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...r, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British tanks, Tom takes a sheet of paper and sets out to design a better one from scratch. And fortunately, he can throw the whole family business behind his venture. He has two problems: First, his friends and acquaintances are questioning his patriotism because he hasn't enlisted...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...ish into the clouds. He transferred his melancholy imaginings to fantastic designs, fashioned his amorous thoughts into grotesque jewels that pleased ... ...times gone by, and of ruining V enice, which had not a foot of land. These designs had been planted in the king’s mind by him, Pezare; but although he... ...ceived a devotion worthy her great love. T o put into practice this heroic design she became still more amorous, took extreme care of her charms, and ... ... Where are thy golden aiglets and bells, thy filigree flowers of fantastic design? Where hast thou left thy crimson head-dress, ornamented with precio...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...f Europe had rival porcelain factories, and workmen were kidnaped. Watteau designed services for the Dresden factory; they fetch frantic prices at the... ... expenses out of this,’ and he showed me a what-not; a mar- vel! Boucher’s designs executed in marquetry, and with such art!—One could have gone down ... ...had arisen, and signed to the rest to leave him alone with Cecile’s suitor-designate. “Here is the masterpiece,” said Camusot, opening out the fan. Br... ... subordinate parts of a scheme. Great 107 Balzac things, therefore, great designs, and great thoughts are of necessity reflected in the smallest acti... ...If a stranger by any chance in- truded, the dogs suspected him of ulterior designs upon their rations, which were only taken down in the morning by Ab... ...rates all his ill-humor upon the object. Pons imag- ined that some one had designs upon his precious collec- tion; the thought of guarding it became a... ...-mason’s agent has often been known to invade the house of mourning with a design for the sepulchre in his hand. “I am in treaty with this gentleman,”... ... give notice to his principal that the funeral was on the way, so that the design for the monument might be ready for the survivor at the gates of the...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...n. This strange omission it does seem to me could not have occurred but by design. My way of living leads me to be about the courts of justice; and th... ...f religion, civilization, law, and liberty. May it not be one of the great designs of the Ruler of the uni- verse, whose ways are often inscrutable by... ...t, it may be no more than prudent to remember that it may be possible they design to misrepresent you and embarrass the real testimony you may ultimat... ...ently attached to liberty, in the abstract, were duped by a few wicked and designing men. There is a slight dif- ference of opinion on this. We think ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ... on his hands, and then went at it like an old digger as he was. He had no design upon the pole, except that he measured a shovel’s length from it bef... ...n the phrase, ‘would not allow us to be silent parties to so mercenary and designing a speculation on the Secretary’s part, and so gross a breach of f... ...one thing; discharging him for insolence and presumption, and likewise for designs upon his master’s money , is another. One and one’s two; not one. (... ...ration (though I hope it may be needless) of my being free from the sordid design attributed to me.’ ‘Now, this is a very artful dog,’ said Mr Boffin,...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...pretty girls who had a good deal of gentlemen’s society? Or was she also a designing, an audacious, an unscrupu- lous young person? Winterbourne had l... ... else. But a few moments later, when he was pointing out to her the pretty design of an antique fireplace, she broke out irrelevantly, “You don’t mean... ...a!” And he added a request that she should inform him with what particular design she had made him enter her carriage. “I wished to beg you to cease y...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ... even asked myself whether it were not a trap laid for me, the result of a design to make me show my hand. I could not have told why my companions (as...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State University The P... ...rom the inquiry. It was, at any rate, a fact that there must be some woman designated by the letters—some woman who had, at any rate, chosen to call h... ...mory in one of the aisles of the choir of the cathedral was supposed to be designed and executed in good taste. There was a bro- ken column, and on th...

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...tation of Chaucer Imitation of Spenser: The Alley Imitation of Waller: On a Lady Singing to Her Lute Imitation of Waller: On a Fan of the Author’s Design Imitation of Abraham Cowley: The Garden Imitation of Abraham Cowley: Weeping Imitation of Earl of Rochester: On Silence Imitation of Earl of Dorset: Artemisia Imitation of Earl of Dorset: Phryne Imitation of Dr. ...

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...e outskirts of a seaside town on the north Kent coast in England. The flat is large, as the building, built in the eighteen hundreds and of Victorian design, was originally built for a wealthy land owner to be a home for his large family of nine children; and as many servants to look after them! The house originally had a lounge, two dining rooms, a library, large kitch...

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... controlled the purse strings of the world's most sophisticated Army. An Army designed to protect a Nation; but, in the end, he couldn't even protec... ...g Alex intently. "Let's say that a Senator is involved in a covert operation designed to take down a major drug cartel. Now, he does this on his ow... ... different kinds of drugs other than marijuana, cocaine, and heroine: there's designer drugs, amphetamines, not to mention, alcohol." 183 J.Cross... ...tted two lone security guards leaving the monument. They were either on timed designated rounds, or on their way home. Soule’ would take no chances.... ...is men had stayed. "Drive slowly to Dulles airport. Let each of us off at our designated airline." 339 J.Cross/Artemis The hard wind and rain ... ...iotic monument of our historic freedom. You will have final approval over any design, before it is built." Artemis started to protest again, but And...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...with the hope of enlisting public sympathy in behalf of the inhabitants, I design here to give a history of the calamitous events which have so lately... ...ed him X-entric, but no more. A fourth could only suppose it the Y ankee’s design to X- press, in a general way, his X-asperation. ‘Say, rather, to se... ...tor of the family of his rival. The horse itself, in the foreground of the design, stood motionless and statue-like —while farther back, its discomfit... ...disappearance of a small portion of the tapestry, in an apartment which he designated; entering, at the same time, into particulars of a minute and ci... ...too, is proverbial and great. If he has a project in view, he conceals his design with a marvellous wisdom; and the dexterity with which he counterfei... ...er end of the continuous spiral ladder had been acciden- tally, or perhaps designedly, removed. I paused for breath; and, in the meantime, an accident... ...portion of my apparel. Postponing, therefore, for the present, my suicidal design, I just slipped my nether extremities into the sleeves of my coat, a... ... people contenting themselves, as we do now, with a mere indication of the design to erect a monument at some future time; a corner-stone being cautio...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ... undisturbed to their 50 Evan Harrington own action. Where the Fates have designed that he shall present his figure in a story, this is sure to happe... ...went to the table below, the Countess begging her mother to drop titles in designating her to the servants, which caused Mrs. Mel to say: ‘There is bu... ...comes I do not fear her. Besides, has she not reasons? Providence may have designed her for a staunch ally—I will not say, confederate. ‘Would that Pr... ...e Roxalanas of earth combine to exclude from their little games, under the designation of blues, or strong- minded women: a kind, if genuine, the leas... ...ward her. He fell into a blindness. Without dreaming for a moment that she designed to encourage his passion for Rose, he yet beheld himself in the li... ...ge that no natal stigma was upon him to try the strength of her affection. Designing to generalize, as women do (and seem tempted to do most when they... ... gray cold mist where his duty lay. It is thus that young men occasionally design to burst from the circle of the passions, and think that they have d... ...t Beckley Court to- gether—if not dangerous. Any means that Providence may designate, I would employ. It will be like exorcising a demon. Always excus...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...imens of Viennese pottery on them, very flamboyant in colour and florid in design. Between them are folded garden chairs flung anyhow against the pipe...

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...Etymologically, aphorism + floral = aph(L)orism, which is a short reflection written on a floral design, or a short poetry accompanied by an artistic background. They are colorful contemplations. Maximus in minimis (Lat.) means very much in very little [max in min], or condensed thought, or ideating essence. They are ...