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Little Dorrit Book Two Riches

By: Charles Dickens

...the carriage of some rich young heiress or widow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s co... ...en; strings of bells were buckled on, burdens were adjusted, the voices of drivers and riders sounded musically. Some of the earliest had even al- rea... ...ons he must have, and they ought to be torn from him. All the guides, mule-drivers, and idlers in the yard, had made themselves parties to the angry c... ...attering, they 37 Little Dorrit – Book Two would do; and so they would be driven madly through narrow unsavoury streets, and jerked out at the town g... ...-gardens where the weeds had grown so strong that their stems, like wedges driven home, had split the arch and rent the wall; stone-terraced lanes, wi... ... of a mile to spare for the park (Immense cheering and laughter); while of tape—red tape—it had used enough to stretch, in graceful festoons, from Hyd...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...THE NEED FOR PLEASURE ........................................................................................................... 12 The Power Drive ... .................................................................................................................... 17 Combinations of Needs and Drives... ................................................................................................................. 31 POWER AND SUCCESS AS PRIMARY DRIVES... ... OF POWER ............................................................................................................ 59 ADDRESSING THE POWER DRIVE ... ...d she got one at Berkeley. Nowadays we are often put on the same podium to debate our beliefs, my realistic belief in the basic psychological drives... ...mental illness when it does not require people to work for pay. A few counties and states have tried to require work but the bureaucratic red tape m...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ions and then inserted a floppy disc. Then you were prompted to close the drive door, and you got your books. No waiting. No overdue fines. Never an... ... to a privileged few. Today, the common person can buy a desktop-terabyte drive for fifty dollars and a pocket-terabyte drive for a hundred dollars— ... ...ld write and edit copy on this setup. One key click punched holes in paper tapes that—when run through apparatus in the back shop—set type twice as f... ...revolutionaries. More than a million words piled up in my Macintosh hard drives before the process of condensing them into this book began about fi... ...ts operation on next page after end of this chapter. Brain, Our Hard Drive; Neurons, Its Circuits The brain is our system‘s hard drive; neuro... ...the Mediterranean into the huge depression known today as the Black Sea. Driven from their homes by that fearsome flood, survivors dispersed to the... ...to cut out her tongue and leave her in the cabin. There, Philomela wove a tapestry that told her story and had it sent to Procne. Her sister’s so... ...pic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tapestries, and the like, however, marked but baby steps beyond the limita...

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And the Heroic in History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ublish his Religion by the way of preaching and persuasion alone. But now, driven foully out of his native country, since unjust men had not only give... ...resent with. While others forget it, he knows it;—I might say, he has been driven to know it; without consent asked of him, he finds himself living in... ... semblance, Heaven and Hell are not semblances. I stand on this, since you drive me to it. Standing on this, I a poor German Monk am stron- ger than y... ...of the harvest-fields: How it stands, that golden yellow corn, on its fair taper stem, its golden head bent, all rich and waving there,—the meek Earth... ...as of a body was there; but the soul of it was first this. These poor men, driven out of their own country, not able well to live in Holland, determin... ... extant will insist on becoming palpably extant.— On all sides, are we not driven to the conclusion that, of 140 Thomas Carlyle the things which man ... ...a man will say: “Keep your gilt carriages and huzzaing mobs, keep your red-tape clerks, your influentialities, your important businesses. Leave me alo... ...dness to have clerks forever pes- tering you with bundles of papers in red tape? A simple Diocletian prefers planting of cabbages; a George Washing- t...

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Sergey Ivanovitch Koznishev

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to... ...t, hot summer days had set in with short, dewy nights. The brothers had to drive through the woods to reach the meadows. Sergey Ivanovitch was all the... ...that he might not get his feet wet, Sergey Ivanovitch asked his brother to drive him in the trap up to the willow tree from which the carp was caught.... ...ly mean the liability to pay fourpence halfpenny for every three acres, to drive into the town, sleep with bugs, and listen to all sorts of idiocy and... ...-five miles. Or perhaps it is thirty. But a capi- tal road. Capital, we’ll drive over.” “I shall be delighted,” said Sergey Ivanovitch, still smil- in... ..., and shoes for the different legs, and to undo and to do up again all the tapes and but- tons, Darya Alexandrovna, who had always liked bath- ing her... ...d with his self-confidence had made his career, was his con- tempt for red tape, his cutting down of correspondence, his direct contact, wherever poss...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

... to fly, with wet cheeks and flaming heart, from that Fever-scene at Metz; driven forth by sour shavelings? She hardly returned, when fever and shavel... ...too, when Damiens wounded Royalty ‘slightly, under the fifth rib,’ and our drive to Trianon went off futile, in shrieks and madly shaken torches,—had ... ...w, it is a resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opin- ion, is at last for entering the sick-room,—will twi... ...poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could keep him out; but h... ...b. i. 100-151. Weber, i. 11-50.) have pictured her, there within the royal tapes- tries, in bright boudoirs, baths, peignoirs, and the Grand and Littl... ..., two of them are hanged, ‘on a new gallows forty feet high;’ and the rest driven back to their dens,—for a time. Clearly a difficult ‘point’ for Gove... ...have Nestor, King, Queen, ministers and clerks, with paper-bundles tied in tape: but the Government? For Government is a thing that governs, 40 The F... ...some chair, if not to sit on, then to stand on. The Secretaries undo their tapes; Bailly has constituted the Assembly. 144 The French Revolution: V o... ...esty’s Reposi- tory, what they call Garde-Meuble, is forced and ransacked: tapestries enough, and gauderies; but of serviceable fight- ing-gear small ...

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...nd flaming heart, 14 The French Revolution from that Fever-scene at Metz; driven forth by sour shave- lings? She hardly returned, when fever and shav... ...too, when Damiens wounded Royalty ‘slightly, under the fifth rib,’ and our drive to Trianon went off futile, in shrieks and madly shaken torches,—had ... ...w, it is a resolution taken; jacta est alea. Old Richelieu,—when Beaumont, driven by public opinion, is at last for entering the sick-room,—will twitc... ...poor Louis, Death has found thee. No palace walls or life-guards, gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial could keep him out; but h... ... i. 100-151. Weber, i. 11-50.) have pic- tured her, there within the royal tapestries, in bright bou- doirs, baths, peignoirs, and the Grand and Littl... ..., two of them are hanged, ‘on a new gallows forty feet high;’ and the rest driven back to their dens,—for a time. Clearly a difficult ‘point’ for Gove... ...have Nestor, King, Queen, ministers and clerks, with paper-bundles tied in tape: but the Govern- ment? For Government is a thing that governs, that gu... ...some chair, if not to sit on, then to stand on. The Secretaries undo their tapes; Bailly has con- stituted the Assembly. Experienced Mounier, not whol... ...ajesty’s Repository, what they call Garde-Meuble, is forced and ransacked: tapestries enough, and gauderies; but of serviceable fighting-gear small st...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...he to invade me? What moves him? What provokes him? What sets him on? What drives him to it? Who hath given him this coun- sel? Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, my... ...e are like to put out mine eyes; give me a branch of those willow-trees to drive them away, thinking that the bullets and stones shot out of the great... ...s, marrers of mirth, and disturbers of all civil conversation, as the bees drive away the drones from their hives? Ignavum fucos pecus, said Maro, a p... ...nd therefore even then began all of them to run away as hard as they could drive, Drawforth only excepted, who immediately settled his lance on its re... ...rk. All the halls, chambers, and closets or cabinets were richly hung with tapestry and hangings of divers sorts, according 164 Gargantua & Pantagrue... ...apidaries, jewellers, embroiderers, tailors, gold-drawers, velvet-weavers, tapestry-makers and upholster- ers, who wrought there every one in his own ... ...a pair of gloves perfumed with the scent of bum-gunshot at the walnut-tree taper, as is usual in his country of Mirebalais. Slacking, there- fore, the... ...shion of old in the city of Rome at marriage festi- vals to light five wax tapers; nor was it permitted to kindle any more at the magnific nuptials of... ... extinguishers, and with their noses put out the lighted candles, torches, tapers, and flambeaux; since, while they lived, they still lighted, ballock...

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The Wife and Other Stories

By: Anton Tchekhov

...t in the double windows, and that some one with bells on their harness had driven over the dam. And at such times I read in her face: “I am faithful t... ...t think that I was frightened of her, and perhaps the thought that she has driven me out of my house may weigh upon her. It would be just as well, too... ... such as I had never heard from him before: “Hey! Let’s give the general a drive! If you come to grief he’ll buy new ones, my darlings! Hey! look out!... ...her wineglassful. “Would you believe it, the joy of seeing good people has driven away my sleepiness? I have turned into a peasant, a savage in the wi... ... moving about men with lanterns, telling our coachmen how and which way to drive, and wishing us a lucky journey . The horses, the men, and the sledge... ...nment clerks. Y ou keep, not a temple of science, but a department for red tape and loyal behaviour, and it smells as sour as a police-station. No, my...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...all candles ornamented with golden spirals. The candelabra was filled with tapers, and from the choir sounded most merry tunes sung by amateur chorist... ... It was dark, damp and warm out of doors, and that white spring mist which drives away the last snow, or is diffused by the thawing of the last snow, ... ...hludoff, but did not remain in the room. “When mamma gets tired of you and drives you away, then come to me,” she said, turning to Kolosoff and Nekhlu... ...must be in reality; but this mental picture was too horrid and he tried to drive it away. “Well, you know Missy is waiting for you,” she said. “Go and... ...r’s right hand, first showed Himself to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had driven seven devils, and then to eleven of His disciples, and ordered them ... ...t he that believed it and was baptised should be saved, and should besides drive out devils and cure people by laying his hands on them, should talk i... ... policeman began, with his thick, trembling fingers, clumsily to untie the tapes that fastened the shirt round the red, sinewy neck. He was evidently ... ...rk, showing off his knowledge of the law. The policeman, having undone the tapes of the shirt, rose and looked round. “Move on, I tell you. It is not ...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...uccessful. In the South, I say, labor ever has been dishonorable; and I am driven to confess that I have not hitherto seen a sign of any change in the... ...e. In September we did not stay above a week in Boston, having been fairly driven out of it by the musquitoes. I had been told that I should find nobo... ... in the same room with me. But at 29 Trollope these hotels I found myself driven away—propelled as it were by some unknown force—to absent myself fro... ...hallowed rock at Plymouth, on the shore of Massachu- setts. They came here driven by no thirst of conquest, by no greed for gold, dreaming of no Weste... ...m.” “Waal, yes. If he goes to work hard, and drinks a bucketful,” said the driver, “per- haps he may.” From which and other things I gathered that the... ...ing for what you want over the counter is gone; and when you buy a yard of tape or a new carriage—for either of which articles you will probably visit...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

..., that high, sad, longing Discontent, which was agitating every bosom, had driven Goethe almost to despair. All felt it; he alone could give it voice.... ...and still finer lindens. Thither, at Whitsuntide, the flocks of sheep were driven: and, at the same time, the poor, pale orphan children were allowed ... ... the little host with its leader Achilles scattered around me, having been driven over with me by the rising of the rails, I seized the hero first, an... ...- emies, these took it into their heads to torment me, to shame me, and to drive me away. Having left me an instant in the room, they came back with s... ... not to be set in frames, but to be fastened upon the walls like pieces of tapestry. And now the work went on zealously. Seekatz undertook country sce... ...o the imitation of the most elaborate Dutch, was least able to manage this tapestry-work; but he condescended to ornament many compartments with flow-... ...l female figure, in his own style, who was raising a pair of snuffers to a taper; and he was extraordinarily delighted when he was able to cause a dis... ... order to procure a repeated entrance from the porter, was the embroidered tapes- try with which they had lined the whole interior. Here, for the firs... ...ed the whole interior. Here, for the first time, I saw a specimen of those tapestries worked after Raffaelle’s cartoons; and this sight was for me of ...

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...trations that the administra- tive departments were consuming miles of red tape in the correctest forms of activity, and that everything was for the b... ...ghtened censorship. It is not too much to say that the work involved would drive a man of any intellectual rank mad. Consider, for example, the Christ... ...that the theatre door is the gate of hell. Macready had a hard struggle to drive the prostitutes from his theatre; and since his time the London theat... ...ief! Horse-thief! Horse-thief! BLANCO. Do women make the law here, or men? Drive these heifers out. THE WOMEN. Oh! [They rush at him, vituperating, sc... ...lar as to what she does to oblige him. Therefore I ask the prisoner not to drive us to give Miss Evans the oath. I ask him to tell us fair and square,...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... a cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt t... ...hen, again rustling, pass into the anteroom, put on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief topic of the day: the illness... ... ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. CHAPTER XVII AFTER ANNA MIKHAYLOVNA had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov, Counte... ...side the quilt. Into the right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, ben... ...ong hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the service. A little... ...e lady. Prince V asili in front of the door, near the invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on the carved back of a ve... ... about, went across the room to where Pierre was stand- ing and gave him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, began cross... ...rving those around him, began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. Sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess with the mole, ... ...ies. Get used to it and you’ll like it,” and he patted her cheek. “It will drive all the nonsense out of your head.” She turned to go, but he stopped ...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...police man of the Northwest Territory entered, followed by two half breed dog drivers. Like Westondale, they were heavily armed and showed signs of f... ... forced a mug of punch upon him; then he turned for the door, ordering the dog drivers to follow. But the warmth and promise of rest were too tempting... ... and the Englishman, realizing his impotency, turned for the door. But the dog drivers still objecting, he whirled upon them fiercely, calling them wom... ...hem to their feet. The poor brutes whined under the stinging lash, for the dog drivers were angry and cruel; nor till Babette, the leader, was cut fro... ... a blow, he could not bear to beat the poor animals, but humored them as a dog driver rarely does, — nay, almost wept with them in their misery. “Come... ...closely watched by one of Sandel’s sec onds, who first examined critically the tapes on King’s knuckles. A second of his own was in Sandel’s corner, p...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...lor of probability or the shadow of a foundation, and that way, alas! I am driven in my fears by that Hungarian woman’s prophecy; or, which but for my... ...ents, from the dangerous speed we maintained, and which, nevertheless, the driver had or- ders to maintain, as essential to our plan. All the stoppage... ...roasted potatoes in Spain at that date, and very few in England. But anger drives a man to say anything. Catalina had seen her last of friends and ene... ...y bedroom having obviously no outlet, her fate would be that of an ox once driven within the shambles. Outside, the bullock might make some defence wi... ...r for the sake of giving impe- tus to the assault? Thither were the camels driven in fiercely by those who rode them, generally women or boys; and eve... ...othing. It is to undertake the measurement of the tropics with the pocket- tape of an upholsterer. Columbus, when he introduced the Old World to the N...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ld with the odd- wares man, and only went to the crockery man when she was driven—or drawn by the cornflowers on a little dish; then she was coldly po... ... along happily enough. The factory had a homely feel. No one was rushed or driven. Paul always enjoyed it when the work got faster, towards post-time,... ...nst the seared meadows and the thorn- trees. It was four and a half miles’ drive. Tiny buds on the hedges, vivid as copper-green, were opening into ro... ...t behind the rest, convulsed with shamed laughter. “How much will it be to drive to Brook Cottage?” said Mrs. Morel. “Two shillings.” “Why, how far is... ...in fear. And he knew, before he could kiss 222 Sons & Lovers her, he must drive something out of himself. And a touch of hate for her crept back agai... ...at her again, in fear, and went obedi- ently out of the room. Paul saw the tape of his garters 419 D.H. Lawrence swinging against his legs. After ano...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care h... ...od great woods on the slopes beyond—old, tall, and brilliant, like unfaded tapestries against the walls of a ruined house. “All this within a hundred ... ...a thicket of rank rhododendrons, and crossed what had once been a carriage drive, which ended in the shadow of two gigantic holm-oaks. “A house!” said... ...ou runagate!” The hound broke from him, and he tottered after him down the drive. They entered the hall—just such a high light hall as such a house sh... ...op records. “They’ve been keeping pigeons here,” she cried. “And you could drive a buggy through the roof anywhere,” said George. “That’s what I say,”... ...y.” “And we shan’t even know where we’ve gone wrong with your new carriage drive before that time either,” said Cloke, ever anxious to keep the balanc... ...ful upward curves of fifty miles each. The dip-dial translates them on the tape in flowing freehand. Tim gathers up a skein of it and surveys the last... ... ruefully. A postal packet’s dip-dial records every yard of every run. The tapes then go to the A. B. C., which collates and makes composite photograp... ...that play on the shunt-stops. The delicious flight-curves come away on the tape with never a waver. The Mark Boat’s ver- tical spindle of light lies d...

... lay in a darkened room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capit...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...d and wife,’ now eight and seven years old, were in a large room hung with tapestry, representing the history of T obit. A great state bed, curtained ... ... to be unfaithful where I owe faith,’ said Berenger, heated, startled, and driven to extremity. ‘Not ill answered for the English giant,’ said Charles... ...the arch of clipped limed he beheld the little Demoiselle de Nid-de-Merle, driven into a corner and standing at bay, with glowing cheeks, flashing eye... ...poke too hotly,’ said Berenger, collecting him- self; ‘but it is enough to drive a man to frenzy.’ ‘Sit down, my Lord de Ribaumont. Take breath, and l... ...y his national Church, and wind back to her those whom her corruptions had driven to 75 The Chaplet of Pearls seek truth and morality beyond her pale... ...cheerful with the bright wood- fire on the open hearth, shining on the gay tapestry hangings, and the dark wood of the carved bed. The evergreen-decke... ...ur had no grating to divide it, but was merely a large room furnished with tapestry, carved chests, chairs, and cushions, much like other reception-ro... ...e decorously gay, like their Mother Abbess; one was a prodigious worker of tapes- try, two were unrivalled save by one another as confection- ers. Eus... ... of his own Theodore. Had the little Baronne de Ribaumont been lodged in a tapes-tried chamber, between curtains of velvet and gold, with a beauffet b...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... a cloudless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt t... ...n, again rus- tling, pass into the anteroom, put on cloaks or mantles, and drive away. The conversation was on the chief topic of the day: the illness... ...ill he is!” exclaimed the mother. CHAPTER XVII AFTER A NNA MIKHAYLOVNA had driven off with her son to visit Count Cyril Vladimirovich Bezukhov , Count... ...side the quilt. Into the right hand, which was lying palm downwards, a wax taper had been thrust between forefinger and thumb, and an old servant, ben... ...ong hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the service. A little... ...e lady. Prince V asili in front of the door, near the invalid chair, a wax taper in his left hand, was leaning his left arm on the carved back of a ve... ...as about, went across the room to where Pierre was standing and gave him a taper. He lit it and, distracted by observing those around him, began cross... ...rving those around him, began crossing himself with the hand that held the taper. Sophie, the rosy, laughter-loving, youngest princess 46 War & Peace... ...d to it and you’ll 51 Tolstoy like it,” and he patted her cheek. “It will drive all the nonsense out of your head.” She turned to go, but he stopped ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...rugal crone, whom praying priests attend, Still tries to save the hallow’d taper’s end, Collects her breath, as ebbing life retires, For one puff more... ...e six whores and make his lady weep? Or soft Adonis, so perfumed and fine, Drive to St James’s a whole herd of swine? Oh filthy check on all industrio... ..., 300 On once a flock-bed, but repair’d with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling fro... ... that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft slumbers seals the wakeful eye; That drives the dead to dark Tartarean coasts, Or back to life compels the wande... ...of the sky; But with a thicker night black Auster shrouds The heavens, and drives on heaps the rolling clouds, From whose dark womb a rattling tempest... ...far, The floods descending, and the watery war, 510 That, driven by storms, and pouring o’er the plain, Swept herds, and hinds, and h... ...ient will be left at night. ’Tis but a just and rational desire To light a taper at a neighbour’s fire. There’s danger too, you think, in rich array, ... ...frown’d, and ‘Use (he cried) those eyes So skilful, and those hands so taper; Do something exquisite and wise—’ She bow’d, obey’d him, and c... ...70 bends. Of these, twelve volumes, twelve of amplest size, Redeem’d from tapers and defrauded pies, Inspired he seizes: these an altar raise: An hec...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...e of a drunken crowd rioting in front of the shop. She had taken a cab and driven home by a side street and the cabman had told her that the people we... ... authority, was the packing of the carpets. The count had valuable Gobelin tapestries and Persian carpets in the house. When Natasha set to work two c... ...in the sitting room without undressing. That night another wounded man was driven down the Povarskaya, and Mavra Kuzminichna, who was standing at the ... ...th a raised hood, and was quite covered by an apron. On the box beside the driver sat a venerable old attendant. A doctor and two soldiers followed th... ...ed to the caleche, looked into it, shook his head disconsolately, told the driver to turn into the yard, and stopped beside Mavra Kuzminichna. “O, Lor... ...head. Efim, the old coachman, who was the only one the countess trusted to drive her, sat perched up high on the box and did 58 War and Peace – Book ... ...own at once,” said Natasha, and began hurriedly undressing, tugging at the tapes of her petticoat. 118 War and Peace – Book Eleven When she had throw...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...le’s broidered hammer-cloth, or the driving-seat of the common coach, each driver assailed the other with floods of ribald satire. The pavid matron wi... ...up a thousand pound note from a bundle on the piano, she lighted it at the taper and proceeded to re-illumine the extinguished chibouk of Lord Codling... ...ur troops returned from the sally in which your gallant storming party was driven back, you were found on the glacis, and I had you brought into the C... ...! he thought not of thee. It happened thus. Miss Amethyst being engaged to drive with her cousin the prince in his phaeton, her own carriage was sent ... ... tooned with Walanseens Lace, and lighted up of evenings with rose-colored tapers. Goold dressing-case and twilet of Dresding Cheny. My bed white and ... ...med to be a consperracy, too, between that Silvertop and Lady Hangelina to drive me to the same pint. ‘What a plucky fellow you were, Pluche,’ says he... ...d a stronger term) ‘are you, then?’ said Mr. Silvertop. ‘Are you Baggs and Tapewell, my uncle’s attorneys? If you are, you have come too late for the ... ...come too late for the fair.’ “I briefly explained that I was not Baggs and Tapewell, but that my name was J—ms, and that I was a gentleman con- nected... ...gate flew open! the organ went off in a fugue—the lights quivered over the tapers, and then went off towards the ceiling—the ghosts assembled rushed a...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...grant him.” “O my Friends, we are [in Yorick Sterne’s words] but as ‘turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to the market:’ or if some drivers, a... ...knows not whether to hate or to love him. For though, in looking at the fair tapestry of human Life, with its royal and even sacred figures, he dwells ... ...day. Had Teufelsdr¨ ockh also a father and mother; did he, at one time, wear drivel bibs, and live on spoon meat? Did he ever, in rapture and tears, ... ...as a Mrs. Teufelsdr¨ ockh likely to make in polished society? Could she have driven so much as a brass bound Gig, or even a simple iron spring one? Th... ...othing there but brick or stone houses, and some bundles of Papers tied with tape. Where, then, is that same cunningly devised almighty GOVERNMENT of ... ...longer dwells; but only spiders and unclean beetles, in horrid accumulation, drive their trade; and the mask still glares on you with its glass eyes, ... ...ich:— “In these distracted times,” writes he, “when the Religious Principle, driven out of most Churches, either lies unseen in the hearts of good men...

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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

... of Boston Center instructed his quality assurance specialist to “pull the tape” of the radio transmission, listen to it closely, and report back. 110... ...l there? New England Region:Y es, I am. Boston Center: . . . as far as the tape, Bobby seemed to think the guy said that “we have planes.” Now, I don’... ...f the report that American 11 was heading south, as is clear not just from taped conversations at NEADS but also from taped conversations at FAA cente... ...1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.The long, disjointed document c... ...e accounts, he had been interested there in religious studies, inspired by tape recordings of fiery sermons by Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian and a dis... ...peals for jihad.At about the time when the Taliban were making their final drive toward Jalalabad and Kabul, Bin Ladin issued his August 1996 fatwa, s... ...ricans from the Gulf region.T wo weeks after that, Bin Ladin gave a video- taped interview to ABC News with the same slogans, adding that “we do not d... ...iorities and assign personnel accordingly. 11 The office’s priorities were driven by two primary concerns. First, perform- ance in the Bureau was gene... ...ment ranks had little counterterrorism experience. Second, priorities were driven at the local level by the field offices, whose concerns centered on ...

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