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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...dimension, they became what Science calls the waves and troughs, or peaks and valleys of radiating 3-dimensional energy. The small blip in the ... ... if a razor had cut the living belly of the Earth underneath it; and the Rift Valley opened up like a gaping bleeding wound. We are children of that... ...ut at the end of ate. The end of eating becomes ate. Ate is hate. The Rift valley is only 5 million years old, but the slit happened from the ins... ...f the tons and reams of beneficial knowledge, all of the pertinent facts and reservoirs of experience and wisdom and expertise is corrupted by most ... ... be skating around the rink… glaring furiously at each other. While the real thief is busy glaring just as indignantly at all of the other glarers.... ...hey become an unquestioned condition of civilized existence. Today, if a thief robs a liquor store of 100 dollars, he can be put into prison for... ... the entire legal system were simplified and made more effective… Then… if a thief robs a liquor store of 100 dollars, he can be put into prison no... ...ify and explain a mechanical model of existence. A dipping into the infinite reservoir of knowledge, which is part-of the infinite Universe... and ... ...ing leaks into the groundwater, into the aquifers, into our rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Never mind the residues found in our food. Take the natu...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...te -- His offer to become a vassal to Charles V -- Cities of the great Mexican Valley -- A scene of bewildering splendor -- How Cortez was received by... ...? And may we not also infer from the united evidences of lofty mountains, deep valleys, high tablelands, islands of the deep, active volcanoes and all... ...rous youths of his country. Marco relates that this sovereign had "in a lovely valley, betwixt two mountains which were very high and inaccessible, ca... ...ter place was near the city of Mexico, and was remarkable for a gigantic stone reservoir which had been built of such ample dimensions that it held su... ... most desperate. They broke out into imprecations against de Pointis; he was a thief, he was no better than a common swindler. The filibusters had bor... ...recover it; but this was by no means an easy matter for they had to pursue the thief for a distance of seven miles into the interior before they came ... ...AN ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED BY THE NATIVES. While the two went in pursuit of the thief, there was much restlessness exhibited by the Islanders about the...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer, a thief, or an invader: after all, they are both growths, clusters... ...ragment into urban islands: gated communities, slums, strips, technology parks and "valleys", belts, and so on. The various parts will maintain a te... ...tive Digital Reference Service). E. Derivative Content The Internet is an enormous reservoir of archives of freely accessible, or even public domai... ...settlement Tel-Hai ("Mount of Life"), Israel's Alamo. There, among the picturesque valleys of the Galilee, a one-armed hero named Joseph Trumpeldor...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer, a thief, or an invader: after all, they are both growths, clusters... ...ragment into urban islands: gated communities, slums, strips, technology parks and "valleys", belts, and so on. The various parts will maintain a te... ...tive Digital Reference Service). E. Derivative Content The Internet is an enormous reservoir of archives of freely accessible, or even public domai... ...settlement Tel-Hai ("Mount of Life"), Israel's Alamo. There, among the picturesque valleys of the Galilee, a one-armed hero named Joseph Trumpeldor...

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The Lily of the Valley

By: Honoré de Balzac

...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsyl... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedic... ...Ah, madame,” cried Mademoiselle Caroline, “he has opened the faucet of the reservoir; the gar- den is inundated!” Then there was a general excitement.... ... wrong is honestly and fairly theirs. Once admit that claim and the clever thief goes free; the woman who violates her mar- riage vow without the know...

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The Country Doctor

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a valley of some consid- erable length. The melting of the snows had filled t... ...he boul- der-strewn bed of the torrent (often dry) that flows through this valley, which is closely shut in between two parallel mountain barriers, ab... ...ffects of light which might be sought for elsewhere in vain. Sometimes the valley, suddenly widening, spreads out a soft irregularly-shaped car- pet o... ...here is nothing to be afraid of; tell me that I am a scamp, a scoundrel, a thief outright. You can say things like that in business without insulting ... ...ts, if I am not mistaken. The mountain streams flow into a sort of natural reservoir or tarn up here; the earth they bring down has silted it up, and ... ...oes not esti- mate theft by the value of the thing stolen, He looks at the thief. That has been the gist of the parables which I have tried to adapt t...

... road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a valley of some considerable length. The melting of the snows had filled the boulder- strewn bed of the torrent (often dry) that flows through this valley, which is closely shut in between two parallel mountain barriers, above...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...sin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The vall... ...ns of Western Europe are rudely shocked when we con sider the extent of the valley of the Mississippi; nor are those formed from the sterile basins o... ...nder every part of the Mississippi Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 3 Valley capable of supporting a dense population. As a dwell ing place ... ...ot mad and jumped up and begun to cuss the crowd, and said he could lame any thief in the lot. They was all about to make a break for him, but the big... ... They looked me over, wondering, and the Child of Calam ity says— “A cussed thief! Lend a hand and less heave him over board!” “No,” says Big Bob, “... ...s off into Lake Borgne, etc. 5. Some believed in the scheme of northern lake reservoirs to replenish the Mississippi in low water seasons. Life on the... ...t preface it with some explanations, however. The letter is written by an ex thief and ex vagabond of the lowest origin and basest rearing, a man all ...

... in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its ...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

... be as difficult to land a monarch as it is to launch a ship. But as to Heidelberg. The weather was growing pretty warm, —very warm, in fact. So we le... ...he gorge and form two bold and conspicuous headlands, with Heidelberg nestling between them; from their bases spreads away the vast dim expanse of the... ...pe with an angel who looks at his plague-sore, whilst the dog the bread in his mouth attents him.” “Spring. The Goddess Flora, sitting. Behind her a f... ...pe some time, but were not at all expecting to run across him. Both parties burst forth into loving enthusiasms, and Rev. Mr. ———said: “I have got a b... ...s to find out why your books don’t balance, and to prove that you are not a defaulter; the time is up— find me the missing property or you go to priso... ...ing property or you go to prison as a thief.” Bookkeeper: “I have found it.” “Where?” Bookkeeper (sternly—tragically): “In the bridegroom’s pile!—beho... ...s, conform- able to their shapes, among the moss-beds and the smooth levels of dainty green farm-land; the microscopic steamboats glided along, as in ...

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Droll Stories Volume I : The First Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...use was divesting herself of her attire. He stood quite dumbfounded like a thief surprised by sergeants. The lady was without pet- ticoat or head-dres... ...y, and an evangelical regulation, that you should be equal with God in the valley of Jehoshaphat?” asked she of the bishop. “’Tis is an invention of t... ...unt the fawns and stags, leaping the ditches, galloping upon her mare over valleys and mountain, through the woods and the fields, taking great deligh... ...nche, and by the quintessence of instruction drawn by her from the natural reservoir of women, she recognised how necessary it was to be silent concer... ...- ers seeing the cardinal return, imagined that he had emptied his natural reservoirs, unburdened his ecclesiastical bowels, and believed him happy. T... ...went lightly and willingly along the roads. Near the Gue-droit, which is a valley leading to the Indre across the moors, our good vicar perceived a hi...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...pecially sacred. Or, as was perhaps a more plausible theory, he might be a thief of the city, a robber of the Campagna, a political 26 The Marble Faw... ...haste and never-ceasing murmur, poured itself into a great marble- brimmed reservoir, and filled it with a quivering tide; on which was seen, continua... ...rom a sepa- rate can into one vast basin, which should represent the grand reservoir of national prosperity.” “Or, if they wanted a bit of satire,” re... ...ss. “Yes; leave me! Go back to your old tower, which over- looks the green valley you have told me of among the Apennines. Then, all that has passed w... ...mlet, past a gray tower that rises on the hillside, overlooking a spacious valley, which is set in the grand framework of the Apennines. The sculptor ... ...rds which his journey lay, looking from its height over a broad expanse of valley. As he drew nearer, however, it had been hidden among the inequaliti... ...ler emerged from a re- cess in the side of the house, where was a well, or reservoir, in which he had been cleansing a small wine cask; and a sunburnt...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

... rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. Nay, in any case, would Criticism erect not only finger-posts and ... ... full of hope and fear, glides down, to fly with him over the borders: the Thief, still more silently, sets to his picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in... ...s own boot-maker, jeweller, and man-milli- ner; he bounds free through the valleys, with a perennial rain-proof court-suit on his body; wherein warmth... ..., God-attributes, Gods?—In a very plain sense the Proverb says, Call one a thief, and he will steal; in an almost similar sense may we not perhaps say... ...she will hear it! Nay, who knows, since the heavenly Sun looks into lowest valleys, but Blumine herself might have aforetime noted the so unnotable; p... ...remity, I, deftly enough, whisk aside one step; draw out, from my interior reservoirs, a sufficient Birmingham Horse-pistol, and say, ‘Be so obliging ...

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

...nd rode into many strange and wild countries, and through many wa ters and valleys, and evil was he lodged. And at the last A Connecticut Yankee in... ...it to go at that. At the end of an hour we saw a far away town sleeping in a valley by a wind ing river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortre... ...morn ing in the first freshness of autumn. From hilltops we saw fair green valleys lying spread out below, with streams wind ing through them, and ... ...ss and chain by monks, and poured into troughs which delivered it into stone reservoirs outside in the chapel — when there was water to draw, I mean —... ...med out: “Thou’rt insane, man. It were better, and more in reason, that this thief and scoundrel here prove that we are not free men.” You see, he ...

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The Wheels of Chance a Bicycling Idyll

By: H. G. Wells

.... Hoopdriver shook his head. “Because I’m a damned fool, sir. Because I’ve reservoirs and reservoirs of muscular energy, and one or other of them is a... ...rer and nearer, breathing hard and gathering flies like a flypaper. In the valley he was hid- den. Then the road began to rise, and the resistance of ... ...nd pleasurable anticipation. T omorrow he would go riding across that wide valley. He did not notice any one else had come up the Keep after him until... ...ovels day by day. The sun shone, and the wide blue hill views and pleasant valleys one saw on either hand from the sandscarred road- way, even the sid... ...rtook her. “Brave,” she said, “brave!” and he ceased to feel like a hunted thief. He looked over his shoulder and about him, and saw that they were al... ...een fooled with. My old schoolmaster ought to have a juiced hiding. He’s a thief. He pretended to undertake to make a man of me, and be’s stole twenty...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

..., shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he employs? There stand his t... ...ust go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say, they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly burn their len... ...ypo, Ishmael. Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Ver mont, far removed from all beasts of prey — why is it that u... ...d, which towers between them like a great mountain separating two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the impressions which each i... ...e thus insist upon having his spoutings out, unless it be to replenish his reservoir of air, ere descending for good? How obvious is it, too, that thi... ...ng itself to the deck, Chapter 96 The Try Works 403 by means of a shallow reservoir under the entire inclosed surface of the works. By a tunnel inser... ...y? Here are two, sir; one will serve my turn. What art thou thrusting that thief catcher into my face for, man? Thrusted light is worse than presented...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

..., shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element he em- ploys? There stand his... ...ust go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say, they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly burn their len... ...ypo, Ishmael. Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of V ermont, far removed from all beasts of prey—why is it that upon... ...d, which towers between them like a great mountain separating two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the im- pressions which each... ...e thus insist upon having his spoutings out, unless it be to replenish his reservoir of air, ere descending for good? How obvious is it, too, that thi... ... is prevented from communicating itself to the deck, by means of a shallow reservoir extending under the entire in- closed surface of the works. By a ... ...y? Here are two, sir; one will serve my turn. What art thou thrusting that thief-catcher into my face for, man? Thrusted light is worse than presented...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...nda under the branches of a stone pine; I see wide and far across a purple valley whose sides are terraced and set with houses of pine and ivory, the ... ...s. The cardinal thing in life sneaks in to us darkly and shamefully like a thief in the night. One day during my Cambridge days—it must have been in m... ...hted) into Italy, and by way of Domo D’ossola and the Santa Maria Maggiore valley to Cannobio, and thence up the lake to Locarno (where, as I shall te... ...holiday was full of big comprehensive effects; the first view of the Rhone valley and the distant Valaisian Alps, for example, which we saw from the s... ... needs jealousy and bate, of which there are great and easily acces- sible reservoirs in every human heart… . I remember that vision of endless, narro... ...efore 1906 there were endless intimations that the dams holding back great reservoirs of discussion were crumbling. We political schemers were ploughi...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...ough, and wild: but delicate slopes of land, gently swelling hills, wooded valleys, and slender streams, abound. Every little colony of houses has its... ...mmed at this point, and forced by its own power into certain high tanks or reservoirs, whence the whole city, to the top stories of the houses, is sup... ...ws and the like. His time was nearly out. He was not only a very dexterous thief, but was notorious for his boldness and hardihood, and for the number... ...hat respect the man was the nobler animal of the two. There was an English thief, who had been there but a few days out of seven years: a villainous, ... ...ilent System. With regard to such men as the negro burglar and the English thief, even the most enthusias tic have scarcely any hope of their convers... ...ull bloom; and the trees were green. In a low ground among the hills, is a valley known as ‘Bloody Run, ’ from a terrible conflict with the Indians wh... ...e last ten or twelve miles, beautiful. Our road wound through the pleasant valley of the Susquehanna; the river, dotted with innumerable green islands...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...be likely to form of the Britan- nia Theatre at Hoxton, a mile north of St. Luke’s Hospital in the Old-street-road, London. The Forty Thieves might be... ...ike eels, and occasionally tied them down our breasts like links Charles Dickens 32 of sausages, and occasionally had a screw in our hair over each c... ...ance with a still more remarkable discretion. Jack had knocked off work in the docks some hours, and I had taken, for purposes of identification, a ph... ... would not be the space of a pin’s point in all the streets and ways for the living to come out into. Not only that, but the vast armies of dead would... ...s-makers and corn-dealers were gone the way of the coaches, but it was a pleasant recognition of the eternal procession of Children down that old orig... ...nal echoes. But for a whisper in the air suggestive of sawdust and shavings, the oar-making and the saws of many movements might be miles away. Down b... ...to collision? Thoughts, too, arise (the voice never silent all the while, but marvellously suggestive) of the gulf below; of the strange, unfruitful m...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...e twenty years.” “Then no misfortune has happened to you?” “And what misfortune could happen to me? To quote some Latin verses I have forgotten, or ra... ...f his bag and rushed from the inner room where he was sleep- ing. He was not mistaken; as he entered his bedroom a man was getting in by the window. “... ...dow. “Ah! you scoundrel!” cried D’Artagnan, taking the man for a thief and seizing his sword. “Sir!” cried the man, “in the name of Heaven put your sw... ...n his cloak to go out. “Sir,” said Planchet, in a mournful tone, “do you aban- don me thus to my fate? Think, if I am found out here, the people of th... ... running after ad- ventures I shall accept an invitation from Porthos; I shall go and shoot on his estate. You know he has estates— Porthos?” “I shoul... ... yesterday, were open and broken. One might have fancied that some giant had cleaved them with blows from a hatchet. On arriving at the extremity of t... ...ets to like, with- out knowing it, all those beautiful objects that God causes to spring from the earth, which are despised in cities. I was looking a...

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In the South Seas

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

..., he reckoned the inhabit- ants at many thousands; he was but newly dead, and in the same bay Stanislao Moanatini counted on his fingers eight residua... ... four hundred, when the small-pox came and reduced them by one-fourth. Six months later a woman developed tuber- cular consumption; the disease spread... ...erennial streams water and keep it green; and along the dell, first of one, then of another, of these, the road, for a considerable dis- tance, descen... ... endures in his solitary dungeon; conceive how he longs to confess, become a full-fledged convict, and be allowed to sleep beside his comrades. While ... ...efts is the new vice of opium-eating. ‘Here nobody ever works, and all eat opium,’ said a gendarme; and Ah Fu knew a woman who ate a dollar’s worth in... ...ceive the tide and wind to have heaped for hours together in that coral fold a superfluity of waters, and the tide to change and the wind fall—the ope...

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