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The Dukes Children

By: Anthony Trollope

...d before, because you are not a woman, and do not understand how woman are tram- melled. Do you think ill of me because I say this?’ ‘No, indeed. ’ ‘D... ...do you think of certain rules of etiquette before you bid him send for the engines? If a wild beast be loose, do you go through some ceremony before y... ...in, or the smoke, or the party generally. Damp gauzes, splashed stockings, trampled muslins, and features which have perhaps known something of rouge ... ... be the judge? But why should we contest this? You do not really wish to trample on me!’ ‘No;—not that.’ ‘Nor to disgrace me; nor to make me feel my...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

... positioned and weathered as the window itself. The once colourful tourist trams were rotting, exposing the odd skeleton still in their seats. Atlas ... ... stupidity and endangering the lives of others. Hearing the sound of truck engines, Roxanne shot to her feet, releasing a heavy sigh of relief. "It's...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...lication, all our needs de- ferred to the needs of the new generation that tramples on our heels?” and he found the answer in the presence of an overw... ...er are we to say, “There, but for the grace of God, go I”—when the convict tramps past us—but, “There goes another sort of animal that is differentiat... ...st, but they would not multiply—and that is our supreme end. They would be tramping on roads where mendicity laws would prevail, there would be no hou... ...its by telling him the earth is round; amidst trees, animals, men, houses, engines, utensils, that are all capable of being good or naughty, all fond ... ... and that again will be denser and compacter than one with numerous tubes, trams, and light railways. Every improvement in locomotion forces the subur... ...he stars in their courses fight against such pink and golden dreams. Every tramway, every new twopenny tube, every light railway, every improvement in...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...nt swinging. There was a hollow sound of many voices. It was a long, heavy tramp underground. He sat at the bottom of the pit, where the great drops o... ... peppering of the drops thereon. All along the road to Bestwood the miners tramped, wet and grey and dirty, but their red mouths talking with animatio... ...kness. And then, at last, they heard their father throw down his boots and tramp upstairs in his stockinged feet. Still they listened. Then at last, i... ...ng over the ceiling from the lamps that swung in the hands of the colliers tramping by outside, going to take the nine o’clock shift. They listened to... ...deep in obscurity, and the shadow was full of colour. Just where the horse trams trundled across the market was a row of fruit stalls, with fruit blaz... ...argin was crowded with little stacks of timber, beside which smok- ing toy engines fussed. Then the silver string of the canal lay at random among the...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...lls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and ... ...ll if we were to celebrate such a “busk,” or “feast of first fruits,” as Bar tram describes to have been the custom of the Mucclasse Indians? “When a ... ...he country, stopping only that his master may rest, and I am awakened by his tramp and defiant snort at midnight, when in some remote glen in the woods... ... had just sunk my head on this when the bells rung fire, and in hot haste the engines rolled that way, led by a straggling troop of men and boys, and I... ...nterfered fatally with my walks, or rather my going abroad, for I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an ap pointm...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...nd much swifter, and be improved in a dozen ways—we must get self-starting engines, for ex- ample, for both our aeroplanes and motor-cars—but it is av... ...s any manifest probabil- ity. Western Europe is now a network of railways, tramways, high roads, wires of all sorts; its chief beasts of burthen are t... ... the coachman with the railway, beat the subur- ban line with the electric tramway, and attack that again with the petrol omnibus, oust brick and ston... ...ople, is a greater supply of able educated men, versa- tile men capable of engines, of aviation, of invention, of lead- ing and initiative. We need mo... ...ffend it. If I had my way I would do that at the street corners and on the trams, I would take down that alien-looking and detestable inscription “L.C... ... that alien-looking and detestable inscription “L.C.C.,” and put up, “This Tram, this Street, belongs to the People of London.” Would Chesterton or Be... ...ho takes the inferiority of his inferiors for granted, dislikes friars and tramps and loafers and all undisciplined and unproductive people, and is ru...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

... edge of which, at high water, we used to stand to fish for minnows. By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire. My proposal was to build a wha... ...or absence at the monthly meetings have been apply’d to the purchase of fire engines, ladders, fire hooks, and other useful implements for each compa... ...e not left in heaps to be spread abroad again by the wheels of carriages and tram pling of horses, but that the scavengers be provided with bodies of...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...s nature, his heredities, his training, and his environment. You can build engines out of each of these metals, and they will all perform, but you mus... ...perintendent of the Sunday school. At twenty six George was a wanderer, a tramp, and Henry was pastor of the village church. Then George came home, a... ...lusion onclusion O.M. You have been taking a holiday? Y.M. Yes; a mountain tramp covering a week. Are you ready to talk? O.M. Quite ready. What shall ... ...ngth giv ing that the native of the mountains of the Madeira region would tramp up hill and down all day on a pinch of pow dered coca and require no... ...iles or attracts; without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an ... ...minutes’ time, at no cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for ...

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