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... 1. Cognitive Collision 1 The key literary principles of Contrast and Coherence. 2. A Megalosaurus in WC1 10 Creating vividness in the face of sensory satiation: the necessity of change—and change of change. How Dickens made 500 words on “it was foggy and muddy” lively. 3. Is He Still the Lone Ranger ...

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... Copyright © 2014 Paul T. BarberLibrary of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:Barber, Paul, 1941- Words of Uncomm... ...Publication Data:Barber, Paul, 1941- Words of Uncommon Shape: How Writers Create Vividness in Language and Story / by P. T. Barber. Includes bib... ... 1 The key literary principles of Contrast and Coherence.2. A Megalosaurus in WC1 10 Creating ... ...abooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small... ...s and downs to report, he shows the fog in the vicinity ofcontrasted types of vessels (great ships, small boats) and contrasted people(the wheezing pe... ...14.19. Poe, “Adventure of Hans Pfaall,” Complete Tales, 3-4.20. Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, in Mississippi Writings, 919.21. Cicero, The Letters to His ... ... “Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a ... ...ng us with the realization that they areimages. Many of Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoons were built on literal 83interpretations... ... In early 2009, for example, there were numerous stories of attacks bypirates on container-ships off the east coast of Africa. Most of these were ...

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...n Metal and LiquidNatural Affection of Metal and GasHint HelpCreations Now in ProgressSome Curious Behaviors of AtomsMobility of Seeming SolidsThe Nex... ... fascinating interest. The most famous of these storieswere told at Bagdad in the eleventh century, and were called _TheArabian Nights' Entertainment_... ... use all sorts ofobedient powers, sorceries, tricks, and genii to aid them in gettingwealth, fame, and beautiful brides.But I find the realities of to... ...ep mines, hoists ore to the surface,speeds a thousand trains, drives great ships, in face of waves andwinds, thousands of miles and faster than transc... ...the two parts of the city. It is not constructed with arches, butpiers are built up from the bottom of the river and great granitestringers are laid h... ...tation takes the mighty burden down the long toboggan slide of theOhio and Mississippi Rivers to the journey's end. How easy!One load sent down was 43... ...et deep. Waterand gravitation make a frightful plow. Here some prehistoric Mississippiturned its mighty furrows.The Colorado River is one of our great... ...inuncounted ages! In the short time the Mississippi has been at work ithas built out the land at its mouth one hundred miles into the Gulf.In the side... ...were allthe essentials of a geyser. There was a mound, not always existent,built up by deposits from the water supersaturated with mineral. Itmight be...

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... the successfulaccomplishment of the federal union of all the provinces in 1873, when 3Prince Edward Island became one of ... ...ect on the national spirit of the people. Iendeavour to interest my reader in the public acts of those eminentmen whose names stand out most prominent... ... made the deepest impress on the fortunes and institutions ofthe Dominion. In the performance of this task I have always consultedoriginal authorities... ... spire of the curious old church, Notre-Dame des Victoires,which was first built to commemorate the repulse of an English fleettwo centuries ago. Away... ...rdon of villages, towns, and farms nowstretches from the city of Winnipeg, built on the site of the oldheadquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company, as fa... ... in the followingpages.[1] The first terrace, named after Lord Durham, was built on thefoundations of the castle. In recent years the platform has bee... ...s placed the dragon's head which always stood on theprow of the Norsemen's ships, and pictures of which can still be seenon the famous Norman tapestry... ...owever, in July, he brought his fleet again to the Saguenay, and sentthree ships to Quebec under his brothers, Lewis and Thomas.Champlain immediately ... ...excepting thirteen who remained with the English, went onboard the English ships, and Lewis Kirk was left in charge of Quebec.On the way down the rive...

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...This is the third book of the series. The heroes are moved to uncharted waters, all in search for the causes of their problems. Yet, they do not know they have problems and are deep in them. This was meant to be the last book in the series at this time I had a job and all was fine. However, I as many others,...

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... purpose. IntroductionRené, which first appeared in 1802, had an immediate impact comparable to that of Goethe’s TheSorrows ... ...tas’s doomed love for the Christian half-caste girl Atala) though René was in fact an excerptfrom a long prose epic the author had composed between 17... ...ené enjoyed such popularity that it was republishedseparately, with Atala, in 1805. Neither novella exalts the ‘noble savage’, instead implying thatpo... ...arm to the Sachem, and led him beneath a sassafras treeon the banks of the Mississippi. Père Souël was not long in arriving at the rendezvous. Dawn wa... ... Fort-Rosalie were visibleto the right, along the river-banks. Tents, half-built houses, the foundations of fortifications,clearings full of Negroes, ... ... drawn like figures of azure on thegolden reaches of sky; in the west, the Mississippi’s waves rolled by in magnificent silence, andwith inconceivable... ... a sister oncemore. I am leaving for the convent of … That institution, built by the sea shore, suits the state ofmy soul. At night, in the depths ... ...kens of admiration andtears. I wandered ceaselessly around that convent built by the sea shore. At a small barred windowwhich overlooked a deserted... ...uble; infinity the other side of a cell wall; the flickering lights of the ships, themotionless lighthouse of the convent; the uncertainty of the voya...

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...ler) Strother by Pat Hurst 11,60] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5. Chapter II. The Settlers. In 1772 at the area known as Alexander Waugh's Ford, wagons camped along the river carrying goods between the Shenandoah valley and Fredericksburg. A miller, and land grantee, "Gentleman Billy" Willis, petitioned the English...

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...sus of opinions on what probably happened. So from that beginning viewpoint,it is best to keep in mind that this booklet includes much folklore transc... ...n mind that this booklet includes much folklore transcribed from the memories ofpersons living in Rapidan most of their lives. It has not been heavily... ...n heavily researched from historicaldocuments, so there may be variance from what is available in published or public documents. January 23rd, 19... ... was changed Fig. 4. The oldest house in Rapidan, circa 1772 (1A) was one of three houses built for the fromresident miller and for his mill ha... ...esbyterian and an Episcopal church inconceivable. The whole house resounded with the were built in Rapidan. Waddell Memorial Presbyterian mi... ... "Pre-Renaissance French Gothic" subsided so far as to permit him to proceed... church built of wood, rather than stone. It was named T... ...ew, guns continually manned, in .S. Navy policy in the 20th century, has been to name Navy ships of the auxiliary oiler class for 1945 was: 18... ... Searchlights were going mad up there and the skyNorfolk, Virginia, and we refuel various ships of was a cobweb of lights and tracers radia... ...aand Melville, Rhode Island. On 21 April 1941, anti-aircraft guns on shore and from the ships in theLieutenant Commander S.S. Bunting, USN, rel...

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...ivil War 11. Robber Barons And Rebels 12. The Empire and the People 13. The Socialist Challenge 14. War Is the Health of the State 15. Self-help in Hard Times 16. A People's War? 17. "Or Does It Explode?" 18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam 19. Surprises 20. The Seventies: Under Control? 21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus 22. The Unreported Resist...

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...“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”—Søren Kierkegaard My original hope in writing this account was for it to eventually contain enough information to fill a thin volume. This I would present to my parents on their 50th wedding anniversary in late summer 2006. The compilation was to include as mu...

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...o the Fox’s Tail Uniting of Couples and Colonies Marshfield Marshal Sole Survivors Barnstable Constable Cruelty and Hard Usage A Sword or a Gun in the Belly Which Witch is Which? A Courtship Interrupted by the Court A Gentleman and a Scholar The Severity of the Season Burden of Beasts Letter from Plymouth Jail Peace and Love Paperwork and Nostalgia French an...

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...s write, (for we are one,)That should I after return,Or, long, long hence, in other spheres,There to some group of mates the chants resuming,(Tallying... ...te is worthier far,The Female equally with the Male I sing.Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the l... ...laws divine,The Modern Man I sing. 3As I Ponder'd in SilenceAs I ponder'd in silence,Returning upon my poems, considering, li... ...hanting the chant of battles,I above all promote brave soldiers.In Cabin'd Ships at SeaIn cabin'd ships at sea,The boundless blue on every side expand... ...e boundless blue from me to every sea,This song for mariners and all their ships.To Foreign LandsI heard that you ask'd for something to prove this pu... ...mong cattle or taste of the ocean or woods,Of the builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of axes andmauls, and the drivers of horses,I can ea... ... 59His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him,His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around andreturn.I but use you... ...seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance,I see the Siberian on his slight-built sledge drawn by dogs,I see the porpoise-hunters, I see the whale-crew... ...orth!You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house, thoughyou built it, or though it has been built for you.Out of the dark confinement! ...

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.... It seems thatduring the month of January it doesn't snow or rain or hail or get bad in any wayweather-wise until Saturday night, and it stays like t... ...ght. So I'm happy to see that those of you who are here tonight don't letanything get in your way, that is, weatherwise.During the next three weeks, w... ...ve us a better understanding of the past, I should say a better knowledge of thepast, in order that we may understand the present and be better prepar... ... who go to other meetings are usually interested in thingslocal—Harlem, that's it; or Mississippi, that's it—national. But seldom do you findthem taki... ...e worldwide rather thanlimited just to things American, or things New York, or things Mississippi. And thisis very important.You can get into a conver... ... much land there was in all the directions from where he was standing. Thepyramid was built so many thousand years ago that they don't even know theex... ...d was built so many thousand years ago that they don't even know theexact time it was built, but they do know that the people who brought it intoexist... ...tered astronomy.I read where one scientist said that the architect of the pyramid had built a shaftthat went outward from the center of the pyramid, a... ...called The Slave Trade by Spears, 1 in which itpoints out that one of the first slave ships to come here was piloted by anEnglishman named John Hawkin...