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...and time seemed reassuringly cognate. With the memory of that light, white American, Kimberly Debecrois--or something French--pulling away from his gr... ...ully that he began to believe it himself. On canvas, distorting the French-American into an Asian half-breed and a lady of the night, he brought to hi... ...inating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brou... ... of the living room on early into early morning chilling the house like an American winter, and he would snuggle deep under a saffron monk-colored bla... ...ny of his Thai friends often looked at him when finding out that he had an American passport. But then, everything was relative. Perhaps a Somalian wo... ...bouncing on bedroom mattresses, was vastly less credible than one of naked sportsmen at a bit of wrestling. For in this plain of existence where all w...

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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... ...- 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... ...of gold, according to the authority of Strabo. If crowns are meant, the sum in American money was $43,500,000. This is almost inconceivable, yet the s... ...extended his voyage westward until he had traversed the Atlantic and landed on American shores about 340 before Christ, as already explained. There is... ...h this royal personage indulged two or three times each year. But unlike royal sportsmen of to-day, the Grand Khan made his entrance upon the field in...

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...she had drifted from state to state with an entirely different man, a Thai-American, whom she had met at a convenience store and whom she had shagge... ...nger with the wistful gaze of the poor youth, mostly Hispanic and African American, who stared enviously at products behind shop windows. Here she wa... ...d put it. Back then, wasn't there a belief that this family of indigenous American Indians and pseudo-animists of a Catholic nuance, this seemingly e... ... catch some of the occasional drops on her tongue, the way she, a belated American Indian severed of the culture, horselessness notwithstanding, had... ...eeded players; but marriage was more than play--it could not be had with sportsmen, but required true and deep intellectual and spiritual bonds, an... ...the store catered toward the Asian community where, among more traditional American products, one could find kimchee or seaweed flavored potato chips...

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...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ...rive for careers as sporting professionals, and internationally successful sportsmen become national heroes. Table 10 Perspectives of village communit... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth... ...man - O. Löfgren 1979, 1987). A meritocrat is defined as particularly an American idol who succeeds through his own abilities and energy (cf. McName... ...kman - O. Löfgren 1979, 1987). A meritocrat is defined as particularly an American idol who succeeds through his own abilities and energy (cf. McNam...

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... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...onstrous exigency. He refused, and that with the plainness of the West. This American manner of conducting matters of business is, at first, highly un... ...is bread, we consider him for the time be- ing our hired servant. But in the American opinion, two gentlemen meet and have a friendly talk with a view... ... ing; and the air rang with the report of firearms and the admiring cries of sportsmen. Overhead the birds were in 71 Robert Louis Stevenson constern... ...to look at the upper surface where the sun was still shining and the guns of sportsmen were still noisy through the tufted plain) the Cigarette was dr... ...ed the acquaintance should be ripened in the cafe. The cafe was crowded with sportsmen conclamantly ex- plaining to each other and the world the small...

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...rgely made up for by the good will and generous efforts of the English and American press. An interesting monograph might be written upon these variou... ...ut out a bed of begonias. In Paris I met a charming 50 War and the Future American writer, the wife of a French artist, the lady who wrote My House o... ...g been laughed to scorn by the ordinary recruiting people, enlisted in the sportsmen’s battalion. He was wounded, and then the authorities discovered ... ...nally into the writer’s study there come to hand drifting fragments of the American literature upon the ques- tion of “preparedness,” and American pap... ...ce to the initiatives of Mr. Diplock; they have approximated rather to the American caterpillar. As I suspected when first I heard of these devices, t... ...s. Some people in London the other day were pretending to be shocked by an American who boasted that he had been in “two bully bombardments,” but he w...

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...railways and the existing plethora of money has so increased the number of sportsmen, that to keep a nag or two near some well-known station, is nearl... ...er battery of general feminine artillery ever so powerful. She is like the American woman, who is always wanting your place in a railway carriage, and... ...ze the fact that hunt- ing farmers contribute more than any other class of sportsmen towards the maintenance of the sport. It is hardly too much to sa... ...divided by dykes, and made safe from all intru- sions. Let him talk to the American farmer of English hunting, and explain to that independent, but so... ...hen that wild excitement of a fox just away is at its height, and ordinary sportsmen are rushing for places, though at these moments the hunting parso... ...r, or the barrister un- mixed. Let me pause for a moment here to beg young sportsmen not to fall into this terrible mistake. Such bores 36 Hunting Sk... ...rrocks type. Now, as I take it, this is not the type best known by English sportsmen, nor do the Jorrocks ana, good though they be, give any fair pict...

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... to be characteristic. It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. There are many physical as well ... ...ld do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which is different from that o... ...aid. They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led t... ... which exists in their traditions. Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race fro... ... occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too commonplace, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to... ...find it to their deaths.” Then, throwing their pieces to a low trail, like sportsmen in readiness for their game, they dashed forward, and were soon b...

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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... ...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... ...uke and his cousin, being Pennsylvanians by birth, were not Yankees in the American sense of the word. 48 The Pioneers CHAPTER V “Nathaniel’s coat, s... ... nation as their grandfather The former was generally called, by the Anglo-Americans Iroquois, or the Six Nations, and sometimes Mingoes. Their appell... ...portunity to Mr. Grant, whose exhibition was not less a treat to the young sportsmen than the one which engaged their present attention. The owner of ... ...n Billy Kirby and its owner before Natty and his com- panions rejoined the sportsmen It had, however, been settled at one shilling * a shot, which was... ...y to his favorite bird, when Elizabeth and her cousin approached the noisy sportsmen. The sounds of mirth and contention sensi- bly lowered at this un... ...petite by indulgence. It is with him that I would speak. Let us rejoin the sportsmen.” CHAPTER XVIII “Poor wretch! the mother that him bare, If she ha...

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...red bosom. In this by place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight... ... around them. There was the honest cockrobin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds fl... ...ly favored places which abound with chronicle and great men. The British and American line had run near it during the war; it had, therefore], been th...

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...ow him, goaded beyond the normal tolerance of Trinity, and assisted by two sportsmen from T rinity Hall, burnt his misshapen straw hat (after partly f... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...ake me. Short of muffing my fellowship I’m with you always…. Will it be an American trotter?” “It will be the rawest, gauntest, ungainliest brute that... ...f en- noblement—and neglecting the Frenchman, the Russian, the German, the American, the Indian, the Chinaman, and, in- deed, the greater part of mank...

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...nce of smoking during these twilight prowls with the threepenny packets of American cigarettes then just ap- pearing in the world. My life centred upo... ...s altered. We behaved just as all the other men, rich or poor, swatters or sportsmen or Pinky Dinkys, behaved, and exactly as we were expected to beha... ...ng is a necessary function in a nation. The Romans broke up upon that. The Americans fade out amidst their successes. Eugenics—” “That wasn’t Eugenics... ... rotating bookcase containing an excellent col- lection of the English and American humorists from Three Men in a Boat to the penultimate Mark T wain.... ...rst of endless points of resemblance between them and the commoner sort of American girl. When some years ago I paid my first and only visit to Americ... ... the teeming uproars of reality. There was not a dozen people all told, no Americans and scarcely any English, to dine in the big cavern of a dining- ... ...ude for bullying. They var- ied in insensible gradations between the noble sportsmen on the one hand, and men like Gane and the T ories of our Pen- ta...

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...y becomes equal to anything that could be desired. And I have heard candid sportsmen de- clare that, outside of these very forests near the Vosges, th... ...e eagle’s prodigious advantages, in sight also of all the astonished field sportsmen, spectators, and followers, killed him on the spot. The prince wa... ...he sun, 10 “Three hundred.” Of necessity this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little lying, by ascrib... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ...onishing distance of one hun- dred and seventy miles.” And this the candid American thinks it fair to contrast with the scale of the Mississippi. Now,... ... in the extent of soil which it drains: yet, if he had been so absurd, the American might have recollected that a river, not to be compared with the T...

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...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...but would find it difficult to return. This opinion prevails among the old sportsmen and deer-stalkers in the neighborhood” (Scott). 54. Y elled. Note... ...oduced, in room of the tough old heather plants. This custom (execrated by sportsmen) produces occasionally the most beautiful nocturnal appearances, ... ...houldering, etc. This couplet is not in the MS. 452. Tinchel. “A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding a great space, and gradually narrowing, brou...

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...d* miles— *“Three hundred”:—Of necessity, this scale of measurement, to an American, if he happens to be a thoughtless man, must sound ludicrous. Acco... ...less man, must sound ludicrous. Accordingly, I remember a case in which an American writer indulges himself in the luxury of a little fibbing, by ascr... ...o an Englishman a pompous account of the Thames, constructed entirely upon American ideas of grandeur, and concluding in something like these terms:— ... ...onishing distance of one hun- dred and seventy miles.” And this the candid American thinks it fair to contrast with the scale of the Mississippi. Now,... ... in the extent of soil which it drains. Yet, if he had been so absurd, the American might have recollected that a river, not to be compared with the T... ...t becomes equal to anything that could be desired. And I have heard candid sportsmen declare that, outside of these very forests, they laughed loudly ...

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...ourt and political honours. They were renowned shots, long-limbed stalking sportsmen in field and bower, fast friends, intemperate enemies, handsome t... ...ne of his heroes, and of Lancashire origin, strangely!), flew to the South American station, in and about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back... ...g the strong salt of his similes, likening that rascal and his crew to the American weed in our waters, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, t... ...midshipmite days, whole watches through—don’t you re- member? on the North American station, and in the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean. And that gir... ...ut, for the honour of it. What’s that story they tell of you in one of the American cities or watering-places, North or South? You 153 George Meredit... ...lady regarded politics as a business that helped hunting-men a stage above sportsmen, for numbers of the politicians she was acquainted with were hunt... ...reak- fast-table to the stables, and gallop away to the station, while the American Quaker gentleman soberly paced down a street in Paris on the same ... ...ION OF A PILGRIMAGE AND AN ACT OF PENANCE THEN CAME a glorious morning for sportsmen. One sniffed the dews, and could fancy fresh smells of stubble ea... ...s to the hopes of any soul bent on dispersing the shadows of death, and to sportsmen. From the windows of his railway carriage he beheld the happy spo...

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...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...n ridge, overhanging a glen of great depth, but extremely narrow. Here the sportsmen had col- lected, with an apparatus which would have shocked a mem... ... morning’s amusement. When the sport was given up for the day, most of the sportsmen, according to the established hospitality of the country, went to... ...in, the rising of an air-bell, was sufficient to point out to these adroit sportsmen in what direction to use their weapon. The scene was inexpressibl... ...t were best to defer the explanation until a cool hour in the morning. The sportsmen returned loaded with fish, upwards of one hundred salmon having b... ...a wi’ the waster.” After some further desultory conversation, the superior sportsmen retired to conclude the evening after their own manner, leaving t... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ...hly, deserved; yet his pride and interest, like the for- titude of a North American Indian, manned him to sustain the tortures inflicted at once by th...

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...nd Hadji Aga and Akhmet Khan and all the militiamen gathered together—like sportsmen round a slaughtered animal—near the bodies of Hadji Murad and his... ...h sleeves. Burka A long round felt cape. Dzhigit The same as a brave among American Indians, butthe word is inseparably con- nected with the idea of s...

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...by a manufacture of Alpaca umbrellas. Meantime, he must show the beautiful American ducks which he hoped to naturalize on the pond near the keeper’s l... ...ted to have them to meet a party of shooting gentlemen—of course they were sportsmen. Louis answered at once for James; but for himself, he could not ... ...d to break- fast, it was found that Lord Fitzjocelyn had gone out with the sportsmen. The children lamented, and their elders pro- nounced a young gen... ...s he turned to nurse his ankle, and presently to entreat James to join the sportsmen; but Jem was in a mood to do nothing pleasing to himself nor to a...

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...of a far more formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fa... ...e deer in herds together to- wards the glen where the Chiefs and principal sportsmen lay 152 Waverley in wait for them. In the meanwhile, these disti... ... Edward was also so fortunate as to attract the notice and applause of the sportsmen. But now the main body of the deer appeared at the head of the gl... ...n the group which barred their passage down the glen, the more experienced sportsmen began to augur danger. The work of destruction, however, now comm... ...t length a fearful charge right upon the spot where the more distinguished sportsmen had taken their stand. The word was given in Gaelic to fling them... ...re than he himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermiss...

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...t stir till I have heard the state of the case.’ ‘Yes, you do; for all the sportsmen will be coming home, and my aunt would not for all the world that... ...where he had secretly embarked 262 Dynevor Terrace V olume II on board an American vessel bound for Panama. Louis asked why he had fled, instead of t... ...nd Madison shortly after came from Callao, having traced such a pair to an American vessel, which was long since out of harbour. It was well that the ... ...o well did it agree with Louis. Yet there was a sad feeling, for the South American mail had been some days due, and he had not heard of his son since... ... he was well fitted by his knowledge of the Spanish language and the South American trade, to receive the cargoes sent home. ‘In truth,’ said Louis, c...

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... and hazardous subsistence by making marks of themselves for inexperienced sportsmen. ‘Only to start the game,’ re plied Mr. Wardle, laughing. ‘To wh... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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...n a manner not at all intended by the inventor of the game; but no mounted sportsmen were there. Miss Thorne looked at her watch. It was only fifteen ... ...find a sufficiency of proper pabulum. Just then there was no talk of a new American president. No won- derful tragedies had occurred on railway trains...

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...ing that they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the better of the Americans in a matter of fisheries or frontiers. But he invented a pseudo-p... ... said you came to see me, you know. Have you met Miss Boncassen yet?’ ‘The American beauty? No. Is she here?’ ‘Yes; and she particularly wants to be ... ... standing there amidst a crowd, and to Miss Boncassen. Mr Boncassen was an American who had lately arrived in England with the object of carrying out ... ...ry pursuits in which he was engaged within the British Mu- seum. He was an American who had nothing to do with politics and nothing to do with trade. ... ... without that look of slimness which is common to girls, and especially to American girls. That her figure was perfect the reader may believe my word,... ... still at their work could be directed from the armchairs on which the two sportsmen were sitting. It must be explained that ever since the Silverbrid... ... was the business of his life, and he thoroughly despised all who were not sportsmen. He fished and shot and hunted during nine or ten months of the y... ...rs. Those who were loitering at a distance lost their chance. But the real sportsmen, always on the alert, always thinking of the business in hand, al...

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...e shall hereafter see) to an analogous conclusion with regard to the South American ostrich, the females of which are parasitical, if I may so express... ...t from their habits. The Saurophagus sulphuratus is typi- cal of the great American tribe of tyrant-flycatchers. In its structure it closely approache... ...d on a dog that was ly- ing fast asleep close by one of the party; and the sportsmen had difficulty in preventing the wounded geese from being seized ... ...Bra- zil, nothing struck him more forcibly than the splendour of the South American vegetation con- trasted with that of South Africa, together with t... ...elan, certainly three, and probably five species of rhinoceros; and on the American side, two tapirs, the guanaco, three deer, the vicuna, peccari, ca... ...the wild plains of Northern Patagonia: and first for the largest, or South American ostrich. The ordinary hab- its of the ostrich are familiar to ever... ...ntive cry uttered at the moment of rising, recall the idea of a snipe. The sportsmen of the Beagle unanimously called it the short-billed snipe. To th... ...o reconnoitre him. It was an artifice that was repeatedly practised by our sportsmen with success, and it had moreover the advantage of allowing sever...

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...ching would be impossible unless pupils were sacred. I’ve taught scores of American millionairesses how to speak English: the best look- ing women in ... ...he lid on me right enough. Just give him the chance he wanted to show that Americans is not like us: that they recognize and respect merit in every cl... ...LE [sad but magnanimous] They played you off very cunning, Eliza, them two sportsmen. If it had been only one of them, you could have nailed him. But ...

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...isapproving of the delay, was excitedly watch- ing the door from which the sportsmen still did not come out. The first to come out was Vassenka Veslov... ...ill you?” Levin remained with the wagonette, and looked envi- ously at the sportsmen. They walked right across the 36 Anna Karenina – Part Six marsh.... ...s in numbers. They kept flying up from just under the dogs, from under the sportsmen’s legs, and Levin might have retrieved his ill luck. But the more... ...followed shots in rapid succession. The smoke of the powder hung about the sportsmen, while in the great roomy net of the game bag there were only thr... ...e that had risen first and flown up into the air, settled again before the sportsmen. Instead of two hawks there were now dozens of them hovering with... ...re I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, there ...

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...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ...t perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whoop ing cough. A... ...unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both o... ...at it was one of the best parts of my education make them hunters, though sportsmen only at first, if possible, mighty hunters at last, so that they ... ...ld laughter before I had risen. At ru mor of his arrival all the Mill dam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on foot, two by two and three by Wa... ...enerously rise and dash angrily, taking sides with all water fowl, and our sportsmen must beat a retreat to town and shop and unfinished jobs. But the... ...o thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares ( Lepus Americanus ) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winter... ...nd not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared Walden 2...

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...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ...at it was one of the best parts of my education, — make them hunters, though sportsmen only at first, if possible, mighty hunters at last, so that they... ...s wild laughter before I had risen. At rumor of his arrival all the Mill dam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on foot, two by two and three by ... ...s generously rise and dash angrily, taking sides with all waterfowl, and our sportsmen must beat a retreat to town and shop and unfinished jobs. But th... ...der to thin these trees, which are wont to grow up densely. The hares (Lepus Americanus) were very familiar. One had her form under my house all winte... ...h, and not like the azure ether beyond. Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with t...

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...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ...with me for garrison?” “O nonsense, my dear. Y ou must go and catch up the sportsmen.” “Not when I can get my Mother Carey all to myself. You go and l... ...hen the family were alone, than of finding himself in the midst of what an American guest had called Mrs. Brownlow’s surprise parties. They were 451 ... ... her opinion when, at the end of a very curious speculation about primeval American civilisation, Captain Evelyn and Miss Brownlow were dis- covered s... ...ld ?” “They watched me so, and whenever I was making friends with any nice American girl, they always rattled me off some- where else. I never did und...

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...artly modeled. Clyde looked, I suppose, not very different from most other American towns, and the few of its resi- dents I tried to engage in talk ab... ...eligious fanaticism and material acquisitiveness can become intertwined in American experience. SHERWOOD ANDERSON was born in Ohio in 1876. His childh... ...bouts of poverty, but he also knew some of the pleasures of pre-industrial American society. The country was then experiencing what he would later cal... ...the time, he presented him-self as a sardonic critic of 7 Winesburg, Ohio American provincialism and materialism. It was in the freedom of the city, ... ...l-town America. The dream of an uncondi-tional personal freedom, that hazy American version of utopia, would re- main central throughout Anderson’s li... ...had four of the strangely shaped savage little creatures, that are used by sportsmen in the pursuit of rabbits, in the cellar of his house. “Now I hav...

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...n practically all the white inhabitants of the British Isles and the North American continent, to mention no other places) are condemned in the words,... ...cticable but highly economical to an extent that now seems impossible. The sportsmen, the musicians, the physi- cists, the biologists will get their a...

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...ear, thereby reducing their death rate far more than the fusillades of the sportsmen during the other two would raise it. At present the killing of a ... ...ry art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized En-...

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...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...l of the corset is not infrequent among the higher social classes of those American cities, for instance, which have recently and rapidly risen into o... ...the most striking mark of reversion in modern communities, the case of the American colonies might be cited as an example of such a reversion on an un... ... goes to say that other grounds are sometimes present in a subsidiary way. Sportsmen — hunters and anglers — are more or less in the habit of assignin... ...to- wards a secularization of men’s habits of thought. In this respect the American community should afford an excep- tionally convincing illustration...

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...e! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving... ...other, and only whistling, not crying, flew straight at the very heads of the sportsmen. There was the report of four shots, and like swallows the snip... ...d, disapproving of the delay, was excitedly watching the door from which the sportsmen still did not come out. The first to come out was Vassenka Veslo... ...g, will you?” Levin remained with the wagonette, and looked enviously at the sportsmen. They walked right across the marsh. Except little birds and pe... ...ducks which was hovering over the marsh and flying at that moment towards the sportsmen, far out of range. Before Levin had time to look round, there w... ...lves in numbers. They kept flying up from just under the dogs, from under the sportsmen’s legs, and Levin might have retrieved his ill luck. But the m... ...here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.” “The American way of doing business,” said Sviazhsky, with a smile. “Yes, ther... ...re of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American al liance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritu...

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...that had belonged to a widow, named Science Dear, and enlarged it. Several American trees were planted in the ground by Cobbett, of which only one sur... ...ss of weeds in the Itchen canal. Snipe (Scolopax gallinago).—Brought in by sportsmen from the water meadows. Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola).—Not common... ...blue, pink, or white in the water-meadows beside the Itchen, deserving the American name of May-wings. Caryophylleae Deptford Pink (Dianthus Armeria)....

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... from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather! 84 Anton Chekhov When I go to my own entrance the door i... ...an, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving ... ...IN A CASE AT THE FURTHEST END of the village of Mironositskoe some belated sportsmen lodged for the night in the elder Prokofy’s barn. There were two ...

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... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ...an likes shooting, but you are all wrong. Some of our best men are capital sportsmen. Why, there is Ogilvie—you know what he is. When I bring him down... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,...