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...t trip to the East, Mr. Quinn?’ asked Helen gently. ‘No, miss, I have served for several years in China but was sent home because I contracted malar... ...as Lord Buddha. The East India Company has, of course, realised the strategic importance of this Imperial Road, as it was known in Moghul times. It ... ...ling hung crystal chandeliers and the centrepiece of the table was a magnificent vase of Dresden china in the shape of a swan which was filled with ... ... As usual after her ride, she stripped down to her underclothes and poured some warm water from a china jug into a wash basin on the marble-topped w... ...tors served the most delicious cakes and pastries and an assortment of teas in fine English bone china crockery. On their return to the Residency, ... ...he startled Isabel and sent it crashing to the floor, shards of broken Audrey Blankenhagen 172 china flying in all directions. ‘How dare you enter...

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...sary by the way in which everything was packed away—the plate, the Dresden china, the candlesticks, and the glass—made a variety in the monotonous liv... ...attachment which Sommervieux had formed for this cel- ebrated flirt of the Imperial Court. At one-and-twenty, in all the splendor of youth and beauty,... ...y a small moustache twirled up into points, and as black as jet, by a full imperial, by whiskers carefully combed, and a forest of black hair in some ...

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...e seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better... ...oah’s flood would not interrupt, though it overwhelmed all the millions in China. He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among... ...at somehow whaling is not respectable. Whaling not respectable? Whaling is imperial! By old En- glish statutory law, the whale is declared “a royal fi... ...seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress. Curious to tell, this imperial negro, Ahasuerus Daggoo, was the Squire of little Flask, who looke... ...itary navy; nay, extorting almost as much outward homage as if he wore the imperial purple, and not the shabbiest of pilot-cloth. And though of all me... ...of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased be- fore the tremend... ...t at Frank- fort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these cabin meals were somehow solemn meals, eaten in... ...s! Pip. Jinglers, you say?—there goes another, dropped off; I pound it so. China sailor. Rattle thy teeth, then, and pound away; make a pagoda of thys... ...d turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race. So that Monsoons, P...

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...ir office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had de- serted from the imperial army and joined forces with Conde; and younger members of families... ...efort’s father laughed. “Come, come,” said he, “will the Restoration adopt imperial meth- ods so promptly? Shot, my dear boy? What an idea! Where is t... ...being suspected of royalism. Alexandre Dumas 95 However, scarcely was the imperial power established — that is, scarcely had the emperor re-entered t... ... of my great work, the unity of the Italian kingdom; but for some time the imperial police (who at this period, quite contrary to what Napoleon desire... ...Napo- leon was then on the throne) the services Dantes had rendered to the imperial cause — services which Villefort’s certificates rendered indispens... ... various dainties. The dishes were of silver, and the plates of Japa- nese china. Franz rubbed his eyes in order to assure himself that this was not a... ...shionable world of which I know no more than a Huron or a native of Cochin-China?” “Oh, that I do, and with infinite pleasure,” answered Albert; “and ... ...alencia, pilau at Constantinople, karrick in India, and swallows’ nests in China. I eat everywhere, and of everything, only I eat but little; and to-d... ... over a large table, was tracing on a map the route from St. Petersburg to China. The procureur entered with the same grave and measured step he would...

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...me. It was all the fortune that ever I inherited. That watch has regulated imperial interests in its time — the stately ceremonial, the courtly assign... ..., some slices of bread and butter, a tea cup, and some hot tea in a little china jug ‘Is Fanny gone?’ said Bathsheba. ‘No,’ said her companion, pourin... ... quite a cozy and luxurious show, with an urn, plated tea and coffee pots, china teacups, and plum cakes. Troy stood at the entrance to the booth, whe...

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...to the moment when, without either of her protectors, she must go with the imperial Lady Martindale to encounter the dreaded aunt. When the time came,... ...kylark to approach. ‘A pretty scene, is it not?’ said John. ‘Like a Sevres china cup,’ Theodora could not help saying. ‘Fountain and peacock, and para... ...variably say, “Oh, you mean old Lumpkin!” So much for romantic names!’ ‘Or imperial ones,’ said Percy. ‘Did not you tell me Theodora came straight fro... ...; others removing the fur- niture from the terrace; cushions, ormolu, fine china, handed out of the lower windows; the whole seen by the wild lurid 4...

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...e who has shown the greatest longing for him has been the great Emperor of China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it by a specia... ... not even in thought.” “Then, brother,” I replied, “you can return to your China, post haste or at whatever haste you are bound to go, as I am not fit... ...orn of mean parentage, have risen to the highest dignities, pontifical and imperial, and of the truth of this I could give thee instances enough to we...

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...ff. She liked pretty faces near her; as she liked pretty pictures and nice china. She talked of Amelia with rapture half a dozen times that day. She m... ...y reached the towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether 170 V anity Fair the Imperial birds had any eye for a little corner of the parish of Bloomsbury,... ...er seen. “Dammy,” George said to a confidential friend, “she looked like a China doll, which has nothing to do all day but to grin and wag its head. B... ... Frederick’s flagging confidential whispers, and the clinking of plate and china, to interrupt the silence of the repast. The ser- vants went about st... ...er hand, the postilion who drove us was a Viscount, a son of some bankrupt Imperial General, who accepted a pennyworth of beer on the road. The moral ... ...ook at him, Amelia dear, driving into the parlour window. Such a bull in a china-shop I never saw.” And presently the pair of riders disappeared at a ... ..., or were preparing for a final onset. It came at last: the columns of the Imperial Guard marched up the hill of Saint Jean, at length and at once to ... ...circumstances of the interview between Rebecca Crawley, nee Sharp, and her Imperial Master, it does not become such a feeble and inexperienced pen as ... ...o one. Their carriages, emblazoned with coro- nets and heaped with shining imperials, were on the foredeck, locked in with a dozen more such vehicles:...

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..., it bears the huge toppling steamers, bedizened and lacquered within like imperial junks. Pierced along its great white bulk with two tiers of small ... ...h it. Do but think, my dear sir, of the eddies and maëlstroms of pagans in China. People here have no conception of it. Of a frosty morning in Hong Ko... ...ets like so many nipped peas in a bin of peas. T o be an immortal being in China is no more distinction than to be a snow-flake in a snow-squall. What... ...; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that China boy sent me by one who well knew my perplexities, from California; an... ...ld I accept a loan, though without asking pressed on me. The experience of China Aster might warn me.” “And what was that?” “Not very unlike the exper... ... set was surprised that his palace vanished with it. I will tell you about China Aster. I wish I could do so in my own words, but unhappily the origin...

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...cum- stances of his widow. Her two sons each received a scholarship in the Imperial Lyceum, and the Emperor paid the whole costs of their education fr... ...act; for this grandson was being educated with Madame Bridau’s sons at the Imperial Lyceum, where he had a half-scholarship. The lad, who was clever a... ... she took a lease of it for nine years; proximity to her sons’ school, the Imperial Lyceum being at a short distance; thirdly, because it was in the q... ...eproach. So Philippe and Joseph were cossetted, and the old gambler in the Imperial Lottery of France (like others who have a vice or a weakness to at... ...s in the room. That statue, which represents the Emperor standing with the Imperial sceptre in his hand, was torn down in 1814 from the column it surm... ...l for him. That fellow has no education; they wouldn’t behave like that in China.” Philippe, prompted by mercenary motives, proposed to Mariette that ... ...con- sole, brought from some castle, on whose marble slab stood an immense China jar, in which the doctor kept his tobacco. But neither Rouget, nor hi...

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... drums and bugles. Grave judges sit bewigged in what was once the scene of imperial delibera- tions. Close by in the High Street perhaps the trumpets ... ...in the past – per- haps the more the merrier. The glasses clink around the china punch-bowl, some one touches the virginals, there are pea- cocks’ fea... ...d a portrait of herself. There is no Edinburgh emigrant, far or near, from China to Peru, but he or she carries some lively pictures of the mind, some...

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...that he was compressing his teacup, so that there was danger lest the thin china might cave inwards. She could see that he was nervous; one would expe... ... you!” Mrs. Hilbery exclaimed, taking no notice of it. “Books, pic- tures, china, manuscripts, and the very chair that Mary Queen of Scots sat in when... ...y pages upon her grandfather’s taste in hats, an essay upon con- temporary china, a long account of a summer day’s expe- dition into the country, when... ... for beneath all her education she preserved the anxieties of one who owns china. Ralph could think of nothing further to say; but could one have stri... ...-table merited that compliment. There was no cloth upon the table, and the china made regular circles of deep blue upon the shining brown wood. In the... ...at Melbury House, in their flounces and furbelows, so calm and stately and imperial (and the monkey and the little black dwarf following be- hind), as... ... masculine, handsome lady, whose head the photographer had adorned with an imperial crown. “Ah, you wretch!” Mrs. Hilbery exclaimed, “what a wicked ol... ... of the color of the sky, 142 Night and Day and of the decorations on the Imperial Hotel, when she ought to have been shepherding her colleagues, and...

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... French comic publications hung across a string as if to dry; a dingy blue china bowl, a casket of black wood, bottles of marking ink, and rubber stam... ...whose warnings had the power to change the schemes and the dates of royal, imperial, grand ducal journeys, and sometimes caused them to be put off alt... ...Baron Stott-Wartenheim. His late Excellency, whom the august favour of his Imperial master had imposed as Am- bassador upon several reluctant Minister... ...n Offices. He was said to have exclaimed on his death- bed (visited by his Imperial friend and master): “Unhappy Eu- rope! Thou shalt perish by the mo... ...for the first time in my life a little more than seven years ago, when two Imperial Highnesses and the Imperial Chancellor were on a visit here. I was... ...moment. I was down- stairs, and the carriages were at the door to take the Imperial Highnesses and the Chancellor to the opera. I went up at once. I f...

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...the revolution in all warfare ef- fected by the original introduction from China into Europe of gunpowder. The first European fire-arm, a clumsy con- ... ... occupying the position we do, private conscience should not yield to that imperial one formulated in the code under which alone we officially proceed...

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... know, why that old coat is a little better than the chamberlain’s key and Imperial gold bees which you bear on yours, to the great despair of Madame ... ...en clogs and dainty slippers, boots that a queen might have coveted; cheap china plates, cracked or chipped, with fragments of a past meal, and nickel... ...s a virgin that clings to earth only by her woman’s shape; within raged an imperial Messalina. 41 Balzac She alone knew the secret of this struggle b... ...eyes of this old man, petted by his vices, and as calm as Vitellius, whose imperial and portly stomach reap- peared in him palingenetically, so to spe... ... known as Pericles, Aristotle, Voltaire, and Napoleon. The splendor of the Imperial crown must not blind us to the merits of the individual; the Emper... ...of the Parisian Olympus. It would be superfluous to describe the plate and china. Nucingen had provided three services of plate—common, medium, and be... ...each service with porcelain of exquisite fragility in the style of Dresden china, which had cost more than the plate. As to the linen—Saxony, England,... ... without dragging in the Parliament and the English Government.” “It is in China, in the opium trade—” “Ja, I know,” said Nucingen at once, as a man w... ...alzac hold which power cannot touch. The knighting of Caligula’s horse, an imperial farce, has been, and always will be, a fa- vorite performance. In ...

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... and when whole provinces were ravaged to supply the splendid means of one Imperial Banquet—‘ Here the offender, who had been swelling and straining, ... ...elf had once consulted him, in reference to a little breakage of glass and china. And it was darKly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favou... ...eed ate rather more of rich meats than was good for him, insomuch that his Imperial complexion was mainly referred by the faculty to that circumstance... ... been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows—and china.’ This curious association of objects, suggesting a remem- brance of ... ...g singer, as Princess’s Place well knew; taking, next in order, the little china ornaments, paper fly-cages, and so forth; and coming round, in good t... ...and being still in a celestial dream. A variety of requisites in plate and china being also conveyed to the same establishment from the same convenien... ...a foreign bird, goes away upon the roaring main with W al’r on a woyage to China!’ ‘Lord, Captain Gills!’ said Mr T oots. ‘ Ay!’ nodded the Captain. ‘...

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...incoln greens; and down their four-and-twenty throats went four-and-twenty imperial pints of such rare old hock, that they smacked their eight-and-for... ...low, where the presence of a silver cof- fee-pot, an egg-shell, and sloppy china for one, seemed to show that he had just breakfasted. ‘Sit down, my d... ... as usual,’ was the reply . ‘No better and no worse.’ ‘The young Prince of China,’ said the old gentleman, with much interest. ‘Is he reconciled to hi... ...er would be surely done, and that he was responsible for all the glass and china on the premises. ‘No one need trouble himself to stir,’ said the youn...

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... you ask the reasons for my conduct, you drive me to extremities with your imperial airs, your scorn, and your contempt! Any one might think I was a N... ... made the large room, with its red, white, and gold, look like a corpse of Imperial festivities. “Monsieur, virtue shines on it all. I have no wish to... ...was translated at once from the mire of her village to the paradise of the Imperial Court; for the contractor, one of the most conscientious and hard-... ...made a Baron, ob- tained a place near the Emperor, and was attached to the Imperial Guard. The handsome rustic bravely set to work to educate herself ... ..., Lieutenant-General Hulot, the venerable Colonel of the Grenadiers of the Imperial Infantry Guard, who was to have a Marshal’s baton in his old age. ... ... ment. The sham cousin stared at Hulot as he might have looked at some big China mandarin. This state of things could not last; it was bound to end in... ...ho had been dealing largely with us—to the tune of two hundred embroidered China-crape shawls every quarter—he wanted to console her; but whether or n...

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... closed the repast, And Mocha’s berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine China cups, came in at last; Gold cups of filigree made to secure T... ... Gave light enough to hint their farther way, But not enough to show the imperial halls, In all the flashing of their full array; Perhaps th... ...rs, and pictures, On which I cannot pause to make my strictures. In this imperial hall, at distance lay Under a canopy, and there reclined Q... ...de: There ‘s nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers or imperial halls, As also at the race and county balls. He stood like A... ...somewhere wanting, As if she rather order’d than was granting. Something imperial, or imperious, threw A chain o’er all she did; that is, a ch... ..., and then Grow deadly pale, and then blush back again. At length, in an imperial way, she laid Her hand on his, and bending on him eyes Whi... ... Constantinople is, Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea In small eyed China’s crockery ware metropolis, Or sat amidst the bricks of Nineveh... ...aw Have fill’d their papers with their comments various, Society, that china without flaw (The hypocrite!), will banish them like Marius, ...

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... accepted the many-handed symbols of the Hindu or the lac- quered idols of China. Where there is faith, where there is need, there is the True God rea... ... upon the victors, he sought by threats to restore Arius to communion. The imperial aim was a common faith to 15 H. G. Wells unite the empire. The cr... ...dan seems as confi- dent of this magic pettiness of God, and the belief of China in the magic propitiations and resentments of “Heaven” is at least eq... ...t it was not Christianity that took possession of the Roman empire, but an imperial adventurer who took possession of an all too complaisant Christian... ... of any sort into an exalted vacuity. This is indeed neither the spirit of China nor of Islam nor of the every-day life of any people in the world. It...

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...people with whom he has no connection at all by walking arm-in-arm with an Imperial aide-de-camp; another’s may be that of possessing a hand able to c... ...where with their pleasant manners they would so charm the company that the Imperial Govern- ment, on learning of their merits, would raise the pair to... ...ite pine, a three-cornered press with cups and teapots, egg-cups of gilded china standing in front of ikons suspended by blue and red ribands, a cat l... ...Recently I went in for a turn at billiards, and lost two jars of pomade, a china teapot, and a guitar. Then I staked some more things, and, like a foo... ...“good” madeira) invariably doctor the stuff with copious dashes of rum and Imperial vodka, in the hope that Russian stomachs will thus be enabled to c... ...bwebs. Against a wall leant a cupboard, full of old silver, glassware, and china. On a writing table, inlaid with mother-of-pearl which, in places, ha... ... himself away into a corner, for fear lest he should knock down the gilded china with his elbow. And he stood wait- ing in great satisfaction at havin... ..., and had also observed that invariably they were able to send presents of china and cambric to their sisters and aunts—well, to their lady friends ge... ...martial, and that I hope, when the circumstances have been laid before his Imperial Majesty, to receive from him authority to adopt the course which I...

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...the amiable Pertinax: who only last night 87 Charles Dickens had left the Imperial affairs in a state of great confusion, by falling a victim to the ... ... the happy party; Mr Podsnap, with his hair-brushes made the most of; that imperial rocking-horse, Mrs Podsnap, majes- tically skittish. Here, too, ar... ...wo scanty rashers of bacon, two pitiful eggs, and an abundance of handsome china bought a secondhand bargain. ‘What did you think of Georgiana?’ asked... ...e a bargain for every moveable about him, from the coat on his back to the china on his breakfast- table; and every bargain by representing somebody’s... ...urst into a violent passion and struck his hand upon the table, making the china ring and dance. ‘You are a very offensive fellow, sir,’ cried Mr Lamm... ...le, to fetch black diamonds to make his fortune with; now, Pa was going to China in that handsome threemasted ship, to bring home opium, with which he... ... back, and does so. Though he no more sees the portrait than if it were in China. ‘Decidedly not good,’ says Mrs Lammle. ‘Stiff and exag- gerated!’ ‘ ... ...t may not be generally known) originated in twins and a wolf; and ended in Imperial marble: wasn’t built in a day.’ ‘Did I say it was?’ asked V enus. ...

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...of France, however avaricious or refractory, must perforce do honor to the Imperial Guard, and mayors and prefects went out to meet them with set spee... ...n, for the heart hot with love and glory that set a letter from Nais above Imperial favor. The pain of those days cast a veil of sadness over her face... ...who escaped conscrip- tion after conscription by keeping very close to the Imperial sun. He had begun his career as private secretary to an Impe- rial... ...nius; and in spite of Chatelet’s services, ordinary and extraordinary, Her Imperial Highness could not procure a seat in the Privy Council for her pri... ...ant. So the part that M. du Chatelet once had played in the history of the Imperial Princess, his reputation for success with women, the strange story... ...the other de- pendent invention of printing, was known in ancient times in China. Thence by the unrecognized channels of commerce the art reached Asia... ...an to think of the reeds that grow here in France. “Labor is very cheap in China, where a workman earns three halfpence a day, and this cheapness of l...

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... that is why music is so dangerous, and sometimes acts so frightfully. “In China music is under the control of the State, and that is the way it ought... ...As soon as his father-in- law, the late Czar, was buried, he discarded the Imperial robes which had fallen to him and told his wife to put them away, ...

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..., with their scanty population and still young civilization, chafe against imperial interference, will they submit to it when they feel within their v... ... had we so acted! We, forsooth, who carry passengers about the world, from China and Australia, round to Chili and Peru, who have the charge of the wo... ...ize the fourth city in the world—putting out of the question the cities of China, as to which we have heard so much and believe so little. But in maki...

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... why? I have only one answer, “Suffer comes from disobeying the olds (the Buddha, Laozi, Confucius, etc.).” It is the power of the culture that makes China survive for thousands of years, and the marrow of that culture lies in education. The rulers were supported by people, for they didn’t rule with their own imperial edicts, but with the sage’s education of Confucianism, ...

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...h sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully t...

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... tially pacifists, towards taking an active part in the war against German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. ... ... fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the “Krupp-Kaiser” al- liance. But against ... ...volution put a match to that pile of secret treaties and indeed to all the imperialist plans of the Allies; in the end it will burn them all. The grea... ... and a half ago a few of us were saying this was a war against the idea of imperialism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Ru... ...alism, not German imperial- ism merely, but British and French and Russian imperial- ism, and we were saying this not because it was so, but be- cause... ...t will give a monstrous importance to the illiterate millions of India and China. Ingenious statistical schemes have been framed in which the number o... ...hat one can do with Russia just now—with a note of interrogation. Some day China may be war capable— I hope never, but it is a possibility. Personally... ... may resent it, the two great English-speaking communi- ties, Italy, Japan China, and presently perhaps a renascent Russia, are jointly going to contr... ... to this fact. The revolution in Russia, the set- ting up of a republic in China, demonstrating the ripeness of the East for free institutions, the en...

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...lready old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New Y ork, San Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape T own, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, and that the entire... ...r it. Think of it—it was by command of that Italian loafer yon der on his imperial throne in the Geneva prison that this splendid multitude was assem... ...rld which could be relied on with certainty to accomplish it, I suppose—an imperial princess appeared in the balcony above them. They Mark T wain 141...

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...ng down here to investigate the matter in a few days.” “For himself?” “The Imperial Government’s behind him. Perhaps you’d like to look t my orders.” ... ...table, his allocution to the Governor on the New Movement, and the sins of Imperialism, I purposely omit. At three in the afternoon Mr. Groombride sai... ...bed, and the cold disapproval of Miss Mary, who thought the pattern of the china vulgar. How- ever, she ate well, and even asked me whether I would no...

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...ith the melan- choly which always accompanied any reference of hers to the Imperial family, “has declared that he will leave it to the French people t... ... luxu- rious dining room. Everything from the table napkins to the silver, china, and glass bore that imprint of newness found in the households of th... ...ding there and addressing those in the room. All were silent. “I bet fifty imperials”—he spoke French that the En- glishman might understand him, but ... ...hman might understand him, but he did, not speak it very well—“I bet fifty imperials... or do you wish to make it a hundred?” added he, addressing the... ...ressing the Englishman. “No, fifty,” replied the latter. “All right. Fifty imperials... that I will drink a whole bottle of rum without taking it from... ...t, Kuragin. Listen! If anyone else does the same, I will pay him a hundred imperials. Do you understand?” The Englishman nodded, but gave no indicatio... ...eighty people; and looking at the footmen, who were bringing in silver and china, moving tables, and unfolding damask table linen, he would call Dmitr... ...army. Sonya was in the ballroom looking after the packing of the glass and china. Natasha was sitting on the floor of her dismantled room with dresses... ... heart and all her might. For a while she had stood beside Sonya while the china was being packed and tried to help, but soon gave it up and went to h...

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... more than a common meaning, but has two meanings: thus, if in the high est Imperial Sceptre and Charlemagne Mantle, as well as in the poorest Ox goa... ...considerable PAPER BAGS, carefully sealed, and marked successively, in gilt China ink, with the sym bols of the Six southern Zodiacal Signs, beginni... ...twilights,” cries Teufelsdr¨ ockh, “when the Sun, like a proud Conqueror and Imperial Taskmaster, turned his back, with his gold purple emblazonry, an... ...trees of Tadmor; smoked a pipe among the ruins of Babylon. The great Wall of China I have seen; and can testify that it is of gray brick, coped and co... ...Phantasms enough he has had to struggle with; “Cloth webs and Cob webs,” of Imperial Mantles, Superannuated Symbols, and what not: yet still did he c... ... or Counsellor Heuschrecke ever existed; that the six Paper bags, with their China ink inscriptions and multifarious contents, are a mere figment of th...

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...will be more their policy, to restrain than to promote it. In the trade to China and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it ena... ...s descendants possessed the reality, as well as the ensigns and dignity of imperial power. But the principal vassals, whose fiefs had become hereditar... ...ke and advanced to sovereign jurisdiction and inde- pendence. The force of imperial sovereignty was insufficient to restrain such powerful dependants;... ...of calamity, were carried on between the different princes and states. The imperial author- ity, unable to maintain the public order, declined by degr... ...utive magis- trate, with a negative on the decrees of the diet; and in the imperial chamber and the aulic council, two judiciary tribu- nals having su... ...peror and diet, and in their private capacities by the aulic coun- cil and imperial chamber. The prerogatives of the emperor are numerous. The most im...

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...4 9:12 AM Page 57 son,Arizona, in the late 1980s, went as far afield as China, Malaysia, the Philip- pines, and the former Soviet states of Ukraine... ...hese casing missions included state-of-the-art video cameras obtained from China and from dealers in Germany.The casing team also reconnoitered target... ...security were dominated by other issues—among them, Haiti, Bosnia, Russia, China, Somalia, Kosovo, NATO enlargement, the Middle East peace process, mi... ...fered from those of the Clin- ton administration.Those priorities included China, missile defense, the col- lapse of the Middle East peace process, an... ... said, was “not uncontroversial,” since he was known as someone who “broke china,” but she and Hadley wanted an experienced crisis manager. No one els... ...erset, PA; September 11, 2001,” May 10, 2002, pp. 16–18 (Cleveland Center, Imperial Radar position).This report from the C-130H was recorded on ATC au...

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... traveller through the most of North America, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundred varying stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and -- setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigners, negro, French,...

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... Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard, in its home country, in half a hundr... ...in letters: he was of all men the most imitative. Shakespeare himself, the imperial, proceeds directly from a school. It is only from a school that we... ...s in the eyes of T ouchstone. But his intervention has at least created an imperial situation for the rare surviv- ing ladies. In that society they re...