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Floor Games

By: H. G. Wells

...ir own island, the one to the south-left, is a rocky wilderness containing caves. Their chief food is the wild-goat, but in pursuit of these crea- tur... ...erefore in considerable numbers), a sitting bear, brought from last game’s caves, goats from the same region, tamed and now running loose in the garde...

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The Compleat Angler

By: Izaak Walton

...llows, have been found, many thousands at a time, in hollow trees, or clay caves, where they have been observed to live, and sleep out the whole winte...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...g over it, and the warm shade, enclosed and still, made bowers like spacious caves. Ralph was sitting there in the clear gloom, at the base of a statu...

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Selected Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Volume 2, The Reader's Library

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Neil Azevedo, Editor

...es prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could...

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The Second Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...the huts right and left, shiver- ing the crazy doors, and crumpling up the caves; while his three sons raged behind as they had raged at the Sack of t... ...se they did not smell like the Free People, be- cause they did not live in caves, and, above all, because they had hair between their toes while he an... ...h stale honey, and made their combs tall and deep in the dark of the inner caves, where neither man nor beast nor fire nor water had ever touched them... ...s, too, had fallen into the gullies that communicated with the underground caves, and there choked and fought and snapped among the tumbled honeycombs...

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...e hunters of rats and noosers of dogs whisper in the thicket and among the caves—rag-Gods, pot Godlings of the tree, and the villagemark, as ye were a... ...h it were a sparrow with a broken wing; and this through a country full of caves and rifts and pits, where a wild beast could hold a dozen men at his ...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

...are simply amazing. There are, for instance, excur- sions through the vast caves and the seemingly never- ending tunnels. Colorful stalactite formatio...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...ll; But now hearts cry that hearts are slaves, And toss and turn in narrow caves; But here there is nor law nor rule, 378 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B....

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...gery to civilisation is essentially a story of settling down. It begins in caves and shelters; it culminates in a wide spec- tacle of farms and peasan...

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Two Years before the Mast, And Twenty-Four Years After: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

By: Richard Henry Dana

...Chilian who were soldiers, who were stationed over some convicts confined in caves nearly half way up the mountain. At the expiration of my watch I ... ...ore. The worst part of the convicts, I found, were locked up under sentry in caves dug into the side of the mountain, nearly half way up, with mule t...

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