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...Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...nic Classics Series Publication Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...tronic transmission, in any way. Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...rves, trying to find out what’ll amuse him, I guess. Florida, Adirondacks, Lakewood, Hot Springs, New York, and round again. He isn’t much more than a... ...? I don’t see how you can tell ‘em ‘way off, as you do.” “Last boat to the south’ ard. He fund you last night,” said Dan, pointing. “Manuel rows Portu... ...ong- with the humpy shoulders, is Long Jack. He’ s a Galway man inhabitin’ South Boston, where they all live mostly , an’ mostly them Galway men are g... ...ng-dory in mid-ocean. She suffered agonies whenever he went out on Saranac Lake; and, by the way , Harvey remembered distinctly that he used to laugh ... ...ait all along the coast. Oh, no, not home, he don’t go. He deals along the south an’ east shore up yonder.” He nodded in the direction of the pitiless... ...t gain anything by taking a special east of that. Ready? Also arrange with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central a...

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ty is an equal opportunity university. 3 Melville Typee: A Romance of the South Seas By Herman Melville PREFACE More than three years have elapsed si... ...ter, shout- ing and capering with infinite glee, and accompanied us to the banks of the stream. On gaining it, Kory-Kory, wading up to his hips in the... ...ing influence upon my mind. At this place the waters flowed between grassy banks, planted with enormous bread-fruit trees, whose vast branches interla... ...e- ments. We sometimes enjoyed the recreation in the waters of a miniature lake, to which the central stream of the valley expanded. This lovely sheet... ...t three hundred yards across. Its beauty was indescribable. All around its banks waved luxuriant masses of tropical foliage, soaring high above which ... ...aughing at my clumsy endeavours to to reach them. There was no boat on the lake; but at my solicitation and for my special use, some of the,young men ... ...d not anticipated. The sweet nymphs, who had sported with me before on the lake, now all fled its vicin- ity. The prohibited craft, guarded by the edi...

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...the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded o...

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... themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in ... ...ish reformation and his harem effectively started. When De Soto stood on the banks of the Mississippi, it was still two years before Luther’s death; e... ...coasts. These people were in intimate communication with the Indians: in the south the Spaniards were robbing, slaughtering, enslaving and con vertin... ...rossed Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 9 the country and reached the banks of the Mississippi. They went by way of the Great Lakes; and from G... ...ntry and reached the banks of the Mississippi. They went by way of the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wiscons... ...he foot of lofty heights wrapped thick in forests.’ He continues: ‘T urning southward, they paddled down the stream, through a solitude unrelieved by... ...n river, on foot, and dragging their canoes after them on sledges. At Peoria Lake they struck open water, and paddled thence to the Mississippi and tu... ...uck open water, and paddled thence to the Mississippi and turned their prows southward. They plowed through the fields of floating ice, past the mouth... ...poleon, Arkansas, and there the first confisca tion cross was raised on the banks of the great river. Marquette’s and Joliet’s voyage of discovery en...

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag,...

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...SUNRISE on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. ... ...the Mississippi in parts, where, amply flow- ing between low, vine-tangled banks, flat as tow-paths, it bears the huge toppling steamers, bedizened an... ...n on this stream, swept clean away by one of those sudden shiftings of the banks in a freshet; ten thousand dol- lars’ worth of alluvion thrown broad ... ... his eyes). Respected sir, this way of talking as if heaven were a kind of Washington patent-office museum—oh, oh, oh!— as if mere machine-work and pu... ...astle recreant? No, but unbeknown to them, the enemy stole on the castle’s south side, its genial one, where Suspicion, the warder, parleyed. In fine,... ...sive removals with their families, at last established themselves near the south- ern frontier of the Bloody Ground, Kentucky: ‘They were strong, brav... ...enseless. It was a day in July such a light and heat as only the midsummer banks of the inland Ohio know. China Aster was taken home on a door; linger...

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...rth America V ol. 2 North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON The site of the present City of Washington was chosen with three... ...y, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was founded, that these three advantages would be secured by the... ...a slanting direction. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in accordance ... ...treets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North and V Street South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, and K Streets North... ..., G, H, I, and K Streets North. Then those streets which run from north to south are numbered First Street, Second Street, Third Street, and so on, on... ...be- hind him. But Washington, when he resolved to found his capital on the banks of the Potomac, knew nothing of the glories of the Mississippi. He di... ...and managers at hotels, the officials at railway stations, the cashiers at banks, the women in the shops—ah! they are the worst of all. An American wo... ... a dollar of interest on the original outlay—of hotels, canals, railroads, banks, blocks of houses, etc. that never paid even in the happy days of pea... ...ith such rapidity as Chicago, which is considerably to the north of it, on Lake Michigan. Of the great Western cities I regard Chicago as the most rem...

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...General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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... ment commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as gen- eral-in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and ... ...ith pleasure to the fulfillment of the promise made in the former to visit Washington the following winter and to “call.” Give yourself no uneasiness ... ...nsas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-... ...llegiance, discharge him and send him to you. A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL N. P. BANKS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, December 29, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL BAN... ...he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the su... ...pril, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texa... ... must hold themselves at liberty to increase their naval armament upon the Lakes if they shall find that proceeding necessary. The condition of the b... ...n the twenty-fifth day of No- vember five hundred and eighty-four national banks had been organized, a considerable number of which were conversions f... ...been organized, a considerable number of which were conversions from State banks. Changes from State systems to the national system are rapidly taking...

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... any Indian variety. Tales of the war I heard told by an ex-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introduc... ...d violent in Montana and Dakota, of the loves of half-breed maidens in the South, and fantastic huntings for gold in mysterious Alaska. Above all, the... ...ts of his people. Just now a wave of religion is sweeping over some of the Southern States. Up to the present two Messiahs and a Daniel have ap- peare... ... road showed us that the team could move. A railway ran between us and the banks of the Willamette, and another above us through the moun- tains. All ... ...bered, and it had only begun when we drew rein at a tiny farm-house on the banks of the Clackamas and sought horse feed and lodging, ere we has- tened... ...he Lord gave me two hun- dred and fifty pairs of fingers in that hour. The banks and the pine-trees danced dizzily round me, but I only reeled— reeled... ...t when things were at their rockiest we nearly fell into a little sapphire lake—but never sapphire was so blue—called Mary’s Lake; and that between ei... ...ot count. San Francisco was a pleasure- resort as well as a city, and Salt Lake was a phenomenon. This place is the first American city I have encount... ...ally to the raising of the entire city so many feet above the level of the lake which it faces, and generally to grovel before the golden calf. But yo...

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...nd savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something l... ...known it may be, that there are isolated spots along the line of the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American to... ...ll can be; and the day is not distant when the whole of that vast range of lakes will become the seat of empire, and fraught with all the interests of... ... ANT ANT ANT ANT IT IS GENERALLY KNOWN that the waters which flow into the southern side of Ontario are, in general, narrow, sluggish, and deep. There... ...d vegetation of centuries, and black with loam, the stream that filled the banks nearly to overflowing, and the “fresh and boundless wood,” being all ... ...e wife of the latter in the other. The Mohican had already passed down the banks of the river by land, looking cautiously and with the skill of his pe... ... the time that I have stood my watch, under the equator perhaps, or in the Southern Ocean, when the nights are lighted up with the fires of heaven; an... ...ces, could take in all the external novelties of her new situation. To the southward lay the forest, through which she had been journeying so many wea... ... so much pleasure. The Oswego threw its dark waters into the lake, between banks of some height; that on its eastern side being bolder and projecting ...

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...lieved that this communication can be safely estab- lished either north or south of the Pamunkey River. In any event, you will be able to prevent the ... ...ollowing, to wit: (General Orders No. 11) HEADQUARTERS DEPART- MENT OF THE SOUTH, HIL TON HEAD, PORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of ... ...ORT ROY AL, S. C., May 9, 1862. “The three States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the South, having del... ... 24, 1862. 4 PM. MAJOR-GENERAL G . B. McCLELLAN: In consequence of General Banks’s critical position, I have been compelled to suspend General McDowel... ...s to us of one regiment infan- try, two Companies cavalry, putting General Banks in some peril. The enemy’s forces under General Anderson now opposing... ...lease inform us, if possible, what has be- come of the force which pursued Banks yesterday; also any other information you have. A. LINCOLN TELEGRAM T... ...ties, inland across the States of Pennsylva- nia and Ohio and the northern lakes. I believe by these and other similar measures taken in that crisis, ... ... many? Is it less fertile? Has it more waste surface by mountains, rivers, lakes, deserts, or other causes? Is it inferior to Europe in any natural ad... ... What news have you? What from Vicksburg? What from Y azoo Pass? What from Lake Providence? What generally? A. LINCOLN. 256 The Writings of Abraham L...

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...quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too commonplace, and the Indian too ... ...he liberty of putting the “Horican” into his mouth, as the substitute for “Lake George.” The name has appeared to find favor, and all things considere... ...oun- try which lies between the head waters of the Hudson and the adjacent lakes. The facilities which nature had there offered to the march of the co... ...French were compelled to master in order to strike their enemies. Near its southern termination, it received the contributions of another lake, whose ... ...mountains, the “holy lake” extended a dozen leagues still fur- ther to the south. With the high plain that there interposed itself to the further pass... ...ommenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adventurer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the r... ...name of this beautiful sheet of water, used by the tribe that dwelt on its banks, would be “The Tail of the Lake.” Lake George, as it is vulgarly, and... .... When, therefore, intelligence was received at the fort which covered the southern termination of the portage between the Hudson and the lakes, that ... ...t, so named after a powerful tribe of Indians, which formerly dwelt on its banks. Accident, or one of those unaccountable freaks which nature sometime...

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...awn through the centre of the State. As the waters of New York flow either southerly into the Atlan- tic or northerly into Ontario and its outlet, Ots... ...herly into the Atlan- tic or northerly into Ontario and its outlet, Otsego Lake, being the source of the Susquehanna, is of necessity among its highes... ...tion which says that the neighboring tribes were accustomed to meet on the banks of the lake to make their treaties, and otherwise to strengthen their... ...ys that the neighboring tribes were accustomed to meet on the banks of the lake to make their treaties, and otherwise to strengthen their alliances, a... ...ce. As the Indian agent of New Y ork had a log dwelling at the foot of the lake, however, it is not impossible that the appellation grew out of the me... ...he hostile Indians, who dwelt about a hundred miles west of Otsego, on the banks of the Cayuga. The whole country was then a wilder- ness, and it was ... ...great depth, limpid, and supplied from a thousand springs. At its foot the banks are rather less than thirty feet high the remainder of its margin bei... ...d, in the wildness of liberty. A dark spot of a few acres in extent at the southern extremity of this beautiful flat, and immediately under the feet o... ... mentioned, and was to be traced for miles, as it wound its way toward the south through the real valley, by its borders of hemlock and pine, and by t...

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... so he couldn’t stand it any longer; so he made up his mind to pull out for Washington, and just go to the President of the United States and make a ... ... the rest of the way was horse back, and it took him three weeks to get to Washington. He saw lots of land and lots of villages and four cities. He ... ... week. I can see it all: beautiful rolling country with woods and fields and lakes for hundreds and hundreds of miles all around, and towns and villag... ...bled —” wandering, without any doubt. She’s in a wind now that’s blowing her south of east. We don’t know how long that’s been going on, either.” So t... ...ldn’t find hair nor hide of it, nor any other settlement — nor any sign of a lake or a river, either. Tom was clean beat. He said it warn’t his notion... ...ght — which we wasn’t. No, sir, we’ve been a wandering — wandering ‘way down south of east, and it’s my opinion we are in Africa. Look at this map. Yo... ...didn’t amount to nothing. So T om said London was right north of us or right south of us, one or t’other, and he reckoned by the weather and the sand ... ...oo, I reckon, much as he tried not to let on. CHAPTER VIII. THE DISAPPEARING LAKE WE HAD AN EARLY BREAKFAST IN THE MORNING, and set look ing d... ...h the breeze, the loveliest sight that ever was. And all about it was grassy banks, and flowers, and shady groves of big trees, looped together with v...

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...s cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, “These college chumps make me tired. They’re so ... ...ce came galloping before hell-for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of... ...e wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached buffalo bones to the West; the South- ern levees and singing darkies and palm trees toward which it was fo... ...own. Lots of fine maples and box-elders, and there’s two of the dandi- est lakes you ever saw, right near town! And we’ve got seven miles of cement wa... ...athletic shoes. The High Bridge crosses the Mississippi, mounting from low banks to a palisade of cliffs. Far down beneath it on the St. Paul side, up... ...b- bery, a porch indistinct in leafy shadows. But she ex- claimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman ... ... holding up a string of croppies. One winter picture of the edge of Plover Lake had the air of an etching: lustrous slide of ice, snow in the crevices... ...-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and... ...ng odd jobs, and that’s more ‘n these polite cusses like the clerks in the banks do. When I’m rude to some slob, it may be partly because I don’t know...

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...r because different nations had formed settlements to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of t... ...nd to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken pos session... ... far the greater part of the silver consisted of bullion from the mines of South America, which the English buccaneers—who were little better than pir... ...lost in her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnif... ..., and that above a thousand drowned soldiers had been washed ashore on the banks of that mighty river. After this misfor tune Sir Hovenden Walker set... ...or of North America. It was strange to behold these warlike castles on the banks of solitary lakes and far in the midst of woods. The Indian, paddling... ...a. It was strange to behold these warlike castles on the banks of solitary lakes and far in the midst of woods. The Indian, paddling his birch canoe o... ...ndian, paddling his birch canoe on 86 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sChair Lake Champlain, looked up at the high ramparts of Ticonderoga, stone piled ... ...hite flag of France floating above. There were simi lar fortifications on Lake Ontario, and near the great Falls of Niagara, and at the sources of th...

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... and some error on the pilot’s part, were the cause. We were surrounded by banks, and rocks, and shoals of all kinds, but had American Notes – Dicken... ...rasting with the darkness of so many youthful lives within! * * * * * * At South Boston, as it is called, in a situation excel lently adapted for the... ...f respect. Some thing of the same spirit pervades all the Institutions at South Boston. There is the House of Industry. In that branch of it, which i... ...arge room, were employed in making light clothing, for New Orleans and the Southern States. They did their work in silence like the men; and like them... ...tely vacates it with great politeness. Politics are much discussed, so are banks, so is cotton. Quiet people avoid the question of the Presi dency, f... ...ge for a few brief minutes on an open country, glittering with some bright lake or pool, broad as many an English river, but so small here that it sca... ..., and enjoyed the journey. The Connecticut River is a fine stream; and the banks in summer time are, I have no doubt, beautiful; at all events, I was ... ...on the wall. One, of a fe male, over the door, he called ‘The Lady of the Lake.’ He smiled as I looked at these contrivances to while away the time; ... ...a strong impression on his mind: especially the opening of The Lady of the Lake, and the great battle scene in Marmion, in which, no doubt from the co...

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...ailed in the Holsatia, Cap- tain Brandt, and had a very peasant trip, indeed. After a brief rest at Hamburg, we made preparations for a long pedestria... ... deafening railroad rush, and tedious jolting behind tired horses over blinding white roads! We went slipping silently along, between the green and fr... ...ent slipping silently along, between the green and fragrant banks, with a sense of pleasure and contentment that grew, and grew, all the time. Sometim... ...ois NEXT MORNING WE LEFT in the train for Switzerland, and reached Lucerne about ten o’clock at night. The first discovery I made was that the beauty ... ...s the dial and has no joint in it; such a clock helps out the picture, but you cannot tell the time of day by it. Between the curving line of hotels a... ...ou cannot tell the time of day by it. Between the curving line of hotels and the lake is a broad avenue with lamps and a double rank of low shade tree... ...hem piecemeal; so all the region about their bases was a tumbled chaos of great fragments which had been split off and hurled to the ground. Soiled an... ...ss summits flashing white and cold in the sun; beyond them shimmered the faint far line of the Ghauts of Jubbelpore and the Aigulles des Alleghenies; ... ...Aigulles des Alleghenies; in the south towered the smoking peak of Popocatapetl and the unapproachable altitudes of the peer- less Scrabblehorn; in th...

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...tside it was bitterly cold. All day a freezing wind had blown from off the Lake, and since five in the afternoon a fine powder of snow had been fallin... ...Art Gallery that had taken the place of the old Exposition Building on the Lake Front. Laura had known him for some little time. On the oc- casion of ... ...ons, Aunt Wess’ alone remained. Page was at her finishing school at Geneva Lake, within two hours of Chicago. The Cresslers were the dearest friends o... ...han the statement of the cause of this visit. The spirit and temper of the South, that she had from her mother, flamed up in Laura at last, and the me... ... a certain air of distinction and exclusiveness. Vines grew thick upon the southern walls; in the summer time fuchsias, geraniums, and pansies would f... ...lixir—from the very ends and cor- ners of the continent. Or, again, it was South Water Street—a jam of delivery wagons and market carts backed to the ... ...ozen bourses of continental Europe clamoured with panic, a dozen Old-World banks, firm as the established hills, trembled and vibrated. Because of an ... ...e vital fluid, seemed to be flowing more easily. People seemed richer, the banks were lending more, securities seemed stable, solid. In New York, stoc... ...urse. But he has a gang back of him—besides, he’s got good credit with the banks. I told you you’d have to fight him sooner or later.” “Well, we’ll fi...

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...BY JANE MORGAN NEW-YORK C. WILEY , 3 W ALL STREET J. Seymour, printer 1823 Southern District of New-Y ork ss. Be it remembered, That on the thirteenth... ...raving, and etching historical and other prints.” James Dill, Clerk of the Southern District of New-Y ork PREFACE WHEN THE AUTHOR of these little tale... ...hile the arrange- ments were making for the reception of the family on the banks 11 Tales for Fifteen of the Gennessee, Anna was permitted to taste, ... ...time, the pleasures of the world, at the residence of Miss Emmerson on the banks of the Hudson. Charles Weston was a distant relative of the good aunt... ... lovely scenery of the west. The moon had risen and the sun had set on the lakes of the interior, and Anna had said not one word of either. But the th... ...hat I have forgotten to give you the description of our journey and of the lakes that I promised to send you. No, my Julia, I have not forgotten the p... ... most picturesque places in the world; situated most de- lightfully on the banks of the Hudson, which here meanders in sylvan beauty through meadows o... ...of Eolus, while Boreas threatens in vain their firm-rooted trunks. But the lakes! Ah! Julia—the lakes! The most beautiful is the Seneca, named after a... ...end the remaining time with her father and mother, before they went to the south. Charles Weston looked from Katherine to Julia during this dialogue, ...

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...ors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing... ...nise the prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (... ...tellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 1910 that the... ...y it was shorn of its beams, a globe of ruddy gold, hanging over the great banks of cloud that would presently engulf it. ‘Eh!’ said the youngster. ‘E... ...ies upon which the credit of the world rested were slip- ping and sliding, banks were tottering, the stock exchanges were scenes of feverish panic;—th... ...ng projected like a cape into the river. Quite close to her was a brimming lake of dammed-up water, from which these warm rivulets and tor- rents were... ...1 H G Wells for-tat. No time to lose, boys….’ And presently over the cloud-banks that lay above Westphalia and Saxony the swift aeroplane, with its at... ...covered square of map that was fastened by his wheel. There in a series of lake-like expansions was the Havel away to the right; over by those forests... ...AIN-SIDE above the town of Brissago and com- manding two long stretches of Lake Maggiore, looking east- ward to Bellinzona, and southward to Luino, th...

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...ut we confess that for us, On the Eve sug- gests the existence of a mighty lake, whose waters, dammed 9 Turgenev back for a while, are rising slowly,... ...olicy shall be broken up, will the snows, melting on the mountains, stream south-west, inundating the Valley of the Danube? Or, as the national poet, ... ...as over his own son. He once con- ceived the idea of talking to them about Washington: ‘My young nurslings,’ he began, but at the first sounds of his ... ...was flower- ing, humming, singing; in the distance shone the waters of the lakes; a light-hearted holiday mood took possession of all. ‘Oh, how beauti... ... as Pleasant View arbour, and stopped to admire the view of the Tsaritsino lakes. They stretched one behind the other for several miles, overshadowed ... ...ople, and why she was with them? She looked and the lake grew broader, the banks vanished—now it was not a lake but a stormy sea: immense blue silent ...