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Verses 1889-1896

By: Rudyard Kipling

...d.” I started o’ canteen porter, I finished o’ canteen beer, But a dose o’ gin that a mate slipped in, it was that that brought me here. ’Twas that an... ... them both that I will sure abstain, But as soon as I’m in with a mate and gin, I know I’ll do it again! With a second-hand overcoat under my head... ... GUN GUN GUN GUN GUNG G G G GA DIN A DIN A DIN A DIN A DIN You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-... ...rn us out at Portsmouth wharf in cold an’ wet an’ rain, All wearin’ Injian cotton kit, but we will not complain; They’ll kill us of pneumonia — for th... ...n, 313 Y ou couldn’t pack a Broadwood half a mile — 216 Y ou may talk o’ gin and beer 24 To return to the Electronic Classics Series site go to htt...

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Rudin a Novel

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...of sixty, with a false front of black curls under a parti-coloured cap and cotton wool in her ears; in the corner near the door was huddled Bassistoff... ...good listener. All men—if only they had not been intimidated by him to be- gin with—opened their hearts with confidence in his pres- ence; he followed...

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Barrackroom Ballads

By: Rudyard Kipling

...d.” I started o’ canteen porter, I finished o’ canteen beer, But a dose o’ gin that a mate slipped in, it was that that brought me here. ’Twas that an... ... them both that I will sure abstain, But as soon as I’m in with a mate and gin, I know I’ll do it again! With a second-hand overcoat under my head... ...ling 19 Gunga Din Gunga Din Gunga Din Gunga Din Gunga Din You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ‘ere, An’ you’re sent to penny-... ...rn us out at Portsmouth wharf in cold an’ wet an’ rain, All wearin’ Injian cotton kit, but we will not complain; They’ll kill us of pneumonia — for th... ... Y ou call yourself a man, 100 Barrack-Room Ballads 107 Y ou may talk o’ gin and beer 20 To return to the Electronic Classics Series site go to htt...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...the Artists’ quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-and-water with their lazy, dissolute, clever, jovial senior, used regul... ...ich were two round red faces, one in a laced nightcap, and one in a simple cotton one, ending in a tassel —in a curtain lecture, I say, Mrs. Sedley to... ...Mr. Sedley,” said she, “to tor- ment the poor boy so.” “My dear,” said the cotton-tassel in defence of his conduct, “Jos is a great deal vainer than y... ...kept them all laughing with her fun and mimicry; how she used to fetch the gin from the public-house, and was known in all the studios in the quarter—... ... painters. She was brought up as became her mother’s daugh- ter. She drank gin with her father, &c. &c. It was a lost woman who was married to a lost ... ...s said they drank together; and I have no doubt they do. Y es: he smelt of gin abominably. I remarked it. Didn’t you?” In vain Briggs interposed that ... ... for more, and subsided either into the cur- rant wine, or to some private gin-and-water in the stables, which he enjoyed in the company of the coachm... ...racts, but she read them. She worked flannel petticoats for the Quashyboos—cotton night-caps for the Cocoanut Indians—painted handscreens for the conv...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...eologists, and they all thought that they were of volcanic or igneous ori- gin! In its hardness and translucency — in its polish, equal to that of the... ...t now was miserably poor. He gave us two sheep, and accepted in return two cotton handker- chiefs, some brass trinkets, and a little tobacco. 25th. — ... ...hole. The storehouses at Talcahuano had been burst open, and great bags of cotton, yerba, and other valuable merchandise were scattered on the shore. ... ...ch the gigan- tic Portillo line has, but it is of a totally different ori- gin: it consists of various kinds of submarine lava, alternating with volca... ...t, _embedded_ amidst the shells and much sea-drifted rubbish, some bits of cotton thread, plaited rush, and the head of a stalk of Indian corn: I comp... ...e height with the shells on the lower terrace of San Lorenzo, in which the cotton-thread and other relics were embedded. 410 The V oyage of the Beagl... ...uff. Most of the lat- ter are beautifully symmetrical; they owe their ori- gin to eruptions of volcanic mud without any lava: it is a remarkable circu...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...terlink’d, food yielding lands! Land of coal and iron! land of gold! land of cotton, sugar, rice! Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of wool and hemp! la... ...atter strikes deep with his axe, Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton wood or pecan trees, Coon seekers go through the regions of the Re... ...ith his paddle shaped tall; Over the growing sugar, over the yellow flower’d cotton plant, over the rice in its low moist field, Over the sharp peak’d... ...tant to me, You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you. To cotton field drudge or cleaner of privies I lean, On his right cheek I pu... ...dress does not hide him, The strong sweet quality he has strikes through the cotton and broadcloth, To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, ... ...k of the patent pitchfork, Beholdest the newer saw mill, the southern cotton gin, and the rice cleanser. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 376 Beneath thy lo...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

... a dialect of a lan- guage, can hardly be said to have had a definite ori- gin. A man preserves and breeds from an individual with some slight deviati... ...r difficulty in this being effected through natural selection, than in the cotton-planter increasing and improving by se- lection the down in the pods... ...lanter increasing and improving by se- lection the down in the pods on his cotton-trees. Natural selection may modify and adapt the larva of an insect... ...ructure,—I have some- times felt much difficulty in understanding the ori- gin of simple parts, of which the importance does not seem sufficient to ca... ...formed for this purpose. On my view of descent with modification, the ori- gin of rudimentary organs is simple. We have plenty of cases of rudimentary...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

... as if there were nothing new in his reading at all. ‘I generally do it on gin and water.’ ‘Keeps the organ moist, does it, Wegg?’ asked Mr Boffin, wi... ...azed hat had after some consider- able hesitation ordered another glass of gin and water of the attendant potboy, and when Miss Abbey, instead of send... ...smal!—And perhaps you wouldn’t mind letting me know how used to it you be- gin to get, and how it all goes on?’ ‘I’ll send Sloppy,’ said Mrs Higden. ‘... ... by the departed, be- fore succumbing to dropsical conditions of snuff and gin, in- compatible equally with coherence and existence. Why christened Pl... ...atter produced from a cup- board some cold salt beef and half a loaf, some gin in a bottle, and some water in a jug. The last he brought in, cool and ... ...she might just as well have buried it, for it’ s always kept in jewellers’ cotton. However, here it is, I am thankful to say , and of use at last, and...

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The Works of Aristotle

By: Aristotle

...ot-grass, comfoly and quinces; a drachm of camphor; dip a piece of silk or cotton into it and apply it to the place. Take half an ounce each of oil of... ...ittle honey. As they will loathe, nauseate their meat, they may take green gin- ger, candied with sugar, and the rinds of citron and oranges candied; ... ...hat follows cutting the navel-string. As soon as it is cut, apply a little cotton or lint to the place to keep it warm, lest the cold enter into the b... ...st certainly will do, if you have not bound it hard enough. If the lint or cotton you apply to it, be dipped in oil of roses, it will be the better, a... ...es every night, and then wrap a piece of white baise about your veins, the cotton side next to the skin and keep the same always to it. But above all,... ... is hard to be cured. Cure. T ake galengal, cinnamon, nutmeg mace, cloves, gin- ger, cububs, cardamom, grains of paradise, each an ounce and a half, g...

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