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...A few years before the great Civil War, a young English woman and her father, having left the security of their wagon train, are lost in the unforgiving Californian desert, looking in vain for the landmark that marks the short-cut across those last western mountains which would lead them to the home of an old friend. George Castlewood ...

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... it they were surrounded by flames. Facing certain death, they got out of the wagons and formed a small circle. Just as the fire was about to overru... ...randfather looked out and saw a clear circle of untouched grass around their wagons. The story goes he looked up, thanked the Lord for his mercy, a... ... to drag his bad ankle down here with us. Montana, this is W. P. Stanton, our trainer, but you can call him Doc.” “How do you do, sir… I mean Doc.... ...or it.” “I’m much obliged, Clint, but I’m a better cowboy than I am a horse trainer. I don’t think I could split my time between Spirit and the re... ...ant them to bring plenty of rope and ammunition. Luke, tell Sandy to fill the wagon for a week. I’ll need him to follow us up. We’ll meet back here ... ... Spirit, but he’d disappeared. I looked around and saw Luke loadin’ the chuck wagon. “Hey Luke, did you happen to see where my horse went off to?”... ... “That’s fine with me, Montana,” Sandy answered while continuing to load the wagon. “Take it up with Clint if you have any problem with it. I was ... ...in Wyoming. I guess we’ll never know. All I do know is that, given the right training, this might just be the fastest horse in Texas right now.” ... ...ly by steam engine. It has to be possible because steam engines already move trains across the country. All they have to do is invent a smaller one...

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...ll me Montana. I suppose it’s because shortly after the war ended, my folks’ wagon train dropped them off near a huge patch of nothing called Bigho... ... Montana. I suppose it’s because shortly after the war ended, my folks’ wagon train dropped them off near a huge patch of nothing called Bighorn La... ...horn Lake in Montana country. There’d been some sort of argument between the wagon master and my father about directions. Story goes, they were on ... ...ers family began their journey west three weeks before, when they boarded the train in Philadelphia for St. Louis. They’d been told that life in th... ... stage and tied off two more horses to the back of it. They then started the wagon back down the trail, back toward Price’s station. Mr. Rogers was... ... south, it got bigger, even as we moved further away. I couldn't imagine any wagon getting through those mountains. It was now clear to me why the... ... wagon getting through those mountains. It was now clear to me why the wagon trains mostly took the Oregon Trail through the Wyoming country. A f... ...the horses at the trough and followed them. Behind the smaller barn were two wagons, full to the brim with mechanical equipment. I walked over to ...

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... bicycle workshop and a loft they rented. In 1895 they established the Duryea Motor Wagon Company. It produced a total of 13 cars and went belly up ... ...ission is to combine investigative and operational support functions, research, and training in order to provide assistance, without charge, to fede... ...Crime Linkage System (ViCLAS) Canada-wide computer system that assists specially trained investigators to identify serial crimes and criminals by... ...e quintessential British gentleman, stoically solving a crossword puzzle while on a train voyage - is etched in our minds. The crossword puzzle app... ... almost poisoned Hitler's tea, dipped his uniform in lethal bacteria, blown up his train and shot him during his daily walk. Hitler survived numer... ...operated a small wax museum in Paris and, when he died in 1794, Marie - who was his trainee and maybe more - inherited his collection of death masks...

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... at the ceiling as it bled in aqueous abstracts. My grandfather parked his rusting, faded, wagon and climbed home. His wife awoke with startled whim... ... "I shall not forget to stab you in the back." And now, to the transaction. I study you. I train you to ignore my presence and argue with yourself ... ...nippet, perhaps I am overwhelmed by one of my confabulations. I remember descending from a train, ankle-high in rustling snow, treading uncharted t... ...s the profitable thing to do is to be truthful in this case" – one bitterly commented. The train back to Geneva crisscrossed a radiant medley, dese... ... Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Israel. Served in the Israeli Defence Force (1979-1982) in training and education units. Education Graduated a fe...

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...yed on his growing sense of self-doubt. At the far end of the courtyard several ox-driven wagons had pulled up and the coverings were taken off. Eac... ... watches us. I see how he looks up to Traeus. I know he is young still, but I could start training him to look after some of the farmers and village... ...ugh leader, capable of taking care of the family once the torch was passed. “How are the training exercises coming, Zhek?” “Very well, Grandfather,... ... anyone, “We must maintain our military preparedness.” “We have been able to recruit and train new soldiers,” Zhek said optimistically, “and we hav... ... as possible.” Lord Draxen smiled, pleased, and watched the Draxen soldiers drilling and training in the main courtyard. “Excellent. You have done w... ... 47 A spacious courtyard in front of the building permitted large numbers of troops to train or defend the manor. A thick wall of roughly hewn sto...

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...irit and I rode in I could see that it wasn’t much of a camp. One broken down wagon under a single oak, and a man walking toward me. “Sorry to bo... ...n’t a man at all. He was a boy about my age. I also got a better look at that wagon of his. It was leaning bad to one side and a rear wheel was off... ...f his. It was leaning bad to one side and a rear wheel was off its axel. The wagon was covered and I had the sense he wasn’t alone. John E. Ri... ...e held out a hand. “Name’s Jesse. Jesse White. That’s my wife Martha in the wagon with my son.” With that, I grabbed his hand and shook it. “Wi... ...t it off and fixed it, but I can’t get it on back on.” I walked over to the wagon and saw that he’d lifted it with a single branch that’d come off... ... just ended and my folks were just married. They left Ohio and joined a wagon train in Omaha to seek their fortune out west. Now, Bighorn Lake isn’... ...maha to seek their fortune out west. Now, Bighorn Lake isn’t a typical wagon train stop and I’ve heard a few stories about how it got there, but ho... ...e, too. I just read a story about how he, single handed, busted up a gang of train robbers back in Dakota. The paper said he killed five of ‘em and... ...ve to ride through our own land, to get there. This had all the making’s of a train wreck. My biggest fear was that if we were met coming Battle A...

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...etal empty of intricate engravings and peered through the viewfinder of his training rifle. When he proved himself a worthy hunter, a local artisan ... ...r than MossDancer." Breathing hard, his face set in a mask, he snatched his training rifle from the dirt. 40 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant ... ...innacles. Sweet avalanches smacked softly against bolted wooden slats. The wagon's great wheels formed a universe of cogs and chains, derailleurs a... ...g Day, and he lightened his burden by pouring his family's harvest into the wagons, giving something back to the Yata. Sometimes, on these days, he ... ...ack to the Yata. Sometimes, on these days, he was genuinely happy—until the wagons rolled away from town, the hubbub died down, and the townsfolk re... ...." She nodded. "So am I." He helped her to her feet. "I will take you to a wagon. I will have to bind your hands as well—as a precaution, in case y... ...e slowed, then stopped. Watu turned her around and sat her on the edge of a wagon. His voice was a grave baritone. "Once we leave here, there will b... ...raised her eyebrows. "Women and men live separately, then?" He nodded. "You train together, but you live separately." He regarded her curiously. "Is... ...ght soil," Gria said, taking Zai around. "Then we'll all go together to the training ground. We practice in shifts—not just shooting, but other kill...

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...nzo’s favorite. Certainly no one else could have given him more competent training than the Duke. I was so pleased to have him and spoiled him, unti... ... other home. How I reveled in summer haying. Usually, I loaded a small wagon pulled by Burt, Burt eying me, snuffling at me as I pitched the hay:... ...er family. I want to know how the Rutledges are faring. White House In wagons, on foot, on horseback, they stream west, for the gold rush, for the... ...and flagged. A handsome brass cannon boomed from a flatcar coupled to his train, boomed his entry into every town and city. Often our debates were v... ...n October 12, 1863 After my nomination Springfield filled with ox carts, wagons, buggies, horsemen, trainloads of folk. Fifty-thousand poured into ... ...y nomination Springfield filled with ox carts, wagons, buggies, horsemen, trainloads of folk. Fifty-thousand poured into my little town. Hordes jamm... ...ren playing on the street in front of my home, riding in their little red wagon... I am not a cartographer of war; however I surpass some of my gall... ... to force an amalgamation of North and South, I was utterly non- plussed. Trainer of Arabian horses, owner of Arabian horses, breeder of Arabians, S... ..., off somewhere when needed. I liked pulling the little ones in their red wagon, up and down our street, the kids yelping or fussing happily. It wou...

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...hips. It was all heart-achingly naive and it lasted 10 bloody days. Crushed by 2000 trained soldiers and horse bound artillery, the outnumbered 1200... ...ntary (and later, less voluntary) taxation of the rural population, bank robberies, train robberies (which won handsome world media coverage) and ki... ... Princip was not a member of the Black Hand, nor was the Black Hand involved in his training. Moreover, the connection between Mlada Bosna and Crna ... ...e brought Hitler's Germany to Austria's doorstep. Thus, the Ustasha established training centres (more like refugee camps, as they included the ... ... Macedonian chauffeur, Vlado Georgiev-Kerin. The Ustasha was also known for blowing trains and for attempting to do so on more than one occasion bot... ...ive future of the mankind". At worst they were in the hurry to jump on the winning wagon and dissociate themselves from the decaying and corrupt ca...

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...f anything… never mind the birth of our Infinite Universe. Their educational training programs them into an unspoken assumption that you begin from... ...l intelligence. For instance: take hand-eye coordination. The hand can also train the eye. The eye can also train the hand. The object can also ... ...em the exact kind of dulled awareness necessary for making and using tools by training their awareness each night. By staring at the flames of the f... ...ould block out his outer awareness more successfully: so that hominids came to train themselves in this concentrated form of pyramidal awareness unti... ...can settlers, the myths of the great American rancher, the myths of the first wagon trains, the first settlers to cross the plains and the Rockies to... ... people preferred it to being mired down in mud so deep: that their carts and wagons could not move through the streets. But during the religiou... ...ons. This is seen as weakening your own ethnic culture. You must circle the wagons and hate other ethnic races and robber barons: but never your ow... ...people carry away their own wastewater and feces. It was created by the shit wagons of cities. That came every day into the city and slopped their ... ...ay into the city and slopped their filth over the shallow sides of these shit wagons, befouling all those nearby… spraying them with their own shot, ...

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...ning around in the suit, laying out gifts and putting together complicated train and racecar sets until Kelly, the last Butler chick, has left the nes... ..., as far as Kelly was concerned. About a quarter mile from the village and train, Tyler turned down a street and cruised to a stop in front of a two- ... ...ble staring at each other and holding hands, tight as two pickpockets on a train. "Well, well, I see you two finally managed to tear yourselves away f... ... car keys. "Why?" "Don't frown. It's not as if mine's a clunky old station wagon that a family's teenager wouldn't be caught dead in." Tyler fisted th... ...t let him in, did you?" "Do I look like I'm totally nuts?" "Wait..." Kelly trained her ear at the door, listened to Tyler's footsteps grow as he enter... ...ome pick you up?" "Nah. Thass aw-ight. Believe it or not I like riding the trains. It relaxes me." Amire wrinkled her brow and frowned. "You're right....

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...nd will let you play sports in her yard under the supervision of an athletic trainer. The yard is large and fenced in nice. You know that. You will be... ...raging animadversion of a family no different than a "boot camp" or military training camp. The internecine war games in this so called family of whi... ... of teachers. What did he know that he could teach? There was nothing he was trained for, he had no competitive strife, and he did not know of anythin... ...e the store, staring at herself in a tripartite mirror, she didnﾁOt like the trains of the wedding dresses she was trying on. They were too short, fl... ...l agency ready to buy a ticket to Bangkok with the expectation of taking the train to Nongkai, the sister city of Vientiane Laos, she suddenly changed... ...ns. He saw city buses in the distance. The taxis were often crowded station wagons where people sat in what was the trunk. He saw men balancing suit... ...other foreigners, "Taxi cab! Border line, Mister!"; mariachi singers; zebra wagons for tourist photos; Burger King; stores with rectangular mirrors o...

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...s drinking.” Laura Kate interrupted Hannah’s narrative, “I thought Royce was on the wagon.” “On and off. Like he’s been ever since I knew him. Any... ...that’s for sure. Especially when he’s drunk.” “Last I heard he was still on the wagon.” “He’s fallen off more times than a turnip.” Ol... ...bout Royce?” “Royce’s poison was booze. He’d drink a quart a day, then go on the wagon. Unpredictable as ever.” Gerrie Ferris 60 He slowe... ...eep-down bad, the boy had too much time on his hands. But he was the best damn dog trainer in Georgia. “I don't think Mather Morris's got ol' Bobby... ... the Hartwells. Bobby was pathetic. Her mama was getting worse. And all her kata training didn’t help. The Volvo’s tires threw up gravel when ... ...to. “Yes.” “Was Olin at the fight?” Margo pinched her nose. “Olin is the dog’s trainer, or handler, or whatever they call them.” “He’s the tra... ...r, or handler, or whatever they call them.” “He’s the trainer?” Soft-hearted Olin trains killers? It was hard for Laura Kate to believe. “He tr... ...e a bunch of people crowd around and bet a few dollars.” “How long have you been training pit bulls?” she asked. “Six months. A man I know — ... ...d stretched out on the porch of the Queen Anne. Someone knocked into the rolling wagon she lay on. A voice cried out, “Sammie! Oh my God!” ...

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...Racehorse trainer, Kurt MacKinnon, resents being yanked into undercover police work. But when his ex-partner is murdered, Kurt is determined to find the killer and moves his third-string Thoroughbreds to the backwater track where his ...

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...Kinnon,” the shorter one said. “Might be worth putting money on his horse. He trains the good-looking gray.” “They're both lookers,” the second lady... ... things at headquarters?” “The usual. How about you? Heard you’re a full-time trainer now, making bags of money.” “Everything’s good. Got a race ab... ... need you to race in Calgary. I know it's a hick track, and you're a big-time trainer, but this is critical.” Despite the rain, Kurt’s mouth felt dr... ...ears and shoved at the bit. “Not yet, Skippy,” she murmured, conscious of the trainer’s instructions. She checked over her shoulder for other runner... ... in the rail before turning and walking off the track. Ed Harrison, Skippy’s trainer, stepped forward, and her hope soared when she spotted the rar... ...n on the silver. Designs focused on the city’s western heritage—lots of chuck wagons, cowboys and bulls. Odd location for a retail outlet. The stuff...

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...ich was stocked with deer and other game, and where hawks and gerfalcons were trained for limiting purposes. Here the Great Khan usually dwelt during... ...y his uncle Naiam, who had placed himself at the head of five hundred thousand trained cavalrymen. Kubla having learned of the intentions of his uncle... ...n his court at Cambaluc. Having no fire-arms in that day, the King made use of trained leopards, hawks, and gerfalcons, which pursued and took the pre... ...re raised, of the numbers of his oxen and buffaloes, and of the boys he had in training to become soldiers. In return for this boastful assurance, the... ...s a procession of the King and nobles going up from the beach to the town, the trained servants bearing the sword and throne in, solemn state before t... ... the inhabitants of the city moving out in large numbers, and taking with them wagons and pack animals which no doubt bore away the property of the Sp...

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...sh. With my wife and two small sons, I had arrived in Lampang on the night train from Bangkok, and stood there after an ill-slept night, not knowing w... ...ies. Many people who are studying in the technical schools and the teacher training college have come and rented properties in this village to live in... ...ied at the university in Bangkok. Now I am studying at the Lampang teacher training college. No. I used to be a car trader. I sold cars in a marquee i... ... and professional house designers appeared in provincial cities, even some trained architects, creating a new housing culture reflecting international... ...ger grows into its work, and expects society to provide it with vocational training in the field and to solve farmers' problems. The new generation of... ... is served to the monks. In the afternoon, the coffin is taken on a hearse wagon to the cremation place. In the shelter (chapel) at the cremation plac...

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... for pennies on the Boston streets, and brought him home for Daniel’s voice training. She had become as devoted to the boy as she had to any of her... ...bonnet dipped almost to the tip of her nose. Neither the bumping of Ivor’s wagon nor the carpenter’s droning recital of all the valley gossip had wa... ... Mrs. Bennett observes often as well.” “Thank you. Morgan, Miss MacLeish trained for many years in her home city of Edinburgh. She is a brillian... ...shrugged, as if it didn’t matter. “I wouldn’t know. Louise said there’s a train every evening that will get me to New York by morning. I can get I... ...om his touch. She jerked her hand from under his. “You can’t take that train, Morgan.” “Why not?” “Lydia and I will be on it.” She turned ... ...table for York. Supported between Hannah and Barnard in the back of Ivor’s wagon, he hadn’t complained. But Daniel imagined he could see the shado... ... 94 Morgan had not run out to greet them. He’d spent a good portion of the train ride picturing her doing just that, hair flying back from her face... ...e-slain,” Bridey called them. “Bloodless murder by the bloody Brits.” The wagon rumbled on through the gloom of shady lanes, banked by fuschia dri... ... with satisfaction when Morgan began to ripen like a butternut squash. The wagon was comfortable enough for sleeping if only there was sleep to be h...

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... to talk to someone. Searching his mind, he remembered that River Song had been trained as a sha­ maness. She knew about the mystic pathways; she wou... ... Richard was stuck. Now what? He was completely out of his element. His Jesuit training, however, taught him: If all else fails, go for the truth, ... ...er, Los Angeles Times. Dr. Hawk, if everyone, as you propose, gets on your band wagon, won't that take money away from the other environmental group... ...hey were only pre­ tending to match their companion's mood, as good escorts are trained to do. They made the expected ritualistic entrance of the ri... ...rked immediately. The Patron promptly took Aaron under his wing and promised to train him if he agreed to stay for three years. Aaron agreed only if... ...expecting you," Gray Shadow said and opened the rear door to the black Suburban Wagon. Perplexed, Brent crawled into the back seat. They drove sever... ...ked, "How did Hawk know I was coming?" Gray Shadow remained silent. The Chevy wagon sped toward some distant destination. Brent felt completely be... ...humping across the willdshieid lulled Brent into a deep sleep. . Suddenly, the wagon came to an abrupt stop and jolted Brent awake. He could see on... ...like that." Matloch paused. "You know, Alana was a very good business woman. I trained her myself. But she's gone now," he sighed." I know you're n...

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... investigation. The Record telegrnjihed to Mr. Metzdorf of the Springfield Train- ing school, who refereed the Dnrt- mouth-Willinms game of Mnrcli 8, ... ...ether, and with one aim, to help WilliaiiiH. The men must bo lionest about training, and, while he would help them when they were with him, they would... ... as possible their form, and laid the foundatioii f(jr future cooohing and training. Tlio can- didates for the field events will not begin practice un... ...he candidates will not be allowed to use the roads until they beooine dry. Training will begin a week from Sunday, although the training ta blc will i... ...iptions: Class of '07 Class of '08 Class of '09 Class of '10 Miscellaneous Training table Traveling expenses : Transportation Hotels and restauran Ump... ...via the Delaware and Hudson railroad to Vorheesville, N. Y., and thence by wagon to where the "Bear Trail" beKins at New Salem. A study was made of th... ...student body is having its new suit pressed. Hi Walden is oiling his trunk wagon, the bank is paying to everybody's order, and the managers of all the...