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...e age and coun- try to which they belonged, and, moreover, inserting para- graphs and words, not here and there only, but constantly and habitually, f... ... and brotherly friendship which we had enter- tained for each other, I was perfectly acquainted with the intentions, opinions, and wishes which he had... ...ne proceeded from him at a season of such great trouble, they indicate the perfect tranquillity of his mind and thoughts to the last. On Monday, the 9... ...opinion, he is now qualified to present himself in the best company. It is perfectly possible that some fas- tidious persons will detect in the book s... ...al duties; and when this is the case, noth- ing is wanting to make a State perfect in its constitution. Now, in proportion as this is so much to be de... ...eserves to become a captain; nor to assign mean functions to those who are perfectly equal to the highest. In truth, his powers were badly economised ...

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...ered the expectations of its favorers. Some amendments may be required to perfect existing laws, but no change in their principles or general scope i... ...no one of them, more than to yourself. The pur- poses of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately ... ...poses any more. But you object to the plan. Leaving it alone will be your perfect security against it. It is not proposed to force you into it. Do ... ...t and this opposition, from the respective standpoints of the parties, was perfectly consistent and logical. Every Unionist ought to wish the new gov... ...nding up of the great difficulty. He wished the reunion of all the States perfected, and so effected as to remove all causes of disturbance in the fu... ...captured to-day.” Judging by the two points from which General Grant tele- graphs, I infer that he moved his headquarters about one mile since he sent...

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...rimmed lamp, burning cheap paraffin. Lighting by electricity had then been perfected for fifteen years, but still the larger portion of the world used... ...days would have found little beauty in our grouping. I have our two photo- graphs at hand in this bureau as I write, and they show me a gawky youth in... ...I was chief talker. I can look back upon myself with, I believe, an almost perfect detachment, things have so changed that indeed now I am another bei... ...n every love affair and greatly intensified one’s natural desire for them, perfect trust, perfect loyalty, lifelong devotion. Much of the complex esse... ...isplayed an instinctive disinclination to think. Their security was not so perfect that they had not a dread of falling towards the pit, they were alw... ...ly denied. But indeed old Mrs. Verrall was no more capable of doubting the perfection of her family’s right to dominate a wide country side, than she ...

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...king his hat off, Podsnap, as per agreement made with Mrs Veneering, tele- graphs to that wife and mother, ‘He’s up.’ Veneering loses his way in the u... ...ur legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two. The father of this young gentleman had been ... ...he information conveyed to him by Fledgeby’s eye. The breakfast ended in a perfect understanding. Incessant machinations were to be kept at work by Mr... ...’ ‘Don’t you? said Eugene. ‘Then I won’t.’ He said it so tauntingly in his perfect placidity, that the respectable right-hand clutching the respectabl... ...nother cigar. T ake one of these, I entreat. Light it at mine, which is in perfect order. So! Now do me the justice to observe that I am doing all I c... ...if you don’t, more shame for you!—that Mr and Mrs Boffin are just absolute perfection.’ ‘T ruly,’ returned Mrs Wilfer, courteously receiving the de- s...

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... fun, merriment, and freedom, i.e. that obedient freedom which is the most perfect kind of liberty. Though this was in great part the effect of having... .... For it must be remembered that it was a real, not an ideal nature; not a perfect character, but one full of the elements of growth. A childish, chil... ...redit and repu- tation as a scholar, and what is of more consequence, with perfect character as to truth and conduct in every way. This can only be ac... ...be got at Eton or any other school. He had those pleasant manners and that perfect ease in dealing with men and with the world which are the inheritan... ...regard to the opera, I have never seen Weber or Meyerbeer’s works given so perfectly and conscientiously as at Dresden. Patteson’s chief delight was t... ...think of her no longer having them. I have also a nice selection of photo- graphs just sent out, among which the cartoons from Hamp- ton Court are esp...

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...s and accounts, he bought and sold for cash only. He had, moreover, such a perfect memory that the cost of any article, were it only a farthing, remai... ...d facilitated the sale of goods. His straightforward asser- tions, and the perfect indifference of his tone and manner, increased this impression. In ... ...rld of fancy all young girls construct,—a world they enrich with their own perfections. She spent long hours at her window, looking at the artisans or... ...ny. 43 Balzac He continued to praise her on all occasions; he thought her perfect; she never asked him for anything; he could pile up louis upon loui... ...ses stood up from the grassy mounds. The interior of the church harmonized perfectly with the poetic tangle of the humble exterior, the luxury and art... .... An altar to the Virgin presented to public admiration two colored litho- graphs in small gilt frames. The altar was painted white, adorned with arti...

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...were not those architectural triumphs, those homes from home, that grow to perfection upon the less active sections of the great line. They had been f... ...o state in his official report, “the mine responded 32 War and the Future perfectly both in respect of the calculations made and of the practical eff... ...ent of the conclusive advance. The organisation of Soissons for defence is perfect. I may not describe it, but think of whatever would stop and de- st... ...velop its plates. There is no waste of time about the business, the photo- graphs are developed as rapidly as possible. Within an hour and a half afte... ... of refreshment and accumu- lation, the Allied attack resumes. That is the perfected method of the French offensive. I had the pleasure of learning it...

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...sitate to make that central figure an Ital- ian. First of all the thing is perfectly credible: Ital- ians were swarming into the Occidental Province a... ...en a Nostromo. At any rate Dominic would have under- stood the younger man perfectly—if scornfully. He and I were engaged together in a rather absurd ... ...more Revolutions. But this is the idlest of dreams; for I did under- stand perfectly well at the time that the moment the breath left the body of the ... ...l arms and ammunition. Such resourcefulness Captain Mitchell considered as perfectly wonderful in view of their utter destitution at the time of fligh... ...d to think that Nostromo’s mere pres- ence in the house would have made it perfectly safe. So far, she, too, was under the spell of that reputa- tion ... ...ehension. Go on quietly making your Ferro Carril—your railways, your tele- graphs. Your—There’s enough wealth in Costaguana to pay for everything—or e...

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...the song of the People; the forerunners of empire!” Vanamee understood him perfectly. He nodded gravely. “Yes, it is there. It is Life, the primitive,... ...uld not have believed that a girl so young should have had arms so big and perfect. To his surprise he found himself thinking of her after he had gone... .... He was not without a certain energy, but he devoted it to small ends, to perfecting himself in little accomplishments, con- tinually running after s... ...aturally enough, he was heavily in debt, but carried the burden of it with perfect nonchalance. The year be- fore S. Behrman had held mortgages for fu... ...district. There is where the 89 Frank Norris big fight will come.” “I see perfectly well what you mean, Mr. Osterman,” observed Magnus, “but make no ... ... with its deep shade of crinkly red tissue paper, the pretty tinted photo- graphs that had hung on the wall—the choir boys with beautiful eyes, the pe... ... with the smell of stale grease paint, ointments, and sachet. Faded photo- graphs of young women in tights and gauzes ornamented the mirror and the wa...

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... Belles-lettres, began on many obscure historical points a series of mono- graphs, which are admirable for patience, erudition, and logi- cal consiste... ...y one dare to say that the absence of competition destroyed the desire for perfection, or lessened the beauty of products? What say you, you whose adm... ... of Blois by adding two other wings, which would have made the structure a perfect square. But Chambord weaned him from Blois, where he built only one... ... presents to the eye in one enclosure, round one courtyard, a complete and perfect image of that grand pre- sentation of the manners and customs and l... ... will love you for all the world.” “I have no great merit in loving such a perfect queen,” said the little king. “I don’t know what prevented me from ... ...e to my cousin, and prove to him my innocence.” He dismounted, talked with perfect freedom of mind to Birago, the Cardinal de Tournon, the chancellor,...

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...s of the two places had their separate churches, and knew their own bounds perfectly well; but to the casual observer, the chief distinction between t... ...e parlour, car- peted and bedecked with all manner of knick-knacks, photo- graphs, and framed certificates of various societies of temper- ance and pr... ...she was sure Miss Mohun would excuse her, though Alexis and Kally would be perfectly delighted to hear of Miss Gillian’s kindness. Gillian had not mad... ...to St. Kenelm’s, and won’t be in the G.F .S.’ And all the time Gillian was perfectly unaware of her own family likeness to Dolores. Other matters cond... ...n the slippery floor. The little teacups and the low T urkish table were a perfect study to those who did not— like Fergus—think more of the dainty do... ...gain,’ said Gillian. ‘What would she think of it then!’ ‘Oh, that would be perfectly delicious,’ cried Valetta. ‘She would see Begum and Rigdum—’ ‘ An...

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... re-shakes hands with T wemlow as T wemlow, and winds it all up to his own perfect satisfaction by saying to the last-named, ‘Ridiculous opportunity—b... ...hem; but elseways I can be miscellaneous. I have just sent home a Beauty—a perfect Beauty—to a school of art. One leg Bel- gian, one leg English, and ... ...ving myself in my knowledge of Anatomy, till both by sight and by name I’m perfect. Mr Wegg, if you was brought here loose in a bag to be articulated,... ...ess, but was now entombed by an honest jobbing tailor of the district in a perfect Sepulchre of coat and gaiters, sealed with ponder- ous buttons. Beh... ...ou see! Now , Sophronia, only half a dozen words more. We know one another perfectly. Don’t be tempted into twitting me with the past knowledge that y... ...king his hat off, Podsnap, as per agreement made with Mrs Veneering, tele- graphs to that wife and mother, ‘He’s up.’ Veneering loses his way in the u...

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... stories; Barrie, Stevenson, Frank-Harris; Max Beerbohm wrote at least one perfect one, “The Happy Hypocrite”; Henry James pursued his wonder- ful and... ...e to one on old George,” said the ostler boy. “Nexst!” Minnie went by in a perfect roar of applause. She did not like it, but she felt that she was do... ... haze of the Milky Way shone warm and bright. The interior of the roof was perfectly black, and only a scraping sound marked the whereabouts of the un... ...go. If Dawson’s hadn’t been silly about that salary they might have made a perfect ring in ‘em… I couldn’t help the infernal boat going adrift.” He pa... ...cracked and just stuck together like a mosaic, and bits missing. Mine were perfect, and I meant to blow them when I got back. Natu- rally I was annoye... ...emotion, went off to the office to write a column, piebald with “new para- graphs” (as all my stuff is—it fills out so) and purple with indignation. B...

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...Excerpt: ?IT IS VERY KIND in the dear mother.? ?But--what, Rachel? Don?t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.? ?Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don?t say a word to her; but if you are consulted for my next birthday present, Grace, couldn?t you suggest that one does cease to be a girl.? ?Only try it on, Rachel dear, she will be pleased to see...

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...? Don’t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.” “Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don’t say a word to her; but if you are consulted... ...r home-cares, entered the room a quarter of an hour after; “poor Fanny’s a perfect slave. One can’t get in a word edgeways.” Fanny at last returned, b... ...antecedents, and told us about them.” “Exactly, that was enough, for me. I perfectly understand the meaning of Mr. T ouchett’s recommendations, and if... ... woe-offering for her tears, and it was the most effectual, for Rachel was perfectly con- tented as long as Fanny was dependent on her, and allowed he... ...t was said gravely, and whether it were malice or simplic- ity, Rachel was perfectly unable to divine, but she thought anyway that Fanny had no busine... ...hey were hideously dressed, and she wanted the frames for two sweet photo- graphs of Garibaldi and the Queen of Naples.” Then looking up as if to find...

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...ere brought in to represent great rocks, and the “Country” at least of our perfected war game was in existence. We dis- covered it was easy to cut out... ...d houses upon the floor or boards upon which they stood. And while we thus perfected the Country, we were also eliminating all sorts of tediums, dispu... ...nd sheltered gunners. It was no longer possible to go on shooting out of a perfect security for ever. All this favoured the attack and led to a liveli... ...THE R THE R THE RULES ULES ULES ULES ULES HERE, THEN, are the rules of the perfect battle-game as we play it in an ordinary room. THE COUNTR THE COUNT... ...- selves still holding on, with half a dozen prisoners, and the farmyard a perfect shambles of horses and men. The melee was over. His charge had fail... ...this battle he describes a little more exactly with the help of the photo- graphs. The battle is a small, compact game of the Fight-to- a-Finish type,...

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...ops quickness, agility, flexibility, and power (Camaione 5). It is almost perfect for any physi- cal education program because it is among the best o... ...on- ditions just add to the beauty of this fine establishment. I rate it a perfect ten, and I am sure other students will too. Yong Hao Buffet Eric S.... ...reshly cut grass. The temperature is a brisk 60 degrees. As I wake on this perfect day, I have but one desire golf. Standing on the first tee I can se... ...k swing, and my hips and knees then snap it back, the head travelling in a perfect downward arc. The loud crack is the iron striking the ball, sending... ...t how she or he is conveying the message. We need to dissect essays, para graphs, and sentences so that we can understand clearly how a thing is done... ... themselves giving a speech about a very important topic to an audience of perfect strangers, while dressed in a business suit. At one time, students ...

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...to her was mon- strous for reasons Stransom could judge his friend to know perfectly that he knew. The happy pair had just arrived from America, and S... ...ced his own; but it was not their names that mat- tered, it was only their perfect practice and their com- mon need. These things made their whole rel... ...ould have chosen if one had been able to choose; she assured him she could perfectly imagine some of the echoes with which his silences were peopled. ... ... were articulate with memories and relics. These were simple things—photo- graphs and water-colours, scraps of writing framed and ghosts of flowers em... ...!” “We had simply different intentions,” he returned. “That, as you say, I perfectly knew, and I don’t see why your intention shouldn’t still sustain ... ...d. At the same time he had no illusion about the effect of his refusal; he perfectly saw how it would make for a rupture. He left her alone a week, bu...

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... shuddered, and said: “How can you, Sally! Don’t talk in that way, it is perfectly scandalous.” “Oh, well, make it a halo, if you like, I don’t car... ... they could; and as for the whole conti nent, why, Sally Foster, you know perfectly well it would strain the livers and lights out of them and then ... ...ized that it was imperative; but they also knew that to do it properly and perfectly the task must be carried to a finish without a break when once it... ...k and contented, and ever suspecting. Never suspecting—trusting her with a perfect and pathetic trust, and she holding over him by a thread a possible... ...t the Senator’s son and the son of the Vice President of the United States—perfectly right, there’s no permanency about those little distinctions. The... ...ructive. No one can read without benefit his occasional chapters and para graphs, about life in the gold and silver mines of California and Nevada; a... ...t they have not uttered a pitiful, deliberate falsehood in the above para graphs. Will they swallow that falsehood ignominiously, or will they send a...

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...el- ing of dread. I again looked at the speaker attentively. His lips were perfectly livid, and his knees shook so violently together that he seemed s... ...eastly drunk—he could no longer either stand, speak, or see. His eyes were perfectly glazed; and as I let him go in the extremity of my despair, he ro... ..., frequently enables the victim to imitate the outward demeanour of one in perfect possession of his senses. The coolness of the night air, however, h... ...arly bor- dering on idiocy. There were, to be sure, momentary intervals of perfect sanity, and, now and then, even of energy; but these were few. It m... ...nd sharing the profits. The black cook, however (who in all respects was a perfect demon, and who seemed to exert as much influence, if not more, than... ...ere at home.” In about a week after this conversation, the following para- graphs appeared in a Charlottesville paper: “We have the painful duty of an...

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...aticism— As theopathic absorption—Excessive purity— Excessive charity— The perfect man is adapted only to the perfect envi- ronment— Saints are leaven... ...full significance, one must always look to its more completely evolved and perfect forms. It follows from this that the documents that will most conce... ...al theological learn- ing. I may take my citations, my sentences and para- graphs of personal confession, from books that most of you at some time wil... ...ts during which it presses closer upon the divine sweetness.” Chemin de la Perfection, ch. xxxi.; Amour de Dieu, vii. ch. i. In fact, one might almost... ...oint of view of an unbiased critical philosophy, they might conceivably be perfectly reasonable ways of looking upon life. Voltaire, for example, writ... ...s with these more energetic states that our sole business lies, and we can perfectly well afford to let the minor notes and the uncertain border go. I...

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... with that, unless—and that I can’t judge—it is an ice yacht travelling on perfect ice. The finest motor-car in the world on the best road would be a ... ...igilance. Over lake or sea, in sunshine, within sight of land, this is the perfect way of the flying tourist. Gladly would I have set out for France t... ...this amounts to a cry against any sort of representative government. It is perfectly true that our representative institutions do not work well and ne... ...doubt our educational resources, like most other things, fall far short of perfection, but of all this imperfection the elementary schools are least i... ...lmost universal as it has been, the human be- ing has never yet achieved a perfect adaptation to the needs of the Normal Social Life. He has attained ... ...reek prose composition or history with models and photo- 161 H. G . Wells graphs and diagrams for Latin versification, would make any considerable di... ... movement becomes probable—the newspapers, magazines, telephones and tele- graphs, all the apparatus of discussion and popular appeal, the railways, a...

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...” said Miss Lindsay, quailing, but assuming the tone of a moralist. “It is perfectly true.” “All my money was made in trade,” said Agatha; “but I shou... ...atha, displaying the page. They read it, and protested clamorously. “It is perfectly true,” said Agatha, solemnly. “It’s beastly mean,” said Jane ener... ... yesterday,” said Miss Wilson, looking hard at him, “and he says you are a perfect stranger to him.” “Gentlemen is so forgetful,” said Smilash sadly. ... ... alarmed. “She has been so nice!” “So good!” said Henrietta. “She has been perfectly reasonable and kind,” said Mrs. Jansenius. “She always is,” said ... ...ed along it. I remember my grandfather well. He was a well-bred man, and a perfect gentleman in his manners; but, on the whole, I think he was wickede... ...and, and our divi- dends in Egypt, if you have already forgotten my photo- graphs and their lesson in our atrocities at home. Why, man, we murder the ...

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...r alone can estimate. It seems simple, like a Greek column, because of its perfection. In a poem named “Ligeia,” under which title he intended to per-... ...y be, but the wings are wanting. Talent sticks fast to earth, and its most perfect works have still one- foot of clay. Genius claims kindred with the ... ... his char- acter. His letters, of which the constant application for auto- graphs has taken from us, we are sorry to confess, the greater portion, exh... ...y, the major axis of the comet’s ellipse is growing shorter, in a slow but perfectly regular decrease. Now, this is precisely what ought to be the cas... ...ht appearance of convexity. At a vast distance to the east- ward, although perfectly discernible, extended the islands of Great Britain, the entire At... ... descent, with great velocity, making use of his wings with ease, and in a perfectly natural manner. In a very short time he was out of sight, and I h...

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...ths away from doing anything.” 21 “Mike” thought the capture plan was “the perfect operation.” It required minimum infrastructure.The plan had now bee... ...ty student in his early 20s, is fluent in both Arabic and English, and was perfectly suited to assist the hijackers in pursuing their mission. 20 Afte... ... related issues. Chasing Quso’s trail,“Dave” suggested showing some photo- graphs to FBI agents in New Y ork who were working on the Cole case and had... ...e New Y ork agents. She was told that one of the individuals in the photo- graphs was someone named Khalid al Mihdhar. She did not know why the photog... ...nt, and she was not told that someone had identified Khallad in the photo- graphs.When “Jane” did some research in a database for intelligence reports... ...elton was prepared to plan other options, but he was also prepared to make perfectly clear his own strong doubts about the wisdom of any military acti... ...can be attacked in many ways and has many vulnerabilities. No defenses are perfect. But risks must be calculated; hard choices must be made about allo... ...terrorists analyze defenses.They plan accordingly. Defenses cannot achieve perfect safety.They make targets harder to attack successfully, and they de...

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...nchang- ing smile with which she had first entered the room—the smile of a perfectly beautiful woman. With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed ... ... he talk like that?” thought Pierre. He con- sidered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree just the v... ...usicians tuning up, Pierre sat down with his little part- ner. Natasha was perfectly happy; she was dancing with 39 Tolstoy a grown-up man, who had b... ...I also know that it is invalid; and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool,” said the princess with the expression women assume when they... ... a broken voice. Kutuzov’s face as he stood in the open doorway re- mained perfectly immobile for a few moments. Then wrinkles ran over his face like ... ...nothing except that Rosenkampf had stuck labels on the corresponding para- graphs of the different codes. “And that is all the state has for the milli...