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...t still … Finding her place she began to read. The Bobbsey Twins at London Tower was the latest in the series about Bert and Nan, and Flossie and Fred... ...way. Funny, I’ve lived in this city all my life but I never went to the CN Tower. As they pulled into the downtown core, the driver picked up a car ph... ...was thick, slowing the car so she could study Old City Hall with its clock tower, turrets and exquisitely detailed façade, and further along, the mode... ...ht break down completely if questioned. Jake put a stack of easy-listening records on his hi-fi, and they moved to the dining table to eat their meal.... ...The ghost of Jake sat be- side her as she watched the doctor reviewing her records. He looked up. “It seems that what we have here is a tumor of about... ...noon, Lacey sat on the sofa sipping a glass of wine. A stack of photograph albums was piled on the coffee table in front of her. She had laboriously c...

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... Pg 1642 The Blindness of the Undead Pg 1645 Guaranteed Guilt Pg 1662 The Tower of Babel Pg 1664 The Human Subconscious and the Space Race Pg ... ...cumulate material things. As a result of this… there are almost no fossil records of the first modern humans, there is no way of knowing how the... ...folded: people raised piles of stone into accumulated heaps called Ziggurats, Towers, Temples, Pyramids. The example of ancient Egypt shows how pure... ... Great Wall. In Europe it became Cathedrals. In Renaissance Italy it became Towers. No matter what form it took: whether it was practiced by Indi... ...r inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and their records coincidentally burnt or lost. All because of the insane idea o... ...r inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and their records coincidentally burnt or lost. All because of the insane idea o... ...en; they will make less profit than ordinary musicians who can whomp up a few albums of original music, or any independent movie maker with a camera...

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...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that many miles away marks a city. All the appointm...

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...of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived... ...e queer nightmare spirit out of dreamland slipped a pseudo-memory into the records of my vanished life?” There must be many alive still who 6 In the ... ...ect of the great hoarding by which we passed, lit below by a gas- lamp and towering up to a sudden sharp black edge against the pallid sky. Those hoar... ...f irrational economic cataclysms, prices and employment tumbled about like towers in an earthquake, and amidst the shifting masses were the common wor... ...e under the window was littered with photo- graphic material and the later albums of his continental sou- venirs, and on the American cloth trimmed sh... ...ps eight hundred altogether, including the reverend gentleman’s photograph albums and college and school text- books. This suggestion of learning was ... ... in- numerable quasi-spiritual things, deeds, documents, debts, vindictive records, went up on those great flares. People passed praying between the f...

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...overies within him- self, first of counting and then of writing and making records, and with that his town communities began to stretch out to dominio... ...pes—and he never attempted steep descents or very high flying. He also, he records, owned one of those oil-driven motor-bicycles whose clumsy complexi... ... of war. He was to go back through London to Surrey. His first feeling, he records, was one of extreme relief that his days of ‘hopeless battering at ... ...in a confused slope up to a glaring crest. Above and reflecting this glare towered pillowed masses of steam rolling swiftly upward to the ze- nith. It... ... west- ward of us and beyond were a cluster of roofs and one or two church towers. The barge was rather cramped for so many men, and I let several squ... ...nd nonagenarians and all that sort of thing. Incredibly. They used to keep albums of cuttings from all the illustrated papers showing them at it, and ... ...e out in the former deserts, these long wasted sun-baths of the race, they tower amidst eternal snows, they hide in remote islands, and bask on broad ...

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...ere is an ancient belfry in it that would have been in all the Annuals and Albums, going and gone, these hundred years if it had but been more expensi... ...y’s jails. Her Majesty has fallen, many thousands of times, from that same Tower, which I claim a right to tumble off now and then. So has Winking Cha... ...the con trary, I am the enchanted son of the King my father, shut up in a tower on the sea shore, for protection against an old she goblin who insist... ...; the green sea slime and weed upon the rough stones at the entrance, seem records of obsolete high tides never more to flow; the flagstaff halyards d... ...nally, we shook hands with our wor thy friend Pea, and ran all the way to Tower Hill, under strong Police suspicion occasionally, before we got warm....

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... the broad stretch of verdure beneath it, and the country-town, and church-tower, si- lent and white beyond. “In that little town there was, and I bel... ...little Edward, his next younger, who died now at the age of nine, Mr. Hare records that John copied out, in large school-hand, a History of Valentine ... ...is own score. Puer bonae spei, as 30 The Life of John Sterling the school-albums say; a boy of whom much may be hoped? Surely, in many senses, yes. A... ...ic, elo- quent utterance, and noble generosities and pieties of his pupil;—records in particular how once, on a sudden alarm of fire in some neighbori... ...ing was married: “at Christchurch, Marylebone, 2d November, 1830,” say the records. His blooming, kindly and true-hearted Wife had not much money, nor... ...ond day took us through Martigny to Sion, cel- ebrated for its picturesque towers upon detached hills, for its strong Romanism and its population of c... ...Cathedral and its appendages more, the more I see them. The leaning of the Tower is to my eye decidedly unpleasant; but it is a beautiful building nev...

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...; a million of reports were written every year; bureaucracy was enthroned! Records, statistics, documents, failing which France would have been ruined... ... liked literature and the arts; he collected autographs, obtained splendid albums gratis, and possessed sketches, engravings, and pictures. He did a g... ...eyond lies a vista of shores both wild and cultivated; tumultuous grandeur towers above, but in itself all proportions are human. The world that the t...

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...the Thames when she passed over it, nor the Houses of Par- liament and the towers of Westminster Abbey. At last, while passing through the brighter an... ...entire disregard of where she stepped, were so ruinous, that it was on the records of the Bruton Street household, that she had gone far to demolish e... ...ldered to do more than hurry along the passages, staring so wildly for her albums, that Josephine touched her, and said, “T enez, Miladi, they will th...

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...meth good, is strongly illustrated by these establishments at home; as the records of the Prerogative Office in Doctors’ Commons can abundantly prove.... ...long, black, ugly roof covered with burnt out feathery sparks; above which tower two iron chimneys, and a hoarse escape valve, and a glass steer age ... ...copy nor extract the remarks and poetical effusions from the registers and albums kept here.’ But for this intimation, I should have let them lie upon... ...ce in front of this edifice, stands a solitary, grim looking, square brick tower, which has a quaint and remarkable appearance, and which the wiseacre... ...rld, that he shall see in those young things who climb about his knee: not records of his wealth and name: but little wrestlers with him for his daily... ...d the ghostly Dutchmen played at ninepins one memo rable gusty afternoon, towered in the blue distance, like stately clouds. At one point, as we asce...

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... melancholy cries. Along one side lay the Cathedral with its great central tower , and Philip, who knew as yet nothing of beauty , felt when he looked... ... this over and over again; and sometimes out of his head he drew the great tower of the Cathedral or the gateway that led into the pre- cincts. He had... ... Louisa during her youth had painted in water colours, and she had several albums filled with sketches of churches, old bridges, and picturesque cot- ... ...d, helplessly, they knew not why and they knew not whither. Fate seemed to tower above them, and they danced as though everlasting darkness were benea... ...ked, and he conjured his family to beat her: he was always wanting to make records, and sometimes in his enthusiasm picked steadily for an hour. His c...

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...ayor contemplated any such dark design, he would just be clapped up in the Tower for a week or two, and then killed off for high treason. By degrees, ... ...ll into a train of reflection as we walked homewards, upon the curious old records of likings and dislikings; of jealousies and revenges; of affection... ...d rooted to the spot with mortification and astonishment. That the Moorish tower—that wooden shed with a door in the centre, and daubs of crimson and ... ...m presented a strange chaos of dress-gloves, boxing-gloves, carica- tures, albums, invitation-cards, foils, cricket-bats, card- board drawings, paste,... ...such lovely whis- kers: to say nothing of his talent for writing verses in albums and playing the flute!Roderigo simpered and bowed. ‘But I think, ’ a... ...kling of little baskets, pa- per table-mats, china watchmen, pink and gold albums, and rainbow-bound little books on the different tables. ‘Ah, uncle!...

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...hey were one and all about to describe the gentleman on the heading of the records baldly (where brevity is most complimentary) as a gentleman of fami... ...y write matter which may sometimes be indepen- dent of both those volcanic albums. Jealousy would have been a relief to her, a dear devil’s aid. She s... ...n the artificial tongue—the tutored tongue of sentimental deference of the towering male: he fluted exceedingly; and she wondered whether it was this ... ...t least. What are women? There is not a comparison in nature that does not tower above them! not one that does not hoot at them! I, throughout my life... ...e, sir, the thanks I get.” “Mr. Whitford,” said Dr. Middleton, “You have a tower of strength in the lady’s father.” 427 George Meredith “Would you ha...