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...sleeps a thousand years every night. Cloux Occasionally, while playing chess, I imagine there are no pawns; I imagine there are no knights; the g... ...re dying down, we’ll lie in each other’s arms. I have never been a clever chess player: I have spoiled games by envisioning a spiral staircase, by d... ...sh instead of planning my next move. I can cast bronze better than tackle chess strategy. When King Francis and I play, I know the rules—those unwri... ...up, her haricot beans, her red jam, her Vinci cheese. Behind her, as she sets my table for supper, gawks a young Midi apprentice (a possum-faced in... ...ckward in time, learning and escap- ing simultaneously. We used to play chess, many of us, pawns, varlets, kings, knights, evenings, one play bast... ...cking in confidence; yet, I listen and he prescribes and we talk and play chess. I am his medical pawn, gulping doses for him, bleeding for him: is ...

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...ntent hardly seemed to matter. Three thought systems, with three different sets of symbols, but for all that, with little INTRODUCTION v difference i... ...of putting the same point is to make a comparison with the age-old game of chess and the quest to make a computer program which can invariably win whe... ... when playing against any human opponent at any time. Every move made on a chessboard is subject to pre-established rules, yet every move makes an inf... ...mystics may or may not recognize as their own inner world. The mystic then sets out on the envisioned journey and undergoes various difficulties (tria...

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...your song. FID FID FID FID FID. Faith, and small wonder!—It is a song that sets the evil eye T o staring in upon itself. GUI GUI GUI GUI GUI. [Stoppin... ...er.] Scene 3 [A room in the palace at Fiori. Lorenzo and Beatrice playing chess. T wilight.] L L L L LOR OR OR OR OR. You’ll not be able to get out o... ... OCT. La, would you lose your eyesight, both of you?— Fumbling about those chessmen in the dark? 15 Edna St Vincent Millay You, Beatrice, at least, s... ...not tell the bishop from the board,— And yet went blind at forty.—A little chess By twilight, mark you, and all might have been well. [Enter Bianca.] ...

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.... He was dressed in his usual red satin smoking jacket; a half played game on a chess board separated them. "Who are you playing the game with?" Ala... ...post card view of the city and the ocean. "You're right, we don't get many sun­ sets." Hawk moved closer to the glass wall. A huge, round or­ ange su... ...ld not be deterred. And Pierce was intractable. Each event was like a move on a chess­ board, always demanding a counter move that ultimately would ... ... into high gear. He loved the thought of assaulting the citadel. In his game of chess he had bought off his oppo­ nent's most important pieces. The b... ...with twisted sarcasm. "Come, now, Frank. The FBI is playing an obvious game of chess. Their plot is simple: panic your opponent with a feigned atta... ...hing to gain if our plan was successful. But as you know, a plan evolves like a chess match. The game is played move for move. They are moving into ... ...nts to secure the area. The FBI Director is greatly con­ cerned." "No white man sets foot on these sacred lands without per­ mission." The voice of G... ...What happened?" Brent asked still gasping for air. "As I told you, no white man sets foot on this land without permission. The souls of the warriors...

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...cts were taciturnly inflexible. He was an obstinate player of draughts and chess, and an earnest and persistent reader of the British Weekly. His wife... ...out again. If customers will not come to you cheerfully and freely the law sets limits upon the compulsion you may exercise. You cannot pursue people ... ...d printing it would lead to a censorship of novels)! You know I got a weak chess!” The pole took him in the throat and drove him backward and downward... ...owed the movements of his victim along the shore. “I tell you I got a weak chess,” said Uncle Jim, moistly. “This ain’t fair fightin’.” “Keep out!” sa...

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...imself, and more interesting to us than Hoyle’s or Philidor’s best Game of Chess, let us, nevertheless, O Reader, entirely omit;—and hasten to remark ... ...f La Lune and other Heights; shifting and shoving,—seemingly in some dread chess-game; which may the Heavens turn to good! The Miller of Valmy has fle... ...t unbattered. Whereupon he ceases; retires ‘to the Tavern of La Lune;’ and sets to raising a redoute lest he be attacked! Verily so: ye dulled-bright ... ...ervice. ’ No answer. Char- lotte writes another Note, still more pressing; sets out with it by coach, about seven in the evening, herself. Tired day- ... ... in the pouring rain. Flying desperate, Louvet thereupon will to Paris. He sets forth, there and then, splashing the mud on each side of him, with a f... ...e cannot hear; strides resolutely forward, in sight of ex- pectant France; sets his torch to Atheism and Company, which are but made of pasteboard ste... ...ommittee-room; and does deliver him! Puissant Henriot vaults on horseback; sets to haranguing the Tuileries Gendarmes; corrupts the Tuileries Gendarme...

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... that night, but then he was one of these people who sleep little and play chess problems in their heads to while away the time—and that night he had ... ...denounces B’s raiders as pirates and so forth, bom- bards B’s capital, and sets off to hunt down B’s airships, while B, in a state of passionate emoti... ...s, while B, in a state of passionate emotion and heroic unconquerableness, sets to work amidst his ruins, making fresh airships and explosives for the... ...ded sword, in addition to his explosive-bullet firing rifle. 3 3 3 3 3 One sets down these particulars and compares the points of the American and Ger... ...argit ought to ‘ave tole me about it. All ‘e tole me was that I got a weak chess. “That other chap, ‘e ain’t going to do much. Wonder what I ought to ...

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... too bad for that); but good, memorable counsel, bitten in slowly. Then he sets me to draft out a pair of iron gates, to take, as he said, the taste o... ...pine-woods scent the noon; still the cat-bird sings his tune; Still Autumn sets the maple-forest blazing. Still the grape-vine through the dusk flings... ...und Harold’s neck. “The King—his bishops—the knights—all the world’s crazy chess- board neither mock nor judge thee. Take that comfort with thee, Haro...

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...such persons, even those who are innocent, show prophetic signs. Yes, fate sets its mark on the faces of those who are doomed to die a violent death o... ...bout two o’clock in the afternoon Malin and his friend Grevin were playing chess before the fire in the great salon on the ground-floor. Madame Grevin...

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...race of it, though I have practised an hundred times. The man of the house sets me lowest at the board, and carves to me the last; and the drawer says... ..., ‘uno avulso, non deficit al- ter;’ and, even as a tradesman’s apprentice sets himself up in his master’s shop when he is dead or hath retired from b... ... known. And here,” she added, giving him a jewel of gold, in the form of a chess-man, “I give thee this to wear at the collar.” Raleigh, to whom natur... ...pocalypse, that new Jerusalem, of which all Christian men hope to partake, sets forth typically the discovery of the Grand Secret, whereby the most pr... ...n; for then the ghost is busiest, and more especially when a rattling wind sets in from the north-west, with some sprinkling of rain, and now and then... ...ges. (Another of purple velvet. A desk of red leather.) 474 Kenilworth A Chess Boarde of ebanie, with checkars of christall and other stones, layed ...

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...“ Ah, cousin!” said Richard. “Strange, indeed! All this waste ful, wanton chess playing is very strange. To see that com posed court yesterday jogg... ... are managed?” “Pretty well, grandmother, I think.” “Set it a going.” Watt sets it a going—music and all. “Now, come hither,” says the housekeeper. “H... ... house, formerly a house of state, lives Mr. Tulkinghorn. It is let off in sets of chambers now, and in those shrunken fragments of its greatness, law... ...safety and to sweep the step and passage with great care. His job done, he sets off for T om all Alone’s, stopping in the light of innumer able gas l... ...ols that will not recover their per pendicular until the current of T erm sets in, lie high and dry upon the ooze of the long vacation. Outer doors o... ...pains to counterplot when there is no plot, and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary. It is a source of much gratification to Mr. Gu... ...ion of that shining en chanter. Judy, with a gong like clash and clatter, sets one of the sheet iron tea trays on the table and arranges cups and sau...

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...ith a tress of dark hair, and within, Susan knew by the feeling, a certain chess rook which had been won by Cis when shooting at the butts a week or t... ... wept with all her heart for poor Lady Lennox. It is not any evil, but she sets such store by that cradle in which her child died—she keeps it by her ... ...train- ing enough to look on all subjects as simply pawns on the monarch’s chess-board; and she was so evidently unhappy over Babington’s courtship, a... ... nave of the Cathedral stretched its length, the greatest in England. T wo sets of doors immediately opposite to one another on the north and south si... ...as an old conventual building on the river-side, consisting of a number of sets of separate chambers, like those of a college, opening on a quad- rang...

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...ed and before the next move begins. This further removes the game from the chess category, and approximates it to the likeness of active service. Most... ...ide of that limit—and then the loser of the toss becomes first player, and sets out his men a move from his back line. The defender may open fire fort...

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...th a couch right fair and rich and high, and at the foot of this couch was a chess— board right fair and rich, with an orle of gold all full of precio... ...pon the board. Meanwhile, as Messire Gawain was looking at the beauty of the chess board and the hall, be hold you two knights that issue forth of a ... ... hall and seeth two candle sticks with many candles burning round about the chess board, and he seeth that the pieces are set, whereof the one sort ... ...e board. And the damsel issued forth of a chamber and made a squire take the chess—board and the pieces and so carry them away. And Messire Gawain, th... ... remaineth in his chamber. When they had washen, the table was dight of rich sets of vessels of gold and silver, and they were served of rich meats of... ...go to the hold and find right great treasure in a cave underground, and rich sets of vessels and rich ornaments of 182 The High History of the Holy G... ...o the hall, and findeth knights and damsels at the tables and playing at the chess, but none did he find to salute him nor make him cheer of his comin...

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... thousand souls altogether, but for that there are two water supplies, two sets of schools, two administrations. To the passing observer the rurality ... ...The prophets who foretell the coming of Socialism base their case on three sets of arguments. They point out, first, the failure of individual enterpr... ...ter-building in all these things, the student should do what he ostensibly sets out to do. No degree and no posi- tion should be attainable by half ac... ... English spelling comes to—is quite another. A man can learn to play first chess and then bridge in half the time that these two games would require i...

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... nor the statesmen with whom she played this mischievous kind of political chess had any notion of the real history of their own times, or of the real... ...creet and agreeable manner. PATIOMKIN. Psha! I know. You think if she once sets eyes on your face and your uniform your fortune is made. You think tha...

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...hus he who has raised himself above the alms-basket, and, not content to live lazily on scraps of begged opinions, sets his own thoughts on work, to f... ... l. i. INTRODUCTION 1. An Inquiry into the understanding, pleasant and useful. Since it is the understanding that sets man above the rest of sensible... ... of our understandings well considered, the extent of our knowl- edge once discovered, and the horizon found which sets the bounds between the enlight... ...than barely passive; the appearance of those dormant pictures depending sometimes on the will. The mind very often sets itself on work in search of so... ...ts distance from which we have some reason to observe. 8. Place relative to particular bodies. Thus, a company of chess-men, standing on the same squ... ...s- 153 John Locke board where we left them, we say they are all in the same place, or unmoved, though perhaps the chess-board hath been in the mean t... ...th been in the mean time carried out of one room into an- other; because we compared them only to the parts of the chess-board, which keep the same di... ...the same distance with the parts of the neighbouring land; though perhaps the earth hath turned round, and so both chess-men, and board, and ship, hav... ...ne with another. But yet the distance from certain parts of the board being that which determines the place of the chessmen; and the distance from the...

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... the movement of the other. 2 Charles’s Wain, the Great Bear, which never sets. 3 The Lesser Bear may be imagined as having the shape of a horn, of ... ...r more than vainly does he leave the bank, since he returns not such as be sets out, who fishes for the truth, and has not the art; 21 and of this ar... ...nte – Paradise condition on which I touch, the evangelic doctrine ofttimes sets the seal upon my mind. This is the beginning; this is the spark which ... ... so many that their number, was of more thousands than the doubling of the chess. I heard Hosaimah sung from choir to choir to the fixed Point that ho... ...ved in accord with the gyration of its flaming circle. The doubling of the chess al- ludes to the story that the inventor of the game asked, as his re...

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... leather, and endowed him with such ingenuity that he would have beaten at chess, all the race of mankind with the exception of the great Caliph, Haro... ...to Didcot (53 miles) in 51 minutes. **The Eccalobeion *Maelzel’s Automaton Chess-player. **Babbage’s Calculating Machine. 36 Poe in Five V olumes who... ... descent. The family is connected, in some way, with Maelzel, of Automaton-chess-player memory. In person, he is short and stout, with large, fat, blu... ...y, and we were consequently left to the guidance of the current which here sets from the greater into the smaller channel. Like some huge and sable-fe... ...nism. A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels. The silver cord was...

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...e royal tears still flow; but a word mispronounced by Monseigneur d’Artois sets them all laughing, and they weep no more. Light mortals, how ye walk y... ...ights to succour the poor,—such poor as come picturesquely in her way; and sets the fashion of doing it; for as was said, Benevolence has now begun re... ...gh in the Abbe’s name, and to his glory), burnt by the common hangman;—and sets out on his travels as a martyr. It was the edition of 1781; perhaps th... ...fficial one; nevertheless it remains a pen. In defect of Secretaryship, he sets to de- nouncing Stock-brokerage (Denonciation de l’Agiotage); tes- tif... ...on- tention hisses up, with forked hydra-tongues, wheresoever poor Lomenie sets his foot. ‘Let a Commandant, a Commissioner of the King,’ says Weber, ... ...imself, and more interesting to us than Hoyle’s or Philidor’s best Game of Chess, let us, nevertheless, O Reader, entirely omit;—and has- ten to remar... ...f La Lune and other Heights; shifting and shoving,—seemingly in some dread chess-game; which may the Heavens turn to good! The Miller of Valmy has fle...

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...at he did nothing at home but walk up and down the room whistling, or play chess with his old foot- man. People said, too, that he drank heavily. And ... ... mare cranes her neck, too, crooks her stick-like legs, and hesitat- ingly sets of… . “Where are you shoving, you devil?” Iona immediately hears shout... ...s. After going a little way it stops; they hear indistinct shouts, someone sets the chains clanking near the buffers and shouts, “Ready!” The train mo...

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... just behind the nape, With wings wide open was a dragon lying, And he sets fire to all that he encounters. My Master said: “That one is Cacus, wh... ...ante Still it appeared to me I felt some wind; Whence I: “My Master, who sets this in motion? Is not below here every vapour quenched?” Whence he ... ... That oftentimes the soul descendeth here Sooner than Atropos in motion sets it. And, that thou mayest more willingly remove From off my countena... ...least Of the true city should discern the tower. The laws exist, but who sets hand to them? No one; because the shepherd who precedes Can rumina... ...ablaze, And counter to the heavens ran through those paths Which the sun sets aflame, when he of Rome Sees it ‘twixt Sardes and Corsicans go down;... ... so many were, their number makes More millions than the doubling of the chess. I heard them sing hosanna choir by choir To the fixed point which ...

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... straw hat, a canary-colored scarf, and a suit of a minute black-and-white chess-board pattern, with a crimson silk handkerchief overflowing the breas... ...e,” she said, throwing another pair of pebbles in, and pointing to the two sets of widening rings as they overlapped one another; “the twinkling of a ... ... of a phoenix, a prize-fighter is a hero in compari- son with a wretch who sets a leash of greyhounds upon a hare. Imagine, now, this poor phoenix mee...

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...ovided with wheels in order to be rolled around falls, as well as with two sets of oars, and several slender poles for shoving in shallow places, and ... ...not sought out many inventions, but how to take many fishes before the sun sets, with his slender birchen pole and flaxen line, that is inven tion en... ...awn from under the feet of the poet. It is enough if Homer but say the sun sets. He is as serene as nature, and we can hardly detect the enthusiasm of... ...e some ancient Oriental game still played on a large scale, as the game of chess, for instance, handed down to this generation. From morning till nigh... ...rce in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new...

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...plenty of cards, many dice, with great store and abundance of chequers and chessboards. There he played. At flush. ... ... At primero. At the chess. At the beast. At Reynard t... ...d alliance, comes he to invade me? What moves him? What provokes him? What sets him on? What drives him to it? Who hath given him this coun- sel? Ho, ... ...th not suffer them to sleep nor rest in quiet, but so pricketh them up and sets them on fire to run unto the place where the person is, in whom the sa... ... use of a good part of that which Master Francisco di Nianto, the T uscan, sets down, who hath written the manner of reading letters that do not appea... ..., walnuts, filberts, and chest- nuts; as likewise in all plants, slips, or sets whatsoever, wherein it is plainly and evidently seen, that the sperm a... ... that we may with the more fervency and ardour prosecute our business, she sets before us a clear burning candle, to wit, the sun’s resplendency; and ... ...gured.’— Motteux.), luettes (‘Pieces of ivory to play withal.’— Motteux.), chessmen, and chequers, besides full bowls of gold crowns, for those who ha...

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...f the spirit. “All those in favor of going on with the dogs as soon as the ice sets, say ay.” “Ay!” rang out eight voices, — voices destined to string... ...foolscap. One night, many weeks later, Malemute Kid and Prince fell to solving chess problems from the torn page of an ancient magazine. The Kid had j...

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... not. Then comes the outside influence and grinds the rock to powder and sets the ore free. The iron in the ore is still captive. An outside influ... ...eglected and despised—where is the sense in it? Y.M. Sometimes a timid man sets himself the task of conquering his cowardice and becoming brave—and su... ... which influences his mind and his feelings, furnishes him his ideals, and sets him on his road and keeps him in it. If he leave that road he will fin... ...t is entirely independent of him. Y.M. Go on. Illustrate. O.M. Do you know chess? Y.M. I learned it a week ago. O.M. Did your mind go on playing the g... ... that it can conduct its affairs, sing Mark T wain 47 its songs, play its chess, weave its complex and ingeniously constructed dreams, while you slee... ... the severe superin tendence and correction of the master. He was a prime chess player and an idolater of Shakespeare. He would play chess with anybo...

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...een’s voice behind them. They had not heard the heavy royal footfall which sets empty cells vibrating. Sacharissa offered her food at once. She ate an... ...ca inside out; he could quote poetry and the Koran all day long. He played chess—you don’t know what that meant to me -like a mas- ter. We used to tal... ...that village for a month, and if the dressings ain’t renewed, and gangrene sets in, often as not you find your man pegging about on his stumps. We’ve ... ...I must ask you not to say anything to my cousins about Holmescroft. It up- sets ‘em. Always did. But speaking as man to man, it would be very pleasant...

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...gain became grimly silent. After supper he challenged Coligny to a game of chess, and not a word passed during the protracted contest, either from the... ...he lower part of the walls; a table and chairs, and a walnut chest, with a chess-board and a few books on it, were as much furniture as was to be seen... ...of other games and exercises. More sedentary sports were at their service, chess, tables, dice, or cards, but Philip detested these, and they were onl... ... carving; or, what can I tell? till malice is tired out, and Heaven’s will sets us free. May Eustacie only have reached home! But I’m sorry for you, m... ...lue porcelain from China so much prized by the Ab- bess. He even played at chess all the evening with such con- centrated attention as to be uniformly... ...Fear not, sir, now our Lady of Hope has him. Nothing goes ill to which she sets her hand.’ Another growl of artillery was not heard, and it was time f...

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...attached to the front, which looks upon the river. There are two wings, or sets of outhouses, containing the kitchen and servants’ rooms, which were j... ... 110 North America V ol. 2 sures that he carried with him—over and above a chess- board and a set of chessmen, which sorely tempted me to accompany hi... ...y in either House for the maintenance of his authority, his responsibility sets upon him very slightly. Seeing that Mr. Buchanan has escaped any punis...

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............................................................... 150 Maelzel’s Chess-Player.................................................................. ...-burned little bricks, red, with black ends, so that the walls look like a chess-board upon a great scale. The gables are turned to the front, and the... ...iginal diddle. Impertinence.—Y our diddler is impertinent. He swaggers. He sets his arms a-kimbo. He thrusts. his hands in his trowsers’ pockets. He s... ...e happiness than ever glowed in the rapt day-dreams of De Stael. Maelzel’s Chess-Player PERHAPS NO EXHIBITION of the kind has ever elicited so general... ...PS NO EXHIBITION of the kind has ever elicited so general attention as the Chess-Player of Maelzel. Wherever seen it has been an object of intense cur... .... Assuming this hypothesis, it would be grossly absurd to compare with the Chess-Player, any similar thing of either modern or ancient days. Y et ther...

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...ry Villains; while Councillors of State sit plotting, and playing their high chess game, whereof the pawns are Men. The Lover whispers his mistress th... ...lides down, to fly with him over the borders: the Thief, still more silently, sets to his picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen fir... ...own skin. Nevertheless, as it is spoken, so is it done: the articulated Word sets all hands in Action; and Rope and Improved drop perform their work. ... ...en of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares h... ...something like a Dissertation on this very subject of Fashionable Novels! It sets out, indeed, chiefly from a Secular point of view; directing itself, ... ...e only subsidiary species, or slight varieties; or, at most, propagated off sets from the parent stem, whose minute subdivisions, and shades of diffe...

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...opinion is possible, the truth depends on a balance to be struck between two sets of con flicting reasons. Even in natural philosophy, there is alway... ...eption. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises. Even progress, which ought to superadd, for the... ...er like or dislike rowing, or smok ing, or music, or athletic exercises, or chess, or cards, or study , because both those who like each of these thi... ...ring classes are professedly governed in any free country; and no person who sets due value on freedom will give his adhesion to their being so govern...

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...he must, Before the full moon, helpless as a worm. The thirteenth moon but sets the soul at war In its own being, and when that war’s begun There is n... ...ight And in the morning’s gone, no man knows why; And is so lovely that it sets to right What knowledge or its lack had set awry, So atrogantly pure, ... ...r? Niamh that rode on it; lad and lass That sat so still and played at the chess? What but heroic wantonness? A slow low note and an iron bell. Aleel,... ...t a man’s a fool Who, when his own right king’s forgotten, Cares what king sets up his rule. If he died long ago Why do yopu dread us so? There in the... ...ness of their passions won; Now they ride the wintry dawn Where Ben Bulben sets the scene. Here’s the gist of what they mean. II Many times man lives ... ...here the old men and young In the Fenians’ dwellings of wattle lean on the chess boards and play, Ah, sweet to me now were even bald Conan’s slanderou...

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...occur, the law of reciprocity comes in, confusing the whole matter. A good chessplayer having lost a game is sin- cerely convinced that his loss resul... ...e prince.” “Eh, mounseer, Russian sauce seems to be sour to a French- man… sets his teeth on edge!” said a wrinkled clerk who was standing behind Pier... ...re looked at him in surprise. “And yet they say that war is like a game of chess?” he remarked. “Y es,” replied Prince Andrew, “but with this little d... ...“Y es,” replied Prince Andrew, “but with this little differ- ence, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limite... ...RETURNING from a second inspection of the lines, Napo- leon remarked: “The chessmen are set up, the game will begin tomorrow!” Having ordered punch an... ...Naples,” said he sternly, “that it is not noon yet, and I don’t yet see my chessboard clearly. Go!…” The handsome boy adjutant with the long hair sigh...

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...s a panacea for the com- paratively simple and trivial business of playing chess. No- body wants to be told to “rely wholly upon your pawns,” or “neve... ... is the typical Con- servator remedy, its re-fragmentation. Accordingly it sets up not only against the large private owner, but against owners genera... ...it to it; it must explode and finish before interruption occurs or fatigue sets in. But the novel I hold to be a discursive thing; it is not a single ... ...rm of the old furniture and needlework, again, upon which the present time sets so much store, lies in acquired and unpremeditated qualities. And no d... ...e? The speculative writer casting about for such elements lights upon four sets of possibilities which call for discussion. First, one has to ask: How...

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... room and to the count’s study. CHAPTER XX THE CARD TABLES WERE DRAWN OUT, sets made up for boston, and the count’s visitors settled themselves, some ... ... dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess. Berg held a smoking pipe between his knees. Boris, in the accurate w... ...n the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg’s move, and wa... ...se to meet Rostov, but in doing so did not omit to steady and replace some chessmen that were falling. He was about to embrace his friend, but Nicho- ... ... it, were standing by the clavichord, happy and smiling. V era was playing chess with Shinshin in the drawing room. The old countess, waiting for the ... ...We search, but none are to be found. The field marshal grows impatient and sets to work himself and finds letters from the Emperor to Count T ., Princ... ...ed. He was talking to the count- ess, and Natasha sat down beside a little chess table with Sonya, thereby inviting Prince Andrew to come too. He did ... ...b again, drank a great deal, and came once more in touch with the bachelor sets, leading such a life that the Countess Helene thought it necessary to ... ...e prince.” “Eh, mounseer, Russian sauce seems to be sour to a Frenchman... sets his teeth on edge!” said a wrinkled clerk who was standing behind Pier...

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...Pauline Bonaparte and Madame de Stael; Marshal Soult went down a couple of sets with Madame Recamier; and Robespierre’s widow—an excellent, gentle cre... ...ere’s an indiscrible grace about her, and Carlotty, my sweet Carlotty, she sets my art in flams. “Ow that Miss Hemly was noddin and winkin at me out o... ...esolate. He and his guest, the English knight Sir Wilfrid, were playing at chess, a favorite amusement with the chivalry of the period, when a messeng...

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...tlemen in wrought nightcaps and furred gowns execute like so many games at chess, and displace a treasurer or lord commissioner as they would take a r... ...sleepit and waken’ d on’t. He’ll ken himsell better the morn’s morning. It sets the like o’ him, to be bringing a crew of drunken hunters here, when h... ... brave, well-gifted, and highly connected; sure to float whenever the tide sets his way; strong, exactly where we are weak, in pedigree and in the tem...

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...e., of all that lies between the extreme points at which the sun rises and sets at the winter and summer solstices. 3 Lit. he hath set at large, pour... ...bably is to the different points of the horizon at which the sun rises and sets in the course of the year. 3 See Sura [lvii.] xv. 18. 4 Or, comrades... ... brother Saleh, with 217 The Koran “Serve ye God:”but lo! they became two sets of disputants wrangling with each other. He said, “O my people, why, i... ...acter is cleared. 16 According to Gen. xli. 39, Pharaoh of his own accord sets Joseph over his house and land. 17 For the king to bestow. 18 Thus w... ...d hence the strict observers of the letter of the Koran forbid the game of chess. The Persians, however, and Indians generally interpret this verse mo...

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...irect and indirect, to be carried on. Will could not like to leave his own chessmen in the heat of a game; and any candidate on the right side, even i... ...an evident selec- tion of statements, as if they had been so many moves at chess. 482 Middlemarch Meanwhile Bulstrode had determined on his move, and... ...d to him. He insisted on staying in the house, and Bulstrode, weighing two sets of evils, felt that this was at least not a worse alterna- tive than h...

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...irect and indirect, to be carried on. Will could not like to leave his own chessmen in the heat of a game; and any candidate on the right side, even i... ...s an evident selection of statements, as if they had been so many moves at chess. Meanwhile Bulstrode had determined on his move, and he said, with ga... ...d to him. He insisted on staying in the house, and Bulstrode, weighing two sets of evils, felt that this was at least not a worse alternative than his...

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...n wave back the inadequate gift. Yet here is a true peril; this it is that sets them to pace the graveyard alleys and to read, with strange extremes o... ... their challenges in the sports of the body; and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation. All sluggish and pacific pleasures are, to the same ... ...some theory for that.” A blither spec- tacle than the vigour with which he sets about the task, it were hard to fancy. He is possessed by a demoniac e... ...uld be so badly lighted; and until, in the seventeenth chapter, d’Artagnan sets off to seek his friends, I must confess, the book goes heavily enough.... ...e chief merits of the book, makes one of the main joys of its perusal, and sets it high above more popular rivals. Athos, with the coming of years, ha...