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range of rubble was written, designed, erected around her. She was clutching at a book. Apart from everything else, the book thief wanted desperately to go back to the basement, to write, or read through her story one last time. In hindsight, I see it so obviously on her face. She was dying for it — the safety, the hom...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
fire. For, as thou seest thyself, our ship of State, Sore buffeted, can no more lift her head, Foundered beneath a weltering surge of blood. A blight is on our harvest in the ear, A blight upon the grazing flocks and herds, A blight on wives in travail; and withal Armed with his blazing torch the God of Plague Hath swo...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Nor battlements nor galleys aught avail, If men to man and guards to guard them tail. OEDIPUS Ah! my poor children, known, ah, known too well, The quest that brings you hither and your need. Ye sicken all, ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
seal it, and again return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep. Doctor. A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! In this slumbery agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time, have you heard her say? APPENDIX B ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
mark that? Lady Macbeth. The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that! You mar all with this starting. Doctor. Go to, go to! You have known what you should not. Gentlewoman. She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that. Heaven k...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Science, and Technical Subjects My mind she has mated, and amaz’d my sight. I think, but dare not speak. Gentlewoman. Good night, good doctor. Exeunt. Media Text Judi Dench (Lady Macbeth) performs this scene in a 1979 production with Ian McKellen: McKellen analyzes the “To -morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow” speech f...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Year's Eve a tile blew off the roof and knocked my brains out .APPENDIX B 153 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Nora (laying her hand on his mouth). Hush! How can you talk so horridly? Helmer. But supposing it we re to ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
man, eighty-five dollars a month is not much more than you can just get by on.... TOM: Yes, but Mr. O’Connor is not a family man. AMANDA: He might be, mightn’t he? Some time in the future? TOM: I see. Plans and provisions. APPENDIX B 154 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in His...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
mercy of a handsome appearance! I hope that Mr. O’Connor is not too good -looking. Ionesco, Eugene. Rhinoceros . Translated by Derek Prouse. Rhinoceros and Other Plays . New York: Grove Press, 1960. (1959) From Act Two BERENGER: [ coming in ] Hello Jean! JEAN: [ in bed + What time is it? Aren’t you at the office? BEREN...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
as it turned out, we were both right. JEAN: What about? BERENGER: About ... well, you know, the same thing. Sorry to bring it up again, but I’ll only mention it briefly. I just wanted you to know that in our different ways we were both right. It’s been proved now. There are some rhinoceroses in the town with two horns ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
admiration of the man ) You’ve got a vision, Sam! Sam: Not just me. What I’m saying to you is that everybody’s got it. That’s why there’s o nly standing room left for the Centenary Hall in two weeks’ time. For as long as the music lasts, we are going to see six couples get it right, the way we want life to be. Hally: B...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Donne . Edited by John T. Shawcross. New York: Anchor Books, 1967. (1635) Goe, and catche a falling starre, APPENDIX B 157 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Get with child a mandrake roote, Tell me, where all past yeare...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” APPENDIX B 158 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Poe, Edgar Allen. “The Raven.” Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe. New York...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!” Me...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as “Nevermore.” But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he utt...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee— by these angels he hath sent thee Respite —respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!’’ Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” “P...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted —nevermore! Dickinson, Emily. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark.” The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1960. (1890) We grow accustomed to the Dark, When Light is put away, As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Goodbye. A Mom...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us APPENDIX B 162 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us ma...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
You.” Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems. New York: New Directions, 1977. (1977) I am offering this poem to you, since I have nothing else to give. Keep it like a warm coat when winter comes to cover you, or like a pair of thick socks the cold cannot bite through, APPENDIX B 163 > OREGON COMMON CORE ST...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
the Trojan War both advance the plot of Homer’s epic and develop themes . [RL.9 – 10.3] Students analyze how Michael Shaara in his Civil War novel The Killer Angels creates a sense of tension and even surprise regarding the outcome of events at the Battle of Gettysburg through pacing, ordering of events, and the overar...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely, and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnit...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves, and the House? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we hav...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, si...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense APPEN...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as o...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
do this. But in a large sense we cannot dedicate, —we cannot consecrate, —we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did he...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppos...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. “State of the Union Address.” (1941) For there is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy. The basic things expected by our people of their political and eco...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
to guide our legislation. APPENDIX B 169 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects If the Congress maintains these principles, the voters, putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooks, will give you their applause. In the future day...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
now believe that we are by way of winning. What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty? I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
now in that spirit, that spirit of an America which has never been, and which may never be; nay, which never will be except as the conscience and courage of Americans create it; yet in the spirit of that America which lies hidden in some form in the aspirations of us all; in the spirit of that America for which our you...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
an American. The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that deliberative character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity. It is ironical that ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of a person has been ruined. APPENDIX B 171 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects Those of us who shout the loudest abou...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
aren’t that desperate for victory. I don’t want to see the Republican Party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican Party and the two-party system that has protected o...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
an American, I am shocked at the way Republicans and Democrats alike are playing directly into the Communist design of “confuse, divide, and conquer.” As an American, I don’t want a Democratic Administration “whitewash” or “cover -up” any more than a want a Republican smear or witch hunt. As an American, I condemn a Re...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
am here In Birmingham, since you have been influenced by the view which argues against “outsiders coming in.” I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. We have some eighty-five affil...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds. License granted by Intellectual Pro...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
summer to be used in the wooden ice-cream freezers. She took the bags from me and disappeared through the kitchen door. I looked around the room that I had never in my wildest fantasies imagined I would see. Browned photographs leered or threatened from the walls and the white, freshly done curtains pushed against them...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. I remember he asked his father: “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” And now the boy is turning to me. “Tell me,”...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
the yoke of slavery is cast off and replaced by the freedom of philosophy.” *…+ The explorers of the modern era are the entrepreneurs, men with vision, with the courage to take risks and faith enough to brave the unknown. These entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
on the candidates, grill them in interviews, and bring them together for debates. In the end, the people vote; they decide who will be the next President. But freedom doesn’t begin or end with elections. Go to any American town, to take just an example, and you’ll see dozens of churches, representing many different bel...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
epolice. Go into any union hall, where the members know their right to strike is protected by law. But freedom is more even than this. Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Students compare George Washington’s Farewell Address to other foreign policy statements, such as the Monroe Doctrine, and analyze how both texts address similar themes and concepts regarding “entangling alliances.” * RI.9 –10.9] Students analyze how Abraham Lincoln in his “Second Inaugural Address” unfolds his examina...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
given a small reservation in North Carolina.) From the prison camps they were started westward to Indian Territory. On the long winter trek, one of every four Cherokees died from the cold, hunger, or disease. They called the march their “trail of tears.” The Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles also gave up thei...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Indians respected and honored the bull buffalo. Whites considered this animal to be exceptionally stupid. Col. Dodge states without equivocation that the buffalo is the dullest creature of which he has any knowledge. A herd of buffalo would graze complacently while every member was shot down. He himself shot two cows a...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
of spheres, cones and cylinders. He presumably meant that he should always keep these basic solid shapes in mind when organizing his pictures. But Picasso and his friends decided to take this advice literally. I suppose that they reasoned somewhat like this: ‘We have long given up claiming that we represent things as t...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
on canvas, 50.6 x 61 cm, 20 x 24 in; The Museum of Modern Art, New York Mrs. David M. Levy Bequest Kurlansky, Mark. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World . New York: Walker, 1997. (1997) From Chapter 1: “The Race to Codlandia” A medieval fisherman is said to have hauled up a three-foot-long cod, which was...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
which is bigger than any other beret. Haskins, Jim. Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. (1998) From “Introduction: A ‘White Man’s War?’” In 1775 the first shots were fired in the war between the thirteen American colonies and Great Britain that ended in a victory...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
the American Revolution. In the eyes of the four and an half million African Americans, enslaved and free, it was a war about slavery; and they wanted to be part of the fight. But many northern whites did not want blacks to serve in the northern military. They called it a “white man’s war” and said that slavery was not...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
the boats were soon washed to pieces on the deck. We then made a raft…and waited with resignation for Providence to assist us. —From an account of the wreck of HMS Litchfield off the coast of North Africa, 1758 The Litchfield came to grief because no one aboard knew where they were. As the narrator tells us, by his own...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
led them to it —they still had the sun and the North Star. And these enabled them to follow imagined parallel lines of latitude that circle the globe. Following a line of latitude —“sailing the parallel”— kept a ship on a steady east-west course. Christopher Columbus, who sailed the parallel in 1492, held his ships on ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
and to facilitate interaction between more than one performer. Musical notation, like language, has ancient origins, dating back to the Middle East in the third millennium BC. The ancient Greeks appear to have been the first to try to represent variations of musical pitch through the medium of the alphabet, and success...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
invented is still a mystery, they do know where it was invented —in the narrow “waist” of southern Mexico. This jumble of mountains, beaches, wet tropical forests, and dry plains is the most ecologically diverse part of Mesoamerica. Today it is the home of more than a dozen different Indian groups, but the human histor...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Arts > & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects 6. And the extremities of a surface are lines. 7. A plane surface is whatever lies evenly with straight-lines upon itself. 8. And a plane angle is the inclination of the lines, when two lines in a plane meet one another, and are not laid down ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
quadrilateral by four, and multilateral by more than four. 20. And of the trilateral figures: an equilateral triangle is that having three equal sides, an isosceles (triangle) that having only two equal sides, and a scalene (triangle) that having three unequal sides. 21. And further of the trilateral figures: a right-a...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
thing are also equal to one another. 2. And if equal things are added to equal things then the wholes are equal. 3. And if equal things are subtracted from equal things then the remainders are equal. 4. And things coinciding with one another are equal to one another. 5. And the whole [is] greater than the part. Proposi...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Robert Fitzpatrick’s complete version of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, in bookmarked PDF form, with side-by-side Greek and English text: Cannon, Annie J. “Classifying the Stars.” The Universe of Stars. Edited by Harlow Shapeley and Cecilia H. Payne. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Observatory, 1926. (1926) Sunlight and sta...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
a prism or a grating. Bronowski, Jacob, and Millicent Selsam. Biography of an Atom . New York: Harper, 1965. (1965) The birth began in a young star. A young star is a mass of hydrogen nuclei. Because the star is hot (about thirteen million degrees at the center), the nuclei cannot hold on to their electrons. The electr...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
conversion. I have been exploring the rides at Geauga Lake Amusement Park near Cleveland and have found that nearly every ride offers a memorable lesson. To me the scariest rides at the park are the roller coasters. The Big Dipper is similar to many of the roller coasters that have thrilled passengers for most of this ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Terrifying True Story . New York: Anchor, 1995. (1995) From “Something in the Forest” 1980 New Year’s Day Charles Monet was a loner. He was a Frenchman who lived by himself in a little wooden bungalow on the private lands of the Nzoia Sugar Factory, a plantation in western Kenya that spread along the Nzoiz Rover within...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
“Patterns of Nature” Though animals come in many shapes and sizes, there are definite limits on the possible size of an animal of a particular shape. King Kong simply could not exist, for instance. As Labarbara has calculated, if you were to take a gorilla and blow it up to the size of King Kong, its weight would incre...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Books, 2005. (2005) Probability, a branch of mathematics, began with gambling. Pierre de Fermat (of the famous Last Theorem), Blaise Pascal, and the Bernoullis wanted to know the mathematical odds of winning at the card table. Probability didn’t tell them for certain that they would or wouldn’t draw an ace; it just tol...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
high degree of refinement in the medieval Islamic world, where it was invaluable for determining prayer times and the direction of Mecca from anywhere in the Muslim world. The astrolabe was introduced to Europe by the eleventh century, where is saw wide use until the Renaissance. The fundamental innovation underlying t...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
of the insulation. The table below shows what levels of insulation are cost -effective for different climates and locations in the home. Recommended insulation levels for retrofitting existing wood -framed buildings APPENDIX B 188 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts > & Literacy in History/So...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
against secondary syntheses such as Jim Haskins’s Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War . [RH.9 –10.9] Students determine the meaning of words such as quadrant , astrolabe , equator , and horizon line in Joan Dash’s The Longitude Prize as well as phrases such as “ dead reckoning” and “ sailing the pa...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
every holt and heath, The tender shoots and leaves, and the young sun His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run, And many little birds make melody That sleep through all the night with open eye (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage) APPENDIX B 190 > OREGON COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
And even what clothes they were dressed in; And with a knight thus will I first begin. de Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote: The Ormsby Translation, Revised Backgrounds and Sources Criticism . New York: W. W. Norton, 1981. (1605) In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived no...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his ea...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
up his pen and finish it properly as is there proposed, which no doubt he would have done, and made a successful piece of work of it too, had not greater and more absorbing thoughts prevented him. Many an argument did he have with the curate of his village (a learned man, and a graduate of Siguenza) as to which had bee...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
because at Roncesvalles he slew Roland in spite of enchantments, availing himself of the artifice of Hercules when he strangled Antaeus the son of Terra in his arms. He approved highly of the giant Morgante, because, although of the giant breed which is always arrogant and ill-conditioned, he alone was affable and well...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew. He scoured and polished it as best he could, but he perceived one great defect in it, that it had no closed helmet, nothing but a simple morion....	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
what he then was; for it was only reasonable that, his master taking a new character, he should take a new name, and that it should be a distinguished and full-sounding one, befitting the new order and calling he was about to follow. And so, after having composed, struck out, rejected, added to, unmade, and remade a mu...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul. As he said to himself, "If, for my sins, or by my good fortune, I come across some giant hereabouts, a common occurrence with knights-errant, and overthrow him in one onslaught, or cleave him asunder to the waist, ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
name, to his mind, musical, uncommon, and significant, like all those he had already bestowed upon himself and the things belonging to him. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice . New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. (1813) From Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
he married or single?” “Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” “How so? how can it affect them?” “My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tir esome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.” “...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
to see you; and I will send a few lines by you to assure him of my hearty consent to his marrying whichever he chooses of the girls: though I must throw in a good word for my little Lizzy.” “I desire you will do no such thing. Lizzy is not a bit better th an the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous. The business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news. Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Cask of Amontillado.” Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe....	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
--I was skilful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could. It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much. The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-s...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, w...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
one stored with pictures. I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement. Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, b...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
"the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me--for I wear nothing on my bosom yet!" "Nor ever will, my child, I hope,"...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
untransmitted vigor in Pearl's nature, as this never failing vivacity of spirits: she had not the disease of sadness, which almost all children, in these latter days, inherit, with the scrofula, from the troubles of their ancestors. Perhaps this, too, was a disease, and but the reflex of the wild energy with which Hest...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria. He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but anyone at all. He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late cease...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
of that? Is that serious? It is not serious at all. It's simply a fantasy to amuse myself; a plaything! Yes, maybe it is a plaything." The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
these streets and alleys in the heart of Petersburg, types so various were to be seen in the streets that no figure, however queer, would have caused surprise. But there was such accumulated bitterness and contempt in the young man's heart, that, in spite of all the fastidiousness of youth, he minded his rags least of ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
well. She had always believed that whoever climbed to the top of it could see the ocean; and the little girl had often laid her hand on the great rough trunk and looked up wistfully at those dark boughs that the wind always stirred, no matter how hot and still the air might be below. Now she thought of the tree with a ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
should sweep away the satisfactions of an existence heart to heart with nature and the dumb life of the forest! There was the huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight, and small and silly Sylvia began with utmost bravery to mount to the top of it, with tingling, eager blood coursing the channels of her whole frame,...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
any use. The tree seemed to lengthen itself out as she went up, and to reach farther and farther upward. It was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth; it must truly have been amazed that morning through all its ponderous frame as it felt this determined spark of human spirit wending its way from higher branch to...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
Technical Subjects Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor . New York: Penguin, 1986. (1886) From Chapter 26 At sea in the old time, the execution by halter of a military sailor was generally from the fore-yard. In the present instance, for special reasons the main-yard was assigned. Under an arm of that lee-yard the pris...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
or a sort of momentary paralysis induced by emotional shock, stood erectly rigid as a musket in the ship-armorer's rack. The hull deliberately recovering from the periodic roll to leeward was just regaining an even keel, when the last signal, a preconcerted dumb one, was given. At the same moment it chanced that the va...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
‘So Seriozha has been smoking!’ he said with a shrug of his shoulders. ‘Fanc y the little beggar with a cigarette in his mouth! How old is he?’ ‘Seven years old. It seems of small consequence to you, but at his age smoking is a bad, a harmful habit; and bad habits should be nipped in the bud.’ ‘You are absolutely right...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
expelled and of their subsequent lives, and could not but reflect that punishment is, in many cases, more productive of evil than crime itself. The living organism possesses the faculty of quickly adapting itself to every condition; if it were not so man would be conscious every moment of the unreasonable foundations o...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
talking. ‘Pa–pa has come!’ sang the boy. ‘Papa has co–ome! Pa! Pa! Pa!’ ‘Votre père vous appelle, allez vite!’ cried the governess, twittering like a frightened bird. ‘What shall I say to him?’ thought Bilovsky. But before he had time to think of anything to say his son Seriozha had already entered the study. This was ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
my table, and telling a lie. Three accusations!’ Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby . New York: Scribner, 2000. (1925) From Chapter 3 There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another. Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying . New York: Vi...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
five feet apart and Jewel now in front, we go on up the path toward the foot of the bluff. Tull’s wagon stands beside the spring, hitched to the rail, the reins wrapped about the seat stanchion. In the wagon bed are two chairs. Jewel stops at the spring and takes the gourd from the willow branch and drinks. I pass him ...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors, the long barrels of the guns covered with green branches and green leafy branches and vines laid over the tractors. To the north we could look across a valley and see a forest of chestnut trees and behind it another mountain on this side of the river. There was fig...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }
and do things accordingly. So the beginning of this was a woman and she had come back from burying the dead. Not the dead of sick and ailing with friends at the pillow and the feet. She had come back from the sodden and the bloated; the sudden dead, their eyes flung wide open in judgment. The people all saw her come be...	{ "page_id": null, "source": 6820, "title": "from dpo" }

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