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...m. She spent a month over it,, for his plantation was not in the Darjiling district at all, but nearer Kangra. Phil was very little altered, and Dunma... ...there lived at Simla a very pretty girl, the daughter of a poor but honest District and Sessions Judge. She was a good girl, but could not help knowin... ...th thick blue-black hair growing low down on her forehead, into a “widow’s peak,” and big violet eyes under eyebrows as black and as straight as the b... ... a race which shall break Shackles and humble the pride of his owner.” The Districts rose against Shackles and sent up of their best; Ousel, who was s... ...ineer, and the Government, very kindly, put him quite by himself in an out-district, with nobody but natives to talk to and a great deal of work to do... ...brain, or else he would have broken down and died like a sick camel in the district, as better men have done before him. Government ordered him to Sim...

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...ttish chivalry, which the Baron told with great enthusiasm. The projecting peak of an im- pending crag which rose near it, had acquired the name of St... ...s Fergus, with the unpronounceable name, was the chief thief- taker of the district. ‘Thief-taker!’ answered Rose, laughing; ‘he is a gentleman of gre... ...h; and the governor said, it was ower far to the northward, and out of his district; and the major said, his men were gane hame to the shearing, and h... ...thers of his class, whose depredations had hitherto been confined to other districts, appeared from thenceforward to have made a settlement on this de... ...m- posed a song in which he enumerated all the principal beau- ties of the district, and intimated her superiority by conclud- ing; that ‘the fairest ... ...haggy crests rising among the copse-wood. Still higher, rose eminences and peaks, some bare, some clothed with wood, some round and purple with heath,... ...mber are past; The morn on our mountains is dawning at last; Glenaladale’s peaks are illumed with the rays, And the streams of Glenfinnan leap bright ... ...of armed vol- unteers, who were lately sent out to overawe the disaffected districts, They are now recalled towards Stirling, and a small 215 Sir Wal...

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...The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...n The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...y. The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...ki The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 FOREWORD This report describes the effects of the at... ...ge in the city did not collapse. The population of Hiroshima had reached a peak of over 380,000 earlier in the war but prior to the atomic bombing the... ...urvived the blast fairly close to X could not have withstood the estimated peak pressures de- veloped against the total areas presented by the sides a... ... plained by the fact that they were not actually required to withstand the peak pressure because the windows were quickly knocked out and roof and sid... ... 20,000 tons of T.N.T. Given this figure, one may calculate the ex- pected peak pressures in the air, at various distances from the center of the expl... ...r of the explosion, which occurred following deto- nation of the bomb. The peak pressures which were calcu- lated before the bombs were dropped agreed...

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...the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in winter from the threshol... ... thither among the fields. It was the most pointless laby- rinth. I could see my destination overhead, or rather the peak that dominates it; but choos... ...ached the edge of a plateau. The view, looking back on my day’s journey, was both wild and sad. Mount Mezenc and the peaks beyond St. Julien stood out... ...xt business was to gain the shelter of a wood, for the wind was cold as well as boisterous. How, in this well-wooded district, I should have been so l... ...ould be hard to fancy. Shelving hills rose round it on all sides, here dabbled with wood and fields, there rising to peaks alternately naked and hairy... ...grain of wheat among the pewter balls with which they charged their muskets. I had travelled hitherto through a dull district, and in the track of not... ...was no timber the hills descended to the stream in a red precipice tufted with heather. The sun had left the highest peak in front of me, and the vall...

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...s! CHAPTER XVIII. TAHITI AT EARLY DAWN of the following morning we saw the Peaks of Tahiti. In clear weather they may be seen at the distance of ninet... ...ed in the distance. But when the clouds floated away, and showed the three peaks standing like obelisks against the sky; and the bold shore undulating... ... the whole being some one hundred miles in circuit. From the great central peaks of the 57 Melville larger peninsula—Orohena, Aorai, and Pirohitee—th... ... ridges, glens, and cascades. Over the ridges, here and there, the loftier peaks fling their shadows, and far down the valleys. At the head of these, ... ...their shadows upon the deck, were the sleeping mountains, about whose hazy peaks the gray dawn was just breaking. The breeze had freshened, and with a... ...retching across the bay, the barrier extends on toward Point Venus, in the district of Matavia, eight or nine miles distant. Here there is an opening,... ...uent to my first visit, the island, which before was divided into nineteen districts, with a native chief over each, in capacity of governor and judge... ...i. Indeed, so long as it remained thus furnished, the native courts of the district were held there; the judge, Mahinee, and his associates, sitting u... ...a text was being preached. It seemed that there lived an Englishman in the district, who, like our friends, the planters, was cultivating Tombez potat...

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...hing perhaps of the same anxious pleasure as thrilled the bosom of discov- 5 Robert Louis Stevenson erers that we drew near these problematic shores.... ...ways, the doors of death being set wide open, and the door of birth almost closed. Thus, in the half-year ending July 1888 there were twelve deaths an... ...eadfruit. And a Marquesan does not readily conceive life possible with- out his favourite diet. A few years ago a drought killed the breadfruit trees ... ...f quietism, gathered per- haps from the nuns, was what chiefly struck us. Or rather, upon that first occasion, we were conscious of a sense as 55 Rob... ...of this latter clan Father Simeon had spoken; until the pacifi- cation he had never been to the sea’s edge, nor, if I remem- ber exactly, eaten of sea... ...; and it was in Samoa that we were destined to re-appear and be once more refreshed with the sight of mountains. Since the 147 Robert Louis Stevenson... ...losed about the table. The faces of the company, the spars of the trellis, stood out suddenly bright on a ground of blue and silver, faintly designed ... ...to error, even himself; accepted the principle that a fault handsomely acknowledged should be condoned; and wound the matter up with this proposal: ‘T... ... spies who report daily; and had rather his subjects sang than talked. The service, and in particular the sermon, were thus sure to become offences: ‘...

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...unders were said once to have possessed among the chiefs and nobles of the district. In other places, the shore was of a more gentle description, inde... ...any. About four years after this time, a great commotion took place in the district where Ellangowan is situated. Those who watched the signs of the t... ...y, by singing Captain Ward, and Bold Admiral Benbow, was banished from the district for no better reason, than that he was supposed to speak with a st... ...nd had rules among themselves, by which each tribe was confined to its own district. The slightest invasion of the precincts which had been assigned t... ...any cultivated music with success; and the favourite fiddler or piper of a district was often to be found in a gipsy town. They understood all out-of-... ...ents descended with great fury. Some dappled mists still floated along the peaks of the hills, the remains of the morning clouds, for the frost had br...

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...r an hour and a half he had been talking steadily, putting his case to the District Attorney. Luckily he had a speaking acquaintance with Allonby, and... ...rnative to the strait-jacket. As he paused to wipe his forehead he saw the District At- torney glance at his watch. The gesture was significant, and G... ...you. I can be found at any time at my apartment.” He gave the address. The District Attorney smiled again, more openly. “What do you say to leaving it... ... by the ex- asperating sense that his avowal had made no impression on the District Attorney. Evidently, if he had been going to look into the case, A... ...om his rooms, in his fear of missing the letter by a moment; but would the District Attor- ney write, or send a representative: a policeman, a “secret... ... wound through a pale calcareous landscape; while to the left, on a lonely peak, a crucified Christ hung livid against indigo clouds. The central figu...

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...ousand pounds per annum on the day of your union with a young lady in this district, Miss Janet Ilchester. He undertakes likewise to provide her pin-m... ...on a lofty open chariot, with which he made the circuit of the fashionable districts, and caused innumerable heads to turn. I would have preferred to ... ...e pleasure and pride due to me. From the Club I bent my steps to T emple’s district, and met in the street young Eckart vom Hof, my champion and secon... ...ind’s total apathy was the sign of recovering health. Kind nature put that district to sleep while she operated on the disquieted lower functions. I l... ...; but mount, 507 George Meredith rack the limbs, wrestle it out among the peaks; taste danger, sweat, earn rest: learn to discover ungrudgingly that ...

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... It was in a window of what seemed to be an old fashioned house with three peaks in the roof in front and a circular sweep leading to the porch. A bel... ..., and then a dear little farm yard. As to the house itself, with its three peaks in the roof; its various shaped windows, some so large, some so small... ...changed it must be now!” I said. “It had been called, before his time, the Peaks. He gave it its present name and lived here shut up, day and night po... ...es to read in print what “Mooney, the active and intelligent beadle of the district,” said and did and even aspires to see the name of Mooney as famil... ...icester’s old misgivings relative to Wat T yler and the people in the iron districts who do nothing but turn out by torch light come in a shower upon...

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...f course, would succeed and it was liked principally as it was said in the district, because the host him- self was very fortunate and successful in a... ...own; then the report spread that he had settled in one of the neighbouring district towns, and from that time for- ward not a week passed without his ... ...ing something foolish and, when she caught him up, he politely touched the peak of his shako, and asked her the cause of her tears. “For,” he added, a... ...e probably aware, or perhaps are not aware, a small estate in the Kozelsky district. In old days I used to get something out of it, though now, of cou... ... look forward to but unpleasantness. But enough of politics. Well, in that district I have a little place: 109 Turgenev the usual kitchen garden, a l... ...porting dog. And he was extremely attached to me, too. The shooting in our district is poor, however, as I had set up a dog, I got a gun, too. I took ...

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...s, and down lanes, and in farm yards: all alone, and always round, with a peaked roof, and never used for any purpose at all; ruinous buildings of al... ...d a delightful afternoon and evening journey it was, albeit through a flat district which gradually became more marshy from the overflow of brooks and... ...spire was lost in the blue sky, the Alps, stupendously con fused in lofty peaks and ridges, clouds and snow, were tow ering in our path. Still, we c... ...in its magnificent old Gothic Cathedral, and its ancient houses with their peaked roofs and gables, made a little gallery of quaint and interesting vi... ...of friars (Frances cani, or Cappuccini, in their coarse brown dresses and peaked hoods) making a strange contrast to the gaudy ecclesiastics of highe...

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...l Bridge Road in a square once of some splendour and still included in the district of Belgravia. This topographi- cal fact was of some advantage in a... ...ckets, the robust Ossipon yawned vaguely. A blue cap with a patent leather peak set well at the back of his yellow bush of hair gave him the aspect of... ... one tall and burly, the other slight and short, with a thin neck, and the peaked shoulders raised slightly un- der the large semi-transparent ears. T...

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... up to the fire, and warmed her hands by spreading them over the top- most peak of the coal. She wished to bring the talk back to marriage again, in o... ...ntly colored plumes of hair according to their geographical position. Each district, under the new system, had its flag, its bottle of ink, its sheaf ... ...s the center of an enormous system of wires, connecting us up with ev- ery district of the country. We must have our fingers upon the pulse of the com... ...limber in proof that he has stood for a moment, at least, upon the highest peak of the mountain. She had been up there and seen the world spread to th...

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...the 3 rd dimension, they became what Science calls the waves and troughs, or peaks and valleys of radiating 3-dimensional energy. The small bl... ...ine and invasions. Every time this cultural, and generational vicious cycle peaks. Every time a continent or nation, or race, or culture, or mass... ...y we did not cut down everything, we simply took the easiest resources at the peak of their abundance. The ecosystems of Nature can mend themselves... ...vered. Whether it was a tree that stood out in the middle of a clearing, or a peak that stood out from the other mountains, or an animal that was ta... ...erything else. When you glorify something: you are assuming that the top, the peak, the summit, the apex, the highest point of anything: is assumed ... ...o get to that topmost level of security and safety. Managers fire employees. District managers fire lower level managers. And the lower down you go... ... There are not enough rich people to go door-to-door throughout every voting district and make a personal appeal to each voter. All they have is m...

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...ome importance in dealing with a nobleman of that coun try. I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the bord... ...olours of this beau tiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless persp... ...nted crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, ... ...m as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to b... ...alley, and then, rising far away, great jagged moun tain fastnesses, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with mountain ash and thorn, whose r...

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...their breviaries. After the Priests came some Bishops of the neighbor- ing districts, in purple, with crosses sparkling on their episcopal bosoms. The... ...ith- out covered by a sort of watered silk of white and silver. On the two peaks at the top of the mitre are two very little spangled tassels, that fr...

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...-law, Mon- sieur Crevel—” “Formerly a perfumer, a mayor—yes, I live in his district under the name of Ma’ame Nourrisson,” said the woman. “The other p... ...Mayor of Paris,” said he, with monstrous composure. “And if, after all, my district is so unfortunate as to lose a man it has twice honored with its s... ... the Baroness’ first efforts in this cause was made in the ominous-looking district, formerly known as la Petite Pologne—Little Poland—bounded by the ... ... families bereft of furni- ture, and lodgers that cannot pay. And so these districts are cleared of such objectionable residents, and the dens vanish ... ....” The inhabitants of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine never call that notorious district other than the Faubourg. T o them it is the one and only Faubourg;... ...ht wood, some letter-boxes, and a wretched second-hand chair. A cap with a peak and a greasy green shade for the eyes suggested either precautions for...

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...ice, to shine, to obtain promo- tion, and, in a word, to scale the topmost peaks of that pale, cold, deceptive elevation which is known as soci- ety).... ...curred to his mind. That is to say, he might contrive to withdraw from the district without having re- paid Kostanzhoglo at all! Truly a splendid idea... ...own is one of the heirs under the will: wherefore he has a certain *Fiscal districts. 359 Gogol right to intervene. Also, the fact that extraneous pe...

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...met till then—it had been a two-day’s climb—and came out on a line of snow-peaks that banded all the horizon—mountains from fifteen to twenty thousand... ...climb to the very crest of the pass to watch the red day walking along the peaks of the snows, he would find Sona shuffling and grunting at his heels,... ...stretched across a pile of broken rocks, lay the body of a villager of the district, a long, small-feathered Gond arrow through his back and breast. “...

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... glad at the lily-like voice of the goddesses as it spread abroad, and the peaks of snowy Olympus resound, and the homes of the immortals. And they ut... ...t upon song and their spirit free from care, a little way from the topmost peak of snowy Olympus. There are their bright dancing-places and beautiful ... ...arth, the ever-sure foundations of all (4) the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Ea... ... sore trouble to the gods. For whoever of the deathless gods that hold the peaks of snowy Olympus pours a libation of her water is forsworn, lies brea... ...own was joined in sweet love with the hero Anchises and bare Aeneas on the peaks of Ida with its many wooded glens. (ll. 1011-1016) And Circe the daug... ...e.’ Fragment #3 — Constantinus Porphyrogenitus (3), de Them. 2 p. 48B: The district Macedonia took its name from Macedon the 95 Hesiod, The Homeric H...

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...ittle changed individuals of the same breed may be found in less civilised districts, where the breed has been less improved. There is reason to belie... ...ranged the plants of twelve countries, and the coleopterous insects of two districts, into two nearly equal masses, the species of the larger genera o... ...d require a few more years to people, under favourable conditions, a whole district, let it be ever so large. The condor lays a couple of eggs and the... ... determine how many individuals of the two spe- cies can be supported in a district. A large number of eggs is of some importance to those species, wh... ...ld become very rare, or wholly disappear. The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the num- ber of field-mice, which des... ...ut they plainly display an American type of structure. We ascend the lofty peaks of the Cordillera and we find an alpine species of bizcacha; we look ... ... intervening hot lowlands. A list of the genera col- lected on the loftier peaks of Java raises a picture of a collection made on a hill in Europe! St...

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...had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been masters of a wide-spread trade, Am... ...ed as the Territories are now treated.” (The Territories are vast outlying districts belonging to the Union, but not as yet endowed with State govern-... ...f Napoleon, and not in consequence of any de- mand made by the States. The district then called Louisi- ana included the present State of that name an... ...d Illinois, than which perhaps the sur- face of the globe affords no finer districts for purposes of agriculture. The produce of the two Canadas must ... ...or- mons, Indians, or simply by black bears. That there was a 43 Trollope district in New England containing mountain scenery su- perior to much that... ...fall is more graceful than Giotto’s tower, more noble than the Apollo. The peaks of the Alps are not so astounding in their soli- tude. The valleys of... ...or from the wild celery on which it feeds. This celery grows on the Chesa- peake Bay, and I believe on the Chesapeake Bay only. At any rate, Baltimore...

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... his brother, the doctor—John or Jock, an old friend—over, first Clement’s district and then his bed. “Well, Mrs. Grinstead, I can compliment you much... ...hyllis and Mysie came up, asking Maura to tell them the name of a mountain peak with a white cap. The party came up to dinner, which was as genial and... ..., though this he scarcely lamented, for he could better enjoy the mountain peaks and the valleys bright with rich grass, with anemones of all colours,... ...ittent fever about him too, a not un- common thing in these low-lying lake districts. We have moved him to this Grand National Hotel, a big, half-inha...

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...ore an assembly of Congressmen, Cabinet officers, j udges of the federal and district courts, foreign officials, and a small gathering of Philadelphia... ... opponent of every attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Colum bia against the wishes of the slaveholding States, and... ...e partial and temporary deprivation of their political rights. It is in this District only where American citi zens are to be found who under a settl... ...eed, citizens of any of our States who have dreamed of their subjects in the District of Colum bia? Such dreams can never be realized by any agency o... ...? Such dreams can never be realized by any agency of mine. The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, bu... ...zation itself is forever upward; that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.” Our C... ...rost read one of his poems at the ceremony. VICE P RESIDENT J OHNSON, M R. S PEAKER, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Pr... ...ilion erected on the East Front of the Capitol. MR. V ICE P RESIDENT, M R. S PEAKER, Mr. Chief Justice, Sena tor Cook, Mrs. Eisenhower, and my fellow...

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...ul in all he did; Peter Nikolaevich employed him at times as coachman. The district constable was a friend of Peter Nikolaevich, as were the provincia... ... to help him. “You always used to take the side of the peasants,” said the district constable, “and there you are! I was right in saying they are wors... ...mes he was asked to sit down to the evening meal. In a village in the Orel district, where he had stayed for the night, he heard that a merchant who h... ...a warm jacket and a new fur cloak. In the village and throughout the whole district ev ery one knew quite well that Ivan Mironov was at the bottom of... ...candle, took the money out of the desk, and left the house. XVI IN a small district town, some distance away from the other buildings, an old man, a f... ... his legs, a dirty, unbleached shirt ragged at the shoulder, and a cap the peak of which had been torn. “Whose is ‘ours’?” “The Pirogov village herd.”...

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...small twisted gold threads in the manner of a tassel. The cap was new; its peak shone. “Rise,” said the master. He stood up; his cap fell. The whole c... ...ng jackets of coarse cloth, gen- erally worn with a cap with a brass-bound peak; very short cutaway-coats with two small buttons in the back, close to... ...s of a mar- guerite with their taper fingers, that curved at the tips like peaked shoes. And you, too, were there, Sultans with long pipes reclining b... ... knotted over the top of his head with string, showed under the turned- up peak a bald forehead, flattened by the constant wearing of a helmet. He wor... ...al de Rouen’ daily, having the advantage to be its corre- spondent for the districts of Buchy, Forges, Neufchatel, Y onville, and vicinity .” For two ... ...ning the paper alluded to it. It would be of the utmost importance for our district. But we’ll talk it over later on. I can see, thank you; Justin has...

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...able, whether for its hardness of attainment or its seclusion. The highest peak of our Parnassus is, according to these gentlemen, by far the most thi... ... three-quarter miles in perpendicular elevation; but a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei would afford to your Excellencies a bet- t...

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...o the Workhouse which was appointed by law to be the Good Samaritan of his district (without the twopence, which was bad political economy), on the se... ...eats and teas for him, as if he came in with his homage from some outlying district where the tenantry were in a primitive state. It seemed as if ther... ...ulous, would have measured them as within a few hours easy reach. Mountain-peaks of great celebrity in the valleys, whence no trace of their existence... ... Mr Pancks in a new way with her usual fertility of resource. ‘What appen? Peaka Padrona!’ ‘I have seen some one,’ returned Baptist. ‘I have rincontra...

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...major portion of those affected with HIV/AIDS. This is especially true in districts like Namakkal. Thus we are justified in studying the psychologic... ...s and the age group of HIV/AIDS patients using matrices. We determine the peak age group viz. the maximum number of HIV/AIDS patients with diseases... ...ns. Thus our study is valid not only to any other state but also to every district/village/region/town in Tamil Nadu or in any HIV/AIDS infected nat... ...at the Tambaram Sanatorium. He is a native of Kallai village, Perambalur district. He is married and has switched his job from working in a country... ...patient of Tambaram Hospital). He is from Ottanchathiram in the Dindigul district. He used to drive from Orissa border to Kerala and return 349 b... ...was interviewed. He is a Hindu Gounder from Pennagaram town in Dharmapuri district. He has three children. He has sold all his property. He can talk...

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...fic flies high off this coast between April and October. TABLE BAY—Devil’s Peak Glare removed to Simonsberg. Traffic making Table Mountain coastwise k... ... thousand feet under, and do not round to till East of E. shoulder Devil’s Peak. SANDHEADS LIGHT -Green triple vertical marks new pri- vate landing-st... ...uture is cotton. I grew fifty acres of it last year in my Dis- trict.” “My District!” said his father. “Hear him, Mummy!” “I did though! I wish I coul... ... he said. “We’re such awful paupers we can’t even pay for a mailcart in my District. We 118 Actions and Reactions use a biscuit-box on two bicycle wh... ... out. That’s why he agreed with me about devel- oping the resources of the district by cotton-growing, you know.” “You talked of that too?” said Stric... ... with fever at Dupe that one of Ibn Makarrah’s men was parading through my District with a bunch of slaves—in the Fork!” “What’s the matter with the F... ...me as not backing your topsails in the old days. Besides, it unsettles the District.” “I thought you said slavers didn’t come your way,” I put in. 12...

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... warm himself. Then on St. Alexey’s Day the ice broke on the river and the district policeman turned up, and he was chatting with you all night … the ... ...ameless face and her bruises. And soon there began to be talk all over the district that Vasya had not died a natural death, that Mashenka had made aw... ... stick, with a scanty beard of dark reddish colour — were escorting to the district town a tramp who refused to remember his name. The first waddled a... ...e was silent. 65 The Witch and other stories AGAFYA DURING MY STAY in the district of S. I often used to go to see the watchman Savva Stukatch, or si... ... working in secret with the connivance of the local police officer and the district doctor, who was paid ten roubles a month by the owner. In the whol... ...s fur coat turned up and nothing of him could be seen but his nose and the peak of his cap. At the other end of the long seat was sitting Elizarov the... ...y horizon. He was red and per- spiring, a white cap with a straight jockey peak, evidently a gift from some open-handed young gentleman, perched jaun-... ...ows could be seen and, like a cloud in the distance, Saur’s Grave with its peaked top. If one clam- 147 The Witch and other stories bered up on that ...

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...folded mantles, based on light sandals; tower up in high headgear, from amid peaks, spangles and bell girdles; swell out in starched ruffs, buckram st... ...ccidents of walking, has a grateful effect. Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, a... ...ps, an ell long, which hang bobbing over the side (schief ): their shoes are peaked in front, also to the length of an ell, and laced on the side with... ...even the wooden shoes have their ell long noses: some also clap bells on the peak. Further, according to my author ity, the men have breeches without... ... ity, the men have breeches without seat (ohne Ges¨ ass): these they fasten peakwise to their shirts; and the long round doublet must overlap them. “... ...hl Circulating Li 60 SARTOR RESARTUS brary, some cultivated native of that district might feel called to afford explana tion. Nay, since Books, lik...

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...with bent back and hands supported on his knees. His leathern overcoat and peaked cap proclaim him one of the dismounted passengers. THE LEGS. Aha! I ... ...kly pears instead of gorse and bracken in the wilds. Higher up, tall stone peaks and precipices, all hand- some and distinguished. No wild nature here... ...ens. The fire has again buried itself in white ash and ceased to glow. The peaks show unfathomably dark against the starry firmament; but now the star... ...e. Instead of the Sierra there is nothing; omnipresent nothing. No sky, no peaks, no light, no sound, no time nor space, 104 GB Shaw utter void. Then... ... a live human voice crying somewhere. One sees, with a shock, a moun- tain peak showing faintly against a lighter background. The sky has returned fro... ...days after our return to England, by special license, at the office of the district superintendent registrar, in the pres- ence of my solicitor and hi...

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... told him if he didn’t stop the head wind he would shut him down in the fore peak. The Fin would not give in, and the captain shut him down in the for... ...re the Mast Richard Henry Dana very square yards, and English colors at her peak. We afterwards learned that she was built at Guayaquil, and named t... ...we hove our anchor up, set our topsails, ran the stars and stripes up to the peak, fired a gun, which was returned from the Presidio, and left the lit... ...in the morning sun, with the blood red banner and cross of St. George at her peak, was the handsome Ayacucho. The third was a large ship, with top g... ...e showed the broadside of a full rigged brig, with the Yankee ensign at her peak. We ran up our stars and stripes, and, knowing that there was no Am... ...nta Barbara and San Francisco; thus divid- ing the country into four large districts, each with its presidio, and governed by the commandant. The s...

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...ander, in the uni- form of the Horse Guards, wearing a cocked hat with its peaks front and back, with his pleasant face and resonant though not loud v... ...ame a cart, and behind that walked an old, bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat. “Tit! I say, Tit!” said the groom. “What?” a... ...ith others fatally wounded, was left to the care of the inhabitants of the district. BOOK FOUR: 1806 CHAPTER I EARL Y IN THE YEAR 1806 Nicholas Rostov... ..., “now there’s this recruiting. My father is chief in command of the Third District, and my only way of avoiding active service is to serve under him.... ...g. CHAPTER II PRINCE ANDREW had to see the Marshal of the Nobility for the district in connection with the affairs of the Ryazan estate of which he wa... ...egal, administrative, and financial, from the Council of State down to the district tribunals. Now those vague liberal dreams with which the Emperor A... ...nt. This person was a gray-bearded old man in a woman’s cloak, with a tall peaked cap on his head. He was the buffoon, who went by a woman’s name, Nas... ...d he raised his hand to his white Horse Guard’s cap with a red band and no peak, nodding his head continually. When he came up to the guard of honor, ... ... Kutuzov with a half-contemptuous smile on his lips, scarcely touching the peak of his cap. He treated his Serene Highness with a somewhat af- fected ...

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... Lammermoor by the account I received of some remains of antiquity in that district. Those with which I was most struck were the ruins of an ancient c... ...d, peevish, Puritanical set of features, terminating in a hungry, reddish, peaked beard, forming on the whole a coun- tenance in the expression of whi... ...so simply sweet, he could trace no alliance with the pinched visage of the peak-bearded, black-capped Puri- 180 Bride of Lammermoor tan, or his starc... ... suspicious eye, not only by her neighbours, but even by the clergy of the district. In private, however, she traded more deeply in the occult science... ...o utter a word explanatory of the fatal scene. The provincial judge of the district arrived the day after the young lady had expired, and executed, th...

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...boundless expanse of white cloud, on the blown surface of which a few high peaks, including the one I was on, seemed plunging about as if they were dr... ...gains. (He seems like one who sweats his life out to earn enough to save a district from fam- ine, and just as he staggers back, dying and satisfied, ...

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...ifferent rules of engagement.These fighters, part of the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, launched out of Andrews Air Force ... ...ult of the investigations and arrests, the U.S.Attorney for the South- ern District of New York prosecuted and convicted multiple individuals, includi... ... there.This office worked closely with the U.S.Attorney for the South- ern District of New Y ork to identify, arrest, prosecute, and convict many of t... ...IA, the FBI’s New Y ork Field Office and the U.S.Attorney for the Southern District of New Y ork were preparing to ask a grand jury to indict Bin Ladi... ...eld Office, in briefing Mary Jo White, the U.S.Attor- ney for the Southern District of New York, and her staff.Though “Jeff” also used the 30 percent ... ...r”Attacks Threat reports surged in June and July , reaching an even higher peak of urgency . The summer threats seemed to be focused on Saudi Arabia, ... ... CIA over the recent bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was at its peak.The DCI later testified that this bombing was the result of a CIA mist...

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...learned the rudi- ments; himself, giant Prometheus, is still ironed on the peaks of Caucasus. But by-and-by his truant interests will leave that tortu... ... urbane adventurer; smiling with an engaging ambiguity; cocking at you one peaked eyebrow with a great appearance of finesse; speaking low and sweet a... ... seem to myself to wander in a ghostly street – E. W., I think, the postal district – close below the fool’s-cap of St. Paul’s, and yet within easy he... ...g-room in his fine, natural civility; he will sail near the wind; he is no district visitor – no Wesley or Robespierre; his conscience is void of all ...

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... stern, according to the temper of his *Prefatory letter to Peveril of the Peak. 30 Robert Louis Stevenson spirit. That enigma was this: “Can a good ... ...re almost bewildering to read. From one point of view they seem those of a district visitor; from another, they look like the formless jottings of an ... ...ng influence at the provincial Court; and so he obtained leave to quit the district, and, by way of a pretext, a privilege to follow his profession in...