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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

...on the Lord, shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not grow weary, they shall walk and not faint.... ...ce of your strength comes from Him. Can you not feel yourself soaring as the eagle? A flight into the sky . Thoughts soaring right and left until you ... ...daring. Hang on, the Lord is about to take you higher. For this is where the eagle flies. Oh, the joy of waiting on the Lord. Oh, the freedom of not b... ...t work on her seventeenth novel. Her books have won the RITA Award, the HOLT Medallion, National Readers’ Choice Award and Silver Angel from Excellenc...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...gh the forest at night. The red man was brother to the great bear, the deer and eagle, even the buffalo that roamed east of the forest on the great ... ...art of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our broth­ ers. The shining water that moves in the ... ...from the "Land of the Ice". A hand-carved whale encircled the pole with a bald eagle nesting on top of the totem. The intricate and once brightly p... ...e on rushing currents. The Soul Bearer .'1' Next, he spread his arms out like eagles wings and achieved an­ other level of stability. But where was... ... "Your best is what will be required. The power of your words must soar, as the eagle soars, capturing the imagination of all who witness its flight... ...ith the top two buttons opened and a roped gold chain with a gold Taurus zodiac medallion draped over his hairy chest. His black, baggy, pleated pan...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...s, frescos! Survival jobs. “This door needs immediate repair...place that medallion lower...no red marble here...” I could not equal Donato Bramante’... ... and a private spun stories of regimental pets. Once again I heard of the eagle in the 8th Wisconsin Volunteers. He is still alive after being in ba... ...t aggravates him when he has to confer with me; he wants to be the little eagle. On our frequent visits to the hospitals he is always sympathetic. “...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

... and body to his waist, were entirely bare, with the exception of a silver medallion of Washington, that was suspended from his neck by a thong of buc... ...ful, wanted the muscular appearance that labor gives to a race of men. The medallion was the only ornament he wore, al- though enormous slits in the r... ... “The children of Miquon do not love the sight of blood; and yet the Young Eagle has been struck by the hand that should do no evil!” “Mohegan! old Jo... ... Miquon. The white man may do as his fathers have told him; but the ‘Young Eagle’ has the blood of a Delaware chief in his veins; it is red, and the s... ... in two parts, as the river cuts the lowlands, and will say to the ‘Y oung Eagle,’ ‘Child of the Delawares! take it—keep it; and be a chief in the lan... ...was shaved clean, all to a few hairs on the crown, where he wore a tuft of eagle’s feathers, as bright as if they had come from a peacock’s tail. He h... ...u have slain, when the worst enemy of all is near you, and keeps the Young Eagle from his rights? I have fought in as many battles as any warrior in y... ...olds around him, leaving his breast, arms, and most of his body bare. ‘The medallion of Wash- ington reposed on his chest, a badge of distinction that...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...- land was settled by the red-men. Thus goes the legend. In olden times an eagle swooped down upon the New England coast, and carried off an infant In... ...vation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion- shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part... ...lings of temples, the 256 Moby Dick pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain-armor... ...hale,” as some craft are nowadays christened the “Shark,” the “Gull,” the “Eagle.” Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that... ...that is woe; but there is a woe that is mad- ness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and ... ...t gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soa... ... at his head: with a scream, the black hawk darted away with his prize. An eagle flew thrice round Tarquin’s head, removing his cap to replace it, and...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...island was settled by the red men. Thus goes the legend. In olden times an eagle swooped down upon the New England coast, and carried off an infant In... ...vation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part ... ...he marble panellings of temples, the pedestals of statues, and on shields, medallions, cups, and coins, the dolphin was drawn in scales of chain armor... ...hale,” as some craft are nowadays christened the “Shark,” the “Gull,” the “Eagle.” Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that... ...m that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and ... ...t gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soa... ... at his head: with a scream, the black hawk darted away with his prize. An eagle flew thrice round Tarquin’s head, removing his cap to replace it, and ...

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Maitre Cornelius

By: Honoré de Balzac

...eady established the unity of power. Thus, his vast spirit hovered like an eagle over his empire, joining in a singular manner the prudence of a king ... ...eeches of the same stuff, worn by Louis XI. His cap, decorated with leaden medallions, and his collar of the order of Saint-Michel, are not less celeb...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume One

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ly, M. de Blacas, I must change your armorial bearings; I will give you an eagle with out- The Count of Monte Cristo 78 stretched wings, holding in i... ... he is tracked, pursued, captured; he is advanc- ing as rapidly as his own eagles. The soldiers you believe to be dying with hunger, worn out with fat... ...hat would have exalted in thus revisiting the past, was imprisoned like an eagle in a cage. He clung to one idea — that of his happiness, destroyed, w... ... foi,” said Franz, “it would be the easiest thing in the world; for I feel eagle’s wings springing out at my shoulders, and with those wings I could m... ...untains; the fox, as he quitted his earth on some marauding excursion; the eagle that soared above their heads: and thus he soon became so expert, tha... ...pherdesses, after the style and manner of Boucher; and at each side pretty medallions in cray- ons, harmonizing well with the furnishings of this char...

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The Light That Failed

By: Rudyard Kipling

...rom the birth of the needle-gun. Saving only his ally, Keneu the Great War Eagle, there was no man higher in the craft than he, and he always opened h... ...t of you. It must be my work. Mine,—mine,—mine!’ ‘Go and design decorative medallions for rich brew- ers’ houses. You are thoroughly good at that.’ Di... ...re thoroughly good at that.’ Dick was sick and savage. ‘Better things than medallions, Dick,’ was the an- swer, in tones that recalled a gray-eyed ato... ...ncy?’ ‘The description of the Melancolia— ‘Her folded wings as of a mighty eagle, But all too impotent to lift the regal Robustness of her earth-born ... ...ressive, was in Torpenhow’s rooms. Behind him sat the Keneu, the Great War Eagle, and between them lay a large map embellished with black-and-white-he...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

...light. A Saxon bard had called it a feast of the swords—a gathering of the eagles to the prey— the clashing of bills upon shield and helmet, the shout... ...e-horn, mounted with silver, and a silken baldric richly ornamented with a medallion of St Hubert, the patron of silvan sport. More than thirty yeomen... ...ely form of the Norman ap- peared to dilate in magnitude, like that of the eagle, which ruffles up its plumage when about to pounce on its defenceless... ...297 Sir Walter Scott 2. The black cloud is low over the thane’s castle The eagle screams—he rides on its bosom. Scream not, grey rider of the sable cl... ...ther and his prisoner—Cry welcome once more.—I come, noble leader, like an eagle with my prey in my clutch.”—And making his way through the ring, amid...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...ead slightly, keeping her own pale-gloved hands clasped on her huge fan of eagle feathers. Having greeted Mrs. Lovell Mingott, a large blonde lady in ... ...that was bad where I’ve come from.” She looked down at her Viennese fan of eagle feathers, and he saw that her lips trembled. “I’m so sorry,” he said ... ...representing two Cardinals carousing, in an octagonal ebony frame set with medallions of onyx. “Shall I fetch her?” he proposed. “I can easily get awa...

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Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...ery pebble which had saved his grandfather and which he had mounted into a medallion. Then he talked of the lofty destination of every man and of his ... ... stories terror and David was as white as chalk, but he looked proud as an eagle. “Vassily, the scoundrel, has betrayed us,” he whis- pered through hi...

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Vittoria

By: George Meredith

...es of grey and rust-red crags. At dawn the summit of the moun- tain has an eagle eye for the far Venetian boundary and the barrier of the Apennines; b... ...dy that slides and a soul that jumps. T aken altogether, more serpent than eagle. I misdoubt 35 George Meredith that little quick cornering eye of yo... ...ction; ‘it is because the lighter you get the higher you mount; up like an eagle of the peaks! But we’ll give that hungry fellow a fall. A dish of hot... ...wind, might be; and over all the banner of Austria—the black double-headed eagle ramping on a yel- low ground. This was the flower of iron meaning on ... ...are crag and commenced a sharper ascent, reached the height, and roused an eagle. The great bird went up with a sharp yelp, hanging over them with kno... ...n fact see no distinct thing beyond what appeared as an illuminated copper medallion, held at a great distance from her, with a dead man and a towerin...

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Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy

... Upon the mantel shelf before him was a time piece, surmounted by a spread eagle, and upon the eagle’s wings was the letter Bathsheba had sent. Here t... ... going into a shed. ‘Here’s a marble headstone beautifully crocketed, with medallions beneath of typ ical subjects; here’s the footstone after the sa...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...hich he had been ordered to return without delay. He was soon ordered to the presence of the cardinal. “Courage!” he whispered to Porthos, as they pro... ...the death of his father, Henri de Bourbon, was called, in accordance with the custom of that period, Monsieur le Prince, was a young man, not more tha... ...he last hour one sees the images of life more mildly brilliant than of yore. Parry had not quitted his master, and since his condem- nation had not ce... ...eak to me of God and death, as he has spoken to many another dying man, not understanding that this one leaves his throne to an usurper, his children ... ...ok his son’s horse by the bridle and led him forth out of the melee. At this crisis of the battle, the prince, who had been sec- onding De Chatillon i...

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St. Ives : Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...57 Stevenson ‘Well, I can tell you a story,’ said I, ‘a true one too, and about this very combat of Chiclana, or Barossa as you call it. I was in the ... ... Clitheroe, he told me, a prodigious dignitary, and one who lived but a lane or two back, and at the dis- tance of only a mile or two out of the direc...

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The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

...” “You speak,” Densher observed, “as if she were a vul- ture.” “Call it an eagle—with a gilded beak as well, and with wings for great flights. If she’... ...“handsome” felt hat, so Tyrolese, yet some- how, though feathered from the eagle’s wing, so truly domestic, with the same straightness and security; s... ...open windows, played over the painted “subjects” in the splendid ceilings— medallions of purple and brown, of brave old melancholy colour, medals as o...

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...lles,’ he added, more dreamily. Then again he dived, and brought out a wax medallion of Our Lady guarded by angels, and made the sign that always brou... ...ntly taking orders from a young man in a gray and silver suit, whose brown eagle face, thin cheeks, arched nose, and black eyes of keenest fire, struc... ...in one of these chapels, where the sculptured fig- ure of St. John and his Eagle still remained on the wall; and a sufficient remnant of his glowing s...

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Adam Bede

By: George Eliot

... shoulder, had issued in a distinct practical resolution. “I mean to go to Eagledale and fish for a week or so,” he said aloud. “I shall take you with... ...elf, “but I’m not well seasoned enough for that. Well, since I can’t go to Eagledale, I’ll have a gallop on Rattler to Norburne this morning, and lunc... ...t could Irwine do for him that he could not do for himself? He would go to Eagledale in spite of Meg’s lameness—go on Rattler, and let Pym follow as w... ... of dissatisfaction, which he tried to quell by determining to set off for Eagledale without an hour’s delay. 162 Adam Bede Book Two Chapter XVII In ... ... Friday, and he said nothing about his going away.” “Oh, he’s only gone to Eagledale for a bit o’ fishing; I reckon he’ll be back again afore many day... ...tucco angels, trumpets, and flower-wreaths on the lofty ceiling, and great medallions of miscellaneous heroes on the walls, alternating with statues i...

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The Sea-Gull

By: Anton Checkov

...in white, is seen seated on a great rock. NINA. All men and beasts, lions, eagles, and quails, horned stags, geese, spiders, silent fish that inhabit ... ...part, perhaps never to meet again. I should like you to accept this little medallion as a re- membrance of me. I have had your initials engraved on it... ... your books: “Days and Nights.” TRIGORIN. How sweet of you! [He kisses the medallion] It is a lovely present. NINA. Think of me sometimes. TRIGORIN. I... ...cked. I am absolutely exhausted. TRIGORIN. [Reading the inscription on the medallion] “Days and Nights, page 121, lines 11 and 12.” JACOB. [Clearing t... ... in our hearts? Do you remember, [She recites] “All men and beasts, lions, eagles, and quails, horned stags, geese, spiders, silent fish that inhabit ...

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Citadel of Machaerus

By: Gustave Flaubert

... keen glance along all the roads leading to Machaerus. They were deserted. Eagles were sweeping through the air high above his head; the soldiers of t... ...nce, tried to reassure him. At last she took from a small casket a curious medallion, ornamented with a profile of Tiberius. The sight of it, she said... ...nce all accusing voices. Antipas, filled with gratitude, asked her how the medallion had come into her possession. “It was given to me,” was her only ...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

...the table with the green cloth, on which were a triangular article with an eagle at the top, two glass vases—something like those in which sweetmeats ... ...n. One last act remained. The priest took a large, gilt cross, with enamel medallions at the ends, from a table, and came out into the centre of the c... ...s being done. No one seemed to realise that the gilt cross with the enamel medallions at the ends, which the priest held out to the people to be kisse...

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