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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn’t any clothes on, and didn’t mind.
We didn’t have no trouble about snags; the lightning was glaring and flittering around so constant that we could see them plenty soon enough to throw her head this way or that and miss them.
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Some people can not stand prosperity.
They say that the long-nosed, lanky, dyspeptic-looking body-snatchers, with the indescribable hats on, and a long curl dangling down in front of each ear, are the old, familiar, self-righteous Pharisees we read of in the Scriptures.
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The pride of the world in sculptures seem to be the Laocoon and the Dying Gladiator, in Rome.
They are as old as Pompeii, were dug from the earth like Pompeii; but their exact age or who made them can only be conjectured.
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I could have seen more, if I could have kept the dust out of my eyes.
But seriously a Washoe wind is by no means a trifling matter.
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One of his pet fads was palmistry.
To another one he gave no name, neither would he explain to anybody what its purpose was, but merely said it was an amusement.
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I didn’t see the box, I didn’t see the cross.
I didn’t see anything but a bottle and a tin cup on the floor by Injun Joe; yes, I saw two barrels and lots more bottles in the room.
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It is the most universally educated race of people outside of China.
They have any quantity of books, printed in the Kanaka language, and all the natives are fond of reading.
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Amy Lawrence was proud and glad, and she tried to make Tom see it in her face—but he wouldn’t look.
She wondered; then she was just a grain troubled; next a dim suspicion came and went—came again; she watched; a furtive glance told her worlds—and then her heart broke, and she was jealous, and angry, and the tears came and she hated everybody.
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No engineer was ever sleepy or careless when his heart was in a race.
He was constantly on the alert, trying gauge-cocks and watching things.
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My mother’s down sick, and out of money and everything, and I come to tell my uncle Abner Moore.
He lives at the upper end of the town, she says.
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No, never mind, ma'am, never mind; I'll put the other on in the street.
It is warm here.” It was warm. It was the warmest place I ever was in.
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I want this shebang all day. I’m _on_ it, old man!
Let ’em out! Make ’em go! We’ll make it all right with _you_, sonny!” The driver passed his hand through the strap-hole, and tapped for his fare—it was before the gongs came into common use.
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The entire paper, opened out, is not quite as large as a single page of the New York HERALD.
It is printed on both sides, of course; but in such large type that its entire contents could be put, in HERALD type, upon a single page of the HERALD--and there would still be room enough on the page for the ZEITUNG's “supplement” and some portion of the ZEITUNG's next day's contents.
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Oh, it is a fearful thing to be poor.
But don't throw away those things--they are so splendid and I can see how sure they are.
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It was about sundown.
The doctor he led me along by the hand, and was plenty kind enough, but he never let _go_ my hand.
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As for conveniences, properly speaking, there weren't any.
I mean _little_ conveniences; it is the little conveniences that make the real comfort of life. The big oaken chairs, graced with rude carvings, were well enough, but that was the stopping place.
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It was beautiful.
I do not overestimate it. I must always remember Shunem gratefully, as a place which gave to us this leafy shelter after our long, hot ride.
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Man, it is impossible.” “I knew you would say it.
I’ll fetch the cat.” He went in the house. Bascom said: “There—what did I tell you?
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This reminds me of poor Blucher's note to the landlord in Paris: PARIS, le 7 Juillet.
Monsieur le Landlord--Sir: Pourquoi don't you mettez some savon in your bed-chambers?
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The novel used dey as dialect for they regularly, and almost consistently, except in two cases.
Both cases were presumed errata: • On Page 232, en day warn't gwine to hurry • On Page 229, en day knows how to whale 'em, too.
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Luigi--Angelo.
They're lovely names; and so grand and foreign--not like Jones and Robinson and such. Thursday they are coming, and this is only Tuesday; it's a cruel long time to wait.
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I think that would cure her of some of her notions.
I am not sure but if she went away, to some distant school, into an entirely new life, her thoughts would be diverted.” Eli Bolton almost laughed as he regarded his wife, with eyes that never looked at her except fondly, and replied, “Perhaps thee remembers that thee had notions also, before we were married, and before...
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NOT EASILY REFERRED 65. ORDER, GENTLEMEN 66. THE SENATOR'S WALK 67.
RESIDENCE OF SQUIRE MONTAGUE 68. INSIDE THE MANSION 69. RUTH DISSIPATING 70. TAIL PIECE 71.
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But there was nobody down there.
They take exceedingly good care of their rivers in Switzerland and other portions of Europe. They wall up both banks with slanting solid stone masonry--so that from end to end of these rivers the banks look like the wharves at St.
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Well, I had a notion I could lan’ mos’ anywhers, but I couldn’t—bank too bluff.
I ’uz mos’ to de foot er de islan’ b’fo’ I found’ a good place.
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But there was no telling to what desperate lengths his passion might not carry him.
Laura bade him good bye with tender regret, which, however, did not disturb her peace or interfere with her plans.
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I said Jim might wake up and come.
But Tom wanted to resk it; so we slid in there and got three candles, and Tom laid five cents on the table for pay.
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They disappeared.
Presently another case of the kind occurred, and then another and another. Then a sudden turn of the road brought us in sight of that fire--it was a large manor-house, and little or nothing was left of it--and everywhere men were flying and other men raging after them in pursuit.
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Marcus Marcellus Valerian (stage name--his real name is Smith,) is a splendid specimen of physical development, and an artist of rare merit.
His management of the battle-ax is wonderful.
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The half-breed stood looking after him.
He muttered: “If he’s as much stunned with the lick and fuddled with the rum as he had the look of being, he won’t think of the knife till he’s gone so far he’ll be afraid to come back after it to such a place by himself—chicken-heart!” Two or three minutes later the murdered man, the blanketed corpse, the lidless coff...
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I only wanted the backing of her own authority; but she said: “Ye will do in all things as this lord shall command.
It is The Boss.” It was certainly a good word to conjure with: you could see it by the squirming of these rats.
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Fact is, I reckon we’d come to consider him _our_ nigger; yes, we did consider him so—goodness knows we had trouble enough for him.
So when we see the raft was gone and we flat broke, there warn’t anything for it but to try the Royal Nonesuch another shake.
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Every now and then she paid him a visit there on between-days also.
Occasionally he would run up to St. Louis for a few weeks, and at last temptation caught him again.
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Why didn't you keep your promise.” “The matter was not of sufficient consequence.
The time was gone by to produce an effect with them.” “But I hear that other friends of the Soldiers' Pension Bill desire them very much.
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There was no need to move an adjournment.
The instant the last motion was decided, the enemies of the University rose and flocked out of the Hall, talking angrily, and its friends flocked after them jubilant and congratulatory.
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A thick rayed cloth or carpet was then unfolded, and laid down between them by attendants in the gold-and-crimson liveries of the prince.
This done, a flourish of trumpets resounded from within.
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I have “read up” since.
I am aware that these vast bodies of ice do not travel at the same rate of speed; while the Gorner Glacier makes less than an inch a day, the Unter-Aar Glacier makes as much as eight; and still other glaciers are said to go twelve, sixteen, and even twenty inches a day.
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Wouldst sit in the presence of the King?” This blow staggered Hendon to his foundations.
He muttered to himself, “Lo, the poor thing’s madness is up with the time!
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Yes--yes--I remember, now.
We are expecting it every day. It isn't out yet.” “I think you must be mistaken, because you advertised it a week ago.” “Why no--can that be so?” “Yes, I am sure of it.
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I pitied this poor creature from the bottom of my heart.
I was deeply moved. I shed a few tears on him and kissed him for his mother.
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A gentleman could kill a free commoner, and pay for him--cash or garden-truck.
A noble could kill a noble without expense, as far as the law was concerned, but reprisals in kind were to be expected. _Any_body could kill _some_body, except the commoner and the slave; these had no privileges.
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But the relic that touched us most was the plain old sword of that stout Crusader, Godfrey of Bulloigne--King Godfrey of Jerusalem.
No blade in Christendom wields such enchantment as this--no blade of all that rust in the ancestral halls of Europe is able to invoke such visions of romance in the brain of him who looks upon it--none that can prate of such chivalric deeds or tell such brave tales of the warrior days of old.
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She jest went around broken-hearted like, and never took no intrust in anything but Clay--that's the boy thar.
She jest worshiped Clay--and Clay he worshiped her.
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I triumphed by my former process.
Within the next six hundred yards he crossed the street fourteen times and attempted thirteen gates, and in the meantime the tropical sun was beating down and threatening to cave the top of my head in, and I was literally dripping with perspiration.
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These letters are filled with advice--advice from 'spirits' who don't know as much as a tadpole--and this advice is religiously followed by the receivers.
One of these clients was a man whom the spirits (if one may thus plurally describe the ingenious Manchester) were teaching how to contrive an improved railway car-wheel.
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It was a delicious solitude we were in, too.
Three miles away was a saw- mill and some workmen, but there were not fifteen other human beings throughout the wide circumference of the lake.
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They judged that the Duke’s constant presence and the lawyer’s protracted absence would do the rest—for they did not invite the lawyer.
So they set sail in a steamer for America—and the third day out, when their sea-sickness called truce and permitted them to take their first meal at the public table, behold there sat the lawyer!
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In 1722 the river darted through that neck, deserted its old bed, and thus shortened itself thirty-five miles.
In the same way it shortened itself twenty-five miles at Black Hawk Point in 1699.
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He always brought his mother to church, and was the pride of all the matrons.
The boys all hated him, he was so good. And besides, he had been “thrown up to them” so much.
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It does not touch any thing at all. The guide said so.
This is very wonderful. In the place on it where Mahomet stood, he left his foot-prints in the solid stone.
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He told you just exactly wrong.” “Well, he did act like he was drunk, but it ain’t no matter now.
I got to be moving along.
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Merlin held his grip, but he was astonished clear down to his corns; he had never seen anything to begin with that, before.
Now was the time to pile in the effects.
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Hawkins said take it.
It was a grievous temptation, but the judge withstood it. He said the land was for the children--he could not rob them of their future millions for so paltry a sum.
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We wandered all over the town, enjoying whatever was going on in the streets.
We took one omnibus ride, and as I did not speak Italian and could not ask the price, I held out some copper coins to the conductor, and he took two.
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These camels are very much larger than the scrawny specimens one sees in the menagerie.
They stride along these streets, in single file, a dozen in a train, with heavy loads on their backs, and a fancy-looking negro in Turkish costume, or an Arab, preceding them on a little donkey and completely overshadowed and rendered insignificant by the huge beasts.
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She had to stop still and let him lounge by.
I wondered if he had done that piece of brutality purposely. He strolled to a chair and seated himself at a small table; two or three other males were sitting at similar tables sipping sweetened water.
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The terminal moraines (those which are pushed in front of the glaciers) cover something like twenty square miles of country.
At the mouth of the Valley of Aosta, the thickness of the glacier must have been at least TWO THOUSAND feet, and its width, at that part, FIVE MILES AND A QUARTER.” It is not easy to get at a comprehension of a mass of ice like that.
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They do not appear to have any schools here, and only one billiard table.
Their education is at a very low stage. One portion of the men go into the military, another into the priesthood, and the rest into the shoe-making business.
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Thompson's private store, a brand which he said he knew well, he should think it came from his own sideboard.
While the engineer corps went to the field, to run back a couple of miles and ascertain, approximately, if a road could ever get down to the Landing, and to sight ahead across the Run, and see if it could ever get out again, Col.
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The young man did not know he was telling a lie to the woman's advantage, who by that means escaped.
She returned to the man's lodge, and immediately set out for her own country.
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We were burning up with the heat. We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching.
All were willing. The Pool is a deep, walled ditch, through which a clear stream of water runs, that comes from under Jerusalem somewhere, and passing through the Fountain of the Virgin, or being supplied from it, reaches this place by way of a tunnel of heavy masonry.
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But in a little while I see a pale streak over the treetops, and knowed the day was coming.
So I took my gun and slipped off towards where I had run across that camp fire, stopping every minute or two to listen.
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The regular performance will continue every night till further notice.
Material change of programme every evening. Benefit of Valerian, Tuesday, 29th, if he lives.” I have been a dramatic critic myself, in my time, and I was often surprised to notice how much more I knew about Hamlet than Forrest did; and it gratifies me to observe, now, how much better my brethren of ancient times knew h...
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We had drained the goat-skins dry in a little while.
At noon we halted before the wretched Arab town of El Yuba Dam, perched on the side of a mountain, but the dragoman said if we applied there for water we would be attacked by the whole tribe, for they did not love Christians.
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This thing was becoming serious.
In by the shore was a slower boat clipping along in the easy water and gaining steadily; she began to make for an island chute; Stephen stuck to the middle of the river.
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I had a sort of vague desire to examine his hands and see if they were of flesh and blood, like other men's.
Here was a man who could do this wonderful thing, and yet if I chose I could knock him down.
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But no, there was something gaudier even than this.
He would be a pirate! That was it! _now_ his future lay plain before him, and glowing with unimaginable splendor.
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There was a long list of them.
They were brave, reckless men, and traveled with their lives in their hands. To give them their due, they did their killing principally among themselves, and seldom molested peaceable citizens, for they considered it small credit to add to their trophies so cheap a bauble as the death of a man who was “not on the shoot...
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Pretty soon the telegrams will begin to rattle in, and then you'll see, my boy.
Let the jury do what they please; what difference is it going to make?
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He is not the clerk, he is not the landlord; he ranks above the clerk, and represents the landlord, who is seldom seen.
Instead of going to the clerk for information, as we do at home, you go to the portier.
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But the fourth time, he groped a little further, and his hand lightly swept against something soft and warm.
This petrified him, nearly, with fright; his mind was in such a state that he could imagine the thing to be nothing else than a corpse, newly dead and still warm.
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You can read it in the Lives of the Saints.* [*All the details concerning the hermits, in this chapter, are from Lecky--but greatly modified.
This book not being a history but only a tale, the majority of the historian's frank details were too strong for reproduction in it.--_Editor_] CHAPTER XXIII RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN Saturday noon I went to the well and looked on a while.
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There was worlds of reputation in it, but no money. Why, they actually wanted _me_ to put in!
Well, I should smile. CHAPTER X BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION The Round Table soon heard of the challenge, and of course it was a good deal discussed, for such things interested the boys.
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It was a pleasant night and at first there were a good many people abroad, and there were cheerful lights about.
Later, I grew accustomed to prowling about mysterious drifts and tunnels and astonishing and interesting myself with coming around corners expecting to find the hotel staring me in the face, and not finding it doing any thing of the kind.
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They moved up the river street three blocks, then turned to the left up a crossstreet.
They went straight ahead, then, until they came to the path that led up Cardiff Hill; this they took.
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Here, run, somebody!
Fetch a glass of water!” The water was brought and thrown into Tom’s face. “Ah, now you’re all right. What was the matter with you, Tom?” “Oh, Judge, Injun Joe’s in the cave!” CHAPTER XXXIII Within a few minutes the news had spread, and a dozen skiff-loads of men were on their way to McDougal’s cave, and the ferryboat,...
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The judge’s wife she kissed it.
Then the old man he signed a pledge—made his mark. The judge said it was the holiest time on record, or something like that.
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Tom squared his accounts, and resolved to keep to the very letter of his reform, and never to put that will in jeopardy again.
He had three hundred dollars left.
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The whole family were poorly and cheaply dressed; and the clothing, although neat and clean, showed many evidences of having seen long service.
The Colonel's “stovepipe” hat was napless and shiny with much polishing, but nevertheless it had an almost convincing expression about it of having been just purchased new.
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I had them taken out and sent to their friends.
The queen did not like it much. Not that she felt any personal interest in the matter, but she thought it disrespectful to Sir Breuse Sance Pite.
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We are rich!
IT’S A BLIND LEAD!” I thought the very earth reeled under me. Doubt—conviction—doubt again—exultation—hope, amazement, belief, unbelief—every emotion imaginable swept in wild procession through my heart and brain, and I could not speak a word.
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So I quit.
CHAPTER XV. We judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after.
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I resign in his favor.
Appoint him.” I threw my arms around the generous fellow and said: “Harris, you are the noblest soul that lives.
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One or two dug-outs were drifting about in the roam ready to be put in service at any time.
When the flat was brought up, the side of the house was cut away as the only means of getting the animals out, and the cattle were driven on board the boat.
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This was alarming.
Half a dozen of their number set out, then early in the afternoon, to seek and succor Sir George and his guides.
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Don’t do anything but just the way I am telling you, if you do they will suspicion something and raise whoop-jamboreehoo.
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
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And what else would they be likely to consist of?
The Book of Ether is an incomprehensible medley of “history,” much of it relating to battles and sieges among peoples whom the reader has possibly never heard of; and who inhabited a country which is not set down in the geography.
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Yet if base music gives certain of us wings, why should we want any other?
But we do. We want it because the higher and better like it.
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Burn it up,--that's the way. I'm going to fetch it aboard,” he says.
And before anybody could say a word, in he went. 'He swum to it, and as he come pushing it to the raft, the men spread to one side.
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It is a long, light canoe (caique,) large at one end and tapering to a knife blade at the other.
They make that long sharp end the bow, and you can imagine how these boiling currents spin it about.
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Then he heaved a sigh and dropped his head resignedly upon his paws.
He was not equal to the situation. The dogs sleep in the streets, all over the city.
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He called then, according to agreement, and came away sugar-coated again, but suffering under another postponement.
So the thing went on. Yates haunted Stephen week after week, to no purpose, and at last gave it up.
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I honestly hope it is, to others, but certainly it is not to me.
Perhaps the reason I used to enjoy going to the Academy of Fine Arts in New York was because there were but a few hundred paintings in it, and it did not surfeit me to go through the list.
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So, where was the flood to come from?
We canvassed the subject awhile and then concluded it was a ruse, and that the Indians had some better reason for leaving in a hurry than fears of a flood in such an exceedingly dry time. 218.jpg (37K) At seven in the evening we went to bed in the second story—with our clothes on, as usual, and all three in the same be...
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Cheap histories of him were for sale by train boys.
According to these, he was the most marvelous creature of his kind that had ever existed.
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We had a gang of men on the road, working mainly by night.
They were stringing ground wires; we were afraid to put up poles, for they would attract too much inquiry.
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Longfellow could have turned into verse with good effect.
For instance, there was the legend of 'The Undying Head.' He could not tell it, for many of the details had grown dim in his memory; but he would recommend me to find it and enlarge my respect for the Indian imagination.
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Authority seemed to invest him with a new splendor.
Col. Sellers, as general superintendent of a great public enterprise, was all that a mere human being could be--and more.
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The men are gone, the houses have vanished, even the _name_ of the place is forgotten.
In no other land, in modern times, have towns so absolutely died and disappeared, as in the old mining regions of California.
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So pap said somebody got to get ashore and get help somehow.
I was the only one that could swim, so I made a dash for it, and Miss Hooker she said if I didn’t strike help sooner, come here and hunt up her uncle, and he’d fix the thing.
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Built voice/style instruction-tuned datasets used by the gemma-finetune workshop (May 2026, Immersive Commons). Each row is dolly-15k–shaped:

{"instruction": "...", "context": "...", "response": "...", "category": "..."}

Files

file rows upstream recipe
shakespeare_15k.jsonl 15,000 HF benchaffe/shakespeare-lines 12.5K 4-line continuation windows + 2.5K per-theme style
obama_15k.jsonl 15,000 fivethirtyeight/data BarackObama.csv 6 templates per cleaned tweet (style ×2, continuation, topic, tone, author classification)
trump_15k.jsonl 15,000 HF fschlatt/trump-tweets drop retweets + profanity-filter (default on); 7.5K style + 6.75K continuation + 750 author classification
marktwain_15k.jsonl 15,000 Project Gutenberg (10 books) 10K continuation + 5K style passages

Reproducible from the build script in the upstream repo:

git clone https://github.com/RayyanZahid/gemma-finetune
cd gemma-finetune
python data/build_voice_dataset.py --all

The build script uses random.Random(42); output is deterministic.

Use with Gemma fine-tuning

python templates/finetune.py --user me --dataset data/obama_15k.jsonl --out-dir runs

License

MIT for the derived JSONL. Upstream sources: Project Gutenberg works (Twain) are public domain; fschlatt/trump-tweets is CC0; FiveThirtyEight tweet repo is open; benchaffe/shakespeare-lines is public domain Shakespeare.

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