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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...t a hand to touch the decoration, so artfully ordered in alternate rows of bands and medallions, composed so that neither scheme overwhelmed the other... ...ions. The neck had portrayals of the planets and signs of the zodiacs. Two bands had inscriptions, figural Kufi. Allah is beauty and is pleased by all... ... sorry for what she did." "You know how many times I've thought about just marching right over there to get my husband's remains and bring them back h...

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The Power in You

By: Wally Amos

...rk well with your fellow employees. Mothers and housewives, or househus, bands, your self';worth should be sky high because running a household and... ... I went inside and recruited some of their employees to play kazoos in a marching band. The crowd that was gathered supplied all the fanfare I need...

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The Natural State, In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti

By: U.G. Krishnamurti, Edited by Peter Maverick

...ervals. On his lower abdomen, the swellings were horizontal, cigar-shaped bands. Above the navel was a hard, almond-shaped swelling. A hard, blue swe... ...em with another set of beliefs, another body of discipline. Those who are marching into the battlefield and are ready to be killed today—in the name ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ord. It generated powers of knowledge greater than the powers of kings’ marching warriors. Symbols-of-Sound Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, th... ...ower of analytical thinking to surpass the powers of monarchies and their marching warriors. (Had monopoly of the privileged scribe-mathematician... ...ower cases, clicked them into his printer‘s stick, and then inserted space bands between groups of letters to create words. He had to justify each... ...letters to create words. He had to justify each line with smaller space bands so that it filled exactly the allotted space between column margins,... ... and drop brass letter matrixes into line. Then he manually inserts space bands to fill out the line before he pulls the lever that pours the molten ...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ord. It generated powers of knowledge greater than the powers of kings’ marching warriors. Symbols-of-Sound Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, th... ...ower of analytical thinking to surpass the powers of monarchies and their marching warriors. (Had monopoly of the privileged scribe-mathematician c... ...ower cases, clicked them into his printer‘s stick, and then inserted space bands between groups of letters to create words. He had to justify each l... ...f letters to create words. He had to justify each line with smaller space bands so that it filled exactly the allotted space between column margins,... ... and drop brass letter matrixes into line. Then he manually inserts space bands to fill out the line before he pulls the lever that pours the molten ...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...ng his way over parching sands under a blazing tropical sun; in groups, little bands of men, well armed, for every road is infested with robbers, and ... ...hat Cortez apparently acquiesced, but secretly set those who were favorable to marching to the capital to cause a mutiny in the camp against the propo... ...d barbershops, and baths with hot and cold water, broad plazas in which native bands of musicians discoursed every evening, flowing fountains, and see... ...homage. But though they welcomed him with smoking censers, waving banners, and bands of music, the people of Cholula declined to admit their enemies w... ...from the monotony of shipboard life, and thus, while their ships waited, large bands were, formed, equally ready either to hunt the wild cattle or to ... ... to their brethren by a common hatred of the Spanish, developed into Buccaneer bands, which for one hundred years were at once the inspiration and ter... ...slaves had dispersed in every direction except those of Nuevitas; the men were marching toward the coast to repel the intruders, for Puerto was not to... ...too; the robber chief knew it by their uniforms, by their discipline and their marching. The situation was desperate; to retreat over the route by whi... ...rant rogues that ever escaped the gallows. A RIOT OF MURDER AND RAPINE. Before marching into the place Morgan strictly commanded his men to drink no w...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... to using fire every day: and found that now they could not live without it. Bands that lost their ability to make fire perished. Bands that did n... ... What happened when our ancestors replaced the living center of their social bands with fire? Was all waste originally thrown into the fire and co... ...etahs. Why last? Because Cheetahs are not pack animals. They do not run in bands, tribes, clans, or prides. They have no pride. They have no ins... ...fear was the original corruptor of social harmony. Due to warfare with other bands… the fear of attack, the fear of death, being killed; this outer... ...blicizes itself. It never blares itself out on TV screens. It does not have marching bands, or horns blaring out its message. People who are actua... ...Media didn’t report this to the Nation? And when these demonstrators started marching through New York by the million strong … the media still di... ...tingly reported about these millions of protesters against Bush. Who had been marching for three days even before the convention even started?… A f... ...arch? Nothing. The point is: If Washington can ignore one million black men marching on them… if Washington can even ignore one million white peopl... ...ng. Their previous wars had been executed in staged battles with huge, clumsy marching armies. The outcomes were usually always fast and decisive. ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...fifty of us. Hands resting on a table, arms healed and ringed with copper bands, he leaned forward, waiting for silence. His hair had been freshly c... ...masks, are chatting and taking seats at the Globe. Hawkers, bright yellow bands around their waists, are selling books and cakes and ale, passing am... ...every town and city. Often our debates were veritable picnics, fireworks, bands. I rode on a Conestoga drawn by six white horses...bunting... flower... ...le marine of the United States, with its artillery loaded for action, all marching in support of a Praetorian band, consist- ing of 120 friends and a... ... as Commander-in-Chief, to ferret out honesty and promote it. Troops are marching by. Drums. There is no room for humor. LINCOLN’S JOURNAL ... ...d out in golden stars. Hotels, shops, restaurants are festive, I am told. Bands play “Dixie” and “Yankee Doodle,” Irish tunes, Fos- ter’s songs. Fire...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...rs; music is a part of youth culture, and pupils in schools have their own bands as they do in Western countries. In the 1980s, video rental and sales... ...xpensive. When I was a child, we'd play a coin tossing game or with rubber bands, we either blew them or tossed them. We also used to play at shops a ... ...home for three days and nights. It was a bit different then. There were no bands of musicians at funerals like today. No players. After three days and... ...national techno-world. In Lampang, too, youth culture means clubs and rock bands. Teenagers hanging out around supermarkets want to behave and dress l... ...zed organizations and ideological mass cultures; Western culture is armies marching in step, shared political goals, shared fashions, trends and idols... ...ops in towns. How long can the people of Lampang sustain their interest in marching in new year processions and participating in organizing temple fes...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...rtuna? A wise man, of himselfe commander high, Whom want, nor death, nor bands can terrifie, Resolv'd t'affront desires, honors to scorne, All in ... ...orporeall and incarnate, I think her pulse would beat and worke stronger, marching to an assault, than going to dinner: For it is necessarie that sh... ... owe us of themselves; and then, if they deserve it (naturall inclination marching hand in hand with reason) to cherish and make much of them, with a... ...s weighed three score pound weight. And Marius, his souldiers thus loden, marching in battal array, were taught to march five leagues in five hours, ... ...n, especially from those Whom they would servants hold, and in their love-bands close: http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/2xii.htm (42 of 148)... ...ing a thing, subject by its owne condition to the power of trouble, never marching but a forced and borrowed pace? If our judgement be in the hands ... ...thal is wanting. Caius Marius did not willingly admit any Souldiers in his bands that were not six foot high. The Courtier hath reason to require all... ...tormented anew, he by strong violence freed himselfe from out his keepers bands, and so furiously ranne with his bead against a wall, that he burst ... ... to so unproportionate quarrels. For one undertaketh against a Prince, in marching couragiously for his honour, and according to his duty: If hee lov...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...stoop and collapsed onto the bottom step. His legs felt like frayed rubber bands, whole body shaking as if he had the d.t.s; his heart trembled and sw... ...d" sign on the glass door. If she hadn't, for sure someone would have been marching in, begging to be hooked up with a to-die-for do that would put th...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...aiting. Although the men wore a mixture of military uniforms, the red arm bands implied a medical team. Also unsettling were the armed security guard... ...taking in the area towards the solar screen, then out at the plates still marching on. Distracted by the sound of Shaun's movement, Roxanne turned a...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

...orse is needed there, truly . A good follower and a good pony also for the marching. Let us see–let us see.’ He thrummed on the pommel. ‘This is no pl... ... brought the tune: We crave your condescension To tell you what we know Of marching in the Mulligan Guards To Sligo Port below! Here broke in the shri... ...band of the Mavericks playing the regiment to camp; for the men were route marching with their baggage. The rippling column swung into the level–carts... ...o lend the spectacle his patronage. At evening there came out to meet them bands of music, and played the Mav ericks into camp near Umballa railway s... ... branches–for which, by the way, there were no cram books–could, by merely marching over a country with a compass and a level and a straight eye, carr... ...gether a reed.’ He picked up his lathi–a five foot male bamboo ringed with bands of pol ished iron–and flourished it in the air. ‘The Jats are called... ...ders still snow speckled, and through forest, to grass anew. For all their marchings, Kedarnath and Badrinath were not impressed; and it was only afte...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...sitive name. Say, an ornamental City Square, flowers, fountains, afternoon bands of music—com- fortable seats in it, and a shelter, and a ready supply... ...irth, the names would appear the active parts of them, and themselves mere marching supports, like the bearers of street placard-adver- tisements. Now... ...fy the lady overcoming him with nimbler tongue), and blocking the streets, marching in bands beneath banners, howling hymns. Statistics, upon which hi... ...overcoming him with nimbler tongue), and blocking the streets, marching in bands beneath banners, howling hymns. Statistics, upon which his master and... ...o the bog we go, we have got round to it!—the principles of those horrible marching and chant- ing people! Then, must our England, to be redoubtable t... ...ts ranks; not to speak of a presumption in its proceedings, and the public marching and singing. Moreover, he enjoyed his one or two permissible glass... ...b surveying scarce that number of followers! He diverged to censure of the marchings and the street-singing: the impedi- ment to traffic, the annoyanc...

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A Horse's Tale

By: Mark Twain

... of the oldest veteran, and pronounced her “well and truly adopted,” and the bands struck up and all saluted and she saluted in return, it was better ... ...regiment or the gar rison wants to do something that will please Cathy. The bands conceived the idea of stirring her soldierly heart with a fare wel... ...st slave, and in spite of poverty of precedents they got his permission. The bands knew the child’s favorite military airs. By this hint you know what... ... she did. [Reveille] A Horse’s Tale Mark Twain 42 With the last note the bands burst out with a crash: and woke the mountains with the “Star Spang... ...tears. By request she blew the “assembly,” now… . [The Assembly ] … Then the bands thundered in, with “Rally round the flag, boys, rally once again!” ... ...Standard”) … [To the Standard ] … and the bands responded with “When we were marching through Georgia.” Straightway she sounded “boots and saddles,” t... ...they turned their whole strength loose on “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching,” and everybody’s excitement rose to blood heat. Now an impressi... ...ollicking frenzy of a tune, “Oh, we’ll all get blind drunk when Johnny comes marching home — yes, we’ll all get blind drunk when Johnny comes marching...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

... fishermen’s boats, I saw Hosea’s brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod’s decapitated head, looking... ...nk of Death and the Judgment then?” “Hear him, hear him now,” cried Peleg, marching across the cabin, and thrust ing his hands far down into his pock... ...dst thunder him higher than a throne! Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; be... ... majestic as a god, bluff bowed and fearless as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid his shark, and the mild deadliness of his habits, the French ... ...e deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there. This boat had always been deemed one o... ... after her screaming brood; — all this was thrilling. Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle;... ...ered, yet, as must have been seen, even at the present day, small detached bands are occasion ally observed, embracing from twenty to fifty individual... ...asion ally observed, embracing from twenty to fifty individuals each. Such bands are known as schools. They generally are of two sorts; those composed...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...ishermen’s boats, I saw Hosea’s brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod’s decapitated head, looking... ...nk of Death and the Judgment then?” “Hear him, hear him now,” cried Peleg, marching across the cabin, and thrusting his hands far down into his pocket... ...dst thunder him higher than a throne! Thou who, in all Thy mighty, earthly marchings, ever cullest Thy selectest champions from the kingly commons; be... ...jestic as a god, bluff-browed and fear- less as this mighty steed. Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that e... ... deck, and, with a noise less celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there. This boat had always been deemed one o... ...en after her screaming brood;—all this was thrilling. Not the raw recruit, marching from the bosom of his wife into the fever heat of his first battle... ...ered, yet, as must have been seen, even at the present day, small detached bands are occasionally observed, embracing from twenty to fifty individuals... ...casionally observed, embracing from twenty to fifty individuals each. Such bands are known as schools. They generally are of two sorts; those composed...

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Codex Junius 11

By: S. A. J. Bradley

...y freedom for an hour, one winter hour, then with this host I would — But bands of iron crush me down, the bondage of my chains is heavy. I am strip... ...ders of the work in pride of strength met together about the tower in many bands. But no one band could understand another. And they left off to build... ...rrah. And all the land about Jordan was overrun with armed men and hostile bands. Many a trembling maiden, pale with fear, must needs endure a foe’s e... ...nst them from the south five kings went forth to war with battle hosts and marching squadrons. Fain would they guard the city of Sodom against the foe... ...and fell thine enemies. They perished in the track of their re treat. The marching host throve not in battle, but God put them to flight. With His ha... ...e hearts of the earls were hopeless within them as they beheld the shining bands, the hosts of Pha raoh, marching from out the south, uplifting a for... ...less within them as they beheld the shining bands, the hosts of Pha raoh, marching from out the south, uplifting a forest of lances, with banners wav... ...still. (ll. 310 318) The fourth tribe led the way, a throng of war riors, marching through the sea upon the green sea bottom. Codex Junius 11 68 The... ...ds the sons of Simeon marched, the third division. Banners waved above the marching warriors; with flashing spears the battle troop pressed on. Over t...

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A Reading of Life

By: George Meredith

...hat craves, She flecks along a run of waves The one to promise deeper sea. Bands of her limpid primitives, Or patterned in the curious braid, Are the ... ...s lame advance Flung as the die of Bacchanalian Chance, He of the troubled marching army leaned On godhead visible, on godhead screened; The radiant r... ...t of breath from debt is freed, Earth will not hear her children’s wailful bands Deplore the chieftain fall’n in sob and dirge; Nor they look where is... ...them serene. Who never yet of scattered lamps was born To speed a world, a marching world to warn, But sunward from the vivid Many springs, Counts con...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

By: H. G. Wells

...g. He perceived women and girls with flowing hair, beautifully robed, with bands crossing between the breasts. These first came out of the confusion. ... ...ot beard trimmed to a point, and his hair, its blackness streaked now with bands of grey, arranged over his forehead in an unfamiliar but graceful man... ...er the snow-spangled light struck down, beams and gird- ers, and incessant bands running with a halting, indomi- table resolution passed upward and do... ... why he has sent. He is at the wind-vane offices directing. The people are marching.” “In your name,” shouted the younger man. “They have ruled, crush... ...t the tumult out- side had changed its character, was in some way beating, marching. His own mind, too, changed. for a space he did not recognise the ... ...d. Then he saw those nearest to him on a level space before the stage were marching in front of him, passing towards a great arch- way, shouting “T o ... ...he archway, shouting “Onward!” They were no longer marking time, they were marching; tramp, tramp, tramp, tramp. In that host were bearded men, old me... ...d. Heads, shoulders, hands clutching weapons, all were swinging with those marching cadences. Faces came out of the confusion to him as he stood there... ...y slowly the swarming ruins became aware of him. And as they did so little bands of black-uniformed men appeared remotely, thrusting through the crowd...

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