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...The Metal Monster is an Abraham Merritt fantasy novel. Dr. Goodwin is on a botanical expedition in the Himalayas. There he meets Dick Drake, the son of one of his old science acquaintances. They are witnesses of a strange aurora-like effect, but seemingly a deliberate one. As they go out to investig...

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...- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and foun...

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...e long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Af... ...ives -- His last instructions while dying -- Finding of a skeleton in armor -- Expedition returns to Greenland in the year 1005 -- The voyage of Thors... ...cross the Isthmus -- Proposition to cut a canal -- Disasters overtake Loyasa's expedition -- Renewal of disputes which the Pope could not reconcile -... ... for a dangerous voyage -- Eighteen murderers sentenced to death accompany the expedition -- Appointment of Vasco da Gama to the command -- Departure ... ...rs -- First appearance of the scurvy -- Capture of hammerhead sharks saves the expedition -- Trouble with the sultan of Zanzibar -- Reception of da Ga... ...rcon, who had engaged to accompany Bougainville, with a view of increasing his botanical knowledge. She followed her master with extraordinary courage...

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...shook his head hard enough, maybe he would wake back up into his uneventful expedition. But nothing changed when he opened his eyes. He forced himse... ...aded ink commanded more of her attention, but she must look away from those botanical indicators. They were no longer where her duty lay. Watu said... ... Even sight unseen, she felt the movement of her troops through the woods' botanicals. The trees and rocks became a part of her. After years away f...

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... new existence for him. His father, a subordinate official employed in the Botanical Gar- dens of Buitenzorg, was no doubt delighted to place his son ... ...ity of tropical nature. And so Lingard came and went on his secret or open expeditions, becoming a hero in Almayer’s eyes by the boldness and enormous... ... eager and full of hope as he stood watching the last canoe of the Lingard expedition disappear in the bend up the river. When, turning round, he behe... ... Straits Times giving the news of Acheen war and of the unsuccessful Dutch expedition. The Nakhodas of the rare trading praus ascending the river paid... ...ed absently to the few disconnected words escaping from her father’s lips. Expedition! Gold! What did she care for all that? But at the name of Marool... ...w they had sold him all the rice, brass gongs, and cloth necessary for his expedition. They had his very last coin, and did not care whether he went o...

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...difference of sex, was much the same. Mr. Kitten, a small, youngish, bald, botanical and mineralogical gentleman, also connected with the mine—but eve... ...inly come out this night when the moon rises, on a pillaging and murdering expedition, of which some part of the mainland is the object. Thirdly—don’t... ... settled, verbal instructions were given to all hands to keep the intended expedition secret, in order that the women and children might not be alarme... ... secret, in order that the women and children might not be alarmed, or the expedition put in a difficulty by more volunteers. The assembly was to be o... ...at is this?” “This, Mr. Commissioner” (he was very short with him), “is an expedition against the Pirates. It is a secret expedition, so please to kee... ... The Perils of Certain English Prisoners themselves as dark as Murder. The expedition got away with wonderful quietness, and Chris- tian George King s...

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...mothers in the town. As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanou... ...y the dark and broken stairs: which his conductor mounted with an ease and expedition that showed he was well acquainted with them. 58 OLIVER TWIST H... ...efitting so solemn a preparation. Oliver got through it with extraordinary expedition. He had scarcely swallowed the last spoonful, when there came a ... ...for making the journey, or he would not be invited to proceed upon such an expedition. Mr. Bumble emerged at early morning from the work house gate, ... ...nly arranged that poor Oliver should, for the purposes of the contemplated expedition, be unreservedly consigned to the care and cus tody of Mr. Will... ...nned down to his breakfast when he ought to be ranging the mead ows after botanical phenomena of all kinds. T oo bad, isn’t it, Oliver?’ ‘I should ha...

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...ch utter heedlessness. 32 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 The reigning idea was the expedition to Illershall, and the excellent condition of the work-people un... ...a gardener? Some day we will go to work, clear the place, and separate the botanical from the intrusive!’ ‘I should like it, of all things!’ ‘I’ll sen... ...d not offer him aught like Louis Fitzjocelyn. He stood in the midst of the botanical garden, and, with almost triumphant satisfaction, prognosticated ... ...said Mary Ponsonby, as she sat at work beside him that afternoon, after an expedition to the new house at Dynevor Terrace, ‘I want to know, if you ple... ... often deposited even on the parlour table. On the afternoon following the expedition to Bickleypool, Louis was seated, with an earthenware pan before... ...erness. ‘I don’t gather that you are much delighted with the object of the expedition.’ ‘A pretty boy—very pretty. It quite explains all I have ever h... ...f you mean that I thought myself uncalled for, and heart- ily detested the expedition, you are right; but I saw what I did not expect.’ ‘Was it very b...

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...all Magdalen discovered on the walk was that though the girls had attended botanical classes, they did not recognise spear-wort when they saw it, and ... ...ral, so-called, and a bishop— though Bishop Fulmort was always out on some expedition among the colonists or the natives, but among his clergy there w... ... months, nor wed Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. —T ennyson. THE DEFERRED EXPEDITION to Rockquay also began, Magdalen driving Vera and Thekla. She wa... ...struggles were infrequent. There was study in the forenoon, walks or cycle expeditions in the afternoon, varied by the lessons in music and in art, wh... ...t. The fairyland buys not that child of me. —“Midsummer Night’s Dream.” AN EXPEDITION to Minsterham finished the visit of Dolores and her faithful “Na... ... spent the intermediate time in needful preparations at Belfast, and in an expedition to the Causeway, where they laid in a stock of notes and observa...

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...ving went afoot. Over each shoulder sloped a gun. It was the oddest little expedition for an English country road, more like a Yankee party, trekking ... ...ossar’s bagged another of the rats!” 57 H G Wells VI VI VI VI VI WHEN THE EXPEDITION had finished refreshment, the night had fully come. The stars we... ...ank that delight of human fellowship that comes to happy armies, to sturdy expeditions—never to those who live the life of the sober citizen in cities... ...l of that gigantic size that was soon to make Urshot famous throughout the botanical world … A sort of incredulity came to Redwood as he stood among t... ...o attempt to place his ob- servation on record. His observation in matters botanical was what the inferior sort of scientific people call a “trained o...

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...nd Egyptologist Duriette, composed a voyaging party up the river, of which expedition Redworth was Lady Dunstane’s chief writer of the records. His no... ... letters at Lugano, summoning him home, before he set forth on his present expedition. The noisy alarum told him he floundered in quags, like a silly ... ...et of dressing well—in the French style.’ A simple newspaper report of the expedition of a Nileboat party could stir the Powers to take her up and tur... ...t of his autumnal visit to the Italian Lakes, after the winter’s Nile-boat expedition; and also of the degree of his recent intimacy with Mrs. W arwic... ...r beauty, those blue hills you see, enfold charming valleys. I meditate an expedition to Harcourt before I re- turn. An English professor of his nativ... ...lls and stones and weeds were deposited on the li- brary-table at Copsley, botanical and geological books comparingly examined, Emma Dunstane always e...

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...und their house, and had built a hothouse. The flowers, the fruit, and the botanical rarities of this spot were what had induced the young lady to set... ... complained of his health, and who was growing fat, accompanied her in her expeditions. As the Baroness’ name-day grew near—her name was Louise—the Vi... ... 1841, intending, it was said, to get married; but the real reason of this expedition is still unknown, for she returned home in a state which forbids...

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...atrine was connected with the recollection of many a dear friend and merry expedition of former days. This poem, the action of which lay among scenes ... ... Idoean vine. Some have taken this to refer to the “red whortleberry,” the botanical name of which is Vaccinium vitis Idoea; but as that is not a clim... ...le of King of the Border. But the most noted victim of justice during that expedition was John Armstrong of Gilnockie, famous in Scottish song, who, c... ...ainland, the rav- age of which altogether effaced the memory of his former expeditions for the like purpose. “Our officer of Engineers, so often quote...

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...one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither: one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to ... ...ich he had built on the Illinois, before he at last succeeded in getting his expedition in such a shape that he could strike for the Mississippi. And ... ...f priests. De Soto had twenty four with him. La Salle had several, also. The expeditions were often out of meat, and scant of clothes, but they always... ... provokingly delayed, by one misfor tune after another, but at last got his expedition under way at the end of the year 1681. In the dead of winter h... ...r. I had been reading about the recent exploration of the river Amazon by an expedition sent out by our government. It was said that the expedition, o... ...by nature. There are other parks, and fine ones, notably Tower Grove and the Botanical Gardens; for St. Louis interested herself in such improvements ...

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...foxgloves. ‘Yes,’ said Miss Headworth, ‘they are the fruits of yesterday’s expedition. My two children, as I call them, brought them home in triumph. ... ...face forbade him to entertain it for an instant, and he only said, ‘So our expedition has led 34 Nuttie’s Father to unforeseen consequences, Miss Hea... ...ng her attention prevailed, and the study quieted Nuttie’s excitement. The expedition took place as arranged. There was a train which stopped so that ... ..., where high spirits might work themselves off, though the battle over the botanical case was ended by Miss Nugent, who strongly held that ladies shou... ...e plumes of feathering or nodding grass, of which Nuttie made bouquets and botanical studies, and Gerard stored for harvest decorations. They ran and ... ... when Mark was at home, and that was not always. He made sundry visits and expeditions, and was altogether in an uncomfortable condition of reaction a... ...uesday Blanche went with her little sister and the governess on a shopping expedition to Redcastle, and in re- lating her adventures on her return, sh...

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...at my brother never would degrade himself by fitting out a costly nautical expedition against poor little Gombroon; and how else could he get at me? S... ...s well might the war of T roy or the purser’s accounts from the Argonautic expedition have been overhauled. An- cient night and chaos had closed over ... ...lished exactly eight days before the sailing of Napoleon with the Egyptian expedition; so that Sir Sidney was just in time to confront, and utterly to... ...nce may defeat the provision altogether, (I know a publisher of a splendid botanical work, who told me that, by forbearing to attract notice to it wit... ...l. Every moment might bring the Brit- ish cruisers in sight,—two important expeditions had already been baffled in that way,—and the absolute certaint... ...en minutes, this way or that, might happen to hinge the whole issue of the expedition: such a consciousness gave unavoid- ably to every demur at this ...

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...ora triumphed, and carried Arthur off, but Violet found the reality of the expedition less formidable than the anticipation. She knew her mother would... ...ifficulty she uttered the words, ‘I only wanted to speak to you about this expedition to Richmond.’ ‘Well,’ said Theodora, smiling with what was meant... ... mind.’ Her better and worse feelings were alike enlisted in behalf of the expedition. Sincerity, constancy, and generosity were all drawn in to espou... ...e of her favourite oak frames. However, she was at length able to make the expedition; and she was busy in giving directions as to the width of mar- g... ... ing blame to herself for not having remonstrated against that unfortunate expedition to the races. 361 Yonge ‘No, my dear, it was no fault of yours.... ...said Lady Martindale, emphatically. ‘I shall never bear to return to those botanical pursuits. It was for her sake. Dear little Helen and the rest mus...

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...y Cap- tain Cook, their first discoverer, and isolated Spanish explor- ing expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and ... ...op, Mrs. Selwyn, Mr. Patteson, and the new deacon, set forth on a coasting expedition in the new vessel. The language of the journal becomes nautical,... ...e “Southern Cross,” making the voyage that had been intermitted during the expedition to England, introducing him to the Islands, and testing his adap... ...lted like the fretted roofs of our T udor churches and chapels. There is a botanical garden here with a very good collection of all the Australian tre... ...at placed the fact beyond a doubt, and which were recognised by one of the expedition who had left it in Kamtschatka, the sole survivor. Of the fate o... ...Mr. Creagh, the London missionary, had taken Wadrokala away with him on an expedition, and of the others, only Kowine was ready to return, though the ...

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...- sonality and the possibilities of pleasing, these complex, fas- cinating expeditions that began in interest and mounted to the supremest, most passi... ...westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then south- wardly toward W aterloo. They trudged and... ...t of the way of the other people on to the glaciers and snow. And, for one expedition at least, we will go up this desolate valley here to Mattmark, a... ..., you know.” The idea struck him as novel. “Of course I’m manager for this expedition,” he said, after an interval of self-examination. She slid her c...

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...of historical characters, tables of Christian names and their derivations, botanical lists, maps, and drawings—all in such confusion, that once, when ... ...h occasions. Once, when accompanying Mrs. Woodbourne on a morning visiting expedition, she had translated the Erl King, which she knew by heart, into ... ... consider what a name the flower has— con-vol-vu-lus, a prosaic, dragging, botanical term, a mile long. Then bindweed only reminds me of smothered and... ... and now that she thought she had made a sufficient merit of giving up the expedition, she was about to promise to follow Helen’s advice, when she was... ...such a place, wondering what Sir Edward and Lady Merton would think of the expedition, and for a moment considering whether Mr. Woodbourne could appro... ...’ said Elizabeth sharply, ‘who was the person who first proposed this fine expedition? Really, I think, if everyone had their deserts, you would have ... ... it not, Dora?’ Elizabeth and Anne were far in the rear, reaching for some botanical curiosity, on the other side of a wet ditch, or they would certai... ...d silent, much struck by her cousin’s sorrow; for she had considered their expedition to the Me- chanics’ Institute as a foolish girlish frolic, but b...

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...ger branches, bred them up to their father’s business with such surprising expedition, that she made chokers of four of them in a quarter of a minute.... ...sumed his ankle-jacks and mourning brooch, and issued forth on this second expedition. He purchased no propitiatory nosegay on the present occasion, a... ...utable by any uninspired observer. Walter was coming down from his parting expedition up- stairs, and was crossing the shop to go back to the little p... ... and accompanying him on board again with all convenient 346 Dombey & Son expedition, where he immediately turned in, and refreshed his mind with a n... ... and missing people in all the newspapers and handbills, and went forth on expeditions at all hours of the day to identify Solomon Gills, in poor litt... ...ly required to be snipped here and there with a pair of scissors, for some botanical reason that was very powerful with Miss T ox. Miss T ox was slow ...