyn Bridge, dropping from among their fellows through the danger zone ... ...the expectant hush came a great crash and uproar, the breaking down of the Brooklyn Bridge, the rifle fire from the Navy Yard, and the bursting of bom... ... dead and wounded who had been killed early in the night by the panic upon Brooklyn Bridge. All this he saw in the perspectives of a bird’s-eye view, ...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...se in a small parched lawn. 32 Main Street IV A concrete sidewalk with a “parking” of grass and mud. A square smug brown house, rather damp. A narrow... ...ould not hold. At best the trees resembled a thinned woodlot. There was no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the cou... ...per air, skimming the lake, instantly vanishing. They drove home under the sunset. Mounds of straw, and wheat-stacks like bee-hives, stood out in star... ...rove into the country with Kennicott, to hunt ducks in lakes enameled with sunset, or to call on patients who looked up to her as the squire’s lady an... ...nhappiness by a correspondence course, to buy the lilies of Avalon and the sunsets of Cockaigne in tin cans at Ole Jenson’s Grocery. But the fact is t... ...Street was a black swamp from curb to curb; on residence streets the grass parking beside the walks oozed gray water. It was prickly hot, yet the town... ...o say `dandy’ and `bum,’ would he develop? “I wonder if Whitman didn’t use Brooklyn back-street slang, as a boy? “No. Not Whitman. He’s Keats—sensitiv...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...ipts, as well as those in the manuscripts belonging to Mr. Frederickson of Brooklyn, are fully recorded. Professor Woodberry’s text is conservative on... ...OF SOLITUDE. IRIT OF SOLITUDE. Composed at Bishopsgate Heath, near Windsor Park, 1815 (au- tumn); published, as the title-piece of a slender volume co... ... dewy morn, and odorous noon, and even, _5 With sunset and its gorgeous ministers, And solemn midnight’s tingling silentnes... ...yes, the Poet sate, Holding the steady helm. Evening came on, The beams of sunset hung their rainbow hues High ‘mid the shifting domes of sheeted spra... ...sed on his return. He spent his days under the oak-shades of Windsor Great Park; and the magnificent woodland was a fitting study to inspire the vario... ... _255 Of waves like mountains o’er the sinking sphere 71 Shelley Of sunset sweep, and their fierce roar to hear Amid the calm: down the steep p... ...e. With all this wealth of Nature which, either in the form of gentlemen’s parks or soil dedicated to agriculture, flourishes around, Marlow was inhab...

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The American

By: Henry James

... wanted to get out of was Wall Street. I told the man to drive down to the Brooklyn ferry and to cross over. When we were over, I told him to drive me... ...at a paradise she finds it. She walks about in it as if it were a blooming park, a Garden of Eden; and when she sees ‘This is genteel, ’ or ‘This is i... ...just beyond there,” said the landlord, and pointed to the tree-tops of the park, above the opposite houses. Newman followed the first cross-road to th... ...eat gate, they passed round by a winding lane to a door in the wall of the park, of which she had the key, and which would enable her to enter the cha... ...gs, thrust his hands into his pockets, and, while he watched the reflected sunset fading from the or- nate house-tops on the opposite side of the Boul...

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Summer

By: Edith Wharton

...t threw a cool shadow over fields and woods; 25 Edith Wharton then before sunset the clouds dissolved again, and the western light rained its unobstr... ...he nearer hills, the Mountain thrust itself up menacingly against a yellow sunset. “I must go up there some day: I want to see it,” he contin- ued. He... ...her Bible, steadying it in front with a white stone on which a view of the Brooklyn Bridge was painted; and she sat before her reflection, bending the... ... they saw the double line of flags and lanterns tapering away gaily to the park at the other end of the perspective. The noise and colour of this holi... ...at faced her she saw the Mountain thrusting its dark mass against a sultry sunset. It was time to go. She stood up, and he sprang to his feet also, an... ...he long lines of wires on lofty poles tapering down the main street to the park at its other end. Taking the way the wires pointed, she went on hastil...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...over the neighboring potagers, talks a good deal about the gardens and the park. The place looks mean and flat; and as you drive away you scarcely kno... ...n exiled pretender. I drove along a straight avenue, through a disfeatured park,—the park of Chambord has twenty- one miles of circumference,—a very s... ... windows, you look over the wide, flat country and the tangled, melancholy park, with the rotation of its straight avenues. Then you walk about the ro... ...al waters bottled. All this while the afternoon had grown more lovely; the sunset had deepened, the horizon of hills grown purple; the mass of the Can... ...pick-and-span church, which had the oddest air of having been intended for Brooklyn or Cleveland. It is true that this church looked out on a square c...

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House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

...s leading by degrees of lessening formality to the free undulations of the park. Her maid had kindled a little fire on the hearth, and it contended ch... ...ous pity for the people who were not able to live as they lived. The early sunset was slanting across the park. Through the boughs of the long avenue ... ...e not able to live as they lived. The early sunset was slanting across the park. Through the boughs of the long avenue beyond the gardens she caught t... ... parental duty was forgotten till the church bells were ringing across the park, and the omnibus had driven away empty. Lily had hinted to Mr. Gryce t... ...ess of a child. Trenor and Miss Bart prolonged their drive till long after sunset; and before it was over he had tried, with some show of success, to ... ...e provocation of her frankly- painted smile. A brilliant Miss Smedden from Brooklyn showed to perfection the sumptuous curves of Titian’s Daughter, li... ...he key to the secret, and the hillsides of Bellomont were lit up, not with sunset, but with dawn. It was he who had wa- vered and disowned the face of...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...bany Classical School for some months. Dr. Charles E. West, the well-known Brooklyn edu- cator, was then in charge of the school, and remembers the la... ... be seen almost daily tramping through the Fort George district or Central Park, his roving inclination leading him to obtain as much out- door life a... ...rage we desired to reach. We had perceived the loom of the mountains about sunset; so that after running all night with a very light breeze, we found ... ...close about the French encamp- ment,—and are back to the ship again before sunset. Keep that much in your mind, if you forget all the rest I’ve been s... ... turned our faces to the sea, we found ourselves, about three hours before sunset, standing on the top of what seemed to be the highest land on the is...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

..., that evening, to see the dog and cat show. She was then, Ted planned, to park the car in front of the candy-store across from the Armory and he woul... ... sanctity. This morning he was in front of his house, inspecting the grass parking between the curb and the broad cement sidewalk. Babbitt stopped his... ...ctacles, smoking a large cigar, driving a good motor along a semi-suburban parkway. But in him was some genius of authentic love for his neighborhood,... ..., now approaching McKelvey with “Hear, you’re going to build some piers in Brooklyn,” now noting how enviously the failures of the class, sitting by t... ...abin, fragrant with planks of new-cut pine, nor along the lake, nor in the sunset clouds which presently eddied behind the lavender-misted moun- tains...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

................155 BOOK VIII......................................167 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry....................167 BOOK IX............................... ...........501 Thoughts.............................................503 Song at Sunset..................................505 As at Thy Portals Also Death.... ...............538 Stronger Lessons...............................539 A Prairie Sunset................................539 Twenty Years...................... ... place a commander, swift, brave, immortal, And with him horse and foot, and parks of artillery, And artillery men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.... ... breath’d earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset—earth of the mountains misty topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of t... ...Others will see the shipping of Manhattan north and west, and the heights of Brooklyn to the south and east, Others will see the islands large and sma... ...it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and place avails not, I too lived, Brooklyn of ample hills was mine, I too walk’d the streets of Manhattan i... ...tman 307 THE C ENTENARIAN’S S TORY (Volunteer of 1861 2, at Washington Park, Brooklyn, assisting the Centenarian.) Give me your hand old Revolut...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ble street,—Beacon Street, very like Piccadilly as it runs along the Green Park,—and there is the Green Park opposite to this Piccadilly, called Bosto... ...e to lie at ease in their carriages, as thoroughly as do our women in Hyde Park; and to those who are used to such luxury, traveling by railroad in th... ... wood-work over the water. If he will then seat himself, about the hour of sunset, he will see the Chaudiere Fall aright. But the glory of Ottawa will... ...he degree of beauty. The 159 Trollope hour before and the half hour after sunset are always the loveliest for such scenes. But of the shores themselv... ...the City of New York itself. To this num- ber must be added the numbers of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, 214 North America V ol. 1 and Jersey City, in orde... ... to that of the Fifth Avenue. The Fifth Avenue is the Belgrave Square, the Park Lane, and the Pall Mall of New York. It is certainly a very 238 North... ...re on the other side of the Hudson, and in another State. Williamsburg and Brooklyn are on Long Is- land, which is a part of the State of New York. Bu... ...ch payment, no doubt, is a stoppage; and therefore it is that Jersey City, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg are, at any rate in appearance, very dull and un...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...ns of fours and halted with their packs on. The day was getting amber with sunset. Retreat sounded. Fuselli’s mind had suddenly become very active. Th... ...nd he thought of the hilly streets of San Fran- cisco, and the glow of the sunset over the harbor and ships 31 John Dos Passos coming in through the ... ... take the side-door Pullmans we’re go- ing to get aboard tonight than the ‘Sunset Limited,’ he’s wel- come. I’ve seen ‘em. You fellers haven’t.” Every... ...ly, looking into shop windows, staring at women, lolling on benches in the parks where the faint sunlight came through a lacework of twigs purple and ... ...ere wouldn’t be any sky-scrapers … .” “How about the Flatiron Building and Brooklyn Bridge? They were built before the Eiffel T ower, weren’t they?” i... ...urant that has a proper devotion to the belly. O, I know, we’ll go over to Brooklyn.” “Where?” “T o the Rive Gauche. I know a man who insists on calli... ...yn.” “Where?” “T o the Rive Gauche. I know a man who insists on calling it Brooklyn. Awfully funny man … never been sober in his life. You must meet h... ...ve the clas- sic balustrade with its big urns on the edge of the roof. The park, through the tall iron railings, was full of russet and pale lines, al... ...be- low, there could be no individuals. He went through the gates into the park, laid out with a few flower beds where pansies bloomed; through the da...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...information. After the Pentagon was struck, Secretary Rumsfeld went to the parking lot to assist with rescue efforts. 193 Inside the NMCC, the deputy ... ... in the NMCC when the shootdown order was first conveyed. He went from the parking lot to his office (where he spoke to the President), then to the Ex... ... numerous branch offices, the largest of which was in the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn. In the mid- 1980s, it had been set up as one of the first outpost... ...tes and had been recruited for the Afghan war through the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn. He had joined al Qaeda and taken the oath of fealty to Bin Ladin,... ...had pro- vided guidance and training to extremists at the Farouq mosque in Brooklyn, including some who were subsequently convicted in the February 19... ...the U.S. embassy in Nairobi was an easy target because a car bomb could be parked close by , they began to form a plan. Al Qaeda had begun developing ... ...ment. Some of the most controversial provisions of the Patriot Act are to “sunset” at the end of 2005. Many of the act’s provisions are rela- tively n...

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