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...eath and dying, affection and callous indifference, independence and love somewhere in tropical Queensland. There’s sentiment but not sentimentality, social criticism, excitement, fun and a bit of everything else in a fast paced yarn that suggests ways to live that are more interesting and natural than those we see on our screens. ...

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...ntents 1 Mortaumal 2 Leon 3 Shrude Aywun 4 Confidences 5 Death 6 Mrs. Pettie 7 Dying 8 The lawyer. 9 Self Defence. 10 Pissed Off 11 Leon and Hugh 12 Family life 13 Fystie 14 A day at the river 15 School 16 School work 17 Mr. Brawn on Women 18 A visit 19 Beach Bully 20 De...

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...tana, Gavin left her feeling drained and unfulfilled. Why did he always manage to break down her defences, thought Helen, chiding herself for her we... ...ide in his voice, ‘but he was overcome and ordered me to drop my kukree, which I had drawn in his defence. We were taken by the tribesman to this Af... ...ressed as everyone else at Rosita’s illness. How could she inform Gavin of her suspicions? In his defence of Isabel, he might reveal the depth of his... ...len, assisted at her request by the Comtesse de Colbert. And now, gentlemen, we must examine our defences and ammunition.’ Brigadier General Sir Jam... ...nipers, positioned on a ridge opposite the fort. Some of the sepoys decided to storm the British defences and their slaughter from the fort’s artil... ... Word Doonga Meaning a pleasure boat in Kashmir Word Effendi Meaning Arabic for a man of high social standing. Word En verdad Meaning in fact...

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...y and hasten to protect me. Others find my haughty slyness loathsome. I guess I conjure my defencelessness to con my victims. It may prove unhealth... ...d I feign recoil, as though intimidated by your loudness. Withdrawing to my second line of defence, I surrender to your simulated wrath. The signs ... ...ented exudation. I permeate your cracks. I broker an alliance with your fears, your pains, defence compensatory mechanisms. I know you. I've got t... ...o them and I record all your confessions to be used against you to your benefit. Denuded of defences, I leave you wounded by embezzlement, a cold, c... ...me to his bookstore to inspect a new shipment. I used to spend all weekends there, reading, socialising, and devouring unwholesome food in the adjac... ...er public places. I cherish the risk of being found excreting in these urns – the potential social condemnation, the forced commitment to a madhouse... ...ted to immutable classification. This forced admission would undermine the pillars of their social order. It's better to pretend that they do believ... ...d, thrifty person to have chosen such accommodation. It sort of placed us both, despite his social inferiority, on equal footing. He solemnly infor... ...ia and the Czech Republic. Collaborated with the Agency of Transformation of Business with Social Capital. Economic commentator in "Nova Makedonija...

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...a foot taller than her. He had a bit of a fiery temper, but he always used it in defence of her, or their work. He’d acted as her minder more times ... ...anks to Derek and Lindsay Pollard for their advice and insight into the power of social media. I’d also like to acknowledge the support and friendsh...

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...er hand to jab at a couple of pressure points to immobilise and leave him defenceless. Sweat beaded on his dirty brow; the more he fought against he... ...words to buy them more time. "Your woman?" "She's no man's woman!" Shaun's defences rose. The Nomad had dealt with enough grotesque injuries and deat... ... Genetic living conditions. This reminded him of what was once classed as socially unacceptable and hidden from public view. Nonetheless, twenty ye... ...sition of supervisor. The idea of this method was to prevent boredom and social stigma, promoting skills and equality. All sections were deemed imp... ...rth to the orbiting space fortress, housing nuclear weapons for planetary defence against asteroids and as some once believed, alien invasion. Accor... ...lex in the hands of outsiders, they considered the code as a last line of defence. David now understood Alex's fatigue problems and her strength. Ev... ...ried to do a runner. "Yah no help to us like this. I order yah to go into defence mode." With her just intensely staring at him, he thought to trigg...

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...y could attach themselves to the woman, presumed they would penetrate her defences, destroy her faith, massacre her hopes and establish a house of f... ...h down a stairwell for sport. Tom enjoys a good joke and likes to disrupt social gatherings with his sense of humour. Tom’s favourite party joke is ... ...vin. Mr. Adams truly believes the Lord has forsaken his name, address and social security number. With love in their eyes and gleaming white teeth, t... ...d Sully had dropped in. It was obvious to his wife that it had not been a social visit. Morris and Anne saw the two off and returned to their duties... ... express it, Anne felt the pain and disgrace of her past. The barriers of defence closed around her emotions and Anne readied herself in case Karen ... ...ome orders having not been received prompting others to again come to his defence using the Lord’s work as an excuse. Alan, Fred and Norma tried to ...

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...mouth gaping open. Chris stormed from the room, her head a muddle of self-defence. Bent over, Rick was measuring out, when a shadow cast over him. L... ...u knew she couldn’t read the lettering on a bloody toilet door, let alone social security forms. You didn’t even tell her about legal aid or any of ... ...t; he also dabbled in 56 plastering and painting, finding little time to socialise let alone settle down. Having learnt his trade in the city, the ... ...t the sink. Bill broke the silence, raising his voice in Sandy and Rick’s defence. It had been a long time since Chris saw her grandfather so angry.... ...table on a small mound of earth. “They say it’s very classy.” He mimicked social snobbery with a grin. “That’s very considerate of you.” Bill nodded ... ...f the silent comforter until confident he could speak without raising her defences. Sandy gripped the handle and slowly edged the door open a little.... ... I could sign school notices, do my own withdrawals at the bank, fill out social security forms…” “Get a licence, a car…” “Drive around doing blockie...

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...ds like “school trip” or “free lunch”?’ Theo asked. ‘Oh, Palabras are very social creatures,’ Bozo laughed. ‘They’re always trying out new combinatio... ...cratic air of the circus had passed and, as she began to resus- citate her social circle, Buntee became something of an embarrassment to her. He didn... ...n in locating the boy. We have also received generous offers from various social and business organisations – notably the Tigers Club – and are able ... ...but so deep that most never notice it. Over the past few millennia, Sid’s defences have been worn down like rocks eroded by the sea.’ ‘What can I do...

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...HE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE ....................................................

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..... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED ....................... ...too much reticence in respect to his public functions and conduct, and his social relations. The title of Gentleman in Ordinary to the King, which he ... ..., bowing under the weight of so dangerous an accusation, made no manner of defence for himself, nor produced other arguments than prayers and supplica... ...in it the governor Phyton, a very gallant man, who had made so obstinate a defence, was resolved to make him a tragical example of his revenge: in ord... ...bes, to see so many valiant men, lost and totally destitute of any further defence, cruelly mas- sacred before his eyes, would have appeased it: where... ..., and put him, upon the instant, to pump for new and extempore answers and defences. Yet, at the interview be- twixt Pope Clement and King Francis at ... ...it in friendship, than itself. Neither do the four ancient kinds, natural, social, hos- pitable, venereal, either separately or jointly, make up a tru... ... the rule of war not to drive an enemy to despair? Sylla and Marius in the social war, having defeated the Marsians, seeing yet a body of reserve that...

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...or healthy suspense. He is surrounded by fine old traditions, reli- gious, social, architectural, culinary; and he may have the satisfaction of feelin... ... advance. There was one waiter in especial who was the most ac- complished social being I have ever encountered; from morning till night he kept up an... ...exaggeration of an exaggeration. In a build- ing erected after the days of defence, and proclaiming its peaceful character from its hundred embroideri... ...nd of those pleasures which proceed from the presence of women in whom the social art is both instinctive and acquired. The women of that period were,... ...ing and decidedly sombre; it marks the transition from the architecture of defence to that of elegance. It rises, massive and perpendicular, out of th... ...eve that the French reserve is the result of a more definite conception of social behavior. I allude to it only became it is at variance with the nati... ...offers to view two big towers, which Joanne says were formerly part of the defence of Bourges. From the lower level of which I speak—the square in fro... ...com- pleteness of French life and of the lightness and bright- ness of the social air, together with a desire to arrive at friendly judgments, to expr... ... personally received an im- pression; and I have no such impression of the defence of La Rochelle. The hotel de ville is a pretty little build- ing, i...

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...mercenaries! And that lands me in Red Republicanism, a hop and a skip from Socialism! said Mr. Radnor, and chuckled ironi- cally at the natural decliv... ...gel. This was another favourite sentence of Love’s grand ora- tion for the defence. So seductive was it to the Powers who sat in judgement on the case... ...nder a contract, at two-thirds of the present cost. We’ll start a National Defence Insurance Com- pany after the next panic.’ ‘During,’ said Mr. Fenel... ...their poultry, cows, cream. And a certain influence one has in the country socially. I make my stand on a home— not empty punctilio.’ 22 One of Our C... ...could, considering their immense extension; and except for the sen- sitive social name, he was of single-minded purpose. 37 George Meredith T urning ... ...owed suit in such a way, then Mr. Durance must be right when he called the social English the most sheepy of sheep:— and Nesta could not consent to th... ...s were to serve;—and merely to attract and win the tastes of people, for a social support to 77 George Meredith Lakelands! Merely that? Much more:—if... ...o, sir, yes.’ Skepsey was shy of this gentleman’s bite; and he fancied his defence had been correct. Perceiving a crumple of the lips of Mr. Durance, ... ...keness to the corn-stalk reverting to weed. He had but a son for England’s defence; and the frame of his boy might be set quaking by a thump on the wi...

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...his zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious man- ner mar her social happines. He wanted to talk about the business, to show the splendou... ...id mechanical traction, it had brought men nearer together, so much nearer socially, economically, physically, that the old separations into nations a... ...ss swarms of little Smallways. The Asiatic peoples had been forced in self-defence into a like diversion of the new powers science had brought them. O... ...ers, heavily armed states indeed, but reluctant warriors, and in many ways socially and politi- cally leading western civilisation. Russia was a pacif... ...rn between revolutionaries and reactionaries who were equally incapable of social re- construction, and so sinking towards a tragic disorder of 69 H ... ... feeling—the new Chivalry, as it was called—that followed the overthrow of Socialism through its internal divisions and lack of discipline, and the co... ...he Air gland, four thousand feet below perhaps, and looking very small and defenceless indeed in the morning sunlight. The realisation that there was ... ...tion and inflict such damage as to greatly weakenthe attack upon the coast defences. Its duty, indeed, was not victory but devo- tion, the severest ta... ...ry but devo- tion, the severest task in the world. Meanwhile the submarine defences of New Y ork, Panama, and the other more vital points could be put...

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...expenses; and the fellows were to laugh at kicks and learn the art of self-defence—train to rejoice in whipcord muscles. The son of a tradesman, if a ... ... Murat had done it! These illogical boys fought for Matey Weyburn in their defence of Lord Ormont. Somewhere, they wee sure, old Matey was hammering t... ...a gratuitous Coriolanus haughtiness as well, new among a people accustomed socially to bow the head to their nobles, and not, of late, expecting a kic... ...sted savour. They enjoyed the pecu- liar novel relish of it, coming from a social pressman and a dame of high society. The different hemispheres becam... ... brother that did it. His look at Lady Charlotte glistened. She raised her defences against the basilisk fascinating Philippa; and with a vow to keep ... ... lighten again, in the way peculiar to him, when she, quite forgetting her defence of Philippa, disburdened herself of her antagonisms and enthusiasms... ...eral a great man. He now regarded him as a mere soldier, a soured veteran; socially as a masker and a trifler, virtually a callous angler playing his ... ...y field, that has not yet spoken audible thunder: the terrible aggre- gate social woman, of man’s creation, hated by him, dreaded, scorned, satirized,... ...advantage of his absence to make the clever push for an establishment, and socially force him to legalize their union on his return. The deeds of the ...

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...d, however, an unexpected source of pleasure, and a means of employing his social affections. His sister Janet had fortu- nately entertained so strong... ... its greensward banks for the travellers to pursue their journey in a more social manner. Lord Menteith accordingly resumed the conversation, which ha... ...s approached more nearly, they discovered marks of recent additions to the defences of the place, which had been suggested, doubtless, by the insecuri... ...llers were admitted into the court, they found additional preparations for defence. The walls were scaffolded for the use of fire-arms, and one or two... ...f club or mace, used in the earlier part of the seventeenth century in the defence of breaches and walls. When the Germans insulted a Scotch regiment ... ...f the unfortunate Forester, uncle to Allan, and had escaped by a desperate defence and extraordinary agility, when so many of his companions were dest... ...th the vilest roads in Europe. In fact, my horse hath a most excellent and social quality; for although he cannot pledge in my cup, yet we share our l... ...ct as Gustavus in all his exercises, and of a far finer figure. Marry! his social qualities are less cultivated, in respect he has kept till now infer... ...y managed. But as it is the inter- course of private life that formeth the social character, so I do not apprehend that of the single soldier to be mu...

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...roup of British and foreign sentimentalists who pretend so amusingly to be socialists in the Labour Leader, whose conception of foreign policy is to g... ...charge of Lieutenant de Tessin, whom I had met in England studying British social questions long before this war. After- wards Lieutenant de T essin t... ...and across the plateau of the Carso. Goritzia itself was not organised for defence, and the Austrians were so surprised by the rapid storm of the moun... ...ous excitement of the conclusive advance. The organisation of Soissons for defence is perfect. I may not describe it, but think of whatever would stop... ...and defensive. The other chief factor in the evolution of the war has been social organisation. As Machiavelli points out in his Art of Wa r, there wa... ...tion. As Machiavelli points out in his Art of Wa r, there was insufficient social stability in Europe to keep a properly trained and disciplined infan... ...would be practically impossible to locate the enemies’ dug-outs, secondary defences, and batteries. But the aeroplane takes us immediately into a new ... ...support of pride and training before dangers can be faced. The Germans are social and methodical, the French and English are by com- parison chaotic a... ...g that, in the blackening of the Allies to an equal blackness, one line of defence against the wave of impulse that threatens to submerge his private ...

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... sharp trial of the national mettle? Where was the first line of England’s defence, her navy? These were questions, and Ministers were called upon to ... ...ling, and hate war, but I will have the country respected.’ They planned a defence of the country, drawing their strategy from maga- 23 George Meredi... ...n. ‘Friend,’ said Roland, ‘opinions may differ: mine is, con- sidering the defences of the windows, that the only way into these houses or out of them... ... promenaders, chiefly military of the garrison, were few at that period of social protestation, and he could declare his disap- pointment aloud, ringi... ...his usual absent interest in everything not turning upon Art, politics, or social intrigue. He said, ‘Yes, good, good,’ at the proper intervals, and w... ...g the credit due to your valour and high bearing on the field of battle in defence of your country, on the other, so that Bevisham may apprehend, in s... ...he transitory; with less of the gentlemanly fine taste, the light and easy social semi-irony, than Cecilia liked and would have expected from him. How... ... ‘ve heard him,’ sighed the colonel. ‘He calls the Protes- tant clergy the social police of the English middle-class. Those are the things he lets fly... ...imits of our most excellent and approved Con- stitution. I could wish that socially … that is all.’ ‘Socially and politically mean one thing in the en...

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... into solemnity, although its natural expression was that of good-humoured social indulgence. In defiance of conventual rules, and the edicts of popes... ...of architec- ture throughout England. Rotherwood was not, however, without defences; no habi- tation, in that disturbed period, could have been so, wi... ...which communicated by a drawbridge, with a similar opening in the interior defences. Some precautions had been taken to place those entrances under th... ...e, “that the English chivalry were second to =none= who ever drew sword in defence of the Holy Land. I say besides, for I saw it, that King Richard hi... ...mediate violence, -—“had I it but in my power to give three strokes in its defence.” “We shall see that presently ,” said the robber; and, speaking to... ...of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the feet of the horses. The splendid armour of the comb... ...nswer and judge ere you refuse.—The T emplar loses, as thou hast said, his social rights, his power of free agency, but he becomes a member and a limb... ...iscipline; For not since Adam wore his verdant apron, Hath man with man in social union dwelt, But laws were made to draw that union closer. Old Play....

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... it would seem the world is growing accustomed to a steady glide to- wards social disintegration, and thinks that that too can go on continually and n... ...labour internationalism is closely bound up with conceptions of a profound social revo- lution. If world peace is to be attained through labour inter-... ...r- nationalism, it will have to be attained at the price of the completest social and economic reconstruction and by pass- ing through a phase of revo... ...ged through a long period, and may in the end fail to achieve anything but social destruction. Nevertheless, the fact re- mains that it is in the labo... ...t in houses and made his way easier by paths and roads. He complicated his social relationships and increased his effi- ciency by the division of labo... ...ection 2 ection 2 ection 2 THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN of the Allies assigned the defence of the lower Meuse to the English, and the troop-trains were run di... ...and cus- tom and tradition ensured a perpetual vigilance and a per- petual defence against the beleaguering sea. For more than two hundred and fifty m... ...rushed, it must be remembered, through nearly incandescent gaps in the sea defences, and this vast uprush of vapour soon veiled the flaring centres of...

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... Conceive now the position of the householder besieged by harpies, and all defence denied him by the laws of honour. The sacramental gesture of refusa... ...ttacking force was suffered to throw up works under the silent guns of the defence. But there is an end even to the delay of is- landers. As the white... ...ing to sing, and a cow grazed all afternoon unhurt. Doubtless here was the defence in a poor way; but then the attack was in irons. For the Mataafas a... ...orders. Laupepa had fallen in ill-blood with one of them; his only idea of defence had been to throw himself in the arms of another; his name, his ran... ...gratuitously. Becker was more explicit, although scarce less curt. And his defence may be divided into two statements: first, that the T aumualua was ... ... stood open to them on any alarm, and at any hour of the day or night. The social bond in Apia was dissolved. The consuls, like barons of old, dwelt e...

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...thos is better than none at all—he was not a single-minded aspirant to our social honours. The old marketing mother; to whom he owed his fortunes, was... ...devoted to his country . He dined with Tinman again. We try our best to be social. For eight months in our year he had little choice but to dine with ... ...th the joke, that the first thing for Englishmen to look to were England’s defences. But it will not do to be dwelling too fondly on our eras of peace... ...nk any. How much happier they would be.” “But then there would cease to be social meetings in En- gland. What should we do?” “I know that is a sneer; ... ...nditure of town moneys. Tinman was ever for devoting them to the patriotic defence of “our shores;” whereas Van Diemen, pointing in detesta- tion of t... ...alluring by cheap- ness, satiating with quantity, that it may mount in the social scale, at the expense of their tissues. The land is in a state of 6... ...mentation to mount, and the shop, which has shot half their stars to their social zenith, is what verily they would scald themselves to wash themselve...