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... photocopying, recording, taping, or by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission, in writing, from the publisher. Eloquent Bo... ...ere was so much debris; the Seekers had to remain on foot or bring in air support, which they lacked. The ruins also provided many great hiding spot... ... orders, we will move on to the rebel cell at Bridgeport. We have another squad, the one from 38 Mike Saxton Hartford, heading to New Haven,” Trito... ...ith them is an agent of mine. He was carrying a transmiter. I have sent a squad of Seekers to follow them and wait for them to set up camp. They nee... ... Suddenly she snapped back to the present as she realized that her Seeker squad was nearing the location of the rebels. “Couldn’t get the damn satel... ...ded with ferocity, sending the faming husks of vehicles into the air. The supporting Fire- 82 Mike Saxton hawk opened fre with its chain guns, riddl... ...recheck the calculations and the designs to make sure that the place can support its own weight, and I am still concerned about the shore. Those ar... ...ss from Jade, who was siting on the bed cross- 273 7 Scorpions: Rebellion legged. “Mind if I sit down?” Jade shook her head back and forth, so Josh p... ...are. As long as she can get us out of the line of fre, she could be a one-legged hooker.” Eric sat in the back seat in silence. He was not looking to...

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...ankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, m... ...wo sons, Prince Hassan, the Heir Apparent and Prince Ali. Hassan’s mother is dead, but he has the support of the old Begum, the Nawab’s mother. Ali’... ... hand resting lightly on Gavin’s arm, walked to the foot of the dais on which the Nawab sat cross-legged on the cushions of a magnificent golden thr... ...death, partly because that is what Maria had wished and partly because Isabel needed the money to support her feckless brother. Helen knew now that ... ...for.’ The carriage stopped in front of a larger and brighter shop with a fat bunia sitting cross-legged at the door, smoking a beedi through his cle... ...itories they administer. Give us time and you will see - already we have begun to build a railway system that will link all of India and there are u... ...sh,’ said the Begum, turning her blind eyes in the direction of the Arab physician, who sat cross-legged and upright on a cushioned divan, observing... ...gum rose and left the chamber, her back straight and haughty, almost as if she had no need of the support of a stick, or her maidservant’s arm. Hel... ...d the Resident that both prisoners had been tried, found guilty of treason and executed by firing squad. ‘They received a sentence far more lenient ...

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...o enjoy myself, not just to profit. If you insist, here is some cash. Go, play your darned system. Just do me a favour, stray to another table." El... ...daubs us with pink and wine. Eli turns to me and vows: "From now on we play only with your system, Shmuel, I swear to you, only your martingale." ... ...w the world. What you have just described is only the beginning. Just stick to my gambling system and it will turn out fine. Casinos everywhere wil... ...asses me by, her coarse contours defaced by agony, wheezing through luscious lips, one hand supporting heavy bust, the other clutching a sheaf of p... ...you treat me this way?" Her Hebrew is rocky but sufficient to provoke a heated debate with supporters and detractors. "What do you want with this w... ...ir of shiny handcuffs on my wrists and shackle my ankles too. I stumble towards the waiting squad car. They unlock the rear and gesture me to enter.... ... And again: "Dinah, can you come out for a moment?" A tentative knock. Dinah half-arose, supported by the armrests. "Dinah?" – Janusz's voice, as... ...patched glass door at the entrance to the headquarters. Back in the barracks, I sat cross-legged on Shalev's bed, eyeing his neatly folded blanket...

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...e Naseem—or whether he charmed her because he'd been one of her staunchest supporters next to Sahir since she had started at the museum. "...In The Ge... ...daughter-in-law was too hoity-toity and full of herself to be a proper and supportive wife to a policeman cum homicide detective. But she was surprise... ...see you later." Kane silently nodded, visually followed mawla and her four-legged companion out the back door, closed his eyes and listened with a sen... ...ced her reasons for coming over and her good vibes about her most constant supporter. "Come in, Sweet. I've been expecting you." Therese arched a brow... ... betrayal and Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 223 insinuated into his system so quickly that Kane consciously forced himself not to gasp. Had maw... ...now anything the way he once had, was not sure of his feelings. His belief system and faith had been threatened beyond repair since Therese Hunter had... ...oman preparing to face Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 260 the firing squad. Slowly she took a seat on the stool beside Justice. "I don't know wh...

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... are in conflict with each other. We have conflicts within our own value systems and between what we value and what others value. ―On ... ... seemed that it should be so easy to have all people accept the same value system. But as I pondered the questions it became obvious that we will nev... ...to the club, commander. You are probably aware that only 15% of Americans support abortion for any reason during the second trimester. Half of Ameri... ...we believe in certain humanistic principles. If it is a more totalitarian system we may appreciate the order that it gives. We seldom stray from our... ...umption that truth is better than ignorance, but all belief systems would support that claim. They would merely disagree on what truth is. If you acc... ...g money and living high? Or should I sacrifice the good life now, work to support myself through college and hopefully become better educated in lear... ...ed in Guatemala, China, the USA, the Philippines and Thailand; the firing squad is used in Russia, China, Somalia, Taiwan, Vietnam and some other s... ...heir masculinity by siring a child. Of course supporting those little two legged outcomes of orgasm is not high on the scale of macho-ness.‖ 437 ... ...da allow such free enterprise. Making the activities legal takes the vice squad out of the picture and allows the police to pursue crimes with unwil...

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...only answers the Intelligent Design theories of Christian Fundamentalists, it supports it. Except it supports it not as they would like it to be su... ...orts it. Except it supports it not as they would like it to be supported: it supports it organically, logically, scientifically: using simple commo... ...er half became freed from the earth; it was no longer used for mobility or to support the body’s weight. The complex muscle coordination required i... ...For over 200 million years now, the most dominant animals on earth have been 2-legged bipedal animals… And they have all made the same mistake. Fro... ...om raptors, to tyrannosaurus rex, to kangaroos, to humans: The 1 st of any 4-legged species to stand up on 2 legs have copied the obsolete examples ... ...4-legged species to stand up on 2 legs have copied the obsolete examples of 4- legged animals, and for making this mistake; the reward has been: compl... ...n end to physical violence as a legal norm in one small country: no more death squads... While the rich get richer and the poor stay poor. But the ... ...in office: he would have gone to jail for life, and barely escaped the firing squad. Dick Chaney is the personification of the American Monster. B... ...avery, environmental destruction, or the manufacture and sale of arms to death squads, or the sale of jet fighters to oppressive military regimes. A...

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...he world?” Alex stepped in. “No, his message was simply that he was ready to support me in my mission.” “This is too weird for words,” Walter sai... ...said, “but Pope Francis’ message said he was ready to 36 J.Cross/Artemis support me in my mission.” I will ask the Pontiff when I speak with h... ...." "I admit, I don't understand it myself. But the Pope promised me his full support if I take on this mission." 49 J.Cross/Artemis "And he ... ...rned his attention to 77 J.Cross/Artemis more important business, a long-legged blond wrapped in a tight, colorful sarong who had been starring... ...ily who urged that you be sent to America. The Junta was falling apart, Death Squads were running wild, and there was no telling what they would hav... ... flashing his teeth. "We are not amateurs, nor are we stupid. If you find our system has flaws, I would expect nothing less than you excuse yourself... ...Radcliff. "Covertly, of course." "Ah, covertly, of course. That is when your system works best." Alex didn't like the comment, but said nothing. ... ...out sparingly. Keep a lid on the troublemakers. If not, the DEA and the NARCO squads will do it for us, and we will all be in jeopardy." "I say we... ...he angel of what?" Radcliff exploded. "Are you talking about some kind of hit squad?" "In a way," Gallucci responded, toying with the General. "I...

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...to see beyond his own clod. He scoffs and sneers but what is he but a two-legged cricket, brown, yellow or black? I’m sure the cricket has his illus... ...n orange grove to eat, water rippling by us in an irrigation ditch. Cross-legged we ate cheese and dates and drank wine Kleis had given us, the summ... ... the body, the breath on my neck, special ways, his weight underneath me, supporting me, the sea coming through the windows. There is nothing better... ...I dreamed of home: I was working at the carpenter’s bench, making a three-legged stool. I finished smoothing the legs and sat on the floor, Whitey b... ...t that night, as we mourned his death. Many of us. Corpses lodged against supports of the Puente Vecchio. Plagues. Madness. Work. We cherished him, ... ...eath the grey arches of the château bridge, I sat where I could study the supports, estimating their bulk and weight. No notebook. Too many unfinish... ...ment of a death sentence. Due to her perseverance there will be no firing squad for Richard Miller, a youngster who fell asleep on duty. My “Lady Pr... ...fire. Perhaps this is Butcher Day—our men are facing a Confederate firing squad. I am reprimanded. Officers protest I weaken army morale when I comm... ... tent amputations, men struggling across a muddy, swollen river, a firing squad where men are shot down as I sit in a rock- ing chair. I say nothing...

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...ved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means, electronic, mechanical, ph... ... eyes and looked up at the Storyteller. The old man sat on his rock cross-legged as always, but now with his head clasped deep in his hands. ‘Maste... ...urtains. ‘Flash-boxes?’ Theo asked in confusion, but in the same instant a squad of doctors and press swung into the room. The journalists had large... ...animal off the poor policeman. He had, however, already radioed ahead for support. Theo kept his eyes f xed on the pigeon and banked a sharp right do... ...ook at each other and cracked up once again. Leaning upon one another for support, they staggered up the staircase of the library. Their laughter ec... ...anaged to hypnotise himself by staring into the f ames. Jadooji sat cross-legged and as relaxed as it was possible to be. ‘I’ve been thinking a lot ...

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...means, including photocopying, recording or by any information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, character... ...ddy left her as much as he left you. But you’re right, at least she didn’t have to support the scoundrel.” “Let’s not speak ill of the dead. E... .... “Why, yes, sir,” Donald said, as if he had every faith in the criminal justice system. “I’ll take my chances today. I want to go home.” Be... ... wound beneath the oversized collar of his white shirt. His trousers were straight-legged, and rather tight over the heeled black boots. His... ...eal baby came, I was miserable. I loved Maggie, but I couldn’t get Royce out of my system. We couldn’t stay away from each other.” “You were b... ... election, he would no longer be sheriff of Raimon County. Clay Hartwell would not support him, although Clay wouldn’t bad-mouth him because Clay co... ...put on his campaign hat, and the houseman showed him out. He stepped lightly to the squad car. Then he laughed. Let them deal with the troublesome... ...ou go messing in their business.” When Serpents Die 125 What Olin said supported her idea. “What if I asked you to take me for a ride?”...

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...ard and steamed for Gibraltar, looking, as we passed, at Joinville’s black squadron, and the white houses of St. Mary’s across the bay, with the hill... ...nts—all hearty English gentle- men—gone to their wine-butts, and their red-legged partridges, and their duels at Oporto. It appears that these gallant... ...; porters, Galician or Genoese; and at every few minutes’ interval, little squads of soldiers tramping to relieve guard at some one of the innumerable... ...more afraid of the Kabyles without the city than of the guns of the French squadron, of which they seemed to make rather light. I heard the last odds ... ...e romantic to the hearer than it is to the sandy Connaught-man or the bare-legged Highlander who delivers it. It is best to read about wars comfortabl... ... eral times, had not the dragoman and the master of the bath 59 Thackeray supported me down the stairs and across the hall. Dressed in three large co... ...use them?And as we know that one fib leads to another, so I was obliged to support the first false- hood by another; and putting on a dignified air—”C... ...ery—this padded and whiskered pon- tiff—who rules in his jack-boots over a system of spies and soldiers, of deceit, ignorance, dissoluteness, and brut... ...ttle attention. His Highness’s trea- sury must be filled, and his officers supported in their authority. However, there was one village, of which the ...

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...nly suggested, 6 One of Our Conquerors that a degradation of his physical system, owing to the shock of the fall, must be seen and acknowledged; for ... ...as threatened it before. It’s probably feline play with us.’ His chin took support, he frowned. ‘You may have touched her.’ ‘She won’t be touched, and... ... altar we’ve stood before, in spirit … one of the ladies of your family to support you:—why not? Not even then?’ ‘No, Victor; they have cast me off.’ ... ...rs are a buttress of Society. But, come: I wager they don’t know what they support until they read that Essay.’ Carling had a pleasant sense of escape... ...d the French disposition of the planting at wide intervals; and the French system of training peach, pear, and plum trees on the walls to win length a... ...g as it does—that is, not paying. We shall be having to gamble in the City systematically for subsistence.’ ‘You will not so much as jest on the subje... ...ign nations are drilling their youth, teaching them to be ready to move in squads or masses, like the fist of a pugilist. Skepsey left it to his look ... ...266 One of Our Conquerors Colney remarked: ‘I was a poet—for once.’ A neat-legged Parisianly-booted lady, having the sea, winds very enterprising with...

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... the Mississippi Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 3 Valley capable of supporting a dense population. As a dwell ing place for civilized man ... ... he closed the window he was empty. You could have drawn a seine through his system and not caught curses enough to disturb your mother with. Pres en... ...es for the entire pre posterousness of the thing to filter into Mr. Bixby’s system, and then I judge it filled him nearly up to the chin; because he ... ...8 ried her handsomely over, and then began to work her warily into the next system of shoal marks; the same patient, heed ful use of leads and engin... ...with one end turned up; it is a reversed school house bench, with one of the supports left and the other removed. It is an chored on the shoalest par... ... to pay ten per cent. of their wages, every month, into the treasury for the support of the association, whereas all the members were outcast and tabo... ...ts like boiler iron. On sunny days, pretty little chameleons—gracefullest of legged reptiles—creep along the marble fronts of the vaults, and catch fl... ...Memphis; when his vessel went down, he swam ashore, fought his way through a squad of soldiers, and made a gal lant and narrow escape. He was always ... ...s, that marched around treading on each other’s heels, in charge of a spider legged consumptive dressed like themselves?” “That’s it! that’s it! I was...

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..., began in all parts to break up from a concourse into various clusters or squads, which in some cases disintegrated again into quartettes, trios, and... ...harged custom-house officer, who, suddenly stripped of convenient means of support, had concluded to be avenged on govern- ment and humanity by making... ...when, emboldened by this evidence of the efficacy of his words, the wooden-legged man hobbled up to the negro, and, with the air of a beadle, would, t... ...n. 18 The Confidence-Man “How can I go find ‘em myself? Dis poor ole game-legged darkie’s friends must come to him. Oh, whar, whar is dat good friend... ...a laugh. Both turned, and the young clergyman started at seeing the wooden-legged man close behind him, morosely grave as a criminal judge with a must... ...be the methodization of the world’s benevolence; to which end, the present system of voluntary and promiscuous contribution to be done away, and the S... ...out, he procures a glass, returns, and, holding it to the sufferer’s lips, supports his head while he drinks: “And did they let you lie here, my poor ... ...ve to consider it in the light of a commentary on what I believe to be the system of things; but it so jars with all, it so incompatible with all, tha... ... Believe me that, like your crutches, confidence and hopefulness will long support a man when his own legs will not. Stick to confidence and hopefulne...

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...ghts.” “Had advice?” “Yes. Bad advice for the most part. Drugs. My nervous system... . They are all very well for the run of people. It’s hard to expl... ... of it. It is your world. You ac- cept it, you rejoice in it. It warms and supports and delights you. And for me—” He turned his head and showed a gha... ...ot water, with a pleasing faint aroma and taste and a quality of immediate support and stimulus. He put down the vessel and looked about him. The apar... ...en these little things, have altered. You lived in the days of the decimal system, the Arab system—tens, and little hundreds and thou- sands. We have ... ...red for, the multitudes of people. But conflicts in the city ways! And the systematised sensuality of a class of rich men! He thought of Bellamy, the ... ...snow. They hurried for a time through the colossal metallic tracery of its supports, and came at last above a place of moving platforms like the place... ...rgen, or the bedroom of his home. But fact takes no heed of human hopes. A squad of men with a black banner tramped athwart 79 H G Wells the nearer s... ...ected to the tightly but- toned perils, the ruthless exaggeration of tight-legged tight- armed evening dress, now formed but the basis of a wealth of ... ...of a collision, and two falling flares. Far away to the southward a second squadron was com- ing. Steadily he beat upward. Presently all the aeroplane...

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...her arms folded tight under her ample bosom, she scolded the squat, thick- legged China girls handling linen, plucking fowls, pounding corn in wooden ... ...es Gould was going on, he infused an added grimness into his assurances of support. Even at the very last interview, half an hour or so before he roll... ...medals hanging on their bare breasts, mar- 93 Joseph Conrad shalled their squads; and at last the mountain would swallow one-half of the silent crowd... ...es. It promised well for the Fiscal at first, but ended very badly for the squad- 100 Nostromo ron of lanceros posted (by the Fiscal’s directions) in... ... nephews, brothers, husbands of favourite sis- ters, bosom friends, trusty supporters—or prominent supporters of whom perhaps they were afraid. It was... ... always on a great scale; there was a loan to the State, and a project for systematic colonization of the Occi- dental Province, involved in one vast ... ...and its wire ended abruptly in the construction camp at a white deal table supporting a Morse apparatus, in a long hut of planks with a corrugated iro... ...om the exercise of ra- tional clemency. The irregular report of the firing squad would be heard, followed sometimes by a single finishing shot; a litt... ...r his shoulder as he wrote; but the Señor Administrador, standing straddle-legged, would not even glance at it when it was finished. He had waved it a...

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...ed. Its front is ornamented with a portico of half a dozen wooden pillars, supporting a bal cony, beneath which a flight of wide granite steps descen... ...there is a stove with a voluminous fun nel; an old pine desk with a three legged stool beside it; two or three wooden bottom chairs, exceedingly decr... ...some six months ago— pacing from corner to corner, or lounging on the long legged tool, with his elbow on the desk, and his eyes wandering up and down... ...the human family, merely communicated a genial warmth to their half torpid systems—it was pleasant to hear them chatting in the back entry, a row of t... ...yes. The father of the Custom House—the patriarch, not only of this little squad of officials, but, I am bold to say, of the respectable body of tide ... ...manent Inspector. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system, dyed in the wool, or rather born in the purple; since his sire, a R... ...ct, from the thorough healthfulness 15 Hawthorne and wholesomeness of his system, and his capacity, at that extreme age, to enjoy all, or nearly all,... ...ed to the weakness or force of his original nature, the capability of self support. If he possesses an unusual share of native energy, or the enervati... ...ity are lost— he for ever afterwards looks wistfully about him in quest of support external to himself. His pervading and continual hope—a hallucinati...

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...t oath was upon them, they had now in their faithful prosecution of it the support which it gives. They were unwearied; they had one object; the morta... ...outbreak, her hands disjoined, and she stretched her fingers to the grass, supporting herself so, while her extended chin and animated features told h... ...eave the mountain, and think—oh!” Having illustrated the philosophy of his system, Luigi con- tinued: “I am going to tell you everything. Pray, do not... ...gle into one temple. His head inclined to meet it: so that it was like the support to a broad blunt pillar. The cropped head was flat as an owl’s; the... ...d arm, where he wriggled, refusing to listen to the explanation of Barto’s system; which was that, in cases where every fresh examination taught him m... ...alf-an-hour later Luigi 63 George Meredith saw Barto in the saddle, tight-legged about a rusty beast, evidently bound for the South-eastern gate, his... ...I saw a regiment of Hungarians coming up the Borgo della Stella. Two fresh squadrons of Uhlans in the Corso Francesco. In the Piazza d’Armi artillery ... ...eview uniform, followed by two pieces of artillery, passed by. Then came a squadron of hussars and one of Uhlans, and another foot regiment, more arti... ...en, looking brilliant in the clean tight military array of Austria. Then a squadron of blue hussars, and Croat regiment; after which, in the midst of ...

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..., pub- lished in 1620, is not the work of Shelton, but there is nothing to support the assertion save the fact that it has less spirit, less of what w... ...ervices; a dono infelice as events proved. On the 26th they fell in with a squadron of Algerine galleys, and after a stout resistance were overpowered... ...s return to Spain he found his old regiment about to march for Portugal to support Philip’s claim to the crown, and utterly penniless now, had no choi... ...easury, which was still outstanding. He remained at Valladolid, apparently supporting him- self by agencies and scrivener’s work of some sort; probabl... ...s, Rastrea mi suerte.” And so he went on naming a number of knights of one squadron or the other out of his imagination, and to all he assigned off-ha... ... and without a pause, he continued, “People of divers nations compose this squadron in front; here are those that drink of the sweet waters of the fam... ... their conversation they fell to discussing what they call State-craft and systems of government, cor- recting this abuse and condemning that, reformi... ...ion, and hold, that he was of middle height, broad- shouldered, rather bow-legged, swarthy-complexioned, red-bearded, with a hairy body and a severe e... ...anions, and without putting anything on her head or feet, for she was bare-legged and had her hair hang- ing about her, away she skipped in front of t...

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...an afford to smile. Later in the day, as I sat writing up my journal, the cabin was filled from end to end with Marquesans: three brown- skinned gener... ...ching ex- tinction of his race. The thought of death sits down with him to meat, and rises with him from his bed; he lives and breathes under a shadow... ...he lives and breathes under a shadow of mortality awful to support; and he is so inured to the apprehension that he greets the reality with relief. He... ...s are neglected, the dance languishes, the songs are forgotten. It is true that some, and perhaps too many, of them are proscribed; but many remain, i... ...ad you hidden a tapu?’ we may conceive him asking; and I cannot imagine the proprietor gainsaying it; 40 In The South Seas and this is perhaps the st... ...ng in the shambles, and from that time his confidence and his delight in life were ended. We still re- served him a long while, but he could not endur... ...nd to one of the maniap’s 166 In The South Seas before the palace gate we were attracted by a low but stir- ring hum of speech. The oval shed was ful... ...antern to-night in church; and this brought the king to visit us. In honour of the Black Dou- glas (I suppose) his usual two guardsmen were now in- cr... ...ing, there came by way of answer discreet, obsequious laughter—such laughter as we hear in school- rooms; and if it were practical, the sudden uprisin...

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... Mott: Have you ever tried any experiments with any of the new educational systems? The modern kindergarten methods or the Gary system?” “Oh. Those. M... .... Daily she determined, “But I must have a stated amount—be business-like. System. I must do something about it.” And daily she didn’t do anything abo... ...alone. Humming, fluttering pages with de- lighted fingers, Carol sat cross-legged on the floor, the magazines in heaps about her. She found pictures o... ...ting to the Lake Ojibawasha Club, telling them that if their district will support Mrs. Warren for sec- ond vice-president, we’ll support their Mrs. H... ...lanket. His drab courageous wife drove the wagon, and she helped Kennicott support him as he hobbled up the steps, into the house. “Fellow cut his leg... ... the gritty carpet. Vida was an advocate of culture-buying and efficiency- systems. She hinted that they ought to have (as at the committee-meetings o... ...sm, at trying to make the audience cheer by dividing them into competitive squads and telling them that they were intelligent and made splendid commun... ... they are not of the towns, they are of the farmers. If these heresies are supported by the townsmen it is only by occasional teachers doctors, lawyer... ...she had entered that she found an excuse. Erik was in the back room, cross-legged on a long table, sewing a vest. But he looked as though he were doin...

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...es exercised upon the Lowlands, began to assume a more steady, avowed, and systematic form, as part of a general military system. Those at the head of... ... double-pointed stakes, shod with iron at each end, and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry. The whilk Swedish feath... ...liar or a brag- gart at my own board-end, when, God knows, I only meant to support my honour, and that of my family and country. Donald, as they were ... ...u claim no right to exact from him what is his own.” Lord Menteith eagerly supported Allan’s opinion, and the elder M’Aulay readily joined, declaring ... ...- tunate lady, though her intellect proved to be totally deranged. How she supported herself during her wandering in the woods could not be known—some... ...hough situated too high to be of any effectual use according to the modern system of warfare. The eastern sun, rising behind the old tower, flung its ... ...e ashore—Proper fel- low! I would know that toss of his head among a whole squad- ron. I must go to see what they are to make of him.” He had no soone... ...e Marquis of Argyle prob- ably wished to make an impression on the nervous system of Captain Dugald Dalgetty. But that doughty person had fought his w... ...e courteously waited upon; she has four Highland maidens, and as many bare-legged gillies, to wait upon her orders.” “And what would you have, gentlem...

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...der. As far as the head goes, at least, she does credit to the educational system pursued at my establishment.’’ And so the schoolmistress reconciled ... ...at the lodge-gate (over the pillars of which are a serpent and a dove, the supporters of the Crawley arms), made us a number of curtsies as she flung ... ...nced any sentiment or opinion which was not perfectly trite and stale, and supported by a Latin quotation; yet he failed somehow, in spite of a medioc... ...to such a multiplicity of volumes as not the most sentimental reader could support; that she not only filled sheets of large paper, but crossed them w... ...ng some of his favourite waltzes (then newly imported) at the great carved-legged, leather-cased grand pi- ano in the drawing-room overhead. This litt... ...o be a man of fashion, Osborne parted from Rawdon, who followed the august squadron down an alley into which they cantered, while George and Dobbin re... ... army from Brussels changed the as- pect of the combat of Quatre Bras, the squadrons among which Regulus rode showed the greatest activity in retreati... ...s garter and ribbon. A short man was his Lord- ship, broad-chested and bow-legged, but proud of the fineness of his foot and ankle, and always caressi... ...s, clearing the lodge-gates, got into a brisker trot on the open road; and squads of them might have been seen, speckling with black the public-house ...

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...sols a head from the men if their service pleased her. Now seeing that the squad was there for a month, she would be able to gain ten crowns, and at t... ... manner, that the Spanish ladies were of a passable temperature, and their system a fair one, but that when gentleness was required they substituted f... ...t moments be stripped of everything, and resolved to invent a more perfect system of management in his domains, and he did well. In a cellar of Gargan... ...any dogs as Panurge found busy with his lady’s robe at church, so many two-legged academic puppies have 91 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 busied themselves w... ...he needles of love, because he avoided marriage, knowing himself to be the support of my old days, the love for my eyes, and the constant delight of m...

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... the insignificant, tiny speck of her hull. The tall masts are the pillars supporting the bal- anced planes that, motionless and silent, catch from th... ...ience; but in this case what was wrong with our craft was this: that by my system of loading she had been made much too stable. Neither before nor sin... ...then was the best in you, giving you the daily bread of life and the moral support of other men’s confidence. The ship is lost or not lost. Once stran... ...s of victorious ships have hung upon his breath. He has tossed in his hand squad- rons of war-scarred three-deckers, and shredded out in mere sport th... ...e only to spite his kingly brother of the West. We gazed helplessly at the systematic, cold, gray- eyed obstinacy of the Easterly weather, while short... ...ways at the same distance. Meanwhile Dominic, black and cowled, sat cross- legged on the deck, with his back to the wind, recall- ing vaguely an Arab ... ...ng her straight with their oars. Dominic, with his arm round my shoulders, supported me in the stern-sheets. We landed in a familiar part of the count...

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... successful gentleman farmer. Herman’s roving disposition, and a desire to support him- self independently of family assistance, soon led him to ship ... ...y of them at Whitihoo—but let that pass. At the time I mention, the French squadron was rendez- vousing in the bay of Nukuheva, and during an intervie... ... it was suggested by the former, that we, as the flag-ship of the American squadron, should receive, in state, a visit from the royal pair. The French... ...HE MARQUESAS—SLEEPY TIMES ABOARD SHIP—SOUTH SEA SCENERY—LAND HO—THE FRENCH SQUADRON DISCOVERED AT ANCHOR IN THE BAY OF NUKUHEVA—STRANGE PILOT— ESCORT ... ... a group of grey-bearded chiefs, on one of whom he occasionally leaned for support. The admiral came 48 Typee forward with head uncovered and extende... ...t unperceived a passage to the mountain, I might easily remain among them, supporting myself by such fruits as came in my way until the sailing of the... ...posed to look upon with abhorrence than a rightabout retrograde movement—a systematic going over of the already trodden ground: and especially if he h... ...lost the use of their lower limbs altogether; sitting upon the floor cross-legged in a state of torpor. They never heeded us in the least, scarcely lo... ...re of the performance was ex- hibited by a score of old men, who sat cross-legged in the little pulpits, which encircled the trunks of the immense tre...

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...o be a man of fashion, Osborne parted from Rawdon, who followed the august squadron down an alley into which they cantered, while George and Dobbin re... ... army from Brussels changed the as- pect of the combat of Quatre Bras, the squadrons among which Regulus rode showed the greatest activity in retreati... ...enerous old heathen!—We shall see thee no more. Let us hope that Lady Jane supported her kindly, and led her with gentle hand out of the busy struggle... ...s garter and ribbon. A short man was his Lord- ship, broad-chested and bow-legged, but proud of the fineness of his foot and ankle, and always caressi... ...undred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. It was the chief support of the old couple; for Mr. Sedley’s speculations in life subsequent... ...s, clearing the lodge-gates, got into a brisker trot on the open road; and squads of them might have been seen, speckling with black the public-house ... ...spec- tives, and this apartment of Miss Osborne’s seemed the cen- tre of a system of drawing-rooms. When she removed the cordovan leather from the gra... ...supplication to her brother at Calcutta, imploring him not to withdraw the support which he had granted to their parents and painting in terms of artl...

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...e time, between the years 1824 and 1828, senior officer of a small British Squadron on the West Coast of South America. His book published in the thir... ...he place of his capture to the gate of the fort. This was the only kind of systematic attention the prisoners had received from their escort during a ... ...ecause he had known Lord Cochrane and had taken part, on board the patriot squadron commanded by that marvellous sea-man, in the cutting out and block... ...ore going to their death; but the soldiers were so amused by Gaspar Ruiz’s systematic proceedings that they car- ried the water up to the window cheer... ... hus- band with a less haughty reserve. “The senior officer of the English squadron on our coast made representations to our Government as to these ca... ...borrowed a guitar from the Englishmen’s chief muleteer, and sitting cross- legged on his superfine poncho spread before the glow of the embers, sang a... ...r he got it in earnest when our victorious army began to return from Peru. System- atic operations were planned against this blot on the honour and pr... ...had com- forted him very much. His seemed to be the sort of nature needing support and sympathy. The idea of 125 Joseph Conrad not being able to find...

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...tained at the expense of the Earl of Shrewsbury. It formed part of a small squadron which was cruising on the eastern coast to watch over the inter- c... ...er in blood should be there to lay their young squire in his grave, nor to support his father, who, poor old man, had tottered, and been so like to sw... ..., which was in an indescribable state of confusion. The trestles which had supported the coffin were still at one end of the room, the long tables wer... ...on of herself as a queen before the whole company of the castle. The harsh system of the time made the good mother think it her duty to requite this r... ...ive beyond the orders from the Court, Bess of Hardwicke, emboldened by the support she had gathered from her children, passionately declared that it c... ...g with a canopy, proceeding from the tapestried wall, and here was a cross-legged velvet chair on which sat Queen Mary. This 100 Un... ... to bestow her, I trow that is because ye have spent too much on your long-legged sons to be able to lay down a portion for her, though she be your on... ...st rogues oft prove those who can do the best ser- vice, just as the bandy-legged cur will turn the spit, or un- earth the fox when your gallant hound... ...addressed himself with all his might to the endeavour to teach his awkward squad to stand upright for five minutes together. Sturdy fel- lows as they ...

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...th the strains of the national anthem made him feel important, truculent. “Squads right!” same an order. Crunch, crunch, crunch in the gravel. The com... ...II III III III It was Saturday morning. Directed by the corporal, a bandy- legged Italian who even on the army diet managed to keep a faint odour of g... ...oups that covered the transport’s after deck, a little of his cowboy’s bow-legged stride. “I know what it is that makes men’s eyes blink when they go ... ...my goddam rifle, I’ll be a sucker if I’ve used it once. I’m in the grenade squad.” Someone at the end of the room had started singing: “O Mademerselle... ... smiled wanly at Meadville. “Sergeant, take the men down to the station.” “Squads, right,” cried the sergeant. “March!” The company tramped off into t... ...up and down in the water. When he came out, he found Andrews sitting cross-legged near his clothes. He reached for his shirt and drew it on him. “God,... ...ams of the ceiling sprung from the wall, a row of half-obliterated shields supported by figures carved out of the grey stone of the wall, handed satyr... ...or being late. Andrews stared for a long while at the line of shields that supported the dark ceiling beams on the wall opposite his cot. The emblems ... ...h infantry men who looked at him angrily. Noticing suddenly that he had no support, he moderated his voice. “The infantry’s damn necessary, I’ll admit...

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...ong drawn procession of formidable names it was! Starting with the Railway Systems, Steamer Lines, Standard Oil, Ocean Cables, Diluted Telegraph, and ... ...itude they would softly caress each other’s hands in mutual compassion and support, as if they would say: “I am near you, I will not forsake you, we w... ...or the test, and they took the puppy to the laboratory, and I limped three leggedly along, too, feeling proud, for any attention shown to the puppy wa... ...ld of spirits with that declaration in his mouth? Oh, unhappy man! Oh, in supportable hour! 103 Mark Twain F . Yes, and had all his sighs and looks ... ... corporal or something like that, and to have a different uniform for each squad, so that I could tell a Plu perfect from a Compound Future without l... ...he “march past” was on. Down they filed, a blaze of variegated color, each squad gaudy in a uniform of its own and bearing a banner inscribed with its... ... to con stitute a plural, it is polli.” “Very well, polli will do. Which squad is detailed for duty next?” “The Past Definite.” “Send out and order ... ...y shouldn’t it from Mr. Rockefeller? In all the ages, three fourths of the support of the great chari ties has been conscience money, as my books wil... ...d, and goes about on its four legs now. Yet it differs from the other four legged animals, in that its front legs are unusually short, consequently th...

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...ar west, the bride was a red girl, Her father and his friends sat near cross legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thi... ...mpathy, (Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?) I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to b... ...r thirty years of age. The second First day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer, The work commenced a... ...omulges as much as any. I open my scuttle at night and see the far sprinkled systems, And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the ri... ...hout flinching the accoucheur comes, I see the elder hand pressing receiving supporting, I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors, And m... ...ay not in unknown ways be looking upon you; Be firm, rail over the river, to support those who lean idly, yet haste with the hasting current; Fly on, ... ...n town. A fog follows, antiques of the same come limping, Some appear wooden legged, and some appear bandaged and bloodless. Why this is indeed a show... ... The salesman leaving the store, the boss, book keeper, porter, all leaving; Squads gather everywhere by common consent and arm, The new recruits, eve... ... compass out of the countless graves, In wafted clouds, in myriads large, or squads of twos or threes or single ones they come, And silently gather ro...

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...lished. Its front is ornamented with a portico of half a dozen wooden pillars, supporting a balcony, beneath which a flight of wide granite steps desce... ...ture, there is a stove with a voluminous funnel; an old pine desk with a three legged stool beside it; two or three wooden bottom chairs, exceed ingl... ...e, some six months ago — pacing from corner to corner, or lounging on the long legged tool, with his elbow on the desk, and his eyes wandering up and ... ... of the human family, merely communicated a genial warmth to their half torpid systems — it was pleasant to hear them chatting in the back entry, a ro... ... eyes. The father of the Custom House — the patriarch, not only of this little squad of officials, but, I am bold to say, of the respectable body of ti... ... permanent Inspector. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system, dyed in the wool, or rather born in the purple; since his sire,... ... satisfactory object, from the thorough healthfulness and wholesomeness of his system, and his capacity, at that extreme age, to enjoy all, or nearly ... ...tioned to the weakness or force of his original nature, the capability of self support. If he possesses an unusual share of native energy, or the ener... ...ticity are lost — he for ever afterwards looks wistfully about him in quest of support external to himself. His pervading and continual hope — a hallu...

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...d; only Fable expecting that he will awaken. Charles the Hammer, Pepin Bow-legged, where now is their eye of menace, their voice of command? Rollo and... ...nce and murder, but by soliciting and finesse. These men call them- selves supports of the throne, singular gilt-pasteboard cary- atides in that singu... ..., King Donothing; but with the strang- est new Mayor of the Palace: no bow-legged Pepin now, but that same cloud-capt, fire-breathing Spectre of Democ... ...retofore a Horn of Plenty; wherefrom loyal courtiers may draw,—to the just support of the throne. Let Liberalism and a New Era, if such is the wish, b... ...hilosophedom grows ever more clamorous, what can a Maurepas do—but gyrate? Squadrons cross the ocean: Gages, Lees, rough Yankee Generals, ‘with woolle... ...on the Privileged Classes cannot be got registered; are intolerable to our supporters themselves: taxes on the Un- privileged yield nothing,—as from a... ...cerns are joyfully getting their gear ready. Royal Hunt indeed; but of two-legged unfeathered game! At eleven in the morning of that Royal-Hunt day, 1... ...d by fugitive shrieking white women, by Terror and Rumour. Black demonised squadrons are massacring and harrying, with nameless cruelty. They fight an... ...ries a written Order from him these three days, to repel force by force. A squadron on the Pont Neuf with cannon shall turn back these Marseillese com...

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...elief until the gleam of a distant torch falls on great Egyp- tian pillars supporting the roof of a majestic corridor. At the further end of this corr... ... of a hawk. Before the image is a bronze tripod, about as large as a three-legged stool, with a stick of incense burning on it. Rufio, with Roman re- ... ... means what he says. APOLLODORUS. Serious or not, he spoke well. Give me a squad of soldiers to work the crane. BRITANNUS. Leave the crane to me. Go a... ...he Hittites as much as it does to-day. It does not give the slightest real support to the common assumption that the civilized contemporaries of the H... ...n, not as mortifying his nature by doing his duty, in the manner which our system of putting little men into great positions (not having enough great ...

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...s God will help me to find a way to prepare him!... Adieu, Prince! May God support you...” “Adieu, ma bonne,” answered Prince V asili turning away fro... ...y dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you. But God will support you: you are young, and are now, I hope, in command of an immense f... ... the armchair, Mademoiselle Bourienne chafing her temples. Princess Mary , support- ing her sister-in-law, still looked with her beautiful eyes full o... ...APTER IV THE PA VLOGRAD HUSSARS were stationed two miles from Braunau. The squadron in which Nicholas Rostov served as a cadet was quartered in the Ge... ...best quarters in the village were assigned to cavalry-captain Denisov, the squadron commander, known throughout the whole cavalry division as V aska D... ...ov, ever since he had overtaken the regiment in Poland, had lived with the squadron com- mander. On October 11, the day when all was astir at head- qu... ... Peace the feeble, round-shouldered figure of Tushin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him. Tushin’s large, kind, intelligent eyes were ... ...ses in horsecloths. Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. “Tit! I say, Tit!”... ...n the hollow moved and loosed his borzois, and Nicholas saw a queer, short-legged red fox with a fine brush going hard across the field. The borzois b...

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...d audibly and the mechanician clutched a hopelessly smashed carburetor for support. One of the section’s voitures, a F .I.A.T ., was standing ready. G... ...imulta- neously in five directions. The rider had a bored expression as he supported the stiff reins in one fist. His further leg assisted in his flig... ... shadows. I recognized officiers anglais wandering helplessly up and down, supported with their sticks; French lieutenants talking to each other here ... ... I should make a great speech (in Midi French). I should say to the firing squad: “Gentlemen, c’est de la blague, tu sais? Moi, je connais la soeur du... ...exchanged (in the course of the next two hours) a considerable mass of two legged beings for a num- ber of extremely interesting individuals. Also, in... ...gs elbows when he sat in The Enormous Room quietly writing at a tiny three-legged table, a very big pen walking away with his weak bony hand. His too ... ...ly all the time (to the gentle annoyance of The Schoolmaster) at the queer-legged table; wrote letters (which he read aloud with evident satisfaction ... ...berately have allowed them to es- cape, after—through its incomparable spy system—learn- ing that The Barber and his young friend were about to at- te... ...l time. It may be supposed that he was master of an intricate and delicate system whereby ideas were conveyed through signs of various sorts. On the c...

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..., and said he believed few men died without having a warning of it, which he supported by a great many stories of dreams, and the unusual behavior of... ... These form the aristocracy; inter- marrying, and keeping up an exclusive system in every respect. They can be told by their complex- ions, dress,... ... during the week that we were at Monterey. The truth is, they have no credit system, no banks, and no way of investing way of investing money but in... ...d that however it might look or feel at first the ‘‘head work’’ was the only system for California. For besides that the seas, breaking high, often ... ...sed in the common dress of the country, with a silver chain round his neck, supporting a large bunch of keys. From this, we took him to be the stewar... ... men; had handkerchiefs tied round their heads; and were barearmed and bare legged. The horses were noble looking beasts, not so sleek and combed as ... ...e reason, I had to fall back upon the fact. In my account of the speed I was supported by Tom, who had been to Nantucket, and seen a little steamboat... ...hey are a match for the dog,— one to one,—but as the dogs generally went in squads, there was seldom a fair fight. A smaller dog, belonging to us, o... ...w, too, were not in much better order. Her captain was a slab sided, shamble legged Quaker, in a suit of brown, with a broad brimmed hat, and sneakin...

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... were any fences visible, or any of those low-roofed houses with verandahs supported upon low wooden pillars, such as were seen in the suburb. A low w... ...ed with axes in their hands. Old, weatherbeaten, broad-shouldered, strong- legged Zaporozhtzi, with black or silvered moustaches, rolled up their trou... ...ly misfortunes might be ban- ished. A few women, resembling shadows, knelt support- ing themselves against the backs of the chairs and dark wooden ben... ... guards, who with one hand held their halberds upright, and with the other supported their drooping heads, and in this attitude more resembled apparit... ...slaying the enemy by the waggons. The third Pisarenko had repulsed a whole squadron from the more distant waggons; and they were still fighting and ki... ...ere grand and imposing, but rather exaggerated. The main foundation of his system was strictness. “Strictness, strictness, and always strictness!” he ... ...ike birds of prey swooping down upon an unburied corpse. There was a whole squad- ron of Russian shop-keepers from the Gostinnui Dvor, and from the ol...