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...e University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los Angeles. Paul Alexander Bartlett’s life was lived with a s... ...I felt that the war was forever between us and I hated those years, those battles, the lines on his face. My hate was there, between us. Then, then,... ...ne or in knots of two or three, feeling separate. How does one forget the battlefield? I heard the burr of ancient Egyptian. Persian was spoken by me... ... and he changed the subject as quickly as a man might draw a sword during battle. “I never thought I’d be blind. I never memorized any faces. My hom... ...nd places, all I have loved. Only in memory will I walk along the orchard creek and hunt for crayfish, think and stare as a boy thinks and stares. I... ...ld steal away and turtle hunt—that was our joy: tirelessly, we combed the creeks and river, staying long past staying time, scolded but not caring. ... ...dorado. Who knows, as in Sergas de Esplandián, we may reach the Island of California, in- habited by Amazon women with passionate hearts and great s... ...essure of necessity. LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 523 My father lived in Knob Creek, Kentucky; from this place he removed to Spencer County, Indiana, in... ...eeks, happy dreams; in one of those repeated dreams we eloped, we went to California, we built a beautiful home... My love for her has never gone aw...

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... he, Seattle, would buy time. He would be patient, and watch the outcome of the battles between the Great Sioux Nation and the blue coats. In his ni... ... the scuffle. A suspect was cornered just minutes later in a back alley; a gun battle ensued and the suspected assailant was shot to death by DC po... ...ost of his attitudes about L.A. were formed by colleagues who had left Southern California and settled in the Seattle area for a slower lifestyle. T... ...nd asleep. "So much for caffeine," Alex Greene said to himself. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Johnathan Cross DAN JACOBS AND Emily Thompson debarked a... ...e a true grass-roots move­ ment for product safety. I'm sure you're aware of his battles with General Motors." "I'm sorry. You're right. This is a g... ...be­ tween Matloch, I.E., and Hawk, and I need to find it fast, or I'm up a shit creek without a paddle. Understand?" "Boss, they're hiding something... ...wer! But what's his connection with Matloch and I.E.?" :%. 18 *' LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THE LE. BUILDING IT HAD BEEN three days since the Press ...

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... deep into a forest near the village. For two days he sat and slept next to a creek, watching the water as if it were his future rapidly flowing away... ... you Joey." McCully took out a handkerchief and bent down dipping it into the creek and started wiping Joey's face. "You wouldn't?" Joey asked, as ... ...ully reached down and picked up a slick, flat stone and skipped it across the creek. "You know she loves you." Joey started crying and could not st... ...then?" Alex asked. "Ah, a plan." Gallucci's eyes narrowed. "A plan is like a battle, an ever changing strategy of move and counter move." Relucta... ...s/Artemis CHAPTER 19 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA The dark, night covered the parade of expensive cars ... ... wanting to be on the team. "It originated from the number one drug lord in California. He wants out, and has asked that his family be secured in ... ...p is secured." He hated repeating orders. “There's going to be one hell of a battle on board. Isn't there any way we can help?" "It's not our ass... ...rds out gunfire shattered the night. The ship listed from side to side as the battle raged. It was over in less than five minutes. At the start o... ...yearned to feel the hot Santa Ana winds sweep through the valleys of Southern California, and the blue Pacific ocean he surfed in as a young man. He ...

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...d Reference Works Revived XXVI. The Six Sins of the Wikipedia XXVII. Battle of the Titans – Encarta vs. Britannica XXVIIII. Microsoft Embrace... ...m with an equitable sharing of royalties. The results? A protracted legal battle and piracy run amok. "Publishers" - goes this creed - "are position... ...h only for a prescribed period of time. V. As Readership Expanded The battle between industrial-commercial publishers (fortified by ever more pot... ...s are sometimes used as freebies within a commercial (Monolithic, Wallnut Creek) or semi-commercial product (such as the Public Domain Reader). Is th... ... Is this acceptable? Why don't you charge them a license fee? A. Walnut Creek PG CD's weren't free and they sent us nice donations. The commercial ... ...he 106th Congress. Some of the states have picked up the slack. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,... ...n Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerous courses in Finance Theory and Intern...

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...en by Co-Princes who ap- point two civil judges, a judge of appeals, and two battles (court prosecutors); final appeal to the Supreme Court of Andorra... ...098,580 km 2 ; land area: 1,084,390 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of California and Texas combined Land boundaries: 6,083 km total Boundary di... ...75,440 km 2 ; land area: 469,440 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than California Land boundaries: 4,554 km total Coastline: 402 km Maritime cla... ...; land area: 1,259,200 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Texas and California combined Land boundaries: 5,987 km total Boundary disputes: no... ...erways: 8,575 km consisting of Niger and Benue rivers and smaller rivers and creeks Pipelines: 2,042 km crude oil; 264 km natural gas; 3,000 km refine... ...aterways: section of Mono River and about 50 km of coastal lagoons and tidal creeks Ports: 1 major (Lome), 1 minor Civil air: 4 major transport aircra...

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...s them to a field beyond Raya, a city asleep beneath a black spell. A great battle rages but, with the aid of Peter and Regan’s magic, Raya is saved.... ...ever touched the unicorn’s hoof, then all of Daradawn would perish. In their battle with Dirkk, a crack had inched close, but the evil had been stoppe... ...efore she could get the words out. “I never thought I’d see you without your battle axe.” “I could carry only the sword or Xuya upon my back.” More te... ...niel moved to it, happy to see water still filled it to the rim. There was a creek nearby, but he had no urge to visit it in the outside blackness. A... ...s, master. It will be as you command.” BARBARA M. HODGES lives in Nipomo, California, a small town on the central coast. She shares her life with h...

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...(jrk city was elotsted editor- in-c,liii)f, and Juhn KHnnotli Byanl of Fly Creek, N. Y., hnsinesH manager for tlie coming year. GERALD MYGATT 1908 The... ...as surgeon in the 54th and 58th New Y'ork volun teers and took part in the battles of Cross Keys, Bull Run and Ohnncellorsville. For several years he ... ...e Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. MONDAY. APRIL 15 7.80 p. m.—Last of... ...er, no systematio strategy had ever been employed in war. Amies had met in battle, and mere brute strength had decided the outcome. The Macedonian gen... ...grasp the situation instantly and with one bold stroke to turn the tide of battle, com- pleted his career without ever suf- fering defeat. To him is d... ...p Hall at 1.30 p. m. on Friday: President, John Kenneth Byard 1908, of Fly Creek, N. Y. ; vice-president, El- mer Philip Groben 1908, of Buf- falo, N.... ...erts Robb 1909, of Richmond Hill, N. Y., John Ken- neth Byard 1908, of Fly Creek, N. Y., and Hallett Johnson 1908, of South Orange, N. J., alternate, ...

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...y. For example, Dianetics (Scientology) became incorporated as a church in California after it ran into legal difficulties because it was presenting i... ...vely called the Devil, who coexists with God in an uneasy state of eternal battle. To understand the background of this doctrine and the way it develo... ...e to be spelled Zoroaster. Zarathustra’s revelations focused on an eternal battle between two Gods, Ahura Mazda (the God of Light, the Good God) and A... ...by his sons. He managed to take his wife with him as he passed the camp, a creek bed marking the place where they were dragged. Songs tell this part o... ...tion with their land, shown when they recently fought and won a long court battle against the state government to prevent commercial development of a ... ...Mass., 1956. Wood, Neal: John Locke And Agrarian Capitalism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984. Worms, E.A.: Australian Aboriginal Religi...

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...ty pint bottles of MD 20/20 in various flavors: Banana Red, Hawaiian Blue, Lightning Creek, Tangerine Dream. A dog’s dish sat in a corner. Thinking... ...ped with slices of roasted salmon. As Brewster uncorked a bottle of Chardonnay — a California Estancia — she gave him an appreciative nod. He knew... ...on to play ’just the back nine‘ with her and Sammie at twelve-thirty at the Paskova Creek Country Club. Laura Kate wanted to talk to Sammie alone, w... ...t couple of days, Laura Kate saw only three foursomes since passing through Paskova Creek Country Club’s stone gates. Driving up the hill and aroun... ...minds as they slammed drawers, rifled files and cursed. Jack assumed the role of battle commander, which suited her and apparently Olin, too, beca...

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...uch different than the ones bears use in zoos. One low faucet fed the cement creek, which had a plastic bowl floating in it. No different than one's p... ...g with Led Zepplin. "I've made up my mind to make a new start./ I'm going to California with an aching in my heart./ Someone told me there is a girl o... ... out in a bitter and cyical drool. He wipes his mouth with his sleeve. His California girl lives in Sante Fe, New Mexico where her husband recently... ...eving that a relentless cold stare would attenuate their cruelty, and yet no battles did she win with the Antarctic blasts that she sent their way una... ... out there might be a little compassion toward her. She headed north to Baja California and then got a job as an aerobics teacher for the Municipal Sp...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Frank Norris The Octopus A Story of California by Frank Norris Book 1 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I C... ...e muttered, as he sent his wheel rumbling across the bridge over Broderson Creek. “The romance, the real romance, is here somewhere. I’ll get hold of ... ... routes. His objective point was the spring at the headwaters of Broderson Creek, in the hills on the eastern side of the Quien Sabe ranch. The trail ... ...reon the wheat had been successful, no doubt because of the Little Mission Creek that ran through it. But he no longer occupied himself with the lands... ...as one 142 The Octopus of the conspirators, was one of the leaders in the battle that impended; no doubt, he had come to make a fresh attempt to win ... ... Lancelot after the tournament, Bayard receiving felicita- tions after the battle. “Oh, don’t say anything about it,” he murmured. “I only did what an... ...e- thing, to some terrible course of action, some ruthless, un- scrupulous battle to the death with the iron-hearted mon- 219 Frank Norris ster of st...

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...Excerpt: Shanghaied This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it begins with a pink tea and among the mingled odors of many delicate perfumes and the hale, frank smell of Caroline Testout roses. There had been a gre...

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...IED SHANGHAIED SHANGHAIED SHANGHAIED SHANGHAIED THIS IS TO BE A STORY of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that reason it ... ... in the business. We go down here twice a year off Cape Sain’ Lucas, Lower California, an’ fish for blue sharks, or white, if we kin ketch ‘em. We get... ...see how it feels to be in Mexico.” “Mexico?” said Wilbur. “That’s so—Lower California is Mexico. I’d forgotten that!” They went ashore and spent the a... ...nee-boots. As he looked at the two, Wilbur asked himself where else but in California could such abrupt contrasts occur. “All light,” announced Hoang;... ... put them beyond all fear for the present. “There’s plenty of water up the creek,” he said, “and we can snare all the quail we want; and then there’s ... ...” “Since before sunrise,” she said; “I’ve had a bath in the cove where the creek runs down. I saw a jack-rabbit.” “Seen anything of Charlie and the ot... ...nd Wilbur saw a small boat put off from the junk and make a landing by the creek. The beach-combers were taking on water. The boat made three trips be... ...d all control. A sort of obsession seized upon her at the near approach of battle, a frenzy of action that was checked by nothing—that was insensible ... ...t was about 3:30 o’clock. 87 Frank Norris X X X X X A BA A BA A BA A BA A BATTLE TTLE TTLE TTLE TTLE WILBUR had imagined that the fight would be hard...

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... with them, beating them into Winchester yesterday evening. This morning a battle ensued between the two forces, in which Banks was beaten back into f... ...to sea to afford pro- tection to the commercial marine, and especially the California treasure ships then on their way to this coast. I also directed ... ...May 26, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN: Can you not cut the Alula Creek railroad? Also, what impres- sion have you as to intrenched works for... ...ch just received from Saxton at Harper’s Ferry: “The rebels are in line of battle in front of our lines. They have nine pieces of artillery, and in po... ...l Six Virginia. Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. A. L. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHI... ...g; and you see how turnpikes, railroads, and finally the Potomac, by Aquia Creek, meet you at all points from Washington; the same, only the lines len... ...JOR-GENERAL BURNSIDE, Falmouth, Virginia: If I should be in boat off Aquia Creek at dark tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, could you, without inconvenienc... .... HON. L SWETT, San Francisco, Cal.: Many persons are telegraphing me from California, begging me for the peace of the State to suspend the military e... ...general-in-chief. The writ was suspended, upon urgent representations from California, simply to keep the peace. It never had any direct or indirect r...

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...is method being often employed by those who train the Indian elephants for battle. Happily, however, for Mr. Fogg, the animal’s instruction in this di... ...d by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead. Men, women, and chil- dren lay together. ... ...ug- glers tossed them in the air, threw them like shuttlecocks with wooden battledores, and yet they kept on spinning; they put them into their pocket... ...ng them English, many Americans, a large number of coolies on their way to California, and several East Indian officers, who were spending their vacat... ... was at six o’clock p.m.; he had, therefore, an entire day to spend in the Californian capital. T aking a carriage at a charge of three dollars, he an... ... and sleep which everybody did—while the train sped on across the State of California. The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hi... ...assed along the vast prairies, the moun- tains lining the horizon, and the creeks, with their frothy, foam- ing streams. Sometimes a great herd of buf... ...d a long 132 Around the World in 80 Days curve, descending towards Bitter Creek Valley, to rise again to the dividing ridge of the waters between the... ... ridge of the waters between the Atlantic and the Pacific. There were many creeks in this mountainous re- gion, and it was necessary to cross Muddy Cr...

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...re a few fleeing antelopes; here and there, but at incred- ible intervals, a creek running in a canon. The plains have a grandeur of their own; but he... ...not written to you before now, you will be surprised to heare that we are in California, and that poor Thomas” (another brother, of fifteen) “is dead.... .... We went along very well till we got within six or seven hun- dred miles of California, when the Indians attacked us. We found places where they had ... ... traveld with them till we arrived at the settlements; and know I am safe in California, and got to good home, and going to school. “Jerry is working ... ... them a priori. The Mongols were their enemies in that cruel and treacherous battle-field of money. They could work bet- ter and cheaper in half a hun... ...e Pacific hangs over the coast and the adjacent coun- try like smoke above a battle. These long beaches are enticing to the idle man. It would be hard... ...hile he was at the top of his fortune that Kearney visited Monterey with his battle-cry against Chi- nese labour, the railroad monopolists, and the la...

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...invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes; the... ...native strength. Religion is no less the com- panion of liberty in all its battles and its triumphs; the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source ... ...ties, took possession of the State: every class was enlisted in its cause; battles were fought, and victories obtained for it, until it became the law... ...xico in 1846, and ended in the conquest of an immense territory, including California. 196 Democracy in America Chapter XI: Why the People May Strict... ...e woods. While I was in this place (which was in the neigh- borhood of the Creek territory), an Indian woman appeared, followed by a negress, and hold... ...r, and why they cannot become so now that they desire it – Instance of the Creeks and Cherokees -Policy of the particular States towards these Indians... ... Several of the Southern nations, and amongst others the Cherokees and the Creeks,* were surrounded by Europeans, who had landed on the shores of the ... ...ndian population of the United States is only 25,731, of whom 7,241 are in California. *I brought back with me to France one or two copies of this sin... ...hole territory of the Union, and of these by far the largest part exist in California, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Dakota, and New Mexico and Nevada. In Ne...

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...he general to whom is attributed—I believe most wrongfully—the loss of the battle of Bull’s Run. The whole place was then one camp. The fences had dis... ...on one deck, whereas a frigate would have them on two decks, and a line-of-battle ship on three. Of line-of-battle ships there will, I suppose, soon b... ...xandria? And then out of 1500 men, one-half had gone to fight the Southern battles! Among the women of Alexandria seces- sion would have found but few... ... Iowa was admit- ted as a free State, and from that day to this Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas have been brought into the Union;... ...ce had been the opponent of poor General Lyons, who was killed at Wilson’s Creek, near Springfield, and of General Fremont, who during his hundred day... ...ve special orders that a contract should be made with a man named Beard, a Californian, who had followed him from California to St. Louis. This contra... ...hough it were merely an extension of fron- tier. But this has not been so. California and Oregon have been very much farther from Washington than the ... ...at Eleutheria, but hearing of an opening for a Baptist preacher at Big Mud Creek moves himself off with his wife and three children at a week’s notice...

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... years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and... ...d America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither: one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other. For more than a hun... ...r it had come to be believed that the Mississippi emp tied into the Gulf of California, and therefore afforded a short cut from Canada to China. Prev... ...d to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlan tic. They believed it emptied into the Gul... ... 13 56 Bryaro 15 51(half) Hinderson’s 16 29 Natchez 17 11 Cole’s Creek 19 21 Waterproof 18 53 Rodney 20 45 St. Joseph 21 02 Gr... ...a silver miner in Nevada; next, a newspaper reporter; next, a gold miner, in California; next, a reporter in San Francisco; next, a spe cial correspo... ...N THE WAR NOW, for we were getting down into the upper edge of the former battle stretch by this time. Columbus was just behind us, so there was a ... ... Columbus was just behind us, so there was a good deal said about the famous battle of Belmont. Several of the boat’s officers had seen active service... ...had often had a curiosity to know how a green hand might feel, in his maiden battle, perched all solitary and alone on high in a pilot house, a target...

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... south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons. We cast ancho... ...old a ship of above one hundred tons. We cast anchor within a league of this creek, and our captain sent a dozen of his men well armed in the long boa... ...eing nothing to entertain my curiosity, I returned gently down to wards the creek; and the sea being full in my view, I saw our men already got into ... ... Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever my opinion, that there must be a balance of e... ...reason to believe, east ward, to that unknown tract of America west ward of California; and north, to the Pacific Ocean, which is not above a hundred... ...I desired to see Alexander the Great at the head of his army, just after the battle of Arbela: which, upon a motion of the governor’s finger, immediat... ...ht at Actium had the good fortune to break through the enemy’s great line of battle, sink three of their capital ships, and take a fourth, which was t... ...m. And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think you have said the thing which is not.” I could...

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...s on the outer wall, under which abolition is fighting its most successful battles, because they are living exemplars of the practicability of the mos... ...arve out for himself a path fitted to his powers and energies, in the life-battle against slavery and caste to which he was pledged. And one stirring ... ...ediate Emancipation. It shows that any man in our land, “no matter in what battle his liberty may have been cloven down, * * * * no matter what comple... ... river from the Wye a mile or more from my old master’s house. There was a creek to swim in, at the bottom of an open flat space, of twenty acres or m... ...t was just a place to my boyish taste. There were fish to be caught in the creek, if one only had a hook and line; and crabs, clams and oysters were t... ...Denby but few stripes; the latter broke away from him and plunged into the creek, and, standing there to the depth of his neck in water, he refused to... ...e engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men—digging gold in California, captur- ing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle ...

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... a patchy galvanized iron cornice; the building beside it was crowned with battlements and pyramids of brick capped with blocks of red sandstone. She ... ... Y’ would, would you!” When Carol abruptly turned on the lights in the em- battled living-room, half of the company were sitting back against the wall... ... couch a pallid softness in the twilight, and fought herself, and lost the battle. Spitting did not identify him with rangers riding the buttes; it me... ...ht. The Arab village of Djeddah—an intricately chased jewel-box. A town in California which had changed itself from the barren brick fronts and slatte... ...ide her, and small waves sputtered on the meadowy shore. She leaped a tiny creek bowered in pussy- willow buds. She was nearing a frivolous grove of b... ...retch unchanging to the North Pole: low hill, brush-scraggly bottom, reedy creek, muskrat mound, fields with frozen brown clods thrust up through the ... ... the towns leave them in old age, if they can afford it, and go to live in California or in the cities. The reason, Carol insisted, is not a whiskered... ...the hills are covered with brush, the lakes shut off by railroads, and the creeks lined with dumping-grounds; of depressing sobriety of color; rectang... ...he clutched his arm. “You’ve got to be sweet to me, and kind! I’m going to California—mountains, sea. Please don’t argue about it, because I’m going.”...

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...il- grimage for the summary globe-trotter; but to one who lives upon its sides, Mount Saint Helena soon becomes a centre of interest. It is the Mont B... ...l unflecked with vapour, the sea fogs were pouring in from seaward, over the hill- tops of Marin county, in one great, shapeless, silver cloud. South ... ...avels armed, and the stage is not only a link between country and city, and the vehicle of news, but has a faint warfaring aroma, like a man who shoul... ...om the north; the trees roared; the corn and the deep grass in the valley fled in whitening surges; the dust towered into the air along the road and d... ...escended from the sky. Night began early in our cleft. Before us, over the margin of the dump, we could see the sun still striking aslant into the woo... ... dark blue eyes growing percepti- bly larger, as he planned the composition in which he should appear, “with the horns of some real big bucks, and dog... ...ailing the blue air: perhaps co-oeval with the mountain where they haunted, per- haps emigrants from Rome, where the glad legions may have shouted to ...

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...’s name) had come pelting eighty miles over mountain tracks after the lost battle of Socorro, in the hope of out- distancing the fatal news—which, of ... ...he studied the 33 Joseph Conrad thick volume. He carried it with him into battles. Now it was his only reading, and in order not to be deprived of it... ...ola had a great consideration for the En- glish. This feeling, born on the battlefields of Uru- guay, was forty years old at the very least. Several o... ...King of Sulaco, and the head of the silver and steel interests far away in California, the conviction was growing that any attempt made by men of educ... ...raph office and the securing of the Government steamer lying in the narrow creek which is the harbour of Esmeralda. The last was ef- fected without di... ...ir he always carries everywhere. He had been away trad- ing in the Gulf of California, he said, looking straight past us at the wall, as his manner is...

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...APTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP THE COAST?MONTEREY, 35 -- CHAPTER XII ? LIFE AT MONTEREY, 38 -- CHAPTER XIII ...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 NIA . . . . . . . . 28 CHAPTER IX — CALIFORNIA—A SOUTH EASTER . . . . . . 32 CHAPTER X — A SOUTH EASTER—PASS... ...EISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS . . . . . . . . . 90 CHAPTER XXII — LIFE ... ...22 GRANDEE—’’SAIL HO!’’—A FANDANGO CHAPTER XXVIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPT... ...ens, and to recall it when it has passed. A man is shot down by your side in battle, and the mangled body remains an object, and a real evidence; but ... ...e was built at Guayaquil, and named the Ayacucho, after the place where the battle was fought that gave Peru her independence, and was now owned by ... ...is diminished and discontented crew, and in a small vessel, we were now to battle the watch through a couple of years of hard service; yet there was... ...e at all, but those of San Jose, Santa Clara, and others, situated on large creeks or rivers which run into the bay, and distant between fifteen and ... ...at. It was no longer the landing place. One had been made at the head of the creek, and boats discharged and took off cargoes from a mole or wharf, in... ...in the stage coach, with again our relays of six mad horses, and reached the creek before dark, though it was late at night before we got on board the...

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...ine years old. At the breaking out of the war of the Revolution, after the battles of Concord and Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to j... ...Connecti- cut company to join the Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served until the fall of Y orktown, or through th... ...ents; no objection to rational enjoy- ments, such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandpa... ...un- try, taking no baggage with me, of course. There is an insig- nificant creek—the Gravois—between Jefferson Barracks and the place to which I was g... ...dge over it from its source to its mouth. There is not water enough in the creek at ordinary stages to run a coffee mill, and at low water there is no... ...ffi- cient to fit men and officers for all they were capable of in case of battle. The rank and file were composed of men who had enlisted in time of ... ...nts were spreading it. Soon after his graduation, Slaughter was ordered to California and took passage by a sailing vessel going around Cape Horn. The... ...e lying at an- chor after reaching his place of destination. On landing in California he found orders which had come by the Isthmus, notifying him of ... ... sick all the way. But when he arrived at the East he was again ordered to California, this time defi- nitely, and at this date was making his third t...

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...essed, and eyes set with the pain of a foot in which the quick fought a losing battle with the dead. All possible care had been taken of him, but in t... ...pied in his life. He of the Otter Skins ate in silence, forgotten in the merry battle; and long ere the others were done he pushed back from the table... ...done it ’ll need two heads. If it ’s all right, why it ’ll be a second Cripple Creek, man; do you hear? — a second Cripple Creek! It ’s quartz, you kn... ...s, and was resting up preparatory to a long moose hunt. Prince too had been on creek and trail nearly all winter, and had grown hungry for a blissful ... ...our fathers did.’ And I marveled that those which were to come should fight the battles of those that were gone, and in it I could see no right. But th... ...at day to play at hunting after the manner of their fathers. On the bed of the creek they struck the fresh track of a moose, and with it the tracks of... ...ublication in Brandur Magazine, Oct., 1902. Second magazine publication in The California Review, V ol. 2, No. 6, pp. 376 83, 1904. 118 JACK LONDON B... ...e had undergone. He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers. The days wer... ...al great events in his life. One of these had been when his mother bought some California prunes. Two others had been the two times when she cooked cu...

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...es of the Organ.........................................121 Facing West from California’s Shores ....................................................1... ...the Conquer’d Fame..137 We Two Boys Together Clinging.......138 A Promise to California.....................138 Here the Frailest Leaves of Me........... ... theme for ever enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers. Be it so, then I answer’d, I too... ... the Body and for the eternal Soul, Lo, I too am come, chanting the chant of battles, I above all promote brave soldiers. 10 Leaves of Grass –Whitman... ...savannas, Or a soldier camp’d or carrying my knapsack and gun, or a miner in California, Or rude in my home in Dakota’s woods, my diet meat, my drink ... ...yself, or ill doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations, Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the ... ...roof’d garret and harks to the musical rain, The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron, The squaw wrapt in her yellow hemm’d clo... ...d along the old lanes once more. O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast, To continue and be employ’d there all my life... ... India! O secret of the earth and sky! Of you O waters of the sea! O winding creeks and rivers! Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of ...

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...s; but I believe in their treatment there is little to complain of. In the battle four men ran away together. They were pursued, one was killed, and t... ...a narrow arm of the river. I took the boat and rowed some distance up this creek. It was very narrow, winding, and deep; on each side a wall thirty or... ...stance from the water. Being at anchor, as I have said, in one of the deep creeks between the islands of the Parana, as the evening drew to a close, o... ...e professed a great liking to the English, but stoutly maintained that the battle of Trafalgar was merely won by the Spanish captains having been all ... ...t Port Desire, situ- ated in lat. 47 degs., on the coast of Patagonia. The creek runs for about twenty miles inland, with an irregular width. The Beag... ...stern coast, as Dr. Hooker tells me, it extends to the R. San Francisco in California, and perhaps even to Kamtschatka. We thus have an immense range ... ...ound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle:” or rather, I should say, like a strong breeze passing through the ...

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...ng with one of our best friends. It is old Uncle Thomas Campbell of Spring Creek—(Berlin P .O.). He has received several documents from you, and he sa... ...t he was content to take a few months ago, and the whole province of Lower California to boot, and to still carry on the war to take all we are fighti... ... The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two friends of this policy must now battle, and battle manfully, or surrender all. In this view, humble as I am... ...n than to learn that you and others of my young friends at home were doing battle in the contest and endearing themselves to the people and taking a s... ...e was close by; he was volunteer aid to General Harrison on the day of the battle of the Thames; and as you said in 1840 Harrison was picking hucklebe... ...ad no specific means to prevent the extension of slavery to New Mexico and California, and Gen. Taylor, he confidently believed, would not encourage i... ...ean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the lead mines, or the gold mines in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get c...

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...nd not large enough to cover the bodies of those who would be slain in the battle; but I do not remember that Shakspeare says that the battle was on t... ...he necessity of publicity. Our states- men have been forced to fight their battles with the plan of their tactics open before their adversaries. But w... ... England are inclined to believe that the general result is good, and that battles so fought and so won will be fought with the honestest blows and wo... ...have then to account for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Ne... ...pt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- ably be said that it is their ambition t... ...in which is included Washington, the seat of the Federal Government 75,321 California 384,770 Oregon 52,566 The Territories of— Dacotah 4,839 Nebraska... ...beheld. The town of Grand Haven itself is placed on the opposite side of a creek, and was to be reached by a ferry. On our side, to which the railway ... ...ic in its loveli- ness than Trenton Falls. The name of the river is Canada Creek West; but as that is hardly euphonious, the course of the water which... ... in the vicinity of a broken bone. Beyond the Susquehanna we passed over a creek of Chesapeake Bay on a long bridge. The whole scen- ery here is very ...

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... the junction of the two rivers, which is said to be the scene of an ancient battle between the Eastern Indians and the Mohawks, and searched there ca... .... We have advanced by leaps to the Pacific, and left many a lesser Oregon and California unexplored behind us. Though the railroad and the telegraph ha... ...autiful. Moose tracks were not so fresh along this stream, except in a small creek about a mile up it, where a large log had lodged in the spring, mar... ...is the usual fortune of pioneer dogs, for they have to face the brunt of the battle for their race, and act the part of Arnold Winkelried without inte... ...he Mohawks eating human flesh, what parts they preferred, etc., and also of a battle with the Mohawks near Chesuncook 83 Moosehead, in which many of t... ...asked about Aboljacknagesic, which he did not recognize;) Mattahumkeag, Sand Creek Pond;Piscataquis, Branch of a River. I asked our hosts what Musketa... ...ind of slate, standing on its edges, and my companion, who was recently from California, thought it exactly like that in which the gold is found, and ... ... harm, — he make ’em camp. No bad animals here, no gristly bears, such as in California, where he ’s been, — warm night, — he well off as you and I.” ... ...re is grass. (Rale.) Musk´ eeticook, Dead water. (Polis.) Mattahumkeag, Sand creek Pond. Piscataquis, branch of a river. g Nicholai. Shecorways, sheld...

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...llers, and I smile rather sickly at their jests. We are going along Bitter Creek just now, a place infa- mous in the history of emigration, a place I ... ... R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN [COAST LINE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879.] HERE is another curious start in my life. I am... ... of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, DITTO CO., CALIFORNIA, 21ST OCTOBER [1879]. MY DEAR COL VIN, – Although you have absol... ...The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Letter: TO SIDNEY COLVIN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 1879. MY DEAR COLVIN, – I received your letter with d... ...rsy thereanent? It was a very one- sided affair. I slept upon the field of battle, paraded, sang Te Deum, and came home after a review rather than a c...