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I'Ll Do Anything

By: Chrystal Kincaid

...s home, the only one Julia had ever known, and she wouldn’t trade it for any metropolitan area in the world. Julia squinted at the sun through amb... ...be filed for a venue change before anything else. There are only two other counties in the state that match the statistical criteria. We’re one of ...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...epublic Capital: Santiago Administrative divisions: 12 regions plus Santiago metropolitan region, 41 provincial subdivisions Legal system: based on Co... ...ove; subscriber tele- printer exchange (telex) services available in 25 main metropolitan areas; unknown number of facsimile and data transmission poi... ...pe: constitutional monarchy Capita!: Copenhagen Administrative divisions: 14 counties, 275 communes (88 towns are included in communes) Dependent area... ...h Prime Minister Capital: Paris Administrative divisions: 22 regions with 96 metropolitan departments Dependent areas: Bassas da India, Clip- perton I... ...olynesian Ethnic divisions: 78% Polynesian, 12% Chinese, 6% local French, 4% metropolitan French 84 Gabon Religion: mainly Christian; 55% Protes- tan... ...dministrative divisions: (excluding East Berlin) 14 districts (Bezirke), 218 counties (Kreise), 7,570 communities (Gemeinden) Legal system: civil law ... ...ased out during 1986-87) Capital: Godthab (Nuuk) Administrative divisions: 3 counties, 18 communes Legal system: Danish law; transformed from colony t... ...Type: Communist state Capital: Budapest Administrative divisions: 19 megyes (counties), 5 autonomous cities in county status Legal system: based on Co... ...ion of Reunion, Georges Sinamale; other political candidates affiliated with metropolitan French parties, which do not maintain permanent organization...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

... 81.7 years U.S.: 78.6 years CLEAN AIR Honolulu ranked No. 1 for cleanest metropolitan areas in the country for ozone and for 24-hour particle pollu... ...hilippines: Ilocos Sur, Cebu, Pangasinan, Ilocos Norte, Isabela Hawai‘i’s counties also have 48 sister-county relationships spread over nine APEC e... ...echnologies. The judges also named one winner for each of Hawai‘i’s four counties: • Sopogy Inc. (Honolulu County); • Trex Advanced Materials (...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...And then, common sense tells you that the advanced living standards of many counties today cannot be voluntarily ended. DEATH AND DISEASE “T... ...ntial of Urban Growth.” June 27, 2007 1a. Arthur Nelson, co-director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech, Reported in USA Today, Apr. 30,...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...n size. Houses in this haunting and decrepit no man's land straddling the City and metropolitan London could be had for 25-50,000 British pounds as... ...ormer Yugoslavia, and the Baltic states. On the other hand, the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area comprises a federal district, four counties an... ...r hand, the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area comprises a federal district, four counties and several small cities. The local government systems ...

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Hunting Sketches

By: Anthony Trollope

...e that way given, every pursuit in life will equally lead him A seat for a Metropolitan borough, or a love of ortolans, or a taste even for new boots ... ...of such a master of hounds as ordinarily presides over the hunt in English counties. Mr. Jorrocks comes into a hunt when no one else can be found to u... ...nd a year must have been so selected. Members of Parliament with seats for counties have been exalted after the same unjust fashion. Popular masters o...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...nes- see, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia except the fol- lowing counties-Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Prest... ...hat the enrolled militia alone would now maintain law and order in all the counties of your State north of the Missouri River. If so all other forces ... ...and Governor Gamble telegraphs me; that quiet can be maintained in all the counties north of the Missouri River by the enrolled militia. Confer with G... ...rgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties desig- nated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, ... ... G . HENRY . EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON May 13,1863. Dr . A. G . HENRY, Metropolitan Hotel, New Y ork: Governor Chase’s feelings were hurt by my ac... ...t under- takes to conduct these matters with the authorities of cities and counties. They must be conducted with the governors of States, who will, of...

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The Silverado Squatters

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...o Valley, to where the Central Pacific railroad begins to climb the sides of the Sierras; and northward, for what I know, the white head of Shasta loo... ...ns up the hill. The traffic on the road was infini- tesimal; only, at rare intervals, a couple in a waggon, or a dusty farmer on a springboard, toilin...

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The Uncommercial Traveller

By: Charles Dickens

...h Robert Hughes, of Penrhos, Alligwy. CHAPTER III W APPING WORKHOUSE M Y DAY’S NO-BUSINESS BECKONING me to the East- end of London, I had turned my fa... ...is composed, without favour, of the best men that can be picked, it is directed by an unusual intelligence. Its organisation against Fires, I take to ... ...s of many fel- low-travellers of every uncommercial and commercial de- gree) I consider it further, I must utter a passing word of wonder concerning h... ... (with the keys and subscribed capital) to a place of durance, half an hour prior to the commencement of the festivities. Take another case. Mr. Grazi... ...or the timely remembrance coming upon him that Jairing’s was but round the corner. Now, Jairing’s being an hotel for families and gentlemen, in high r... ...that I think I must be the descendant, at no great dis- tance, of some irreclaimable tramp. One of the pleasantest things I have lately met with, in a... ...n taken inside, with the taking of none of which had that establishment any more to do than with the taking of Delhi? But, these are small oases, and ...

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

... promised her—it’s not known to Lord Ormont himself:—a printed letter in a metropolitan paper, copied into the pro- vincial papers, upholding him for ... ...r a reverse; and the question ad- dressed to the chief towns in the sketch counties his head contained was, which one near would be likely to supply t... ... hectoring of the grand new manufacture of wit in London:—the in- imitable Metropolitan PUN, which came down to the coun- try by four-in-hand, and sto... ...s a guarantee of Aminta’s return. Still he knew his English earth, and the counties and soil for particular wild-flowers, grasses, mosses; and he coul...

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Droll Stories Volume II : The Second Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...re of mustard, coun- tries of sugar, provinces of ham, duchies of raisins, counties of chitterlings, and baronies of all sorts, scrambling on to the h... ...d and tormented her. For the rest it was settled by the authorities of the metropolitan church that the mission of this daughter of hell was to divert...

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The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

...n on an unpleasant morning, Ferdinand Lopez travelled into the city by the Metropolitan railway from Westminster Bridge. It was his custom to go thith... ...s, in our set, it makes a deal of difference who gets the garters, and the counties, who are made barons and then earls, and whose name stands at the ... ..., who are infinitely ignorant of all political work, do want it. There are counties which, if you were to poll the people, Home Rule would carry nearl... ... of the day belonged. And Lord Chiltern, another master of fox hounds, two counties off;—and also an old friend of ours,—had been asked to meet him, a... ...ed to do great things,—to find Liberal candidates for all the boroughs and counties in England which had not hitherto been furnished, and then to supp... ...is post. The country was in no hurry, and the question of suffrages in the counties might still be delayed. Then he added a little counsel which might... ...cker in London,’ she said to Everett with a soft regret, remember- ing the metropolitan glories of her sister’s wedding. And then Arthur Fletcher coul... ...ooked particularly well. The veil from London—with the orange wreath, also metropolitan—was perfect, and as for the dress, I doubt whether any woman w...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

... with as much ease and comfort as though we had been escorted by the whole Metropolitan Force from A to Z inclusive. The suite of rooms on the ground ... ...he Legislative Hall of the Territory. Meetings have been held in different counties of Wisconsin, denouncing the practice of secretly bearing arms in... ...orward very much, took from the ground, by a great effort, the specimen of metropolitan work manship which I had just pulled off: whistling, pleas a...

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Chronicles of the Canongate

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ing so many bonny lasses to barter modesty for con- ceit and levity at the metropolitan Vanity Fair? Consider, too, the low rate to which you reduce h... ...a brisk market. Several dealers had attended from the northern and midland counties in England, and English money had flown so merrily about as to gla... ...cots, which, when it exists anywhere, is to be found lurking in the Border counties, and some from the general love of mischief, which characterises m...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Conan Doyle

...pounds 10s., while he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money troub... ...on the outskirts of Lee,” said my companion. “We have touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in Middlesex, passing over an ang... ...that there were fewer passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman whose ...

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...tending across the ridge of the hills to the slopes North and South. Seven counties rolled their backs under this command- ing height, and it would ha... ...ailways are rapidly “polishing off” the individual.’ ‘They will spread the metropolitan idea of comfort.’ ‘I fear they will feed us on nothing but tha... ... digested.’ ‘I wonder whether it is affecting me !’ said Diana, musing. ‘A metropolitan hack! and while thinking myself free, thrice harnessed; and al... ...ers, that there are individual cabmen. They are the painted flowers of our metropolitan thoroughfares, and we gather them in rows.’ ‘They have their f...

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Plain Tales from the Hills

By: Rudyard Kipling

... man grows to think that there is no one higher than himself, and that the Metropolitan Board of Works made everything. But in this country, where you... ...John Fennil Wonder. The Viceroy possessed no name— nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds of the alpha- 71 Rudyard Kipling bet after them. H...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...vacations were spent some- times with the Judge’s relations in the Eastern counties, some- times with Lady Patteson’s in the West. Landwith Rectory, i... ...hat we are trying for, taking the right view in the question of Provinces, Metropolitans, position of Colonial Churches, joint action of the Church at...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...est,—Connaught beyond other provinces, and in Connaught, Mayo beyond other counties. There it was, and in the county next adjoining, that Lord Altamon... ...d, having succeeded, it would have laid open to the rebels the impor- tant counties of Waterford and Kilkenny. Being delayed un- til the 5th of June, ... ...ndividual hotel, apparently far from being the most conspicuous, viz., the Metropolitan, reputed to have “more than twelve miles of water and gas pipe... ...ike a heath, a breezy down, (such as gave so peculiar a char- acter to the counties of Wilts, Somerset, Dorset, &c.,) or even a village common. Heaths...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...or to abandon for a moment, under any motive of caution or fear, the great metropolitan castra stativa of gigantic crime, seated for ever on the Thame... ...vate interpretations—or to dispense with them. As to his major-generals of counties, who figure in most histories of England as so many Ali Pachas 16...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ces—Somersetshire, Devonshire, Hampshire—are con- founded with our midland counties; and positively the dic- tion of Parricombe and Charricombe from E... ...ven more violently to the river Thames. As a tidal river, even: beyond the metropolitan bridges, the Thames undoubtedly does much towards cleansing th... ...there were not, on an average, above six or eight in each of the fifty-two counties. The conditions, as a whole, were in fact incapable of being reali... ...purposes of national grandeur, at the fiat of one coarse barbarian. As the metropolitan home of the Greek church, she could not disown a maternal inte...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...iberal professions. If a stranger were introduced into any mis- cellaneous metropolitan society, it would but slightly advance the general opinion of ... ...ybody but himself. Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lea... ... or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow-white chapels, whose spires stand... ... of churches. For by some curious fa- tality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice,...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... liberal professions. If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metropolitan society, it would but slightly advance the gen eral opinion o... ...ybody but himself. Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lea... ... or broken; through all the wide contrasting scenery of those noble Mohawk counties; and especially, by rows of snow white chapels, whose spires stand... ... of churches. For by some curious fatality, as it is of ten noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice,...

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The Octopus a Story of California

By: Frank Norris

...y firms of San Francisco, commercial agents, insurance men, well- dressed, metropolitan, debo- nair, stood about cracking jokes, or hurried in and out... ...t seemed as if all the colour which should have gone to vivify the various counties, towns, and cities marked upon it had been absorbed by that huge, ... ...of the death rattles of little enterprises, expiring unobserved in far-off counties, up in canyons and arroyos of the foothills, forgotten by every on... ...hat do we men who backed you care about rates up in Del Norte and Siskiyou Counties? Not a whoop in hell. It was the San Joaquin rate we were fighting...

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The Pit a Story of Chicago

By: Frank Norris

...cried. “Isn’t it too bad. I can’t imagine why they don’t come.” Page, more metropolitan, her keenness of appreciation a little lost by two years of ci... ... every direction, and the same conditions seemed to prevail in the central counties. In Illinois, from Quincy and Wa- terloo in the west, and from Rid...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...ver the liberation of London from the corrupt and devastating control of a Metropolitan Board of Works. Then there were also School Boards; I was alre... ...ound to incur an electoral defeat. I under-estimated their strength in the counties. There would follow, I calculated, a period of profound reconstruc...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...chitec- ture. Sam Clark’s annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God’s Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebu... ...chens. Certainly it ought to have a clear window, so that they can see the metropolitan life go by. Some day I’m going to make a better rest-room—a cl... ...the first really smart woman I’ve seen in a year!” Carol exulted. She felt metropolitan. But as she followed Kennicott to the elevator the coat- check...

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

...hut himself up in a little village on the sea-shore of one of our remotest counties, that he might learn by communing with his own soul whether or no ... ...n of a half-crown, and this she sacrificed to the avarice of Mrs Proudie’s metropolitan sesquipedalian serving-man. She was, she said, Mrs Quiverful o...

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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

By: George Meredith

... at the close of the two months. I gained his commendation by shunning the metropolitan Balls, nor did my father press me to appear at them. It was ta... ...as amused by the girl Eveleen’s dotting of houses over the breadth of five counties, where for this and that article of apparel she designed to expend...

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Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

By: Paul Hentzner

...m hence the Chiltern Hills bear north in a continued ridge, and divide the counties of Oxford and Buckingham. We passed Maidenhead. Windsor, a royal c... ...ere added by Henry VIII., the first who distributed that principality into counties; over each of these, in times of danger, a lord lieutenant, nomina... ...ly called travelling judges of assize; these go their circuits through the counties twice every year to hear causes, and pronounce sentence upon priso... ...o Provinces, so it has two Archbishops: the one of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England; the other of Y ork: subject to these are twent...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...nds a year; but they are, I believe, allowed to practice as lawyers in any counties except those in which they sit as judges—being guided, in this res... ... Trollope Ireland. The assistant barristers in Ireland are attached to the counties as judges at Quarter Sessions, but they prac- tice, or may practic... ...uarter Sessions, but they prac- tice, or may practice, as advocates in all counties except that to which they are so attached. The judges in New Hamps... ...peak extend, I believe, to all Canada—the two provinces being divided into counties, and the counties subdivided into townships, to which, as a matter... ...that terrible repetition of A B C, to which, I fear, that most of our free metropolitan schools are still necessarily con- fined. You and I, reader, w... ...nd post- office regulations, are bound together as much as are the English counties, it is, of course, necessary that the con- stitution of each shoul... ...omposed of two old provinces, of which Hartford and New Haven were the two metropolitan towns. Indeed, there was a third colony, called Saybrook, whic...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...l’s returns for 1891 that among the causes of death specified in the three counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, and Hereford, where infant mortality is scar... ...RADFORD, “The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. “Metropolitan Police Office, “New Scotland Yard, “January 28th, 190... ...nment areas arose, the villages, and still more the boroughs, and even the counties, were practically complete minor economic systems. The wealth of t... ...nal organization of the Lon- don area, the Thames valley, and the southern counties are inseparable; that the question of local locomotion is rapidly ... ...atershed, and then include with that Sussex and Surrey, and the east coast counties up to the Wash, you would overtake and anticipate the delocalizing...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

... took up Whately’s Logic, then first republished from the Encyclo pedia Metropolitana, and finally the Computatio sive Logica of Hobbes. These boo... ...success. Another duty which was particularly incumbent on me as one of the Metropolitan Members, was the attempt to obtain a Municipal Govern ment fo... ...Courts of Criminal Justice. A bench of magistrates in one of the most Tory counties in England dismissed our case: we were more successful before the ... ...r four invitations to become a candidate for other constituencies, chiefly counties; but even if success could have been expected, and this without ex...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...en, and an aged countenance, and he bears the name of one of the En- glish counties, if we recollect right. He sang a very good song about the seven a... ...gs and cuffs, who wears his D’Orsay hat so rak- ishly, is ‘Honest Tom, ’ a metropolitan representative; and the large man in the cloak with the white ... ...t, too, was perfectly unaccountable. We discovered the secret at last; the metropolitan Members always dined at home. The rascals! As for giv- ing add...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

... it. Where celebrated? There we are at hoodman-blind for the moment. Three counties claim the church; two ends of London. She is not a person of socie... ...t be excited in them by (among other matters left to the luck of events) a metropolitan play upon the Saxon tongue, hard of understanding to the leeky...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...page of the Millionary; the humbler, but yet larger vehicle from the green metropolitan suburbs (the Hang- ing Gardens of our Babylon), in which every... ...‘Trent, bring us a bottle of Bristol amid Hexeter!’ or, ‘Put some Heastern Counties in hice!’ HE knows what I mean: it’s the wines I bought upon the h...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...gnacavallo; Castracaro ill, And Conio worse, who care to propagate A race of Counties from such blood as theirs. Well shall ye also do, Pagani, then W... ...ngiadore, And he of Spain in his twelve volumes shining, Nathan the prophet, Metropolitan Chrysostom, and Anselmo, and, who deign’d To put his hand to...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...en, and an aged countenance, and he bears the name of one of the En- glish counties, if we recollect right. He sang a very good song about the seven a... ...gs and cuffs, who wears his D’Orsay hat so rak- ishly, is ‘Honest Tom, ’ a metropolitan representative; and the large man in the cloak with the white ... ...t, too, was perfectly unaccountable. We discovered the secret at last; the metropolitan Members always dined at home. The rascals! As for giv- ing add...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

... early days 19 Anthony Trollope of the Russian War by some portion of the metropolitan daily press, as the only man who could save the country. Let h... ... at the ecclesiastical doings of a certain terrible prelate in the Midland counties, who was sup- posed to favour stoles and vespers, and to have no p... ...mley Parsonage a Bishop of Westminster to share the Herculean toils of the metropolitan prelate, and another up in the North to Christianize the minin...

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The Greshams of Greshamsbury

By: Anthony Trollope

...r propriety of conduct. He was known for the best stone- mason in the four counties, and as the man who could, on occasion, drink the most alcohol in ... ...ry, or Lady Arabella, with all her daughters returned from her hard-fought metropolitan campaigns. Sir Louis, however, came with four, and very arroga...

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