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How You Touched Me, You Will Never Know

By: M'Tisunge Michael Phoya

...life, I’ve met many people who are disgusted with me. But none of them like this woman. “…Could you state what you do for the record?” “I run t... ...ou I’m not guilty. But it doesn’t matter for you probably think I’m guilty too. The truth, if it exists at all, doesn’t matter. Labels matter. Some ... ...No, why?” “For protection. Never seen so many monkeys in my life.” “Did you say monkeys? Where?” “Here. This has to be a record.” She look... ....” “Then leave.” “Are you coming?” “No. This is fun. I have never seen so many monkeys gathered at one place. This is a record. A record I’... ... located in Blantyre, the commercial city of Malawi. A tale from Sasani Nkhota-kota: A district in central Malawi. BOMA: British Overseas Mil...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

...ery numerous. They hailed from every corner of the globe—for instruction is cheap in Heidelberg, and so is living, too. The Anglo-American Club, compo... ...to neither of the opposing corps placed himself in a good position to umpire the combat; another student stood by with a watch and a memorandum-book t... ...on about it somewhere, for these free men, so far from resting upon the privilege of the badge, are al- ways volunteering. A corps student told me it ... ...m. Mr. X said he had not known, before, that there were people honest enough to do this miracle in public, but he was aware that thousands upon thousa... ... XIII My Long Crawl in the Dark WHEN WE GOT BACK to the hotel I wound and set the pedometer and put it in my pocket, for I was to carry it next day an... ...t him. Then we sat down to polish off the perspiration and ar- range about what we would do with him when we got him. Harris was for contributing him ... ...first remains were found, a Chamonix guide named Balmat—a relative of one of the lost men—was in London, and one day encountered a hale old gentleman ...

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

... founda- tion for the wit to come in a people; and undoubtedly the diarial record of an imputed piece of wit is witness to the spouting of laughter. T... ...tly, over-discreetly; and pictures the trial, tells the list of witnesses, records the verdict: so the case went, and some thought one thing, some ano... ... is a creature of the chase. Let her escape unmangled, it will pass in the record that she did once publicly run, and some old dogs will persist in th... ...ter Is- land there was a public Ball, to celebrate the return to Erin of a British hero of Irish blood, after his victorious Indian campaign; a mighty... ... not take it as the compensation for their departure.’ The Bull’s Head, or British Jury of T welve, with the wig on it, was faced during the latter ha... ... of the yacht. A stout champion in the person of T om Redworth was left on British land; but for some reason past analysis, intermixed, that is, among... ...e sent to the post. Her boxes were piled from stairs to door. She read the labels, for her good-bye to the hated name of Warwick:—why ever adopted! Em...

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The Pioneers Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna a Descriptive Tale

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...r, a subject of curious inquiry at the present day, to look into the brief records of that early period, and observe how regular, and with few excepti... ...ure maintenance. Major Effingham, in declin- ing the liberal offers of the British ministry, had subjected himself to the suspicion of having attained... ...n what is or what ought to be the substance of Christianity, but merely to record in this place the opin- ions of Major Effingham. Knowing the sentime... ...that is heard without being attended to, we will not undertake the task of recording his diffuse discourse, The instant that Remarkable Pettibone had ... ...d shrewd looks; “and Dr. T odd understands Latin, or how would he read the labels on his gailipots and drawers? No, no, Miss Hollis ter, the doctor un... ...gain, there was a hole under your lee-quarter big enough to hold the whole British navy.” “Oh! for massy’s sake! and wa’n’t you afeard, Benjamin? and ... ...matter, can talk the language almost as well as myself, or any native-born British subject. Y ou’ve forgot your schooling, and the young mistress is a...

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

...as a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I... ...orant and wretched and the under-equipped and under-staffed Na- tional and British schools, supported by voluntary contribu- tions and sectarian rival... ...ns. Mahometanism with its fierce proselytism, has, I suppose, the blackest record of uncharitableness, but most of the Christian sects are tainted, ta... ... social phenomenon, the German official, so differ- ent in manner from the British; and when one woke again after that one had come to Bale, and out o... ... will say with a note of approval that I was learning to conquer myself. I record that much without any note of approval… . 183 H G Wells For some ye... ...o squares to represent constituencies and were busy stick- ing gummed blue labels over the conquered red of Union- ism that had hitherto submerged the... ...n- ism that had hitherto submerged the country. And there were also orange labels, if I remember rightly, to represent the new Labour party, and green... ...hat at last lost their energy through sheer repetition, whenever there was record of a Liberal gain. I don’t remember what happened when there was a L...

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David Copperfield Volume One Chapters One through Twenty-Eight

By: Charles Dickens

... these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, a... ...t of boot-trees the perfect realization of Captain Somebody, of the Royal British Navy, in danger of being be- set by savages, and resolved to sell h... ...more, especially as neither Roderick Random, nor that Captain in the Royal British Navy, had ever cried, that I could remember, in trying situations. ... ..., he took my various dimensions, and put them down in a book. While he was recording them he called my attention to his stock in trade, and to cer- ta... ..., and to rinse and wash them. When the empty bottles ran short, there were labels to be pasted on full ones, or corks to be fitted to them, or seals t... ...y-bottles burst; thirdly, that I was alone in the world, and much given to record that circumstance in fragments of English versification. On the day ...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...; the lighter minded may read and mark the temper of Professor Case in the British Encyclopaedia, article Logic (Vol. XXX.). I have appended to his bo... ...on. T o us, clad as we are in mountain-soiled tweeds and with no money but British bank- notes negotiable only at a practically infinite distance, thi... ...where it is not the history of the theory of property, is very largely the record of the abuse, not so much of money as of credit devices to supplemen... ...and amended each other’s initial propositions that, indeed, except for the labels still flutteringly adhesive to the implicated men, it is hard to cho... ...m wage,” which threw a chance light on the labour prob- lem—by perforating records for automatic musical ma- chines—no doubt of the Pianotist and Pian... ...ntains to lecture in Saxony, lecturing on the way, to perforate a lot more records, lecturing the while, and so start out lecturing again. He was undi... ...f labour. This most excellent idea does, as a matter of fact, underlie the British institution of the work- house, but it is jumbled up with the relie...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...ontain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or Italy ten times. Conceptions formed from the river ... ...rd of it. That was always a confusing fact to me, but it is according to the record, any way. She was dismally slow; still, we often had pretty exciti... ...” did it in three days and ONE hour. This last is called the fastest trip on record. I will try to show that it was not. For this reason: the distance... ...orities add 1 hour and 16 minutes to this. 102 that has ever been made. THE RECORD OF SOME FAMOUS TRIPS (From Commodore Rollingpin’s Almanack.) FAST... ...s—says: “There now, smell them, taste them, examine the bottles, inspect the labels. One of ‘m’s from Europe, the other’s never been out of this count... ...n out the whole thing—clean from the word go— in our factory in New Orleans: labels, bottles, oil, everything. Well, no, not labels: been buying them ... ...e nation to cel ebrate the battle of New Orleans—Jackson’s victory over the British, January 8, 1815. The war had ended, the two na tions were at pe... ...y friend went on summer vacation up into the fishing regions of our northern British neighbors, and carried this sermon with him, since he might possi...

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The Light That Failed

By: Rudyard Kipling

...andahar, ridin’ two an’ two. —Barrack-Room Ballad. ‘I’M NOT ANGRY with the British public, but I wish we had a few thousand of them scattered among th... ...ghting for the dear life, in a town called Khartoum. There were columns of British troops in the desert, or in one of the many deserts; there were yet... ...sed and thrilled and interested, whether Gordon lived or died, or half the British army went to pieces in the sands. The Soudan campaign was a picture... ...ling From the beginning he told the tale, the I—I—I’s flashing through the records as telegraph-poles fly past the traveller. Maisie listened and nodd... ...at artists do?’ ‘They draw the things in red and black ink on the pop-shop labels.’ ‘I dare say. I haven’t risen to pop-shop labels yet. Those are don...

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An Old Maid

By: Honoré de Balzac

... of bottles she had ordered to be brought up, and which all bore honorable labels; after care- fully verifying the names written on little bits of pap... ...her “speeches” something of the so- 62 An Old Maid lemnity with which the British enunciate their patriotic ab- surdities,—the self-conceit of stupid... ... excused them, kept the din- ner waiting. One was Monsieur du Coudrai, the recorder of mortgages; the other Monsieur Choisnel, former bailiff to the h... ... rived; it was first necessary that all present should put them- selves on record. So the whispers went round from ear to ear:— “You have heard?” “Yes... ...anted before me as mum as a post—” “Which doesn’t think at all!” cried the recorder of mort- gages. “I caught your words on the fly. I present my comp...

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

... ment to him it was felt to be one more act of folly in poor Medora’s long record of imprudences. But folly is as often justified of her children as w... ...ated by pre-revolutionary mar- riages to several members of the French and British aristocracy. The Lannings survived only in the person of two very o... ...I like it for just that—the straight-up-and-downness, and the big hon- est labels on everything!” He saw his chance. “Everything may be labelled—but e... ...ith an air of such impenetrable reserve, that they had almost achieved the record of never having exchanged a word with a “foreigner” other than those... ...everything go by the board but the supreme need of thus putting himself on record. Archer considered. “May I ask,” he said at length, “if this is the ...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

.... I. Title. TK5105.875.I57Z53 2008 004.67 80112—dc22 2007050361 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in ... ...80112—dc22 2007050361 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanen... ...9/4A could use a television set as a display, and a standard audio cassette recorder to store and retrieve data. 8 The cassette player (and, later, P... ...documents appeared in the depths of their file systems, and their system logs recorded activities unrelated to anything the computers’ regular users we... ...choose to take up whatever topics they chose, irrespective of the designated labels for The Generative Pattern 81 the forums themselves (“Pets” vs. “... ...of free legal information services including BAILII, which contains links to British and Irish law-related material; AsianLII, with databases covering... ...al New York Times article, see Don Van Natta Jr. et al., De- tails Emerge in British Terror Case, N.Y. T, Aug. 28, 2006, http://www.nytimes .com/2...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...knowledge." Our expert also quoted Periyar who had said that even during the British and Congress rule, the Dalit and Sudra children were denied en... ...mally entered public life by becoming the Chairman of Erode Municipality. The British Government made him an honorary magistrate and he held 29 hon... ...ertake picketing in front of toddy shops throughout the country and urged the British Government to implement the policy of liquor prohibition. Peri... ...tion? [Viduthalai, 12-9-1946] Naming/ Terming I was shocked to see in the records that they mentioned the social status as Christian, Brahmin, a... ...n never to mention subcastes in voters lists, religious institutions, school records, court records but only write as ‘Hindu’, ‘Muslim’, ‘Sikhs’ or... ...e children of four castes? Why do you shamelessly try to boss over us? What labels you Sudras? Only Hindu religion has made you into Sudras. Only ... ...Narayanpur village in Jehanabad district on February 10, 1999, there were 59 recorded instances of mass murders in which about 600 people were kill...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...side this dynamic balance? This question is unanswerable because there is no record or trace of how we lived 90,000 years ago. But one thing is obv... ...f human misery-pain-trauma on all levels, and in all ways. The entire span of recorded human history is a history of this endless repetitive cycle. ... ...cumulate material things. As a result of this… there are almost no fossil records of the first modern humans, there is no way of knowing how the... ...ncept of slavery has been creatively abstracted and split up, given different labels, slants, twists, and spins. Human power and greed has only shi... ...came repetitious duplicates of their ancestors: Son of John… Johnson. These labels-identities were inflicted on each person at birth: imprinting pe... ...carefully not attributed to the system itself, but given general, meaningless labels: such as: underdevelopment, poverty, corruption, crime, starvati... ...he voice of his master. Just as Queen Victoria was listened to by the entire British Empire. Class racism. Class brainwashing. The brainwashing ... ...: two Christian nations stopped the killing to observe the birth of a child. British and German soldiers came out of their bunkers and exchanged gi... ...ey get used to the European presence on their land, and then the might of the British navy and army can roll in after the vermin have established th...

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American Notes for General Circulation

By: Charles Dickens

...of becoming personally ac quainted), that I may have the gratification of record ing my humble tribute of admiration and respect for his high abilit... ...meth good, is strongly illustrated by these establishments at home; as the records of the Prerogative Office in Doctors’ Commons can abundantly prove.... ...ommon use, such as knives, forks, spoons, keys, &c., and pasting upon them labels with their names printed in raised letters. These she felt very care... ...nes key, as the spoon differed from the key in form. ‘Then small detached labels, with the same words printed upon them, were put into her hands; and... ...es which she could handle; and she very easily learned to place the proper labels upon them. It was evident, however, that the only intellectual exerc... ...or an answer. ‘Yes. Every house without a signal will be fired upon by the British troops. No harm will be done to the others. No harm at all. Those t... ...er: this is the index of his history. Beyond these pages the prison has no record of his existence: and though he live to be in the same cell ten wear... ...try at home, as the distinguished gentleman who is now its Minister at the British Court sustains its highest character abroad. I visited both houses ... ...dical College; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...eans of the magazine page of the half-penny newspapers or by cinematograph records. But it was brought home very insistently, and in those days if, ev... ...lishman. I’ll talk to you all to-morrow.” Foggy snapshots still survive to record that incident. His assistant struggles in a sea of aggressive young ... ...d to keep his secret safe from any further risk of leak- age. He faced the British public now with the question whether they wanted his secret or not;... ...sual dimensions and irregular circumstances and the still largely decorous British public learnt with reluctance and alarm that a sympathetic treatmen... ...exclusive acquisition of the priceless secret of aerial sta- bility by the British Empire. The exact particulars of the simi- larity never came to lig... ...-vivisection, and its pulsating dis- sepiments’ adorned with emphatic flag labels. Confronted they were, and there was no getting away from it. He wou... ...m seventy to two hundred tons. How many Germany possessed history does not record, but Bert counted nearly eighty great bulks receding in perspective ...

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Twelve Stories and a Dream

By: H. G. Wells

...t occasion. Conceive it! Filmer! Our obscure unwashed Filmer, the Glory of British science! Duchesses crowd upon him, beautiful, bold peeresses say in... ...e could get to the floor whenever he wanted, which was sim- ply to put the British Encyclopaedia (tenth edition) on the top of his open shelves. He ju... ...raphs beside the mantel mean- while. The little black notebook in which he recorded the orders of his daily round projected stiffly from his breast po... ... to be a ‘lark,’ and here it was, nothing but another failure added to his record! He proclaimed himself an utter out-and-out failure. He said, and I ... ... a football, and been thirty-five minutes under water, you don’t break any records running. I ran like a ploughboy going to work. And half way to the ... ...y that lay through the trees. It was clear to me they didn’t take me for a British citizen, whatever else they thought of me, and for 84 Twelve Stori... ...200, one in 900, and one in 2000, distinguished by yellow, pink, and white labels respectively. No doubt its use renders a great number of very extrao... ...s Winchelsea observed; his Gladstone bag was of good pleasant leather with labels reminiscent of Luxem- bourg and Ostend, and his boots, though brown,...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

..., in like manner, search as we will in these multi-form innumerable French Records, darkness too frequently covers, or sheer distraction bewilders. On... ... 21 Septembre, Annee 1er (1792).) Lastly con- sider this: that there is on record a Trial of Charles First! This printed Trial of Charles First is sol... ...irty-eight years four months and twenty-eight days. (Newspapers, Municipal Records, &c. &c. (in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 298-349) Deux Amis (ix. 369-373), M... ...ce stood. ‘Three thousand birds’ are let loose, into the whole world, with labels round their neck, We are free; imitate us. Holocaust of Royalist and... ...Jean-Jacques: not one of the least afflicting occur- rences for the actual British reader of French History;— confusing the soul with Messidors, Meado...

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...st Association and eloquence were beyond all bounds of belief. Therefore I record the fact that all that portion of Martin Chuzzlewit’s experiences is... ...n this country as I have hinted at to-night. 6 Martin Chuzzlewit Also, to record that wherever I have been, in the smallest places equally with the l... ...is remarkable that as there was, in the oldest family of which we have any record, a murderer and a vagabond, so we never fail to meet, in the records... ...h of Mr Brick’s articles had become at that time the most obnoxious to the British Parliament and the Court of Saint James’s?’ ‘Upon my word,’ said Ma... ...espondent. 250 Martin Chuzzlewit ‘Oh! The depressing institutions of that British empire, colonel!’ said Jefferson Brick. ‘Master!’ ‘What’s the matte... ...amily of the splendour of that brilliant festival (comprehending the whole British Peerage and Court Calendar) to which they were specially invited, a... ...he torn leaves, and had pasted up the bro- ken backs, and substituted neat labels for the worn-out letterings. It looked a different place, it was so ...

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The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

...ed down in London. I am English.” “Y ou are! Are you? Eh?” “A natural-born British subject,” Mr V erloc said stolidly. “But my father was French, and ... ...before they came widely open. “If you’ll only be good enough to look up my record,” he boomed out in his great, clear oratorical bass, “you’ll see I g... ...s of an `agent provocateur’ is to provoke. As far as I can judge from your record kept here, you have done nothing to earn your money for the last thr... ...ach other in silence. “Of course,” said the latter, “the department has no record of that man.” “Did any of my predecessors have any knowledge of what... ...r man had seen the luggage being put on the cab. There were some old Paris labels on one of the bags. Somehow I couldn’t get the fellow out of my head... ... would be an easy way for a young man to go down into history? Not so many British Ministers have been assassinated as to make it a minor incident. Bu... ... And this was strange, since the Italian res- taurant is such a peculiarly British institution. But these people were as denationalised as the dishes ...

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