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...efore. When the government carves out a huge piece of Frenchman’s Flat for an atomic testing ground Hetty and her neighbors object, but the millitary fences in the range anyway. It wasn’t so bad for a while. Then Hetty’s chickens began laying golden eggs, and her prize Guernsey produced explosive milk. Nevada ranch folk are tough but are they ready for mutant livestock? (S...

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...e was the common domain of all gods — the roads and streets. Then inside other fences were the particular domains of other gods. A myriad laws governe... ...y came upon him, and men faced him like heroes, or stampeded through barb wire fences to the delight of the commonwealth reading the account at the br...

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...homogeneous. No one, I presume, ever suggested the advantage of trying of- fences committed in France by a foreign court of justice, in order to secur... ...ive and the ex- ecutive power, and furnishes the jurors who punish all of- fences against the laws. The American institutions are demo- cratic, not on... ...aw within the exact limits of a wholesome egotism, marked out by four sunk fences and a quickset hedge. But if an American were condemned to confine h... ...s than crimes and are content to meet with fewer noble deeds, provided of- fences be diminished in the same proportion; if, instead of living in the m...

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...ly different for the foot of the horse, the nature and distribution of the fences was dif- ferent; so that a class of horses thoroughly different was ... ...f his conduct. Expulsion appeared to be the appropriate penalty of his of- fences: but, at this point, a just hesitation arose. Not in any servile spi...

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... he knew so well, the old stocks, each with its own history, and along the fences the younger swarms hived that year. In front of the openings of the ...

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... us did not care about the land. We thought the marking of the boundaries with fences of stone was a foolishness. We had plenty to eat, and what more ... ...to eat, and what more did we want? I remember that my father and I built stone fences for Three Legs and were given corn in return. “So only a few got...

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...vulets, the verdant heights and dales, the wooden chalets and rough zigzag fences of Swiss country. Sometimes the way so widened that she and her fa- ...

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...e loss of the battle of Bull’s Run. The whole place was then one camp. The fences had disappeared. The gardens were trodden into mud. The roads had be... ... had been pretty rough with him. The rebels had come upon his land. House, fences, stock, and crop were all gone. His homestead had been made a ruin, ... ...s hopeless. Nor could there exist encouragement for farm-work of any kind. Fences had been taken down and burned; the ground had been overrun in every...

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...s rather), scattered over an almost uninhabited low-lying waste, where the fences are heaps of earth and bones. It was a deso- late-looking place, a f...

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...a legislative is that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the society, to limit the power and moderat...

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...harters. Our own experience has taught us, nev- ertheless, that additional fences against these dangers ought not to be omitted. V ery properly, there...

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... delighted chiefly. The lighthouse settlement scarce encroached beyond its fences; over the top of the first brae the ground was all virgin, the world...

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... is true, Northmour or I would rise from table and make a round of the de- fences; and, on each of these occasions, Mr. Huddlestone was recalled to a ...

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...not be. From the swell mob, we diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences, public house dancers, area sneaks, designing young people who go ou...

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...t commit spoil, and do the country a great deal of damage in breaking down fences and gates to go over en- closed fields, which they were loth to do i...