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Essay on Man

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...ttle can be known; To see all others’ faults, and feel our own: Condemn’d in bus’ness or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge: Trut...

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The Real Thing

By: Henry James

...ince their arrival. “I’m all in a soak; there was a mess of people in the ‘bus. I wish you lived near a stytion,” said Miss Churm. I requested her to ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens
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Vittoria

By: George Meredith
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The Argonautica

By: Apollonius Rhodius

...es in the garden of Atlas; and all around the nymphs, the Hesperides, were bus ied, chanting their lovely song. But at that time, stricken by Heracle...

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Some Reminiscences

By: Joseph Conrad

...and suddenly, with a terrific jingling rattle of iron and glass, the omni- bus of the Jolliette on its last journey swung round the corner of the dead...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

... off, in the heavy traffic of three Fords and the Mirmiemashie House Free ‘Bus. “I shall like Mr. Clark…I can’t call him `Sam’! They’re all so friendl... ...of ‘em was a great big car that must of cost two thousand dollars—and the ‘bus was starting for a train with five elegant-dressed fellows, and a man w... ...here were so many mousey tourists who were afraid to get out of the motor ‘bus that I decided to be Annie Oakley, the Wild Western Wampire, and I boug... ...ecause of the icy roads, the only conveyance at the station was the hotel ‘bus, which they missed while 416 Main Street Kennicott was giving his trun...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...st to him. You need not inquire about trains, or fares, or car changes, or hotels, or anything else. At the proper time he will put you in a cab or an... ...s to the conductor, and he took two. Then he went and got his tariff card and showed me that he had taken only the right sum. So I made a note—Italian...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...s not unhappy. After the pair had been married for about a year, the omni- bus that passes both by Mrs. Crump’s house near “The Wells,” and by Mrs. Wa...

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Under the Storm or Steadfasts Charge

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...s Emlyn just then. “And Stead, Jeph is an officer,” said Patience, who was bus- ied in setting before the visitor on a little round table, the 117 Yo...

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The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain

..., if its billows had been the Atlantic’s and he a lost sixpence. He very soon realised this fact, and straightway bus- ied himself about his own affai...

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The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

...use, digesting his great thoughts, as best he might, in a clattering omni- bus, wedged in between a wet old lady and a journeyman glazier returning fr...

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Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ight be effectual. Mrs. Langford was the most visibly impatient. The hasty bus- tling of her very quietest steps gave such torture to Frederick, as to...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

... are said to be,” Decoud pro- nounced, inscrutably, while the Capataz, who bus- ied himself in baling out the lighter with a wooden bucket, went on th... ...harbour entrance, and, let- ting the tiller swing about, squatted down and bus- ied himself in loosening the plug. With that out she would fill very q...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...o Mrs. Bucket, after the departure of the funeral, that they should go per bus a little ways into the country and take tea at a very decent house of e...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...r art. At night he lights up a good cigar, and climbs into the little old ‘bus, and maybe cusses the carburetor, and shoots out home. He mows the lawn...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...hools; of the people, such as were tradesmen, he found in their workshops, bus- 243 Plutarch’s Lives ied about their several employments, and the bet... ...s, he went to his house and was told there that he was not at leisure, but bus- ied in considering how to give up his accounts to the Athe- nians; Alc...

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

...n- ing to the woman. ‘Yes sir, I think I can find one,’ replied the woman, bus- tling immediately to a basket. ‘This is the only one I’ve got, if it w...

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The Young Step-Mother; Or a Chronicle of Mistakes

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...y, as there were three of you.’ ‘As if we were going to stand six miles of bus with the Wolfe cub! No, Dusautoy brought his horse down with him, and I...

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Live an Inspiring Life

By: Wally Amos

...s and lead to fundamental social changes. Riding home from work on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, the dignified black seamstress defied... ...fined ten dollars, but her act of defiance inspired a boycott of the city bus system by blacks - and eventually a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring ... ...m church when we found ourselves in a similar situation on a Tallahassee bus. As in Montgomery, the front of the bus was reserved for whites and th... ...e back for blacks. The only rider up front on this Sunday morning was the bus driver's girlfriend. When Ruby chose to sit down in front, the girlfri... ...rlfriend complained to the driver, who told us to move to the back of the bus. "I paid my money and I'm gonna sit where I please," Ruby said. Faced ... ...," Ruby said. Faced with Ruby's refusal to budge, the driver stopped at a bus depot seeking help in dealing with this uppity so-and-so. I was fright...

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