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...Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) , published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with...

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...y. The world often looks to you for efficiency, but you really missed the boat on health care. You pay more per person for health care than any coun... ...le to wall off the borders and stop all the ocean going immigrant hauling boats. I can see that in Singaling migration is not so attractive because y...

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...n excessive agitation, some- what ahead of and parallel with the afternoon boat express— to the great astonishment of every one therein. And about hal... ... days. There was, for example, that trouble with the river. He made little boats out of whole newspapers, an art he learnt by watching the Spender boy... ..., to be sure, and turn their good fat into lean muscle!—and so to meet his boats by the ford. Right across the nearer lawns these paper boats of his u... ...arks) amidst the dead leaves in the woods behind, gliding down the lake in boats towards a point of view, trying to get nearer to them 155 H G Wells ... ...t, when she came to look, there was no one in sight, and there was never a boat upon the silver curve of the Thames. She tried to find a reason for th...

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...n she met her Roman, And Cydnus swell’d above the banks, or for The press of boats or pride: a piece of work So bravely done, so rich, that it did str... ...s unscalable and roaring waters, With sands that will not bear your enemies’ boats, But suck them up to the topmast. A kind of conquest Caesar made he... ... them. All other doubts, by time let them be clear’d: Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d. [Exit.] SCENE IV: Wales: before the cave of ...

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..., Dover, Ostend, Cologne, Munich, Oberau, Oberammergau and then back to London via Heidelberg. As one might expect from the author of 'Three Men in a Boat', much goes wrong along the way, including seasickness, strange food, stranger beds, misleading guidebooks, bewildering train timetables, and numerous cultural and linguistic misunderstandings. (Summary by Szindbad)...

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...io- lence, and exhibiting the soles of their pumps to the ‘sitters’ in the boat, in a very humiliating manner. We grant that the banks of the Thames a... ...roper sense of the fun which a looker- on may extract from the amateurs of boating. What can be more amusing than Searle’s yard on a fine Sunday morni... ...arle’s yard on a fine Sunday morning? It’s a Richmond tide, and some dozen boats are preparing for the reception of the parties who have en- 98 Sketc... ...s’ respite from his toils, he negligently seats him- self on the edge of a boat, and fans his broad bushy chest with a cap scarcely half so furry. Loo... ...er to pull on that, and 99 Charles Dickens of a third to pull at all, the boat’s crew are seated. ‘Shove her off!’ cries the cockswain, who looks as ... ...able as if he were steering in the Bay of Biscay. The order is obeyed; the boat is immediately turned com- pletely round, and proceeds towards Westmin... ...t be the individual re- ferred to, they all back water, and back comes the boat, stern first, to the spot whence it started. ‘Back water, you sir, aft... ...t risk of breaking a blood- vessel, pulls and pulls, until the head of the boat fairly lies in the direction of Vauxhall-bridge. ‘That’s right— now pu... ...ody by him, ‘Blowed if hever I see sich a set of muffs!’ and away jogs the boat in a zigzag direction, every one of the six oars dipping into the wa- ...

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...io- lence, and exhibiting the soles of their pumps to the ‘sitters’ in the boat, in a very humiliating manner. We grant that the banks of the Thames a... ...roper sense of the fun which a looker- on may extract from the amateurs of boating. What can be more amusing than Searle’s yard on a fine Sunday morni... ...arle’s yard on a fine Sunday morning? It’s a Richmond tide, and some dozen boats are preparing for the reception of the parties who have en- 98 Sketc... ...s’ respite from his toils, he negligently seats him- self on the edge of a boat, and fans his broad bushy chest with a cap scarcely half so furry. Loo... ...er to pull on that, and 99 Charles Dickens of a third to pull at all, the boat’s crew are seated. ‘Shove her off!’ cries the cockswain, who looks as ... ...able as if he were steering in the Bay of Biscay. The order is obeyed; the boat is immediately turned com- pletely round, and proceeds towards Westmin... ...t be the individual re- ferred to, they all back water, and back comes the boat, stern first, to the spot whence it started. ‘Back water, you sir, aft... ...t risk of breaking a blood- vessel, pulls and pulls, until the head of the boat fairly lies in the direction of Vauxhall-bridge. ‘That’s right— now pu... ...ody by him, ‘Blowed if hever I see sich a set of muffs!’ and away jogs the boat in a zigzag direction, every one of the six oars dipping into the wa- ...

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...from her pain and led eventually to Carroll expanding the story. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862,[12] up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell, (the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church) : Lorina Charlotte Liddell (aged 13, born 1849); Alice Pleasance Lidd...

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.... Bigger, flatter TVs, more rooms in their houses, second homes, pleasure boats, et cetera. Savings is a thing of the past. ―We all like ... ...acks a country without any real provocation, we can see he is in the same boat as the Taliban in terms of flaunting his supposed values. Were the Is... ...o me. ―If you are attempting to come into a country illegally by boat or truck and die in the attempt it is certainly not good for you from... ...experienced to that of a fish just hooked and tossed into a bucket on the boat? Does a more advanced nervous system feel pain more intensely? Is the... ...aps is all about?‖ --―That‘s a thought, Ray. Are you building your boat? What about you Con?‖ -―Ya, I‘m building it with fiberglass. Bu... ...knowledge or the inspiration of the Pope. But you lawyers are in the same boat. Until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on an issue the judges don‘t have ... ...ine officer. I guess his months away from women pushed him into the porno boat. She told me their garage was filled with porno videos. She stopped h...

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... a long time since he’d raced and the light summer breeze barely coaxed the boats along. Thirteen boats were entered today. McLaughlin and Gulliver ...

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...-era America, a rogue pilot risks all to bring down a gang of rocket pack raiders with "The Rocket Molly Syndicate." Captain Tony Lagarto's flying boat is hijacked by a lunatic Vinlander demanding transport to a place that doesn't exist in "Storming Shangri-La." Retro adventure awaits fans of dieselpunk, sci-fi, ray-gun gothic, and pulp magazines. Download if you dar...

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...explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. Passing through dangerous rapids, the group passed down the Green River to its confluence with the Colorado River (then also known as the Grand R...

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...th every where. The only house I had been the owner of before, if I except a boat, was a tent, which I used occasionally when making excursions in the... ... excursions in the summer, and this is still rolled up in my garret; but the boat, after passing from hand to hand, has gone down the stream of time. ... ...his lines. Once in a while we sat together on the pond, he at one end of the boat, and I at the other; but not many words passed between us, for he ha... ...with, I used to raise the echoes by striking with a paddle on the side of my boat, filling the surrounding woods with circling and dilating sound, stir... ...om every wooded vale and hill side. In warm evenings I frequently sat in the boat playing the flute, and saw the perch, which I seemed to have charmed,... ...h a view to the next day’s dinner, spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from time to... ... whether liquid or solid.” But, looking directly down into our waters from a boat, they are seen to be of very different colors. Walden is blue at one... ...lity when I told them, that a few years later I was accustomed to fish from a boat in a secluded cove in the woods, fifteen rods from the only shore the... ...asionally a travelling mud turtle visits it. Sometimes, when I pushed off my boat in the morning, I disturbed a great mud turtle which had secreted hi...

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...stance of a mile. The weather being clear, and the barque making no way, a boat was hoisted out, with orders to inspect the same, when they were found... ...ming down into a harbour when the tide was at its full, and seeing fishing-boats float on, and glad women and children waiting for them. Of nets and s...

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...ld swim from whatever place he happened to be in—would swim like a torpedo-boat straight for Novastoshnah and spend a month fighting with his companio... ... a cod at full speed ten fathoms deep, and never to stop 75 and look at a boat or a ship, but particularly a row- boat. At the end of six months what...

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...dye, some Coketown boys who were at large—a rare sight there—rowed a crazy boat, which made a spumous track upon the water as it jogged along, while e...

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...t the end of the rainy season is Loi Kratong, the festival of small flower boats, at the time of full moon in the 12th month (November). Then families... ...r). Then families gather in the evening by the river to send little flower boats with candles down the river, to drift along slowly with the candles r... ...ome a two-day festival in Lampang. On the first night, families send lotus boats down river, and processions of boats travel up and down the river unt... ... restaurant for dinner. Businesses, schools and public offices build large boats for the procession, and they contain the same elements as other proce... ...ry of Loi Kratong is not precisely known.(42 In Bangkok, sending of flower boats along the canals has been made into an atmospheric tourist festival, ... ...of the Finns, has separated the habitats of the living and the dead. Lotus boats have been sent off at new year, after the harvest, to take offerings ... ...gs to the deceased; in the imaginations of their time they were ancestors' boats, drifting on the dark stream towards the realm of the dead. December ...

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...peedboat in its escape. “Hope he makes it, whatever he’s been doing.” shouts Stef in excitement. “Probably speeding and scaring the locals in a boat like that.” laughs Simon. “Wrong time of day to be doing any smuggling.” confirms Stef, seeing Nicola behind them he asks; “Did you see that Nic?” “Don’t see what all the excitement is about; apart from a boat esca...

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...ed if he felt her up in the water and fucked her afterwards her mates would stop spreading rumours he was queer. The cars screeched to a halt at the boat ramp. Everyone piled out and headed for the small beach until Bob’s girlfriend reckoned there’d be eels and leeches in the river, so she refused to go down. Then the others also chickened out, saying it was too dark, pro...

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...ver; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman?s life. I was fortunate also in the season of the year, for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as the Indians call them, ?nosee- ems,? make travelling in the woods almost impossible; but...

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...orious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman’s life. I was fortunate also in the season of the year, for in th... ...om end to end. Sometimes they become “hogging” even, after long use, and the boatmen then turn them over and straighten them by a weight at each end. ... ...adian V oyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur trader’s boat. The ferry here took us past the Indian island.... ...his driving, to accompany us in their stead, in tending to engage one other boatman on the way. A strip of cotton cloth for a tent, a couple of blank... ...ist, who passed through this on the 25th of June, 1837, says, “We pushed our boat through an acre or more of buck beans, which had taken root at the b... ...s wicker carriage, and, throwing in our packs, walked on before, leaving the boatmen and driver, who was Tom’s brother, to manage the concern. The rou... ... a storm; and one man was as necessary to stand at the stern, to prevent the boat from being wrecked, as a helmsman in the roughest sea. The philosoph... ..., five or six feet in diameter, and was crawling under it, when, luckily, the boat arrived. It would have amused a sheltered man to witness the manner ... ... the lakes; and made the woods ring, between the claps of thunder, with such boat songs as we could remember. The horses stood sleek and shining with ...

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...nd musically, but sadly and long- ingly). No, not a scrubbing brush, but a boat—a tiny shallop to sail away in, far from the world, where the marble f...

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...PART I: UP AGAINST THE DRAFT 1. Steward brings his 1-A letter to the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Bran...