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... Some of them had already started and those that were left now set off, in groups of two or three. “You’d better come along with me, Carey,” said the ... ... Chinaman, with a yel- low face and an expansive smile, who was study- ing Western conditions at the University. He spoke so quickly , with a queer ac... ...- ward to eat a sandwich and drink a glass of beer . All round were little groups of students, talking and laughing; and here and there was a family ,... ...r an expression of contempt on the part of the Oriental for the vanquished West. Cacilie was flaunting and cynical. At last even the Frau Professor co... ... He had done the same thing for ten years. He took his whole fam- ily to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny’s home, and they spent three w... ... said: “I suppose you wouldn’t like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging.” “I wouldn’t mind,” sai... ...lf. He suggested that Philip should join him and his family in the Kentish hop-field to which he went every year; and to persuade him said various bea...

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...f more than Eastern splendour, and filled (but not inconveniently so) with groups of ladies and gentlemen, in the very highest state of enjoyment and ... ...even o’clock, or thereabouts; when the captain comes down again, in a sou’ wester hat tied under his chin, and a pilot coat: making the ground wet whe... ..., and so gravely presented on a small scale, that it was like look ing at Westminster through the wrong end of a tele scope. The governor, as her Ma... ...elled, by slow and almost imperceptible degrees, into a continuous line of coast, can hardly be exaggerated. A sharp keen wind blew dead against us; a... ...n full leaf, must be extremely picturesque. Even in the winter time, these groups of well grown trees, cluster ing among the busy streets and houses ... ...ld do instinctively, were the heather underneath my feet, or an iron bound coast beyond; but should often glance towards the distant and frequently re... ...in his right thigh. The shot entered on the outside, halfway be tween the hip and knee joints.’ ‘Brought to jail, John. Left ear cropt.’ ‘Taken up, a...

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...e that a great deal of walking would ultimately bring me to St. Paul’ s or Westminster Abbey; to anything else I was indifferent. Toward sunset my fra... ...earth in perfect trust. We spoke of our old Sunday walks to St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey as of a day that had its charm. Our pew among a fashionab... ...estrains me. I am bound to convey the infor- mation to my brother that the coast is clear for him.’ ‘Well, then, fall light, and for’ard,’ said the sq... ...ys, and others, all bending to roses, to admire, smell, or pluck. Charming groups of ladies were here and there; and T emple whispered as we passed th... ...d like ana- grams. T o put it familiarly, they are like a child’s field of hop- scotch. You may have noticed the urchins at their game: a bit of tile,... ...it? We’ve all had a dozen apiece. You saw little Kiomi curled up under the hop and briony?’ ‘I took her for a dead jackdaw.’ ‘I took her for what she ... ... couple of pleas- ant smooth-sailing days, she consented to cruise off the coasts of France and England. Adieu to the sands. Throughout the cruise she... ... do you mean your wife—egad, it’d be a pretty scene, with your princess in hip-up petticoats, stiff as bottle-funnel top down’ards, airing a whole leg... ...e the first syllable of his name, while we consign him to oblivion, with a hip, hip, hip, hurrah for Richmond!’ The cheers responded thunderingly, and...

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...‘strange defeatures’ in Scottish society. A vast capital has arisen in the west, on a level with the first-rate capitalists of the Continent—with Vien... ...with peculiar delight by the elder Arabic poets. That it had spread to the westernmost parts of Africa, early in the Christian times, we learn from Te... ...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... ...f a spanselled horse, as in past days upon the Cornish and the South Irish coast it was employed— expressly for showing false signals, and leading rig...

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...ad and the land close ahead before we found them. To a ship ap- proaching, like the Casco, from the north, they proved in- deed the least conspicuous ... ... themselves have often scraped up a little English, and in the French zone (though far less commonly) a little French-English, or an efficient pidgin,... ...he brown. And the presence of one Cockney titterer will cause a whole party to walk in clouds of darkness. The hamlet of Anaho stands on a margin of f... ...ir plantations. How plausible! And yet the Marquesans are dying out in the same houses where their fathers multi- plied. Or take opium. The Marquesas ... ...ny one interested in the subject ought to read this tract, which contains real information; and yet Mr. Bishop’s views would have been changed by an a... ... may here recognise the tem- perate and sagacious mind of Bishop Dordillon. 75 Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER XII—THE STORY OF A PLANTATION TAAHAUKU,... ...pplied the wherewithal, he who superintended the cooking, he who asked grace at table, and when the king’s health was proposed, he also started the ch...

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...announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of y... ...the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to day, taking the life of an atro cious murderer, and t... ...on. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory fl... ... and the air, which had been at intervals clear enough to allow the French coast to be seen, became again charged with mist and vapour, Mr. Lorry’s th... ...lt upright, upon its narrow end, always on the point of overtaking him and hop ping on at his side perhaps taking his arm it was a pursuer to shun. ... ...here every fierce and furious expression was in vivid life, there were two groups of faces each seven in number so fixedly contrasting with the rest,...

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... Home THE DAY HAD BRIGHTENED very much, and still brightened as we went westward. We went our way through the sunshine and the fresh air, wondering... ...r through the horse being frightened and lashing out, she was lamed in the hip and from that hour began to pine away.” 93 Bleak House – Vol. One The... ...were going to establish in a picturesque build ing (engraving of proposed west elevation attached) the Sis terhood of Mediaeval Marys, they were goi... ... to Allegory and meditation. By this time the news has got into the court. Groups of its inhabitants assemble to discuss the thing, and the outposts o... ... at all.” At length, one afternoon a little before sunset, when the bright groups of figures which have for the last hour or two 164 Bleak House – Vo... ...n the baths of Germany, and sprinkled on the sea sand all over the English coast. Scarcely one is to be encountered in the deserted region of Chancery... ...me, a low whistle is wafted through the Inn and a suppressed voice cries, “Hip! Gup py!” “Why, you don’t mean it!” says Mr. Guppy , aroused. “Small! H... ...oreground and figures ready drawn for anything from a wreck on the Cornish coast to a review in Hyde Park or a meeting in Manchester, and in Mrs. Perk...

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...ve indistinctly, enormous self-assertive things, he backs into the rear of groups by instinct if Banghurst drops the line for a minute, and when he wa... ... snowclad sum- mits of mountains that grew larger and bolder to the north- westward as the sides of the valley drew together. And west- ward the valle... ...ky told where the forests began. But the three men looked neither east nor west, but only steadfastly across the valley. The gaunt man with the scarre... ... and long before he came I was out of it all—going home to Banya along the coast, hiding in bushes by day, and thieving food from the villages by nigh... ...Syrup has, I suppose, saved more lives already than any lifeboat round the coast. “But none of these little things begin to satisfy me yet,” he told m...

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...use, the household, and the business Mr V erloc left behind him on his way westward at the hour of half-past ten in the morning. It was unusually earl... ...antering past harmoniously, others advancing sedately at a walk, loitering groups of three or four, solitary horsemen looking unsociable, and solitary... ...her wall, nor tree, nor beast, nor man cast a shadow. Mr V erloc was going westward through a town with- out shadows in an atmosphere of powdered old ... ...a few arm-chairs in the great drawing-room, with its hum of voices and the groups of people seated or standing in the light of six tall windows. Micha... ...industrial matters, immense. “There are sardine canneries on the Span- ish coast which -” The Assistant Commissioner interrupted the apprentice states...

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...he view that lay on his right hand, the singular contrast presented by the groups of villagers with the knot of Methodists near the maple, and perhaps... ...he Hall Farm; but apparently there was more interest for him in the living groups close at hand. Every generation in the village was there, from old “... ...orne. It was once the Hall; it is now the Hall Farm. Like the life in some coast town that was once a watering-place, and is now a port, where the gen... ... the open dairy-door. “No, sir, he isn’t; he’s gone to Rosseter to see Mr. West, the factor, about the wool. But there’s Father i’ the barn, sir, if h... ...re, for they were now at the yard-gate. The still twilight, with its dying western red and its few faint struggling stars, rested on the farm-yard, wh...

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...t Pg 892 Choice and Will Pg 890 Passion Pg 900 Innocence Pg 901 Modern Western Society Pg 903 The Consumer Dynamic Pg 915 The Destruction ... ... infinitely small-split particles, and then began coming together into larger groups of infinitely small energy particles... to eventually merge tog... ...to be 360 days instead of 365. Why? Because they divided their numbers into groups of 20 called ‘toons’… not 10, and because they regarded the num... ...e Totalities of 3, or 6, or 9 instead of 12… then the sequences will seem to hop around so inexplicably; as to seem to have no rhyme or reason. But... ...nical, robotocized way of viewing the world we live in. Science is a modern, western secular religious tradition: invented by a species which has pr... ...e Totalities of 3, or 6, or 9 instead of 12… then the sequences will seem to hop around so inexplicably; as to seem to have no rhyme or reason. But... ...s of these words: they all tell the same story. The Namib Desert on the West coast of Africa, the Olduvai Gorge which is on the east side of Africa:... .... All of these areas were the ancestral homes of the apes we came from. The coast of the Namib-Bi-man Desert is called the Skeleton Coast: populat...

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...quite, Especially when life is rather new: I recollect Great Britain’s coast looks white, But almost every other country ‘s blue, When gaz... ...d sent them this for their deliverance. The land appear’d a high and rocky coast, And higher grew the mountains as they drew, Set by a current... ... Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires’ ‘Islands of the Blest.’ The mountai... ...t once withdrew. Twelve negresses from Nubia brought a price Which the West Indian market scarce would bring; Though Wilberforce, at last, has... ... Like a backgammon board the place was dotted With whites and blacks, in groups on show for sale, Though rather more irregularly spotted: So... ... or gold or diamond flings Great lustre, there is much to be forgiven; Groups of bad statues, tables, chairs, and pictures, On which I cannot ... ...lay on their backs, The readiest way of reasoning with Cossacques. One’s hip he slash’d, and split the other’s shoulder, And drove them with t...

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...he universal stare made the eyes ache. Towards the distant line of Italian coast, indeed, it was a little relieved by light clouds of mist, slowly ris... ...citizen of the world.’ His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the folds of his cloak, together with his manner of disregarding... ...’ They were about thirty in company, and all talking; but nec- essarily in groups. Father and Mother Meagles sat with their daughter between them, the... ...er trusty friend, got him into a warehouse, into a market garden, into the hop trade, into the law again, into an auctioneers, into a brewery, into a ... ...But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. Whi... ...t she considered nothing so improbable as that he ever walked on the north-west side of Gray’s-Inn Gardens at exactly four o’clock in the afternoon. H... ...s, all plethoric, hungry, and si- lent, and all in spectacles. These three groups sat round the fire eyeing each other drily, and waiting for supper. ...

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...f their pure springs.” The Hesiodic Poems The Hesiodic poems fall into two groups according as they are didactic (technical or gnomic) or genealogical... ... der held all men as they looked upon her. As she moved, the breath of the west wind stirred the shining garment about her tender bosom; but Hippomene... ...son of wide-reigning Poseidon. T wice ranged the Sons of Boreas along this coast and wheeled round and about yearning to catch the Harpies, while they... ...chariot of the Sun. And he called it Hesperian, because it lies toward the west. Fragment #47 — Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. iv. 892: He (Apo... ... he sought to lay hands upon rich-haired Demeter. But Dardanus came to the coast of the mainland — from him Erichthonius and thereafter T ros were spr... ...ym. Gen.: Hesiod (says there were so called) because they settled in three groups: ‘ And they all were called the Three-fold people, because they divi...

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...alking to you about tumblers. I should speak of foreign danc ers, and the West End of London, and May Fair, and lords and ladies and honourables.’ ‘I... ...NS ‘Yet I don’t see Rachael, still!’ said he. It was a wet night, and many groups of young women passed him, with their shawls drawn over their bare h... ... keep the rain out. He knew Rachael well, for a glance at any one of these groups was sufficient to show him that she was not there. At last, there we... ...g very difficult; his hat held tight in his left hand, which rested on his hip; his right arm, with a rugged propriety and force of ac tion, very ear... ...nd a God like cause? The winds of heaven answered Yes; and bore Yes, east, west, north, and south. And consequently three cheers for the United Aggreg... ...t her eyes, like HARD T IMES 166 a couple of lighthouses on an iron bound coast, might have warned all prudent mariners from that bold rock her Ro m...

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...mong broken laths, and the walls were scrawled with names, sentiments, and hop records. “They’ve been keeping pigeons here,” she cried. “And you could... ...orge. “Turn it all into a fine park like Violet Hill”—he jerked a thumb to westward—”that Mr. Sangres bought. It was four farms, and Mr. Sangres made ... ...ly learned official Mr. L.L. Geary, Sec- 69 Kipling ond Despatcher of the Western Route—to the Captains’ Room (this wakes an echo of old romance), wh... ... streaks of cream round Dingle Bay show where the driven seas ham- mer the coast. A big S.A.T.A. liner (Societe Anonyme des Transports Aeriens) is div... ... se- nior captain laughed, as we went in. We held a good lift to clear the coastwise and Continental shipping; and we had need of it. Though our route... ...th pipe and nozzle fitting all types of generator. Gradu- ated tap on left hip. Hansen’s Flickers Lead the Aerial Flight 197 O... ...d. Tea was ready in the shade of a promising copper beech, and I could see groups on the lawn of young men and maidens appropriately clothed, playing ...

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...to a tavern, begged Macshane to go before me to my lodging, and see if the coast was clear: which he did; and came back to me as pale as death, saying... ... inland counties; but these being too hot to hold them, they went into the west, where they were unknown. Here, how- ever, the day of retribution arri... ...d frills! A broad yellow riband passed across his breast, and ended at his hip in a shining diamond cross—a diamond cross, and a diamond sword-hilt! W... ...eir homes. After this quiet shadow had passed before the Count’s box, many groups of persons passed and repassed; and among them was no other than Mrs... ...a very cheerful place for a love-tryst) at St. Margaret’s churchyard, near Westminster Abbey. Of this, no doubt, Cat was thinking; but what could she ...