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...linen shirt and noted the contrast between its pauper shabbiness and her own volcanic eruption of infernal splendors, her mother heart was touched, a... ...few years ago, with the accompanying earthquakes, tidal waves, and clouds of volcanic dust, changes the face of the surrounding land The Tragedy of P... ...ind T om. T om found his door in the dark, and entered it, and turned up the gas. When he faced about, lightly whistling, he saw the back of a man. T...

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...Thou too mayest love and be loved;’ and so kindle him,—good Heaven, what a volcanic, earthquake- bringing, all-consuming fire were probably kindled!” ...

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...rkness of the kitchen burned a blue bud of light. He quickly turned up the gas to a broad yellow flame, and sat down at table. He was tired, excited, ... ...a, blue and hazy in the morning, musing by itself. Before, he was burning, volcanic, as if he would destroy her. She had given him this new soft beaut... ...h touch-and-shrink. Though his bedroom was very dark, he did not light the gas. Instead, he stepped out into the small balcony. His shirt was open at ...

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...ny emulation of herself in his desert region unfit for life and blasted by volcanic fires; but she has passed on and is gone. The blackest nightmare i... ...ere is not an atom of T om’s slime, not a cubic inch of any pestilen tial gas in which he lives, not one obscenity or degradation about him, not an i... ...trified bowers, extinguishers for obsolete flam beaux gasp at the upstart gas. Here and there a weak little iron hoop, through which bold boys aspire... ...s when we stopped in a by street at a public looking place lighted up with gas. Mr. Bucket took me in and sat me in an armchair by a bright fire. It w... ... vividly upon the room walls and furniture. The gloom augments; the bright gas springs up in the streets; and the pertinacious oil lamps which yet hol...

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...s across the line the same instant, but the blank was his. Up and down the gas-lighted platform he looked in vain among the crowd, only his eye sudden... ...er. Did he think he was making love all the time he was boring me with his gas in the dormitories? I hope she will serve him out!’ ‘He will not be the... ...as she now was called—capering round her elder sister, who stood beneath a gas-burner, in a well-furnished bed-room, reading a letter, its enclosure c... ...es, and the deep hollows above her collar-bones. ‘It always does after the gas is lighted,’ said the child, pa- tiently, ‘it is always so hot here.’ ‘... ...e horizon had a fascination for him. At last, after ten minutes of glaring gas at a junction had by contrast rendered the mist impenetrable, and reduc... ... coa-nut, bread-fruit, banana, and banyan, growing on the sloping sides of volcanic rocks; of mysterious red-glowing volcano lights seen far out at se...

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...nless work. It captured his imagination, filling his pride with a mounting gas. Thus he had become allied to Medole on the one hand, and to Barto Rizz... ...e’s as cool as a lemon- ice. That girl will be a mother of heroes. To have volcanic fire and the mastery of her nerves at the same time, is some- thin... ...hing into the street. Jacob Baumwalder Feckelwitz went straightway under a gas-lamp, where he read the address of the letter to Countess d’Isorella. H...

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...you love your friends that’s all they want of you?” “Oh!” she moaned; “the gas-lamp hurts me. What a noise there is!” 349 George Meredith “We shall s... ...m the one she had hitherto known. The calm Englishman had given place to a volcanic spirit. “Isn’t that the sketch we made?” he resumed. “The plot’s p...

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...dawn it was, a sickly filtering accumulation of daylight, and the light of gas and candles shone yellow in the windows to show where people were astir... ...s collide with, and certainly pass very close to, our earth. “Earthquakes, volcanic outbreaks, cyclones, sea waves, floods, and a steady rise in tempe... ...0—for then, too, people had anticipated the end. The star was no star—mere gas—a comet; and were it a star it could not possibly strike the earth. The... ...ees and shrubs of the garden stood stiff and dark; beyond in the roadway a gas-lamp burnt, bright orange against the hazy blue of the evening. Farther... ...e used to be finer, before we shoved cones in their throats, and saved the gas.” “How?” said Raut. “Cones?” “Cones, my man, cones. I’ll show you one n... ... fire and molten metal, with the air of the blast frothing through it like gas in soda-water.” Raut gripped the hand-rail tightly, and stared down at ...

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...) will rise to the surface through eight or ten feet of gravel, just as coal gas will do, and there is practically no limit to their power of escape. ... ...d doomed Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 299 this Lynch in his usual volcanic style, the size of his fateful words undiminished; but it was al...

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...nt residence, with all its adjuncts, ready for him, at Colonarie, in this “volcanic Isle” under the hot sun. An interesting Isle: a place of rugged ch... ...conceived on Earth. How indeed could it be otherwise, in a small Island of volcanic mountains, far within the Trop- ics, and perpetually covered with ... ...act and bridge to look at; and always with the soft sky overhead, the dead volcanic mountain on one hand, and broad illimitable sea spread out on the ... ...hern people can have little conception of. “It consists of a great mass of volcanic mountains, cov- ered in their lower parts with cottages, vines and... ... hills become more abrupt, and loftier; and give the notion of very recent volcanic disturbances, though in fact there has been nothing of the kind si... ...nated places, and finding that the basis of them was putridity, artificial gas and quaking bog, did he, when his strength was all done, discover his t...

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...his enter- prise was oozing out at his finger-tips. At a dark turn under a gas bracket whose flame was half turned down his self-confi- dence abandone... ... Office where I had been once or twice before, I was extremely startled. A gas bracket hung from the middle of the ceiling over a dark, shabby writing... ... my way upset me very much. And his dungeon was hot and musty; it smelt of gas and mushrooms, and seemed to be somewhere 120 feet below the ground. So... ...riting himself into liberty and a pension at last, or had to go out of his gas-lighted grave straight into that other dark one where nobody would want... ...throw there was an open sheet of water and big ships lying afloat. The few gas lamps showing up a bit of brick work here and there, ap- peared in the ... ... patch of the sea, lighting up the very clouds and carrying upwards in its volcanic rush flying spars, corpses, the fragments of two destroyed ships. ...

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...ow ever, big enough to admit the point of the saw. I had expected a rush of gas from the week old corpse. We doctors, who have had to study our dange... ..., and then small oil lamp, which gave out, when lit in a corner of the tomb, gas which burned at a fierce heat with a blue flame, then his operating k... ..., done him good. He was never so resolute, never so strong, never so full of volcanic energy, as at present. It is just as that dear, good Professor V... ... of cloud in the room, through the top of which I could see the light of the gas shining like a red eye. Things began to whirl through my brain just a... ...e grey of the coming dawn was making the windows into sharp oblongs, and the gas flame was like a speck rather than a disc of light. She said to me ...

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...next, he should have known that the Gallic shrug over matters political is volcanic—it is the heaving of the mountain, and, like the proverbial Russ, ... ...dy had been lying for hours in the gloom of a London Winter’s daylight and gas- light. ‘Madame de Rouaillout is indisposed with headache,’ was her rep...

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...kindlier sun in regions not torn by earthquakes nor blasted and ravaged by volcanic fires. Will the readers of this little book, who, are gifted with ... ...l solve the worst of our difficulties.” I bent over the map. “You see this volcanic island,” said the Professor; “observe that all the volcanoes are c... ...compose the body of this earth must exist there in a state of incandescent gas; for the metals that most resist the action of heat, gold, and platinum... ...ther dis- tinguished geologists, that the interior of the globe is neither gas nor water, nor any of the heaviest minerals known, for in none of these... ...has been ex- cluded, and in which remains only a residuum of carbonic acid gas or of nitrogen. When the apparatus is put in action this gas becomes lu... ... of the Earth subject to the dire phenomena of eruptions, the offspring of volcanic explosions and subterranean convulsions? We were to know them befo... ...ned to the central portion of the island; there, rocks of the trappean and volcanic class, including trachyte, basalt, and tuffs and agglomerates asso... ... rancid with twenty years’ keeping, and, therefore, according to Icelandic gas- tronomy, much preferable to fresh butter. Along with this, we had ‘sky... ... the open country, if one may give that name to a vast extent of mounds of volcanic products. This tract seemed crushed under a rain of enormous eject...

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...g, situated between the large store- rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking. The streams under the furnaces gave out to... ...is lan- tern is a spiral glass which contains a small quantity of carbonic gas. When the apparatus is at work this gas becomes luminous, giving out a ... ...up on to the plat- form, and greedily scanned the horizon. To the N.E. two volcanic islands emerged of unequal size, surrounded by a coral reef that m... ... tacle, and what variety of sites and landscapes along these sandbanks and volcanic islands which bound the Libyan coast! But where these shrubs appea... ...e formation of these new islands was ended.” “Nothing is ever ended in the volcanic parts of the sea,” replied Captain Nemo; “and the globe is always ... ... which in geological times formed the entire Mediterranean.” “What if some volcanic burst should one day raise these two barriers above the waves?” “I... ...h now gives entrance to the life-giving air we breathe.” “But what is this volcanic mountain?” “It belongs to one of the numerous islands with which t... ...illed—ah! if we had only the chemical means to drive away this deleterious gas. We had plenty of oxygen; all this water contained a consid- erable qua...

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...und them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the su... ...nd ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time—as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look. The raw afterno... ...out of this that he never wants to go there. The day is closing in and the gas is lighted, but is not yet fully effective, for it is not quite dark. M... ... ments of the great torture of the law—a place not to be entered after the gas is turned off. Mr. Snagsby appears, greasy, warm, herbaceous, and chew ... ...sk. “Jarndyce and Jarndyce, Snagsby.” “Yes, sir.” Mr. Snagsby turns up the gas and coughs be hind his hand, modestly anticipating profit. Mr. Snagsby... ...ny emulation of herself in his desert region unfit for life and blasted by volcanic fires; but she has passed on and is gone. The blackest nightmare i...

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...dark empty way between the mean houses, the dark empty way lit by a bleary gas-lamp at the corner, you cannot feel the hard checkered pavement under y... ... cooped within. Nor can you presently pass the beerhouse with its brighter gas and its queer, screening windows, nor get a whiff of foul air and foul ... ... world—the effect of the great hoarding by which we passed, lit below by a gas- lamp and towering up to a sudden sharp black edge against the pallid s... ...n to glow with quivering fires, and each pot-bank squatted rebellious in a volcanic coronet of light. The empire of the day broke into a thousand feud... ...rning coal. The minor streets across the valley picked themselves out with gas-lamps of faint yellow, that bright- ened and mingled at all the princip... ...nd settled down. “Ah!” said the other man. “They do say that it is made of gas, that comet. We sha’n’t blow up, shall us?”… What did it matter to me? ...

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...Maggie: A Girl of the Streets 11 voice, occasionally interjecting bursts of volcanic wrath at the father, who, Jimmie judged, had sunk down on the fl... ...o dance music and the laces of the dancer fluttered and flew in the glare of gas jets. She divulged the fact that she was attired in some half dozen s...

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... the frightful pass they were in:—Prussians billowing round by the myriad, volcanically spouting fire for fifteen hours: we, scattered sparse on the r... ...f the educated, mon- ied, respectable class prescribe? That is to say: the volcanic lava-flood, bursting up in the manner described, will ex- plode an... ...ness, and suicidal ruin. The Mountain labours; like a volcano in a burning volcanic Land. Convention Commit- tees, of Surety, of Salvation, are busy n...

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...y can hope to see. Since May, 1834, the church has been a fierce crater of volcanic agen- cies, throwing out of her bosom one-third of her children; a... ...ther change, the infinity which has been suddenly turned off like a jet of gas, or like the rushing of wind through the tubes of an organ, upon the do... ...sed in total neglect. The impulse was too strong for re- pression—it was a volcanic agency, that, by some opening or, other, must have worked a way fo...

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...e soon.” “Yes, of course.” Lacey went to the living room and turned on the gas fireplace and was cheered by the roaring flames and warmth that envelop... ...d with a sectional couch and a round carpet and coffee table in front of a gas fireplace. The fire was lit and the lights were low, creating a warm, c... ...eople near her. “Some- one here smokes. I smelled it before. There must be gas in the vans. We can set the door on fire!” “Yes, yes,” cried Randall. “... ...s great,” said Peter. The men tore up the clothes and dipped them into the gas tanks and carried them over to the ware- house door. “Be careful not to... ...arried them over to the ware- house door. “Be careful not to drip too much gas. We don’t want the fire to come back.” Soon they were ready. “Okay, Orm... ...d discussion. Dear Fellow Beings, The earth is a dangerous place: possible volcanic super eruptions, falling meteors, hurricanes, tsunamis, and torna-...

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...itating with the amazing intelli- gence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet. It had occurred towards midnight of the twelfth; and t... ...pectroscope, to which he had at once resorted, indicated a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, moving with an enor- mous velocity towards this eart... ...f that unerring missile. That night, too, there was another jetting out of gas from the distant planet. I saw it. A reddish flash at the edge, the sli... ...le table where the siphon stood, while Ogilvy exclaimed at the streamer of gas that came out towards us. That night another invisible missile started ... ...eorites might be falling in a heavy shower upon the planet, or that a huge volcanic explosion was in progress. He pointed out to me how unlikely it wa... ...tree blown across the road. Not so much so, indeed. It looked like a rusty gas float. It required a certain amount of scien- tific education to percei... ... wa- tercourses even as I have heard the carbonic-acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do. And where it came upon water some chemical a...

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...ees and shrubs of the garden stood stiff and dark; beyond in the roadway a gas-lamp burnt, bright orange against the hazy blue of the evening. Farther... ...d thinly by the rare golden dots of the street lamps, and here and there a gas-lit window, or the yel- low glare of some late-working factory or crowd... ...e used to be finer, before we shoved cones in their throats, and saved the gas.” “How?” said Raut. “Cones?” “Cones, my man, cones. I’ll show you one n... ... fire and molten metal, with the air of the blast frothing through it like gas in soda-water.” Raut gripped the hand-rail tightly, and stared down at ... ...owed, and as he struggled the cone dropped, and a rush of hot, suffocating gas whooped out and burned round him in a swift breath of flame. His human ... ...s collide with, and certainly pass very close to, our earth. “Earthquakes, volcanic outbreaks, cyclones, sea waves, floods, and a steady rise in tempe...

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...om; and when I wanted one of them I had to go and call for him. There was no gas, there were no candles; a bronze dish half full of boarding—house but... ...l crash and that old tower leaped into the sky in chunks, along with a vast volcanic fountain of fire that turned night to noonday, and showed a tho... ...on, and end by reducing your materials to nothing finally, or to an odorless gas which you can’t follow — which, of course, amounts to the same thing.... ...s miracle in mine; there was sure to be some skeptic on hand to turn up the gas at the crucial moment and spoil everything. But I did not want Merlin...

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...at about one o’clock one morning perceived a strong smell of carbonic acid gas, and heard the groans of a dying man. The fumes and the gasping came fr... ...ed her seemed to emanate from her wrinkles as from the crevasses rent by a volcanic eruption. It was a startling spectacle. “Well, why do you stop?” s... ...e but just entering on; and the lighter elements, present as carbonic-acid gas is in champagne; and the envious girls, the women absorbed in wondering...

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...parate volumes on the ‘Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs;’ on the ‘Volcanic Islands visited during the Voyage of the Beagle;’ and on the ‘Geol... ...al Transactions’ con- tains two papers of mine on the Erratic Boulders and Volcanic Phenomena of South America. Messrs. Waterhouse, Walker, Newman, an... ...h Infusoria — Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish — St. Paul’s Rocks, non-volcanic — Sin- gular Incrustations —Insects the first Colonists of Islands... ...bourhood of Porto Praya, viewed from the sea, wears a desolate aspect. The volcanic fires of a past age, and the scorching heat of a tropical sun, hav... ...or all of which now exist on the neighbouring coast. It rests on an- cient volcanic rocks, and has been covered by a stream of basalt, which must have... ...he whole of which betrays the action of heat. A con- siderable quantity of gas is continually escaping from the same orifices with the water. Though t...

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..., which I shall not name, and a dozen demijohns of a very common acid. The gas to be formed from these latter materials is a gas never yet generated b... ...om the membrane of a certain animal, through which substance any escape of gas was nearly an im- possibility. I found it, however, altogether too expe... ... the individual in question may attempt a balloon ascension with the novel gas and material I have spoken of, and I do not wish to deprive him of the ... ...as soon completed. It would contain more than forty thousand cubic feet of gas; would take me up easily, I calculated, with all my implements, and, if... ...w, the power of elevation lies altogether in the superior lightness of the gas in the balloon compared with the atmospheric air; and, at first sight, ... ...gree subsided, I had little diffi- culty in supposing it to be some mighty volcanic fragment ejected from that world to which I was so rapidly approac... ... greater por- tion of the hemisphere in sight was covered with innumerable volcanic mountains, conical in shape, and having more the ap- pearance of a... ...three and three-quarter miles in perpendicular elevation; but a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei would afford to your Excellencies...

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...be seen. Most of Saba s beauty can be seen underwater. Be- cause Saba is a volcanic island the waters are rich in nu- trients and abundant in marine l... ...aught up with the rest of the car, and again he pressed firmly down on the gas pedal. The strangest thing oc- curred when I peered back to check the p... ...the road, the El Camino follows the car until the car stops or runs out of gas. Coincidentally, the anniversary of the murders is around Halloween. My...

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... eye for its beauty, and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,—... ...t recognizing laws which bind the farthest regions of nature: moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers. Common sense knows its own... ...ation of a thought, and turns to a thought again, as ice becomes water and gas. The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever es... ...er so cunningly, divide and subdivide it; melt it to liquid, convert it to gas; it will always weigh a pound; it will always attract and resist other ...

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...d the supersensitive master of arts in the same way as so many whiffs of sewer gas. He deemed the clerk a filthy, uncultured brute, whose place was in ... ...elsewhere. But he sat always in the one place, beyond the reach of daylight, a gas jet flaring over him, himself part of the mechanism. 242 JACK LONDO... ...rs followed him. For six weeks they hunted him from pocket to pocket, over the volcanic peaks and along the goat trails. When he hid in the lantana K... ...sts accept that all the islands of Hawaii were elevated from the ocean floor by volcanic action. Fortunately, I saw a bamboo pole, floating on the surfa... ...ed mesa or tableland. Bassett recognized the stuff of its composition as black volcanic sand, and knew that a pocket magnet could have captured a full... ...the shouldering mountains, the saddle of raw limestone, and the mesa of black, volcanic sand. Down the spiral path of the pit they bore him, encirclin...

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... Rock; high-mass chaunted; and the civic oath of fifty thousand: with what volcanic outburst of sound from iron and other throats, enough to frighten ... ...u save us or not?” Poor Legislators; with their Legisla- ture waterlogged, volcanic Explosion charging under it! For- feiture shall be debated on the ... ... the frightful pass they were in:—Prussians billowing round by the myriad, volcanically spouting fire for fifteen hours: we, scattered sparse on the r... ... of the educated, monied, respectable class prescribe? That is to say: the volcanic lava-flood, bursting up in the manner described, will explode and ... ...ness, and suicidal ruin. The Mountain labours; like a volcano in a burning volcanic Land. Convention Committees, of Surety, of Salvation, are busy nig...

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...d only walk by the light of torches. On the first of May, 1812, a cloud of volcanic ashes and sand, coming from a volcano in the island of St. Vincent... ... for example, a metal, a piece of wood, a drop of water, the atmosphere, a gas, caloric, electricity, the luminiferous ether. Now we call all these th...

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...ai‘i Volcanoes National Park, Puna Geothermal Venture has been tapping a volcanic hotspot in the Earth’s mantle for nearly 20 years and generates n... ...in the upper end of the growing world market for products that ‘clean up’ gas and liquid-phase materials to eliminate pollutants and impurities.” ... ...t 1,000 tons of granular-activated carbon annually. The process produces gas and oil that will be used to supply almost all of the plant’s power. ... ...tions. 89 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS hawaiigas.com (808) 535-5933 The Gas Company is committed to energy independence for Hawaii. New biofuel and...

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...rom the perversion of taste just specified., We are violently enamoured of gas and of glass. The former is totally inadmis- sible within doors. Its ha... ...ts are inadmissible. The huge and unmeaning glass chandeliers, prism- cut, gas-lighted, and without shade, which dangle in our most fashionable drawin... ...r brought forth every species of infamy from its den,) but the rays of the gas-lamps, feeble at first in their struggle with the dying day, had now at... .... It no longer wore, however, the same aspect. It was still brilliant with gas; but the rain fell fiercely, and there were few persons 36 EA Poe to b... ...ul — Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul. There were days when my heart was volcanic As the scoriac rivers that roll — As the lavas that restlessly...

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... ‘Thou too mayest love and be loved;’ and so kindle him,—good Heaven, what a volcanic, earthquake bringing, all consuming fire were probably kindled!” ...