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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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...sts, it is not futile to continue to look for Atlantis. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Alternative/Lo st_Civilizations/Atlan... ...tp://wekker.seagull.net/bolivar/biograf_menu.html Bra Mary Phelps Jacob - a rich socialite - received the first patent for a bra in 1914. Her cor... .... They could not connect different computers. ARPANET, a unit of the Department of Defence in the United States, was the first to achieve inter-con... ...99 and 1906 Gorky lived in St. Petersburg and participated in the activities of the Social Democratic Party. When it split in 1903, he, indeed, supp... ...he opposed the 1917 October Revolution (the Bolshevik coup against the post-Tsarist Social Democratic government). So damaging was his criticism of ... ...n raised by gay or lesbian parents exhibit the same level of emotional, cognitive, social and sexual functioning as children raised by heterosexual... ... Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Israel. Served in the Israeli Defence Force (1979-1982) in training and education units. Ed...

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...ithful recreation of a Bosch-like hell. Feeble attempts at resistance (really, self defence) - such as the one organized by Natanail, the Bishop of ... ...ods of operation from the general landscape of mayhem, crime, disintegration of the social fabric, collapse of authority, social anomie, terror and ... ...ards. They are necessary because the Christian population is absolutely unarmed and defenceless. To a certain extent they guarantee the village agai... ...in and Germany were engaged in a naval arms race which depleted the coffers and the social cohesion of both. Italy declared war on Turkey in 1911 an... ...d not operate in empty space and was not alone. In 1908 Serbia formed "The National Defence". Its main function was to agitate against the Austrians... ...d contempt dipped in an all-pervasive feeling of superiority. This is a well known defence mechanism in nations peripheral. Many a suburban folk wi... ...ad no coherent national agenda bar the mass slaughter of the Serbs. Thus, it was a social movement of the dispossessed, a cesspool of discontent an... ...ent and rage, of aggression too long suppressed but never sublimated, of justified social and political grievances irradiated by racism, national c... ...th the rising, ignore at your peril, Central European force. The Austrian national socialists who were implicated in the murder of the Austrian pri...

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...ed; her husband is only my brother-in-law, that is, a man whom the ties of social life alone attach to me; no one then longer needs my useless life. T... ...t enough to answer `yes’ or `no’ to questions which concern the honor, the social interest, and the life of such a man as Lieutenant-general the Count... ...uld take place. The count was asked what time he re- quired to prepare his defence. Morcerf’s courage had revived when he found himself alive after th... ...ch, for a moment, startled me. Oh, that I could, instead of taking up this defence, shed my last drop of blood to prove to my noble colleagues that I ... ...f,’ said the president, as he unsealed the letter; and the count began his defence, I assure you, Albert, in a most eloquent and skilful manner. He pr... ...ed stress on the title, “what have I done for you? Are not your name, your social position, and your merit sufficient?” “No,” said Andrea, — “no; it i... ...aintain that the position of a man like you has done more than my name, my social position, and my merit.” “You are completely mistaken, sir,” said Mo... ...th Danglars, who had advanced to meet him. Having accomplished these three social duties, Monte Cristo stopped, looking around him with that expressio... ...lever. The unfor- tunate youth was intrepid in the attack, and rude in the defence. He had borne with the public prison, and with privations of all so...

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...d splendors -- The walls of the city -- Its battlements and streets -- How the social evil of Cambalue was utilized -- The Great Kahn at dinner -- The... ...n becomes monarch of Mexico -- His energy in putting his capital in a state of defence -- Cortez builds a fleet of Brigantines -- A battle upon the la... .... -- Tortuga the great stronghold -- How the island lent itself to the plan of defence -- Desperate prowlers of the deep -- Capture of the Spanish tre... ...8 The capture of Tortuga.................................................. 271 Defence of the colonists.................................................. ...ring prisoners..................................................... 296 Herioc defence by the Governor.......................................... 298 M... ...tic admirer of the navy, in which he placed the greatest reliance as the chief defence and promoter of the interests of his kingdom. Of the many large... ... travail, and then they are compelled to carry lights with them. UTILIZING THE SOCIAL EVIL. "Without the city of Cambaluc are twelve large suburbs, th... ...nd which preserving distinctions of rank were measurably civilized, recognized social bonds, practised agriculture, and holding sacred the ties of mat... ...PTAIN COOK'S return to England was appropriately celebrated, and he was made a social lion, according to the custom which prevails in that country and...

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...kets, political scams, human rights violations, technological setbacks, and rising social tensions have revealed how rotten and inherently contradi... ...ings. It is, therefore, not the USA's intrinsic nature, nor its self-perception, or social model that I find most reprehensible - but its actions, ... ...stition, prejudice, conspicuous religiosity, intolerance, philistinism, and lack of social solidarity. Its religiosity is overt, aggressive, virulen... ...d unbridled jingoism. Their persecutory delusions sit well with their adherence to social Darwinism (natural selection of the fittest, let the weak... ...ional Strategy of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reiterated his conviction that "the United Stat... ... stabilized around 5% of GDP (compared to 6.5% the year before), aided by a cut in defence spending (which reached 6% in 1997 but deteriorated ever... ...ding (which reached 6% in 1997 but deteriorated ever since compared to India, whose defence spending increased by 40% in the same period). Despite ... ... GNP has quadrupled and income per capita has doubled. But it still spends more on defence than on health and education combined and less than most... ... Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Israel. Served in the Israeli Defence Force (1979-1982) in training and education units. Ed...

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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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...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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... 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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...l burn.—Danton, the other night, in the Legis- lative Committee of General Defence, when the other Min- isters and Legislators had all opined, said, I... ...hope to prove the falsity”’— But no; Jourgniac’s proof of the falsity, and defence gen- erally, though of excellent result as a defence, is not inter-... ...ders far over the marches; and likewise she has shattered her own internal Social Constitution, even to the minutest fibre of it, into wreck and disso... ...better or worse luck: the wreck and dissolution must reshape itself into a social Arrangement as it can and may. But as for this Na- tional Convention... ...ing; shaking off daily (so to speak), and trampling into the dust, its old social garnitures, ways of thinking, rules of existing; and cheerfully danc... ... the reconciled King Louis shall be guillotined or not. Old garnitures and social vestures drop off (we say) so fast, being indeed quite decayed, and ... ...s! One good time, in the course of Eternity, it was appointed that this of Social Contract too should try itself out. And so the Committee of Consti- ... ...the Subsistences; thirdly, of the Dethroned King. As to the Armies, Public Defence must evidently be put on a proper footing; for Europe seems coalisi... ...Younger King of France: there were an end for our Revolution!—Committee of Defence gazes, and shakes its head: who except Danton, defective in suspici...

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...r of ‘Diable Amoureux, ’ seized, saved for a time by his daughter. CERCLE, Social, of Fauchet. CERUTTI, his funeral oration on Mirabeau. CEVENNES, rev... ...Duke de, a sinecurist. COMMISSIONERS, Convention, like Kings. COMMITTEE of Defence, Central, of Watchfulness, of Public Salvation, Circular of, of the... ..., at siege of Bastille, his Te-Deums, his harangue on Franklin, his Cercle Social, in First Parliament, motion by, doffs his insignia, King’s death, l... ...GNOL, in September Massacre, in La Vendee. ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques, Contrat Social of, Gospel according to, burial-place of, statue decreed to. ROUX, M... ...TANNERY of human skins, improvements in. TARGET, Advocate, declines King’s defence. TASSIN, M., and black cockade. TENNIS-COURT, National Assembly in,...

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... and his eyes turned to the sky, as if asking of heaven the reason of this social up- heaval. No one but Chesnel could understand the profound anguish... ...ration of the great and little noblesse, of the aristocratic and bourgeois social elements, which had been united for a little space by the heavy weig... ...d come to be one of the commonest as well as one of the worst types from a social point of view—a consistent egoist. The aristocratic cult of the ego ... ...onal wrong. The monster Equality was swallowing down the last fragments of social distinction in the Restoration. Having made up his mind on this head... ...sion, magistrates, commissaries, police- men, and other representatives of social order. Like most guilty creatures, Victurnien had forgotten everythi... ...sure to take care that after the challenges from the prosecu- tion and the defence, the jury to a man will be for an acquit- tal.—My advice would be t... ...he astonished eyes of the ignorant those thick leaves bristling with spiny defences which seem to be due to some plant disease. It was a plain-looking...

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...the Fadden Art School and a bright, event- ful life of art student dances, Socialist meetings, theatre gal- leries, talking about work, and even, at i... ... beautiful, safe, and sheltering home, going about with hatless friends to Socialist meetings and art-class dances, and displaying a dis- position to ... ...live, you do exist! You have this home. You have friends, ac- quaintances, social standing, brothers and sisters, every ad- vantage! Instead of which,... ...ily, and distantly re- lated to Aunt Mollie’s deceased curate. She was the social leader of Morningside Park, and in her superficial and euphuistic wa... ...d to me. My politics in that matter wouldn’t be to give women votes. I’m a Socialist, Miss Stanley.” “What?” said Ann Veronica, startled. “A Socialist... ...atre. Ann Veronica intervened a little in the novel- ist discussion with a defence of Esmond and a denial that the Egoist was obscure, and when she sp... ...nt hockey player and had had a course of jiu-jitsu in the High School. Her defence ceased rapidly to be in any sense ladylike, and became vigorous and... ... to the very portal of that centre of distur- bance. And through all these defences and into Old Palace Yard, into the very vitals of the defenders’ p...

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...ived on his target, but instead of using his sword in cutting down his now defenceless antago- nist, he employed it in parrying the blow of a Lochaber... ... hornworks, and covered ways; but my two protectors shelled him out of his defences, and I was at length a free man, at liberty to go or stay wheresoe... ... inaccessible character of the coun- try, which had seemed to promise them defence and protec- tion. [See Note 8.—Battle betwixt the armies of the Bru... ...ich he excelled, and to find, at the same time, the means for mak- ing one social meal with his mother on something better than their ordinary cheer. ... ...of Chatham prided himself on the scheme, by which he drew together for the defence of the colonies those hardy Highlanders, who, until his time, had b... ... his countrymen required to be powerfully restrained by the strong curb of social law. But still he mourned over the individual victim. Who may ar- ra... ... and whose good sabres, in our own time, are her cheapest and most assured defence. His mirth was readily excited; for, strong in limb and consti- tut...

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...d her daughter assassinated, and she blamed the young men for their heroic defence and compelled them to desist. It was Laurence who opened the door s... ...Cinq-Cygne became that of the younger branch of the Chargeboeufs after the defence of a castle made, during their father’s absence, by five daughters ... ...s. Nevertheless he would have let himself be arrested without an effort at defence, and would have gone to the scaffold quietly. His annuity of three ... ... specify in language the varieties of those who compose this dispensary of social remedies so essential to all governments— the spy has this curious a... ...n society, in the body politic, in the family, meant the subversion of the social sys- tem. In these days we are so far removed from this theory of pr... ...h magistrates. Monsieur de Grandville, for that was his name, accepted the defence of the four young men, be- ing glad of an opportunity to make his f... ... Law is not bilat- eral. The defence, without spies or police, cannot call social power to the rescue of its innocent clients. Innocence has nothing o... ...ds,—fanatical sym- pathies wrapped in a shroud of mystery. She now saw all social forces full-armed against her cousins and herself. There was no taki... ...guilt. All was dull and vulgar. The para- phernalia so necessary to excite social interest is perhaps a consolation to criminals. On this occasion the...

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...arply as he threw him on his horse, and wrapped his cloak about him—a poor defence, spite of the ermine lining, against the frost of the December nigh... ... take thought for her, and finish this long term of tossing about and self-defence. Was not the patience with which he kept his eyes away from her alr... ...r rebel subjects as prisoners of war.’ ‘I did not know that I was saving a defenceless man from the flames to be used like a dog. I never offered my a... ..., or in the licensed sports, or on the river; fresh studies, chapel, and a social but quiet evening over the supper in the hall. All this was varied b... ...m by the 248 The Caged Lion arm, led him, followed by Lilias, through the defences and into the court of the castle, then to a side-door, where, boun... ...day, in utter fearlessness of earthly justice, and defiance of Heaven. The defence that the prisoner seemed to have been prepared to us?—that those wh...

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...ind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down. The file of mules, jaded by thei... ...dow, and be- come at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes. Mrs General’s communication of this idea to her clerical and ... ...stress, and a very hard one— and would be taken all over the strange city. Social people in other gondolas began to ask each other who the little soli... ...er consideration was accredited to a family so conspicuously niched in the social temple as the family of Dorrit. At this remark the face of Mr Dorrit... ...ut in the way of this class of culprits; but that was only reasonable self-defence in the powers, since How to do it must obviously be regarded as the... ...arm to Mrs Plornish’s corner. Mr Pancks’s object was not professional, but social. He had had a trying day, and wanted a little brightening. By this t... ...irably stabled. Nor did his be- nevolence stop here. He took pains, on all social occasions, to draw Mr Sparkler out, and make him conspicuous before ... ...re, putting on a battlement there, looking to the walls, strengthening the defences, giving ornamental touches to the interior, making in all respects... ...e anxieties than one, was among this devoted band. Having rescued the most defenceless of his compatriots from situations of great extremity, he now w...

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...r only philosophical beau and a gentleman of some thoughtfulness, that the social English require tyrannical government as much as the political are a... ...d creature, but too attractive for most and drawbridge and the custom- ary defences to be neglected. Chloe met his interrogatory with a ready report o... ...r lover’s arms hav- ing wormed round her waist and taken her while she was defenceless. For surely they would. She took a jewelled ring, his gift, fro...

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...inger? The Clergy have means and material: means, of number, organization, social weight; a material, at lowest, of public ignorance, known to be the ... ...d, grow and flourish; new every where bud forth. It is the sure symptom of Social Unrest: in such way, most infallibly of all, does Social Unrest exhi... ...o a known sort. Chapter 2.1.VII. Prodigies. To such length had the Contrat Social brought it, in be- lieving hearts. Man, as is well said, lives by fa... ...ith of its predecessor,—most unwisely. Grant indeed that this faith in the Social Contract belongs to the stranger sorts; that an unborn generation ma... ...s! But so and not otherwise did the Upper Powers will it to be. Freedom by Social Contract: such was verily the Gospel of that Era. And all men had be... ... how shall Nanci think: not a City but a Bedlam! Grim Chateau-Vieux is for defence to the death; forces the Municipality to order, by tap of drum, all... ...as charge of the Interior: they shall assemble here in Paris; and be for a defence, cunningly devised, against foreign Austrians and domestic Austrian... ...here was accusation at the Bar of the Assembly, and counter-accusation and defence; Marseillese challenging the sentence of free jury court,—which nev... ...’ President Vergniaud answered briefly, in vague oratory as we say, about “defence of Constituted Authorities,” about dying at our post. (Moniteur, Se...