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...ead to treasures in this lifetime. There’s a real pressure on new writers to polish their work, join critique groups and quickly submit, as if they ar... ...ou Keep Getting Rejections? by Barbara J. Robinson “Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.” Psalm 144:1(NI... ...her side of the desk. As I sought good writers to fill my content quota, and polished their work so little would prevent readers from getting the info... ...acher, ever near, ever involved in my life. My Teacher/Paula Moldenhauer 91 Polishing Words By Rose McCauley “A word aptly spoken is like apples of g... ...arden, FL.. She also plans travel for the Lake Highland Prep School Academy Singers of Orlando and writes creative entertainment programs for Family ...

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...care not to utter words needlessly, as our sages instructed, “A word is a rock; silence is two.” This means that if you have a priceless word whose w... ...e is two.” This means that if you have a priceless word whose worth is one rock, know that not saying it is worth two rocks. This refers to those utt... ...nguage of Kabbalah exists in the Bible, such as the standing on the Tzur (rock), the thirteen attributes of mercy in the Torah and in Micah, and, to... ...builders and built palaces of pleasure. He gathered all the musicians and singers and built him concert halls, and called the finest bakers and chef... ... years in horrible torments. Our sages said, “As salt sweetens meat, agony polishes man’s sins.” This means that they bring to the body great purific... ...outside of us. For that, He has made for us there, in our brain, a kind of polished mirror that inverts everything seen there, so we will see it outs... ...eless, we should be so grateful to His Providence for having created that polished mirror in our brains, enabling us to see and perceive everything ... ...nd built palaces of pleasure for him, collected all the musicians and the singers and built him concert halls. He assembled the best chefs and baker... ... feel the beauty of the buildings; and he was deaf and could not hear the singers. Sadly, he was diabetic, and was permitted to eat only coarse-flou...

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...ing uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me to help him, and was soon apologiz... ...ate, a Nike on chalcedony, a nude girl on jasper, a fighting lion on rock crystal... Sappho is enjoying her collection: the sun, in her bedr... ...a spear. He can’t believe he’s wounded. It’s not his blood spattering the rocks... “A man lies beside his shield, a hole in his side. He can’t belie... ...at submerge in whorls. How quiet the blue, how serene where afternoon sun polishes a path aimed for the shore, Cretan, Ethiopian, Etruscan, where me... ... together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... I loaned her little sums; she lent me money; she sent m... ...y finely woven wires. And there was a day when Andrea’s famous sphere was polished and ready. How it glistened! How proud he was, how proud all of u... ... sketches of a spool- winding machine; I remember I evolved my machine for polishing crystals. My sketchbook filled...my ellipsograph, my new perspec... ...ness, out of the wilderness...” I turned in mighty late that night, yet singers were still singing, singing “Gen- tle Annie” and other favorites. ...

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...lue eyes. Ao Rue moved quickly to him, gathered up the fragile body, and rocked it within the cradle of his own body. He shuddered uncontrollably ... ... Foul grace gave way to futile grunts. A portion of the map was a shiny, polished black. Heng-chiang's projectiles bounced off it. The silt was r... ... of the magic makers, the spellbinders, the star trippers, the poets, the singers. Once read, once heard, they haunt, dreams in the mist. Their ec... ...going to bother talking to you." It turned and gracefully slid among the rocks. "Oh yea," Erh-lang yelled after it. "You think I'm dumb! Wait'll... ...here, stone-white pools of thirst. Spongy effervescent clay clung to the rocks. It was half-covered by wet, clinging sand. Dead sea life was stre... ...eir fishing to share a choice morsel, to intertwine their necks, as if to polish each other's feathers. In their grayness, they seemed suspended ab...

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...Finally, I need to thank the institutions who have supported this study. The Rockefeller Center in Bellagio provided an inspiring beginning. The Ford,... ...re—the mix of earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to t... ...ncti- monious preening of those who cast each junior downloader of corporate rock as a Ché Guevara, fighting heroically to bring about a new creative l... ...uld the great musical traditions of the twentieth century—jazz, soul, blues, rock—have developed under today’s copyright regime? Would they have devel... ...east till he figures out how to get his own shit together. T oday I hear some singers who I think sound like me. Joe Cocker, for instance. Man, I know ... ...ms that there was a different source, a mysterious song by the Bailey Gospel Singers, or the Harold Bailey Gospel Singers, called “I’ve Got a Savior.”... ...ssive and usefully detailed sites created on everything from Vikings to shoe polishes, shows a desire to share one’s knowledge, to build on the work o... ...the Duke Chapel or explained the history, economics, and chem- istry of shoe polish or distilling. Someone might even have created a great class on mu...

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...s of the large grazing animals. Hominids found that by taking a heavy enough rock and bringing it down with sufficient force onto a thigh bone, the... ...cially difficult task. Simply smash the bone hard enough with a heavy enough rock and it would split. This was the survival technique that saved t... ... upright and had their hands free, learned to create hand-tools by splitting a rock so it has a linear cutting edge which can be used to butcher a ki... ...preserving and maintaining your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s oak table lovingly for twenty fucki... ...e you die, that table will not care one speck about all the hours you wasted polishing it. This is the one-sided, imbalanced insanity of living th... ...preserving and maintaining your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s Oak table for twenty years. Once y... ...; that features ordinary people trying to mimic-duplicate famous entertainers-singers. The premises… the assumptions… the norms, the normality, the... ... is a competition. It assumes that entertainers and artists and composers and singers must compete against each other in order to gain popular recog... ...e to compete at all… no matter if they happen to be ten times better than the singers who do compete… then they automatically lose. And are conside...

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...ncepts that we hold in high esteem. For example, do you like classical or rock music, more money or more free time? Or on a higher level it might be ... ...h of these positions has its roots in antiquity. Our modern thinking just polishes the philosophers‘ stones a bit. Of course as empirical science has... ...ers are merely looking for the shock value of being counter-culture. Some rock bands fit this category. You also sometimes have murderers or child m... ...e tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schools and hospitals? What about fitne... ...c wand to let every impoverished waif wish upon a star, it seems that the rocket ship to high level economies is docked at the lowly sweat shop. The...

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...ou might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling ov... ...out, who approached or re- ceded from the shore, to avoid the fragments of rocks, or deeper parts of the river, with a readiness that showed his knowl... ...r situation more minutely. The river was confined between high and cragged rocks, one of which impended above the spot where the canoe rested. As thes... ...oftener felt the storms of heaven than any testimonials of weak- ness. The singers were dwelling on one of those low, dying chords, which the ear devo... ...ression of Magua, suffered them to rest with plea- sure on the smiling and polished features, and the noble mili- tary air, of the French general. “Mo... ... the communication he had proposed making, or on the decided, though still polished message, by which he now gave his enemy to understand, that, unles... ...nro was more commanding and manly, it wanted both the ease and insinuating polish of that of the Frenchman. Neither spoke for a few moments, each re- ...

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... beautiful to my eyes; for when the sun struck upon the hill sides, there were many wet rocks and watercourses that shone like jewels even as far as A... ...ld have found them from the track. A large part of the Ross is covered with big granite rocks, some of them larger than a two- roomed house, one besid... ... Ben Kyaw. On all this part of the coast, and especially near Aros, these great granite rocks that I have spoken of go down together in troops into th... ...the like of it unknown in cities, woven with homespun, and Sunday black, and sea- cloth polished on the bench of rowing. The room, like the house, had... ...once before he died! to move with a jocund spirit in a golden land! to hear the trained singers and sweet church bells, and see the holiday gardens! ‘... ...h which she had infected the Doctor; everything was in its place; everything capable of polish shone gloriously; and dust was a thing banished from he... ...use for the rats to desert; and nothing but its excellent brightness – the window-glass polished and shining, the paint well scoured, the brasses radi...

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...el on the right perched on a precipice overlooking the Neckar—a precipice which is so sumptu- ously cushioned and draped with foliage that no glimpse ... ...res- sion; yet at times the pain was so exquisite that I could hardly keep the tears back. At those times, as the howlings and wailings and shrieking ... ..., once, and in Mannheim once, and in Munich (through my authorized agent) once, and this large experience had nearly persuaded me that the Germans pre... ... refresh my own memory, too, for I have never read it before. 69 A Tramp Abroad THE LEGEND LORE (TWO SYLLABLES) was a water nymph who used to sit on ... ...venings, with his Zither and “Express his Longing in low Singing,” as Garnham says. On one of these occasions, “suddenly there hovered around the top ... ...t.” “No, I was careful about that. I said, ‘My friend and I would like to know what your name is, if you don’t mind. ’” “No, that was not abrupt. Ther... ...top of it with ropes and pulleys, and painted all over it, in blue letters bigger than those in Schiller’s name, these words: “Try Sozodont;” “Buy Sun... ...not thoroughly searched; we were satisfied he was there, somewhere, so we resolved to wait over a day at Leuk and come back and get him. Then we sat d...

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...ille, leaning out of a low garret window, watching the drying of his newly polished shoes on the little parapet outside (if a gentleman), or the airin... ...of elegant models; their excessive whiteness, as contrasted with the brown rocks, or the sombre, deep, dull, heavy green of the olive tree; and the pu... ...o hot to have a hand laid on them comfortably. We went, first of all, up a rocky height, to the cathedral: where Mass was performing to an auditory ve... ...om into crisp blue fire. The air was so very clear, that distant hills and rocky points appeared within an hour’s walk; while the town im mediately a... ...ecessary), and stood there at my ease, during the performance of Mass. The singers were in a crib of wire work (like a large meat safe or bird cage) ... ...t jackets; quaint old stomachers, more wicked than the smart est bodices; Polish pelisses, strained and tight as ripe goose berries; tiny Greek caps... ...e they lie half suffo cated with mud and dust. Exhibitors of Punch, buffo singers with guitars, reciters of poetry, reciters of stories, a row of che...

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...n Pope. He had much more, too, of the Christian. He was not so elaborately polished and fur- bished as the author of “The Rape of the Lock;” but he ha... ...ed in the Prologue to the Satires,—a portrait drawn with the perfection of polished malice and bitter sarcasm, but which seems more a caricature than ... ...of its couplets remind you of “pebbles which had long been rolled over and polished in the ocean of his mind.” It has been asserted, but not proved, t... ...nser. 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay; Why art thou prouder and more hard than they? ... ...treak’d with purple light; When tuneful Hylas, with melodious moan, Taught rocks to weep, and made the mountains groan. 11 ‘Wycherley:’ the dramatist... ...nd bear my sighs away! Come, Delia, come; ah, why this long delay? Through rocks and caves the name of Delia sounds, Delia, each care and echoing rock... ... poet lays A table, 77 with a cloth of bays; And Ireland, mother of sweet singers, Presents her harp 78 still to his fingers. The feast, his towerin...

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...f glistening watered silk, trimmed with steel buttons, beautifully cut and polished. His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroider... ...ard, when he saw rise within a hundred yards of him the black and frowning rock on which stands the Chateau d’If. This gloomy fortress, which has for ... ... before the tempest. Soon the fury of the waves and the sight of the sharp rocks announced the ap- proach of death, and death then terrified me, and I... ...s happy, because I had not courted death, because to be cast upon a bed of rocks and seaweed seemed terrible, because I was unwilling that I, a creatu... ...powers bestowed on him by nature, easily acquired, as well as that outward polish and polite- ness he had before been wanting in, and which is seldom ... ...iling, shed their refulgent beams on feet cased in elegantly made boots of polished leather, over which de- scended fashionably cut trousers of black ... ... my dear fellow, when one has been accustomed to Malibran and Sontag, such singers as these don’t make the same impression on you they perhaps do on o... ...era with a ballet, the pauses between the performances are very short, the singers in the opera having time to repose themselves and change their cost...

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...el, brass, white metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.M. No—in ores. O.M. Are the metals suddenly ... ... patient work of countless ages. O.M. You could make the engine out of the rocks them selves? Y.M. Yes, a brittle one and not valuable. O.M. You woul... ... the stone engine a savage and the steel one a civilized man? The original rock contained the stuff of which the steel one was built—but along with a ... ...ng to remain one. T raining, experi ence, association, can temporarily so polish him, improve Mark T wain 91 him, exalt him that people will think h... ...hen we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with these same singers in the several parts, and possibly this same orchestra. I resolved ... ...ou can lay on your keelson except gravel. THURSDAY.—They keep two teams of singers in stock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the m... ...oon till ten at night. Nearly all the labor falls upon the half dozen head singers, and apparently they are required to furnish all the noise they can... ...how to translate entrails. Caesar Augustus’s education received this final polish. All through his life, whenever he had poultry on the menu he saved ... ...ians these many, many years. They have to make him write that graceful and polished and flawless and beautiful poem before he escaped from Stratford a...

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... under- stands—a rook’s parliament, or a gathering of sea-fowl on the Shag Rock.’ ‘A rook’s parliament?’ ‘The people at home call it a rook’s parliame... ...l, and wanting that living ripple, heaving and struggling.’ ‘And your fine rocks?’ said Laura. ‘I wish you could see the Shag stone,—a great island ma... ...f the mountain streams, eddying fiercely along, bearing with them tree and rock, while the valleys became lakes, and the little mounds islets; and the... ...not yet venture to form an opinion on him, or enter into intimacy. ‘So the singers will not come to us on Christmas Eve, be- cause they say they must ... ...ll their rudeness and dissonance, and throwing up the win- dow, called the singers by name, asking why they stood out in the snow, instead of coming i... ...e, but it was not quite the same; for Guy was a very chivalrous lover; the polish and courtesy that sat so well on his frank, truthful manners, were e... .... Guy hastened to the patient; while Amabel was conducted to a room with a polished floor, and very little furniture, and there waited anxiously until...

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...ppe has tumult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock-bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare v... ...o History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of mountain rocks and antediluvian ruins: That they have been created by un- known agen... ...ffscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad-singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New Wine (heuriger) flowed l... ...rature and Shoeblacking, are realized by actual Instruction and actual jet Polish; what by ficti- tious-persuasive Proclamation of such; specifying, i... ...eleven eager to learn. By collision with such, a certain warmth, a certain polish was communicated; by instinct and happy accident, I took less to rio... ...thing that we could so much as Believe. ‘How has our head on the outside a polished Hat, ’ would Towgood exclaim, ‘and in the inside Vacancy, or a 85... ...despicable firework. Happy, if it indeed proved a Firework, and flamed off rocket-wise, in successive beautiful bursts of splendor, each growing natur...

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...She, for the future of her strength convinced. And that her honour was a rock, or mole, Exceeding sagely from that hour dispensed With any k... ...ts; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve’s rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a ne... ...he sea dashes round the promontory, And the loud breaker boils against the rock, And sober suns must set at five o’clock. Byron’s Don Juan “Cant... ...ny he heard, Which was an odd one; a troop going to act In Sicily (all singers, duly rear’d In their vocation) had not been attack’d In sa... ...ess ‘Sufficiently’ (he said) ‘his approbation Of all the customs of this polish’d nation. ‘For his own share—he saw but small objection To s... ... Achilles’ self was not more grim and gory Than thousands of this new and polish’d nation, Whose names want nothing but — pronunciation. Still ... ...ould be Now under arms. Ho! Katskoff, take him to (Here he call’d up a Polish orderly) His post, I mean the regiment Nikolaiew: The strang...

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...unt of a private struggle between himself and a certain path of planks and rock edges called the Bisse of Leysin. This happened in his adolescence. He... ...e it hangs like an eyebrow over nearly or quite vertical walls of pine-set rock. Beside it, on the outer side of it, runs a path, which becomes an off... ...lls corner, which gives the favourite picture postcard from Mon- tana, the rocks project so sharply above the water that the passenger on the gangway ... ...er of charming people of the war that was then imminent, listened to gipsy singers until dawn, careered in sledges about the most silent and stately o... ...gainst nature and society, and distracted Benham in his contem- plation of Polish agriculture from the windows of the train with turgid sexual liberal... ... going through a mill of steely education, kept close, severely exercised, polished by discussion, she had but the weak training of a not very good sc... ... they are the realities. I want to go now to some quiet corner where I can polish what I have learnt, sort out my accumulations, be undisturbed by the...

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...ows, but man departs,’ says the sad Tahitian proverb; but they are all three, so long as they endure, co-haunters of the beach. The mark of anchorage ... ...ined with palms and a tree called the purao, something between the fig and mulberry in growth, and bearing a flower like a great yellow poppy with a m... ...nderstudy) would be fluting in the thickets overhead. A little further, in the turn of the bay, a streamlet trickled in the bottom of a den, thence sp... ...iefs, the drummers, the dancers, the women, and the priests. The drums—perhaps twenty strong, and some of them twelve feet high—con- tinuously throbbe... ...you not hear something supernatural?’ His attention thus directed, he was aware of a strange buzzing voice—and yet he declared it was beautiful—which ... ...in the smoke of the family hearth. Head-hunting, besides, still lives around my doorstep in Samoa. And not ten years ago, in the Gilberts, the widow m... ...ere summoned (I suppose in honour of Queen Victoria) to join him. A strong breathless heat reigned under the iron roof, and the air was heavy with the...

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...pon their polluted cheeks! They get us an ill name wherever they go. These singers have 16 Vittoria no country. One—I knew her—betrayed Filippo Masta... ... feeling in this case, Ugo. You have not heard me. I came through Paris. A rocket will soon shoot up from Paris that will be a signal for Christendom.... ...t I shall be ready.” “There are no squabbles of any serious kind among the singers?” A soft dimple played for a moment on her lips. “I have heard some... ...ts of those hard and serious men as a wind takes the strong oak-trees, and rocks them on their knotted roots, and leaves them with the song of soaring... ...nute!” Captain Gambier smiled brilliantly; and the lady, perceiv- ing that polished shield, checked the shot of indignation on her astonished features... ...rson.” Barto stuck his thumb and finger astride Luigi’s shoulder and began rocking him gently, with a horrible medi- tative expression. “Y ou will hav... ...’ 110 Vittoria She hardly listened to Vittoria’s statement that the chief singers in the new opera were engaged to attend a meeting at eleven at nigh... ..., though he observed them last, small brass pieces of cannon, shining with polish. Shot was piled in pyramids beneath their mouths. He exam- ined the ...