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people, the buildings, even the pavement underfoot became tenuous as smoke. He could see right through them. It always frightened Vickers a little to use his full vision, taking him a second to adjust. Then he located his double about ten steps ahead. He could make out the misty outlines of elevators in the man's fla...
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head. In haste came in the little footboy, And stood before the table; He was I ween a clever lad, And well to speak was able. “Now hear, Sir Godey Loumand, hear, Arise and straight begone; Little Engel’s coming with his troop By four ways to the town. “Little Engel’s coming with his troop, And he’ll ...
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estimate can be considered accurate. The estimates range from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000. Of marvelous escapes from death, of acts of supreme heroism, of devotion and courage beyond parallel, the storm developed many instances. In some cases whole families were blotted out, in others the strong perished and the weak s...
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Others could tipple if they would--not for Recruit McGee. Thus did the minor leaguer seek for affluence and fame-- Virtue's its own reward at times, but oft it pulls up lame. Now he has went back to the place from which he once had came! BALLADE OF A SUBSTITUTE I've been here nearly a season now, Wat...
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should be placed at some distance from the building. The conducting rod should be of copper or iron, and from half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter, so as not to be readily forced. Its upper end should be elevated about three or four feet above the highest part of the building, and all the metallic parts of the ...
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practice of the truth. But the teacher was _Doctor in Ecclesia_, whose business was to teach, and explain, and defend the doctrines of Christianity. He was to inform the judgment, and advance the work of illumination. The business of the ruling elder was to assist the pastor in the government ...
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Does He mean that the power of practicing virginal chastity is given only to the selected few or to the many? St. Chrysostom, interpreting His words, says that this gift of chastity "is given to those who choose it of their own accord," adding that the "necessary help from on high is prepared for all who wish to be vic...
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she said quickly. "Bart only took some documents and papers besides what he wore. He didn't know but what his identity would be questioned when he suddenly changed from a mining expert to a policeman." "And the room--is it rented?" She shook her head. "Then, if you'll accept me as a tenant until further notice we'...
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killing several of them, but Black Hawk was not of the party. About this time, his eldest son sickened and died, and within a short period afterwards, he lost his youngest daughter. This affliction seems to have made a deep impression upon him; and according to a custom common among the Indians, he blacked his face, an...
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every possible direction, with my heart in my mouth, and was at last rewarded by catching a glimpse of something yellow moving behind a bush. At the same moment, from another bush opposite me out burst one of the cubs and galloped back towards the burnt pan. I whipped round and let drive a snap shot that tipped him hea...
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in love with Miss Featherstone, although you like fair women--" "And she is dark," he interrupted. "Regular features--" "And her dear little nose is slightly _retroussèe_; but you cannot deny, Virginia, that she has a most captivating air." "I'm fond of her, but I do not think her captivating." Mrs. Pinckney was no...
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The teachers are inferior to none in the State for thoroughness, patience and skill in imparting knowledge. They possess the confidence of the pupils, and, under the wise administration of President Ware, everything moves like clockwork, and no serious outbreak has ever occurred. The discipline is mild, but resolute a...
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the shoulders stiffen'd, ere to the breast Bent down the head, as though the glazing sight Curious would mark the death-spot. Still upright Stood he; but as a tree that on the side Of Ida yields to axe her soaring pride And lightlier waves her leafy crown, and swings From side to side--so on his...
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and Order League, they sent the following strong endorsement, which was also approved by ex-Mayor Latrobe and United States Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte: To the Board of Liquor License Commissioners. Gentlemen: We have read with peculiar pleasure in the morning papers of to-day the accounts of th...
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in which the spirit of free examination and pure monarchy, both the results of the progress of civilisation, found themselves for the first time in array. {212} Lecture XIII. Effects Of The English Revolution. We have seen that, in the course of the sixteenth century, all the elements and facts ...
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it thundered and rained incessantly; so that on the Monday morning the Taro was considerably swollen. At seven o'clock the king sent for De Comines, who found him already armed and mounted on the finest horse he had ever seen. The name of this charger was Savoy. He was black, one-eyed, and of middling height; and to hi...
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but whether it exists at all, or is of the same imaginary nature as that to which Gloucester was led by Edgar. That there may be beings, of whom we have no idea, is a proposition which it is impossible to disprove. Such beings would be _ex hypothesi_ no part of our experience; and if God were such a being, man would h...
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frowned, and pinched one of my ears viciously. Forty-eight hours later I was safely shut up in the Pension Clissot. * * * * * Here my personal narrative ends. From this point the story of which the preceding pages form a part will be recorded by another pen. It was deemed advisable by t...
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Marte vel arte ruet." Przipcovius was a Polish knight, and cotempory the author of _Hudibras_. In a tract entitled _Religio Vindicata a Calumniis Atheismi_, he thus alludes to the spiritual Quixotism which induced Butler to "crack the satiric thong:" "Sæpe audivi quod in _Angliâ_ (quæ regio sicut in multis aliis ...
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to social intercourse. It is also injurious in that it opposes the acquirement of solid knowledge and the intention to win the respect of men in an honest way. Finally, it is the ax which is laid at the root of a delicate sense of language in our mother tongue, which thereby is incurably injured and dest...
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of the annular rim. This reproduction of the lobes and arms time after time on a varying scale goes far to explain the puzzling variations in their number which I mentioned in connection with the drawings. I had not, indeed, suspected this, which is one of the few new points that the photographs have so far revealed.[5...
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or perturbed, he sought and gained the discerning spirit and the power of appreciation which make not a book but a man. He annotated the volumes that he read with judgment; he kept botanical calendars and thermometrical registers; he had a lively curiosity all round; and, in Gray's own words, he deemed it a sufficient ...
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{Carver in Lab} George loved to paint and discovered new ways to make colors from soil and different plants. Draw a picture of your favorite place at the park. [Illustration: {Palette}] Carver Discoveries.... {Carver in ...
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and not in the future. _Thos. F. Reith_, Card-writer--That I try to emulate the well-known Beaver and turn out heaps of B_right_ E_ffective_ A_rtistic_ V_igorous_ E_nterprising and_ R_eadable_ show cards, tickets and signs during 1921, in which case I expect to "BE-A-VER-"Y busy Card-writer. ...
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for she was quite used to people exclaiming over her chosen study. "Will you give me a job here when I finish?" "I'll say we will! If you'd take it. But you won't. You'll have bigger offers than this." "Come along, Linda!" urged Louise, pulling her chum by the arm. "Aren't you cold?" "No, but I'm dying to see my fam...
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6d. yard.) Several came again to-day seeking wood; some even wanted the galvanized iron for my roof. At graves this afternoon saw that they had made a shelf in a grave to hold body and prevent ground falling directly upon it; made me think of catacombs Rome. Seven buried this afternoon; stood right in front of Lena'...
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and, taking both hands to her paddle, was about to make a landing, when suddenly there was a violent tug at one of the hooks. The line was torn from under her light foot, and at once dragged overboard. Dave saw what had happened; but he was wise enough not to say, even by look or tone, "I told you so!" Instead, he turn...
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to apprehend the gradual change of form through which it passed from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries, and at once to recognise the leading characteristics of the several Periods into which it is here proposed to divide the History of our National Architecture. Having thus fixed these leading characteristics in ...
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Staggering along with its draught under the cruel urging of the whip, the moment arrives when Prince can go no further. Its unhappy span of life is terminated. It suddenly drops down under its weary load--to die, and be relieved of all its troubles. Unyoked from the cart, and relieved of its harness, there it is stretc...
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all of us together, taken into serious consideration the case and question signed by your Majesty, and inclosed in your royal letter; and we are of opinion, that when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned, and the kingdom in danger, your Majesty may, by writ under the Great Seal of England, command...
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now howling breeze. "It's the rounds, by Jove!" muttered the Sub. "That's right; we'll hide in this hollow and trust to luck." "Halt! Who goes there?" demanded the sentry in German. "Rounds," was the reply. "Advance, rounds; all's well!" exclaimed the soldier, recovering his rifle. An officer and a file of men, on...
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excessive shyness and reserve, based on sensitiveness and caution rather than self-exaggeration and egotism. Few statesmen have done more than Peel to advance the material interests of the people; yet he never was a popular idol, and his history fails to kindle the enthusiasm with which we study the political career o...
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 92413| ? |May 19, |Maria Madre | | | | | | | | | 1897 | Island |26.0|11.25|10.5| 4.1 |....|6.1 | 4.7 7841| ? |....... |lost specimen-- | | | | | |...
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but there has been a certain deception, an odd misunderstanding which cannot go on any longer. Tonight, you will know the truth." Carrying torches, we left the mansion of Tomeron and sought the ancient catacombs of Ptolemides, which lie beyond the walls and have long been disused, for there is now a fine necropolis in...
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soon after taking his doctor's degree in 1813--at the suggestion of an Orientalist he took up the study of the Vedanta system. All these various influences converged to impress him with the belief that the things of sense are a delusive appearance under which a fundamental reality lies concealed. According to Hegel, th...
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colours with modesty and sorrow till the tears gush into her eyes. If ever loss of sight could be compensated, it is by so affectionate a family.” Not long after this, Walpole repeats a good-humoured jest of the blind old man on receiving a call from his _quondam_ opponent, Colonel Barré, whose sight also was ...
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I believe, in most towns, of all future costs and maintenance; whereas, in the case of water closets, there is undoubtedly great difficulty in cottage property in keeping them in good working order, especially during the frosts of winter. There are, however, many objections to the pail system, which it is not proposed ...
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From the height of the walls it at first seemed as if in kiva W there were evidences of a room above. This condition would be contrary to the rule and, to the Hopi mind, ceremonially impossible; but if its upper walls are regarded as homogeneous with the high walls that surround kivas O and R, and we interpret this as ...
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been corbelled in the same manner as those of the presbytery, although the corbels had been cut off flush with the face of the wall. Fortunately in a sheltered corner next the tower two or three of the corbels remained in a perfect state; these have been the guide in the restoration. The parapet was probably of less he...
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Jones. Evarts.--Rev. Herbert Carleton, A.M., Mrs. Blanche B. Carleton. Lexington.--Rev. Byron Gunner, Miss Bettie A. Gunner. Williamsburg.--Rev. W. B. Frey, Miss Nora Hill, Rev. Chas. M. Stevens, Rev. Samuel Sutton. VIRGINIA. Ark.--Miss Lizzie Baytop. Cappahosic.--Mr. J. H. Lockley, Mr. D. D. Weaver, P...
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loom. Their only labour was to kill the time, And labour dire it is, and weary woe; They sit, they loll, turn o’er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering step, and slow; This soon too rude an exercise they...
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shoulder, where he sat chattering and scolding about the introduction. Again the skeleton waved his hand, and this time he introduced "Mademoiselle Spelletti, the wonderful snake-charmer, whose exploits in this country, and before the crowned heads of Europe, had caused the whole world to stand aghast at her daring." ...
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it ceases to be the period of mute resignation. From one point of view, it is the age of resignation, for one wittingly resigns in part what death is wholly to take away, but, be it made clear, resignation is not inaction, renunciation is not willlessly surrendering torpor. These things imply will, action, choice, not ...
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glitters in the sun, And one bare dwelling; one abode—no more! It seems the home of poverty and toil, Though not of want. The little fields made green By husbandry of many thrifty years, Pay cheerful tribute to the moorland house. There crows the cock, single in his domain; The small birds...
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Jean Petit, the duty of whitewashing his master--a task less formidable than it sounds to those unversed in the casuistry of the schools of that day. To do Petit justice, he seems to have acquitted himself as well as the obvious weakness of his case would permit. Starting from the principal that it is "licit and merit...
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in sustaining the weight for a few seconds. Among the people who came alongside the ship one day we noticed two cases of that kind of elephantiasis called Barbadoes Leg, in one combined with enormous distension of the scrotum, which was larger than a man's head, and studded with warts. One of these unfortunate objects...
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Oh, well for the man of my heart, That he bets on the "holes" and the play Oh, well for the "caddie" that carries The "clubs," and earns his pay. He puts his red coat on, And he roams on the sandy hill; But oh for the touch of that golfer's hand, That the "niblick" wields with a will. Golf! Go...
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Wappinger conveyed in the thirty minutes her visit lasted. She began by explaining that she was a friend of James van Tromp's--a very great friend. In fact, her husband had been at one time a partner in the Van Tromp banking-house; but it was an old business, and what they call conservative, while Mr. Wappinger was fro...
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84 When, are Seasick. Vol vi, 192 Antelope, The Pigmy. Vol iv, =94=, 95 Apple Blossoms. Vol iv, 35 Blossom Time. Vol iii, 153 April. Vol vii, 145 Arbutus, The Trailing. Vol v, 229 Armadillo. Vol iv, =147=, 146 as a Pet. Vol iv, 12 A Scrap of Paper. Vol vii, 59 Athena, The Birth. Vol v, ...
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sheet. Brush hard all upholstered furniture with a whisk broom and cover with dusting sheets. Dust all ornaments laying them carefully under dusting sheet on sofa or bed. All little things being out of the room and large pieces of furniture covered, sweep carpet or rug, and then, with dustless mop, go over the floor...
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me patiently. Will you?” “I will, indeed.” Easton opened his lips as if to speak, but he did not speak at once; he did not seem to find the words or the thoughts so ready as he expected. “I never blamed you,” he began, finally, “for any judgment you formed of her character, and I certainly invited the expression of ...
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one else'll sing a song, I'll give you "_The Midshipmite_." _The Stout Lady._ I do like the way those two go on together; it's as good as a play. I shall begin laughin' presently; it takes a deal to set me _off_, but when I once _am_ off, I can't stop myself. (_The Mate sings._) A sweet singer _he_ is, too. Lor! it's ...
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for the honour of being my wife? VAL. No! SGAN. I tell it you, then; and also that it is as well that your passion, if you please, should leave her in peace. VAL. Who?--I, sir? SGAN. Yes, you. Let us have no dissembling. VAL. Who has told you that my heart is smitten by her? SGAN. Those who are worthy of belief. ...
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means round here pretty freely but you haven't said 'turkey' to me." Surprised but glad and unabashed the claimant said "I was coming to that," produced a thousand-dollar bank roll and entered into an understanding as to what was to be done next day, when the bill was due on the calendar. The great man took the money...
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over her face, then she calmly awaited the blow. The look in her eyes checked it. When his hand fell to his side, she spoke: "I forgive you, father, for the dead mother's sake." Her tones were deep and tender, and he bowed before the majesty of unsullied womanhood. He knew without further assurance that she was pure....
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eyes was gone, as the ring of fire had died, but Henry and Paul slept on, although there was full need for them to be awake. The long, distant quaver, like a whine, but with something singularly ferocious in its note came again on the wind, and, far away, a score of forms, phantom and dusky, in the shadow were running ...
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leaped round, his eye flashing ominously, and in a voice that was unsteady with anger, he said-- "What now--what do you mean by that?" "Why, I mean that you are a fool to think of killing your golden goose in that way. Do you think, just because he has no gold with him, that he does not know where it is to be found. ...
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12 Distemper, The 40 Draining the Great Level 23 Epitaphs 35 Executions 41 Extraordinary Medley 34 Fairs 19 Fen arou...
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quite dazed with the apparently endless quest, to say nothing of the whisky, they audibly cursed the whole ovine race back to the days of the first breeders. Only once did the brothers feel a doubt. Driving into town, they met M‘Pherson and a black-fellow following the old cull, who was steadily tramping along the roa...
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what were you thinking of to leave them alone here? What were you about? Listening to gossip no doubt--You are a worse baby than they are!” He stamped his feet angrily. Then he heard a piteous cry from Tachana--a cry from her baby heart. “Was it you, Monina?” said Leon, looking at the child with grave displeasure. Mo...
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or admonishing whispers of their elders, letting a pebble fall into the water, that they might judge of its depth from the length of time that elapsed before the clear air-bells lay sparkling on the agitated surface."--Vide "_Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life_." 155. _His Most Gracious Majesty Willi...
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were wise methods. 6. John is, like his father, a great hunter. 7. Genius finds its own road, and carries its own lamp. 8. He who pursues pleasure only, defeats the object of his creation. 9. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. 10. While principles may abide, the phenom...
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"cheerful Chatham," "smiling Sittingbourne," "favoured (junction for Dover and Ramsgate) Faversham," and last, but not least, "cathedral-cherishing Canterbury." You hurry through the quaint old streets of "the Key to Brompton" (I believe that is the poetical _plus_ strategical designation of the most warlike of our cin...
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as M. Gabriel. These things are in the nature of a man, and one will play for the mere pleasure of winning, while another does not consider it worth his while to try. Of two such men I know which is the better and more deserving of love. "Rapid worker as M. Gabriel was with his paintings and sketches, my lady's portra...
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2: 1 Sam. 7: 15-17; 9: 22-24; 11: 14,15; 20:29.] In other words, the Lord said to Samuel, I want you to go to Bethlehem as my representative, and offer a sacrifice there. Say this fearlessly. In due time I will give you other directions; but do not borrow trouble on account of them. Do your duty step by step. Speak ou...
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twine and earthenware, as also in hats, gloves, combs, umbrellas, embroideries, ribbons, crapes, oilcloth, iron furniture, fancy articles, and in bottled ale, beer and porter, England more than holds her own against the American Republic. FOREIGN INTERMIXTURE. 6.--At the same time it is right to observe that a consi...
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IDA FAY. A FISH STORY. COUSIN WILLIE lives on a pleasant island in Chesapeake Bay. He has a boat called the "Nautilus." One morning he was taking a sail in his boat, when he saw a large fish-hawk soaring and wheeling through the air, as though in search of a breakfast for its young nestlings. At length it made a ...
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her hopeful son christened "Washington," but by some mistake the name in the register got set down as "Washing done"! * * * * * "What size was it?" the witness was asked when in the witness box giving evidence. "It was about th' mickle of a piece of chalk," was the answer.[12] [12] Th...
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_Zan._ I told her, from your childhood you was wont, On any great surprise, but chiefly then When cause of sorrow bore it company, To have your passion shake the seat of reason; A momentary ill, which soon blew o'er: Then did I tell her of don Carlos' death (Wisely suppressing by what means he fell), And laid the blame...
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were established to bring up their children as Protestants; and if they refused to avail themselves of these, they were deliberately assigned to hopeless ignorance, being excluded from the university, and debarred, under crushing penalties, from acting as schoolmasters, as ushers, or as private tutors, or from sending ...
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And his cuirass of beaming blue.” So wroth grew Sivard at the sight, And loud around he ’gan to shout: “Upstand ye all my merry men tall, For here is come a Kemp so stout. “Now take ye brand and shield in hand, And look ye wield them both aright; Unto our home is Hafbur come, Unasked by me, the hard necke...
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taking care that everything shall be in the most perfect order. Embellishment, however, is not much expended on actual clothing, which is simple, and chiefly arranged with a view to convenience. Instead of shoes, they wear what are termed moccasins, consisting of one strip of soft leather wrapped round the foot, and fa...
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just yet," answered Dan, coolly. He shut the trap-door, hastily lugged the ladder to the rear of the house (unobserved, for there were no customers present), then dashed up stairs and beckoned to Althea to follow him. There was no obstacle, for Mrs. Donovan was stupefied by liquor. Putting on her things, the little g...
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replied Mollie, promptly. “That’s one of the things that makes him most popular--he sticks close to a job till it is finished right. And I suppose he won’t think he can take a vacation till he has straightened out the case of this old man’s will to his satisfaction.” The girls went on again for a short distance but th...
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foot traffic on friable soil undoubtedly placed a strain on the environment, but the deterioration of resources alone doesn't explain the total abandonment of the area at about A.D. 1300. It is likely that there were political, or other social factors involved whose traces are hard to find in the archeological remains....
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but Mr. Nelson told her that it was not the procedure of his church and, furthermore, he would not know what to say. Not abashed in the slightest, she replied, "Oh, that doesn't matter. Just give the address you made at the Mabley-Carew Department Store dinner!" However, he did read a poem, and in trying to express her...
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unreflecting that every unoffending man is a brother! "Or--were they thrown on some bleak northern strand, where life is mere existence, where the genial board has never welcomed the wearied traveller, where freezing cold benumbs even the soft affections of the heart, and where, from the first great law of self-preser...
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from the last point of support to the lamp, when such conductor is larger than No. 14 B. & S. gauge. _Arc Lamps on Constant-Potential Circuits._ Must have a cut-out for each lamp or each series of lamps. The branch conductors must have a carrying capacity about fifty per cent in excess of the normal current require...
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the Imperial Guard, and of the Dragoons of the Empress, was replaced by the brilliant uniforms of the King's body-guards, of the _hundred Swiss_, an old name now replaced by the almost grotesque appellation of the _Gardes à pied ordinaires du corps du roi_, a species of giants, commanded by the Count of Tisseuil, a per...
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even if it takes a week." The obliging youth inclined his head and departed. There is a delightful air of leisure and learning about the Print Room, and an entire absence of hustle. Two students besides himself were the only other members of the public, one studying Holbein, the other Blake. [Illustration: PORTRAIT ...
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at their breakfast, Selak, the leading Malay, and his fellows squatted on the fore-hatch and talked in whispers. "I tell thee," said Selak, "that I have seen it. On the evening of the day when the man Sam died and was buried, I was sitting outside the house. It was dark, and the Tuan Korwal thought I had returned to t...
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and so Lee did not know of this important movement until Hooker’s whole army had crossed the Potomac and moved toward Frederick, Maryland. It was now impossible for Stuart to cross the river where he had intended, and it would take too much time to retrace his steps and cross at Shepherdstown, so he determined on the ...
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that country. If the work of any country deserves this stigma it is that of America. The undeniable ingenuity and neatness of American products is, unfortunately, very often combined with bad workmanship. In Argentine, according to some authorities, disappointed buyers of American goods are returning to more solid work...
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when I go into the country," says Mrs. R., "is 'Flybites.'" She pronounced it as a word of three syllables, and then added, "I rather think the learned way of spelling it is 'Phlybites.'" * * * * * [Illustration: CORIOLANUS. "I WOULD HE HAD CONTINU'D TO HIS COUNTRY AS HE BEGAN, AND...
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twenty-five per cent. after the work was taken over by the Department. C. L. Grutze was resident engineer on this work. COST STATEMENT--WESTPORT-CLATSKANIE MACADAM ===========================+==========+========+==============+======== Item | Unit | Quan- | Total cost | Unit ...
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Earth's surface, when man's weapons--and his medical science--had wiped out every creature save the indestructible destroyer himself, the machine races had risen from the shreds of technical knowledge hoarded by the scattered groups of survivors and crystallized by their descendants in the rigid mold of tradition. And ...
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We know of no sovereign remedy for these pests of the drying-room. The best preventive is perfect cleanliness in all the surroundings. No pools of whey or slops of any kind in, under or around the building, should be allowed to furnish the first broods. But few factories are so arranged as to leave no putrid whey-spout...
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advised." In the letter in which my name appears for the second and last time, dated the 6th April, on the very eve of the signing of the treaty (the dates are valuable, and it is well to retain them), General Govone mentions a visit which he paid me, the first since his arrival at Berlin; and...
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58 Peter Cooper was also President of this Ball, and Mayor Tiemann and James W. Gerard the Secondary Managers. _Official Statement_ of the _Crystal Palace Ball_, of which Peter Cooper was the President, and Mayor Tiemann and James W. Gerard the Secondary Managers. Receipts, (rogues’ exhibit,) $10,147 3...
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to the consideration of the flight of the ball after it has left the club. It would, indeed, have been well if Professor Thomson had carried out his expressed intention of leaving this matter alone, for in dealing with it he has shown most conclusively that he has no practical grip of the question which he has at...
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the Four crowded inside the hut, Dan and Nelson, however, keeping close to the doorway and casting uneasy glances into the darkness. At length the matter was explained, and Bob, lighting a match, advanced toward the back of the cabin, the others following breathlessly and gazing nervously over his shoulder. As the matc...
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Ah! how happy I was in those days!" "You were happy when I broke the window? Did that amuse you?" "It seems that I must always happen on something to remind me of that time, although I try to avoid it. However, I am glad to see you." "You are very good, monsieur. That must be at least five years ago, more than five ...
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despite the outposts, to toss it over the wall... After this, for a time, no word went out or came in. 6 Elmer Boatwright slept alone in a small room; his wife, Miss Hemphill and Dr. Cassin occupied a large room in the same building. One night, tossing on his cot, the prey of nightmares, Boatwright started up, cold w...
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way into the inner sides of the stem and stern posts. If possible remove some of the saloon panels, for the space between a vessel’s skins is a favourite nest for dry rot. If a vessel is coppered and she is hauled up, the sheathing will be wrinkled in a horizontal direction if she has been in any way strained. These w...
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are so many attitudes of opposition possible, so many objections that are thinkable, and so many things assumed by those who pitch themselves against it, that I cannot hope in one evening to accomplish more than a beginning. But if I can somehow succeed in dilating your pupils a little, and enable you to realize in som...
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again, more certainly, should he see Hélène, feel the maddening sweetness of her touch, her kiss. There was to be a ball. Henriette told him all about it; he heard of his cousin Hervé's visit, and was half amused, half miserable. Hélène would dance; white and slender, her eyes full of sadness. She would dance with othe...
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ordained for the pious among Thy servants. Thou art in truth the Supreme Ruler, the All-Bounteous, the Most Benevolent. O my God! Let the outpourings of Thy bounty and blessings descend upon homes whose inmates have embraced Thy Faith, as a token of Thy grace and as a mark of loving-kindness from Thy presence. Verily ...
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de noailles. SEE Proust, Marcel. <pb id='225.png' /> BRACKETT, CHARLES. All modern improvements. (In Saturday evening post, Jan. 31, 1931) © 29Jan31; B102647. Charles Brackett (A); 13Oct58; R222774. Riding high. (In Woman's home companion, Oct. 1931) © 25Aug31; B124929. Charles Brack...
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before the King at Nottingham; wherein they accused Thomas Duke of Gloucester, Richard Earl of Arundel, Thomas Earl of Warwick, and Sir Thomas Mortimer, knight of the aforesaid treasons, and also of armed revolt at Haringhay-park traitorously raised against the King. FOOTNOTES: [100] Walshingham, in his account of th...
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or a dozen days cover. I have often seen painters, when they had painted-in the solid objects of their pictures, go over parts with thin transparent colour, and, as if by magic, the ruin or the mountain that a moment ago pressed offensively forward retired into its proper place in the composition, and gathered round it...
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