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...r of corridor trains, smooth-running and roomy, open from end to end, with cars in which one may sit and read, cars in which one may take refreshment,... ...ars in which one may sit and read, cars in which one may take refreshment, cars into which the news of the day comes printing itself from the wires be... ...the news of the day comes printing itself from the wires beside the track; cars in which one may have privacy and sleep if one is so disposed, bath-ro... ...s in which one may have privacy and sleep if one is so disposed, bath-room cars, library cars; a train as comfortable as a good club. There will be no... ... one we now approach, upon which independent vehicles, 33 H G Wells motor cars, cycles, and what not, will go. I doubt if we shall see any horses upo... ...rld-State gov- ernment and the customers, and this book-keeping will natu- rally be done most conveniently in units of physical energy. It is not incr... ...my position.” That led him, and rather promptly, before the botanist could rally to reply, to a great tirade against the laws that 78 A Modern Utopia... ...tion of si- militudes and oppositions that carries even thrills. And natu- rally he broods on the source of all his most copious feelings and emotions...

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...our libretto.” “—a conspiracy of the Bears ... seventy cents ... and natu- rally he busted.” The mezzo-soprano, the confidante of the prima donna, ent... ...t one furnace, but I declare I don’t.” Their car, or rather their train of cars, coupled together in threes, in Chicago style, came, and Landry escort... ...s and round- houses, seeking their trains, or bunted the ponderous freight cars into switches; trundling up and down, clank- ing, shrieking, their bel... ..., feeding in their nose bags, stood backed up to the open doors of freight cars and received their loads. A train de- parted roaring. Before midnight ... ...orris sheeted with ice. To add to their discomfort, the North State Street cars were blocked. When they gained the corner of Washing- ton Street they ... ...othing for it,” declared Landry, “but to go over and get the Clarke Street cars—and at that you may have to stand up all the way home, at this time of... ...er. There was danger that the buying of so large a lot might bring about a rally in the price. But Gretry, a consummate master of Pit tactics, kept hi... ...The wheat, I mean, is it going up or down?” “Up, they tell me. There was a rally; I don’t know. How can we tell here? We—Hi! there they go again. Lord... ... a moment they had him on the run. You see that— my, my, there was a sharp rally. But he’s holding on strong yet.” Page took her seat, and leaning for...

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...mpany giving us on these car-lines. Nonsense to only run the Portland Road cars once every seven minutes. Fellow gets mighty cold on a winter morning,... ...ll into a great silence and devoted himself to the game of beating trolley cars to the corner: a spurt, a tail-chase, nervous speeding between the hug... ...to- ries producing condensed milk, paper boxes, lighting-fix- tures, motor cars. Then the business center, the thicken- 29 Sinclair Lewis ing darting... ...into Third Street, N.E., he peered ahead for a space in the line of parked cars. He angrily just missed a space as a rival driver slid into it. Ahead,... ...r was leaving the curb, and Babbitt slowed up, holding out his hand to the cars pressing on him from behind, agitatedly motioning an old woman to go a... ...y working to provide cigars and fried chicken and dry martinis for us, and rallying to our banner with indigna- 91 Sinclair Lewis tion, oh, fierce in... ...nding names they are called, are nothing but a despotic paternalism. Natu- rally, I’m not criticizing labor courts, injunctions against men proven to ...

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...till at our terminus, abashed by the great crimson and cream-coloured city cars, but still perky, jaunty, somewhat dare-devil, green as a jaunty sprig... ...a jaunty sprig of parsley out of a black colliery garden. To ride on these cars is always an adventure. Since we are in war-time, the drivers are men ... ...nly’, because there is something wrong! Or to greet a unit of three bright cars all so tight with people that they sail past with a howl of derision. ... ...s her Thermopylae. Therefore, there is a certain wild romance aboard these cars—and in the sturdy bosom of Annie herself. The time for soft romance is... ...ly too well had arranged to take service this Sunday afternoon. So, as the cars began to come in, early, the girls dropped into the waiting-room. And ... ...e had no accom- plishments. She looked up to Matilda, whose mind was natu- rally refined and sensible. In their quiet, melancholy way, the two girls w...

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...o the agent dozed complacently, her paws tucked under her body. Three flat cars, loaded with bright-painted farming machines, were on the siding above... ...s ahout to reply, but at that moment Magnus caught sight of the three flat cars loaded with bright- painted farming machines which still remained on t... .... Your ploughs, I believe, Mr. Derrick.” S. Behrman nodded toward the flat cars. “They are consigned to me,” admitted Magnus. “It looks a trifle like ... ...ons down here this afternoon.” “I am sorry,” answered S. Behrman, “but the cars are going north, not, as you thought, coming from the north. They have... ... its trucks over the interstices of the rails. On two or three of the flat cars near its end, Annixter plainly saw Magnus Derrick’s ploughs, their bri... ...ng to say ‘No’ to the trust. I hope you will succeed. If your example will rally the People to your cause, you will. Otherwise—” he shook his head. “O... ... much idea of conse- quences; if consequences came, they would do so natu- rally enough, and of themselves; all that he positively knew was that Hilma...

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...d to the train, and the day coaches of the East are replaced by free chair cars, with each seat cut into two adjustable plush chairs, the head-rests c... ...enough to plan them? Hundreds of factories trying to make attractive motor cars, but these towns—left to chance. No! That can’t be true. It must have ... ...ent one- story brick and cement buildings opposite each other. Old and new cars on grease-blackened concrete floors. Tire advertisements. The roaring ... ...tered with electric-light poles, telephone poles, gasoline pumps for motor cars, boxes of goods. Each man had built with the most valiant disregard of... ...ing his fence salmon-pink. Sam Clark had been talking to Carol about motor cars, but he felt his duties as host. While he droned, his brows popped up ... ...vertising a headache cure and stating, “The doctor is out, back at—” Natu- rally, the blank space was not filled out. She stamped her foot. She ran do...

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...ed to an unthinking people. Yet, the Ministers of Fate who drove the awful cars, leaned forward with their arms upon their knees in a state of extreme... ...yawned. Pausing to dwell upon this apathy, it appeared to me, as the fatal cars came by me, that I descried in the second car, through the portal in w... ... discourse sustained some interruption at this point, by the procession of cars occasioning a stoppage of about three quarters of a mile in length, as... ...n disappeared. I have since looked anxiously for the King in several other cars, but I have not yet had the happiness of seeing His Majesty. ‘BIRTHS. ... ... that instead of railing, and attributing savage motives to a people natu rally well disposed and humane, it is better to teach them, and lead them a... ...never bend herself a hair’s breadth this way or that way, out of her natu rally crooked shape. But, she was very potent in her wicked art. She could ... ...o himself to take advice, and he said, Now, whom shall I consult? He natu rally thought of Callow, at that time one of the most emi nent physicians ...

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...onal scare- crow, but in what still unmeasured, infinite-seeming force may rally round it, is there thenceforth any hope. For it is most true that all... ...ad of kissing her,—as ‘a pented bredd, ’ or timber Virgin, who could natu- rally swim. (Knox’s History of the Reformation, b. i.) So, ye of Chateau-Vi... ...- canes, secret arms, and tickets of entry; quick, by backstairs passages, rally round the Son of Sixty Kings. An efferves- cence probably got up by d... ...tter! Or were it impossible to fly this day; a brave Noblesse suddenly all rallying? Peril threatens, hope invites: Dukes de Villequier, de Duras, Gen... ...ets and ad- 117 Thomas Carlyle mittance; a brave Noblesse is suddenly all rallying. Now were the time to ‘fall sword in hand on those gentry there, ’... ...in Paris his birth-city: all mortals processioning and perorat- ing there; cars drawn by eight white horses, goadsters in classical costume, with fill...

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...rawn together by a common overpowering senti- ment, and soon they began to rally in a new organization. The Republican party sprang into being to meet... ...d with brilliant daring, no matter who fol- lows, but which is intent upon rallying all the available forces, gathering in the stragglers, closing up ... ...on of John Brown, for his wild raid into Virginia, to invite the slaves to rally to the standard of freedom which he unfurled:—all these events tend t... ...appy while she is otherwise. She accompanied a large party on the railroad cars to Jacksonville last Monday, and on her re- turn spoke, so that I hear... ...the polls. These facts show what the result must be, once the people again rally in their entire strength. Proclaim these facts, and predict this re- ... ...sagacious ones will “believe and tremble.” And why shall the Whigs not all rally again? Are their principles less dear now than in 1840? Have any of t...

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... their decorations, might have ‘gone on’ without al teration as triumphal cars in a melodrama at Astley’s. The day was uncommonly fine; the air braci... ...held by the feeblest tenure: but when a year and a half old, she seemed to rally; the dangerous symptoms subsided; and at twenty months old, she was p... ...ocomotive engine, a shriek, and a bell. American Notes – Dickens 67 The cars are like shabby omnibuses, but larger: hold ing thirty, forty, fifty,... ...— there — on, on, on — tears the mad dragon of an engine with its train of cars; scattering in all directions a shower of burning sparks from its wood... ... about nine o’clock we arrived at the railroad station, and went on by the cars. At noon we turned out again, to cross a wide river in another steambo... ...continuation of the rail road on the opposite shore; and went on by other cars; in which, in the course of the next hour or so, we crossed by wooden ...

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...ight and counsel, stand ye your ground, and range the host everywhither to rally them before the gates, ere yet they fall fleeing in their women’s arm... ... be guest friends by lineage.” So spake the twain, and leaping from their cars clasped each the other by his hand, and pledged their faith. But now Z... ...s of the Trojans as they fled; and many strong necked horses rattled empty cars along the high ways of the battle, lacking their noble charioteers; b... ...dings will win back to the city before the force of the Achaians when they rally. But come as I declare, let us all obey. Let our squires hold the hor... ...cry, and under his axle trees men fell prone from their chariots, and the cars were overturned with a din of shattering. But straight over the ditch,... ... trusty comrades, let us not yet unyoke our whole hooved steeds from their cars, but with horses and chariots let us go near and mourn Patroklos, for ... ...h, and other whiles would bound into the air. And the drivers stood in the cars, and the heart of every man beat in desire of victory, and they called...

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...e amused to find that here it is put off until the year 1956. He may natu- rally want to know the reason for what will seem now a quite extraordinary ... ... vapour floor came the deep roar of trains, the whistles of horns of motor-cars, a sound of rifle fire away to the south, and as he drew near his dest... ...ll of the social order. For a time the war spirit defeated every effort to rally the forces of pres- ervation and construction. Leblanc seemed to be p... ... People were run over and crushed by the hundred; every year in London the cars and omnibuses alone killed or disabled twenty thousand people, in Pari...

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...aintance; Her third, to ask him where he had been bred; Her fourth, to rally him into repentance; Her fifth, to call her maids and go to bed; ... ...the soft Muses’ gullets. Oh, thou eternal Homer! who couldst charm All cars, though long; all ages, though so short, By merely wielding with p... ..., which so much abounded In courage, was obliged to snatch a shield, And rally back his Romans to the field. Juan, who had no shield to snatch, ... ...rength, with careless nerves and thews,— Johnson retired a little, just to rally Those who catch cold in ‘shadows of Death’s valley.’ And there,... ...Cathay, unloads For him the fragrant produce of each trip; Beneath his cars of Ceres groan the roads, And the vine blushes like Aurora’s lip; ... ...n’d by high woodlands, where the Druid oak Stood like Caractacus in act to rally His host, with broad arms ‘gainst the thunderstroke; And from... ...On pain of much displeasing the gynocracy. And therefore Juan now began to rally His spirits, and without more explanation To jest upon such t...

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...The wounds they wash’d, their pious tears they shed, And, laid along their cars, deplored the dead. Sage Priam check’d their grief: with silent haste ... ... be now in battle tried, Till every shaft in Phrygian blood be dyed. Since rallying from our wall we forced the foe, Still aim’d at Hector have I bent... ... her heroes through a hundred gates, T wo hundred horsemen and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to the wars); 170 Though bribes were hea... ...ew, Still press’d the rout, and still the hindmost slew; Hurl’d from their cars the bravest chiefs are kill’d, And rage, and death, and carnage load t... ...to call a council of war: Hector approves of his advice, but goes first to rally the Trojans; upbraids Paris, rejoins Polydamas, meets Ajax again, and... ...y. O’er the dread fosse (a late impervious space) Now steeds, and men, and cars tumultuous pass. The wondering crowds the downward level trod; Before ... ...sound the keels; the storm of arrows flies. Fierce on the ships above, the cars below, These wield the mace, and those the javelin throw. While thus t... ...tain, Repulsed, they yield; the T rojans seize the slain. Then fierce they rally, to revenge led on By the swift rage of Ajax T elamon. (Ajax to Peleu... ...ans. But V elleius, vol. i. p. 3, well observes, that the poet would natu- rally speak of various towns and cities by the names by which they were kno...

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...e spot which Wash- ington had selected as the heart and center, and safest rallying homestead of the united nation which he left be- hind him. But Was... ...ublic carriage, if he can avoid it. In New York I have seen special street cars for colored people. The abolitionist is struck with horror when he thi... ...elphia, thence on to Baltimore, and again to Washing- ton, I had found the cars full; so full that sundry passen- gers could not find seats. Now, on m... ...crowded, and filled with tobacco smoke, apple peel, and foul air. In these cars during the winter there is always a large lighted stove, a stove that ... ...was so full that no room was to be had on our first entry from the railway cars at five A.M., and we were reduced to the necessity of washing our hand... ...late,” he said; “it would take us five minutes to reach the train, and the cars would be off in four.” Nobody who has not experienced them can underst... ...These politi- cians are all lawyers. Politics and law go together as natu- rally as the possession of land and the exercise of magis- 225 Trollope te...

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...ler stood on end, and it and the whole locomotive-boiler stood on end, and it and the whole locomotive were tiled sharply backward. There were two pas... ...indness on other people’s children, to make up for deserting his own. His bones are kept in a church in a village (Sachseln) which we visited, and are... ... the doors are thrown open—and then all hands make a grand final rush to the train, find it full, and have to stand on the platform and fret until som... ... with him. After leaving the ram tied to the rope, he had wandered at large a while, and then hap- pened to run across a cow. Judging that a cow would... ... once selected a part for himself compared to which those just mentioned are tame and unimpressive. Jimmy’s father stopped him from driving imaginary ... ...t know which one is right—also! ich habe gehabt haben worden gewesen sein, as Goethe says in his Paradise Lost—ich— ich—that is to say—ich—but let us ...

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...austed as I now was. As soon as she came into the yard, Covey attempted to rally her to his aid. Strangely—and, I may add, fortunately—Caroline was in... ... be measured and carefully examined, before they were allowed to enter the cars; they only went in the day time, even when so examined. The steamboats... ... OF THE CHANGE— PREJUDICE AGAINST COLOR—AMUSING CONDE- SCENSION— “JIM CROW CARS”—COLLISIONS WITH CONDUCTORS AND BRAKEMEN—TRAINS ORDERED NOT TO STOP AT... ...ducated to get the better of their fears. The custom of providing separate cars for the accommo- dation of colored travelers, was established on nearl... ...m as fostering the spirit of caste, I made it a rule to seat myself in the cars for the accommodation of passengers gen- erally. Thus seated, I was su... ...topping. At the same time that they excluded a free colored man from their cars, this same company allowed slaves, in company with their masters and m... ...can institu- tions. Rightly viewed, this is an alarming fact, and ought to rally all that is pure, just, and holy in one determined effort to crush th...

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...rand! And have you marked in that still time The chariots of those shining cars Brighten upon the hushing dark, And bent to hark That Voice, amid the ... ...race, for the weak from the strong made just: That her sons over seas in a rally of praise may behold a thrice vitalised Britain, Ashine with the ligh... ...ers; Like midnight’s levying brazier-beacon blazed Defiant to the world, a rally for her sons, Day of the darkness; this man’s mate; by him, Cannon hi... ..., no butcher of sheep; Firmly there the banner he first upreared Stands to rally; and nourishing grain do his children reap From a father beloved in l... ...ed fields of trampled grain, As to a Vercingetorix of old Gaul Blowing the rally against a Caesar’s reign. Her soul’s protesting sobs she drowned to s... ...igh o’er sweep of eagle wings, Like the run with her, when rings Clear her rally, and her dart, In the forest’s cavern heart, T ells of her victorious... ...ell; and in numbers amany the horses, neck-stiffened, Rattled their vacant cars down the roadway gaps of the war-field, Missing the blameless chariote...

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... in fight and counsel; hold your ground here, and go about among the host to rally them in front of the gates, or they will fling themselves into the ... ... did so to the Danaans, “My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, rally to the defence of Ajax who is being overpowered, and I doubt whethe... ...yself gladly see them perish now and here far from Argos; but if they should rally and we are driven back from the ships pell mell into the trench the... ...eus coming from his hated head, whereas that of murderous Hector rings in my cars as he gives orders to the T rojans, who triumph over the Achæans and... ...etreat before the Achæans. Glaucus, captain of the Lycians, was the first to rally them, by killing Bathycles son of Chalcon who lived in Hellas and w... ...wn use. Thus heedfully did Priam and his servant see to the yolking of their cars at the palace. Then Hecuba came to them all sorrowful, with a golden...

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...mption seem ready for action, but remain inactive apparently for want of a rallying point—a plan of ac- tion. Why shall A adopt the plan of B rather ... ... the proc- lamation a plan is presented which may be accepted by them as a rallying point, and which they are assured in advance will not be rejected ... ...ing Middle Department: I am directed by the President to say that you will rally your forces and make every possible effort to retard the enemy’s marc... ...e found there twenty-eight locomotives, forty-four pas- senger and baggage cars, and one hundred and six freight cars. At 3.30 this evening General Gr...