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Two Poets

By: Honoré de Balzac

...had yet been ruminating for a long while over the bargain that he meant to drive with David. All that the father made, the son, of course, was bound t... ...e of the yard by a win- dow with leaded panes, and hung with the old-world tapes- try that decorated house fronts in provincial towns on Cor- pus Chri... ...valances and quilt of crimson serge, a couple of worm-eaten armchairs, two tapestry-covered chairs in walnut wood, an aged bureau, and a timepiece on ... ... another hundred years. So there you are.” A generous man is a bad bargain-driver. David’s nature was of the sensitive and affectionate type that shri... ...ll youthful figure and shapely, well placed contours beneath. With fingers tapering and well-kept, though somewhat too thin, Mme. de Bargeton amiably ... ..., small wonder that society, finding Marius seated among the ruins, should drive him forth in abhor- rence. All unconsciously Lucien stood with the pa... ...nce accused and fairly convicted of a liking for canaille, Louise would be driven from the place, her caste would shun her as men shunned a leper in t... ...omplacent laugh reinforced the smile; but he never vouchsafed a word until driven to the last extremity. A tete-a-tete put him in the one embarrass- m...

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Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

...ng at five years old dissected the Great Bear like a Pro fessor Owen, and driven Charles’s Wain like a locomotive HARD T IMES 10 engine driver. No l... ...cination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way abo... ...ath; and had not the Spartan mothers, oh my soon to be victorious friends, driven their flying children on the points of their enemies’ swords? Then w... ... need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face... ...bility of this country applauding him till they were black in the face, is drivelling at this minute—drivelling, sir!—in a fifth floor, up a narrow da... ..., and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil. So James Hartho...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...eping slowly towards the interior; so did 7 Little Dorrit their recumbent drivers, when they were awake, which rarely happened; so did the exhausted ... ...ed their button-holes, leaked out of their figures in dirty little ends of tape, and issued from their mouths in alcoholic breathings. As these people... ...wound folds of white cravat round his neck, as he wound and wound folds of tape and paper round the neck of the country. His wristbands and col- lar w... ...ttle Dorrit on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on. Another... ... his love had fretted and worrited him enough as it was, without his being driven to do himself a mischief, as nobody couldn’t say he wouldn’t be if h... ...at, let ME go. I shall go out of my senses, if I have to think that I have driven you away like this.’ His trembling voice and unfeigned earnestness b... ..., or let me come to you. ‘ ‘Well!’ he replied. ‘I will come to-morrow as I drive by.’ Bar and Bishop had both been bystanders during this short dialog... ... of a mile to spare for the park (Immense cheering and laughter); while of tape—red tape—it had used enough to stretch, in graceful festoons, from Hyd...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ld with the odd- wares man, and only went to the crockery man when she was driven—or drawn by the cornflowers on a little dish; then she was coldly po... ... along happily enough. The factory had a homely feel. No one was rushed or driven. Paul always enjoyed it when the work got faster, towards post-time,... ...nst the seared meadows and the thorn- trees. It was four and a half miles’ drive. Tiny buds on the hedges, vivid as copper-green, were opening into ro... ...t behind the rest, convulsed with shamed laughter. “How much will it be to drive to Brook Cottage?” said Mrs. Morel. “Two shillings.” “Why, how far is... ...in fear. And he knew, before he could kiss 222 Sons & Lovers her, he must drive something out of himself. And a touch of hate for her crept back agai... ...at her again, in fear, and went obedi- ently out of the room. Paul saw the tape of his garters 419 D.H. Lawrence swinging against his legs. After ano...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...grant him.” “O my Friends, we are [in Yorick Sterne’s words] but as ‘turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to the market:’ or if some drivers, a... ...knows not whether to hate or to love him. For though, in looking at the fair tapestry of human Life, with its royal and even sacred figures, he dwells ... ...day. Had Teufelsdr¨ ockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel bibs, and live on spoon meat? Did he ever, in rapture and tears, ... ...as a Mrs. Teufelsdr¨ ockh likely to make in polished society? Could she have driven so much as a brass bound Gig, or even a simple iron spring one? Th... ...othing there but brick or stone houses, and some bundles of Papers tied with tape. Where, then, is that same cunningly devised almighty GOVERNMENT of ... ...longer dwells; but only spiders and unclean beetles, in horrid accumulation, drive their trade; and the mask still glares on you with its glass eyes, ... ...ich:— “In these distracted times,” writes he, “when the Religious Principle, driven out of most Churches, either lies unseen in the hearts of good men...

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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

... of Boston Center instructed his quality assurance specialist to “pull the tape” of the radio transmission, listen to it closely, and report back. 110... ...l there? New England Region:Y es, I am. Boston Center: . . . as far as the tape, Bobby seemed to think the guy said that “we have planes.” Now, I don’... ...f the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA cente... ...1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document c... ...e accounts, he had been interested there in religious studies, inspired by tape recordings of fiery sermons by Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian and a dis... ...peals for jihad.At about the time when the Taliban were making their final drive toward Jalalabad and Kabul, Bin Ladin issued his August 1996 fatwa, s... ...ricans from the Gulf region.T wo weeks after that, Bin Ladin gave a video- taped interview to ABC News with the same slogans, adding that “we do not d... ...iorities and assign personnel accordingly. 11 The office’s priorities were driven by two primary concerns. First, perform- ance in the Bureau was gene... ...ment ranks had little counterterrorism experience. Second, priorities were driven at the local level by the field offices, whose concerns centered on ...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...ot an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool. When my great great gr... ...ed up the joint stool upon his knees, turning over the leaves then under the tapes. One of the children stood at the door to give notice if he saw the... ...z.: I. That there shall be paid for each waggon, with four good horses and a driver, fifteen shillings per diem; and for each able horse with a pack s... ...ime of their discharge, or from time to time, as it shall be demanded. 5. No drivers of waggons, or persons taking care of the hired horses, are on an... ...wanted, and compel as many persons into the service as would be necessary to drive and take The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 127 care of them. ... ... spare from the business of their plantations a waggon and four horses and a driver, may do it together, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two... ...ether, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two horses, and another the driver, and divide the pay propor tionately between you; but if you do n...

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