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...related to bees and wasps. They are so numerous that in some habitats - the Amazon forest, for instance - their combined weight is four times the c... ...guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nationalist parties were established by Russian-Armenian emigran... ...t our America can only be ruled through a well-managed, shrewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the Ameri... ...er, Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of an illustrious figure in Burmese history, a national hero - Aung San, who was murdered in 1947. Aung San... ...l - was made a separate British colony in 1886. It was administered from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Nigeria is a federation of 36 states and a federal...

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...re equally the responsibility to protect the Web of Life on Earth. 150 years later, Dr. Richard Hawk, a lowly archaeology professor, explores the forests of his ancestors. Here he discovers an intriguing artifact he believes has spiritual significance. He takes his disovery to the one person he knows who might identify it: a beautiful shamness names River Song, who onc...

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...cended in the afternoon sky and glowed bril­ liantly above the lush green of the forest, but just under a gray blanket of clouds. The old man's aged ... ...om Sealt to his grandfather's name. Seattle. As they walked through the sacred forest his grandfather would tell him how the Great Spirit had woven... ...old his wrist firmly and tell him that his bloodline had begun long before the forest was born and that the spirit of his ancestors had The Soul B... ...A campus and read up on the inimitable Aaron Matloch. In short, it read: multi-national mining industrialist, multi-billionaire, and the richest ma... ...ously skipped through pages of Fortune Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and a Sierra Club newsletter before Margaret Aimes ushered him into the in... ...ee hundred years, and w2nted to know if 1 could be of assistance in getting the National Geographic Soci­ ety interested in doing a story. Of course,... ...ke it an elegant buffet lun­ cheon. 1 want it to be an event, one that \vill get national cover­ age. Mr. Matloch wants the Who's Who to be there, you... ... Bearer 149 put together by the heads of influential environmental groups: the Sierra Club, Green Peace, and others. It had been billed as a confer... ...three women, all heads of their respective organizations. The President of the Sierra Club stepped onto the landing, and stood behind the dais whic...

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...83-3238 Requesters outside the US Government may obtain a subscription from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ...nment may .... ' purchase this publication in photocopy or micro- form from: National Technical Information Service 5285 Port Royal Road Springfield, ... ...no 211 Sao Tome and Principe 213 Saudi Arabia 214 Senegal 215 Seychelles 216 Sierra Leone 218 Singapore 219 Solomon Islands 220 Somalia 221 South Afri... ... the United States f.o.b. free on board GDP gross domestic product GNP gross national product kW kilowatt kWh kilowatt-hour ODA official development a... ...nd use: 12% arable land; NEGL% permanent crops; 46% meadows and pastures; 3% forest and woodland; 39% other; includes NEGL% irrigated Environment: dam... ...Land use: 21% arable land; 4% permanent crops; 15% meadows and pastures; 38% forest and woodland; 22% other; includes 1% irrigated Environment: subjec... ...d use: 3% arable land; NEGL% per- manent crops; 13% meadows and pastures; 2% forest and woodland; 82% other; in- cludes NEGL% irrigated Environment: m... ...nland Terrain: coastal plain (Costa), Andes Mountains and central highlands (Sierra), flat to rolling eastern jungle (Oriente) Land use: 6% arable lan... ...est Terrain: western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center (sierra), east- ern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva) Land use: 3% ar...

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...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...ary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Nationalist... ... of Leningrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition),... ...l source from the inevitable discovery that it is meaningless. Chinese Room Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to refute the Chinese Roo... .... Rather they are of the nature of compulsive collections. Erstwhile president of Sierra Leone, Momoh, amassed hundreds of video players and other... ...g First is context dependent. For instance: had I traveled to a tribe in the Amazon forests and quoted a speech of Kennedy to them – I would hardly ... ...rarely hold rights to nature or to life. We can copyright a photograph we take of a forest - but not the forest. To reduce it to the absurd: we can ...

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...tion, disturbance, drugs, violence or aggression witnessed by him, to social or to national conflict, to elation and even to sexual excitation. The... ...naciously, through countless generations, their language, habits, creed, dress, and national ethos. Only Jews become automatic citizens of Israel (t... ...ary. It is elitist. But Zionism has always regarded itself as both a (19th century) national movement and a (colonial) civilizing force. Nationalist... ... of Leningrad), members of exploratory expeditions gone astray (the Donner Party in Sierra Nevada, California and John Franklin's Polar expedition),... ...l source from the inevitable discovery that it is meaningless. Chinese Room Whole forests have been wasted in the effort to refute the Chinese Roo... .... Rather they are of the nature of compulsive collections. Erstwhile president of Sierra Leone, Momoh, amassed hundreds of video players and other... ...g First is context dependent. For instance: had I traveled to a tribe in the Amazon forests and quoted a speech of Kennedy to them – I would hardly ... ...rarely hold rights to nature or to life. We can copyright a photograph we take of a forest - but not the forest. To reduce it to the absurd: we can ...

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...ce spread, and where deep seas now roll in perpetual unrest a verdant plain or forest-covered country once invited the energies of man? RISE AND FALL ... ...ss. Amber has since been ascertained to be a vegetable resin, that exuded from forest trees which are now extinct, and which is found in large deposit... ...ion of those of Vinland, as the two were bound together by both commercial and national ties; and unless the Vinland colonists had been self-supportin... ...ergo, as by hatred and jealousy of the commander because he was of a different nationality from themselves, the four captains formed a conspiracy to d... ...gle of the interior, a solid mass of footmen presented itself to their gaze! A forest of lances waved as the savage warriors danced and shouted, and e... ...ce the inspiration and terror of the Spanish seas. While the men were of every nationality, the majority were English, French and Dutch, who in the wa... ...ke continued on around and up the coast until on the 22d of July he arrived at Sierra Leone. Here he came to anchor, and obtained a supply of water an... ...erchantmen. England being still at war with Spain, his course lay directly for Sierra Leone, where he first touched, in expectation of meeting with a ...

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...reds of examples - from bankruptcy law to income security, from flood mitigation to national defense, and from consumer protection to deposit insur... .... Aware of the existence of this Damocles sword, the European Union and the trans-national pharmaceutical lobby have come out last May in favor of... ...al Drugs" discovered immense variations in the prices of medicines among different national markets. But, surprisingly, these price differences wer... ... cartels, trusts and other illegal organizations. Rivers of inks were spilled over forests of paper to explain the pernicious effects of these anti... .... Rather they are of the nature of compulsive collections. Erstwhile president of Sierra Leone, Momoh, amassed hundreds of video players and other... ... reactions in this context. I hope I made my point clear and that you can see the forest from the (too many) woods. Both the Law and Technology de...

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.... Brand’s reputation as one of the young, savvy political 'Turks' grew into national prominence, and was often asked for quotes from political 'ha... ...n't solve everything at once, but we can stop the drug trade, if we make it a national priority policy." Alex waved off the rest of the reporters cl... ...icy." Alex waved off the rest of the reporters clamoring to get their face on national television. "You'll have many more opportunities for your qu... ...cCully's explanation, he just ran and ran, until he found himself deep into a forest near the village. For two days he sat and slept next to a creek... ...his big hands, lifted him and held him like a baby, and carried him out of the forest. The huge Irish Master Sergeant held Joey close to his chest, ... ...shaped windows as the plane skirted over the mountains and flew deep into the forest of Honshu. After about an hour, Ky said, "We are almost there... ...lue Pacific ocean he surfed in as a young man. He wished he could hike in the Sierras with his kids. A knot formed in his stomach; his ambition and ...

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...uin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trini... ...ass, Teton, Toole, Treasure, Valley, Wheatland, Wibaux, Yellowstone, Yellowstore National Park Nebraska: Tax Lien Certificate State 93 Counties Ad... ...a, Otero, Quay, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance, Union, Valencia New York: Tax L... ... Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Elk, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Jefferson, J... ..., Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Door, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, Florence, Fond du Lac, Forest, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Iron, Jackson, Jefferson, J...

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... country which was to become the province of Sulaco, with its high shadowy Sierra and its misty Campo for mute wit- nesses of events flowing from the ... ... green wedge of land a mile long, and laid flat upon the sea, it bears two forest trees standing close together, with a wide spread of shade at the fo... ...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ...in a vast flat expanse of grass to the west, as if the plain be- tween the Sierra overtopping Sulaco and the coast range away there towards Esmeralda ... ... Señor don Vincente Ribiera, the Dictator of Costaguana, had described the National Central Railway in his great speech at the turning of the first so... ... that might be, the Costaguana Press was in the habit of styling Montero’s forest march from his commandancia to join the Blanco forces at the beginni... ...cent and inaudible strain sung by the sunset amongst the high peaks of the Sierra. It had sung itself out into the breathless pause of deep dusk befor... ...e appeared to be nothing left except the house in Sulaco, a vague right of forest exploitation 63 Joseph Conrad in a remote and savage district, and ...

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...ark of fifteen hundred acres enclosed by a stone wall, nine large farms, a forest, mills, and meadows. This almost regal property belonged before the ... ...the pavilion of Cinq-Cygne. The village of Cinq-Cygne is at the end of the forest of 7 Balzac Nodesme (a corruption of Notre-Dame) which was reached ... ... woods, the long perspective of the av- 8 An Historical Mystery enue, the forest in the distance, the rusty iron-work, the masses of stone draped wit... ...hu’s father was then president. The fine domain of Gondreville was sold as national property. The head-keeper, to the horror of many, was present at t... ...e I bought it I was looking for a place to put my money, and I invested in national property as the best security. But it doesn’t suit me to keep an e... ...used of corresponding with the nation’s enemies, and delivered them to the national guards who took them to prison, the crowd shouted, “Now for the Ci... ...e two brothers were killed together under the eyes of the Emperor at Sommo-Sierra, the one defending the other, both being already in command of their...

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...high brow of a sombre cliff; great trees, the advanced sentries of immense forests, stand watchful and still over sleep- ing stretches of open water; ... ...tle, intrigued, fought. He knew na- tive Courts, European Settlements, the forests, the sea, and, as he said himself, had spoken in his time to many g... ...itude of the sea, in riverside villages, in resting-places sur- rounded by forests—words are spoken that take no account of race or colour. One heart ... ...nk perched upon a long pair of thin legs. The third man on the staff was a Sierra Leone nigger, who maintained that his name was Henry Price. However,... ...away, and Gobila’s people se- cured the carcase. It was the occasion for a national holiday, but Carlier had a fit of rage over it and talked about th...

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...wed into the next length of wooden tunnel, I had one glimpse of a huge pine- forested ravine upon my left, a foaming river, and a sky al- ready colour... ...n, Alta, Dutch Flat, and all the old mining camps, through a sea of mountain forests, drop- ping thousands of feet toward the far sea-level as we went... ...aces across the bay, while the Pacific Ocean, though hidden by low hills and forest, bombards her left flank and rear with never-dying surf. In front ... ... which I ever set my foot, was this unhomely, rugged turret-top of submarine sierras. Here, when his ship was broken, my lord Duke joyfully got ashore... ... proud to remember) as a friend. Like my old soldier, he was far gone in the national com- plaint. Unlike him, he had a vulgar taste in letters; scarc...

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...days later, two thousand miles farther off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to... ...it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances. But, thanks to the nationality of the victim of the shock, thanks to the reputation of the com... ...ive as Ned Land was, I must admit that he took a certain liking for me. My nationality drew him to me, no doubt. It was an opportunity for him to talk... ...o be inaccessible to man, and quarry the game which dwells in my submarine forests. My flocks, like those of Neptune’s old shepherds, graze fearlessly... ... table; I can understand also that you hunt aquatic game in your submarine forests; but I cannot understand at all how a particle of meat, no mat- ter... ...ronnax to a hunting- party, which will take place to-morrow morning in the forests of the Island of Crespo. He hopes that nothing will prevent the Pro... ...ught the lowest depth of a submarine valley which is between this Cape and Sierra Leone on the African coast. This valley bifur- cates to the parallel...

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...base and dash up it and drench it as with a luminous spray, while the adjacent groves are in deep shadow. Behind the Castle swells a great dome-shaped... ...gendary stuff; and so, by stimu- lating my fancy, I finally got to imagining I glimpsed small flitting shapes here and there down the columned aisles ... ... and people were not sweated to death. When I saw “King Lear” played, nobody was allowed to see a scene shifted; if there was nothing to be done but s... ...endid gamblers are gone, only her microscopic knaves remain. An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: “If you could disguis... ...y insolence here. These shopkeepers detest the English and despise the Americans; they are rude to both, more es- Mark Twain 102 pecially to ladies o... ...ody pays that man’s board and lodging. It occurs to him by and by, however, in one of his lucid moments. *Months after this was written, I happened in... ...ittle bill of fare, which will go home in the steamer that precedes me, and be hot when I arrive— as follows: Radishes. Baked apples, with Brook-trout...

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...t over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east. As Presley drew near to the point where what was known... ...plants these days? Ten thousand acres of wheat! Nothing but wheat from the Sierra to the Coast Range. I remember when De La Cuesta was married. He had... ...e ground to the sheep raisers off yonder;” he motioned eastward toward the Sierra foothills. “Since Sunday the herd has been down. Very clever, that y... ...c and Southwestern, when, as a bonus for the construction of the road, the national gov- ernment had granted to the company the odd numbered sections ... ...limbed into the wagon and jolted over the un- even ground through the bare forest of hop-poles to the house. Inside they found Mrs. Dyke, an old lady ... ...y, quite as much as he did the little tad. In their little cottage, in the forest of green hops that surrounded them on every hand, the three led a jo... ...y and had gone at once to a certain hotel on Bush Street, behind the First National Bank, that he knew was kept by a family connection of the T rees. ... ...de by the tens of thousands of moving bodies was as the noise of wind in a forest, while from the hot and sweating mass there rose a strange odor, pen...

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... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...order to conform to what he had read in his books, how many a night in the forests and deserts knights used to lie sleepless supported by the memory o... ...omises of the kind without fulfilling them, even though she made them in a forest and without any witness present, for she plumed herself greatly on b... ...r, and entreated him to leave the place at once, and go into hiding in the sierra that was close by. “That is all very well,” said Don Quixote, “but I... ... whom he had done so much. CHAPTER XXIII Of what befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, which was one of the rarest adventures related in this verac... ...ying, and, Sancho leading the way on his ass, they entered the side of the Sierra Morena, which was close by, as it was Sancho’s design to cross it en... ...green and luxuriant that it was a delight to the eyes to look upon it, and forest trees in abundance, and shrubs and flow- ers, added to the charms of...

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... Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the env... ...his, the most cosmopolitan book in the world, is one of the most intensely national. “Manon Lescaut” is not more thoroughly French, “Tom Jones” not mo... ...order to conform to what he had read in his books, how many a night in the forests and deserts knights used to lie sleepless supported by the memory o... ...omises of the kind without fulfilling them, even though she made them in a forest and without any witness present, for she plumed herself greatly on b... ...r, and entreated him to leave the place at once, and go into hiding in the sierra that was close by. “That is all very well,” said Don Quixote, “but I... ...vantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. CHAPTER XXIII Of what befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, which was one of the rarest adventures related in this verac... ...the 190 Don Quixote – Part I way on his ass, they entered the side of the Sierra Morena, which was close by, as it was Sancho’s design to cross it en... ...green and luxuriant that it was a delight to the eyes to look upon it, and forest trees in abundance, and shrubs and flow- ers, added to the charms of...

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... engineer, head of the immigration bureau, and superintendent of woods and forests; “but your own people won’t go about to make more than a fair profi... ...he Crayford lot. Her folk come out of the ground here, nei- ther chalk nor forest, but wildishers. They sailed over to America—I’ve got it all writ do... ...d. Zalinski’s Standard Works: PASSES OF THE HIMALAYAS, 5s. PASSES OF THE SIERRAS, 5s. PASSES OF THE ROOKIES. 5s. PASSES OF THE URALS, 5s. The fo... .... It seemed to me a pretty sight, but Penfentenyou said it represented Our National Attitude. Lord Lundie’s summer resting-place we learned was a farm...

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...the Cage Fields, and presently extended right up the London Road. A single national school in an inconve- nient situation set itself inadequately to c... ... to man’s estate and developed a more and more com- prehensive view of our national process and our national needs, I am more and more struck by the o... ...al though complex passion for Making, making widely and greatly, cit- ies, national order, civilisation, whose interplay with all those other factors ... ...d working idea of this round globe with its mountains and wildernesses and forests and all the sorts and conditions of human life that were scat- tere... ...the world, exactly like the gaze of some nice healthy innocent animal in a forest, interested, inquiring, speculative, but singularly untroubled… . 5 ... ... to frozen wildernesses gashed for gold, to vast temple-studded plains, to forest worlds and 214 The New Machiavelli mountain worlds, to ports and fo... ...ons that send his mind afield to Calcutta or Rangoon or the West Indies or Sierra Leone or the Cape… . I was not infrequently that pensive member. I u...

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...est must have been dark, or she would not have stood a comparison with the forest Goddess of the Crescent, swanning it through a lake—on the leap for ... ... home at his grand swing in the October dusk, their school hero drew their national hero closer to them. Every fellow present was dead against the ush... ...ead of two hundred horsemen across a stretch of country including hill and forest, to fall like a bolt from the blue on the suspected Prince in the mi... ...hen is she doubly fair. The shadow about her secretes mystery, just as the forest breeds romance: 52 Lord Ormont and His Aminta and mystery is a meas... .... “And tra-la-la, and castanets, and my Cid! my Cid! and the Alhambra, the Sierra Nevada, and ay di me, Alhama; and Boabdil el Chico and el Zagal and ... ... Lord Ormont saw his name cited, with the effect on him that such signs of national repentance approaching lodged a crabbed sourness in his consulting... ... I look forward. I do hope good for the world. If at my school we have all nationali- ties—French boys and German, Italian, Russian, Spaniard— without...

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...doubtless they ran upon Napoleon, Catholic Emancipa- tion, true methods of national defence, of effective for- eign Anti-gallicism, and of domestic di... ...ating soul, equips beyond all others to shine in the Talking Era, and lead National Palavers with their spolia opima captive, is imprisoned in a fragi... ...neys) were said to be thinking of tours,—perhaps in 69 Thomas Carlyle the Sierra Morena and neighboring Quixote regions. From that Torrijos enterpris... ... as game, struck me not a little;—and the poor Wood- Ox, so bemired in the forests, took it as a compliment rather:— “To Thomas Carlyle, Esq., ... ...s of plants, from little mosses and threads of grass up to great trees and forests. Some also contain accounts of liv- ing things: flies, worms, fishe...

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...nsions of a park, was usually termed W averley- Chase, had originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the y... ...ments should be repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, if would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard, accus- tomed to treat much larger sums with... ...ith groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The broke... ...he sight of what he had not yet happened to see, a mountaineer in his full national costume. The individual Gael was a stout, dark, young man, of low ... ...senach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowl... ...o pledge the toast: ‘I say nay to that;—while there is a green leaf in the forest, there will be fraud in a Comyne.’ ‘There is nothing but honour in t... ...rother-in-law. The Baron, whose learning (like Sancho’s jests while in the Sierra Morena) seemed to grow mouldy for want of exercise, joyfully embrace...

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...ut a strange and violent wind that used to burst upon Carson City from the Sierra Nevadas every afternoon at two o’clock and try to blow the town away... ...t all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality. If the road pegging scheme had not succeeded I should have lod... ...body came down from London; there were no lamenting poems, no eulogies, no national tears—there was merely silence, and nothing more. A striking contr... ... apart, each footprint a third of a mile long and a furlong deep, and with forests and vil lages mashed to mush in it. Was there any doubt as to who ... ... a His tory of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance. He made extensive and valuable a...

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...ard to sing, with great feeling and emphasis, the beau tiful and pathetic national air of ‘We won’t go home till morning, We won’t go home till morni... ...nt of a small apple tree, to look picturesque, and commenced singing their national songs, which appeared by no means difficult of execution, inasmuch... ...hers, five female servants, and thirty boarders, all half dressed and in a forest of curl papers. Of course Mr. Pickwick didn’t say who was there: and... ...in?’ ‘What rhymes to tinkle?’ said Mrs. Pott, whose entrance at the moment forestalled the reply. ‘What rhymes to tinkle? Why, Winkle, I should concei... ... through the Court influence of his family, to the governor generalship of Sierra Leone, of Saugur Point, or any other of those salubrious climates wh...

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...till though the one I sing, (One, yet of contradictions made,) I dedicate to Nationality, I leave in him revolt, (O latent right of insurrection! O qu... ...tts land! land of Vermont and Connecticut! Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks! Land of boatmen and sailors! fishermen’s land! Inextri... ...dvance and retreat upon my poems as upon their own shores, See, pastures and forests in my poems—see, animals wild and tame—see, beyond the Kaw, count... ... morning. My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea gaps, I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents, I am afoot with my vision. By the cit... ...patch or hosing rows of carrots and parsnips, crossing savannas, trailing in forests, Prospecting, gold digging, girdling the trees of a new purchase,... ...ny thing how can I say any thing? Of the turbid pool that lies in the autumn forest, Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight, To... ...as my land is to me. I see plenteous waters, I see mountain peaks, I see the sierras of Andes where they range, I see plainly the Himalayas, Chian Sha... ...ly shape and mould the New World, adjusting it to Time and Space, You hidden national will lying in your abysms, conceal’d but ever alert, You past an... ... o’er all the rest, For thee, the future. I’d sow a seed for thee of endless Nationality, I’d fashion thy ensemble including body and soul, I’d show a...

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... of palatable grass, with water to drink; unless he seeks the Shelter of the forest or the mountain’s shadow. None of the brute creation requires more... ...in storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines br... ...den and the orchard, but to those wilder and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, or rarely, serenade a villager, — the wood thrush, th... ...ing down other than daisies and the nests of field mice, like bowlders of the Sierra Nevada, that occupy an outside place in the universe. Commerce is ... ...r respective musical bands stationed on some eminent chip, and playing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatant...

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...f palatable grass, with water to drink; unless he seeks the Shelter of the forest or the mountain’s shadow. None of the brute creation re quires more... ... storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines bri... ... and the orchard, but to those smaller and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, Walden 79 or rarely, serenade a villagernthe wood thru... ... down other than daisies and the nests of field mice, like bowlders of the Sierra Nevada, that occupy an outside place in the universe. Commerce is ... ...ective musi cal bands stationed on some eminent chip, and play ing their national airs the while, to excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants....

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...her bed. A week after her burial, Kirby was found a corpse in the mountain forest. His having called the death of his darling his lightning-stroke mus... ... and her great dog and a faith- ful man-servant discovered the body in the forest. Chillon arrived from England to see the common grave of both his pa... ... a face without a smile above. Their childhood ran along the tracks to the forest by the light, which was neither dim nor cold, but grave; presenting ... ... the sight of blood. She should make a natural Lady Patroness of England’s National Sports. We might turn her to that purpose; wander over England wit... ...g circumstances concerning her, and magnified them in the interests of the national humour: which is the English way of exalting to criticize, critici... ... the English party’s cost. Laughter, let it be but genuine, is of a common national- ity, indeed a common fireside; and profound disagreement is not e... ... him from their morning Eastern Alps to smoky-crimson Pyrenees and Spanish Sierras; she could imagine the cavernous interval her punishment for having...

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...ith the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not m... ...porter of the Government during the war, and remains a firm believer, that national success by the Democratic party means irretrievable ruin. In June,... ...yment in which horses were used. We had, among other lands, fifty acres of forest within a mile of the village. In the fall of the year chop- pers wer... ...mense bodies of men moved on the same day over narrow roads, through dense forests and across large streams, in our late war, it seems strange now tha... ... take was the one which General T aylor selected. It entered a pass in the Sierra Madre Mountains, at Monterey, through which the main road runs to th... ...and Lieutenant George G. Meade, afterwards the commander of the victorious National army at the battle of Gettysburg—made a reconnoissance to the Salt... ...point where we landed, but most of the country was covered with the native forests. We landed in front of a cornfield. When the debarkation commenced,...

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...g about Scottish scenery and manners, the High- land dress, and everything national or local that I could lay my hands upon. Now that I have got my Ge... ... to every yawning audience that I can gather. I am grown most insufferably national, you see. I fancy it is a punishment for my want of it at ordinary... ...oor troubled existence, how far his poems were his personally, and how far national, the question of the framework of society in Scotland, and its fat... ...ND, – This is just a line to say I am well and happy. I am here in my dear forest all day in the open air. It is very be – no, not beautiful exactly, ... ... really was ill at first, as bad as I have been for nearly a year; but the forest be- gins to work, and the air, and the sun, and the smell of the pin... ...ate recollections of my past life here; I was glad to try and think of the forest, and warm my hands at the thought of it. O the quiet, grey thickets,... ...r, from New York to California, until, at Dutch Flat, a mining camp in the Sierra, I heard a cock crowing with a home voice; and then I fell to hope a...

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...ith slave ships, and in com- mand of a prize that he had had to conduct to Sierra Leone, he had shown great coolness and seamanship, in several per- i... ... children will be very wild and ig- norant, and you don’t like that at the National School.” “Oh, but they are in such need, besides there will be no ... ... to Miss Boulder, ‘I declare I must remonstrate. I undertook to instruct a national, not a ragged school;’ and then Miss Boulder shook out her fine wa... ... of hearing those spelled over for ever; they have some nicer books at the national school.” “What is the name of them? Do you see any of them here?” ... ...nd Mary rushed down in dismay at their story having, as they thought, been forestalled. However, they had it all to themselves, and the doctor took up... ... rid of him, and took to idle sport. One day, when he was out hunting in a forest, a white hind came and ran before him, till she guided him to a cast... ...s were up, to be presented to V ana Gloria. And so he was carried into the forest, bleeding and wounded, and his enemy drove the car over his body, an...

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...’ll be King but Charlie?’’ the Italians and Spaniards screamed through some national affairs, for which I was none the wiser; and we three Yankees ma... ...three Yankees made an attempt at the ‘‘Star span gled Banner.’’ After these national tributes had been paid, the Austrian gave us a very pretty litt... ...ars Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana talking at once, and their peculiar national oaths were getting as plenty as pronouns. The next day, the... ...our or five hundred miles of sea coast, with several good harbors; with fine forests in the north; the waters filled with fish, and the plains covered... ...vagance, grinding them in their poverty; having mortgages on their lands, forestalling their cattle, and already making an inroad upon their jewels... ...ough the centre of the valley. Back by the Coulterville trail, the peaks of Sierra Nevada in sight, across the North Fork of the Merced, by Gentry’s ...