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...oot leap to the top of another large chunk of bridge. Soaring through the air, he twisted to avoid enemy fre. The Seekers did not fre out of emotion... ...t there was so much debris; the Seekers had to remain on foot or bring in air support, which they lacked. The ruins also provided many great hiding ... ...ched the collapsed tunnel. “If there was anyone lef alive afer the Seekers raided, they’re 8 Mike Saxton dead now. We aren’t going back,” Vincent to... ...bellion that there were some weapons and rations. Waiving his hands in the air Talbot said, “Why the hell would he do that?” “When he gets over here,... ...ons: Rebellion Vincent shook his head. “Not yet kid. We’ve got a stash to raid.” “What about that Seeker Vince. We can’t keep dragging him around, h... ...ve Eve look afer her hus- band and Andromeda. The three of us are going to raid this place and load this shutle and Bronco with everything that we ca... ...spot out of the hanger, which was ex- tremely dangerous. Of course, safety precautions were out the 306 Mike Saxton window in the current world situ...

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...eized as a hostage -- Burning of two chiefs in the market place of Mexico -- A raid on the magazine of the capital -- Building of Brigantines on the l... ...4 A battle with a Jaguar.................................................. 286 Raid of the Buccaneers.................................................... ...ver sleeping, and for food requiring only a mouthful of sea water, a breath of air laden with the smell of salty spray. It brings him wealth, good for... ...ts of positions and with all kinds of distortion. Sometimes the ship is in the air; sometimes a double reflection is presented in the water; occasiona... ...lly there are three images of the same vessel, two in the water and one in the air. The tropical seas are full of optical wonders. The Arctic Region a... ... manner that it would sweep every street leading to the palace. Nor were these precautions ill-advised, as subsequent events showed. On the following ... ...here they were burned to death before the gaze of the terrified inhabitants. A raid was then made upon the magazine of the city, from which was forcib... ...ment, he would conceal it under his arm, in his cap, or under his waist-clout. Precautions against the natives were useless; they would hide their ste... ... should also be provided for such a short voyage. But against these suspicious precautions were the diminutive vessels, and a complement of men none t...

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... in the atmosphere there is almost nothing else except the Formless Medium of air. Is a fish aware that it is traveling through the Medium of water ... ...ravels? No. Are animals aware that they are traveling through the medium of Air as they travel? No. They take the Medium they travel through for... ...Medium of Space for granted once it found that there was something beyond the air called Space which they could travel through. What happens when y... ... and that was how and why the battle for territory was born and developed into raiding and wars… Overpopulation and the urge to keep moving, the add... ...ch other. It became harder to keep on moving peacefully, without robbing and raiding each other. Simply because more opportunities to do so kept o... ...n the size, strength, or wealth of any nomadic band. There was no reason for raiding or warring upon people who did not own anything and who did no... ...housand feet from the entire Pacific Ocean… without any fail-safe or sensible precautions to prevent a nuclear mistake from poisoning the entire Paci...

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... my bosom. On all things there came a fair, lovely look, as if a different air stood over them. It is a look that seems ready to come sometimes on tho... ...s breathing drills are first performed which aim at clearing the passage of air in the nostrils. Then pride, anger, hatred, covetousness, sloth, stupid... ...ole body and the body becomes “a kind of tube filled with blazing fire and air.” The nerve is then “enlarged beyond all measure” and “engulfs the whol... ...mbers of their League despite their war complex that led them into revenge raids and also into depicted between the twins, it is not over the question... ...be a dream in which a god or spirit being warned of a future enemy attack. Precautions and rites were then enacted by the communi- ty on the basis of ...

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... Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one by one....

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... can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spi... ..., when they drowsily drop back, side by side. There has been chattering and clattering enough between them, but to no purpose. When any distinct word ... ...e didn’t seem to mind it particularly, himself. However, a little time and a little water brought him out of his daze.’ Mr. Tope repeats the word and... ...tton-holder on the work-table in my room?’ is at once solicited for walking leave, and graciously accords it. And soon the young couple go out of the ... ...raciously accords it. And soon the young couple go out of the Nuns’ House, taking all precautions against the discovery of the so vitally defective bo... ...m some wild tropical dominion. Mr. Honeythunder walked in the middle of the road, shouldering the natives out of his way, and loudly developing a sche...

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...nged in the 9 H G Wells war zone, and it is doubtful how far the sanitary precautions of the military authorities avails against a considerable propa... ...s and the red-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky con- tinually breaking out into eddying w... ... Udine keeps itself dark nowadays, and the Austrian sea-planes, which come raiding the Italian coast country at night very much in the same aimless, c... ...ry much in the same aimless, casually malignant way in which the Zeppelins raid England, appar- ently because there is nothing else for them to do, fi... ...ge, and so with an effort thrust my legs over to dangle in the crystalline air. “That,” proceeded General Bompiani, pointing with a giddy flourish of ... ...d, chest-tightening atmosphere, with wisps of clouds floating in the clear air below and club- huts close at hand…. Among these mountains avalanches a... ...y perhaps of the blunder of the V erdun attack and far outshining the wild raid of the British towards Bagdad, was the blunder of the T rentino offens...

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...; but stiff as was the attire, she had managed to give it a slight general air of disarrangement, to get her cap a little on one side, a stray curl lo... ...dangling lace on her arms, and to splash her robe with a puddle. He was in air, feature, and complexion a perfect little dark Frenchman. The contour o... ...rk 9 Yo n g e lashes and pencilled brows. And there was a lively restless air about her full of intelligence, as she manoeuvred her brother towards a... ...t numbers, perceiving the tartane to be an Italian vessel, and expecting a raid by Sicilian robbers on their cattle; but the Moors had informed them t... ... was so much the greater, that it was impos- sible to object to any of his precautions, especially as he might take offence and throw the whole matter...

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... quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake, and vanish into a great silen... ...urity which is so invaluable in a seaman. He had an extremely dis- turbing air of being everlastingly ready (even when seated at table at my right han... ...f land or the end of a jetty under your admiring gaze, invests her with an air of lofty and silent majesty. At anchor a schooner looks better; she has... ...l. Let us make a foray upon the dominions of that noisy barbarian, a great raid from Finisterre to Hatteras, catching his fishermen un- awares, baffli... ...t we could pay to satisfy his avidity; for whatever evil is wrought by the raiding East Wind, 82 The Mirror of the Sea it is done only to spite his k... ...and useful for sea-marks, of villages and tribes and modes of bar- ter and precautions to take: with the instructive tales about native chiefs dyed mo...

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...?” It was indiscreet, it was silly, to turn upon the speaker and affect an air of disengagement and modernity and to say: “Ah, that indeed is the unfo... ... definable position, but all quite unequal to the task of maintaining that air of reverent vagueness, that tenderness of touch, which is by all Anglic... ... a confidence in their creed that is one with their apprehension of sky or air or gravitation. It is a primary mental structure, and they not only do ... ...ore. Directly we make terms with the leaders the men go behind it…. It’s a raid on the whole system. They don’t mean to work the system—anyhow. I’m th... ...th of the Thames was all agog with the excitement of an overnight Zeppelin raid. People had got up hours before their usual time in order to look at t... ...the young. We can shield our young no longer, death has broken through our precautions and tender evasions—and his eyes went east- ward into the twili...

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...artistic silk ties, which they tied very much on one side and wore with an air of defiance. And a certain swashbuckling carriage. And then came the gl... ...n,” said Parsons, watching with knitted brows. “Don’t ram it down. Give it Air. Seen my stick, O’ Man? Right O.” And leaning on his cane he composed h... ...outfitting department. Presently the street door opened and Platt, with an air of intense devotion to business assumed to cover his adoption of that u... ...feeling, when after a youth of gambolling in sunny woods and furtive jolly raids upon the growing wheat and exciting triumphant bolts before ineffec- ... ...f the jam and egg party, lugged it from under the crockery with inadequate precautions against breakage, and advanced with compressed lips, curious la...

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...ich showed through in many places, signed to Crevel to be seated. “All the precautions you are taking, madame, would seem full of promise to a—” “T o ... ... and to open to you the gates of Paradise,” replied Crevel, with a knowing air that brought the color to the Baroness’ cheeks. “Sublime and adored wom... ...his reach.” “Comte Hulot—” “Oh, madame, your husband has already made thin air of the old General’s savings. He spent them in furnishing his singer’s ... ...t our mother Eve received from the hand of God, the form of an Empress, an air of grandeur, and an august line of profile, with her rural modesty, mad... ...otre-Dame de Lorette, keep him in leading-strings. If you do not take such precautions, your artist will take to loafing, and if you only knew what th... ...w the prices at which you can credit us.” “How shall we get them?” “Oh, by raids, by taxes in kind, and the Khaliphat.—The country is little known, th... ... grand-niece happily married. She is to be a Countess.” But even taxes and raids and the money paid by the War Office clerk for Fischer’s business cou... .... A cap with a peak and a greasy green shade for the eyes suggested either precautions for disguise, or weak eyes, which was not unlikely in an old ma...

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...re they entered the realms of spring. The hazy sunlight, the warm and drowsy air, the tender foliage, the opening flow ers, betokened the reviving li... ...you are, gentlemen. Leave him to me; he’s my meat.” Then he jumped up in the air three times and cracked his heels together every time. He flung off a... ...d says, “You lay thar tell his sufferin’s is over.” Then he jumped up in the air and cracked his heels to gether again and shouted out— “Whoo oop! I’... ...ale. James’s modest genius dreamed of no loftier flight than the planning of raids upon cars, coaches, and country banks; Murel projected negro insurr... ...dlessly left my candle burn ing. It was not a time to neglect even trifling precautions. There was no occasion to add anything to the facilities for ...

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...e repeated, as he sat in front of Nejdanov, surveying him with a dignified air. “I see by your advertisement that you are looking for a post, and I sh... ...ure you will like the neighbourhood. We have a large house and garden, the air is excellent, and there is a river close by. Well, would you like to co... ...id not want to be in the same room with an aristocrat, to breathe the same air—” “Please don’t talk like that about Ostrodumov before me!” Nejdanov bu... ...t. Every precaution will be taken.” 146 Virgin Soil It turned out that no precautions were necessary, however. Solomin was not in the least alarmed o... ... of a doubt that he had informed against Nejdanov; the police might make a raid upon the factory any moment. Vassily Fedotitch was also in danger. “As...

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...best for both Malcolm and herself. By and by the dawn began to appear, the air of the March night became sharper, and in the distance the murmur and p... ...last night, he had rent himself away, and was riding in the frosty morning air beside the kinsman who had so strangely taken charge of him, and accomp... ...hin, and the fresh earnestness and animation of his counte- nance, gave an air of perpetual youth in spite of the scar of an arrow on the cheek which ... ...ors; but all this had convinced him that if war was to be more than a mere raid, conducted by mere spirit and in- stinct, some actual apprenticeship w... ... effect of boyish ignorance and thoughtlessness. Having taken all possible precautions, he stood in his full armour, with the fox’s brush in his helme... ...ht of him, or of his own promises. If Patrick died through this plundering raid, how should he ever face Lily? It was nearly night ere they reached Co... ...ieves have made off, and being time of peace, he, as Warden, cannot make a raid in return. I’m sick of the life, after the only warfare fit for a knig...

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.......................................94 UNDER THE KNIFE ...................................................................................110 THE SEA RAIDERS ....................................................................................123 THE OBLITERATED MAN ........................................................................133 THE PLATTNER STORY..................

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..................................................................110 THE SEA RAIDERS ...................................................................... ...as at the street corner where the Rev. Barnabas Baux used to hold an open- air service after evensong on Sundays. Young Cupids were wont to flit like ... ...ring sunset of midsummer. They sat at the open window, trying to fancy the air was fresher there. The trees and shrubs of the garden stood stiff and d... ... Horrocks; “and, below that, sixty feet of fire and molten metal, with the air of the blast frothing through it like gas in soda-water.” Raut gripped ... ..., that the dull melancholy of half a year was lifted from my mind. THE SEA RAIDERS I I I I I UNTIL THE EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR at Sidmouth, the peculiar ... ...o tell what is perhaps the most astonishing fact in this whole astonishing raid. We have not the slight- est knowledge of the subsequent movements of ... ...fellow-travellers in the English way. They were particularly amused at the precautions the big- ger-sized people had taken against the little waves—cu... ...s legs as widely apart as Providence permitted. These were all excel- lent precautions, and nobody was ill. The personally-con- ducted party pursued t...

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...uffered, or was supposed to suffer (which is quite the same thing), by the air of London. As soon, therefore, as official duties, atten- dance on Parl... ...bert observed that her heart as well as consent was in these nuptials; the air of dignity, yet of deep feeling, with which he flung down the half-draw... ...explained his actual business. The man of books, with a much more composed air, pro- ceeded to examine the manuscripts. The title of the first was ‘ A... ...NSEQUENCES [A creagh was an incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid.] WHEN EDWARD had been a guest at Tully-Veolan nearly six weeks, he de... ...the Cov- enant, and the Engagers, and the Protesters, and the Whiggamore’s Raid, and the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and the Longer and Shorte... ...tion and care, down the narrow and abrupt descent. Notwithstand- ing their precautions, however, Waverley’s person came more than once into contact, r... ...d; nor, so far as he could observe, did she again revisit the cottage. All precautions to blockade his view were from that time abandoned, and he was ... ...predatory warfare, like those with whom he now watched their ineffec- tual precautions. When these sounds had died upon the silence of the night, the ... ...ting-knife. Cow yer cracks, stop your chatter. Craig, neck. Creagh, foray, raid. Cuittle, fickle. Curragh, boat, Currant, running. Cut-lugged, crop-ea...

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...uil savant. Its noble free-stone blocks, dam- aged by time, have a certain air of Louis-the-Fourteenth gran- deur; the courses of the facade define th... ...is of this kind in Jerome’s life,” replied the old maid, with a protecting air. Mademoiselle Thuillier had too often heard her brother remark: “Such a... ... the Empire, to the sphere of superior employees, he assumed a superficial air of competence which concealed the son of a porter, though none of it ru... ...ar sir,” said du Portail, “that I was not mistaken in trusting him. All my precautions were well taken; I exacted that he should occupy a room in the ... ...part, I should laugh at such a decision; I can stand it; and, moreover, my precautions are taken; but you, as clerk to a justice-of-peace, don’t you s... ...plied; “he is doing me so great a service that I ought to let him take all precautions.” Then, with a piously humble bow, she went away, taking her mo... ... clerk in the bookseller’s shop), “we are done for! The police have made a raid upon us; a commissary and two men have come to seize monsieur’s pamphl...

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...rough the thick forests that clothed the hillside. In the stillness of the air, at daybreak, the Phocian guards of the path were startled by the crack... ...n the distance, had not then become almost uninhabitable from pestilential air, but was rich and fertile, full of highly cultivated small farms, where... ...usted, or else Camillus and his friends must be near, and preventing their raids. At any rate, it ap- peared as if the enemy was quite as ill off as t... ...me months after was seen by the traveler who told the story, whistling the air of Hai Luli at his former master’s wedding feast. He was even then scar... ...eadful visitations were ren- dered more frequent by total disregard of all precautions, and ignorance of laws for preserving health. People crowded to... ...ike one deadly sore, festering, and by and by to come to a fearful crisis. Precautions were taken, the infected families were removed to the infirmari... ...ghty could re- 237 Yo n g e move the scourge, yet deemed it right to take precautions against the effects of bringing a large number of persons into ...

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... were swimming high and fast, three thousand feet or so, in a clear, sweet air over the town of Sheerness. The river, with a string of battleships, wa... ...ng half an hour ago will now be cutting the most venturesome capers in the air. Few men are in a hurry to get down again. I mean that quite apart from... ...y had to wait in the camp that was to have been the centre of their jungle raids. The second day of this waiting was worse for Kepple than the first, ... ...-scented breeze just stirred the dead grass and the leaves. In the day the air had been still. Immediately after the sunset there had been a great cry... ...and impatient; the son found the father’s in- sistence upon guides, ropes, precautions, the recognized way, the highest point and back again before yo... ...d but thoughtful share in his son’s admonition. He came up to the flat—due precautions were taken to prevent a painful en- counter—he lunched at his s... ... promise of entertainment. 160 The Research Magnificent 6 6 6 6 6 But the raid into the Balkans was not the tremendous suc- cess she had expected it ...

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... man contrive to be always three days from shaving?— and a sort of furtive air of being en- gaged in sneaking in front of one; even his coat and that ... ... and had developed on the one hand bal- loons—large apparatus lighter than air, easy in ascent, and comparatively safe in descent, but floating helple... ...flying machines that flew only in theory—vast flat structures heavier than air, propelled and kept up by heavy engines and for the most part smashing ... ...d, or imagined, or read of other people having or imagin- ing, that little raid I made with Gibberne on the Folkestone Leas, under the influence of th... ...a thing, don’t start off at a gabble—do it brisk.” And with many elaborate precautions, and always point- ing the pistol at Mr. Ledbetter’s head, the ... ...before him, so furious and resolute had his behaviour been. Then he made a raid upon a coffee stall, hurled its paraffin flare through the window of t... ...fellow travellers in the English way. They were particularly amused at the precautions the big- ger-sized people had taken against the little waves—cu... ...s legs as widely apart as Providence permitted. These were all excel- lent precautions, and, nobody was ill. The personally con- ducted party pursued ...

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...udged” – these texts made her body of divinity; she put them on in the morning with her clothes and lay down to sleep with them at night; they haunted... ...asting of the losses of the foe. It was a sore day for Mrs. Weir; she wept and prayed over the infant backslider until my lord was due from Court, and... ...led about the lasses at their work, looking stupidly on; she fell to rummaging in old cabinets and presses, and desisted when half through; she would ... ...e night; but whereas every one crowded about Innes, when the meeting broke up, but one of all his companions came to speak to Archie. “Weir, man! That... ...Archie. “Weir, man! That was an extraordinary raid of yours!” ob- served this courageous member, taking him confidentially by the arm as they went out... ...in Scotland, of a local bard; and, though not printed himself, he was recognised by others who were and who had become famous. Walter Scott owed to Da... ...o sell before they were paid for; and his bookseller, hearing some rumour of the event, took out a warrant for his arrest. Innes had early word of it,... ...’ll put it this way, if you like – that I know my own character, that I’m looking forward (with great pleasure, I assure you) to a long visit from you...

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...ous object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air. Now, unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent erupti... ... till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour. Similar facts were observed on the 23rd of July in the same... ...pen- etrating power.” “Hum!” said the harpooner, shaking his head with the air of a man who would not be convinced. “Notice one thing, my worthy Canad... ...s naviga- tion almost impracticable; so that Captain Nemo took all needful precautions to cross them. The Nautilus, floating betwixt wind and water, w... ...nseil. We returned through the forest, and completed our col- lection by a raid upon the cabbage-palms, that we gath- ered from the tops of the trees,...

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...photograph showed a stream and a meadow beyond, and some trees, and in the air a black, pencil-like object with flat wings on either side of it. It wa... ...er side of it. It was the first record of the first apparatus heavier than air that ever maintained itself in the air by mechanical force. Across the ... ...lminating exercise of his intelli- gence and his intellectual courage. The air of ‘Nunc Dimittis’ sounds in same of these writings. ‘The great things ... ... be made upon the vast industrial plant of the lower Rhine, and a flanking raid through Holland upon the German naval establishments at the mouth of t... ...len into vice, most intel- ligent and energetic princes do, but the palace precautions were unusually thorough. I was brought up in the purest court t... ...and jealous proprietorships; it secured by a noble system of institutional precautions, freedom of inquiry, freedom of criticism, free communications,...

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...ed slippers, while Reiter Hugh proceeded to dangle one of the boots in the air, expatiating on its frail condition, and expressing his intention of ge... ...to Adlerstein, and it was no use to wait for the hopes of capturing one by raid or foray. His daughter was at his own disposal, and her ser- vices wou... ...- est Jobst before thou hast done. Now, eat a morsel and be ready—mountain air will make thee hungry ere thou art at the castle. And, hark thee, Jobst... ...as, there was something in the exhilaration and elasticity of the mountain air that gave her an entirely new sensation of enjoyment and life, and seem... ...s vengeance on a wounded man in his bed. I will not have him insulted with precautions. If he has freely risked himself in my hands, I will as freely ... ...uld that I had; but though I breathed no word openly, I encouraged Heinz’s precautions. My boy, I could not help it; my heart would tremble for my onl... ...mans in the Turkish camp. They were the prisoners of the terrible T urkish raid of 1475, when Georg von Schenk and fourteen other noblemen of Austria ... ... a holy friar of German blood, like himself a captive of the great Styrian raid; and, while some blasphemed in their misery, or wildly chid their patr...

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... he extended his hand and arm and twiddled his fingers for a second in the air. “Like that,” he said. I thought the explanation sufficient, but he pau... ...sed to gather caterpillars on several occasions, and assisted in nocturnal raids upon the slugs by lantern-light that wrecked my preparation work for ... ...slogged. Great wipes he made, and at each stroke he said, “Take that!” The air was thick with flying fragments of abortive salad. It was a fantastic m... ...sh graveyard filled up and became a scandal, and an ambitious area with an air of appetite was walled in by a Bromstead Cemetery Company, and planted ... ...and multi- plied in our seething minds! We made long afternoon and evening raids over the Downs towards Arundel, and would come tramping back through ... ...ys wound up her dinners. How the other women used to hate those concluding raids of hers! I forget most of the other people at that dinner, nor can I ... ...l of the quality of work delayed, of time and energy wasted, of inse- cure precautions against scandal and exposure. Disappoint- ment is almost inhere...

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...ries began in California—from the Church; and now,” he put his chin in the air, “what would Father Ullivari have said to such a crop as Senor Derrick ... ...respectful, more chivalrous. But love?” The old fellow put his chin in the air, shutting his eyes in a knowing fashion. “It was not there. I could tel... ...hat, offer- ing the old man a cigarette. The centenarian accepted with the air of a grandee, and extended his horn snuff- 19 Frank Norris box. Presle... ...train. She’s gone, I tell you. Well, look for yourself.” In spite of their precautions, one after another, his friends looked out. Sure enough, the tr... ...ld possession there, and the evidence of the presence of the enemy in this raid upon Quien Sabe had daunted him. “No, sir,” he declared, getting out o... ...conscious. His face was not pale, no bandages could be seen. With infinite precautions, the men bore him to the carry-all and deposited him on the bac...

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...d as a Devonshire lane, here and there crossed by fallen trees; huge trees overhead in the sun, dripping lianas and tufted with orchids, tree ferns, f... ...ings from nettles, stabs from citron thorns, fiery bites from ants, sickening resistances of mud and slime, evasions of slimy roots, dead weight of he... ...ate all the time, and had no fever. The day was otherwise uneventful. I am reminded; I had another visitor on Friday; and Fanny and Lloyd, as they ret... ...ith them, and (what’s worse) most of the shelves forbye; and where they are to go to, and what is to become of the librarian, God knows. It is hot to-... ...only come to shew the place; they returned, and the rest of our party, reinforced by Captain Leigh and Lady Jersey, set on for Malie. The delay was du... ... only able to wear it once. But we’ll hope to see more of it at Samoa; it really is lovely. Both dames are royally outfitted in silk stockings, etc. W...

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...imself did not know how changed were his own ways from his kindly paternal air of confidence? All trust had been undermined, so that Clarence could no... ...and Martyn, whose ecstatic heels could be endured for the sake of the free air and the view. Of course we posted, and where there were severe hills we... ...imes, and there was a good deal of dull discontent and disaffection in the air, so that no tokens of welcome were prepared for us— not even a peal of ... ...the Eastwood Y eomanry , together with some reasonable men, had arrived. A raid was made on the cottages for buckets, a chain formed to the river, and... ...t that he could not dispense with another night’s rest; though he took all precautions for being called up, in case of need. However, nothing came, an...

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...atch chain, a brilliant breast pin, a more bril- liant ring, and a general air that made me conclude that he regarded himself as a Sydney beau. But Ha... ...ll with the family, and, after a year or two, Alice, deceived by the man’s air and manners, and hoping to secure education for her son, had married, a... ... could not keep Harold, whose long legs were eager for a rush in the fresh air; and the next person I met was Eustace. “Aunt Lucy,” he said, “that old... ...those eucalyptus forests was too awful a danger to be encountered. A fresh raid had taken place the very night before Harold arrived at Boola Boola, u... ... to gather his fellows for revenge or recovery of the gold. And with these precautions all went well. Harold, in the grave, authoritative way that had...

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...seful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the... ...n a great paved court, with towers and turrets stretch ing up into the blue air on all the four sides; and all about us the dismount was going on, a... ...selves and get uncomfortable. Then he began to mutter and make passes in the air with his hands. He worked himself up slowly and gradually into a sort... ...urt Mark Twain 74 And she did. She was a handy person to have along on a raid. I would have considered this a doubtful errand, myself. I presently... ...and can’t remember it more than about half the time, you can’t take too many precautions. This was the best store we had come across yet; it had every...

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...ue, and such an idea of distance is given by the great transparency of the air. It is full moon too now, and I walk the deck from eleven to twelve eve... ...rubs and flowers in full bloom. Midwinter, recollect. The fragrance of the air, the singing of the birds, the fresh smell (it was raining a little and... ...ter the funeral they all (according to native custom) sat down in the open air, round a large cloth on the ground, on which were spread tins of potato... ...icate a thick 195 Yo n g e woollen jersey in addition; and with all these precautions they were continually catching cold, or getting disordered, and... ...own and bite pretty severely, so seeing these running all about, we made a raid upon them, poor things. The great banyan tree is as grand as ever, a m... ... taken place with fifteen young girls in the school. We take of course all precautions, rooms are carefully locked at night. Still really evil-minded ... ...- ease did not touch us; we established a regular quarantine, and used all precautions. We had, I think, none of the pre- disposing causes of fever at...

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...llest cooperation from CINCPAC of the Navy and the United States Strategic Air Forces, he initiated promptly a cam- paign which included the preparati... ...a large conflagration) similar to those caused by ordinary mass incendiary raids; the resulting terrific conflagration burned out almost everything wh... ...1945. This was done in close cooperation with the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, and his Headquarters. A number of experts in various fields ass... ...whatever good weather might occur. It was also very desirable to start the raids before September. DESCRIPTION OF THE CITIES BEFORE THE BOMB- INGS Hir... ...er of planes coming in was very small—probably not more than three—and the air raid alert was lifted. The nor- mal radio broadcast warning was given t... ...f planes coming in was very small—probably not more than three—and the air raid alert was lifted. The nor- mal radio broadcast warning was given to th... ...h block the way and which are impossible to see in the dark. De- spite all precautions, our progress is stumbling and our feet get tangled in the wire...

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...own on a rug and cov- ered himself with a sheepskin pelisse, for the night air was quite sharp and he liked to lie warm when he was at home. He was so... ...of this luxuriant vegeta- tion ran partridges with outstretched necks. The air was filled with the notes of a thousand different birds. On high hovere... ...e, with measured sweep, a gull, and skimmed wantonly through blue waves of air. And now she has vanished on high, and appears only as a black dot: now... ...him to all eternity; he has a horse swifter than my Devil.” But Bulba took precautions, fear- ing hidden ambushes. They galloped along the course of a... ... been a stout warrior; but he had long been old, and had ceased to go upon raids. Neither did the old man like to give advice to any one; but loved to... ...leep or still listen- 88 Gogol ing. He always stayed at home during their raids, but this time the old man had joined the army. He had waved his hand... ...mander on naval expeditions; but more glo- rious than all the rest was his raid on the shores of Anatolia. They collected many sequins, much valuable ...

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... you step into a — a box, and pouf! up you go.” He tossed his empty cup in the air by way of illustration, and as he deftly caught it, cried: “And bif... ...ed on at the head of the cavalcade, little dreaming that danger hovered in the air. The timber clustered thick in the sheltered bottom, and through th... ...ed the heart and smote the trembling lips of nature. A sigh pulsed through the air, — they did not seem to actually hear it, but rather felt it, like ... ...hern vernacular, as he raved of swimming holes and coon hunts and wa termelon raids. It was as Greek to Ruth, but the Kid understood and felt, — felt... ... every nook and cranny was filled with hardtack. Yet he was sane. He was taking precautions against an other possible famine — that was all. He would ... ... Ngurn, had been a young man, the tribes beyond the grass lands had made a war raid. In the counter raid, Ngurn and his fighting folk had made many pri... ... vocal under certain temperature conditions of sunlight. But when, after a war raid, a batch of prisoners was brought in and the sacrifice made at nigh...

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...the germ being in the scrapings, and, lest you should kill it, you take no precautions against other germs being in it as well. Anything may happen as... ... scamp precautionary processes. Even if the germ were identified, complete precautions would hardly pay. It is true that microbe farming is not ex- pe... ...ire population of the globe since human life first appeared on it. But the precautions neces- sary to insure that the inoculation shall consist of not... ... a popular outcry for the suppression of a method of research which has an air of being scientific, their first instinct is to rally to the defence of... ... it in countenance or lose his patient. If people are persuaded that night air is dangerous to health and that fresh air makes them catch cold it will... ...ept in four-post beds with curtains drawn closely round to exclude as much air as possible. Had Mr. Pickwick’s doctor told him that he would be much h... ...London epidemic, where a fee of half-a-crown per re-vaccination pro- duced raids on houses during the absence of parents, and the forcible seizure and...

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...4 5:25 PM Page vii Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page viii p. 15 FAA Air Traffic Control Centers p. 15 Reporting structure, Northeast Air Defens... ...rofessional Staff Member Charles M. Pereira Professional Staff Member John Raidt Professional Staff Member John Roth Senior Counsel & Team Leader Pete... ...ags were held off the plane until it was confirmed that he had boarded the air- craft. This did not hinder Atta’s plans. 2 Atta and Omari arrived in B... ...d by CAPPS.The Hazmi brothers were also selected for extra scrutiny by the air- line’s customer service representative at the check-in counter. He did... ...ble was a warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid. An Army special force launched a raid on Mogadishu to capture him. In the course of a long night, two Black ... ...ng to assassinate the former president. President Clinton not only ordered precautions to protect Bush but asked about options for a reprisal against ... ...story might be fiction.Thereafter, the capture plan focused on a nighttime raid on Tarnak Farms. 17 A compound of about 80 concrete or mud-brick build... ...The tribals’ reported readiness to act diminished.And Bin Ladin’s security precautions and defenses became more elaborate and formidable. At this time... ... or the Capitol had narrowly escaped direct attack. Extraordinary security precautions were put in place at the nation’s borders and ports. In the lat...

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...air of large adhesive eyebrows. These lent him a shaggy and weather-beaten air, which, for one of his urbanity, formed the most impenetrable disguise.... ... on his own life. The farce of the cream tarts began to have very much the air of a tragedy in disguise. “Why, is this not odd,” broke out Geraldine, ... ...ument, but not without a shudder; the Colonel followed his example with an air of great de- pression. Then the President received the entry money; and... ...s somewhat refreshed by the water; “and shall run him home in spite of his precautions. He shall pay dearly for this day’s work, I promise you.” “You ... ...placed the blinds from within. While Francis was still marvelling at these precautions, the door opened and a young girl came forth to look about her ... ... was knocking at Mr. V andeleur’s garden gate. It was opened with singular precautions by the Dictator in person. “Who are you?” he demanded. “You mus... ...gh, warfaring epoch; and when one has been in a pitched battle and a dozen raids, has killed one’s man in an honourable fashion, and knows a thing or ...

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...less it was immediately after some of John Morgan’s men, in his celebrated raid through Ohio, spent a few hours in the village. The rebels helped them... ...ately go to the length of his tether, first one end, then the other in the air. While he was thus plunging and gyrating, another lasso would be thrown... ...ned and the team started. The first motion was generally five mules in the air at one time, backs bowed, hind feet extended to the rear. After repeati... ...me. It is built on a plain two thou- sand feet above tide water, where the air is bracing and the situation healthy. On the 19th of August the army st... ...on of a large rebel force far to the south to prevent a repetition of such raids on the enemy’s line of supplies. Geographical lines between the comma... ...to bivouac for the night. CHAPTER XXXIV CAPTURE OF PORT GIBSON— GRIERSON’S RAID—OCCUPATION OF GRAND GULF —MOVEMENT UP THE BIG BLACK—BATTLE OF RAYMOND ... ...n considerable force and got in upon Sedgwick’s right, notwithstanding the precautions taken, and created considerable confusion. Early captured sever... ...with his orders. U. S. Grant. I also notified Smith of his danger, and the precautions that would be taken to protect him. The night of the 30th Lee’s...

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...toration. Stevensons of Hirdmanshiels, in Midlothian, rode in the Bishops’ Raid of Aberlady, served as jurors, stood bail for neighbours – Hunter of P... ...r from Camragen, and this I did without the least prejudice from the night air; one night, when lying in the fields near to the Carrick-Miln, I was al... ...en the clean and handsome little city on the Clyde. The name has a certain air of being Norse. But the story of Scottish nomenclature is confounded by... ... and strong as the people of Edinburgh, because they have not so much pure air, and instead of taking porridge they eat cakes made with sugar and plum... ...with pages of instruction and encouragement. The nature of a bill, and the precautions that are to be observed about discounting it, are expounded at ...

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...en thought her be- witching when she was on horseback. She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country, and when her eyes and cheeks gl... ...erself to argument. “Y ou would like to wear them?” exclaimed Dorothea, an air of astonished discovery animating her whole person with a dramatic acti... ...ents?” “In pigeon-holes partly,” said Mr. Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort. “Ah, pigeon-holes will not do. I have tried pigeon-holes, bu... ...o bed immedi- ately, must have a regular nurse, and various appliances and precautions must be used, about which Lydgate was particular. Poor Mrs. Vin... .... “W ell, if you don’t mean to be won by the sirens, you are right to take precautions in time.” A few days before, Lydgate would have taken no notice... ...y losing in the billiard-room, and brought away no encouragement to make a raid on luck. On the contrary, he felt unmixed disgust with himself the nex... ...mself. “Y ou have at all events taken your share in using good prac- tical precautions for the town, and that is the best mode of asking for protectio...

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... men thought her bewitching when she was on horseback. She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country, and when her eyes and cheeks gl... ...herself to argument. “You would like to wear them?” exclaimed Dorothea, an air of astonished dis covery animating her whole person with a dramatic ac... ...ents?” “In pigeon holes partly,” said Mr. Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort. “Ah, pigeon holes will not do. I have tried pigeon holes, bu... ...o bed immediately, must have a regular nurse, and vari ous appliances and precautions must be used, about which Lydgate was particular. Poor Mrs. Vin... ...r. “Well, if you don’t mean to be won by the sirens, you are right to take precautions in time.” A few days before, Lydgate would have taken no notice... ...y losing in the billiard room, and brought away no encouragement to make a raid on luck. On the contrary, he felt unmixed disgust with himself the nex... ... himself. “You have at all events taken your share in using good practical precautions for the town, and that is the best mode of asking for protectio...

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...ed with blue silk, tied the tassels in a know, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual co... ... board began. “If they knew,” he thought, bending his head with a significant air as he lis tened to the report, “what a guilty little boy their presi... ..., very glad you’ve come,” he said, looking him in the face with a significant air. “Yes, come along,” answered Levin in ecstasy, hearing unceasingly th... ... easiest—instantaneous,” observed another. “How is it they don’t take proper precautions?” said a third. Madame Karenina seated herself in the carriag... ...y convinced that if the buckwheat had been scorched, it was only because the precautions had not been taken, for which he had hundreds of times given ... ... only come back, but was intensified, and reached such a pitch that she was a raid every minute that something would snap within her from the excessive... ...terest, I shall always defend to the best of my ability; that when they made raids on us students, and the police read our letters, I was ready to def...

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...s of Zeus, whose ancestral altar, the attar of Zeus, is aloft in air on the peak of Ida, and who have the blood of deities yet flo... ... master in wickedness, when he is amongst his fellows, is wonderful in the precautions which he takes, because he judges of them by himself: but when... ...means—the rest may be left. If I loiter for a moment, you instantly make a raid upon me, I said, and have no mercy; I have hardly escaped the first an...

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... country out- 14 side of this world, exceeding bright with light, and the air there lighted with rays of the sun, and the earth itself bloom- ing wit... ...nished there and the angels who pun- ished them wore dark raiment like the air of the place. Certain persons there were hanging by the tongue. These w... ...ing B is not to keep him from the commission of crime, but to make him use precautions that will keep him safe from discovery. How far the fear of det... ...r who fill our prisons, asylums and almshouses. Every child needs the open air and the open life of the country. He needs, first of all, exercise whic... ...nd food and shelter were held in common. But since the folk-ways commended raiding and looting be- tween alien tribes, here was presented an alluring ... ...mes. In all property crimes not only is no killing intended or wanted, but precautions are taken to guard against kill- ing. All laws to make drastic ... ... grown to be almost a pastime, and often one or more participants in these raids is a re- turned soldier. What should be done to meet these new condit...