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.... Stone 31 Joseph Conrad campongs, full of white faces, are surrounded by fertile fields, but every man you meet is a slave. The rulers live under th... ... vio- lence, a force mysterious and terrible—or nothing but a clod, a mass fertile and inert, cold and unfeel- ing, ready to bear a crop of plants tha... ...dily, annexing street after street. It included also Somebody’s Gardens, a Crescent—a couple of Squares. Thus Alvan Hervey and his wife for five prosp... ...m- pound. He was a simple human being removed from the delightful world of crescents and squares. He stood alone, naked and afraid, like the first man...

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...ermilion, Baptized in molten gold, and swathed in dun, Glittering like crescents o’er a Turk’s pavilion, And blending every colour into one,... ... For some of these are rocks with scarce a hut on; Others are fair and fertile, among which This, though not large, was one of the most rich. ... ... Circling all nature, hush’d, and dim, and still, With the far mountain crescent half surrounded On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill... ...merald aigrette with Haidee’s hair in ‘t Surmounted as its clasp—a glowing crescent, Whose rays shone ever trembling, but incessant. And now the... ...phosis in view,— ‘Farewell!’ they mutually exclaim’d: ‘this soil Seems fertile in adventures strange and new; One ‘s turn’d half Mussulman, an... ...had crown, and light Began to clothe each Asiatic hill, And the mosque crescent struggled into sight Of the long caravan, which in the chill ... ... now: His stubborn valour was no future shield. Ismail ‘s no more! The crescent’s silver bow Sunk, and the crimson cross glared o’er the field...

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...ge among its members. This is what the New Testament, a code of philosophy fertile in new ideas, first introduced under the name of scandal; that is, ... ...overed this idolatrous ornament upon the bosoms of their countrywomen. The crescents, or half-moons of silver, in connection with the golden suns, 6 ... ...having no great rallying principle but the banner of the Cross against the Crescent, were as much more truly sublime in suffering and in daring, than ...

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... England was betraying signs of decay? and signs how ignoble! Half-a-dozen crescent lines cunningly turned, sketched her figure before the world, and ... ... she looked out. The Adriatic was dark, the Alps had heaven to themselves. Crescents and hollows, rosy mounds, white shelves, shining ledges, domes an... ...e the skulls of our 108 Beauchamp’s Career national enemy on the wide and fertile campaigns of France.’ This was pageantry. There was more of it. The... ...ieve that he had undertaken as good a defence as the mountain guarding the fertile vale from storms: but him the elements pelted heavily. Letters from...

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...is Scotsman’s feelings. And when he entered into his own house in Randolph Crescent (south side), and shut the door behind him, his heart swelled with... ...ison with other lads, although not up to the mark of the house in Randolph Crescent; full of a sort of blundering affection, full of caresses, which w... ...y with bowed head and echo- ing footfall. The rooks were awake in Randolph Crescent; but the windows looked down, discreetly blinded, on the return of... ... only pointed by the cawing of the rooks. There was not a soul in Randolph Crescent, nor a soul in Queensferry Street; in this outdoor privacy and the... ...e had so long looked forward, thinking to awake in his own bed in Randolph Crescent, reconciled with all men and repeating the foot- prints of his you... ... stream of language flowed without break or stumble, and his mind was ever fertile in inge- nious evasions and— What an afternoon it was for Esther! ‘...

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... wenches must I have? Soothsayer: If every of your wishes had a womb. And fertile every wish, a million. CHARMIAN: Out, fool! I forgive thee for a ... ... I shall do well: The people love me, and the sea is mine; My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony ...

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...owing ever more and more indistinct, until it became a mere hurly-burly of trees and bright crescents of river, and snatches of slanting road, and fin... ...t, the wild and inhospitable places of our own Highlands. I am happier where it is tame and fertile, and not readily pleased without trees. I understa...

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...he Odyssey of Homer The teeming ewes a triple offspring bear; And two fair crescents of translucent horn The brows of all their young increase adorn: ... ... surrounded realms the gods assign 80 The Odyssey of Homer Small tract of fertile lawn, the least to mine.” His hand the king with tender passion pre... ...bodes, Nor helped by mortal hand, nor guiding gods In twice ten days shall fertile Scheria find, Alone, and floating to the wave and wind. The bold Ph... ...ove; Alike their leaves, but not alike they smiled With sister fruits; one fertile, one was wild. Nor here the sun’s meridian rays had power, Nor wind... ... ranks appear, With all the united labours of the year; Some to unload the fertile branches run, Some dry the blackening clusters in the sun, Others t... ...r skill, And, void of pain, the silent arrows kill. T wo equal tribes this fertile land divide, Where two fair cities rise with equal pride. But both ...

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... It was a sight of wonder! Some were horned, And like the moon’s argentine crescent hung In the dark dome of heaven; some did shed A clear mild beam l... ... are recreated, and the flame Of consentaneous love inspires all life: The fertile bosom of the earth gives suck _345 To my... ...ht garden-isles begem, With lightsome clouds and shining seas between, And fertile valleys resonant with bliss, Whilst green woods overcanopy the wave... ... and many a band The Arctic Anarch sent, and Idumea’s sand, 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. Fertile in prodigies and lies;—so there Strange natures made a brotherhood ... ...d beautiful by exuberant vegetation; and the cultivated part is peculiarly fertile. With all this wealth of Nature which, either in the form of gentle... ...is olive bower at Oenoe Had sate from earliest youth. Like one who finds A fertile island in the barren sea, One mariner who has survived his mates ... ...nd from whose ruined crevices owls and bats flitted forth at night, as the crescent moon sunk behind the black and heavy battlements. 230 V olume One... ...r hadst thou waited the full cycle, when Thy spirit should have filled its crescent sphere, The monsters of life’s waste had fled from thee like deer.... ... MAHOMET MAHOMET MAHOMET MAHOMET: : : : : … Haste thou and fill the waning crescent With beams as keen as those which pierced the shadow _170 Of Chr...

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...trophe which had converted into an arid and dismal wilderness the fair and fertile valley of Siddim, once well watered, even as the Gar- den of the Lo... ...y, the fanatical zeal which animated the followers of the Cross and of the Crescent against each other, was much softened by a feeling so natural 23 ... ...osed in the same spot, and, doubtless, found their way in safety to a more fertile country. Again, the scarce visible cur- rent which escaped from the... ...ear to his powerful antagonist, might have been compared to his sheeny and crescent-formed sabre, with its narrow and light but bright and keen Damasc... ...nd had not set forth to the Crusade till he was sovereign of Scotland, the Crescent might, for me, and all true-hearted Scots, glimmer for ever on the... ... 41 Sir Walter Scott cised by the soldiery, as well of the Cross as of the Crescent, had become robbers, and spared neither rank nor religion, neither... ...his own holy faith! Art thou come forth to the wilderness to fight for the Crescent against the Cross? A goodly soldier of God art thou to listen to t...

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...ites on the hill-side; the country wore, on the whole, a cheerful, active, fertile look. Steam, trade, machinery had long banished from it all romance... ...a fine night, and the streets were dry and even clean for X——; there was a crescent curve of moonlight to be seen by the parish church tower, and hund... ...nd what did I see? I will tell you faithfully. Green, reedy swamps; fields fertile but flat, culti- vated in patches that made them look like magnifie... ...bject? if one may ask.” “Mademoiselle talked about nothing, monsieur.” “ A fertile topic! and did she discourse thereon in the school- room, before th... ...hundred specimens of the genus “jeune fille” collected together, offered a fertile vari- ety of subject. A miscellaneous assortment they were, differ-... ...find her brooding still and blank over the wide fields, so drear though so fertile, spread out treeless and trackless round the capital of Brabant. Ha...

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..., scene iii 16 LAERTES: Think it no more; For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxe... ...te is the more gracious; for ’tis a vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the k...

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...Malcolm, not so proud Was I of all that marshalled crowd, Though the waned crescent owned my might, And in my train trooped lord and knight, Though Bl... ...g fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between:— These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; T... ...01. My pomp. My triumphal procession; the original mean- ing of pomp. 504. Crescent. The badge of the Buccleuch family (Miss Yonge). 506. Blantyre. A ... ... Condottieri of Italy.” 53. The Fleming, etc. The soil of Flanders is very fertile and productive, in marked contrast to the greater part of Scot- lan...

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...r phase of his passion, a fury bejewelled with stars, mayhap bear- ing the crescent of the moon on its brow, shaking the last vestiges of its torn clo... ...whose estuary resembles a breach in a sand rampart may flow through a most fertile country. But all the estuaries of great rivers have their fascinati... ...of more exalted adversaries Dominic 141 Joseph Conrad turned his audacity fertile in impious stratagems against the powers of the earth, as represent...

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... what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal coun- try for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect. ... ...of her nails; and their sharpness presently ornamented the detainer’s with crescents of red. ‘There’s a tigress!’ exclaimed Mrs. Linton, setting her f...

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...our success, conveniently made a traitor of, I have so much value for that fertile and pleasant spot, that I would e’en take on with you for the campa... ...And on distant echo borne, Comes the hunter’s early horn. “The moon’s wan crescent scarcely gleams, Ghost-like she fades in morning beams; Hie henc... ...ts, with or without a victory, would give him the command of a wealthy and fertile part of the kingdom, and would enable him, by regular pay, to place... ...gainst the Duke of Bavaria, and enriched his troops by the plunder of that fertile coun- try, although menaced from the northward by the large army wh...

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...nchastity, and we shall find the Marquesas and Hawaii figuring again upon another count. Thus, Samoans are the most chaste of Polynesians, and they ar... ... of weeds; and the mosquito hummed and stung. There was no other trace that night of man, bird, or insect in the isle. The moon, now three days old, a... ...-trees, re- turned shivering to the deck. The lagoon was thick with many-tinted wavelets; a continuous roaring of the outer sea overhung the anchorage...

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...t day, the realm of France received on parchment a stupendous accession. The fertile plains of Texas; the vast Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain ... ...ol man; nothing could disturb his serenity. Once when he was captain of the ‘Crescent City,’ I was bringing the boat into port at New Orleans, and mom... ...pproached New Orleans in the steam tug. This was the curving frontage of the crescent city lit up with the white glare of five miles of electric light... ... on the Mississippi Mark T wain 328 merly was pronounced one of the most fertile in the State. The water has hitherto allowed it to go scot free i...

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...randeur. No apartment, among all that I have seen since, has given me such fertile, such teeming impressions as those that filled my mind in that salo... ...d the great shipwreck at the close of the eighteenth century aged him. The crescent of hair which monastically fringed the back of his head, otherwise... ...x months when I was lost in enervating enjoyments, in the meshes of a love fertile in pleasures and knowing how to vary them with a cleverness learned...

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...wed past him with all six legs. Sacharissa had run to what was left of the fertile brood-comb. “Down and out!” she called across the brown breadth of ... ...ettee, and at two hundred feet releases the catch. We hear the whir of the crescent-shaped arms opening as they descend. The derelict’s forehead is pu...

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...rds he was about to speak might find grace and favor, and be as seed sown in fertile ground, yielding in time a grateful harvest of good. Amen. There ... ...erennial bloom and fluttering with rags. His hat was a vast ruin with a wide crescent lopped out of its brim; his coat, when he wore one, hung nearly ...

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...what a new and ample scene of wonder may this consideration afford us! How fertile will that imagination appear, which as able to clothe all the prop-... ...lains. The fierce Pelasgi next, in war renown’d, March from Larissa’s ever-fertile ground: In equal arms their brother leaders shine, 94 The Iliad of... ...oo. Thus with a lasting league your toils may cease, And T roy possess her fertile fields in peace; Thus may the Greeks review their native shore, Muc... ...too. Thus with a lasting league our toils may cease, And T roy possess her fertile fields in peace: So shall the Greeks review their native shore, Muc... ...s daughter’s woe? Abash’d, she names his own imperial spouse; And the pale crescent fades upon her brows. Thus they above: while, swiftly gliding down... ...e was in the condition of alluvial land, pre- 479 Pope eminently rich and fertile. But when the channels came to be either neglected, or designedly c...

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..., and level; some- times wooded, but always covered with verdure. Many are crescent-shaped; others resemble a horse-shoe in figure. These last are not... ... peninsula; skirting for a distance of at least sixty miles along the low, fertile lands bordering the sea. But on the side next T aiarboo, or the les...

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...ained a vegetable waistband. Some chiefs had ornamented their necks with a crescent and collars of glass beads, red and white; nearly all were armed w... ...of fish with sea-vegetables, ac- cording to the English fashion. Over this fertile and luxu- riant ground the Nautilus passed with great rapidity. To-...

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...a raging bull, And the thrust of his horn, sharper-pointed than Phoebe’s crescent. I’ve scaled, on my lips the lilt of an Andalusian dance, The ... ...artists, and in general all men who live by their brains. Their nimble and fertile wit lays them open to the charge of a like agility in matters of th...

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...ue of necessity? and if so, who could it be? Albinia hailed the event as a fertile source of conjecture which might stave off dangerous subjects in th... ...-room, and his ‘nobody’ meant always at least six bodies. Every season was fertile in occa- sions of gathering old and young together to be made happy... ...ep untimely hours.’ ‘Why do you think she is so much more beautiful in the crescent, Mrs. Kendal?’ said Genevieve, in the most wakeful manner. ‘I’m su... ...ckness of apprehension grew over her, and she saw, as in a mist, the noble crescent- 431 The Young Step-Mother shaped harbour, the stately ramparts, ...

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...to engender dissatisfaction with its narrow, tortuous, and miry ways. This fertile and sheltered tract of country, in which the fields are never brown ... ...passive; in the twilight of evening it is the darkness which is active and crescent, and the light which is the drowsy reverse. Being so often — possi...

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...to a continuous street. Yoho, past market-gardens, rows of houses, villas, crescents, terraces, and squares; past waggons, coaches, carts; past early ... .... And although Mr Tapley was promptly taken into their confidence; and the fertile imagination of that gentleman suggested many bold expedients, which...

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...n, nearly within cannon-shot of the port. It was night, the darkness was great, the tide rose in the darkness; it was a capital time to land passenger... ...verse in my head, I print it immediately. That is a labor spared.” “Mordioux!” thought D’Artagnan to himself, “this must be cleared up.” And under a p... ...ccupation of his mind must indeed have been very great, that a man so devoted to pleasure, for whom indeed plea- sure meant everything, should obey su...

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... thumps with unabated briskness. Here indeed might Senti- mentalism shed a fertile tear! Anticipating that it will eventually be hung up among our nat... ...d that she had refused. They stood in a clear night-air, under a yellowing crescent, listening to the voice of an imperial woman. Impressed as he was,...

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...rous of running no risk whatever. But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island wit... ...sto 338 model as the French instrument.* The knife, which is shaped like a crescent, that cuts with the convex side, falls from a less height, and tha...

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...g to the conclusion that he had conducted the war amiss. For when he had a fertile country before him, and all the wealthy cities of Macedonia and The... ...ickly brought to its due fulfillment; for he got possession of a large and fertile territory; and from him descended the line of the kings of Pontus, ... ...r frame Cannot continue for two nights the same, But out of shadow first a crescent shows, Thence into beauty and perfection grows, And when the form ...

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...and eight the phases of the moon, The full and the moon’s dark and all the crescents, Twenty and eight, and yet but six and twenty The cradles that a ... ...ocked in: For there’s no human life at the full or the dark. From the first crescent to the half, the dream But summons to adventure and the man Is alw... ... by the hair, Hector is in the dust, Nietzsche is born, Because the hero’s crescent is the twelfth. And yet, twice born, twice buried, grow he must, B... ...But saves us from a dream. Aherne. And what of those That the last servile crescent has set free? Robartes. Because all dark, like those that are all ... ...o kneaded up That it can take what form cook Nature fancies, The first thin crescent is wheeled round once more. Aherne. But the escape; the song’s not... ...he Holy Writings lie, Hurried through the smooth and rough And through the fertile and waste, Protecting, till the danger past, With human love. 214 ...

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...ks in comfort as well as in se- curity, and to draw such supplies from the fertile neighbor- hood as might restore their shattered forces to a conditi... ... dif- ference—that, forwards, their rout lay through lands com- paratively fertile—backwards, through a blasted wilderness, rich only in memorials of ... ...urvoir de ce qu’on aurait pu oublier. On a désigné des lieux particuliers, fertiles en pâturages; et on leur a donné des boeufs, moutons, &c. pour qu’... ...ope at least, the hat of Frangistan is destined to surmount the turban—the crescent must go down before the cross. 264 Narrative and Miscellaneous Pa... ...ior, systematized this idea; and then the wrath of Andrew, previously in a crescent state, actually dilated to a plenilunar orb. The Westmoreland peop... ...e, as verdure, as weeds, and as flowers that over- spread in spring time a fertile soil without needing to be sown or watered—awful is the necessity, ...

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...eeds whose necks on high Curve back, she drives to a remoter sky A western Crescent, borne impetuously. _15 Then is made... ... _255 It was a sight of wonder: some Were horned like the crescent moon; Some shed a mild and silver beam Like Hesperus o’er the west... ... wave,it spread Its floors of flashing light, Its vast and azure dome, Its fertile golden islands Floating on a silver sea; ... ... where the golden fields _220 Of fertile England spread Their harvest to the day, Thou canst not find one sp... ...ht garden-isles begem, With lightsome clouds and shining seas between, And fertile valleys, resonant with bliss, Whilst green woods overcanopy the wav... ... are recreated, and the flame Of consentaneous love inspires all life: The fertile bosom of the earth gives suck T o myriads, who still grow beneath h... ...ing disease, if gathered immediately from the bosom of the earth. The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men...

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...eridge: Poems Dear native brook! like Peace, so placidly Smoothing through fertile fields thy current meek! Dear native brook! where first young Po... ... a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto. And thus ten miles of fertile ground were inclosed with a wall.’’ The Author continued for abou... ...verns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were... ... bedimmed, but always seen: - 328 - Dejection: An Ode Coleridge: Poems Yon crescent Moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lak... ...ock That overbrows the cataract. How bursts The landscape on my sight! Two crescent hills Fold in behind each other, and so make A circular vale, ... ...morrow. ’Twas day! but now few, large, and bright, The stars are round the crescent moon! And now it is a dark warm night, The balmiest of the mon... ...f hope and joy, That regal front! those cheeks aglow! Thou need’st but the crescent sheen, A quiver’d Dian to have been, Thou lovely child of old ...

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...f observation. Hardly, however, if they happen to be seated in a region so fertile as Mesopotamia, and on a great river like the Euphrates. But allow ... ... slowly reared and embattled it- self against the westward progress of the Crescent. On the western horn, in France, but by Germans, once for all Char... ...sted the whole impetus of Mahometan Asia, then it follows, either that the Crescent was correspondingly weak, or that, not being weak, she must have f... ...ometan vigor—and that assault, also, in the presence of the caliph and the crescent, was glo- riously discomfited. Now if, in the moment of triumph, s... ...uce there was none until the silence of desolation brooded over those once fertile fields. How savage was the fanaticism, and how blind the worldly wi...

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...ry danger (for all the beauty promised in early life was developing in the crescent moon), and was glad to see her spend whole days indoors in study. ... ...d valleys. Yes, the vital air for a man consumed by his genius lies in the fertile pasture-lands of Germany, at T oplitz or Baden-Baden. If England is... ...eas- ant sloping meadows; there is always a wilderness on the one hand and fertile lands on the other, and both harmonies and dissonances compose a sc... ... air, the flowers, and the dwelling. Health appeared to over- flow in this fertile region; old age and childhood thrived there. There seemed to be, ab... ...ting of the priests, and counted the tall wax candles; and all that lovely fertile nature around him, in whose lap he had thought to find life once mo... ...times the Allier, a liquid shining ribbon, meandered through the dis- tant fertile landscape; then followed the steeples of hamlets, hiding modestly i...

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...tented lives. On Saturday and Sunday they work for themselves, and in this fertile climate the labour of two days is sufficient to support a man and h... ...vantage, by always having something to attract his attention; but in these fertile climates, teeming with life, the attractions are so numerous, that ... ...day I went out hunting at Bahia Blanca, but the men there merely rode in a crescent, each being about a quarter of a mile apart from the other. A fine... ...tember 17th. — We followed the course of the Rio Tapalguen, through a very fertile country, to the ninth posta. Tapalguen, itself, or the town of Tapa... ...ly irrigated, and in consequence 282 The V oyage of the Beagle singularly fertile. Without this process the land would produce scarcely anything, for... ...r veins. They are an humble, quiet, industri- ous set of men. Although the fertile soil, resulting from the decomposition of the volcanic rocks, sup- ...

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...vulgaris).—Stubble-fields show this lovely little blue flower with a white crescent on the lip. (C. menthifolia).—Merdon Castle. Basil (C. Clinopodium... ...only, but incorrectly, called bulrush. Bur-Reed (Sparganium ramosum).—With fertile flowers like prickly balls. Lords-and-Ladies or Cuckoo-Pint (Arum m...

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...nd were green and well wooded, with some large, and, I am told, exceedingly fertile valleys, with mule tracks leading to different parts of the isla... ...north and Point St. Buena Ventura on the south,) which here bends in like a crescent, and three large islands opposite to it and at the distance of ... ...led St. Buenaventura, from which the point is named. In the middle of this crescent, directly opposite the anchoring ground, lie the mission and t... ...ood, and the country has a naked, level appearance, though it is still very fertile. The bay of Monterey is very wide at the entrance, being abo... ... inhabited by numerous tribes of Indians, and to be in many parts extremely fertile; to which, of course, was added rumors of gold mines, pearl fishe... ... Buenaventura, which is the finest mission in the whole country, having very fertile soil and rich vineyards. The last, and most southerly, is San Di... ... containing several good harbors, great depth of water, and surrounded by a fertile and finely wooded country. About thirty miles from the mouth of t...

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...with overeating — times when they let the game go unkilled, and the women were fertile, and the lodges were cluttered with sprawling men children and ... ...hilosophizing about the mysteries and riddles of being. A blue heron on a tiny crescent of sandy beach, a silvery splatter of flying fish, or a sunset o... ... surface of the water, and the canoe drifted slowly away. With a survey of the crescent composed of a score of such sticks all lying flat, Kohokumu wip...

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...peeding with tail’d meteors, throwing fire balls like the rest, Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly, Storming, e... ... ON A M OUNTAIN S IDE I see before me now a traveling army halting, Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer, Behind, the... ...ast, West, whence they came up, From wooded Maine, New England’s farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, From the measureless West, Virginia...