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...roduce low-pitch sounds and light effects (flashes, streamers, and balls). Water in lakes and reservoirs oscillate causing flooding (a phenomenon c... ... about his collections and even showed them to visitors. For many years, Ed and his shrunken heads have been the butt of morbid local jokes. Once he... ...explorers in the early 17th century reported that the Iroquois Indians in the Great Lakes region drank popcorn beer and ate popcorn soup. In either ...

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...one's spouse. The longer I persevere, the fiercer the cascade, sculpting the loam to form lakes of mud and rustling froth. Another matter that gre... ...kes contagious mirth in both of us. We go hysterical among the crumpled sheets, beating the shrunken pillows with our fists (his outsizing mine). At...

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...edators, all the reptiles, all go through cyclic explosions of population and shrunken numbers where only the hardiest are left alive. This recurri... ...g information or no information is getting through to it. Its potential has shrunken from pure neglect and sensory deprivation, and information dep... ...u cannot own the oceans of the world. Life energy flows. Damming rivers and lakes: stopping the flow of Life of an entire huge eco-system is the d... ... owned. Water in the forms of clouds, rain, groundwater, humidity, moisture, lakes, rivers, oceans, glaciers, snow, ice; cannot be easily sectioned... ...own all the lands, all the mountains, all the rivers, all the valleys, all the lakes, all the mineral rights, all the clouds, all the air, all the oc... ...y 300,000 unexploded bombs lying everywhere in the soil, in trees, in rivers, lakes, cities, villages, fields, forests all over Laos. The entire cou... ...human bodies. And then they were put on poles, and dried, and abstracted into shrunken heads…. Which were the first half-abstracted tokens, or deat... ...d heads your tribe had tooken, or taken from dead bodies. Since the original shrunken taken dead heads, had rotted, and a head count was religiously... ...ctors still carry spears with death-skulls impaled upon them, and sticks with shrunken heads impaled upon them, and sticks with hairy heads. That t...

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...et in lumps, her arms dangle crookedly. She is bones hooked together with shrunken gut. She has been working as a servant for thirty-five years, she... ...r the Alpine heights and passes to heavenly promises; I prefer rivers and lakes to the Dantesque. Savonarola’s ashes were thrown into the Arno... I ...

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...ricken blinde; divers through the extremitie were lamed, and their limbes shrunken up; many starke stiffe and frozen with colde, although their sens... ...last unction, seeking for his feet, which by reason of his sicknesse were shrunken up, he told him 'My good friend, you shall find them at my legges... ...are bred, Whether by death divorst with us it goe, Or see the darke vast lakes of hell below, Or into other creatures turne the head. To Crates... ... to the end they might bleede to death; but because Senecæs were somewhat shrunken up through age and abstinence, and his bloud could have no speedy... ...would uphold the drooping chinne, and somewhat strengthen or lengthen the shrunken sinewes, decaied vigour, and dulled lives-blithenesse of silly wre... ...ll into a palsey or convulsion of sinnowes: one member shall be maimed or shrunken, another nimble and in good plight. I feare that by our contagion...

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... more. It 9 Joseph Conrad had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery—a ... ...yelids,—a head that seemed to sleep at the top of that pole, and, with the shrunken dry lips showing a narrow white line of the teeth, was smiling too...

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...th fun was ended, and the Jungle People came up, starved and weary, to the shrunken river,—tiger, bear, deer, buffalo, and pig, all to- gether,—drank ... ...on his knees and elbows, where he was used to track on all fours, gave his shrunken limbs the look of knotted grass-stems. But his eye, under his matt... ... twilight. The broad Indian river, that looked more like a chain of little lakes than a stream, was as smooth as glass, reflecting the sandy-red sky i... ..., and to get their year’s store of salmon from the hundreds of streams and lakes of the interior; coming back north in September or October for the mu...

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...glish blood richest joyance on sweet English ground. THE POETRY OF SPENSER Lakes where the sunsheen is mystic with splendour and softness; Vales where... ...And heights where morning wakes With one cheek over snow;— And iron-walled lakes Where sits the white moon low;— For us on youthful travel bent, The r... ...of man was a defeated hand. II Necessity, the primal goad to growth, Stood shrunken; Y outh and Age appeared as one; Like Winter Summer; good as labou... ...ore? About her mouth a placid humour slipped The dimple, as you see smooth lakes at eve Spread melting rings where late a swallow dipped. The surface ... ...corner for serpent sin. IV T ranced she stood, with a chattering chin; Her shrunken form at his feet was thrown: 392 At home to the death my lord sha... ...ped was the chord that made the resonant bow, In France, abased and like a shrunken corse; Amid the weakest weak, the lowest low, From the highest fal... ...alth at flow, A word of breezy warning breeds The pained responses seen in lakeside reeds. We fain would stand contemplative, All innocent as meadow g... ...ow you the low pervading breeze 34 L Ladies who in chains of wedlock 259 Lakes where the sunsheen is mystic with splendour 30 Last night returning ...

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...e of our deepest feelings, we must in youth cast our lead into those great lakes upon whose shores we live. Though to many souls passions are lava tor... ...?—for I will not dwell on the alarm I felt at seeing the countess pale and shrunken; I knew the injury I might do by showing it and was careful to ex-... ...her sufferings are dreadful. Young, beautiful, and rich, to die emaciated, shrunken with hunger—for she dies of hunger! During the last forty days the... ...al hour she loved above all things else. Surrounded by clouds of lace, her shrunken face, which had the green- ish pallor of a magnolia flower as it o...

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...t, nature, everything! I want to see the tallest mountains, and the bluest lakes, and the finest pictures and the handsomest churches,. and the most c... ...y its lapses with the most convenient and ingenious hypotheses. The little shrunken financier was intensely delighted to have questions asked him, and... ...Switzerland? That’s a fine country. I would give my new parasol to see it! Lakes and mountains, romantic val- leys and icy peaks! Oh, I congratulate y... ...ere for three or four weeks they trudged over passes and lounged upon blue lakes. At last they crossed the Simplon and made their way to Venice. Mr. B... ... by a mysterious process to which his pa- tron never obtained the key. The shrunken little capitalist repeated his visit more than once. He seemed opp... ...nt a striking image of the dignity which—even in the case of a little time-shrunken old lady—may reside in the habit of unquestioned authority and the...

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...ll cursed enemy, An huge great Dragon horrible in sight, Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary, With murdrous rauine, and deuouring might Their kingdom... ..., that all her realme did pray. But she now weighing the decayed plight, And shrunken synewes of her chosen knight, Would not a while her forward cour...

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...ich in youth was full and round, the flesh cov- ering the muscles, was now shrunken, to the injury of its expression, which told of an implacable reli... ...abou would thus become a part of the park. These ponds, ambitiously called lakes, had each its island. This year, Gerard had prepared, in collusion wi... ...the eye roved over the landscape created by the engi- neer which the three lakes made worthy of comparison with the beauties of Switzerland. The day w... ...phere, contrasted with the groves below wrapped in their pretty veils. The lakes, separated by broad causeways, were three mirrors showing different r... ...mmons, resembling an open sea and contrasting with the fresh beauty of the lakes and their verdure. When Veronique saw the joyousness of her friends a...

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...h varying glow, as summer evening casts On undulating clouds and deepening lakes. _330 Like the vague sighings of a wind at... ...s fields of snow and pinnacles of ice With burning smoke, or where bitumen lakes _85 On black bare pointed islets ever beat ... ...e to this ambition. I have been familiar from boy- hood with mountains and lakes and the sea, and the solitude of forests: Danger, which sports upon t... ...that night She fled,—like those illusions clear and bright, Which dwell in lakes, when the red moon on high Pause ere it wakens tempest;—and her fligh... ... _4675 I saw the black and half-extinguished pyre In its own gray and shrunken ashes lying; The pitchy smoke of the departed fire 171 Shelley St... ...s keen blasphemy, For which, though his soul must roasted be In hell’s red lakes immortally, Yet even on earth must he abide ...

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... was Empire, the resistless subjugation of all this cen- tral world of the lakes and the prairies. Here, mid-most in the land, beat the Heart of the N... ...ther channel filled, and the starved moujik of the steppes, and the hunger-shrunken coolie of the Ganges’ watershed fed suddenly fat and made thank of... ... buttons of Mexican onyx. In his lapel was an inevitable carnation, dried, shrunken, and lamentable. He was redo- lent of perfume and spoke of himself... ... delicious. It was yet too early for the exodus northward to the Wisconsin lakes, but to stay in- doors after nightfall was not to be thought of. Afte...

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...r: only the loftier summits look down here and there as on a second plain; lakes also lie clear and earnest in their solitude. No trace of man now vis... ... word, the state fallen speech- less, from obesity and apoplexy; the state shrunken into a Police-Office, straitened to get its pay!” We might ask, ar...

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...rown to some height. The door of the archway was made of solid oak, brown, shrunken, and split in many places; though frail in appear- ance, it was fi... ...lines of the horizon softly traced in the far distance across the tranquil lakes. That calm and rosy countenance, margined with light like a lovely fu...

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...he throng, howling, and fling- ing about her lean arms, and baring her old shrunken breast. I never saw a finer action of tragic woo, or heard sounds ... ...from the branches; grey cranes or herons were flying over the cool shining lakes, that the river’s overflow had left behind; water was gurgling throug...

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...se who fought in this monstrously confused battle above the American great lakes. Each side went into action against it knew not what, un- der novel c... ...ing-machine, endless citizens from the cities upon the shores of the great lakes above. Much came from Cleveland. It all gathered here, and whirled ab... ...es in the mouths of men. Everywhere there are ruins and unburied dead, and shrunken, yellow-faced survivors in a mortal apathy. Here there are robbers...

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...re lying lax upon a water-bed and clad in a flowing shirt, a figure with a shrunken face and a stubby beard, lean limbs and lank nails, and about it w... ...ar mills in the furnace rooms of the metal workers, among the incandescent lakes of crude Eadhamite, the blue canvas clothing was on man, woman and ch... ...ation was far less brilliant than upon the public ways. Beyond the blazing lakes of Eadhamite he came to the war- ren of the jewellers, and, with some...

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...ed six-inch edge of rock between cliff and torrent into which the path has shrunken, to the sag- ging plank under the overhanging rock beyond. He coul... ... up mountains and over passes and swam in the warm clear water of romantic lakes and loved each other mightily always, in chestnut woods and ol- ive o... ...d. In an unaccountable way Prothero’s bristling little mind seemed to have shrunken to something sleek and small. “I wish,” he said, “you could stay f...

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...on, and the several ap- pointed halting-places of the Esquarts between the lakes and Florence were named to him. Thus all things were openly treated; ... ...issed in his head. They were ignorant of his autumnal visit to the Italian Lakes, after the winter’s Nile-boat expedition; and also of the degree of h... ... every ambiguity of form in magnitude over peeping azure, or skimming upon lakes of blue and lightest green, or piling the amphitheatre for majestic s... ...e the altar-candle above the lamp of day. She fancied the back-view of him shrunken and straitened: perhaps a mere hostile fancy: though it was concei...

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...nd tunnels, its pavilions and statues, its too numerous paths and pavements, lakes too big for the landscape and bridges too big for the lakes, expres... ...l in its youth. The bowers and boskages stretched behind them, the artificial lakes and cockneyfied landscapes, making all the region bright with the se... ...t of turning in at all. Marmion called itself a town, but it was a good deal shrunken since the decline in the shipbuilding interest; it turned out a ...

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...ion of her father, the discomfort of her sister, the confirmation of their shrunken prospects, the certainty, in especial, of her having to recognise ... ...s the judgement of the head-waiters and other functionaries on the Italian lakes that approved itself now as interested; they themselves had been con-... ... you will be alive,” said Lord Mark. “Well, not quite extinct perhaps, but shrunken, wasted, wizened; rattling about here like the dried kernel of a n...

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... them thither? Once more. Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ...solid head, which towers between them like a great mountain separating two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the im- pressions w... ... so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless moun- tain lakes; and all above them in the forehead’s wrinkles, you seem to track the... ... hand rose to seize it, and the sun having long beat upon this cask it had shrunken, so that it slowly filled, and that parched wood also filled at it...

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...them thither? Once more. Say, you are in the country; in some high land of lakes. Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down ... ...solid head, which towers between them like a great mountain separating two lakes in valleys; this, of course, must wholly separate the impressions whi... ...nd so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all above them in the forehead’s wrinkles, you seem to track the... ... hand rose to seize it, and the sun having long beat upon this cask it had shrunken, so that it slowly filled, and the parched wood also filled at its e...

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...h, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and i... ...at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which bound this first region are not walled in, like most of those i... ...he north, from whence it rose; and at length, after having been delayed in lakes and marshes, it flows slowly onwards to the south. Sometimes quietly ... ...h, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and i... ...at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which bound this first region are not walled in, like most of those i... ...el even betrays a lingering taste for dress; but her delicate limbs appear shrunken, her features are drawn in, her eye is mild and melancholy; her wh...

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...d stories in the English tongue, and Scotland will hold him dear while her lakes and mountains last. Released from this dreaded enemy, the King made a... ...show you.’ He then pulled up his sleeve and showed them his arm, which was shrunken, it is true, but which had been so, as they all very well knew, fr...

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... frightful in their dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright colou... ...himself in a refulgent condition as to his attire, but looking indefinably shrunken and old. However, as he was plainly determined to be angry with he...

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...surface of the years without taking much harm in the passage. Her face was shrunken and aquiline, but any 14 Night and Day hint of sharpness was disp... ...arnations, and compared their respective tastes in the matter of trees and lakes. While talking exclusively of what they saw, so that any one might ha...

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...f England himself could not be caught. He was living a wild life among the lakes and hills; and Edward, who was an old man now, had been taken so ill ... ...f London, with the other lords, Richard came in, and showing his own lean, shrunken arm, declared that Lord Hastings had be- witched him, and made it ... ...most de- lightful tales there are in the world; and three who lived at the lakes—Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge. It was only in this reign that pe...

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...ow not how, in fearful wise, So deeply had she drunken in That look, those shrunken serpent eyes, That all her features were resigned To this sole... ...y but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and benea... ...Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear The lov... ...! How shouldst thou prove aught else but dear and holy To me, who from thy lakes and mountain-hills, Thy clouds, thy quiet dales, thy rocks and sea... ...etic thought Industrious in its joy, in vales and glens Native or outland, lakes and famous hills! Or on the lonely high-road, when the stars Were... ...en it flashed along: — Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, On winding lakes and rivers wide, That ask no aid of sail or oar, That fear no spi...

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...ble steppe-birds of every sort, deer, and goats. Or they went out upon the lakes, the river, and its tribu- taries allotted to each kuren, to throw th... ... tightly drawn veins. Beside her lay a child, grasping convulsively at her shrunken breast, and squeezing it with involuntary ferocity at finding no m... ...sword. The terrified Jew set off instantly, at the full speed of his thin, shrunken legs. He ran for a long time, without looking back, through the Co...

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...her: only the loftier summits look down here and there as on a second plain; lakes also lie clear and earnest in their solitude. No trace of man now v... ...RCH fallen THE PHOENIX 149 speechless, from obesity and apoplexy; the STATE shrunken into a Police Office, straitened to get its pay!” We might ask, a...

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...rn trees—bosky shrubberies—flocks of golden and crimson birds—lily-fringed lakes—meadows of violets, tulips, poppies, hyacinths, and tuberoses—long in... ...involuntarily from their glassy stare to he contemplation of the thin and shrunken lips. They parted; and in a smile of peculiar meaning, the teeth o...

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...ole deep valley, filled up the crevasses, obliterated all signs of the two lakes and covered the rocks, so that between the high summits there was not... ...I look to be forty- five at least.” I looked him straight in the face. His shrunken figure, badly cared for, gave one the impression 190 De Maupassan...

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...l an unbroken wilderness. Where the old land surveyor had put down woods, lakes, and rivers, they marked out the cleared spaces, and dotted the villa... ... time-darkened passage; a tall figure, clad in black silk, with a long and shrunken waist, feeling her way towards the stairs like a near-sighted pers...

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... to the INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES 37 Great Lakes and beyond the sources of the great rivers which communicate throug... ...much for us by intersecting the country with so many great rivers, bays, and lakes, approaching from distant points so near to each other, that the in... ...mon difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fan tastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has ...

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...ELAIN VASE DURING THE TERM of Clara’s walk with Laetitia, Sir Willoughby’s shrunken self-esteem, like a garment hung to the fire after exposure to tem... ... girl. His very stature seemed lessened. The glass did not say so, but the shrunken heart within him did, and wailfully too. Her com- punction—’Call m... ...arked, and spoke of his doom to lead his daughter over the Alps and Alpine lakes for the Summer months. Strange to tell, the Alps, for the Summer mont...

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...d Andrews. “Have a butt? I’ve got one,” said the legless man. With a large shrunken hand that was the transparent color of ala- baster he held out a b... ...m Cranston, Wisconsin. D’you know that coun- try? It’s a great country for lakes. You can canoe for days an’ days without a portage. We have a camp on...

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...d book-keepers. The baking-dish was served up in a penitential manner on a shrunken cloth at an end of the dining-table, at two o’clock, when he dined... ...ble to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity ... ... frightful in their dirt and poverty within; crosses by the way; deep blue lakes with fairy islands, and clustering boats with awnings of bright colou... ...ent condition as to his attire, 635 Little Dorrit but looking indefinably shrunken and old. However, as he was plainly determined to be angry with he...

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... Barren C. Woeful C. Brown C. Wretched C. Unseemly C. Shrunken C. Feeble C. Heavy C. Abhorred C. Cast down C. Wea... ...he centre of the earth, or like frogs dive to the very bottom of ponds and lakes, they shall be destroyed by the power and arrows of the Scythians. Th...