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... a precarious state of helplessness and remained motionless. I had already been mortified and was incapable of giving any resistance to her nefarious designs. She was gradually mounting pressure on my torso with her own. In the next couple of minutes she took her position of `a victorious wrestler` over my body, as I lay on my back as a helpless `vanquished contestant`. ……...

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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 © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ... to lift me up by my arms. I saw a loch just before me, and I concluded he designed to throw me there by force; and had he got leave to do so, it migh... ...ncompromisingly Saxon a name may appear, you can never be sure it does not designate a Celt. My great- grandfather wrote the name Stevenson but pronou... ...ld of him. In all else, he appears as a man ardent, passionate, practical, designed for affairs and pros- pering in them far beyond the average. He fo... ...s fathers. August 1786 was the date of his chief advancement, when, having designed a system of oil lights to take the place of the primitive coal fir... ...an Smith became the wife of Robert Stevenson. Mrs. Smith had failed in her design to make her son a minister, and she saw him daily more immersed in b... ...ever diminished the strength of their relation. My grandfather pursued his design of advancing in the world with some measure of success; rose to dist... ...I know few things more inspiriting than this location of a lighthouse in a designated space of heather and air, through which the sea-birds are still ... ...her had placed in him a very high degree of confidence, and he was already designated to be foreman at the Bell Rock, when, on Christmas-day 1806, on ...

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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... ... of a crime which was already half executed, he hesitated to carry out his designs. For him, as for many men of mixed charac- ter in whom weakness and... ...he world, like a dung heap, with his triple fork and to thwart therein the designs of God. But Castanier, for his misfor- tune, had one hope left. If ...

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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 Pe... ... from which to see some- thing on the pavement, which proved to be various designs executed in coloured chalks on the pavement stones, lighted by two ... ...ross the road with me. I hung back, but in vain. “Do let’s look!” Again, designs upon the pavement. Centre compartment, Mount V esuvius going it (i...

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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... ...icest specimens of French paper, enriched with a gilded cornice of elegant design. The floor was covered with a rich carpet; and two superb mirrors, o... ...he wine went round he heard enough to acquaint him with the characters and designs of those whose conversation he over- head; to possess him with the ... ...ents and steam-packet list’s which decorated the counting-house wall, were designs for almshouses, statements of charities, and plans for new hospital... ...hat happened to you afterwards, was as much the consequence of accident as design, and more your fault than his; and it shall not, with my knowledge, ... ...g—was somewhat irritated by old rec- ollections and the failure of her own designs upon Mr Browdie; and the acrimonious retort might have led to a gre... ... dead, they became converted into signals of very slaughterous and killing designs upon the living. Mrs Nickleby might have been stimulated to this pr... ...ircumstances—be excusable in me, but I am not, Kate—not at all.’ ‘It seems designed to attract our attention, mama,’ said Kate. ‘It is designed to att... ...he! he! I do pity him, that I do; he’ s so deluded. He! he! he!—Artful and designing ‘Tilda!’ 144 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY With t...

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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... ...late of the diplomatic corps, saw through the Matifats and their nefarious designs,” resumed Bixiou. “Rastignac happened to be chatting with the frivo...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...in happily discussed; Ethel, satisfied by find- ing him fully set upon the design, and Margaret giving cor- dial sympathy and counsel. When Ethel was ... ... rising colour, and quiet, unhesitating, though diffident manner, detailed designs that showed themselves to have been well matured. Mr. Wilmot heard,... ...t, “I think you were quite right in thinking that to interfere with such a design was unsafe. I do believe that a great deal of harm is done by pruden... ...he dreaded that Norman or Hector Ernescliffe should recognise the nautical designs. However, both let it pass, and no one through the whole school att... ...e the scholars, and buns and tea were provided, in addition to which Ethel designed to make a present to every one—a great task, con- sidering that th... ...fast at — Col- lege, to return round by Warwick Castle, and Kenilworth, as designed. Should she lose all this for a mere flattering fancy? She, who ha... ...lighted, and, it appeared, had already had a view to such possibilities in designing the plan of the school. The first good effect of Mr. Wilmot’s com... ...n work in the southern hemisphere, and ended by telling his brother of his design, which met with Harry’s hearty approbation. “That’s right, old June....

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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... ...of earth and rock and vegetation. He dreams of some mysterious grandeur of design which tempts him on under the hot sun, and over the sharp rock, till...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...ern rigidity of purpose, as with iron clamps, he followed out his original design, probably with- out so much as imagining an objection to it. On the ... ...ndow. In fact, he wheeled wholly round, and commenced a step or two, as if designing to enter the shop; but, as it chanced, his purpose was anticipate... ... process we find it impossible to say. She appeared to have no preliminary design, but gave a touch here and another there; brought some articles of f... ...nding a ruinous little structure, which showed just enough of its original design to indicate that it had once been a summer-house. A hop-vine, spring... ...ss of acknowledged kin- dred and natural affection. Unfortunately (without design, or only with such instinctive design as gives no account of itself ... ...d arm-chairs, listening to the gossip of the day, and dropping some deeply designed chance-word, which will be certain to become the gossip of to-morr... ...ad forthwith begun an indefatigable process of egg-laying, with an evident design, as a matter of duty and conscience, to continue their illustrious b...

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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... ...ays with the un- 50 A Woman of Thirty failing goodness, the same delicate design in all that he did; the intuitive sense of this woman’s wellbeing se...

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...Company, eBay, Children’s Book Council members, Savannah College of Art & Design).  Guides, teaching tools, reading readiness tests, recommended re...

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...and drank milk he obtained from the bus station vendor while waiting for his designated departure. The noxious smell of bus exhausts filled the open ... ...lent; having taken them to the social security office to get them cards with designated numbers; having taken the Cambodian boy into the clothes room ... ...e cards patterned out as a cross; meditated on each motto; and then drew her designs. The first motto that she encountered was "Happy Birthday To A Gr... ... When he finished dabbing eggs in various dyes and giving to each a distinct design, she poured out some cereal for him. He sat down with his usual fi... ...he would have to admit that she did not "know the first thing about interior design." And yet the same aversion that she had toward holding hands in t... ...d become his girlfriend and was now contributing some ideas for the interior design for his school, whose beauty was distracting him from building his... ...thologist, got nebulous readings of Tarot cards that she smacked into Celtic designs on her bed, or sometimes drew funny faces on the patio with the c... ...ed in the slaughtering of its life there was another truth that this was the design and essence of life with a cryptic purpose that perhaps she would ... ...was his higher consciousness, his higher authority. Sang Huin was a city boy designed for Seoul. He liked seeing dual soldiers guarding each portal of...

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...Musick Copy Editor: Jeannie Eddy Cover Artist: Joy Page Production and Cover Design: Vickie Kersey DuBois Map Design: Barbara M. Hodges and Janet Musi... ...ossy wood, their legs carved in an interwoven 179 13 180 The Emerald Dagger design. She stepped closer to see better and felt her body grow even hott... ...gn. She stepped closer to see better and felt her body grow even hotter. The design showed woodland nymphs and satyrs copulating. Regan stepped back a... ...assed through. A large square table dominated the cottage’s simple one-room design. A hearth took up the space of one of the daub-and-wattle walls. A...

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...ew Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last for... ...owledged it as the natural state, and that the natural state was the true design of the malevolent designer. Institutions like that of legal rape in ... ... that it was a feeling of a pleasant drowning within and a belief that one designated man would act as her lifeguard. But it was also extension; and ... ...of man. However, to be tenable, each person would have to be purposefully designed to be an ornament of the world. But a fetus could be aborted or m... ...tions of life being so precious, of abortions so heinous, when nature has designed continuity of the race on rides and games of chance. Even murder ...

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...ow what all you want me to do for you in this ol' shanty what with all the designer, Vidal Sassoon-y places around town." Jordan jumped in. "She trust... ...erienced she is as far as the fancy stuff goes but she can do you a decent design and cut." "No, no. I mean, what about this boy Ms. Rain was talking ...