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...d as perfectly wonderful in view of their utter destitution at the time of flight. He had observed that “they never seemed to have enough change about... ...te field lying aslant against the west. In the transparent air of the high altitudes everything seemed very near, steeped in a clear stillness as in a... ...h descent, consid- ered Charles as one of themselves. With such a fam- ily record, no one could be more of a Costaguanero than Don Carlos Gould; but h... ... marks an epoch.” Mrs. Gould loved the patio of her Spanish house. A broad flight of stone steps was overlooked silently from a niche in the wall by a... ...r. All the wooden saints stood militarily in a row at the top of the great flight of steps. They looked like a gorgeous escort attending the Vicar- Ge... ...o calling him ‘El Rey de Sulaco’ in Sta. Marta? A nickname may be the best record of a suc- cess. That’s what I call putting the face of a joke upon t...

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...t to their ship in the little boat which he kept moored at the bottom of a flight of steps. With some hesitation they trusted themselves to him, took ... ... “I grant that the English seem, on the whole, whiter than most men, their records cleaner. But, good Lord, don’t run away with the idea that I don’t ... ...the edges of curled ostrich feathers, lay up and down the sky at different altitudes. The roofs of the town seemed 197 Virginia Woolf to have sunk lo...

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...from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on ... ...e whole of Mrs General’s acquaintance to be of the pathetic nature already recorded, Mr Dorrit took the trouble of going down to the county of the cou... ...righting himself for having shed any. With one remarkable exception, to be recorded in its place, this was the only time, in his life of freedom and f... ...her sister’s forehead; ‘but don’t you be a silly puss, and don’t you think flightily and eloquently about degenerate impossibilities. There! Now, I’ll... ...ried his head high: having plainly got up his castle now to a much loftier altitude than the two square towers of Notre Dame. Building away with all h... ...I_ mis- taken on a point that has caused me more smart in my breast than a flight of savages’ arrows could have done! _I_ mis- taken on a point that a...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin ...

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...st xiii–xiv Preface xv 1. “WE HAVE SOME PLANES” 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Man... ...l Centers p. 15 Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defense Sector p. 32–33 Flight paths and timelines p. 49 Usama Bin Ladin p. 64 Map of Afghanistan p... ...eviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being st... ...nk the Congress and the President. Executive branch agencies have searched records and produced a multitude of documents for us.We thank officials, pa... ...bright Security. 13 The checkpoint featured closed-circuit television that recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, as they were screened. At... ...14, it had climbed to 26,000 feet, not quite its initial assigned cruising altitude of 29,000 feet.All communications and flight profile data were nor... ...arted Logan Airport at 8:14. By 8:33, it had reached its assigned cruising altitude of 31,000 feet.The flight attendants would have begun their cabin ... ...codes twice within a minute.At 8:51, the flight deviated from its assigned altitude, and a minute later New Y ork air traffic controllers began repeat... ...n keep remaining sitting.We have a bomb on board. So, sit.”The flight data recorder (also recovered) indicates that Jarrah then instructed the plane’s...

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............................... 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEA...

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......................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE...................................................... ...her. All, amidst the sad vanity of their sighs and groans, labor to put on record and to establish this monotonous complaint, which needs not other re... ...bloody tiger;—angel, whose most innocent heart fitted thee for too early a flight from this impure planet; if indeed it were a necessity that thou sho... ...erything in this sin-polluted register was in manuscript; but at night the records of each day were regularly transferred to a printed journal, enlarg... ...mably, as hopelessly certain of the final results as though I had seen the record in the books of Heaven. ‘Hope nothing,’ I said to myself; ‘think not... ...d be obliged to break down. But had we any means arranged for pursuing our flight, and turning this escape to account 67 Thomas de Quincey when out o... ...tes, whose architraves, whose archways—horizontal, upright—rested, rose—at altitudes, by spans—that seemed ghostly from in- finitude. Without measure ...

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...g to the footfalls of angels and demons. “No man,” Poe himself wrote, “has recorded, no man has dared to record, the wonders of his inner life.” In th... ...ville. He left that institution after one session. 7 V olume One Official records prove that he was not expelled. On the con- trary, he gained a cred... ... prove that he was not expelled. On the con- trary, he gained a creditable record as a student, although it is admitted that he contracted debts and h... ...le somebody. He could not have been more than two feet in height; but this altitude, little as it was, would have been sufficient to destroy his equil... ...ix o’clock. I was still rapidly ascending, and my barometer gave a present altitude of three and three-quarter miles. Immedi- ately beneath me in the ... ..., body of air incumbent upon our globe. It is also calcu- lated that at an altitude not exceeding the hundredth part of the earth’s diameter — that is... ... terrestrial fastenings, flies with him, forthwith, to the satellite. The “Flight of Thomas O’Rourke,” is a jeu d’ esprit not altogether contemptible,... ...ekeeper of an Irish peer, whose eccentricities gave rise to the tale. The “flight” is made on an eagle’s back, from Hungry Hill, a lofty mountain at t... .... By this time the cries had ceased; but, as the party rushed up the first flight of stairs, two or more rough voices in angry contention were disting...

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...tline of his his- tory, as is oftentimes to be gathered from the penurious records of a grave-stone. That he lived, and that he died, and that he was ... ...rranged in the year 1682. But the family to which he belongs is abundantly recorded in the Dunciad, and his own name will be found amongst its cata- l... ... what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear; And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and our James.” Th... ...fty years after his death, which, however, would consume many an important record from periods far more remote,) the house of Ben Jonson, in which pro... ...d community. Afterwards he continued for some years to de- scend from this altitude; and the question is, at what point this gradual degradation may b... ...lapses, literally sinks away from openings suddenly offering themselves to flights of pathos or solemnity in direct prosecution of his own theme. On a... ...ouses, making it necessary to connect the rooms of the same suite by short flights of steps. Some of these features were no doubt removed by the recas... ...t a progress of forty years had not carried it so far towards its meridian altitude, as that the sympathetic shock from the French Revolution was by o...

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... things befell not, they were slowly done; not in an hour, but through the flight of days: what was to be said of it? This hour seemed altogether as t... ...ar. He, like an eagle or vulture, or mixture of both, preens his wings for flight homewards. (Fils Adoptif, Memoires de Mirabeau, t. iv. livv. 4 et 5.... ...led off to Troyes in Champagne; and nothing left but a few mute Keepers of records; the Demosthenic thunder become extinct, the martyrs of liberty cle... ...ont, to have these late obnoxious Arretes and protests ‘expunged’ from the Records, are received in the most marked manner. Monsieur, who is thought t... ...d prisoner); was noticed fording estuar- ies of the sea (at low water), in flight from the face of men. He has pleaded before Aix Parlements (to get b... ..., till death, jusqu’a la mort.’ Third, and most im- portant, that official record of all this be solemnly delivered in to the National Assembly, to M.... ...ts, men who thought the Con- stitution would march! Lafayette rises to the altitude of the situation; at the head of his Army. Legislative Commissione...

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...ees south, when we turned to the eastward, and kept our parallel by double altitudes, morning and evening, and meridian alti- tudes of the planets and... ...attaining the pole. January 17.—This day was full of incident. Innumerable flights of birds flew over us from the southward, and several were shot fro... ... the day we saw several large whales of the right species, and innumerable flights of the albatross passed over the ves- sel. We also picked up a bush... ...ll would have averaged, I am sure, seventy or eighty feet in perpendicular altitude throughout the whole of their extent, and in some portions they ar... ... of the greatest peril, and we were hesitating in which path to commence a flight, when one of the savages whom I bad shot, and supposed dead, sprang ... ... similar miracles are witnessed daily by thousands, that I dare venture to record this apparent impossibility as a matter of serious fact. The tempera... ...oop in the shoul- ders seemed to have been the necessary consequence of an altitude so enormous.—Superfluities in height were, however, more than acco...

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...bears away; Right onward, laden with dust, it goes superb, And puts to flight the wild beasts and the shepherds. Mine eyes he loosed, and said: “D... ...d that tow’rds them hurls itself, Their bulwarks build to put the sea to flight; And as the Paduans along the Brenta, To guard their villas and th... ...speak of us unto the people.” Then they broke up the wheel, and in their flight It seemed as if their agile legs were wings. Not an Amen could pos... ...re already, Dost thou stand there already, Boniface? By many years the record lied to me. Art thou so early satiate with that wealth, For which ... ...gering war That of the rings made such illustrious spoils, As Livy has recorded, who errs not, With those who felt the agony of blows By making ... ... Of the high Lord, Justice infallible, Punishes forgers, which she here records. I do not think a sadder sight to see Was in Aegina the whole peo... ... can, and let him long to see it. And if our fantasies too lowly are For altitude so great, it is no marvel, Since o’er the sun was never eye coul... ...tions Of our Basilica have been described, Make Hope resound within this altitude; Thou knowest as oft thou dost personify it As Jesus to the th... ...ladness Rain down, borne onward in the holy minds Created through that altitude to fly, That whatsoever I had seen before Did not suspend me in ...

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...l religion, or the case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological... ...ecord of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological records,) survive in the Sanscrit, and in other pagan languages. But these ... ...ed; nay, some had disappeared. Even men, who knew but little of Olym- pian records, knew this, at least, for certain, that more than one dynasty of go... ...d the unfair advantage of standing over the heads of men, and of wings for flight or for manoeuvring. Yet even so, it was clearly the opinion of Homer... ...so new and so incredible, which time unfolds at every turn of its wheeling flight! Is it come to this? Could any man, one generation back, have antici... ... of the sixteenth century, suddenly we find ourselves collapsing from that altitude of speculation into a defence of one individual church. Nobody wou... ...least, by some outline. The idea of purity, for instance, in its Christian altitude, would be utterly incomprehensible, and, besides, could not sustai... ...y of evidence to that ruin, spread through innumerable channels, the great altitude would begin dimly to reveal itself by means of the mighty depth in... ... of all this; and he himself remarked, that, if they had any indulgence of flight conceded, they would assuredly use it against the authors of that in...

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...t by in a splendid delirium, the intoxicated Fosters scarcely noticing the flight of time. They were now worth three hundred million dollars; they wer... ...e of reproach—and that cut him. Not one suggestion that he look at his own record—and she could have made, oh, so many, and such blistering ones! Her ... ...upward, but downward, ever downward! He instituted comparisons between her record and his own. He had found fault with her—so he mused— he! And what c... ...it. It was a fatal resolve. The very next day came the historic crash, the record crash, the devastating crash, when the bot tom fell out of Wall Str... ... that is nearest at hand. The evasion failed, of course. Ambulinia, in her flight, takes refuge in a neighbor’s house. Her father drags her home. The ... ...nted flowers, but ah! how long they have lingered around me and took their flight in the vivid hope that laughs at the drooping victims it has murdere... .... C.: Sir,—Prices for the customary kinds of winter fuel having reached an altitude which puts them out of the reach of literary persons in straitened...

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...was. And who was the Gray Champion? Perhaps his name might be found in the records of that stern Court of Justice, which 11 Hawthorne passed a senten... ... except when a long, deep, and irregular inspiration seemed to prelude the flight of his spirit. The minister of Westbury approached the bedside. “Ven... ...llaston, or Merry Mount. In the slight sketch here at- tempted, the facts, recorded on the grave pages of our New England annalists, have wrought them... ...sts were led astray by the crowd of vanities which they should have put to flight. Erring Thought and perverted Wisdom were made to put on masques, an... ... and in madness; but noth- ing can exceed the bitter mockery with which he records the loathsome disease, and “death by rottenness,” of the fierce and... ...ough Ilbrahim was young to be sad for such a cause, from wounded love. The flightiness of his mirth rendered him often guilty of offences against the ... ...th of cen- turies, though mossy with age, had barely reached three feet in altitude. Next, they came to masses and fragments of na- ked rock heaped co...

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...hey were one and all about to describe the gentleman on the heading of the records baldly (where brevity is most complimentary) as a gentleman of fami... ...ong, when far outstripped, determined to run her down or die. Suddenly her flight wound to an end in a dozen twittering steps, and she sank. Young Cro... ...ingly wounding him, or because of it, she was trying to climb back to that altitude of the thin division of neutral ground, from which we see a lover’... ...eputation for consistency . She had heard women abused for shallowness and flightiness: she had heard her father denounce them as veering weather-vane... ...e was on the alert. Another Constantia Durham seemed beating her wings for flight. The suddenness of the evident intimacy between Clara and Colonel De... ...s.” “Professor Crooklyn will hardly descend, I suppose, from his classical altitudes to lay his hallucinations before Dr. Middleton?” “Sir Willoughby,... ...now- ing she deserves them.” He had spoken it, and it was an oath upon the record. Desire to do her intolerable hurt became an ecstasy in his veins, a... ... been exposed enough.” “You cannot blot out the past: it is written, it is recorded. You loved me devotedly, silence is no escape. You loved me.” “I d...

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... hard if we cannot follow the demonstration. The longest and most abstruse flight of a philosopher be- comes clear and shallow, in the flash of a mome... ...ers near at hand and not much debated; it is to follow him in his farthest flights, to see the force of his hyperboles, to stand so exactly in the cen... ... man’s life. He was a friend of mine; a young man like others; gener- ous, flighty, as variable as youth itself, but always with some high motions and... ...ed to have been blotted away , like Uncle Toby’s oath, by the tears of the recording angel; it would have been counted to you for your brightest right... ...wn.* *Kirkton. 70 Robert Louis Stevenson THE PENTLAND RISING CHAPTER V– A RECORD OF BLOOD ‘They cut his hands ere he was dead, And after that struck ... ...itterly envy them; but the commoner man cannot continue to exist upon such altitudes: his feet itch for physical adven- ture; his blood boils for phys... ...ge, and each having a printed legend of its own, however trivial the event recorded, you will soon become aware of two things: first, that the man can... ...d clutched her wrist; ‘don’t leave me. The place rocks; I have no head for altitudes.’ ‘Sit down against that pillar,’ said Nance. ‘Don’t you be afrai...

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...th, 1945, at 8:15 A.M., Japanese time, a B- 29 heavy bomber flying at high altitude dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. More than 4 square mil... ...r that the effect of a single atomic bomb could be determined. The weather records showed that for five years there had never been two successive good... ...ties, among them Hiroshima. The planes approached the coast at a very high altitude. At nearly 8:00 A.M., the radar operator in Hiroshima determined t... ... Hiroshima and Nagasaki to rise vertically and finally mushrooms out at an altitude of about 25,000 feet depending upon meteorological con- ditions. T... ...grees depend- ing upon the color of the fabric. A number of instances were recorded in which persons wearing clothing of vari- ous colors received bur... ...rations and necrosis (breakdown of tissue) followed. Blood counts done and recorded by the Japanese, as well as counts done by the Manhattan Engineer ... ...uried so that their services in rehabilitation were not available, a panic flight of the population took place from both cities immediately following ... ...bombed cities. This terror, resulting in immediate hysterical activity and flight from the cities, had one especially pronounced effect: persons who h... ...e been pinned under the wreckage or who have been lost sight of during the flight. There is no help for the wounded and some die. No one pays any atte...

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..., according to the fashion that was then in request. I find by the ancient records or pancarts, to be seen in the chamber of accounts, or court of the... ... the ridge of his back, and dashed his reins like a dog. If any thought by flight to escape, he made his head to fly in pieces by the lamboidal commis... ...hus disguised. Ab hoste maligno libera nos, Domine, and ran away in a full flight, as if they had been routed, looking now and then behind them, like ... ...e way, and then sounded the retreat. Chapter 1.XLIX. How Picrochole in his flight fell into great misfortunes, and what Gargantua did after the battle... ...that Pantagruel had said well, and what was right, in affirming that these records, bills of inquest, replies, rejoin- ders, exceptions, depositions, ... ...tence or judgment given thereupon, which is to be seen in the registry and records within the clerk’s office of this house. And, therefore, my lord, I... ...the river Hydaspes and Mount Caucasus, but in a perpendicular dimension of altitude; which were things never before that seen in Egypt. He expected by...

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...y, And flush Parnassus with a newer light; To put these little sonnet men to flight Who fashion, in a shrewd, mechanic way, Songs without souls, that ... ...or with a touch that made us glad For the glory that is gone from us, with a flight we cannot follow, T o the slopes of other valleys and the sounds o... ...e comprehends; and we shall read, With unoppressed and unoffended eyes, That record of All Soul whereon God writes In everlasting runes the truth of H... ...d have called it so) Made half an inch of news, there were no tears That are recorded. Women there may have been To wish him back, though I should say... ...ight, And shared with us the glamour of the Word That fell once upon Amos to record For men at ease in Zion, when the sight Of ills obscured aggrieved... ...at were so, Why should a few years’ more mortality Make Him a fugitive where flight were needless, Had He but held his peace and given his nod To an o... ...g feathers, like a bird. Again, he may have gone down easily, By comfortable altitudes, and found, As always, underneath him solid ground Whereon to b...

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... brightly coloured, but not so beau- tiful as the European species: in its flight, manners, and place of habitation, which is generally in the driest ... ...captain-generals of the islands have been bur- ied. Some of the tombstones recorded dates of the sixteenth century.* The heraldic ornaments were the o... ...dead on the road, with his throat cut. This happened close to a cross, the record of a former murder. On the first night we slept at a retired little ... ...are that the former inhabitants have left behind them any more perma- nent records than these insignificant piles on the sum- mit of the Sierra de las... ...were described to me as being similar to those of the common magpie. Their flight is undulatory, for the weight of the head and bill appears too great... ...deed generally, the Carrancha is an inactive, tame, and cowardly bird. Its flight is heavy and slow, like that of an English rook. It seldom soars; bu... ...ahia Blanca; and Capt. Fitz Roy calculates its height to be 3340 feet — an altitude very remarkable on this eastern side of the continent. I am not aw... ...iged to give up the two 122 The V oyage of the Beagle higher peaks. Their altitude was but little greater, and every purpose of geology had been answ... ...ew. This mountain, which is one of the highest in Tierra del Fuego, has an altitude of 6800 feet. Its base, for about an eighth of its total height, i...

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... a few cases. Let me see. There was ‘The Dead Alive,’ a capital thing!—the record of a gentleman’s sensations when entombed before the breath was out ... ...ound drives him mad, and, accordingly, pulling out his tablets, he gives a record 52 Poe in Five V olumes of his sensations. Sensations are the great... ... every member of which (at least as far back into antiquity as any certain records extend) was more or less remarkable for talent of some description—... ...wo hundred miles an hour is slow travelling after all. Do you remember our flight on the railroad across the Kanadaw continent?—fully three hundred mi... ...nce, we caught a glimpse of external ob- jects while the cars were in full flight? Every thing seemed unique—in one mass. For my part, I cannot say bu... ...What wonder, then, that the lath- like tenuity of my acquaintance, and his altitude, which has grown into a proverb, should have met with all due esti... ... is the greenest and yet most terrible of all we have encoun- tered in our flight? Its brilliant flowers look like a fairy dream— but its fierce volca...

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...t the standard of living which prevails at any time or at any given social altitude will in its turn have much to say as to the forms which honorific ... ...g anything more than a somewhat transparent pre- tense. Even in its freest flights, fashion rarely if ever gets away from a simulation of some ostensi... ... among its officers especially, a larger proportion of men with a sporting record than the proportion of such men in the aggregate population of the c... ...fication and its high- est accentuation in the higher pecuniary and social altitudes. The cults of the lower-class devout portion of the commu- nity, ...

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...ty-five. Travelers who write their travels are con- stantly called upon to record that number, so that it may now be considered as a superlative in lo... ...ed with gradual pauses, so that time for oblivion may accrue, and no exact record be taken. No such meal is known at American hotels. It is possible t... ...e first place there is a great national expenditure incurred in moving old records and in keeping double records, in moving the li- brary, and, as I h... ...above. This smaller fall is again divided; and the visitor, passing down a flight of steps and over a frail wooden bridge, finds himself on a smaller ... ...hant’s. This is attached to a huge gra- nary or barn; but in order to give altitude within the barn for the necessary moving up and down of this trunk... ...ised himself some- what above the crowd, becomes sooner dizzy with his own altitude. An American of mark, though always anx- ious to show his mark, is... ...III. with his cackling was certainly not efficacious in restraining such a flight. But it is gratifying to see how this new people, when they had it i...

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...a Bow Street magistrate, and in that office combined an equally honourable record with a longer tenure. Fielding was born at Sharpham Park in Somerset... ...persuaded to try the “Portugal Voyage,” of which he has left so charming a record in the Journey to Lisbon. He left Fordhook on June 26, 1754, reached... ...pon very little warranty of scripture. The truth is, that as the foregoing record—which, brief as it is, is a sufficiently faithful summary—will have ... ...le world on his shoulders, or looks down on a whole world from his natural altitude. The worlds are different, but they are worlds; and though the att... ...s trusted rather to his innocence than his heels, and, without thinking of flight, which was easy, or resistance (which was impos- sible, as there wer... ...; and if there be any modern so outrageously brave that he cannot admit of flight in any cir- cumstance whatever, I say (but I whisper that softly, an... ...ile. Now Rockwood had laid fast hold on the parson’s skirts, and stopt his flight; which Joseph no sooner perceived than he levelled his cudgel at his...

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...e labored in collecting his material. He speaks frankly of his methods. He recorded the talk of Johnson and his associates partly by a rough shorthand... ...ars; as I acquired a fa- cility in recollecting, and was very assiduous in recording, his conversation, of which the ex- traordinary vigour and vivaci... ...be the illustrious character whose various excellence I am to endeavour to record, and Nathanael, who died in his twenty-fifth year. Mr. Michael Johns... ...one of those drunken,—nay, drunken is a coarse word,— none of those vinous flights.’ Sir Joshua. ‘Be- cause you have sat by, quite sober, and felt an ... ...eed; and though troubled with a shortness of breathing, laboured up a long flight of steps, till we came to the place where the wonderous chest stood.... ...ade it like something real.’ Mr. Wilkes remarked, that ‘among all the bold flights of Shakspeare’s imagination, the bold- est was making Birnamwood ma... ... and Buckram’d by Mason.’ Sir Joshua Reynolds having said that he took the altitude of a man’s taste by his stories and his wit, and of his understand...

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...d be wanted again when you come to the other half and get into one of your flights, has Arthur told you what he means to do about the business?’ ‘He h... ...l gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. While it roared throu... ...ground had so risen about Bleeding Heart Y ard that you got into it down a flight of steps which formed no part of the original approach, and got out ... ...o Arthur that a far more elaborate and taking show of business—such as the records of the Circumlocution Office made perhaps—might 263 Little Dorrit ... ... Dorrits of Dorsetshire.’ He then went on to detail. How, having that name recorded in his note- book, he was first attracted by the name alone. How, ... ...from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on ... ...ried his head high: having plainly got up his castle now to a much loftier altitude than the two square towers of Notre Dame. Building away with all h...

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...is gestures which should pro- hibit one from stigmatizing those efforts at altitude as a failure. No doubt he did achieve much; but, nevertheless, the... ...appearing to Lady Arabella as though he rose in his anger nearly a foot in altitude before her eyes. ‘What has passed between them? and who says so?’ ... ...me- what above nine hundred registered voters, of whom the greater portion recorded their votes early in the day. At two o’clock, according to Sir Rog... ...transaction which took place in the earlier part of the day deserves to be recorded. There was in Barchester an honest publican—honest as the world of... ...nd what lurking evil effect the excitement have on him—of these matters no record was kept in the history of those proceedings. Sir Roger’s eloquence ... ... hint. ‘Say something about their daughters, ’ whispered George, whose own flights of oratory were always on that subject. Had he counselled Mr Moffat... ...rge as to make the house behind it look like another building of a greater altitude. This portico was supported by Ionic columns, and was in itself do... ... and was in itself doubtless a beautiful structure. It was approached by a flight of steps, very broad and very grand; but, as an approach, by a fligh... ...ffused his cheeks, and his tottering steps were unable to bear him away in flight. Once, and twice, the cutting whip came well down across his back. H...

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... recital the words of the guilty wretch faltered and grew hollow. When the record was finally exhausted, he arose, staggered backward from the table, ... ...inting-offices in hieroglyphical type, it would afford me much pleasure to record here, in the original, the whole of his very excellent speech. I may... ..., sir, were gener- ally discovered to be precisely on a par with the facts recorded in the un-re-written histories themselves;—that is to say, not one... ...onveyed en- tire temples and solid obelisks of a hundred and fifty feet in altitude. I spoke of our gigantic mechanical forces. He agreed that we knew... ...the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mi... ...ght my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise, “But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days! “Let no bell toll!—lest her sweet soul, am... ...ch hindering thing: The dew of the night— It would weigh down your flight; And true love caresses— O! leave them apart! They are light...

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... to the value of what I was leaving. But all my dreams were soon put to flight by an order from the officer to trim the yards, as the wind was ge... ... he stared upon us for a moment, and then spread his wide wings and took his flight. - 17 - Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana CHAPTER VI ... .... She was like a bird which had been frightened and had spread her wings in flight. After the topsails had been sheeted home, the head yards braced a... ...e over eighty days from Boston to Callao, which is one of the short- est on record. There, they left the Brandywine frigate, and other smaller Amer... ..., clear day, the captain got a lunar observation, as well as his meridian altitude, which made us in lat. 47 deg. 50’ S., long. 113 deg. 49’ W.; Ca... ...aw. On such voyages as these, there are many cases of outrageous cruelty on record, enough to make one heartsick, and almost disgusted with the sigh... ... from his having been the victim of one of the most painful tragedies in the records of the criminal law. I tried the experiment of calling upon him...

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...e considered merely as what it calls itself, a Family Chronicle—a domestic record of home events, large and small, during those years of early life wh... ...their father strode up three steps at once, turned at the top of the first flight, made his bow to them, and presently came down with his little daugh... ...ne, bearing the date and initials of those who lay there, and many of them recording former generations of Mays, to whom their descent from the head- ... ... right, but it was coldly, and he smiled.” “He is too sober-minded for our flights,” said Margaret. I know the feeling of it, Ethel dear; but you know... ... would be that the para- graph of the county paper, where “N. W . May” was recorded as prizeman and foremost in the examination, had not penetrated ev... ...gladness conduces to no vain-glory of thine own, in beauty, or in graceful flight, but thou art a creature serv- ing—as best thou canst to his glory.’... ...he Himalayas, and had become engrossed in scientific observations on their altitudes, as well as investigations in natural history. Going to Calcutta,...

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...igher ground it was natural that the remaining sister should take a bolder flight. Of the loves of the fair Louisa Harrington and the foreign Count, a... ...sent him himself to take refuge in those flimsy structures; while the very altitude he reached beguiled his imagination, and made him hope to impress ... ... ingeniously , but in a manner beneath the attention of the Muse. Let Clio record that mugs and glasses, tobacco and pipes, were strewn upon the table... ... Mr. George; nor could she see the fun of his mim- icry of the fox and his flight away from instead of into her neighbourhood. She had also, or she no... ...recognize her, and at the moment she misdoubted her powers. She dreamed of flight. 200 Evan Harrington ‘You’re not going to leave us?’ said Lady Joce... ... when they have a solitary man in their power, that it cannot be placed on record. ‘Is anything the matter with your bed?’ ‘ Anything? Y es; anything ...

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... ask, because to him of all men it could not be refused. And then the very altitude of the great Statesman whom he was invited to befriend,—the posi- ... ... lightly on the palm of the other as he had been known to do at some happy flight of oratory in the House of Commons. ‘But it is the grind that makes ... ...ong. ’ ‘Five minutes will do it all. ’ Then he walked rather quickly up a flight of rural steps. ‘Loverly spot, isn’t it?’ 235 Anthony Trollope ‘Yes... ...y of Grex of Grex was about the oldest in Great Britain of which authentic records were in existence. Then there came an- other note from Lady Mabel t...