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The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

...ticed it. Mrs Ashburnham was a Powys; Florence was a Hurlbird of Stamford, Connecticut, where, as you know, they are more old-fashioned than even the ... ...m Penn. Florence’s people, as is so often the case with the inhabitants of Connecticut, came from the neighbourhood of Fordingbridge, where the Ashbur... ...to imagine that, however much her bright personal- ity came from Stamford, Connecticut, she was yet a graduate of Poughkeepsie. I never could imagine ... ...he voyage. And it struck him that the things to take for that purpose were oranges—because California is the orange country—and comfortable folding ch... ...nd comfortable folding chairs. So he bought I don’t know how many cases of oranges—the great cool California oranges, and half-a-dozen folding chairs ... ...m he had so much as a nodding 13 Ford Madox Ford acquaintance, he gave an orange every morning. And they lasted him right round the girdle of this mi... ...ys he to himself, “these fellows must be very lonely. Let’s take them some oranges.” So he had a boatload of his fruit out and had himself rowed to th... ...isie to the Casino. I want Mrs Dowell to tell me all about the families in Connecticut who came from Fordingbridge.” For it had been discovered that F... ...night, I believe, is the proper season for the gentle feats of love, not a Connecticut July afternoon, when any sort of proximity is an almost appalli...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...ong way to go too. The stretch that we were completing started just at the Connecticut border and wound its way down through the mountains of New York... ... addition to your gun and license, you’re going to have to buy your hunter orange clothing, and ammunition for your gun. This will cost at least fifty...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...e arbiter of their differences. The circum- stances of the dispute between Connecticut and Pennsylva- nia, respecting the land at Wyoming, admonish us... ... the court decided in favor of Pennsylvania. 29 The Federalist Papers But Connecticut gave strong indications of dissatisfaction with that determinat... ...lish their own pre- tensions. These were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. New Jersey and Rhode Island, upon all occa- sions, discovered ... ... submitted to by the tributary States. The relative situation of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey would afford an example of this kind. New York,... ...iment in the way, to distinguish the cus- tomers in our own markets. Would Connecticut and New Jersey long submit to be taxed by New York for her excl... .... But it was not till the revolution in 1688, which elevated the Prince of Orange to the throne of Great Britain, that English liberty was completely ... ...e Declaration of Right presented by the Lords and Commons to the Prince of Orange in 1688, and afterwards thrown into the form of an act of parliament...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

.......................539 Twenty Years.....................................539 Orange Buds by Mail from Florida....540 Twilight............................ ... Michigan! Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut! Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks! Land of... ... of citrons and cucumbers with silver wired leaves, Through the salt lick or orange glade, or under conical firs, Through the gymnasium, through the c... ...each other! let none render it back!) And twigs of maple and a bunch of wild orange and chestnut, And stems of currants and plum blows, and the aromat... ...e oak, locust, chestnut, hickory, cottonwood, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 356 orange, magnolia, Tangles as tangled in him as any canebrake or swamp, He... ...ies are so flavorous and juicy, That the fruits of the apple orchard and the orange orchard, that melons, grapes, peaches, plums, will none of them po... ... fields and tides. Nor by your streams alone, you rivers, By you, your banks Connecticut, By you and all your teeming life old Thames, By you Potomac ...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...r, Massachu- setts, in May, 1630. In 1635 he moved to what is now Windsor, Connecticut, and was the surveyor for that colony for more than forty years... ...n this country. His eldest son, Samuel, took lands on the east side of the Connecticut River, opposite Windsor, which have been held and occupied by d... ...l- dren, Peter Grant. The elder, Solomon, remained with his rela- tives in Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the Br... ...d if you won’t take that, to give you twenty-five.” It would not require a Connecticut man to guess the price finally agreed upon. This story is nearl... ...he United States, we halted in the evening in a tropical climate where the orange and banana, the coffee and the sugar-cane were flourishing. We had b... ...tions. There are two roads, good for that part of Virginia, run- ning from Orange Court House to the battle-field. The most southerly of these roads i... ...use to the battle-field. The most southerly of these roads is known as the Orange Court House Plank Road, the northern one as the Orange T urnpike. Th... ...as to connect the farms with roads going there. Lee’s headquarters were at Orange Court House. From there to Fredericksburg he had the use of the two ... ...rward, Wilson’s division by Wilderness T av- ern to Parker’s store, on the Orange Plank Road; Gregg to the left towards Chancellorsville. Warren follo...

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Winesbur Inesbur, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

...ng gates, bridges, and stations. “The Big Four paints its stations a nasty orange color. How I hated that color! My brother was al- 41 Winesburg, Ohi... ...en table. “About the house he went in the clothes cov- ered with the nasty orange colored paint. I can see the picture. My mother, who was small and h... ... would never come back, she took the two children and went to a village in Connecticut where she had lived as a girl. In the end she married a man who...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...peatedly and unsuccessfully try- ing to contact it. 44 At 8:52, in Easton, Connecticut, a man named Lee Hanson received a phone call from his son Pete... ...9/11 in a fraudulent driver’s license scheme. 76 Rababah, who had lived in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, told investigators that he had recom... ...ccess. He says he then suggested that Hazmi and Hanjour travel with him to Connecticut where they could look for a place to live. 77 On May 8, Rababah... ...abah went to Hazmi and Hanjour’s apartment to pick them up for the trip to Connecticut.There he says he found them with new room- mates—Ahmed al Ghamd... ...ad arrived at Dulles Airport on May 2. Rababah drove Hanjour to Fairfield, Connecticut, followed by Hazmi, who had Moqed and Ghamdi in his car.After a... ... highly enriched uranium or plutonium about the size of a grapefruit or an orange, together with com- mercially available material, could fashion a nu...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

... of Great Britain. At length a rumor reached our shores that the Prince of Orange had ventured on an enterprise, the success of which would be the tri... ...estimony, in the negative. Here is a note relating to a suit of his in the Connecticut courts, 79 Hawthorne which was delivered me from that gentlema...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...ter competition than in that of durable commodities; in the importation of oranges, for example, than in that of old iron. When the quantity brought t... ...18;000 a-year; that of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, £3500 each; that of Connecticut, £4000; that of New York and Pennsylvania, £4500 each; that of ... ...mblies had not only the legislative, but a part of the executive power. In Connecticut and Rhode Island, they elected the governor. In the other colon...

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