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...s of the large grazing animals. Hominids found that by taking a heavy enough rock and bringing it down with sufficient force onto a thigh bone, the... ...cially difficult task. Simply smash the bone hard enough with a heavy enough rock and it would split. This was the survival technique that saved t... ... upright and had their hands free, learned to create hand-tools by splitting a rock so it has a linear cutting edge which can be used to butcher a ki... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ... 40 ladies dancing 36 lords a leaping 22 pipers piping And only 12 fucking drummers… Now that’s love! Not the niggardly shit of Scrooge’s few ...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...ing uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me to help him, and was soon apologiz... ...ate, a Nike on chalcedony, a nude girl on jasper, a fighting lion on rock crystal... Sappho is enjoying her collection: the sun, in her bedr... ...a spear. He can’t believe he’s wounded. It’s not his blood spattering the rocks... “A man lies beside his shield, a hole in his side. He can’t belie... ..., Phaon at the door, Thasos wanting me to hide, children whimpering. The drummers were signaling each other, the surf sullen, the wind rising. In a...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...ing uncertainly, but keeping out of the way of the inrushing water. Where rocks littered the beach, he allowed me to help him, and was soon apologiz... ...ate, a Nike on chalcedony, a nude girl on jasper, a fighting lion on rock crystal... Sappho is enjoying her collection: the sun, in her bedr... ...a spear. He can’t believe he’s wounded. It’s not his blood spattering the rocks... “A man lies beside his shield, a hole in his side. He can’t belie... ..., Phaon at the door, Thasos wanting me to hide, children whimpering. The drummers were signaling each other, the surf sullen, the wind rising. In a...

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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...ip of Thorfinn -- The first white baby in the New World -- The Dighton writing rock -- Church records respecting the discovery of America -- Killing o... ...nderstanding with the natives -- Hostile natives frightened by the firing of a rocket -- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ..................................................... 54 Thorfinn's voyage to the American shores................................. 55 Killing of the firs... ...given in the Sagas, but by the discovery of what is called the Dighton Writing Rock, which was found in the 16th century on the very spot where the No... ...onsisting of improvised songs with occasional taps on their instruments by the drummers, accompanied by the flutists, who instead of using the mouth e... ...natives consisting of two women dancers and six men, three of the latter being drummers, and all of them belonging to the better class, who refused to... ...s of dancers, numbering 96, 32, 32 and 60 respectively, with half as many more drummers and choristers, participated. The dancers consisted of several...

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...icult an attempt as to manufacture delicate playthings out of the granite, rocks on which New England is founded. 6 TheWholeHistoryofGrandfather sCha... ...rs to the charge of treason. During the reign of Charles II., however, the American colonies had but little reason to complain of harsh or tyran nica... ...eason for their apprehen sions. King James caused the charters of all the American colonies to be taken away. The old charter of Massachusetts, which... ...ip, and gave him directions how to find the very spot. It was on a reef of rocks, a few leagues from Porto de la Plata. On his arrival in England, the... ...boat. The boat was intended for the purpose of going closer to the reef of rocks than a large vessel could safely venture. When it was finished, the c... ...n her, together with the immense wealth of which they had robbed the South American kings.” “Why, Grandfather!” exclaimed Laurence, “what magnifi cen... ...rnor Shirley and General Pepperell riding slowly along the line, while the drummers beat strange old tunes, like psalm tunes, and all the officers and...

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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...e tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks that aid greatly in giving to the country that ro- mantic and picture... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ... themselves. CHAPTER III “All that thou see’st is Natures handiwork; Those rocks that upward throw their mossy brawl Like castled pinnacles of elder t... ... Like castled pinnacles of elder times; These venerable stems, that slowly rock Their towering branches in the wintry gale; That field of frost, which... ...and the lash drawing through his left, in the scientific manner with which drummers apply the cat; and Agamemnon, after turning each side of himself t...

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...t it. We do of course know that there are several comparatively old dates in American his tory, but the mere figures convey to our minds no just idea... ...it, he adds perspective and color, and then realizes that this is one of the American dates which is quite respectable for age. For instance, when the... ...scorted the Frenchmen to the river and bade them a friendly farewell. On the rocks above the present city of Alton they found some rude and fantastic ... ... country back again!—make restitution, not to the owners, but to their white American heirs. The voyagers journeyed on, touching here and there; ‘pass... ... the Gulf; from the woody ridges of the Alleghanies to the bare peaks of the Rocky Mountains—a region of savannas and forests, sun cracked deserts and... ...hel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I’m ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo oop! S... ...breeder—then they dropped into business. It soon tran spired that they were drummers—one belonging in Cincin nati, the other in New Orleans. Brisk m...

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...ows, but man departs,’ says the sad Tahitian proverb; but they are all three, so long as they endure, co-haunters of the beach. The mark of anchorage ... ...ined with palms and a tree called the purao, something between the fig and mulberry in growth, and bearing a flower like a great yellow poppy with a m... ...nderstudy) would be fluting in the thickets overhead. A little further, in the turn of the bay, a streamlet trickled in the bottom of a den, thence sp... ...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...candid, almost innocent, description of a Russian man-of-war at the Marquesas; consider the disgraceful history of missions in Hawaii itself, where (i... ...of his un- godly errand; but, in the time of the feast, the clan trooped to the high place in a body, and each had his appointed seat. There were plac...

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...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ...led by a thundershower to take shelter in a narrow 10 Typee recess of the rocks of Monument Mountain. Two hours of this enforced intercourse settled ... ...s, waterfalls, and waving groves hidden here and there by pro- jecting and rocky headlands, every moment opening to the view some new and startling sc... ...above the surrounding ocean. The 30 Typee reality is very different; bold rock-bound coasts, with the surf beating high against the lofty cliffs, and... ...ns of innumerable sheep seemed to be resounding to the blows of an army of drummers. Startled from my slumbers by the din, I leaped up, and found the ...

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...ave a pair of shillyshallying children like Rone and Ted. I may not be any Rockefeller or James J. Shakespeare, but I certainly do know my own mind, a... ...nd floor of the Reeves Building. The Reeves Building was as fireproof as a rock and as efficient as a typewriter; fourteen stories of yellow pressed b... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...writer. “Why say, the letters that boy sent me on his trip to the Canadian Rockies, they just absolutely make you see the place as if you were standin... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...ould stand a lengthy spell in front of that first-class hotel, that to the drummers loves to cater, across from some big film theayter; if I should lo...

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...e country of the Navajos, down by the Aga Thia Needle—a great blade of red rock jutting from out the desert, like a knife thrust. Then on and on throu... .... It always will be.” Vanamee clasped his head between his clenched fists, rocking himself to and fro. “Oh, the terror of it,” he murmured. “The horro... ...n the neighbourhood of the hotel, the Yosemite House, travelling salesmen, drummers for jewelry firms of San Francisco, commercial agents, insurance m... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...d his small black valise at the foot of the porch steps, and sat down in a rocker on the porch itself, fanning himself with his broad-brimmed hat, and... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers... ...he car—a lady with three children, a group of school-teachers, a couple of drummers, a stout gentleman with whiskers, and a well-dressed young man in ... ...in. The line of cars lay immobilised and inert under the night. One of the drummers, having stepped outside on the platform for a look around, re- tur...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...of the cathedral to the dome of the state capitol. The river road led past rocky field slopes, deep glens, woods flamboyant now with September, to Men... ... that slopes in a thou- sand-mile rise from hot Mississippi bottoms to the Rockies. It is September, hot, very dusty. There is no smug Pullman attache... ...knives. Chester Dashaway’s House Furnishing Emporium. A vista of heavy oak rockers with leather seats, asleep in a dismal row. Billy’s Lunch. Thick ha... ... real Chinese concert. Messrs. Pollock, Kennicott, and, well, Stowbody are drummers; the rest of us sing and play the fife.” The fifes were combs with...

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...o hear of Royalist Camp of Jales: Jales moun- tain-girdled Plain, amid the rocks of the Cevennes; whence Royalism, as is feared and hoped, may dash do... ... sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle each other, in their fashio... ...lourishes of drums and trumpets are something: but think of an ‘artificial Rock fifty feet high, ’ all cut into crag-steps, not without the similitude... ...ave been spared. But fancy then the banners all placed on the steps of the Rock; high-mass chaunted; and the civic oath of fifty thousand: with what v... ...ing other than a small one! O Champ-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hun- dred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height ... ...s of Federates, of this Fed- eration, will have enough to do! Harangue of ‘American Committee, ’ among whom is that faint figure of Paul Jones ‘as wit... ...ournalist Carra, Camille Desmoulins, Alsatian Westermann friend of Danton, American Fournier of Martinique;—a Committee not unknown to Mayor Petion, w...

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...ke of effect. The fact is this:—the citadel of Allyghur is situated upon a rock, about a thousand feet above the level of the sea, and is surrounded b... ...nter-ing fleurettes to this sweet young creature, when, all of a sudden, a rocket was seen whizzing through the air, and a strong light was visible in... ...and neigh, the eight hundred elephants set up a scream, the trumpeters and drummers clanged away at their instruments. I never heard such a din before... ...he dollars: do you hear?” Y ou see I had her in my power—up a tree, as the Americans say, and she very humbly lighted my pipe for me, and then departe... .... Y ou see that two sides of the fort of Futtyghur (rising as it does on a rock that is almost perpendicular) are defended by the Burrumpooter river, ...

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...daughter of M. le Grand, and who enjoyed, as it were, the sovereignty of a rock—beyond whose narrow limits anybody might spit, so to speak, whilst sta... ...hus causing great ruin and great desolation in the provinces. The King was rocked into the belief that the people were all anxious to enter this milit... ...onal to regi- ments already in existence. I saw quite plainly towards what rock we were drifting. We had met losses at Hochstedt, Gibraltar, and Barce... ...race, and of the Quai of the T uileries. We found there the trumpeters and drummers of M. le Duc de Berry’s guard, who made a great noise all the rest... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...nd were fain to hold on tight, to keep himself from darting skyward like a rocket, ‘I tell you without fear or favour, that it will not do for you to ... ...mon capacity or accomplishments, I think! Am I, or am I not?’ ‘You are the American aloe of the human race, my dear Chiv,’ said Mr Tigg, ‘which only b... ...he young ladies, with a laugh. ‘Ah!’ said Bailey, ‘why not? There’s a many drummers in the Tower. 178 Martin Chuzzlewit I’m acquainted with ‘em. Don’... ...n of Mr Jinkins allowed. For Jinkins, to the last the youngest gentleman’s rock a-head in life, stood upon the coachstep talking to the ladies. Upon t... ...ths below. Among these sleeping voyagers were Martin and Mark Tapley, who, rocked into a heavy drowsiness by the unaccustomed motion, were as insensib...

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........253 BOOK XIX. SEA DRIFT ................257 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking ....................................................257 As I Ebb’... ...ining eidolons. Densities, growth, facades, Strata of mountains, soils, rocks, giant trees, Far born, far dying, living long, to leave, Eido... ...lo herds grazing the plains, the hirsute and strong breasted bull, Of earth, rocks, Fifth month flowers experienced, stars, rain, snow, my amaze, Havi... .... With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passi... ...or backward towards me to listen, With eyes retrospective towards me. 3 Americanos! conquerors! marches humanitarian! Foremost! century marches! ... ...with you is heroism upon land and sea, And I will report all heroism from an American point of view. I will sing the song of companionship, I will sho... ... tell of my fort’s bombardment, I am there again. Again the long roll of the drummers, Again the attacking cannon, mortars, Again to my listening ears... ...men! what life, what joy and pride, With all the perils were yours.) Nor you drummers, neither at reveille at dawn, Nor the long roll alarming the cam... ...the camp, nor even the muffled beat for burial, Nothing from you this time O drummers bearing my warlike drums. But aside from these and the marts of ...

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...hem. Alda would give him no peace.” “Certainly not there. Brownlow advises Rockquay . His deli- cate brother is a curate there, and it agrees with him... ...ir Gorgias Midas’ riches. I do hate orchids.” “I wish them on their native rocks, poor things,” said Gerald. “But poor Fernan, you do him an injustice... ...both connections of the Underwoods. General Mohun lived with his sister at Rockstone, Sir Jas- per, his brother-in-law, at Clipstone, not far off, and... ...ll, she said, it was not the spirits, but the tobacco, which the Dutch and American sail- ors were glad enough to exchange for her mother’s commodi- t... ... deep- ened as he muttered “Bosh!” while two piebald ponies, draw- ing the drummers and trumpeters in fantastic raiment, pre- ceded an elephant shroud... ... Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had cho- sen that place on account of American trading-vessels put- ting in there, as well as those of various fo... ...where she was to be left for a year, while Fernan with Marilda visited his American establishments, and on their return would decide whether she would...

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... each began to look out with some anxiety for the preconcerted signal, the rocket from Sir Hussey Vivian’s quar- ters, which was to announce the recom... ...i- ties. It came just as the moon rose in her silver splendor, and ere the rocket-stick fell quivering to the earth at the feet of General Picton and ... ...e?), and the gallant Potztausend, with his Hanoverian veterans. The second rocket flew up. “Forward, Onety-oneth!” cried I, in a voice of thunder. “Ki... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ...ely Antoinette flashed fire, but it played round the head of the dauntless American Envoy harmless as the lightning which he knew how to conjure away.... ...and neigh, the eight hundred elephants set up a scream, the trumpeters and drummers clanged away at their instruments. I never heard such a din before...

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...nts you a refractory President ‘at Croe in Combrailles on the top of steep rocks, inaccessible except by litters,’ there to consider himself. Likewise... ...l, miraculously in our mi- raculous Being, and name World.—But if the very Rocks and Rivers (as Metaphysic teaches) are, in strict language, made by t... ...ing been oppo- nents of the Court, can descend unchained from their ‘steep rocks at Croe in Combrailles’ and elsewhere, and return singing praises: th... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ...ing other than a small one! O Champ-de-Mars Federation, with three hundred drummers, twelve hundred wind-musicians, and artillery planted on height af...

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...ifferent grades of thought. She thought they were commercial trav- ellers—’drummers’ was the word she used—and all through dinner she tried to prove t... ...Mr. Beebe was walking up to the Torre del Gallo with the Emersons and some American ladies. Would Miss Bartlett and Miss Honeychurch join the party? C... ...they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl. You know the American girl in Punch who says: ‘Say, poppa, what did we see at Rome?’ And... ...to tell Miss Honeychurch that on the right lived Mr. Someone Something, an American of the best type —so rare!—and that the Somebody Elses were farthe... ... Leonardo more than ever; her sunburnt features were shadowed by fantastic rock; at his words she had turned and stood between him and the light with ...

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...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...occupied, and tolerably well inhabited. Mountains, not extremely high, but rocky and barren, were severed by many watered vales favorable to cultivati... ...me, huzzas and shoutings are heard from every end and corner; and at night rockets and fire-balls, now here, now there, announce that the people, ever... ...ield looked very fine, followed him; then came atten- dants and officials, drummers and trumpeters, and deputies of the council, accompanied by the cl... .... Round this open circle closed the densest thickets, from which the mossy rocks mightily and venerably peered forth, and made a rapid fall for a copi... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...