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The Lake Gun

By: James Fenimore Cooper

... Whenever he tries to get upon the land, the Spirit speaks to him from the caves below, and he obeys.” “That must mean the ‘Lake Gun?’ “ “So the pale-...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...ne on the calm sea, he often went alone in his little shallop to the rocky caves that bordered it, and, sitting beneath their shelter, wrote the “T ri... ...ack bare pointed islets ever beat With sluggish surge, or where the secret caves, Rugged and dark, winding among the springs Of fire and poison, inacc... ...nd o’er the aerial mountains which pour down Indus and Oxus from their icy caves, In joy and exultation held his way; Till in the vale of Cashmire, fa... ...ngling shade, whose brown magnificence A narrow vale embosoms. There, huge caves, Scooped in the dark base of their aery rocks, Mocking its moans, res... ... the ravine, disclosed above, Mid toppling stones, black gulfs and yawning caves, Whose windings gave ten thousand various tongues T o the loud stream... ... _150 There is a pause—the sea-birds, that were gone Into their caves to shriek, come forth, to spy What calm has fall’n on earth, what lig... ...ined labyrinth _820 Which skirts the hoary caves of the green deep, Did Laon and his friend, on one gray plinth, Round... ...e, or T ruth, or Joy! those only can From slavery and religion’s labyrinth caves Guide us, as one clear star the seaman saves. To give to all an equal... ...id encompass me; And like a subterranean wind that stirs Some forest among caves, the hopes and fears From every human soul, a murmur strange Made as ...

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The New Atlantis

By: Francis Bacon

...sible. “The preparations and instruments are these: We have large and deep caves of several depths; the deepest are sunk 600 fathoms; and some of th... ...h remote alike from the sun and heaven’s beams, and from the open air. These caves we call the lower region. And we use them for all coagulations, ind...

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An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids

By: Anthony Trollope

...hrilling the awe with which one would penetrate down into their in- terior caves—those caves in which lay buried the bones of ancient kings, whose ver...

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Enoch Arden

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

..., forth they came and paced the shore, Ran in and out the long sea-framing caves, Drank the large air, and saw, but scarce believed (The sootflake of ... ...dless outer deep Swept with it to the shore, and enter’d one Of those dark caves that run beneath the cliffs. I thought the motion of the boundless de... ...I see the place where thou wilt lie. ‘The sands and yeasty surges mix In caves about the dreary bay, And on thy ribs the limpet sticks, And in thy...

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The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to The

By: Anonymous

...s not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through...

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Poems, In Two Volumes Volume Ii.

By: William Wordsworth

...— Yonder is a House—but where? No, they must not enter there. To the Caves, and to the Brooks, T o the Clouds of Heaven she looks; She is sp... ... On the Mountains visitant; He hath kenn’d them taking wing: And the Caves where Faeries sing He hath entered; and been told By Voices how M...

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Island Nights Entertainments

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...oast there is a sheltered cove they call Fanga-anaana – “the haven full of caves.” I’ve seen it from the sea myself, as near as I could get my boys to... ...ip of yellow sand. Black cliffs over- hang it, full of the black mouths of caves; great trees over- hang the cliffs, and dangle-down lianas; and in on... ...They were scarce set, when there came out of the mouth of one of the black caves six of the most beautiful ladies ever seen: they had flowers in their... ..., and watched the lantern go shining down the path, and along the cliff of caves where the old dead are buried; and all the time he trembled and clasp... ...It rained; his horse went heavily; he looked up at the black mouths of the caves, and he envied the dead that slept there and were done with trouble; ...

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A Reading of Life

By: George Meredith

...Age; not in your beams to bask, Though, lighted by your beams, down mining caves The rock it blasts, the hoarded foulness braves. My sister sees no ro...

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Some Roundabout Papers

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...gh the ooze, crocodiles basked on the banks, and dragons darted out of the caves and waters before men were made to slay them. We who lived before rai...

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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

...tains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwell ing to me, and the o... ...e aspect of the earth. Men who before this change seemed to have been hid in caves dispersed themselves and were employed in various arts of cultivati... ...s were not omitted in my calculations; a creature who could exist in the ice caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of i... ...he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark... ...ance. Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude? Besides, some month...

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The Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

... most animals that live largely in the dark—the white fish of the Kentucky caves, for instance. Then, those large eyes, with that capacity for reflect... ...t was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a per- petual twilight. ‘The machine...

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Maid Marian

By: Thomas Love Peacock

...t, I should wish it were water tight.” “But,” said Robin, “we have tents and caves for foul weather, good store of wine and venison, and fuel in abun ... ...ions to his chosen pa tron. Such was their summer life, and in their winter caves they had sufficient furniture, ample provender, store of old wine, ...

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The Odyssey of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

... paternal coast, Deplored his absent queen and empire lost. Calypso in her caves constrain’d his stay, With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay; In vain f... ...ng power, Jove’s daughter Pallas watch’d the favouring hour. Back to their caves she bade the winds to fly; And hush’d the blustering brethren of the ... ...y grace deforms. Wide o’er the shore with many a piercing cry To rocks, to caves, the frightened virgins fly; All but the nymph; the nymph stood fix’d... ...ills the throne; But high on hills, or airy cliffs, they dwell, Or deep in caves whose entrance leads to hell. Each rules his race, his neighbour not ... ... sends a dreadful groan, the rocks around Through all their inmost winding caves resound. Scared we recoiled. Forth with frantic hand, He tore and da... ... thy vessel plough the direful waves, When seas retreating roar within her caves, Ye perish all! though he who rules the main Lends his strong aid, hi... ...arybdis fills the deep with storms. When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock roars, tumultuous boil the waves; They toss, they foa... ...take repast, and stills the wordy war, Charybdis, rumbling from her inmost caves, The mast refunded on her refluent waves. Swift from the tree, the fl...

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Under the Storm or Steadfasts Charge

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ce, wench, and aid me, I know this rock is hon- 91 Yo n g e eycombed with caves, like a rabbit warren, no place so likely.” “I help thee—no indeed’” ... ... after tumbling out the straw and fern that served for fodder in the lower caves, where the sheep and pigs were sheltered in winter, had scrambled up ... ...t, and not untruly, on the health of the young stock he kept penned in the caves, which were all, he hoped, of which Peter was aware. All this was har... ...llers’ joy the men peering about with their dark lantern, looking into the caves where the pigs were, among the trees, and he held Growler’s mouth tog...

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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

By: Christopher Marlowe

...The ebon gates of ever burning hell, And hale the stubborn Furies from their caves, To compass whatsoe’er your grace commands. BENVOLIO. Blood, he spe...

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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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Paradise Regained

By: John Milton

...ter with fire In ruine reconcil’d: nor slept the winds Within thir stony caves, but rush’d abroad From the four hinges of the world, and fell 4...

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Pictures from Italy

By: Charles Dickens

..., and are stopped by being abruptly strangled by Nature. The quarries, ‘or caves,’ as they call them there, are so many openings, high up in the hills... ...him by the great expense of work ing what is worth nothing. Some of these caves were opened by the ancient Romans, and remain as they left them to th... ...ay or other, with the working of marble. There are also villages among the caves, where the workmen live. It contains a beautiful little Theatre, newl... ... the fancy is, that in the upper range (for there are two stories of these caves) the Early Christians des tined to be eaten at the Coliseum Shows, h...

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In Memoriam

By: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

... mystic glory swims away; From off my bed the moonlight dies; 10 And closing caves of wearied eyes I sleep till dusk is dipt in gray: And then I know ...

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