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... followed for some years the passage of the ferry- boat, until no man dared to make the crossing. ‘He will be waiting for the right man,’ said Rorie. ... ... lust o’ life, an’ it’s the wale o’ pleesures.’ I said no more, for we had now begun to cross a neck of land that lay between us and Sandag; and I wit... ... took Will some time; it seemed as if the dead thick- ened around him in the court, and crossed his path at every step. For, first, he was suddenly su... ...art to tramp on people’s corns. I will have nobody positive but myself; not one. I have crossed the whims, in my time, of kings and generals and great... ...reat artists. And what would you say,’ he went on, ‘if I had come up here on purpose to cross yours?’ Will had it on his tongue to make a sharp rejoin... ...bore it even in her beauty. She had the lightness and swiftness of the one, swift as an arrow, light as dew; like the other, she shone on the pale bac... ...s thick as scarecrows. In time of war, the assault swarmed against it with ladders, the arrows fell like leaves, the defenders sallied hotly over the ... ...sie, as she pursued to capture and reassure the victim, found time to send one Parthian arrow – ‘Casimir, you are a brute!’ ‘My brother,’ said Desprez...

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... face, Rough-redden’d with a thousand winter gales, Not only to the market-cross were known, But in the leafy lanes behind the down, Far as the portal... ...y pines, Or from the tiny pitted target blew What look’d a flight of fairy arrows aim’d All at one mark, all hitting: make-believes For Edith and hims... ...limit of his chain, Roaring to make a third: and how should Love, Whom the cross-lightnings of four chance-met eyes Flash into fiery life from nothing... ...gain, So never took that useful name in vain; Made Him his catspaw and the Cross his tool, And Christ the bait to trap his dupe and fool; Nor deeds of...

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... That which I owe is lost: but if you please 157 To shoote another arrow that selfe way 158 Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt... ... will be for his gentle daughters sake; 830 And neuer dare misfortune crosse her foote, 831 Vnlesse she doe it vnder this excuse, 832 T... ...third husband: but it is true, without 1229 any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plaine high- way of 1230 talke, that the good Anthonio, t... ...e: First Folio 1236 Sol. Let me say Amen betimes, least the diuell crosse 1237 my praier, for here he comes in the likenes of a Iew. How ... ...of day 2441 Be heere at Belmont, she doth stray about 2442 By holy crosses where she kneeles and prayes 2443 For happy wedlocke houres. 2...

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... that he had always vaunted himself quite implacable, and was taken at his word; so that he had the addition among his neighbours of “an ill man to cr... ...h, and rode up the hill by the old abbey, roaring and singing, the white cockade in every hat. It was a desperate venture for so small a company to cr... ...per for a chairman. I told him to try to forget he had ever been a pirate, and to remember he had been a gentleman. “Are you mad?” he cried. “Don’t cr... ...uld see the Master, to assure him his next messenger would be attended to. But with all my haste I was not in time to avert what was impending; the ar... ... for all; to myself, of a most flattering civility. One day, that he had sent for his lawyer and remained a long while private, he met me as he was cr... ...use. It was surrounded with a wide verandah; a lamp, very well trimmed, stood upon the floor of it, and on either side of the lamp there sat a man, cr... ... the air, a little breathless cry escaped him, the tool flew from his grasp, and he stood one instant staring at the speaker. The next, swift as an ar...

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...man guided the horses carefully, attempting to avoid trampling any child that crossed their path. Many side shops, merely tables with some goods an... ...no requests to see him. Go ahead.” Aislinn allowed herself a small smile and crossed the drawbridge. Her happiness soon vanished when she heard, “... ...“The kingdom of Arnhem’s latest spy has arrived!” Aislinn rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her body. Adamina did nothing to impress her, b... ...strate. She stood up straight, eyed the target, pulled back, and fired. The arrow landed near the center of the target. The earl nodded. “Continu... ...ward. Round after round, she fired despite her increasingly wild shots. Few arrows stuck the target, many fell short. At least with this class, Ai... .... The others pages completed the same task as her, firing a steady stream of arrow at the target. And as the class continued, Aislinn noticed that... ...g a little older has helped at least as far as riding a horse and shooting an arrow. She had only learned how to fire a bow within the past several... ... “Then close your left eye and focus the right one where you wish to land the arrow. Keep the string just slightly to the left of your focus. Rela... ...! I’m nothing special; I just want to be treated like everyone else.” Caelan crossed his arms on the table and leaned toward her, a lock of dark hai...

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...ation, he’d made it to the door. Speed wouldn’t help him. My skills with a crossbow had earned me many awards, including Grand Champion Marksman t... ... were trapped by the confines of a legally binding birth certificate. The crossbow rocked against my shoulder as the bolt flew — yet another futur... ... bruise to thank Mr. Fangy for. The vamp already had the door open when the arrow struck him right between the shoulder blades. Not a direct heart... ... one big helping of trouble. Instead of stopping right there and getting my crossbow, I walked up to where he sat and dropped to my knees in front ... ...ce hanging threat. “You’d simply go after him on your own, wouldn’t you?” I crossed my arms over my chest. “Yep.” He let out a sigh. “All right. ... ...e Blues. His expression went stone cold. “Give me to the count of ten, then cross the street. I should be in position and ready to roll by the tim...

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...urface of the ocean. More than one took up his quarters voluntarily in the cross-trees, who would have cursed such a berth under any other circumstanc... ...ssed every known engine, from the harpoon thrown by the hand to the barbed arrows of the blunder- buss, and the explosive balls of the duck-gun. On th... ...t of Cape Blanc, thirty miles to leeward of the coast of Patagonia. We had crossed the tropic of Capricorn, and the Straits of Magellan opened less th... ... Capricorn was cut by 105d of longitude, and the 27th of the same month we crossed the Equator on the 110th meridian. This passed, the frigate took a ... ...igate passed at some distance from the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, crossed the tropic of Cancer, and made for the China Seas. We were on the t... ...es under an arbour of alariae, the long thin blades of which stood up like arrows. This short rest seemed delicious to me; there was noth- ing wanting... ...bird peculiar to these lands, and which has never passed the limits of the Arrow and Papuan islands, was wanting in this collection. But fortune reser... ...pproached us, not running, but making hostile dem- onstrations. Stones and arrows fell thickly. Ned Land had not wished to leave his provisions; and, ... ...nd collars of glass beads, red and white; nearly all were armed with bows, arrows, and shields and carried on their shoulders a sort of net containing...

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...oritzia had been taken a week or so before my arrival; the Isonzo had been crossed and the Austrians driven back across the Carso for several miles; a... ...tino on the western side of the river above Goritzia, and simultaneously a crossing at Sagrado below Goritzia and a 25 H G Wells magnificent rush up ... ...shed; no effort had been made to restore the horizontal road- way, but one crossed by a sort of timber switchback that followed the ups and downs of t... ...nd they come down regardless of human strategy. In many cases the trenches cross avalanche tracks; they and the men in them are periodically swept awa... ...here a split stone with an inscription. Splin- ters of coffins, rusty iron crosses and the petals of tin flowers were trampled into the mud, amidst th... .... In the West African campaign we have employed troops armed with bows and arrows, and they have done very valuable work. But these are exceptional ca...

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...and that with the spear, appear to be the favourite native methods. Ballads 9 The gull jest in the house and the women laugh at his word; And stealth... ...and right, Bursting surge on the reef, drenching storms on the height. So the folk of Vaiau sailed and were glad all day, Coasting the palm-tree cape ... ... And the redness ran in the mass and burrowed within like a mole, And copious smoke was conceived. But, as when a dam is to burst, The water lips it ... ...slept, The woman huddled and quaked. And now was the peep of day. High and long on their left the mountainous island lay; And over the peaks of Taiar... ... smile on his face And there slipped a thought in his head. Out over cairn and moss, Out over scrog and scaur, He ran as runs the clansman That bears ... ...With little mind to laugh. “Far have I been and much have I seen, And kent both gain and loss, But here we have woods on every hand And a kittle water...

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...k-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss-cross, and he had tied it firm with his sus- penders (now, you know why you... ...me lives. He would indeed! And, also, there was an Ethiopian with bows and arrows (a ‘sclusively greyish-brownish- yellowish man he was then), who liv... ...Leopard; and the two used to hunt together—the Ethiopian with his bows and arrows, and the Leopard ‘sclusively with his teeth and claws—till the Giraf... ...nd sprottled and spottled, dotted and splashed and slashed and hatched and cross-hatched with shadows. (Say that quickly aloud, and you will see how v... ...rs, but I’ve drawn their heads, and that’s all you’ll see of them when you cross the swamp. Mind you don’t fall in! Then our Cave is just beyond the b... ... Mummy hang the two hides on the drying-poles, what would I do?’ ‘You’d be cross. So’d Mummy. We must make a new picture for sho. We must draw a spott...

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...n by the name of ‘Johnny,’ in spite of his own protests, greatly diverted us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, and be- came on th... ...ed, and there delivered over to the magistrates and the seclusion of a county jail. Since I crossed the Atlantic, one miserable stowaway was found in ... ... about to settle for 53 Robert Louis Stevenson themselves, once more they knew not how, by crossing the Atlantic in a steamship of considerable tonna... ...to sustain than worth sustaining. Every detail of our existence, where it is worth while to cross the ocean after pie and pudding, is made alive and e... ...s struck me: the people were all surprisingly rude and surprisingly kind. The money-changer cross-questioned me like a French com- missary, asking my ... ...lude Death, the mighty hunter, for more than the span of human years? Here, also, crash his arrows; here, in the farthest glade, sounds the gallop of ... ...and from the far side of the court black and white imps discharged against me inef- fectual arrows. The picture appears arbitrary, but I can trace eve... ...nes. When sun and storm contend together—when the thick clouds are broken up and pierced by arrows of golden daylight—there will be startling rear- ra...

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...rum crowd,” said the captain, and, to my surprise, he made the sign of the cross on his bare bosom. “Hillo!” says I, “are you a Papist?” He repudiated... ...g that he had been much concerned to find his people using the sign of the cross, but since he had learned the explanation his mind was satisfied. For... ...e often struck dead by that kind of devil, and it appeared the sign of the cross was a charm against its power. “‘And I explain it, Misi,’ said Namu, ... ...ast, used to Catho- lic ways. So then I reasoned thus: if this sign of the cross were used in a Popey manner it would be sinful, but when it is used o... ...for more. This was the wooing of Keawe; things had gone quickly; but so an arrow goes, and the ball of a rifle swifter still, and 79 Island Nights’ E... ...dren ran away from them screaming, a thing intolerable to Kokua; Catholics crossed themselves as they went by; and all persons began with one accord t...

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... Title: THE SOUL BEARER Author: JONATHAN CROSS Language: English Subject: Fiction, Literature Publisher: Wor... ...... ...rling House Mass Market Paperback ISBN 1-156315-081-6 ©Copyright 1998 Jonathan Cross All rights reserved First Printing-1998 Request for informat... ...g him that hunting the silver fish would prepare him to become a I Johnathan Cross great warrior and Chief. But he had no desire to be a Chief; h... ...or. He extracted an archer's bow from the black case, and strung it. Sliding an arrow with a trian­ gular tip across the bow, he secured it with his ... ...th a slight snore. The assailant quietly reached the side of the bed, aimed the arrow at Matloch's heart, pulled back the string of the bow to its f... ...led back the string of the bow to its full strength, and then released it. The arrow penetrated his heart with a violent thud, causing his body to ... ...enetrated his heart with a violent thud, causing his body to jerk upward as the arrow passed through it, pinning his body to the mattress. Matloch w... ...as dead instantly. The assassin punched a note through the feathered end of the arrow, and then calmly secured the bow back into the black leather c...

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...a wilful youth, That which I owe is lost; but if you please To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, As I w... ...heaven, It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake: And never dare misfortune cross her foot, Unless she do it under this excuse, That she is issue to ... ... death of a third husband. But it is true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the honest Ant... ...e the end of his losses. SALANIO: Let me say ‘amen’ betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew. [Enter SHYL... ...ill before the break of day Be here at Belmont; she doth stray about By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays For happy wedlock hours. LORENZO: ...

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...oy Marco returns to Cathay with his father and uncle -- The wealth of Ormus -- Crossing the great Gobi desert -- The Polos attached to the Royal Court... ...s adventures -- Discovery of the sailors -- Anew constellation of the Southern Cross -- Landing on strange shores -- A desperate fight with the native... ... cutlass -- Severing ears from the heads, and toes from the feet of victims -- Cross-eyed John -- The price of blood 283- 289 CHAPTER XXVI. The Bucca... ...s is commanded to transfer them to the Spanish -- A thrilling adventure at the crossing of the St. Lucia River -- Trouble with a Spanish viceroy -- Hi... ...paring ampler huts for residences, they were attacked by these Skraellings, an arrow from the bow of one of which pierced Thorwald's eye, giving him a... ...while besieging a certain castle called Thaigin, he was shot in the knee by an arrow, from which wound he soon afterwards died, and was buried somewhe... ...dogs of extraordinary size and ferocity. The native hunter, armed with bow and arrow, boldly disputed with the king of beasts by the aid of his powerf... ...le he made his attack from behind, and was thus able to give the lion a mortal arrow wound without incurring any great danger himself. CHAPTER X. A R... ...aracter. They were men of great stature, armed with immense bows and poisonous arrows, while their features were ferocious, their looks haughty, and t...

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...connection matrix E. We start with the population C 1 = (1 0 0 0 0). The arrow indicates the threshold operation, C 1 E = (0 0 –1 0 1) → (1 ... ...h of the limit cycle should be less than the number of concepts otherwise cross talk can occur. How does user’s behaviour change with time while s... ...ark and Kim [78] have proposed a FTCM that has different time relations on arrows among factors. We also presented a method of translating the FTCM i... ...ere are three basic types of links specified. In a conversion link (black arrow, shown as a dotted line), a node (typically a chemical(s)) is conver... ...her node, and used up in the process. In a regulatory link (Green and red arrows, shown as solid arrows with a plus or minus sign), the node activat... ...s another node, and is not used up in the process. A catalytic link (blue arrows, shown as a thick line) represents an enzyme that enables a chemica... ...ion makers with crucial information about the lifetime value of customers cross marketing strategies across product and effectiveness of promotion c...

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...apel. The earl’s bowmen at the door sent in among the assailants a volley of arrows, one of which whizzed past the ear of the abbot, who, in mortal fe... ...s, the clattering of hel mets, the twanging of bow strings, the whizzing of arrows, the screams of women, the shouts of the warriors, and the vocifer... ...all.” “Don’t talk of the long bow,” said the abbot, who had the sound of the arrow still whizzing in his ear: “what have we pillars of the faith to do... ... a resolute resistance, and put the king’s force to flight under a shower of arrows: an act which the courtiers declared to be treason. At the same ti... ...s four footed better half, and gal loped off as nimbly as if he had had an arrow singing behind him. “Is this lady Matilda, then, so very terrible a... ...is time the baron’s men had flocked to the battle ments, with long bows and cross bows, slings and stones, and Matilda with her bow and quiver at the... ...is eyes, tossed up his arms in the air, and said “Dominus vobiscum.” He then crossed both his hands on his breast under the folds of his holy robes, a... ...s rudely cut in the rock, and over a series of rugged stepping stones, that crossed the channel of the river. They entered the cottage, which exhibit... ... half visible shadow. The stepping stones, by which the intruders must have crossed, were buried under the waters. On the opposite bank the light fel...

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...ey beat him, made cowardly jests upon him, all defenceless as he was, shot arrows at him, and, finally, struck off his head. It is im possible to say... ...which she put to bake upon the hearth. But, being at work upon his bow and arrows, with which he hoped to punish the false Danes when a brighter time ... ... of merely marking them, as the Saxon Kings had done, with the sign of the cross— just as poor people who have never been taught to write, now make th... ...ping side by side in a great mass, cared no more for the showers of Norman arrows than if they had been showers of Norman rain. When the Norman horsem... ...ting bravely. The main body still remain ing firm, heedless of the Norman arrows, and with their battle axes cutting down the crowds of horsemen when... ...n, a dreadful spectacle, all over the ground. King Harold, wounded with an arrow in the eye, was nearly blind. His brothers were already killed. Twent... ... The war is called in history the first Crusade, and every Crusader wore a cross marked on his right shoulder. All the Crusaders were not zealous Chri... ...n from Stephen’s camp as they passed over the snow, to steal away on foot, cross the frozen Thames, walk a long distance, and at last gallop away on h... ...he was still undaunted. He went to the adjourned council, carrying a great cross in his right hand, and sat down holding it erect before him. The King...

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... ship that takes her departure; the seaman takes his Departure by means of cross-bearings which fix the place of the first tiny pencil-cross on the wh... ...e ship’s position at noon shall be marked by just such another tiny pencil cross for every day of her passage. And there may be sixty, eighty, any num... ...ry day of her passage. And there may be sixty, eighty, any number of these crosses on the ship’s track from land to land. The greatest number in my ex... ...d. The greatest number in my experi- ence was a hundred and thirty of such crosses from the pilot station at the Sand Heads in the Bay of Ben- gal to ... ... me at the sitting-room door. Evidently he was reluctant to take his final cross-bearings of this earth for a De- parture on the only voyage to an unk... ...ing the fleets that trust to his power, and 81 Joseph Conrad shooting sly arrows into the livers of men who court his good graces. He is, indeed, a w... ...se and fell, as if floating in space, and darted forward, whizzing like an arrow. Dominic, stooping under the foot of the foresail, reappeared, and st...

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...me as before, Within my inmost breast. Alas! no fancies such as these E’er cross’ d the dear child’s thoughts. I see ’tis but the ev’ning breeze That ... ...ain’d full many a triumph bright, Hurrah! Into the foeman’s land we cross’d, We put our friends to equal cost, And there a leg I lost. My trust... ...e, We yield, then charge amain, And now retire, and now advance, And yet a cross ne’er gain. At length there comes a musket-ball, And hits the leg, pl... ...air! On good authority the king Hears how we love the fight, And bids them cross and ribbon bring, Our coat and breast to dight. Say if a better fate ... ...tis well That ’tis bless’d, and so able the foe to repel, All cover’d with crosses in metal. The shroud he must have, and no rest will allow, There re... ...ND DOVE. IN search of prey once raised his pinions An eaglet; A huntsman’s arrow came, and reft His right wing of all motive power. Headlong he fell i... ...hey gladly receive him 479 Goethe And welcome him there. The point of his arrows He lights in the glow; They clasp him and kiss him And fondle him so...