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...t. One cannot always be magnificent, but sim- plicity is always a possible alternative. For the rest I laid in an eighteen-gallon cask of beer on cred... ...h will ever see, that under the blaze of the day the harsh outlines of the rocks and ravines of the plains and crater floor grew gray and indistinct u... ...oot of the cliff, and showed a disordered escarpment of drab and gray- ish rock, lined here and there with banks and crevices of snow. This was perhap... ..., and the surface of the moon is showing. We are lying on a bank of earthy rock. Here and there bare soil is exposed. A queer sort of soil!” It occurr... ...e of bearers, attendants, shouters, parachute-carriers, and so forth—queer groups to see. The experts for the most part ignore me completely, even as ... ...in spite of the inconveniences of the longer, more noisy, and more crowded alternative. “My alternative route takes me round by a huge, shadowy cavern... ... sideways towards me, keeping a full face to the Presence. I seated myself Turkish fashion, and Phi-oo and T si-puff also knelt down above me. There c...

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...ourke, and placed her in the arms of the maitre d’hotel, who had reached a rock, together with the Abbe, the lackey, and one out of the four maids. Th... ...aling down to the coche d’eau, as it quietly crept along. T owards evening groups were seen with piled baskets on their heads, or borne between them, ... ...y. ‘You would never stay there!’ said Estelle; ‘you would push us over the rock like Mentor. I think you are our Mentor, for I am sure you tell us a g... ...ur very decidedly disclaimed either character, especially the pushing over rocks. And thus they glided on, spending a night in the great, busy, bewild... ...rom the first. The kingdom of Algiers was, she told them, tributary to the Turkish Sultan, who kept a guard of Janissaries there, from among whom they... ...little map in the beginning of Estelle’s pre- cious copy of Telemaque. The Turkish Reis did not trouble himself about it, but squatted himself down wi... ...ay’s sail, having been driven to the eastward of it during the storm. ‘The Turkish commander evidently does not like the neighbourhood,’ said Arthur, ... ...o drift as ignorantly and unconsciously as Yusuf himself. And what was the alternative? Arthur himself never wa- vered, nor indeed actually felt that ...

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...ing to Croisic for sea-bathing (thought to have greater virtue among those rocks than at Boulogne or Dieppe) is still an immense event. The peasants c... ...mall round basket made of fine osier, a pile of ivory counters yellow as a Turkish pipe after twenty years’ usage, and a pack of cards as greasy as th... ... and, finally the mighty ocean tossing its foaming fringe upon the granite rocks as if the better to bring out their weird formations—that sight uplif... ...me. I am not the dupe of his professed desire to go to Croisic and see the rocks and the dunes and the salt-marshes without me. He meant to leave us a... ...e to the consideration of conjugal faith, pointing out to him the horrible alternative of an utter renunciation of Sabine. Nothing else could reassure... ...rcase was crowded by fashionable women ranged on the stairs or standing in groups below it, awaiting the an- nouncement of their carriages. Beatrix wa... ...e, and leaving Paris with his pacified angel. It was one of those horrible alternatives in which women who have hith- erto retained some little respec... ...ly new situation in which Beatrix found herself, she might have evaded the alternatives presented to her by Calyste had La Palferine entered the room;...

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...unt of a private struggle between himself and a certain path of planks and rock edges called the Bisse of Leysin. This happened in his adolescence. He... ...e it hangs like an eyebrow over nearly or quite vertical walls of pine-set rock. Beside it, on the outer side of it, runs a path, which becomes an off... ...lls corner, which gives the favourite picture postcard from Mon- tana, the rocks project so sharply above the water that the passenger on the gangway ... ...cent was emerging. It was an alarmingly vast proposal, but he could see no alternative but submission, a plebeian’s submission to the currents of life... ...had no thought but to get away. Presently they encountered a detachment of Turkish sol- diers, very greasy and ragged, with worn-out boots and yel- lo... ...e showed herself the woman the world has always known, no miracle, and the alternative was for me to give myself to her in the ancient way, to serve h... ...he poor hypnotized wretch, after one questioning glance at the conceivable alternatives, made his last gesture of servility, and then stood out agains... ...fled gallop- ing of troops through the broad dusty street in the night, of groups of men standing and watching down straight broad roads, roads that e... ...f men standing and watching down straight broad roads, roads that ended in groups of chimneys and squat buildings of corrugated iron. And once there w...

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...proprietor who was once my schoolfellow at City Mer- chants’, to Mr. J. D. Rockefeller—all of them men in their several ways and circumstances and pos... ...map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and several big fossil bones, and above that hangs the portrait of a b... ...d enchanting caves and several mines of gold and silver paper. Among these rocks a number of survivors from a Noah’s Ark made a various, dangerous, al... ...Fenimore Cooper and Mayne Reid and illustrated histories; one of the Russo-Turkish war and one of Napier’s expedi- tion to Abyssinia I read from end t... ...e. Such science instruction as my father gave seemed indeed the uninviting alternative to the classical grind. It was certainly an altogether inferior... ..., and I remember disconnectedly quite a number of brightly lit figures and groups walking about, and a white gate between orchard and garden and a lar... ...rtain amount of open-air speaking in the dinner hour outside gas-works and groups of factories. Some special sort of people was, as it were, secreted ... ...ficate of approval from Altiora,” said Thorns. “I admit the horrors of the alternative. There’d be a massacre in three years.” “One may go on trying p... ...if home politics fail. The effort at renascence is bound to come by either alternative. I believe I can do more in relation to that effort than in any...

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...llantly and honestly. “The church of Christ, little Norah, is built upon a rock.” She made no answer. She moved her head very slightly so 33 H G Well... ...and secure that friendly dispensation to smoke again which seemed the only alternative to a serious mental break- down. He would take his bag, stay th... ...eving cleric. He discovered a fine point. “If there was something else, an alternative, another reli- gion, another Church, to which one could go, the... ...hat had gone with the rest of the world. He was seated on a slab of starry rock. This he knew quite clearly was the place of God. He was unable to dis... ...his case matters had been fa- cilitated by the Englishman’s command of the Turkish lan- guage. He was quite an exceptional Englishman. The Turk had ju... ...of shining wet sand, a multitude of gulls was mysteriously busy. These two groups of activities and Eleanor’s flitting translucent movements did but s... ...e was finite. It were as reason- able to argue whether God was a frog or a rock or a tree. He had imagined God as a figure of youth and courage, had p...

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...ard, when he saw rise within a hundred yards of him the black and frowning rock on which stands the Chateau d’If. This gloomy fortress, which has for ... ... before the tempest. Soon the fury of the waves and the sight of the sharp rocks announced the ap- proach of death, and death then terrified me, and I... ...s happy, because I had not courted death, because to be cast upon a bed of rocks and seaweed seemed terrible, because I was unwilling that I, a creatu... ...nto; Dantes’ entire dinner service con- sisted of one plate — there was no alternative. “Leave the saucepan,” said Dantes; “you can take it away when ... ...u are welcome; make yourself at home; you are the master.” It is like that Turkish phrase of Moliere’s that so astonished the bourgeois gentleman by t... ... the coffee. “How do you take it?” inquired the unknown; “in the French or Turkish style, strong or weak, sugar or none, cool or boiling? As you pleas... ...r boiling? As you please; it is ready in all ways.” “I will take it in the Turkish style,” replied Franz. “And you are right,” said his host; “it show... ...lated him. This was the chief of the band, Luigi Vampa. Around him, and in groups, according to their fancy, lying in their mantles, or with their bac...

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...es during the earlier part of the morning. More lately, issuing from those rocky and dangerous defiles, he had entered upon 16 The Talisman that grea... ..., upon all who dared to op- pose the belief of the prophet of Mecca. These alternatives indeed had been offered to the unwarlike Greeks and Syr- ians;... ...n my land cold often converts the water itself into a substance as hard as rock. Let us speak of this no longer, for the thoughts of the calm, clear, ... ...ourney, which he did by observing minute marks and bearings of the distant rocks, to a ridge of which they were gradually approaching. For a little ti... ...he horn, the horn!” exclaimed one. “Little difference between a Turk and a Turkish horse, and we will use him conforming.” “By Saint George, you will ... ... lately a solitary fountain, distinguished only amid the waste by solitary groups of palm- trees, was now the centre of an encampment, the embroi- der...

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...he echoed, betraying his surprise that she should ever have considered the alternative possible. “Y es. She’s awfully fond of dancing,” the young girl... ...he wooden green-houses in ragged 20 The Age of Innocence gardens, and the rocks from which goats surveyed the scene, would vanish before the advance ... ... mind of man could travel, had been divided into the two great fundamental groups of the Mingotts and Mansons and all their clan, who cared about eati... ...iefs, but rather like the scent of some far-off bazaar, a smell made up of Turkish coffee and ambergris and dried roses. His mind wandered away to the... ...s down Narragansett Avenue, crossed Spring Street and drove out toward the rocky moorland beyond. In this unfashionable re- gion Catherine the Great, ... ...th weeping willows. Through their veil Archer caught the glint of the Lime Rock, with its white-washed turret and the tiny house in which the heroic l... ... was going. He meant to leave a note for May that should cut off any other alternative. He had fancied himself not only nerved for this plunge but eag...

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...le doing so I had leaned against a laburnum; behind me was an artifi- cial rockery, intended to serve as a resting-place for persons walk- ing in the ... ...elt the coldness of the stone. On my right I saw the tree, be- hind me the rock. I stood in the same attitude, and threw myself down. I rose, and agai... ...me Monte Cristo?” “Monte Cristo is the name of an estate, or, rather, of a rock, and not a family name.” “Well, be it so — let us not dispute about wo... ...er was mild, but dull, and in harmony with the funeral ceremony. Among the groups which flocked towards the family vault, Chateau-Renaud recognized Mo... ...the palace; these were hours of recreation for me, as I never saw any- * A Turkish pasha in command of the troops of a province. —Ed. 175 Alexandre D... ...t had been supposed some of the papers might be in the Arabian, Romaic, or Turkish language, and the interpreter of the House was in attendance. One o... ... from which he took it black and empty. Then he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine En- glish guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted... ...ry world, and which was acknowledged by a slight movement in the different groups. But for one whose privilege it was to agitate that ocean of human w... ... the bandits, or should he wait patiently for them to propose it? The last alternative seemed the most prudent, so he waited until twelve o’clock. Dur...

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...ck of golden wool from a ram feeding in a valley closed in by inaccessible rocks; but this was procured for her by an eagle; and lastly, Venus, de- cl... ...campaigns, and had afterwards entered the Austrian army, and fought in the Turkish war, until he had been disabled before Belgrade by a terrible wound... ...n as matter of justice, if not by her husband’s dying wish. So this is the alternative set before you! Has it been set before your father likewise?” “... ...The Major and his son and daughter were solitary units in the midst of the groups of portly citizens, with soberly handsome wives, and 204 Love and L... ...t with the little girls about her, and her own and their property, she had alternative employ- ments enough to make it an effort to apply herself to t...

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...ong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. At every station there were groups of people, some Chapter 1 5 times crowds, and in all sorts of at... ...blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags... ...in the hills. The excitement of the passengers grew greater. The crazy coach rocked on its great leather springs, and swayed like a boat tossed on a s... ...ver the roadway till we passed as through a tunnel. And again great frowning rocks guarded us boldly on either side. Though we were in shelter, we cou... ...d of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian,and Hungarian,and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in... ...k, and myself, (cap tain). On 11 July at dawn entered Bosphorus. Boarded by Turkish Customs officers. Backsheesh. All correct. Under way at 4 p. m. ... ...were or were not prepared to carry out her wishes. Of course, we had then no alternative but to accept. We were right in principle, and ninety nine ti... ...ut a lot of things, which he laid on the step, sorting them into four little groups, evidently one for each. Then he spoke. “My friends, we are goi...

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... of a few pieces extant in two or more versions of debatable authority the alternative text or texts will be found at the [end] of the [relevant work]... ...on shone on the calm sea, he often went alone in his little shallop to the rocky caves that bordered it, and, sitting beneath their shelter, wrote the... ...e mountain’s loftiest peak Was traced a line of lightning. Now far above a rock the utmost verge Of the wide earth it flew, ... ...e billowy mountain clouds, Edged with intolerable radiancy, T owering like rocks of jet Above the burning deep: ... ...sible ravages of tyranny and war, cities and villages reduced to scattered groups of black and roofless houses, and the naked inhabitants sitting fami... ...54. 54. Over the plain the throngs were scattered then _2290 In groups around the fires, which from the sea Even to the gorge of the first ... ...O: COMO: COMO: COMO: Then … Are you not my friend? Did you not hint at the alternative, Upon the brink of which you see I stand, The other day when we... ...MON: MAMMON: MAMMON: MAMMON: Now if the oracle had ne’er foretold This sad alternative, it must arrive, Or not, and so it must now that it has; And wh... ...t their own oppressors to act according to their natural sympathy with the Turkish tyrant, and to brand upon their name the indelible blot of an allia...

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...other person.” “Ah, I see; I might have known you were fully provided with alternatives. And is the other person coming home this way?” Lily laughed a... ...lds. “Let us sit here,” Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Lily drop... ... the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders. Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb. 60 House of Mirth She sat quiet, her li... ...clasping his hands be- hind his head, which rested against the side of the rock. He had no wish to make her talk; her quick-breathing silence seemed a... ...ned away as she spoke, letting him strut at her side through the gathering groups on the terrace, while every nerve in her throbbed with the conscious... ...oast yourself over the fire and try some of my new Egyp- tians—that little Turkish chap at the Embassy put me on to a brand that I want you to try, an... ...fact of life. What he could not accept, in his own case, was the makeshift alternative of a relation that should be less than this: that should leave ... ...er’s despair, had not progressed be- yond the point of weighing her social alternatives in public. She could not acquire the air of doing things becau... ...y at an end. As he leaned back, silently contemplating his filigree cup of Turkish coffee, he was trying to put some order in his thoughts, to tell hi...

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...were either strung upon a thread, or attached by little hooks—singly or in groups, according to their size. This taste was very early established amon... ... realities of angels and archangels are continually combined into the same groups with the fabulous impersonations of the Greek my- thology. Eve is in... ... his aides-de-camp, to a comprehensive promise of mercy to a large body of Turkish troops, having arms in their hands, and otherwise well-disposed and... ...crowning treachery with treachery, some few who had swum off to a point of rock in the sea, were lured back to destruc- tion under a second series of ... ... neither was, nor could be conceived, as other than complimentary; for the alternative supposition presumed him that mean and well-known character—the... ... often of the huge dogs scattered over all parts of W estern Asia, whether Turkish or Persian; and, by later travels amongst the Himalayas, it seems t... ...ed off the animals with the large loose stones that lay scattered over the rocky sur- face of the heath.’ But upon the character of the nuisance, and ... ...so belongs its own proper share of classic interest.’ The character of the rocks prevailing in those mountain ridges which intersect the whole of Gree... ... the unfortunate restraints on a soil handed over, in its best parts, by a Turkish aristocracy that had engrossed them, to a Bavarian that cannot use ...

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...burned red. All was scrupulously clean and perfect. A baby was cooing in a rocker-less wicker cradle by the hearth. The mother, a slim, neat woman wit... ...l we light them as we fix them,” asked Robert, “or save them for one grand rocket at the end?” “Oh, as we do them,” said Cyril Scott, who had lacerate... ... Aaron’s Rod The whole party moved out on to the crimson-carpeted gangway. Groups of people stood about chatting, men and women were passing along, to... ...ining. Fortunately the women had brought shoes. They slipped these on. Jim rocked through the crowd, in his tall hat, looking for the flautist. At las... ... get out of it? League of Nations?” “Damn all leagues. Damn all masses and groups, anyhow. All I want is to get MYSELF out of their horrible heap: to ... ...n he ushered Aaron and the big bag into a large, pillared hall, with thick Turkish carpet on the floor, and handsome appointments. It was spacious, co... ...hed he were having a bath, chiefly because of the wardrobe of mar- vellous Turkish towels. Then he clicked his way back to his bedroom, changed his sh... ...ing he must move: where? He looked on the map. The map seemed to offer two alternatives, Milan and Genoa. He chose Milan, because of its musical assoc... ...sted Levison, “but what is your al- ternative? Is it merely nihilism?” “My alternative,” said Lilly, “is an alternative for no one but myself, so I’ll...

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...ck is the dragon; but the dragon will come before we’ve put Polly upon the rock.” “What! is Polly Andromeda—?” as a grey parrot’s stand was being tran... ...ontortions, rolled, kicked and tumbled him- self with extended jaws to the rock, alias stand, to which Polly was chained, she remarking in a hoarse, l... ...elysium at Kyve Clements, and are in raptures which they want us to share— rocks and waves and all.” 20 Magnum Bonum “And rooms?” “Yes, very good roo... ...ou model, Carey?” Mary asked, and Allen volun- teered to show his mother’s groups and bas-reliefs, thereby much increasing the litter on the floor, an... ...companied by Nita Ray with her inseparable Janet, meaning to study village groups and rustic sports. The other ladies walked in the cool to meet them ... ...ed that the charge was not too much for him, and indeed there was no other alternative. The doctor stayed as long as he could, and did his best to enl... ...ing else was wanted from it, so as to put Babie in the wrong, Janet saw no alternative but to secure the book in her own bureau, and watch for a chanc... ...ian verses have ‘Mount Joye St. Denys’ in the different lines, and all the Turkish ones ‘Lah billah,’ till Sir Gilbert comes in, and then his war-cry ... ...herself was assured by Mrs. Gould that this “unhappy escapade” left her no alternative but a marriage with Gilbert. She would otherwise never be able ...

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... France,—if not al- ways free from flightiness, if now and then off like a rocket for an airy wheel in the clouds, M. Michelet, with natural politenes... ...ed 59 to them in three great successive battles by the English and by the Turkish sultan, viz., at Crécy, at Nicopolis, and at Agincourt. This sympat... ...hat ech- oed their own. The monarchy of France labored in extrem- 60 ity, rocked and reeled like a ship fighting with the darkness of monsoons. The m... ...at could not have offered them- selves amongst the hurried and fluctuating groups of a rail- way station. The gatherings of gazers about a mail-coach ... ...h with melancholy sailors, and brush her hair so assiduously upon solitary rocks, she would be carried on our books for as honest a reality, as decent... ...lmasius, whom nothing ever escapes, should have over- looked so obvious an alternative as that of siccus, meaning without opsonium—Scoticè, without “k... ...the first performances of the arts. Copies of the most famous statues, and groups of sculpture in the precious metals; trophies of victories; models o... ...y, covering and closing all, was a vast scarlet canopy, which combined the groups be- neath to the eye, and threw the whole into the form that a paint...

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...hurch College in Oxford, or to Trinity College in Cambridge; these are the alternatives. Naturally enough, my young friends were somewhat startled at ... ...s a baffled visionary, whose favorite conceit had suddenly exploded like a rocket into smoke and stench, is more than we know. But, at all events, the... ...r. Gordon is privately known to be the translator of the work written by a Turkish minister, “Tchebi Effendi” pub- lished in the Appendix to Wilkinson... ...ent, these provinces passed at that di- sastrous era into the hands of the Turkish conqueror; but this is an error. Parts of Greece, previously to tha... ...was already passed; and the battle of Lepanto, in 1571, which crippled the Turkish navy in a degree never wholly recovered, gave the first overt signa... ...ng description, which Mr. Gor- don gives us, of Hydra: “Built on a sterile rock, which does not offer, at any season, the least trace of vegetation, i... ...re able- bodied seamen.” The other islands were, with few exceptions, arid rocks; and most of them had the inestimable advantage of being unplagued wi... ...and returning homewards at intervals, with anxious and dissatisfied looks. Groups of both sexes were collected at every corner of the wider streets, k... ...conflicting the feel- ings, so intense the anxiety. The arrangement of the groups was this: At the lower half of the room, but starting forward in att...

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... clumps of lilac and yellow acacia. Also, there were a few insignifi- cant groups of slender-leaved, pointed-tipped birch trees, with, under two of th... ... then shook his head as be- fore. Next, the visitors were shown some “real Turkish” daggers, of which one bore the inadvertent inscription, “Saveli Si... ...ke the most inane of remarks, and at once the maiden by their side will be rocking with laughter; whereas, should a State Councillor enter into conver... ...pses of elm-tops amid mist, the far- off notes of bells, endless clouds of rocks, and the illimit- able line of the horizon. Ah, Russia, Russia, from ... ...ht, one in the middle, and one to the left, after the fashion of triumphal groups of statuary. Above them, on the box seat, were seated a coachman and... ...te down in your Statement that ‘it is necessary’ (or, should you prefer an alternative phrase, ‘it is requested,’ or ‘it is desiderated,’ or ‘it is pr... ... gold, and the sleeves of their blouses embroidered after the fashion of a Turkish shawl. “You see here the species of kvass for which our house has l... ..., are you thinking of travelling?” “To tell the truth,” replied Chichikov, rocking himself to and fro on the bench, and smoothing his knee with his ha...

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...nter- mediate varieties in any one formation — On the sudden appearance of groups of species — On their sudden appearance in the lowest known fossilif... ...— On their different rates of change — Species once lost do not reappear — Groups of species fol- low the same general rules in their appearance and d... ...Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs Classification, groups subordinate to groups — Natural system — Rules and difficulties in c... ...n- ion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical... .... If the several breeds are not varieties, and have not proceeded from the rock-pigeon, they must have descended from at least seven or eight aborigin... ...cteristic enormous crop? The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock- pigeons, that is, not breeding or willingly perching on trees. But be... ...r plumage; or, again, the relation between the hair and teeth in the naked Turkish dog, though here probably homol- ogy comes into play? With respect ... ...in subse- quent generations quite fertile under domestication. This latter alternative seems to me the most probable, and I am inclined to believe in ... ...n embryo may be developed, and then perish at an early period. This latter alternative has not been sufficiently attended to; but I believe, from obse...

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...ite Silence 13 grub for themselves and none for the dogs, could admit no other alternative. The two men and the woman grouped about the fire and began ... ...e recollect the time she shot the Moosehorn Rapids to pull you and me off that rock, the bullets whipping the water like hailstones? — and the time of... ... a chap, after all.” He smiled at their eulogies, and passed on in search of a Turkish bath. It was the same old crowd upon the streets. Strange, they... ...irits speculated on desertion and the possibility of crossing the un explored Rockies to the east, and thence, by the Mackenzie Valley, of gaining th... ...sh, the seal, and the otter; and our homes shouldered about one another on the rocky strip between the An Odyssey of the North 69 rim of the forest a... ...sy typewriters (appeals for assistance, for sanctions from the organized labor groups, requests for square news deals to the editors of news papers, ...

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...le tremors of hope now shook my nerves: if they shook from that inevitable rocking of the waters that follows a storm, so much might be par- doned to ... ...ng is come—when our poor Kate, that had for fifteen years been so tenderly rocked in the arms of St. Sebastian and his daughters, and that hence- fort... ...h this? It was dark; and she stood, as you may see an Etonian do at times, rocking her little boat from side to side, until it had taken in water as m... ...a descrip- tion of force as that which at all times composed the bulk of a Turkish army, he carried victory along with his banners; gained many partia... ...ed many partial successes; and at last, in a pitched battle, overthrew the Turkish force opposed to him with a loss of 5000 men left upon the field. T... ...it amongst the hills would have the effect of throwing them (as their only alternative in a case where so wide a sweep of pas- turage was required) up... ...he furies of mortified pride and military abasement, under the eyes of the Turkish Sultan. The forces, and more espe- cially the artillery, of Russia,... ... them, in a Christian land, make Paley the foundation of their ethics; the alternative being Aristotle. And, in our mind, though far inferior as a mor... ...ays, at Bell and Ball, whenever we did not groan. And, as the same precise alternative offered itself now, viz., that, in recalling the case, we must ...

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...stablishment is desired, clandestine irregularities are negli- gible as an alternative to marriage. How common they are nobody knows; for in spite of ... ...iage of divorced persons, Scotch marriage, Irish marriage, French, German, Turkish, or South Dakotan marriage. In Sweden, one of the most highly civil... ...rity and discredit of the vagabondage which is the masterless woman’s only alternative to celibacy. But in spite of all this there is a revolt against... ...ct stage of this process was reached in ancient Rome. The only practicable alternative to it seems to be such an exten- sion of divorce as will reduce... ...e repeated here that no law, however stringent, can prevent polygamy among groups of people who choose to live loosely and be monogamous only in appea... ... boot-laces than a lock of your hair. [He folds his arms and stands like a rock]. REGINALD. You damned scoundrel, how dare you throw my wife over like...

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...ace in this brilliant society , the whole com- pany had settled into three groups. One, chiefly mascu- line, had formed round the abbe. Another, of yo... ...took the gentlemen into his study and showed them his choice collection of Turkish pipes. From time to time he went out to ask: “Hasn’t she come yet?”... ...ed in his room; a small box, a large canteen fitted with silver plate, two Turkish pistols and a saber—a present from his father who had brought it fr... ...mes stop- ping to say a few friendly words to officers he had known in the Turkish war, sometimes also to the soldiers. Look- ing at their boots he se... ...aters of the confluence of the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic back... ...y half a mile away. At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our Cossack scouts were moving. Sud- denly on the road at the top... ...king into the nursery. Princess Mary was still standing by the cot, gently rock- ing the baby. “Ah yes, and what else did he say that’s unpleasant?” t... ... unable to restrain himself, “the man who advised the Drissa camp—I see no alternative but the lunatic asylum or the gallows!” Without heeding the end... ...sandth time and lay down. But hardly had he done so before he felt the bed rocking backwards and for- wards beneath him as if it were breathing heavil...