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...n, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will. Thus they were all chee... ...with that in his mind he left the pasture. On account of his long delay he started in a flying run down the lane west ward, and had soon passed the ho... ...hat load of beehives, which must be delivered, family or no. He’ll have to start shortly after twelve to night, as the distance is so long.’ ‘Get up h... ...n indifferent health, who proposed to start on a journey before one in the morning, ought not to be at an inn at this late hour celebrating his ancien... ...was eleven o’clock before the family were all in bed, and two o’clock next morning was the latest hour for starting with the beehives if they were to ... ... vigour. To cheer themselves as well as they could, they made an artificial morning with the lantern, some bread and butter, and their own conversation... ...se. Her story then was true! Springing to his feet, he looked around for a weapon, loose stone, means of escape, anything. By this time the nearest ma...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together; but, saving in the country, I seldom go out until after dark, though, Heaven be thanked, I love its light and feel the cheerfulness ...

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...LLY MY TIME FOR WALKING. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days o... ...r here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of vari ous kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron an... ...y, and you still here! Get home, get home, and be true to your time in the morning, for there’s work to do. Good night! There, bid him good night, Nel... ...they should, ’ said the old man. ‘Bless thee a hundred times! Early in the morning I shall be home.’ ‘You’ll not ring twice,’ returned the child. ‘The... ... swear away my life if you could,’ re turned the other, after bestowing a stare and a frown on me; ‘we all know that!’ ‘I almost think I could,’ crie... ..., the trembling of the hand with which he clasped my arm, the strained and starting eyes he fixed upon me, the wild vehemence and agitation of his man... ...s first cigar and mixed his first glass of grog. The sun went down and the stars peeped out, the Tower turned from its own proper colours to grey and ... ...r was apparently a little off his guard, when he darted in and seizing the weapon tried to wrest it from his grasp. Quilp, who was as strong as a lion... ...ve her ’ The dwarf muttering a terrible oath looked round as if for some weapon with which to inflict condign pun The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens...

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...her visitor still wore his hat and coat, standing with his back to her and staring out of the window at the falling 4 The Invisible Man snow in the y... ...n, and that was the reason of his muffled voice. But it was not that which startled Mrs. Hall. It was the fact that all his forehead above his blue gl... ...said concisely, as she put them down, and turned his shoulder upon her and stared out of the window again. It was altogether too discouraging. Evident... ...e. At that he returned to his bedroom, armed himself with the most obvious weapon, the poker, and descended the stair- case as noiselessly as possible... ...o the little parlour of the “Coach and Horses” about half-past five in the morning, and there he remained until near midday, the blinds down, the door... ...lifted to a spas- modic sneeze and ended. Gibbons had heard nothing of the morning’s occurrences, but the phenomenon was so striking and disturbing th... ...equally pungent music. Members of the club, who had attended church in the morning, were splendid in badges of pink and green, and some of the gayer- ... ...icu- larly useful, therefore, in killing. I can walk round a man, whatever weapon he has, choose my point, strike as I like. Dodge as I like. Escape a... .... You must keep on beating. Every thicket, every quiet corner. And put all weapons—all implements that might be weapons, away. He can’t carry such thi...

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...m hotel to hotel ever since he was a kid. I was talking to his mother this morning. She’ s a lovely lady , but she don’t pretend to manage him. He’ s ... ...ands, faced Uncle Salters at the 26 Captains Courageous table, and Harvey stared at the pitchfork and the tub. “Hi!” shouted Manuel, stooping to the ... ...s. “Knife oh!” repeated Uncle Salters, waving the flat, curved splitter’ s weapon. “Look by your foot, Harve,” cried Dan below . Harvey saw half a doz... ...peared. In half a minute Harvey heard deep snores in the cabin, and he was staring 28 Captains Courageous blankly at Dan and Penn. “I did a little be... ...lt up- right from the oily water and sighed a weird whistling sigh. Harvey started back with a shout, but Dan only laughed. “Grampus,” said he. “Beggi... ...lmanac, Blunt’ s “Coast Pilot,” and Bowditch’ s “Navi- gator” were all the weapons Disko needed to guide him, except the deep-sea lead that was his sp... ...t boy had a stateroom with a hot and cold bath, and spent ten minutes each morning picking over a gilt-edged bill of fare. And that same boy-no, his v... ...ff alive. At last, after playing blindman’ s-buff in the fog, there came a morning when Disko shouted down the foc’ sle: “Hurry , boys! We’re in taown... ...who had their knives drawn to fight for their financial lives put away the weapons and wished him God-speed, while half a dozen panic-smitten tin-pot ...

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... Europe.” “I see,” said Ralph. “She has adopted you.” “Adopted me?” The girl stared, and her blush came back to her, together with a momentary look of... ... don’t do that yourself; you might let the shops to great advantage.” Isabel stared; the idea of letting shops was new to her. “I hope they won’t pull... ...e printed page; she had an im mense curiosity about life and was constantly staring and wondering. She carried within herself a great fund of life, a... ...ared to make a considerable stay at Gardencourt. She occupied herself in the mornings with literary labour; but in spite of this Isabel spent many hou... ...he charms of their common sojourn in print, having discovered, on the second morning of Miss Stackpole’s visit, that she was engaged on a letter to th... ...iend,” Ralph said that evening to Is abel, “though we talked some time this morning about it.” “And you said something she didn’t like,” the girl rep... ...new herself, she had recognized the fact that perfect frankness was her best weapon. To attempt to spare his sensibility or to escape from him edgewis... ...tely equipped for the social battle. She carried her flag discreetly, but her weapons were polished steel, and she used them with a skill which struck ...

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... Dost thou loue hawking? Thou hast hawkes will soare 196 Aboue the morning Larke. Or wilt thou hunt, 197 Thy hounds shall make the Welkin... ... Tra. Husht master, heres some good pastime toward; 372 That wench is starke mad, or wonderfull froward. 373 Lucen. But in the others si... ...435 with this condition; To be whipt at the hie crosse euerie 436 morning. 437 Hor. Faith (as you say) there’s small choise in rotte... ...le: 1041 Say that she frowne, Ile say she lookes as cleere 1042 As morning Roses newly washt with dew: 1043 Say she be mute, and will not ... ...d with Spauins, raied with the Yel-lowes, 1441 past cure of the Fiues, starke spoyl’d with the 1442 Staggers, begnawne with the Bots, Waid in ... ...onny Kate, she must with me: 1614 Nay, looke not big, nor stampe, not stare, nor fret, 1615 I will be master of what is mine owne, 1616 S... ...t he 1621 That stops my way in Padua: Grumio 1622 Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with theeues, 1623 Rescue thy Mistresse if thou be...

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...hoose the course and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the race the two started to gether. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on... ...nobody. THE A STRONOMER AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole att... ...tle maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, re... ...ation, said, groaning: “It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former... ...e replied, “I do it advis edly; for it would never do to have to sharpen my weapons just at the time I ought to be using them.” The Lion in a Farmyar... ...o your daily tasks or tell you when it is time to visit the bird trap in the morning?” He replied, “What you say is true. You are a capital bird at t... ...ceive a bit in his mouth and agree to carry him, he would contrive effective weapons against the Stag. The Horse consented and allowed the man to moun... ...on.” He said, “O Wife, if you were disliked by those who go out early in the morning with their flocks and return late in the evening, what must have ...

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...s Youth and Art had shunned; they had no doubt “sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, de- spaired,” and we need not question, that they had als... ...nevitable that there should be. Of directer and more imme- diate models or starting-points one is undoubted; the other, though less generally admitted... ...ess it very hard; she admitted him to deliver messages at her bedside in a morning, leered at him at table, and in- dulged him in all those innocent f... ...ell out to Lady Booby, who happened to be walking arm-in-arm with Joey one morning in Hyde Park, when Lady Tittle and Lady T attle came accidentally b... ...the stairs, and asked him if he would drink a glass of something good this morning. Joseph, whose spirits were not a little cast down, very readily an... ...ut the coach, it was not easy to get over this difficulty which Joseph had started. The two gentlemen complained they were cold, and could not spare a... ...ght leap on him by surprize, and, thereby preventing him of the use of his weapons, especially the long staff in which he chiefly con- fided, might re... ...mploy the whole artillery of kissing, flattering, bribing, and every other weapon which is to be found in the whole armoury of love, against them. Bet... ...Fielding ately leap from the woman and hasten to assail the man. He had no weapons but what Nature had furnished him with. However, he clenched his fi...

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...n golden horse, Sally, who was the inspiration for Sal. Also in memory of Flikka, Star, Mr Fifty, and the dogs, Hans, Blaze, Bonnie and Bob, who ... ...t and cool, still damp with dew, the tears of the goddess, Eos. Why Eos wept every morning was a mystery; everyone knew she loved riding across the... ...roes—Dazzling, Phlegon—Flaming and Pyrroes—Red-haired. They sped across the early morning sky and illuminated the clouds with hues of soft gold, si... ...ed up a nearby oak. Myrddin walked over to his horse, a sturdy beast, black as a starless, moonless night; its long mane reached nearly to its kne... ...ater below. Hywela Lyn 12 It was not that, however, which made him stop and stare in amazement. **** How long had it been since she was las... ...seemed Apollo was trying to tell her something. She walked over and picked up the weapon, followed by the lyre. “I am also skilled with a bow.” “... ...to explain why she wandered these mountains, with no horse and only a knife for a weapon, if Sal and the bow had not appeared so fortuitously. Th... ...a wild dance, inviting her to follow them. Dawn was approaching. In the dim early morning light, she could make out demon faces, red glowing eyes, ... ...d in front of him, pushing his knife-hand aside and causing him almost to drop the weapon. The dog recoiled and leapt again, this time knocking Cor...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-entered the city by the bridge, without produ...

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...ty university. 3 Dumas Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas [Pere] The Vicomte de Bragelonne. V olume I. CHAPTER 1 The Letter. TOWARDS THE MIDDLE of th... ...nd as, since the accession of Mazarin to power, no heads had been cut off, Monsieur’s occupation was gone, and his morale suffered from it. The life o... ...vice for the day was over, laid themselves down very comfortably in the sun upon some stone benches; the grooms disappeared with their horses into the... ... of the table, was watching her companion as she wrote, or rather hesitated to write. Thence the thousand cries, the thousand railleries, the thousand... ...! let us try another sheet of paper, and finish our dispatch off- hand. Good! there is the bell ringing now. By my faith, so much the worse! Madame mu... ...with those more terrific, and almost as sublime, which the Medi- terranean reveals under the keels of its ships in a clear sum- mer day, a gigantic mi... ...llied by the esprit de corps, all the comrades of the conquered man fell upon the conqueror. The latter, with the same coolness of which he had given ... ...- hooked his sword-belt, which he laid close to his poniard; and, without affectation, opening his doublet as if to look for his handkerchief, showed ... ...e in your tent.” “I would willingly offer you mine,” said Monk, “but the blade is too thin for such work.” Athos appeared to look around him for a thi...

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...is life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually stares him in the face. But, one year, Baloo’s words came true, and Mowgli ... ... now all that life-and-death fun was ended, and the Jungle People came up, starved and weary, to the shrunken river,—tiger, bear, deer, buffalo, and p... ...ading into the water and looking across at the lines of clicking horns and starting eyes where the deer and the pig pushed each other to and fro. “Goo... ...wenty years a youth, twenty years a fighter,—though he had never carried a weapon in his life,—and twenty years head of a household. He had used his w... ... felt he was locked up again in the flesh and bones of Purun Bhagat. Every morning the filled begging-bowl was laid silently in the crutch of the root... ...till Purun Bhagat had to push them aside to throw on more fuel; and in the morning, as often as not, he would find a furry ape sharing his blanket. Al... ... they could under- stand of his adventures among men; and when he made the morning sun flicker up and down the blade of his skinning- knife,—the same ...

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...hounds are pricking their ears, and you see antlers of a stag behind a block of stone. She was a wonderful swimmer, among other things, and one early morning, when she was a girl, she did really swim, they say, across the Shannon and back to win a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a w...

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...ctory Meanderings of Dame Gossip, T ogether with her Sudden Extinction IV. Morning and Farewell to an Old Home V. A Mountain walk in Mist and Sunshine... ...k of stone. She was a wonderful swimmer, among other things, and one early morning, when she was a girl, she did really swim, they say, across the Sha... ...ble; and Countess Fanny (she had the name from the ballad ‘I am the star of Prince and Czar, My light is shed on many, But I wa... ...f whom Captain John Peter Kirby laid on his heels at ten paces on an April morning, when the duel was fought, as early as the blessed heavens had give... ...sung by the poor coachman and labourers at the village ale-house before he starts to capture his wife from the clutches of her seducer and meets his f... ...sson. Those men might as well not believe in the steadfastness of the very stars because one or two are reported lost out of the firmament, and now an... ...dency as they are, they come to the idea of love to snatch at it for their weapon of the man’s weakness. For which my lord calls them heartless, and p... ...won. Give her that, and a woman’s tongue will consent to rest. The dreaded weapon rest, also when she is kept spinning by the whip. She gives out a pl... ...d our English; signifying, that he had not yet learnt the right use of his weapons. He was in this wrestle, under a placid demeanour, for sev- eral da...

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...getting in bed, and I was just about falling into a doze, when he suddenly started up, and swore with a terrible oath that he would not go to sleep fo... ...ull of water. This being done, we hoisted jib and mainsail, kept full, and started boldly out to sea. The wind, as I before said, blew freshly from th... ...made a long and heavy roll to windward, and Henderson, at the same moment, starting up in his seat bawled out to his crew to back water. He would say ... ...ered from its effects. The Penguin got into port about nine o’clock in the morning, after encountering one of the severest gales ever experienced off ... ...hing had been matured. The note was written and delivered, and on a Monday morning I left the house for the New Bedford packet, as supposed. I went, h... ...portion of the larboard bulwarks, and did some other slight damage. Toward morning the weather moderated, and at sunrise there was very little wind. J... ... should then come up, and endeavour to provide ourselves with some kind of weapons from the deck, and that we should then make a rush together, and se... ...ntirely naked, and skins being used only by the men of the canoes. All the weapons of the country seemed also to be in the possession of the latter, f... ...achment, still larger, appeared in an opposite direction, and with similar weapons. The four canoes, too, were now quickly filled with natives, starti...

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...om the European quar- ters, where the riveters lived, McCartney’s bugle, a weapon of offence on Sundays and festivals, brayed desperately, calling to ... ...box, squatted down in the bows of the reeling, pegged, and stitched craft, staring through the mist at the nothing that was there. A warm drowsiness c... ...s were so wise—so wise. The day is coming, Sahib. They will be gone by the morning.” A yellow light broadened in the sky, and the tone of the river ch... ...there was no room for a man to think of the dreams of the dark. Findlayson stared up-stream, across the blaze of moving water, till his eyes ached. Th... ...er the waters. Then I thought of the Gods—of Those whom we saw tonight”—he stared curiously at Findlayson’s back, but the white man was looking across... ...rfully, and the horses scattered before us, trotting into the ravine. Next morning we sent back to the livery-stable what was left of the yellow horse... ... on the North Atlantic run a good many times—it’s going to be rough before morning.” “It isn’t distressingly calm now,” said the extra strong frames —...

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...re now at three o’clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o’clock in the morning. Bonaparte may talk of the three o’clock in the morning courage,... ...is hour in the afternoon over against one’s self whom you have known all the morning, to starve out a garrison to whom you are bound by such strong ti... ...he afternoon over against one’s self whom you have known all the morning, to starve out a garrison to whom you are bound by such strong ties of sympat... ...e, or say be tween four and five o’clock in the afternoon, too late for the morning papers and too early for the evening ones, there is not a general... ... bluer, the air is fresher, the cold is intenser, the moon looks larger, the stars are brighter the thunder is louder, the lightning is vivider, the w... ...oks larger also. If the heavens of America appear infinitely higher, and the stars brighter, I trust that these facts are symbolical of the height to ... ...t by the magic of his spade. I refer to him only as the type of a class. The weapons with which we have gained our most im portant victories, which s...

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...nerves. He slipped off his leather jacket. “Oh, come on. I even bought a proper Indiana Jones fedora for the occasion.” Her cheeks grew hot as she stared at the safari shirt stretching across his broad shoulders and strong chest, his sleeves rolled up at the elbow. Khaki-colored pants finished his adventurer ensemble. His brown hair hung in shaggy waves from underneath ...

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...until the light brightened into an intrusive force, causing his eyes to open. Startled, he watched with curious astonishment as a purple mist emanat... ...ing white and purple translucent form, which floated above the altar and then started moving toward him. His heart pounded with both fear and excit... ...s of tourists spread out over St. Peter’s Square like a living quilt. The late morning sun broke through a bank of gray clouds, and rays of sun spotl... ... them for a minute. “A couple of them look familiar, but I can’t be sure.” He started to hand the page back. “No, keep it. I want you to find out w... ...n the list. He’s a young Jesuit from Venice. He was part of the Audience this morning. I want you to find him and bring him here, quickly and quietly... ...enator. His picture, conveniently enough, was all over the front pages of the morning papers. He’s the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committ... ...d aimed at the flashes coming from the 266 J.Cross/Artemis muzzle of the weapon, and fired twice. He heard a crashing sound as the body fell ba... ...d to the crude: C-4, dynamite, nitro, or any untraceable explosives, plus any weapons that you may need. My laboratories can produce any form of exp... ... back onto the basement floor, before Soule’ could reload. "Throw down your weapon, now," the bigger of the two men shouted. Soule’ could do not...

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...as not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beatin...

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...d with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrd... ... theological books! Such a 7 George Eliot wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would int... ...king of books, there is Southey’s `Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. Y ou know Southey?” “No” said Mr. Casaubon, not keeping pace with ... ...our documents?” “In pigeon-holes partly,” said Mr. Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort. “Ah, pigeon-holes will not do. I have tried pigeon-... ... a kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gunk or starch in the form of tradition. “Let me hope that you will rescind that re... ..., and wrong reasoning some- times lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags... ...an I would touch any other woman’s living.” Rosamond, while these poisoned weapons were being hurled at her, was almost losing the sense of her identi...

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...d with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrd... ...night to read old theological books! Such a wife might awaken you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would int... ...king of books, there is Southey’s ‘Peninsular War.’ I am reading that of a morning. You know Southey?” “No” said Mr. Casaubon, not keeping pace with M... ...our documents?” “In pigeon holes partly,” said Mr. Casaubon, with rather a startled air of effort. “Ah, pigeon holes will not do. I have tried pigeon ... ... a kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gunk or starch in the form of tradition. “Let me hope that you will rescind that re... ...on, and wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags... ...an I would touch any other woman’s living.” Rosamond, while these poisoned weapons were being hurled at her, was al most losing the sense of her iden...

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...he subject). And how have ye been, Sir Howrrd, since our last meeting that morning nigh forty year ago down at the docks in London? SIR HOWARD (greatl... ...eyes deepens as he begins to take offence. BRASSBOUND. Well, sir, have you stared your fill at me? RANKIN (recovering himself with a start). I ask you... ...). The friend of the widow! the protector of the fa- therless! SIR HOWARD (startled). I did not know I was so favorably spoken of in these parts, Capt... ...in Brassbound; and it would be such an education for your men! (Brassbound stares at her with drying lips.) SIR HOWARD. Cicely: when you have quite do... ... CICELY. But it’s arranged already. We’ll start at eight o’clock to-morrow morning, if you please, Captain. Never mind about the Italian: I have a big... ...he door, which is behind him in the corner to his right. LADE CICELY. Good morning. May I come in? RANKIN. Certainly. (She comes in, to the nearest en... ...earts and strike fire from the hard kind ones. He handles the other lethal weapons as familiarly as the pen: medieval sword and mod- ern Mauser are to...

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...e fell talking and disputing about what that swift arrival may signify. It starts a swarm of questions. First one remarks that here is a thing done, a... ...thin a year we shall have—or rather _they_ will have—aeroplanes capable of starting from Calais, let us say, circling over London, dropping a hundredw... ...) .) .) HITHERTO my only flights have been flights of imagination but this morning I flew. I spent about ten or fifteen minutes in the air; we went ou... ...alance of a bird, which has had ten million years of evolution by way of a start.... The waterplane in which I soared over Eastbourne this morning wit... ...y way of a start.... The waterplane in which I soared over Eastbourne this morning with Mr. Grahame-White was as steady as a mo- tor-car running on as... ...o the mood of lively curiosity with which I got aboard the waterplane this morning—that sort of faint, thin funk that so readily invades one on the ve... ...ities of personal genius that become more and more decisive with every new weapon and every new com- plication and unsuspected possibility it introduc... ... hand does not make a soldier. He has to be taught not only the use of his weapons, but the methods of a strange and unfamiliar life out of doors; he ... ...und about him, confidence in himself, in his officers, and the methods and weapons of his side. Body, mind, and imagination have all to be trained—and...

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...out, he thought, for a fine night, at anchor in a safe harbor. The next morning was Saturday, and a breeze having sprung up from the southward,... ...’s all I’ve got to say.—Go below, the larboard watch!’’ I being in the starboard, or second mate’s watch, had the opportunity of keeping the fi... ...g about me. However much I was affected by the beauty of the sea, the bright stars, and the clouds driven swiftly over them, I could not but remember... ... Wednesday, Aug. 20th. We had the watch on deck from four till eight, this morning. When we came on deck at four o’clock, we found things much chang... ... things much changed for the better. The sea and wind had gone down, and the stars were out bright. I experienced a corresponding change in my feel... ... commenced washing down the decks. This operation, which is performed every morning at sea, takes nearly two hours; and I had hardly strength enough ... ..., were convicts sent from Valparaiso, and that it was necessary to keep all weapons from their hands. The island, it seems, belongs to Chili, and had...