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... effort to catch up, ‘Oh my God, be careful, Helen!’ The two stranglers looked up on hearing the gunshots. They released their victim and fled into... ...sidency, was called the Hunt Ball because it preceded the Nawab’s annual Shikar to which all the ‘guns’ of Mirapore were invited. ‘Once again,’ sai... ...rapore - the English, the French and the Spanish. Only Helen and Lady Agnes were considered ‘good guns’, the rest of the women coming along exclusiv... ... to the elephant’s back, which enabled the shikari to stand upright. Helen was amused by the love songs whispered by the Mahout into the large ears ... ...meal of several courses, Gavin took Helen on a doonga, a pleasure boat, where musicians sang love songs to the accompaniment of Kashmiri musical ins... ... and about her shoulders and hibiscus flowers were pinned behind her ears. She smelt of attar of roses and sandalwood and the strong perfumes began ... ... regimental pennants flying. Their voices singing, incongruously, familiar British army marching songs were carried on the wind to the fort. ‘No up...

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...and I talked softly. Sappho’s garden, terraces of roses, shrubbery and cypress, has the ocean below: moonlit, she stands wh... ... by a single window. Why were we in such con- trast? Laughter and outworn songs...swaying and shuffling...until the shutting of my door. Alone, I s... ...s message. Was this the Alcaeus who had joked and sported and sung ribald songs, as the popular friend of young men who were proud, rich, playful and... ...musicians and dancers wandered among us and the party went on. After many songs and a lot of wine, Alcaeus slipped his arm through mine and suggeste... ...that! I walked among my statuary and benches, absorbing the difference in roses: home and happiness were secure in me: my writing must be a part of ... ...ing toward a spot of sun. P A village girl brought me a bouquet of white roses, saying: “You must let me join your hetaerae.” She wore a twisted b... ...h my anatomical studies, know the marvels of life! Now, I shun crossbows, guns, chariots. I have asked Francesco to destroy those sketches. Once ag... ... his mouth, and he said, stroking his corn husk chin: “It was a matter of guns...we singed the King’s whiskers through our superior armament. Ah, go... ...hen, by God, we’d have run them clean to Spain, run them, not waited, our guns useless. We had to sit it out, wait—no powder. We didn’t dare take a ...

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...k, honey, and clear water; in them he had placed beautiful damsels, skilful in songs and instruments of music and dancing, and to make sports and deli... ...ductions, the men and women came in procession, and with tambourine and festal songs gave a generous welcome to their strange visitors. Saavedra died ... ...ke, where many floating gardens were constructed that moved about like beds of roses driven by the wind; and thence on to Iztapalapan, which latter pl... ...derstanding of the great power which he possessed. At the sound of the booming guns, and sight of the dense smoke that rolled up in stifling volume, t... ...ucceeded in raising his force to 818 foot soldiers, 86 cavalrymen, three heavy guns, and 15 field pieces. Besides these recruits, he enlisted the serv... ... his men, for the end of the long uncertain voyage seemed at hand. Merrily the songs of the light-hearted sailors rang out over a sea as blue as their... ... in the glory of this splendid triumph. Imposing were the ceremonials. All the guns of the fleet were loaded and fired again and again in honor of the...

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...own the 6 Bozo and the Storyteller dunes, the long mornings of making up songs beside the wine-streams, and the nights of playing dot-to-dot with t... ... around to see Bozo polishing off the rest of his tulips and begin on the roses. ‘Why didn’t you answer when I called you?’ Theo asked, unsure whethe... ...reature was still there. ‘I had my mouth full,’ Bozo explained. ‘Ow! These roses have sharp bits.’ ‘They’re thorns. Roses grow them so they don’t get... ...wonder – the bright colours of the f owers, the scents of the plants, the songs of the birds in the trees – it was all a projection of the Storytell... ... saw naked tribes in woods and deserts being hunted by other Hoomans with guns. They saw vast forests slashed and burnt, chemical waste poured into ... ...s. In a crazed blur of wings, beaks and claws, the soldiers dropped their guns and fell to the ground in agony. The man holding Theo’s ankle let go ... ...leckytrons and the Palabras. Not to mention the Giggles, the Maps and the Roses with bad attitude. While Parvati arranged some fruit juice and biscui... ...ee. Don’t crack up now,’ he told himself as he heard the echoes of nearby gunshots. ‘This is a police station. What could possibly happen?’ The next...

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....” “Poor Daniel. It must be all those romantic notions you get from the songs you sing. You know I have no heart to give.” “Except to polit... ...er to a camel-backed sofa, gaudy with vining green leaves and yellow cabbage roses as big as dinner plates. “And the British subjugated the world f... ...iss all around the edges of her perfect face, as different from Helene’s as roses from lilies. This was not what he had planned. The letter had sug... ...e one open curtain streamed over the pillows, twinkling in the gold brocade roses. The tiny buttons of her chemise were the only barrier to the r... ...pretense of culture. My audience prefers sentimental ballads and patriotic songs. And my talents are, or were more suited to those. But that’s al... ...as promised when I first got into this deal, or if you could stick in a few songs and you would sing them...” “Both of those solutions would requir... ...’ her into tryin’. What bites me is they’re bound to kill us with the very guns I brought ‘em meself.” He scuttled off to stoke Molly’s engine. ...

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...H OF SPLITNESS Chapter Three: Hominids 173 these separated notes into songs and symphonies. By accumulating the separate notes of separate ... ...eople go to; and compare them to decide which one they like better? How many songs do people listen to; before finding out which ones they like best... ...seen from afar; like the volcanic mountain of Kilimanjaro have power, smoking guns have power, smoking volcanoes ready to explode at any instant hav... ...cret knowledge used for today? The creation of technologies to create better guns, better fleets, better planes, better bombs, better armies… just s... ... with different inflections, and different interpretations of those different songs, etc. Fourthly… it is a competition. It assumes that entertaine... ...nited as one country. The arrogance of newfound industrialized power, better guns, bigger artillery. But above all… there had been too many stri... ... a few rights. And then read about the Hundred Years War, and the War of the Roses, and all the other wars. As the English elite killed each other... ...hardest part is all over. That once they die: it is going to be all a bed of roses, it is going to be all milk and honey, it is going to be hog hea...

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...have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud.‘ And again on this ‗Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of yo... ...eavor-- pornography, technology, purveying violence in the media, selling guns and many other means of moneymaking. ―This is not to say t... ...right to view pornography at nearly every age. We have the right to carry guns. We have the right to retaliate violently with little fear of repercus... ... ideas were around long before Darwin. People had bred horses and hounds, roses and radishes for years. He just said that it occurred in nature jus... ...h? ―Is the definitely erotic ‗Song of Solomon‘ or ‗Song of Songs‘ pornographic? Or is it the most romantic poem ever written. Is it a... ...original meaning of gay, it meant happy and carefree. Some of my favorite songs and stories use the word in this way. Undoubtedly some homosexuals a...

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...us throngs, She danced above a thousand graves, And heard a thousand briny songs. 21 Her mission with her manly crew, Her flag unfurl’d, her title to... ...a bird’s throbb’d bosom Palpitate with eagerness, Lips, the bridals of the roses, Dewy sweet from the caress! Lips and limbs, and eyes and ringlets, S... ...p its vanguard, And the valley mists are curling up the hills. Three short songs gives the clear-voiced throstle, Sweetening the twilight ere he fills... ...re he lies on the breast where that other lay: And the bird sings over the roses. Now, folly, my daughter, for men are men: There is a rose in the gar... ...n; You marry them blindfold, I tell you again: And the bird sings over the roses. O mother, but when he kisses me! There is a rose in the garden; My c... ...ugh We feel is thine: broad as ten thousand beeves At pasture! thence thy songs, that winnow chaff From grain, bid sick Philosophy’s last leaves Whir... ...he ruffled strip of salt, You look, and like the prospect less. On men and guns would you lay stress, T o bid the Island’s foemen halt. III While loud... ...st, and it reeks of their grave. Point them to greener, though Journals be guns; T o brotherly fields under fatherly skies; Where the savage still pri... ...vers of ranked battalions, brave Past mortal, girt: a march of swords and guns Incessant; his proved warriors; loaded dice He flung on the crested bo...

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...y the standard of a decade of realities. The book is weak on anti-aircraft guns, for example, and still more neg- ligent of submarines. Much, no doubt... ...mpsed ever and again. Near Maidstone they came on a string of eleven motor-guns of peculiar construc- tion halted by the roadside, with a number of bu... ...y, and Bert achieved epigrams; the hedges were full of honeysuckle and dog-roses; in the woods the distant toot- toot-toot of the traffic on the dust-... ...ves! “The Desert Dervishes,” they would call them- selves, and their chief songs would be those popular ditties, “In my T railer,” and “What Price Hai... ...erything was extraordinarily clear as well as minute. Once or twice he saw guns and soldiers, and was reminded of the stir of military preparations he... ...e Air wearing of buttons, the waving of small flags, the fireworks, or the songs. They forgot that, under the conditions of war- fare a century of sci...

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..., and black shoes, in which her feet looked to the full as pretty. All the roses of spring could not vie with the brightness of her complexion; Esmond... ... made the attack with unparalleled courage and fury—rushing up to the very guns of the enemy, and being slaughtered before their works—we were driven ... ...men of England, who live at home at ease, and compliment yourselves in the songs of triumph with which our chieftains are bepraised—you pretty maidens... .... On one side and the other this cannonading lasted many hours. The French guns being in position in front of their line, and doing severe damage amon... ...m being cut up by ditches, morasses, and very difficult of passage for the guns. It was past mid-day when the attack began on our left, where Lord Cut... ...e, having toasted King James’s health with open windows, and sung cavalier songs, and shouted “God save the King!” in the great court, so that the mas... ...lord, his good looks were even more admired than his sister’s. A hun- dred songs were written about the pair, and as the fashion of 82 Henry Esmond –... ...d, for a couple of rebellious tears made sad marks down those wrinkled old roses which Esmond had just been allowed to salute. “W e had a letter from ...

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...s lines of batteries were vomiting fire and brimstone; when all those dark guns that you see poking their grim heads out of every imaginable cleft and... ...ating at his foremast, in yonder black ship, with its two thundering great guns at the bows and stern, its busy crew swarming on the deck, and a crowd... ...d we could see that enormous “Caledonia,” with her flashing three lines of guns. We looked at the little boats which ever and anon came out of this mo... ...ame should be Ionides; instead of a silk hat, you should wear a chaplet of roses in your hair:you would not listen to the choruses they were singing o... ...sently we entered the open plain—the famous plain of Sharon—so fruitful in roses once, now hardly cultivated, but always beautiful and noble. Here pre... ...ch. But it was the music that was most touch- ing I thought,—the sweet old songs of home. There was a considerable company assembled:near a hun- dred ... ...y, screaming “yallah” with the most frightful shrieks, and singing country songs— galloped along ahead of me. I acquired one of his poems pretty well,...

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...ow That the pipe-organ, which I gave to the church, Played its christening songs when Deacon Rhodes, Who broke and all but ruined me, Worshipped for t... ...ndeaus, Ballades by the score with the same old thought: The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades? Li... ...d water, Anything, ‘most, to hide our thoughts. And then your gift of wild roses, Set on the table to grace our dinner. Poor heart, how bravely you st... ...nfinite repose. Oh, ye souls who have made life Fragrant and white as tube roses From earth’s dark soil, Eternal peace! Daniel M’Cumber WHEN I went to... ...River, Where I could study my Kant in peace And eke out a living repairing guns Look at my moulds! My architectonics One for a barrel, one for a hamme... ...iving Had anything else but duplicate moulds Of these I show you—well, all guns Would be just alike, with a hammer to hit The cap and a barrel to carr... ... and all Acting against each other alike. And there would be your world of guns! Which nothing could ever free from itself Except a Moulder with diffe... ... As when the woodman fells Some giant oak upon a summer’s day And all the songsters of the forest shrill, And one great hawk that has his nestling yo...

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...ll our praises why should lords—” Stop, that’s not the line. “Say, all our roses why should girls engross?” The coachman showed rosy blossoms on his f... ...days, it seems to me that all things change—all things perish. “Perish the roses and the palms of kings”: perish even the crowns and trophies of Water... ... thunder and lightning are not the thunder and lightning which I remember. Roses are degenerating. The Fannies of our island—though this I say with re... ...of rest which she had secured for France. She never sang together with the songs that rose in her native Domrémy as echoes to the de- *“Arc”:—Modern F... ...wn lawyer varied the charge perhaps through forty counts. The law laid its guns so as to rake the accused at every possible angle. While the indictmen... ... the streets, &c., and the burden of one of the most popular revolutionary songs, ‘Ça ira, ça ira, ça ira.’”— MASSON. 8 18 ALL MORALITY,—ARISTOTLE’S, ...

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...uryalus brought up above the Third Cataract, don’t you? and eighty-one-ton guns at Jakdul? Now, I’m quite satisfied with my breeches.’ He turned round... ... told us of this. We’ve been trapped,’ said a subaltern. ‘Aren’t the camel guns ever going to begin? Hurry up, you men!’ There was no need of any orde... ... an extremely unpleasant fashion. The little hundred-and-fifty-pound camel-guns posted at one corner of the square opened the ball as the square moved... ...e had shouted some shameless secret aloud. 71 Rudyard Kipling CHAPTER VII Roses red and roses white Plucked I for my love’s delight. She would none o... ... love’s delight. She would none of all my posies,— Bade me gather her blue roses. Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew; ... ...the grave She shall find what she would have. Mine was but an idle quest,— Roses white and red are best! — Blue Roses. THE SEA had not changed. Its wa... ...so strong. I didn’t feel it so much when I was with Maisie. These damnable songs did it. He’s be- ginning again.’ But it was only Herrick’s Nightpiece... ...nd anything in to you? Fizz, for instance. Cassavetti is beginning to sing songs of the Sunny South already.’ For one minute Dick considered the propo...

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... I should have doubted her translation of perce-neige. She meant Christmas roses all the while. However, I went looking for snowdrops. The walls broke... ...d there under the rods and twigs of bushes were tufts of wrecked Christmas roses, nearly over, but still, in the coldest corners, the lovely buds like... ...handfuls of snow. There had been such crowded sumptuous tufts of Christmas roses everywhere in the stream-gullies, during the shadow of winter, that t... ...the end of the lake. In my loft by the lemon- houses now I should hear the guns. And Giovanni kissed me with a kind of supplication when I went on to ... ...’ But they spoke reservedly, without freedom. We talked about Italy, about songs, and Carnival; about the food, polenta, and salt. They laughed at my ... ...diers crawling over the high snow, listened to the unnatural dry rattle of guns, up there. Then we were aware of somebody whistling, of soldiers yelli...

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... tumultuous and jubilant, carried him off his feet. Like the famous choral songs amongst the citizens of Abdera, nobody could hear it without a contag... ...of rest which she had secured for France. She never sang together with the songs that rose in her native Domrémy, as echoes to the de- parting steps o... ...stify their burning her to a cinder, up gallops Joanna with a bri- gade of guns, unlimbers, and serves them out with heretical grape and deistical rou... ...wn lawyer varied the charge perhaps through forty counts. The law laid its guns so as to rake the accused at every possible angle. Whilst the indictme... ... therefore, being harnessed, under a flourish of music and a 90 salute of guns, solemnly his imperial majesty ascended his new English throne, having... ... all our praises why should lords—” No, that’s not the line. “Say, all our roses why should girls engross?” The coachman showed rosy blossoms on his f... ...thunder and lightning which I seem to remember about the time of Waterloo. Roses, I fear, are degenerating, and, without a Red revolution, must come t... ...again the rose in June and Fanny. Then come both together, as in a chorus; roses and Fannies, Fannies and roses, without end—thick as blossoms in para...

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...d front, behind which the wounded retreated, and the others reloaded their guns. Then, suddenly, with the agility already shown by Marche- a-Terre, th... ...s. There they made a rampart of the trees and pointed the muzzles of their guns on the Republicans, who were rapidly reformed under 32 The Chouans re... ... aim at the Chouan, whose fixed eyes did not blink at the muzzles of their guns, fired at short range, and brought him down. When they ap- proached th... ...k a great deal upon himself. Serving princes is far from lying on a bed of roses.” “Ah! you make me shudder!” cried Marie. “Marquis,” she continued, i... ...riend; you have too much imagination for a soldier; you ought to be making songs at the national Institute.” “If I’ve too much imagination,” retorted ...

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...g a long, long time, would have been quite forgotten but for the tales and songs of the old Bards, who used to go about from feast to feast, with thei... ...t interest ing in the early Saxon times, as they are de scribed in these songs and stories of the Bards. In, and long after, the days of Vortigern,... ...boat were pulled (as the people used to delight in relating in stories and songs) by eight crowned kings, and steered by the King of England. As Edgar... ...d to those terrible civil wars long known as the Wars of the Red and White Roses, because the red rose was the badge of the House of Lancaster, and th... ...brought about a great council in London between the two parties. The White Roses assembled in Blackfriars, the Red Roses in Whitefriars; and some good... ...o give her battle. He lodged at Sandal Castle, near Wakefield, and the Red Roses defied him to come out on Wakefield Green, and fight them then and th... ...d’s Histroy of England 312 by finding the London citizens in arms, and the guns at the Tower ready to oppose his crossing the river there, Wyat led th... ...d sailors, two thou sand slaves, and between two and three thousand great guns. England was not idle in making ready to resist this great force. All ... ...on it; and the five members were hemmed in by barges full of men and great guns, ready to protect them, at any cost. Along the Strand a large body of ...

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...laces where they had killed the emigrants. We had one passenger with us, too guns, and one revolver; so we ran all the lead We had into bullets (and) ... ... and one revolver; so we ran all the lead We had into bullets (and) hung the guns up in the wagon so that we could get at them in a minit. It was abou... ...airie chicken alited a little way from the wagon. “Jerry took out one of the guns to shoot it, and told Tom drive the oxen. T om and I drove the oxen,... ...hear the guitar accompany, and one of these old, heart-breaking Spanish love-songs mount into the night air, perhaps in a deep baritone, perhaps in th... ...y looking at this book. Here, I open it with my eyes shut. Read one of these songs – read this one – and tell me, you who are a man of intelligence, i... ...osthumous ambition perhaps requires an at- 92 Across the Plains mosphere of roses; and the more rugged excitant of Wick east winds had made another b... ...eir tooth- less gums. Sunt lacrymae rerum: this was the most eloquent of the songs of Simeon. And when a man has lived to a fair age, he bears his mar...

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...is new force even for so rough a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first guns had barrels of coopered timber, and the world waited for more than fiv... ... though there were also in all the European armies a small number of motor-guns with wheels so constructed that they could go over broken ground. In a... ...e dangled little wooden ob- jects, the symbols of infantry and cavalry and guns, as they were disposed upon the frontier. He did not seem to be aware ... ...enness of his menu, had con- trived to have a great multitude of beautiful roses. There was similar accommodation for the secretaries and attendants a... ...e-making. Down there,—under the clouds, the lovers foregather. I know your songs, Kahn, your half-mysti- cal songs, in which you represent this old ha... ...s not a common evil,’ said Karenin. ‘It is you poets, Kahn, with your love songs which turn the sweet fellowship of comrades into this woman-centred e...