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...a nice attention to detail and vivid imagery. The Brinkers are a poor but stoic family under a dark cloud - Raff, the man of the house, fell from the dikes while reinforcing them during a bad storm, and for ten years he has been in a vegetative state. With no steady income, the family's lot is grinding poverty. Despite their unfortunate circumstances, Hans and Gretel are c...

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...d of the whole society. “Mr. Lee‟s later concern was in building dikes to prevent the flooding that global warming will bring. Half of the ...

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...ent pain in my back and legs: insomnia exhausts me: I think of stairways, dikes, weaving machines, cylindrical sails, cadavers, faces... Many times...

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...ures; 9% forest and woodland; 31% other; includes 15% irrigated Environment: dikes protect 30% of land area that is below sea level from North Sea Spe...

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...education while the wave of population grows faster than we can build the dikes that will allow for human achievement. ―Another important co...

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...hing patter of the rain against the balcony windows. I took it to be rain, but it turned out to be only the murmur of the restless Neckar, tumbling ov... ...ways allowed to spread over its whole bed—which is as much as thirty, and sometimes forty yards wide—but is split into three equal bodies of water, by... ... into three equal bodies of water, by stone dikes which throw the main volume, depth, and current into the central one. In low water these neat narrow... ... a submerged roof, but in high water they are overflowed. A hatful of rain makes high water in the Neckar, and a basketful produces an over- flow. The... ...blowing a hoarse whistle. She had nine keel-boats hitched on behind and fol- lowing after her in a long, slender rank. We met her in a narrow place, b... ...re the night shut down. We sailed by the hotel in the mellow glow of sunset, and came slashing down with the mad current into the narrow passage betwe...

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...he right understanding of our story as to that of the great event itself on which it is based. Cornelius de Witt, Ruart de Pulten, that is to say, war... ...his, the judge pointed with his finger to the third drawer of the press, near the fireplace. In this very drawer, indeed the papers deposited by the W...

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... it. They are building wing dams here and there, to deflect the current; and dikes to confine it in narrower bounds; and other dikes to make it stay t...

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... their rights. Among them nothing is half-done,—neither houses, furniture, dikes, husbandry , nor revolutions; and they *Flanders was parcelled into t...

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...on than they do to municipal regulations. Holland came near perishing; its dikes were undermined by the teredo, and science is unable to discover the ...

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...t voice than he had hitherto used, ‘honour not me. I do not go out to park-dikes, and to steadings, and to market-towns, to have herds and cottars and...

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..., And with a great rain floods the smiling crops, The oxen’s labour: now the dikes fill fast, And the void river beds swell thunderously, And all the ... ...thunder fills the halls Of Eurus and of Zephyr, all the fields With brimming dikes are flooded, and at sea No mariner but furls his dripping sails. Ne...

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...n, and cart and cabriolet, and afoot with barrow and burden,—and along the dikes and ditches and canals, in little peak-prowed country boats,—came pea...

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...p and accumulated in my breast, burst forth like a stream which breaks its dikes and goes flowing madly over the country. “C’est ainsi que vous obeiss...

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...om the rock’s low base Thus flinty paths advanc’d, that ‘cross the moles And dikes, struck onward far as to the gulf, That in one bound collected cuts...

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...the brooklet’s mist o’ershadows it, From fire it saves the water and the dikes. Even as the Flemings, ‘twixt Cadsand and Bruges, Fearing the flood... ...idges, So from the precipice’s base did crags Project, which intersected dikes and moats, Unto the well that truncates and collects them. Within t...

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...hoes, as their brows break down Beneath long leaping roaring waterfalls, And dikes are swept away; so fell in dust The war famed Argives by Eurypylus ...

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...oguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dikes! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood....

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...om the rock’s low base Thus flinty paths advanc’d, that ‘cross the moles And dikes, struck onward far as to the gulf, That in one bound collected cuts...

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...o Xenomanes, the great traveller, who had crossed so many dangerous roads, dikes, ponds, seas, and so forth, and was 527 Rabelais come some time befo...