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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...wers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They we... ...ing-porch, which looked on one sizable elm, two respectable grass-plots, a cement driveway, and a corrugated iron garage. Yet Babbitt was again dreami... ... of his house, inspecting the grass parking between the curb and the broad cement sidewalk. Babbitt stopped his car and leaned out to shout “Mornin’!”... ... and that the United States is a de- mocracy. At that moment the steel and cement town which com- posed the factory of the Pullmore Tractor Company of... ...train stopped at an important station, the four men walked up and down the cement platform, under the vast smoky train-shed roof, like a stormy sky, u... ...he must be more dignified. With Wing and Rogers he tramped up and down the cement platform beside the waiting Pull- mans. Motor-driven baggage-trucks ... ...ness. But he was well trained. When the train clanked in he was out on the cement plat- form, peering into the chair-cars, and as he saw her in the li... ...side the brown bulkier presence of Mrs. Babbitt, at the end of a steel and cement aisle ending in vast barred gates. With melancholy he looked back at...

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...ll refresh, As flowers dead lie wither’d on the ground, As broken glass no cement can redress, So beauty blemish’d once ‘s for ever lost, In spite...

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...learn many things. “We have burials in several earths, where we put divers cements, as the Chinese do their porcelain. But we have The New Atlantis ...

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...ry of man is fix’d, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix’d; The dross cements what else were too refin’d, And in one int’rest body acts with mi...

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...s Judge Douglas, or anybody else, that these mutual accommodations are the cements which bind together the different parts of this Union; that instead...

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...State? Have they pro- duced any differences? Not at all. They are the very cements of this Union. They don’t make the house a house divided against it...

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...entertained cause enough To draw their swords: but how the fear of us May cement their divisions and bind up The petty difference, we yet not know. B... ... noble Antony, Let not the piece of virtue, which is set Betwixt us as the cement of our love, To keep it builded, be the ram to batter The fortress o...

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...n the result—but the waiter mended the pie. With some effectual species of cement, he adroitly fitted the triangle in again, and I paid my reckoning a...

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...t of lightly; for, slender though the link may seem, it is equivalent to a cement forming a concrete of dense cohesion, very desirable in the estimati...

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...t the better of him! I have eyes, I saw where your tiles have been freshly cemented, and I concluded that you did not pry them up to plant wheat there... ...p, wide ditches always full of water, is built in cobble- stones buried in cement, the walls being seven feet thick. Its simplicity recalls the rough ... ...losed at some time by a wall of extraordinary thickness built in brick and cement like those of the Romans, and received all the waters. Michu closed ... ...ng, from half-past five to half-past six o’clock, to mend this post and to cement it all alone.” “Monsieur d’Hauteserre had blamed me for not doing it... ... the pros- ecutor, rising to address the jury. He explained the use of the cement by the necessity of securing an iron frame on which to fasten a padl...

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...mpressive manner, ‘will Sketches of Young Couples Charles Dickens 24 you cement and consolidate our friendship by coming into the family (so to sp...

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... of Man is fix’d, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix’d; The dross cements what else were too refined And in one interest body acts with mind....

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...steps there in the sum- mer, and he and I settled the stones, and I was to cement ‘em. By comes Mr. Frost, and finds faults, what I thought he’d no ca... ...l of Ormersfield rode along Dynevor T errace—a row of houses with handsome cemented fronts, tragic and comic masks al- ternating over the downstairs w... ...mething ailed the place: the gardens were weedy, the glass doors hazy, the cement stained and scarred, and many of the windows closed and dark, like e... ...y, and no sooner said than done. The two cousins set to work—procured some cement from the bricklayer in the village, and toiled at their masonry with... ...d to his bed. The little scene, so calm, and apparently so cold, seemed to cement the attachment of father and son, by convincing Louis of the full ex... ...hen, my Lord?’ asked Tom, staring. ‘I found out directly that there was no cement,’ said Louis. ‘I had suspected it before, and intended to examine wh... ...t of stone stops, very solid and permanent, with the trifling exception of cement.’ ‘If the truth were known,’ said James, ‘I believe that a cer- tain... ...very fond of her, and she had been drawn into a friend- ship for Virginia, cemented in the course of long walks, when the schoolroom party always begg...

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...ndi- est lakes you ever saw, right near town! And we’ve got seven miles of cement walks already, and building more every day! Course a lot of these to... ...Lewis The Ford Garage and the Buick Garage, competent one- story brick and cement buildings opposite each other. Old and new cars on grease-blackened ... ...ch comfy houses, and hot-water heat and electric lights and telephones and cement walks and everything? Why, I thought everybody from the Twin Cities ... ...fifty dollars an acre, and to sell it in a year or two, after installing a cement floor in the barn and running water in the house, for one hundred an... ... and No. I Hard, when they were shown through the gray stone hulks and new cement elevators of the largest flour-mills in the world. They looked acros... ... string-picker) the plans for the garage, he gave much more attention to a cement floor and a work-bench and a gasoline-tank than he had to sewing-roo... ...s’ furnishings store. ’ Gopher Prairie with its celebrated eleven miles of cement walk… . I wonder how much of the cement is made out of the tombstone... ...toes and trunks convenient. A glow from the drafts fell on the smooth gray cement floor at his feet. He was whistling tenderly, staring at the furnace...

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... old friends now, united in that unchangeable friendship which is born and cemented amidst extreme dangers. Ah, brave Ned! I ask no more than to live ... ...f the coralline polypi had already walled it up with their in destructible cement. “Well, sir?” said Ned Land, who came up to me after the departure o... ...t we were obliged to walk carefully among these conglomerates, bound by no cement, the feet slipping on the glassy crystal, felspar, and quartz. The v... ...y blocked our road. It was not the iceberg itself, as yet, but vast fields cemented by the cold. But this obstacle could not stop Captain Nemo: he hur... ...e desperate means, or we shall be sealed up in this solidified water as in cement.” “Yes; but what is to be done?” “Ah! if my Nautilus were strong eno...

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... What’s the news? what’s the news? COMINIUS: Your temples burned in their cement, and Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined Into an auger’s ...

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... back the smoky beam, The dark-red walls and arches gleam. Hewn stones and cement were displayed, And building tools in order laid. 54 Marmion XXIV. ...

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...le with the loss of his first, that it should leave him with means no more cemented, and resources no better matured for retarding his fall, and throw... ...meditated such schemes; that he laid them aside only as his power began to cement 50 The Cæsars and to knit together after the battle of Actium; and ... ... her- self in its development, to have any chance of being other than well cemented; the cohesion of its parts was intense; seven centuries of growth ... ...hese conquests were not substan- tial,—that they were connected by no true cement of cohe- sion with the existing empire, is evident from the rapidity...

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... Provencal sun for eighteen centuries), pile themselves, without mortar or cement, as evenly as the day they were laid together. All this to carry the... ...cial city! The conduit on the top has retained its shape and traces of the cement with which it was lined. When the vague twilight began to gather, th...

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...s of an English Opium-Eater inferior ones that have been coated with Roman cement, I am not acquainted with any house in this mountainous dis- trict w...