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...en smelled of baking meatloaf Although you had said that you could not be domesticated. And then I saw your bottle of wine Standing at attention befo... ...ving me thoughts other than the fact I'm thinking nothing: Only A flock of birds in the corner of my left eye Blend down with the grey skies As if the...

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...me use visual effects, full of color, like flowers, and some use song, like birds. Some use olfactory effects and others use rhythmic movements that ... ...Giorgio brought up. Last night, he said that ever since the horse has been domesticated humanity has been divided into two categories: those that ge... ...me use visual effects, full of color, like flowers, and some use song, like birds. Some use olfactory effects and others use rhythmic movements that ...

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...ed our Universe in organic seeds, plants, insects, reptiles, shellfish, fish, birds, mammals and brains. This basic design of Splitness is older th... ... habitation as being due to the collection of firewood and the overgrazing of domesticated animals… but they cannot explain how even before civiliza... ...Walking out of a land transformed into stillness and whitened devastation. No birds, no animals, no sound, no green, everything covered in dirty whi... ...mething that tastes good. You can get it from a warm sun shining on you with birds singing, and the wind wafting delicate scents of sweet-smelling ... ...or its own survival…? Why would a squirrel hoard nuts high up in trees where birds can easily get them? Why don’t they store them underground? Th... ...he Lions their killing fields of wild animals. They only protected their own domesticated herds. They did not protect the wild herds also. They di... ... sin of pride: punishable by death. Males successfully enslaved females into domesticated animals. However, with the emergence of a more sedent... ...ative in food. Suddenly a trade in foodstuffs was born. Once animals became domesticated, they could also be accumulated and traded. The origin of... ...s and chickens for their own use. We went and enslaved our fellow humans and domesticated them to become domestic slaves. There was no such thing a...

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...ying a smoking torch. Under the edge of the portico, he freed a basket of birds and juggled several SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 21 wicker balls. I had n... ... the torch light, he tore open first one and then anther, to liberate the birds. A magnificent performance. The suggestion worried Pittakos and he p... ...me at the temple of Apollo, watching the people and the boats and the sea birds, and hearing the choral virgins sing. Evenings, he would lay aside ... ...uake shook our island, sloshing water from our courtyard fountain, making birds cry out. As the walls of the house trembled, I shut my eyes, thinkin... ...sprinkling the dusty street, cleaning where horses and cattle had passed. Birds sickled from the eaves, dogs and horses drank at a watering trough, ... ...write home, when he was traveling with the Company. He and Alleyn were as domesticated as tea. SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 439 “Dear Jug,” he would...

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...re was a flock of pelicans flying overhead, and geckos trying to elude the birds by floating on top of the mist. "Look over there," she pointed. "They... ...ns engraved on tombstones, xanthic blooms of Magnolia trees, the flight of birds observed from the car, and now nests under a bridge. Yesterday it had... ...ence overtook them until at last he concocted something to say. "You know, birds like that quickly abandon their newborn. They have so many of them th... ... mean by that?" she asked pugnaciously, as if comments on the maternity of birds were an oblique critique of her role as a mother. Then, sensing the a... ...ns migrating this far north." She got out of the car and went to them, her birds, as nearly as she could approach them at the edge of the river, that ... ...ilanderer nonetheless had many years of shared friendship, how could he be domesticated and exclusive to either one when exploration of the study of t... ...-bugaboos of the past spooked him to cling to another by a more common and domesticated lifestyle--bugaboos that made him now see outlines of ominous ... ... it be thought that the innate value of pigs, cows, and chickens was to be domesticated so as to be easy viands of human consumption. The society of m...

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...-creatures of the gods with no sense of the vile practicalities behind their domesticated state. During his times of stress long ago they had often se... ...ce, he equally wanted what he would always go there for: to hear nothing but birds and a whisk of wind in the tranquility of that sleepy town in one o... ... world flattered itself that doting mothers carrying their worms to the baby birds exuded such a profound love by this thoughtless emotional instinct ... ...n who was her boss. She had been seduced by the demonstration that some male birds give to prospective mates when dangling worms from their mouths. I... ... heap of morose and musical laundry, her lethargy, and the horror of being a domesticated woman as all womanly slaves since the beginning of time, she... ...importantly, she was bolstered by her freedom. She was now one of those rare birds under the sun, free to explore her ethereal ideas and whims without... ...atter with curiosity and awe, this dog was fixated on her. It "needed" her. Domesticated creatures were so needy and clinging but she was reluctant t... ...monkey man needing to ensure that there is a female possession as loyal as a domesticated hound to satisfy him on evenings when his erotic hunts have ... ...sed. "The truth is that when I got married I lost myself to a wifely role ﾁN domesticated Betty Crocker crap and being an unpaid cashier/assistant man...

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... Arnold Toynbee said ‘We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unp... ...the Netherlands. Our sexually active kids either don’t understand about the birds and the bees, or they are so stupid that they don’t think it can ha...

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... addressing the baby: 'Who dressed you this morning? You look like a bum!' She's gets 2 birds with one stone. She devalues and degrades me and the b... ...ng to live with an abuser is like opting to share a cage with a predator. No matter how domesticated, Nature is bound to prevail. You are more likel...

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...here on land. We don’t just want to be born, we want to learn to fly like birds, and even better than the birds. In this book, I have put the s... ... that part that is animal and wild that allows itself to be only partially domesticated with much effort. When a person manages to blend the animal... ...r soul So that I like You Can create one for myself. Just as the birds in the sky And the lilies in the field I have no debts nor deb... ...verything is a gift: Joy, pain and trouble. But like the lilies and birds are here today And gone tomorrow I too will one day vanish in...

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...ou’ll have nightmares! 65 CHAPTER TWELVE Ah the morning light, fresh air, birds chirping and little me rugged up to the hilt yet still freezing my t... ...estler punching his opponent’s face in. Anyway, Gary’s father gave him the birds and the bees lecture, his mother fussed, kissed his cheek and he wav... ...knew he’d pick thick. If you think I was going to prove to Barry that I am domesticated, you got another thing coming. Michael winks at me from the t...

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... to make it handsomer. Then the climate, with the sea- breeze every afternoon in the hottest summer weather, had gradually cured the sciatica; and his... ...ultivation; close around each oasis ran the tangled wood; the glen enfolds them; there they lie basking in sun and silence, con- cealed from all but t... ...d even after he had broken ground up here with his black malvoisies, continued for long to tramp the valley with his razor. Now, his place is the pict... ...immed and garnered; and the London customers can taste, such as it is, the tang of the earth in this green valley. So local, so quintessential is a wi... ...es on a village green, we shall say, all empty to be sure, but swept and varnished; a trout stream brawling by; great elms or chestnuts, humming with ... ...n the verandah, silently giving ear, and gazing down the road with shaded eyes. And as yet there was no sign for the senses, not a sound, not a tremor...

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...as awed by gaps and chinks where the sky stared sorrowfully at me, where the birds passed, and the ivy rustled, and the stains of winter weather blotc... ...of wealth put me as far off from her in my lady’s eyes as if I had been some domesticated creature of another kind. But they could not put me farther ...

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... loud plunge, and, turning my head, saw the clergyman struggling to shore. The bank had given way under his feet. Besides the cattle, we saw no living... ...een spires, so that it also might rejoice in its own loveliness and dignity. I think I feel a thousand squirrels leaping from bough to bough in my vas... ...he first time that he had thus beautified his cabin in imagination; and when next he makes a bit, I should expect to see the writing-table in the midd... ...at thing, she explained. Fine birds were so dear. They had sought to get a Hollandais last winter in Rouen (Rouen? thought I; and is this whole mansio... ...to ask about our voyage. You should have seen how they sympathised. They seemed half ready to give up their barge and follow us. But these canaletti a... ... of each encounter; but when it comes to a city, we keep to ourselves, and never speak unless we have trod- den on a man’s toes. In these waters we we...

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...lection of the seas of China and Japan. These fish, more numerous than the birds of the air, came, attracted, no doubt, by the brilliant focus of the ... ...alked amidst a shoal of little fishes of all kinds, more numerous than the birds of the air, and also more agile; but no aquatic game worthy of a shot... ... which their broken tops multiplied on the water, and the shadows of large birds passing above our heads, whose rapid flight I could dis- cern on the ... ...let themselves be approached. Their circumspection proved to me that these birds knew what to expect from bipeds of our species, and I concluded that,... ...ittle wood that was enlivened by the songs and flight of a large number of birds. “There are only birds,” said Conseil. “But they are eatable,” replie... ...ey are also capable of receiving a certain amount of education, are easily domesticated, and I think, with other naturalists, that if properly taught ...

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...nts swarm, as at the bo’s’un’s whistle, with in- dustrious hands, and whole new empires are domesticated to the service of man. This is the closet pic... ... we had a glimpse of a grey night sea, with patches of phosphorescent foam flying, swift as birds, into the wake, and the horizon rising and falling a... ...o this a great crowd of stimulating details—vast cities that grow up as by enchantment; the birds, that have gone south in autumn, returning with the ... ...toes. But a few minutes’ converse set my heart at rest. These rural criminals are very tame birds, it appeared. If my informant did not immedi- ately ... ...d); and the vague rumours that went among the tree-tops, and the occasional rustling of big birds or hares among the undergrowth, had in them a note o... ...with himself and what he had to eat. It happened, for my sins, that none of these admirable birds had anything beyond the merest rudiment of a tail. T...

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...ly did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remem bered b... ...oodpeckers were booming and knocking in the forest. Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild fowl driving up from the so... ...long spring days, watching the running water, listening lazily to the songs of birds and the hum of nature, Buck slowly won back his strength. A rest ... ... No longer was this fact borne in upon him in some subtle, mysterious way. The birds talked of it, the squirrels chattered about it, the very breeze w...

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... had reared, not for a beast of burden, but for warlike purposes, was half domesticated. The Indian had begun already, by often irritating him, and fe... ...ecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other vo- racious birds. On the branches of the cedars were perched large eagles; amid the fo... ...mnly standing on one leg; and on every hand were crows, ducks, hawks, wild birds, and a multitude of cranes, which the Japanese consider sacred, and w... ...cultivated, for the Mormons are mostly farmers; while ranches and pens for domesticated animals, fields of wheat, corn, and other cere- als, luxuriant... ... ceased 135 Jules Verne falling, and the air became crisp and cold. Large birds, fright- ened by the locomotive, rose and flew off in the distance. N... ...f forty miles an hour. The distance between Fort Kearney and Omaha, as the birds fly, is at most two hundred miles. If the wind held good, the distanc... ...e white skeleton twisted and rattled in the wind. Sometimes flocks of wild birds rose, or bands of gaunt, famished, ferocious prairie-wolves ran howli...

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...anicus, with a fine rhetorical inspiration, “Forward! and follow the Roman birds.” It would be a very heavy spirit that did not give a leap at such a ... ...ure; and there is all the world between gaping wonderment at the jargon of birds, and the emotion with which a man listens to articulate music. At the... ...wn you sit to smoke a pipe in the shade. You sink into your- self, and the birds come round and look at you; and your smoke dissipates upon the aftern... ...ful and austere; a rustic world; sunshiny, lewd, and cruel. What is it the birds sing among the trees in pairing-time? What means the sound of the rai... ...ead along a city, mapping it forth about evenfall for the eye of observant birds, a new age had begun for sociality and corporate pleasure-seek- ing, ... ... out to every man’s fancy. The city-folk had stars of their own; biddable, domesticated stars. It is true that these were not so steady, nor yet so cl...

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... Jane, or Adam and Eve, impending like a pair of warts above the breakers. Thence we bore away along shore. On our port beam we might hear the explosi... ...as enclosed to the landward by a 6 In The South Seas bulk of shattered mountains. In every crevice of that bar- rier the forest harboured, roosting a... ...ong, clamorous caves, and faced with cliffs of the colour and ruinous outline of an old peat-stack. In one of these echoing and sunless gullies we saw... ...re. We struck now into covert paths, crossed and heard more near at hand the bickering of the streams, and tasted the coolness of those recesses where... ...ast effervescence of winged life. In this place the annular isle was mostly under water, carrying here and there on its submerged line a wooded islet.... ...rend precinct, and devout attendants; to be handled by the profane; to cross 239 Robert Louis Stevenson three seas; to come to land under the foolsca...

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...abbits, fowls black and grey, partridges, moor- pouts, roe-deer, and other birds and quadrupeds, at unlaw- ful seasons, and contrary to the laws of th... ... in their folly. Have you marked the young cub of a wild cat that has been domesticated, how sportive, how playful, how gentle,— but trust him with yo... ... is his picture,” retorted the Recluse. “He is at present tame, quiet, and domesticated, for lack of opportunity to exercise his inborn propensities; ...