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This Side of Paradise (version 2)

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

...Amory Blaine grew up in a wealthy family and was given an Ivy League education. Without a need to learn a profession, he chiefly dabbled in literature and partying. His school chums were of similar background, and the ideas they reflected to each other grew in their minds to be of t...

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Weaponized Zionism : The Palestinian Genocide, A History Of Zionist Terrorism

By: Jeffrey J Prager

... access PayPal, they can’t access anything. Even leaving the country for a life-saving surgical procedure not available in Palestine, or to attend an Ivy League college on a full scholarship, or just to leave the country to go anywhere, anywhere else, is most often impossible for the people of Gaza and Palestine....

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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...ted apart. We attended the same high school and proceeded to graduate from the same Ivy League university. We even had essentially the same job: Jos... ...apart. We attended the same high school and proceeded to graduate from the same Ivy League university. We even had essentially the same job: Josh wa...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...s from the four colleges in the Nev,' England intercollegiate bas- ketball league, held at thehome of J. B. Lapham, '07 in New York city, March 30, th... ...o send no rejiresenfative to the meeting of the Intercollegiate Basketball leaguedelegates ; no attempt will be made at present to arrange an agreemen... ...ement for a post season series of games between the champion teams of each league for the national championship. There was considerable discus- sion a... ...pionship. There was considerable discus- sion as to the arrangement of the league schedule, inasmuch as there will be no games between Williams and Da... ...rweli Dutton. BY HOPKINS HALL ' Come Fill Your Glasses Up."' By the Class. Ivy Poem, William Richmoud Witherell. Planting of the Ivy. Ivy Oration, Osw... ...arts i'iu\ii\nHmoilflHiit llii! Hnhiinfory, Itin vftlPdlctnry, III** will, Ivy |»'»i-Ill Ullil Itr.ltK. IM1\'H MlM.cIl; I'HHUl H It lit ii(lilruMNi-H ... ...OnillllllN, VtHM JJiil'llt*. cIlkhH HIHI14K, rlllHH ItH»tH)C». r.UnH will. Ivy imrni iiml nuim, Iiii.t'* Bi)(*r(!h ; uHHuyH iiti'l rulilT'iati-d tur I... ...ning Potter Brown, William Wiles Elder. Class poet, Willard Ansley Gibson. Ivy poet, Bernard Westermann. Class orator, John Kenneth Byard. Orator to t... ... lower classes, George Edgar Hite. 2d, Pipe orator, George Stephen Parker. Ivy orator, David Burnet Scott. Library orator, Elmer Philip Groben. Prophe...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...knows that it's the school to settle for if you can't make it to any of the Ivy League schools. And you're always reminded of how you didn't make it... ...s that it's the school to settle for if you can't make it to any of the Ivy League schools. And you're always reminded of how you didn't make it, es... ...e Avenue. I guess they're telling us that UCI is just as good as any of the Ivy League schools. Somehow, I don't think street names and apartment co... ...enue. I guess they're telling us that UCI is just as good as any of the Ivy League schools. Somehow, I don't think street names and apartment courts... ...ing lower exterior. It's a good thing that she didn't make it to any of the Ivy League schools, or else I wouldn't have the absolute pleasure of sta... ...lower exterior. It's a good thing that she didn't make it to any of the Ivy League schools, or else I wouldn't have the absolute pleasure of staring... ...as a NBA basketball player. Many people use the excuse that he's new in the league and that he's transitioning to the American style of basketball. ... ...n by 25% for the sole purpose of competing with the tuition fees of the top Ivy League schools and nothing else! He actually has to pay a lot extra ... ... nothing else! He actually has to pay a lot extra just to make Caltech look Ivy League and not “ ” for any real purpose like books, room and board, ...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

... shook her head adamantly. He said, “I see you don’t believe that she would be in league with Royce Lee’s killer.” She smiled at his word usage.... ...th Royce Lee’s killer.” She smiled at his word usage. “No, Hannah wouldn’t be in league with Royce’s killer.” “What could have necessitat... ...ss — a below-the-knee garment that a proper society woman wore to luncheons, Junior League second-hand sales and to teas. Miss Sister had on a gree... ...sighed and said to the butterflies in the wallpaper, “Samantha doesn’t go to Junior League anymore, either.” “When was the last time you went to Jun... ...alls and straw covered the Towers’ brick walkway as she made her way to the house. Ivy grew up the trunks of the magnolias, and gray moss covered th...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...n our lamps and candles and share late communion, get up early, walk many leagues and extol his faith. We will tell it on the hills and in the towns... ...: listen, I hear the pegs moving inside the beams: that is for integrity. Ivy grew on the east wall of my house in those days. Henley Street Jun... ...ew steps, disgraced, down to the street, cock- roaches and rats scuttling, ivy blowing in the wind. I VOICES FROM THE PAST 434 Let him finish... ... its cobble-sop, common rain on cobbles, rising out of them, climbing the ivy, moulding thatch, hurting places of the mind, shivering our secrets, i...

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Woman of Honor

By: Nicole Zoltack

...reat skill, aye, and as a result, are quite dangerous. They are said to be in league with the devil.” “Cheap shot,” Aislinn declared. “You’re lyin... ... and everyone of importance was there. The ballroom was decorated with vines, ivy, and colorful flowers. The sunlight glittered through the stained...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne PART ONE CHAPTER I A SHIFTING REEF T H... ...length— we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being sur- 4 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea passed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned... ...f the chart, separated by a distance of more than seven hundred nau- tical leagues. Fifteen days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, ... ...clothed with a world of blossoming zoo- phytes, and over which, instead of ivy, sea-weed and fu- cus threw a thick vegetable mantle. But what was this...

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The Millers Daughter

By: Emile Zola

...e, a young man who was accused of idleness but whom the fair sex for three leagues around gazed at with sparkling eyes, such a fine appearance had he.... ...med to have gathered the cold from the foliage beneath which it flowed for leagues; it brought with it the murmuring sounds, the icy and concentrated ... ...ill the aspect The Miller’s Daughter 5 of an old, dismantled citadel. But ivy had grown; all sorts of clinging plants stopped the too wide chinks and... ...a suspicious air. The silent and somber old structure with its curtains of ivy filled them with uneasiness. Nevertheless, they advanced. When fifty of... ...altered, and for a long while the lad der had been hidden under the thick ivy which covered that side of the mill. Francoise bravely climbed out of h... ...ery noise she might make, and she descended more courageously, feeling the ivy with her foot, assuring her self that the rounds were firm. When she w... ...tant she heard the sound produced by Dominique’s body in passing along the ivy. Then the wheel cracked, and there was a slight agitation in the water ...

...t Francoise, Merlier?s daughter, was that night to be betrothed to Dominique, a young man who was accused of idleness but whom the fair sex for three leagues around gazed at with sparkling eyes, such a fine appearance had he....

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The Dove in the Eagles Nest

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...was so highly es- teemed that it induced the nobles to learn to write! The League of St. George and the Swabian League were the means of gradu- ally p... ...t can scarce be free for enjoyment if it can fancy a Reiter within a dozen leagues of thee.” “At your side I would not fear. That is, I would not vex ... ...erstein, and all the rest of the mouse-trap barons. He is hoping to form a league of us free imperial cities with all the more reasonable and honest n... ...e united against them, my lords-mousers must needs be- come pledged to the league, or go down before it.” “Ah! that will be well,” cried Christina. “T... ...m too stiff for the like. Ha! ha! Thy uncle may talk of the Kaiser and his League, but he would change his note if 31 Yo n g e we had him here.” “Yet... ... motherling’s tales.” And, when the snow melted and the buds returned, the ivy spray, the smiling saxifrage, the purple gen- tian bell, the feathery r... ...knelt for their mother’s blessing, and then sprang like cham- ois down the ivy-twined steep, followed by their men, and were lost to sight among the b... ...wall of sloping rock, slippery as ice, and with only a stone or matting of ivy here and there to serve as foothold.” “Where bear can go, man can go,” ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

By: William Shakespeare

... great revenue, and she hath no child: From Athens is her house remote seven leagues; And she respects me as her only son. There, gentle Hermia, may I... ...cene i 8 Steal forth thy father’s house to morrow night; And in the wood, a league without the town, Where I did meet thee once with Helena, To do ob... ...ees. Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again Ere the leviathan can swim a league. PUCK: I’ll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. ... ...a dream and fruitless vision, And back to Athens shall the lovers wend, With league whose date till death shall never end. Whiles I in this affair do ... ...ries.] So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle Gently entwist; the female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm. O, how I love thee! how I do...

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The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

...s for our home return: Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon, We came aboard. A league from Epidamnum had we sail’d, Before the always wind obeying deep ... ...ily term’d them merciless to us! For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues, We were encounterd by a mighty rock; Which being violently borne... ...st the poison of thy flesh, Being strumpeted by thy contagion. Keep then far league and truce with thy true bed; I live unstain’d, thou undishonored. ... ...trength to communicate: If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss; Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion In...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...land in the neighbourhood of Toledo. On one of his acquisitions, about two leagues from the city, he built himself a castle which he called Cervatos, ... ... listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in league not only against the man but against his memory, or at least that it... ...,” answered his master, “with the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long.” “Look, your worship,” said Sancho; “what we see there are no... ...ss fashions, but the wreathed leaves of the green 90 Don Quixote dock and ivy, wherewith they went as bravely and becomingly decked as our Court dame... ...d, to give her in marriage not only by those of our town but of those many leagues round, and by the persons of highest quality in them. But he, being... ...e well worth seeing, for Chrysostom had many friends, and it is not half a league from this place to where he directed he should be buried.” “I will m... ...er reason will induce you, leave me to cling to the wall of which I am the ivy, to the support from which neither your importunities, nor your threats... ...front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild men, all clad in ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that they nearly terrifi... ...ut lo! suddenly there came into the garden four wild-men all clad in green ivy bearing on their shoulders a great wooden horse. They placed it on its ...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...resist- ible gale, finds himself, when he least expects it, three thousand leagues and more away from the place where he embarked; and leaping ashore ... ... by anyone except the bachelor, who thought fit to accom- pany them half a league out of the village, they set out for El Toboso, Don Quixote on his g... ...3 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. without looking back, for more than half a league. Don Quixote followed them with his eyes, and when they were no long... ...hat up to this day have ever been cel- ebrated in La Mancha, or for many a league round.” Don Quixote asked him if it was some prince’s, that he spoke... ...t, made an affidavit afterwards that he sent it nearly three-quarters of a league, which testimony will serve, and has served, to show and establish w... ...front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild men, all clad in ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that they nearly terrifi... ...ut lo! suddenly there came into the garden four wild-men all clad in green ivy bearing on their shoulders a great wooden horse. They placed it on its ...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...land in the neighbourhood of Toledo. On one of his acquisitions, about two leagues from the city, he built himself a castle which he called Cervatos, ... ... listen to most of his biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in league not only against the man but against his memory, or at least that it... ...,” answered his master, “with the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long.” “Look, your worship,” said Sancho; “what we see there are no... ...ortured in endless fashions, but the wreathed leaves of the green dock and ivy, wherewith they went as bravely and becomingly decked as our Court dame... ...d, to give her in marriage not only by those of our town but of those many leagues round, and by the persons of highest quality in them. But he, being... ...e well worth seeing, for Chrysostom had many friends, and it is not half a league from this place to where he directed he should be buried.” “I will m... ...er reason will induce you, leave me to cling to the wall of which I am the ivy, to the support from which neither your importunities, nor your threats...

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

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...insen- sible to the restraints of prison or the scantiness of our rations, I remembered I had sometimes eaten quite as ill in Spain, and had to mount ... ...ow it sig- nified no more to me than to offer the transition I required. ‘My dear friends,’ I said—‘for you must allow me to call you that, who have n... ...others. You see me set here on the top of this rock in the midst of your city. Even with what liberty I have, I have the opportunity to see a myriad r... ...d a view of some foreshort- ened suburbs at our feet, and beyond of a green, open, and irregular country rising towards the Pentland Hills. The face o... ... ‘And what is likely to happen?’ I inquired. ‘Aweel,’ said Sim, snuffing profoundly, ‘if I were to of- fer an opeenion, it would not be conscientious.... ...the border and there separate. If you are troubled, you can very truly put the blame upon your late companion; and if I am pursued, I must just try to... ...ve fed me, you have filled me full of whisky, and now you will take nothing!’ ‘Ye see we indentit for that,’ replied Sim. ‘Indented?’ I repeated; ‘wh... ...mean that you will not take it?’ said I. ‘There or thereabout,’ said he. ‘Forbye, that it would set ye a heap better to keep your siller for them you ... ...hat him that awes siller should never gie siller.’ Well, what was there to say? I accepted his rebuke, and bidding the pair farewell, set off alone up...

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The Country Doctor

By: Honoré de Balzac

...nel. He had not expected that the jour- ney would be a long one; but when, league after league, he had been misled as to the distance by the lying sta... ...rship was hard and carefully swept, but intersected by open drains. Roses, ivy, and tall grasses grew over the cracked and dis- jointed walls. Some ra... ...ng way off?” he asked, when he had mounted his horse. “Oh! no, sir, a bare league at most.” The commandant set out, fully persuaded that two leagues r... ...the time we had finished two-thirds of the road, which in all is about two leagues in length, the people had so thoroughly recog- nized its advantages... ...y doctrines. Something else must also be borne in mind. We are barely five leagues from Grenoble. There is plenty of demand in a large city for produc... ...-woman of some countess or other who owns an estate at a distance of a few leagues. It was a love-match. Here, as in all country districts, love is a ... ...directed towards me as she spoke. So some village lighted by sunrise, some ivy-covered ruin which we had seen together, memo- ries of outward and visi...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...vering shine With eagerness and haste, that needs No spur to make the dark leagues fly! Whose eyes are meteors of speed; Whose mane is as a flashing f... ... every one; But of all the throbbing beauty Brightest! singled by the sun! Ivy round her glimmering ancle, Vine about her glowing brow, 54 Never sure... ...he pitch of noon ’Tis seized with conflagration and distends Horridly over leagues of doom’d domain; Mingling the screams of birds, the cries of brute... ...ll as oak-leaves after frost. She will not speak. I will not ask. We are League-sundered by the silent gulf between. You burly lovers on the village... ...is panting up the glade, With the wine-jar at her arm-pit, and the drunken ivy-braid Round her forehead, breasts, and thighs: starts a Satyr, and the... ... behold, Rich of wreathing sun and rain; Foliage lustreful around Shadowed leagues of slumbering sound. Wavy tree-tops, yellow whins, Shelter eager mi... ...ldest dew! Bulls, that walk the pastures in kingly-flashing coats! Laurel, ivy, vine, wreathed for feasts not few! You that build the shade-roof, and ... ...d my herb, and endured; My old cloak wrapped me about. Unfooted was ground-ivy blue, Whose rustic shrewd odour allured In Spring’s fresh of morning: ... ...leer A statue losing feature, weather-sick Mid draggled creepers of twined ivy sere. The curtain cried for magnifies to see!— We cannot quench our one...

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The Prelude of 1805 in Thirteen Books

By: William Wordsworth

...ss or peace, yet I have stood, Even while mine eye has mov’d o’er three long leagues Of shining water, gathering, as it seem’d, 610 Through every hair... ...gs of the place, 130 And respirations, from the roofless walls The shuddering ivy dripp’d large drops, yet still, So sweetly ’mid the gloom the invisib... ...d matter—’twas in truth to me A promise scarcely earthly. Instantly I made a league, a covenant with a friend Of my own age, that we should lay aside ... ...ilosophy will call you—then we feel With what, and how great might ye are in league, Who make our wish our power, our thought a deed, An empire, a pos... ...d almost to the top The trunk and master branches everywhere Were green with ivy, and the lightsome twigs 95 And outer spray profusely tipped with see... ...t leaves no corner of the land untouched. 370 Where elms for many and many a league in files, With their thin umbrage, on the stately roads Of that gre... ...ouse, from town to town (Sole link that binds them to each other), walks 600 League after league, and cloistral avenues Where silence is if music be n...

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