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...emplates the hostile bus with dread and climbs aboard. He sinks into his seat and sighs. A patrol car arrives a few minutes later and disgorges two ... ...nes till blood. To hack the skin, to spread it like a rusty butterfly, dismantling slithery vessels. I move to occupy the wooden ladder back, near t... ...arents. Tables colluded under shimmering white clothes, bleached by my grandma in plastic vessels. Matzos and wine bottles served porcelain and cr... ...imbs laboriously into the upper bunk, and tries to sleep. But the sirens of that particular patrol car haunt him with red- blue flashes in the desicc...

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... Rosita on the East Indiaman, the Prince George. The ship was one of the largest of the company’s vessels, well armed and amongst the first all iron ... ...ds. John MacGregor told Helen, as they watched the dhows change course rapidly, ‘The British Navy patrol these waters to prevent these slave traders... ...ver Ganges by wooden, gaily-painted barges towed by a steamboat. The journey was slow because the vessels were being dragged upstream against the na...

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...group of military scientists suggested it could be stored safely in containment vessels, under military guard, and the vessels could be changed peri... ...ler Jeep was parked inside the main gate, which meant there would be three more patrols running contin­ uously along the fifteen acre estate. Taranto... ...n­ known element, but put Taranto in a place of indecision. Where was the third patrol? As he sat trying to decide whether to walk to the gatehouse ... ...l the drug dealers. He also wants to establish Martial Law using armed military patrols to control the borders, and set up command posts in every ma... ...eservists are coordinating an almost impossible effort. Entire cities are being patrolled and secured to keep the looting to a minimum." "But, on a... ...d one more time and then checked his watch, it was 10:00 p.m. Pierce's security patrol had a fixed routine. A total often men guarded the estate, he...

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...of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C.... ...he royal preserves and magnificent gardens -- The man-eaters of Fugiu -- Great vessels in the India trade -- How they were built and propelled -- The ... ... a storm -- He compels Narvaez to acknowledge submission -- Capture of several vessels and military supplies -- Reorganizes, recruits his army and ret... ...he bud Of defeat. -- Recruiting another expedition against Mexico -- Capturing vessels and enlisting their crews -- A vast army and supply of military... ...ition -- He decides to attempt a northwest passage -- Capture of other Spanish vessels on his way -- Among the natives of California -- The discovery ... ... half the town was in flames. At the same time, the brigantines kept a careful patrol of the lake, to prevent the escape by canoes of any of the inhab...

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...ed earth Inland waterways: 12,800 km; 3,200 km navigable by large commercial vessels Pipelines: crude, 1,117 km; natural gas, 330km Ports: 4 major, 6 ... ... smaller canals in the Delta); Suez Canal, 162 km long, used by ocean- going vessels drawing up to 16.1 meters of water Freight carried: Suez Canal 25... ...and unimproved earth Inland waterways: 460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and river and coastal steamers; 3,300 km possibly naviga- ble by ... ...ds and machine shops provide maintenance and repair services to 3,500- 4,000 vessels that call at Gibraltar each year; UK military establishments and ... ...terways; Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers are navigable by oceangoing vessels for 150 km, 100 km, and 80 km, respectively Ports: 1 major (Georg... ...ional Navy, Panama Canal Defense Force, police force, traffic police/highway patrol, Na- tional Department of Investigation, De- partment of Immigrati... ...Thai Marine Corps), Royal Thai Air Force; paramilitary forces include Border Patrol Police, Thahan Phran (irregular soldiers), Village Defense Forces ...

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...rately. The danger hadn’t passed because the remaining police off cers on patrol could be seen in the distance, their helmets bobbing along beneath ... ...But before he got very far, he was met with a hail of arrows from a local patrol of the village men. The arrows 100 Bozo and the Storyteller bounce... ...d. He turned to Theo with a smile and said, ‘We are safe now. The Israeli patrol has already passed to- 127 The Road to Jerusalem night. You will co... ...ter and ruin, he was f rmly warned by his elders. We Storytellers are but vessels for the Universal Muse. Creativity f ows through our veins and f l... ...axi pulled up outside a villa in a wealthy suburb, where securi- ty guards patrolled the edges of green, leafy compounds. They pulled in through the ... ...his nerves on edge. He put his club back in its holster and continued his patrol, wonder- ing just why he had joined the force. Meanwhile, the tramp...

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...ked into its instinctive cells. Into its body muscles, its organs, its blood vessels, its bones, its heart, its lungs, its genitals, its nerves, it... ...vessels, its bones, its heart, its lungs, its genitals, its nerves, its blood vessels… as pain. As raw unidentifiable, unprocessable pain that is ... ...oppression by martial might; with army barracks in every town and village and patrols and armed soldiers guarding every main road, every bridge and e... ... He smokes a pipe and doesn’t inhale: he says it’s for constricting his blood vessels: that is how he manages his psychobiological pain. Because th... ...arthage had a completely integrated military industrial complex. The trading vessels and Military ships were all serviced, funded, and organized by ... ... How long has military sonar been used? For 80 years. Human military naval vessels have been maiming and killing sea mammals with sonar-equipped ...

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...e incomprehensible because he had left a number of of- ficers in charge of patrols who were to make their rounds during the night, and enforce the reg... ... the British ships lay to without advancing. It was known later that these vessels carried the artillery, and had outsailed the rest of the transports...

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...pts to dis- perse the groups collected in the streets, or silence their exclamations, were in vain. Orders had just been given to the royal guards and... ...t us downstairs Bernouin. The valet held a wax-light; the cardinal took a key from his bureau and opening the door of a secret stair descended into th... ...dle of the street he urged his horse upon it without a word of warning; and the members of the group, whether rebels or not, as if they knew with what... ... 24 Twenty Years After out parallel, and not one of the victims had dared to say a word, when some fool of a fellow, less patient than the others, too... ...ople were infuriated; they stopped the horses and cut the escort to pieces, whilst I opened the doors of the carriage and Monsieur de Rochefort jumped... ..., if you can.” “Are you a priest?” asked Raoul. 249 Dumas “No sir.” “I ask, as your unfortunate companion appeared to me to belong to the church.” “H... ...all be drifted either to Calais or Boulogne. Should our bark be upset we are five of us good swimmers, able enough to turn it over again, or if not, t...

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...yours have forgiven the victims of Quiberon? Come, send your twelve men to patrol the town, and dine with me and bring the prisoner. There is only an ... ...ougeres, under his very eyes, you are at the mercy of 224 The Chouans his patrols. See how quickly he knew that this Chouan had entered your house. H... ...elebrated beside the nuptial bed, the altar hastily raised, the cross, the vessels, the chalice, secretly brought thither by the priest, the fumes of ...

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...ere. This was the Italian stronghold. Even the Sulaco policemen on a night patrol let their horses pace softly by, bending low in the saddle to glance... ... resembled a fairy posed lightly before dainty phil- tres dispensed out of vessels of silver and porcelain. Mrs. Gould knew the history of the San Tom... ...d on the wall of a cyclopean blockhouse. To the two serenos of the mine on patrol duty, strolling, carbine in hand, and watchful eyes, in the shade of... ...Sulaco—Eh?—or marquis …” He ceased. The air was cool on the Plaza, where a patrol of cavalry rode round and round without pen- etrating into the stree... ...him? A general prohibition to leave the town, for instance! There would be patrols! The colonel, seizing his head in his hands, turned in his tracks a...

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...uly. A line of smoke and fire ran over the country in the rear of a strong patrol detached from the king’s forces. The moment was critical; the rebel’... ...s distance from the enemy, that the road from Tuam was covered with strong patrols. On the other hand, in ludicrous contrast to these demonstrations o... ...t was exactly the crash, so familiar to many ears on board the neighboring vessels, which expresses the harsh tearing asunder of the fibres, caused by...

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...tle boat glided away as rap- idly as possible in the midst of the thousand vessels which choke up the narrow way which leads between the two rows of s... ...s granted; and three months afterwards, around the twelve or fifteen small vessels which had brought these gypsies of the sea, a small village sprang ... ...so. This side of your chamber looks out upon a kind of open gallery, where patrols are continually passing, and sentries keep watch day and night.” “A... ... the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels. “As for the ink,” said Faria, “I told you how I managed to obtain ... ...he should stand out to sea; but he soon saw that she would pass, like most vessels bound for Italy, between the islands of Jaros and Calaseraigne. How... ...ly indiscreet, gave him great facilities of communication, either with the vessels he met at sea, with the small boats sailing along the coast, or wit... ...t was not their proximity that alarmed us, for detachments were constantly patrol- ling along the banks of the Rhone, but the care, according to the b...

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... and powerful west wind settled the matter, by sweeping Paul Jones and his vessels out of the Frith. If there is something degrading in this recollect... ...dy in single drams, which seemed to have no more effect upon such seasoned vessels, than if it had been poured upon the two bears at the top of the av... ...sel placed before Waverley, Evan, and Donald Bean, three cogues, or wooden vessels, composed of staves and hoops, containing eanaruich, [This was the ... ...ted engagement; and at no great distance in the bay were two square-rigged vessels, bearing the English flag, whose tops and yards were crowded with l... ..., they found the good old careful officer, after having sent out his night patrols, and posted his sentinels, engaged in reading the Evening Service o... ...continued their march with 291 Sir Walter Scott silence and rapidity. The patrol fired his carabine upon the body, and the report was instantly follo... ...ot then gave the young man a letter to the commander of one of the English vessels of war cruising in the frith, re- questing him to put the bearer as... ...f battle, but in serving as advanced guards on the several marches, and in patroling dureing the night on the different roads which led towards the to...

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...and protects Charles II., let Holland do so; they will quarrel, they will fight. They are the only two mari- time powers. Let them destroy each other’... ...w. This joke satisfied some of those who had resisted Monk’s first deduction drawn from the neighborhood of Lambert’s army; the number of the dissenti... ...f voice, making evident that soldier or fisherman was the same to him, and that he had no preference. Monk approached the causeway behind which had di... ... hoys, or some of those Dutch barks which fishermen draw up on the sand on rollers, as the ancients did, according to Virgil. When the tide is ris- in... ...nued the king, “this is your parting audience; you can afterwards set out as soon as you please.” “Sire, I thank you.” “But be sure you make your peac... ...ell fish to the corsairs.” “Ha! Corsairs — what do you mean?” “Well, I mean that M. Fouquet is having two corsairs built to chase the Dutch and the En... ...ce of about half a knot. They approached like arrows shot from the bow of a skillful ar- cher; and yet the sea ran so high that their speed was as not...

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...ers; he will never be a reader. And here, with the aptest illustrative force, after I have laid down my part-truth, I must step in with its opposite. ... ..., if we decide to use it, we should do so grossly and notably, or in some conven- tional disguise: are questions of plastic style continually rearisin...

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...ells fountain, made a very passable meal upon what we had brought with us. Patrols of soldiers—here no longer hussars, but grenadiers in white—were wa... ...ney offered by fugi- tives, and it is said that many who swam out to these vessels were thrust off with boathooks and drowned. About one o’clock in th... ...e all stalking seaward, as if to intercept the escape of the multitudinous vessels that were 94 The War of the Worlds crowded between Foulness and th... ...he fashion, pale green, and with a number of copper and tin 103 H G Wells vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a coupl... ...ed thud- ding and a vibration that made everything about us quiver and the vessels in the pantry ring and shift, began and con- tinued. Once the light... ...y 107 H G Wells lungs, into which the mouth opened, and the heart and its vessels. The pulmonary distress caused by the denser atmo- sphere and great...

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...hemselves with whole harvests of wheat from the San Joaquin Valley; lumber vessels for Durban and South African ports settling lower and lower to the ... ...ign or not? Here’s the advance note. I got to duck my nut or I’ll have the patrol boat after me.” “I’ll sign this once,” growled the other, scrawling ... ...came the sing-song talk of the Chinamen and the wash and ripple of the two vessels, now side by side. The air, foul beyond expression, tasted of brass... ...—let her go. I want it so!” “I can’t stay!” cried the other again. “If the patrol should sig-storm coming up, and I’ve got to be at my station.” Wilbu... ... was watching the schooner. “I can’t stay!” cried the other again. “If the patrol should signal—I can’t stop here, I must be on duty. Come back, you c...

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...en all manner of ships, from men-of-war and deep-sea packets to the labour vessels of the German firm and the cockboat island schooner; and if he be o... ...howing through her ribs. They waited inactive, as a burglar waits till the patrol goes by. And on the 23rd, when the mail had left for Sydney, when th... ...wo companions. The Ger- man pickets were close set and visited by a strong patrol; and on his return, his party was observed and hailed and fired on b... ...d an armed force in the field within a few miles of this harbour, when the vessels under your command transported the Tamasese troops to a neighbourin... ...cted posture of the little town: all government extinct, the German consul patrolling it with armed men and issuing proclamations like a ruler, the tw... ...r might have promised at the conference, he could not “restrict German war-vessels in their freedom of action.” There was nothing to surprise in this ... ... graphed direct home for instructions, “Is arrest of foreigners on foreign vessels legal?” – and was ready, at a word from Captain Hand, to discharge ... ...ent nationalities were confined. Kimberley had his quarter sentinelled and patrolled. Any seaman disregarding a challenge was to be shot dead; any tav...

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...oast of. He was commanding the Neptun, a little gunboat employed on dreary patrol duty up and down the Archipelago, to look after the traders. Not a v... ...n me before. However, we shall soon see.” And, indeed, before long the two vessels lay abreast within easy hail. The brig, with her fine lines and her... ...ched. In the intense stillness, as of sleep, which had fallen upon the two vessels, in a world that itself seemed but a delicate dream, a boat pulled ... ...uch the elect of Freya? It was now afternoon, the sun being behind the two vessels as they headed for the harbour. “The beetle’s little joke shall soo...