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... Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3 S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open ...

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...and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888—that is eleven months and four days after—my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentle- man, who certa... ...sibly as horrible and far stranger. It has hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect. I have the... ...ncorrect. I have the best of evidence for this assertion: I was one of the four men. But in the first place I must state that there never were four me... ...ining upon our companions. The sun became pitiless. The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already think- ing strange things and saying them w... ...LY MORNING (it was the second morning after my recovery, and I believe the fourth after I was picked up), I awoke through an avenue of tumultuous drea... ... and mysterious. I pushed on. The colour vanished from the world. The tree-tops rose against the luminous blue sky in inky silhouette, and all below t... ...never I stopped there was silence, save for the evening breeze in the tree-tops. Then when I turned to hurry on again there was an echo to my footstep... ...y smoke drove up the beach away from me, rolling low over the distant tree-tops towards the huts in the ravine. Beside me were the charred vestiges of...

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...lects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ?Pike County? dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms ...

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... back woods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary “Pike County” dia lect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in... ... of the hilltop we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars ... ...oks. It warn’t any good to me without hooks. I tried for the hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn’t make it work. By and by, one day, I a... ... mules, all loaded down with di’monds, and they didn’t have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in am buscade, as he called i... ...r ent. It had all the marks of a Sunday school. CHAPTER IV. Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to... ...blue woolen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot tops, and home knit galluses — no, he only had one. He had an old long t...

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...y been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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... Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ‘four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye;’ ‘Which pye being open’d they bega... ...Wordsworth understood, I can’t help putting in my claim to praise The four first rhymes are Southey’s every line: For God’s sake, reader! tak... ...he but been placed at a public school, In the third form, or even in the fourth, His daily task had kept his fancy cool, At least, had he be... ...gs According to direction, then received A lecture and some money: for four springs He was to travel; and though Inez grieved (As every ki... ...dy, The rudder tore away: ‘t was time to sound The pumps, and there were four feet water found. One gang of people instantly was put Upon th... ...re, They felt the freshness of its growing green, That waved in forest tops, and smooth’d the air, And fell upon their glazed eyes like a scre... ... his thin worn cheek A purple hectic play’d like dying day On the snow tops of distant hills; the streak Of sufferance yet upon his forehead... ...fairly fair; She had no need of this, day ne’er will break On mountain tops more heavenly white than her: The eye might doubt if it were well ... ...a former world, ’ When this world shall be former, underground, Thrown topsy turvy, twisted, crisp’d, and curl’d, Baked, fried, or burnt, turn...

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..................................................................... 104 THE FOUR ANGELS .................................................................. ...if it rakes time, there are worse things than—How much have you?” “Between four and five million. But it isn’t the money. You know it isn’t. It’s the ... ...enuine England of folklore and song. Rocketts they found after some hours, four miles from a station, and, so far as they could, judge in the bumpy da... ...n fool- ish quests. Except for some stir it the branches and the flight of four startled magpies; there was neither life nor sound about the square ho... ...ed one morning, “that we’ve been here absolutely alone for the last thirty-four days?” “Have you counted them?” he asked. “Did you like them?” she rep... ...were dragged hither and yon by warm or, frozen suctions, belched up on the tops of wulii-was, spun down by vortices and clubbed aside by laterals unde... ... Tim answered, “that savages used to haul their sick and wounded up to the tops of hills because microbes were fewer there. We hoist ‘em in sterilized... ... you put round their necks, you know—is insolence—same as not backing your topsails in the old days. Besides, it unsettles the District.” “I thought y...

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...Excerpt: Four years ago--in 1874--two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of...

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...for you. Just walk right in and make yourself comfortable. Your steamer leaves from this part of the city, and I will immediately send out and get you... ...ally, that you could not possibly make a better bar- gain. Lord Lambeth and his cousin left their entertainer to his labors and returned to their hote... ...liberal proportions, and with its awnings, its fanciful chairs, its cushions and rugs, its view of the ocean, close at hand, tumbling along the base o... ...l- though he indulged in a good many little murmurs and ejaculations of assent and deprecation. He had no great faculty for apprehending generalizatio... ... of the American ladies—one of them bearing the name of the Duchess of Bayswater and the other that of the Countess of Pimlico. Mrs. Westgate glanced ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the sta...

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...am of nowadays look evanes- cent and visionary alike. It might be that the four persons whom we are seeking to introduce were conscious of this dreamy... ...rne to laugh as gayly as we may, and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at ... ... a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,” said a dark... ... of nature; revelling in the merriment of woods and streams; living as our four-footed kindred do,— as mankind did in its innocent childhood; before s... ...y veiled, but forever peeping forth amid emblems of mirth and riot. As the four friends descended the stairs, however, their play of fancy subsided in... ... they are better than if really antique. At all events, grass grows on the tops of the shattered pillars, and weeds and flowers root themselves in the...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the sta...

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...am of nowadays look evanes- cent and visionary alike. It might be that the four persons whom we are seeking to introduce were conscious of this dreamy... ...rne to laugh as gayly as we may, and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at ... ... a well-known masterpiece of Grecian sculp- ture, and a young Italian, the fourth member of their party. “You must needs confess, Kenyon,” said a dark... ... of nature; revelling in the merriment of woods and streams; living as our four-footed kindred do,— as mankind did in its innocent childhood; before s... ...y veiled, but forever peeping forth amid emblems of mirth and riot. As the four friends descended the stairs, however, their play of fancy subsided in... ... they are better than if really antique. At all events, grass grows on the tops of the shattered pillars, and weeds and flowers root themselves in the... ...tions are inter- spersed with the homely chambers and earthen-tiled house- tops; and all along its extent both grapevines and running flower-shrubs ar... ...onatello? But Hilda had a hopeful soul, and saw sun- light on the mountain-tops. 353 Hawthorne CONCL CONCL CONCL CONCL CONCLUSION USION USION USION U...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the sixth volume of Best of Four. That?s right, we have been in business long enough to publish six volumes of the best student writing published in English 4 classes each fall, on the Hazleton Campus of Commonwealth College. Last year, and continuing t...

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...Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Best of Four Volume 6 Student Voices Student Voices Stude... ...Lucy Morrison Liz Wright Suzanne Harper Student Editor David Retz Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania... .................................................................. 40 Best of Four: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...r here with the writers express written permission. No portion of Best of Four may be reproduced in any fashion without the express written permissio... ...any fashion without the express written permission of the authors. Best of Four wishes to offer special thanks to Dr. Sandra E. Gleason, Associate Dea... ...d to go out on the town on a warm, yet breezy evening. We slipped our tube tops on, our dark blue mini skirts, and slid into our go-go boots and dashe...

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...e, go ahead and explore. Snf! Snf! Beastly stink of fox somewhere!” On all fours, save when he clung to his spectacles, Beetle wormed into the gorse, ... ... me now, as one gentleman to another. Do ye shoot foxes or do ye not?” And four years before Stalky and Beetle had carefully kicked McT urk out of his... ...un- tains of the rainy West coast, where in his holidays he was viceroy of four thousand naked acres, only son of a three- hundred-year-old house, lor... ...was strictly quarantined, and the Head never executed judgment till twenty-four cold hours later. “Well—er—if you persist in your defiant attitude,” s... ...he “Aladdin” company at rehearsal. Dickson Quartus, commonly known as Dick Four, was Aladdin, stage-man- ager, ballet-master, half the orchestra, and ... ...‘Bishops’ boots Mr. Radcliffe also condemned, an’ spoke ‘ighly in favor of tops cleaned with champagne an’ abricot jam.’ Where’s that thing Cokey was ...

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...ttains one name becomes a perpetual and dangerous competitor for the other four: such are a few of the more trenchant absurdities. Many argue that the... ...fish, of pigs, of pigs for travellers, of pigs for stock, of taro, of taro-tops, of taro- tops for planting, of tools, of flyhooks, of implements for ... ...e wardrobe having been divided out among relatives in the course of twenty-four hours. A pastor in the province of Atua, being a handy, busy man, boug... ...ore, which is everywhere green and level and overlooked by inland mountain-tops, the town lies drawn out in strings and clusters. The western horn is ... ...es do extremely little; the majority of the whites are merchants with some four mails in the month, shop- keepers with some ten or twenty customers a ... ...ese dark-skinned rangers with extreme alarm; the 18 A Footnote to History fourth refugee in Tutuila was shot down (as I was told in that island) whil... ...rman Emperor.” I pass the rheto- ric by to examine the point of liability. Four natives were brought to trial for this horrid fact: not before a nativ... ... by a sea; and the rail being soon awash, the survivors took refuge in the tops. Out of thirteen that had lain there the day before, there were now bu... ...across her course the sub- 122 A Footnote to History merged Vandalia, the tops filled with exhausted seamen. Happily the approach of the Trenton was ...

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... valley down to Brenzett and Colebrook and up to Darnford, the market town fourteen miles away, lies the prac- tice of my friend Kennedy. He had begun... ...een further away from it than Colebrook or perhaps Darnford. She lived for four years with the Smiths. New Barns is an isolated farmhouse a mile away ... ...ields, hollows, rises; at the trees and the hedgerows; at the faces of the four men about the farm, always the same—day after day, month after month, ... ...ed with his whip, and from the summit of the descent seen over the rolling tops of the trees in a park by the side of the road, appeared the level sea... ...how was he to know? He fought his way against the rain and the gale on all fours, and crawled at last among some sheep huddled close under the lee of ... ... of his knowl- edge, that he had been sea-sick and battened down below for four days, that he had no general notion of a ship or of the sea, 17 Josep...

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... town on earth. The Director of Companies was our captain and our host. We four affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to sea... ...dd thing that I, who used to clear out for any part of the world at twenty-four hours’ notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of... ...n barrack-like structures on the rocky slope. ‘I will send your things up. Four boxes did you say? So. Farewell.’ “I came upon a boiler wallowing in t... ...k, one of these creatures rose to his hands and knees, and went off on all-fours towards the river to drink. He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in... ...ransactions; and fifty feet below the doorstep I could see the still tree- tops of the grove of death. “Next day I left that station at last, with a c... ...d and behaved, he would get shy and mutter something about ‘walking on all-fours.’ If you as much as smiled, he would—though a man of sixty—offer to f... ..., ‘You made a glorious lot of smoke, anyhow.’ I had seen, from the way the tops of the bushes rustled and flew, that almost all the shots had gone too...

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... I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close... ...tice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. My father now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid... ...ughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion. But my good master Bates dying in two ... ...arrows; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a knocking for abo... ... a stage erected about a foot and a half from the ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three ladders to mount it: from when... ...ople should keep in their houses, at their own peril. The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my ... ...are about seven feet high: I mean some of those in the great royal park, the tops whereof I could but just reach with my fist clenched. The other vege... ...s high, which are altogether impassable, by reason of the volcanoes upon the tops: neither do the most learned know what sort of mortals inhabit beyon... ...pieces of a mouse’s skin, that by rapping on them I might neither damage the tops of the keys nor interrupt the sound. Before the spinet a bench was p...

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...ouis Stevenson Oh, I see what you’re at—there”; and he threw down three or four gold pieces on the threshold. “You can tell me when I’ve worked throug... ...arer in his alarms. He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my “weather-eye ... ...but before the week was out he was sure to think better of it, bring me my four-penny piece, and repeat his orders to look out for “the seafaring man ... ...reams, I need scarcely tell you. On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four 6 Treasure Island corners of the house and the surf roared along the ... ...he worst of night- mares. And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies. But though I was... ... 68 Treasure Island the tall Spy-glass hilltop, going round and round and topsy- turvy before my eyes, and all manner of bells ringing and distant vo... ...ierced into the marrow. The sky was bright and cloudless overhead, and the tops of the trees shone rosily in the sun. But where Silver stood with his ... ...yards of easting. I was, indeed, close in. I could see the cool green tree-tops swaying together in the breeze, and I felt sure I should make the next... ...nd for cap’n over me—you, that sank the lot of us! By the powers! But this tops the stiffest yarn to nothing.” Silver paused, and I could see by the f...

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... present my only effort in that direction. I may also add that each of the four stories on their appearance in book form was picked out on various gro... ...d out Jukes. “Suppose all’ee same fine weather, one piecie coolie-man come topside,” he pursued, warming up imaginatively. “Make so — Phooooo!” He exp... .... “Head to the eastward?” he said, struggling to sit up. “That’s more than four points off her course.” “Y es, sir. Fifty degrees… . Would just bring ... ...o you think we are bound to? Y ou want me to haul a full-powered steamship four points off her course to make the Chinamen comfortable! Now, I’ve hear... ...is… . If I didn’t know you, Jukes, I would think you were in liquor. Steer four points off… . And what afterwards? Steer four points over the other wa... ...le altered its slant every moment; a pair of limp sea-boots with collapsed tops went sliding past the couch. He put out his hand instantly, and captur... ...rr could catch a desolate glimpse of a few tiny specks black as ebony, the tops of the hatches, the battened companions, the heads of the cov- ered wi... ...w species of man. The boatswain had arrived on the bridge, crawling on all fours against the wind, and had found the chief mate’s legs with the top of...

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...the big port of England in Roman times, Portus Lemanus, and now the sea is four miles away. All down the steep hill are boulders and masses of Roman b... ...o amazement and curiosity. Why on earth should a man do this thing? On the fourteenth evening I could stand it no longer, and so soon as he appeared I... ...direction. This is the only one. I’ve inquired. And now—every afternoon at four—I come to a 9 H. G . Wells dead wall.” “But, my dear sir, if the thin... ... But you must remember, that I had been alone, play-writing in Lympne, for fourteen days, and my compunction for his ruined walk still hung about me. ... ...e out of this, you’ll have to do it with a gun. I’m coming down to be your fourth labourer to-morrow.” He seemed surprised at my enthusiasm, but not a... ...se, there came a terrific bellow behind us, so close and vehement that the tops of the bayonet scrub bent before it, and one felt the breath of it hot... ... didn’t finish my sentence. I turned about and made a leap over the fungus tops towards the upper end of the cav- 99 H. G . Wells ity. I saw that the...

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...utside of the chamber window; and behold! there was her fiery chariot, and four huge winged serpents, wriggling and twist ing in the air, flourishing... ...caused by the people’s woe, because the fatal day had come again, when the fourteen victims were to be chosen by lot; and the old people feared lest t... ...inable. And though it was a sad business enough, I rather question whether fourteen young people, without any old persons to keep them in order, could... ...brass, would not be weary of marching eighteen hundred miles in the twenty four hours, as T alus does, with out ever sitting down to rest? He is a pu... ...e guards of King Minos came down to the water side, and took charge of the fourteen young men and damsels. Sur rounded by these armed warriors, Princ... ...ey came to a dark, shadowy grove, where the moonlight wasted itself on the tops of the trees, without shedding hardly so much as a glimmering beam upo... ...und, and a grove of forest trees uprooted them selves, and, nodding their tops to one another, performed a country dance. One of the rowers was a bea...

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.... But for this unex- pected glimpse, no act of his during the next twenty- four hours could have given me the slightest suspi- cion that all was not w... ... life when five years re- ally do count, I being twenty-nine and he thirty-four; then, on our first leaving port (I don’t see why I should make a secr... ...fected by the solemn and respectable mediocrity of that artist. There were four of these youngsters: one the son of a doctor, another of a colo- nel, ... ...a doctor, another of a colo- nel, the third of a jeweller; the name of the fourth was Twentyman, and this is all I remember of his parentage. But not ... ... like a chant, for a bass to the shrill pipe of the wind played on the sea-tops, with a punctuat- ing crash, now and then, of a breaking wave. At time... ...uish my sacred fire for the exer- cise of my craft. No young man of twenty-four ap- pointed chief mate for the first time in his life would have let t... ...oubtedly, but still what a sailor would call man- ageable. Under two lower topsails and a reefed fore- sail the barque seemed to race with a long, ste... ...nd balloon, watches over a set of heavy dock- gates. Mast-heads and funnel-tops of ships peep above the ranges of corrugated iron roofs. This is the e... ...-birds, whose delicate wings wreathed with the mist of their vibration the tops of flowering bushes. No, they were not princesses. Their unrestrained ...

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..., and the lumps 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... ...eeonee Pack that hence- forward he would hunt in the Jungle alone; and the four children of Mother and Father Wolf said that they would hunt with him.... ...llow,” said Akela triumphantly. “Not for nothing have I led the Pack.” The four cubs said nothing, but ran down hill on their 38 The Second Jungle Bo... ...ho drove the knife at me for thinking he might be Man?” said Akela, as the four wolves turned back sullenly and dropped to heel. “Am I to give reason ... ...Brother, and he licked Mowgli’s foot. “Follow, then,” said Mowgli, and the four followed at his heels with their tails between their legs. “This comes... ...shing and gurgling in the dark, and the light evening winds among the tree-tops, till suddenly across the river a wolf called. It was no wolf of the P... ...rating boom which is neither bees, nor falling water, nor the wind in tree-tops, but the purring of the warm, happy world. Up to this year Mowgli had ...

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...ays a very easy one. CHAPTER I —GOING AWAY I SHALL NEVER FORGET the one fourth serious and three fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the ... ...ns, Esquire, and Lady, had held daily and nightly conferences for at least four months preceding: that American Notes – Dickens 4 this could by any ... ...per American Notes – Dickens 5 end a melancholy stove, at which three or four chilly stewards were warming their hands; while on either side, extend... ...g the little washing slab as standing room, — we could manage to insinuate four people into it, all at one time; and entreating each other to observe ... ...nothing of them: for although I lay listening to this concert for three or four days, I don’t think I heard it for more than a quarter of a minute, at... ...a valley full of light and softness; catch ing glimpses, through the tree tops, of scattered cab ins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting o... ...; but the sun is very red, and shines in the water and on some of the tree tops, like fire. The men get out of the boat first; help out the women; tak... ...cenes and thoughts: and when the morning shines again, it gilds the house tops of a lively city, before whose broad paved wharf the boat is moored; w... ...d marshy, that at certain seasons of the year it is inundated to the house tops, lies a breeding place of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England a...