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.... Stone 31 Joseph Conrad campongs, full of white faces, are surrounded by fertile fields, but every man you meet is a slave. The rulers live under th... ... vio- lence, a force mysterious and terrible—or nothing but a clod, a mass fertile and inert, cold and unfeel- ing, ready to bear a crop of plants tha... ...dily, annexing street after street. It included also Somebody’s Gardens, a Crescent—a couple of Squares. Thus Alvan Hervey and his wife for five prosp... ...m- pound. He was a simple human being removed from the delightful world of crescents and squares. He stood alone, naked and afraid, like the first man...

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...ermilion, Baptized in molten gold, and swathed in dun, Glittering like crescents o’er a Turk’s pavilion, And blending every colour into one,... ... For some of these are rocks with scarce a hut on; Others are fair and fertile, among which This, though not large, was one of the most rich. ... ... Circling all nature, hush’d, and dim, and still, With the far mountain crescent half surrounded On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill... ...merald aigrette with Haidee’s hair in ‘t Surmounted as its clasp—a glowing crescent, Whose rays shone ever trembling, but incessant. And now the... ...phosis in view,— ‘Farewell!’ they mutually exclaim’d: ‘this soil Seems fertile in adventures strange and new; One ‘s turn’d half Mussulman, an... ...had crown, and light Began to clothe each Asiatic hill, And the mosque crescent struggled into sight Of the long caravan, which in the chill ... ... now: His stubborn valour was no future shield. Ismail ‘s no more! The crescent’s silver bow Sunk, and the crimson cross glared o’er the field...

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...ge among its members. This is what the New Testament, a code of philosophy fertile in new ideas, first introduced under the name of scandal; that is, ... ...overed this idolatrous ornament upon the bosoms of their countrywomen. The crescents, or half-moons of silver, in connection with the golden suns, 6 ... ...having no great rallying principle but the banner of the Cross against the Crescent, were as much more truly sublime in suffering and in daring, than ...

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... England was betraying signs of decay? and signs how ignoble! Half-a-dozen crescent lines cunningly turned, sketched her figure before the world, and ... ... she looked out. The Adriatic was dark, the Alps had heaven to themselves. Crescents and hollows, rosy mounds, white shelves, shining ledges, domes an... ...e the skulls of our 108 Beauchamp’s Career national enemy on the wide and fertile campaigns of France.’ This was pageantry. There was more of it. The... ...ieve that he had undertaken as good a defence as the mountain guarding the fertile vale from storms: but him the elements pelted heavily. Letters from...

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...is Scotsman’s feelings. And when he entered into his own house in Randolph Crescent (south side), and shut the door behind him, his heart swelled with... ...ison with other lads, although not up to the mark of the house in Randolph Crescent; full of a sort of blundering affection, full of caresses, which w... ...y with bowed head and echo- ing footfall. The rooks were awake in Randolph Crescent; but the windows looked down, discreetly blinded, on the return of... ... only pointed by the cawing of the rooks. There was not a soul in Randolph Crescent, nor a soul in Queensferry Street; in this outdoor privacy and the... ...e had so long looked forward, thinking to awake in his own bed in Randolph Crescent, reconciled with all men and repeating the foot- prints of his you... ... stream of language flowed without break or stumble, and his mind was ever fertile in inge- nious evasions and— What an afternoon it was for Esther! ‘...

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... wenches must I have? Soothsayer: If every of your wishes had a womb. And fertile every wish, a million. CHARMIAN: Out, fool! I forgive thee for a ... ... I shall do well: The people love me, and the sea is mine; My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony ...

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...owing ever more and more indistinct, until it became a mere hurly-burly of trees and bright crescents of river, and snatches of slanting road, and fin... ...t, the wild and inhospitable places of our own Highlands. I am happier where it is tame and fertile, and not readily pleased without trees. I understa...

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...he Odyssey of Homer The teeming ewes a triple offspring bear; And two fair crescents of translucent horn The brows of all their young increase adorn: ... ... surrounded realms the gods assign 80 The Odyssey of Homer Small tract of fertile lawn, the least to mine.” His hand the king with tender passion pre... ...bodes, Nor helped by mortal hand, nor guiding gods In twice ten days shall fertile Scheria find, Alone, and floating to the wave and wind. The bold Ph... ...ove; Alike their leaves, but not alike they smiled With sister fruits; one fertile, one was wild. Nor here the sun’s meridian rays had power, Nor wind... ... ranks appear, With all the united labours of the year; Some to unload the fertile branches run, Some dry the blackening clusters in the sun, Others t... ...r skill, And, void of pain, the silent arrows kill. T wo equal tribes this fertile land divide, Where two fair cities rise with equal pride. But both ...

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... It was a sight of wonder! Some were horned, And like the moon’s argentine crescent hung In the dark dome of heaven; some did shed A clear mild beam l... ... are recreated, and the flame Of consentaneous love inspires all life: The fertile bosom of the earth gives suck _345 To my... ...ht garden-isles begem, With lightsome clouds and shining seas between, And fertile valleys resonant with bliss, Whilst green woods overcanopy the wave... ... and many a band The Arctic Anarch sent, and Idumea’s sand, 6. 6. 6. 6. 6. Fertile in prodigies and lies;—so there Strange natures made a brotherhood ... ...d beautiful by exuberant vegetation; and the cultivated part is peculiarly fertile. With all this wealth of Nature which, either in the form of gentle... ...is olive bower at Oenoe Had sate from earliest youth. Like one who finds A fertile island in the barren sea, One mariner who has survived his mates ... ...nd from whose ruined crevices owls and bats flitted forth at night, as the crescent moon sunk behind the black and heavy battlements. 230 V olume One... ...r hadst thou waited the full cycle, when Thy spirit should have filled its crescent sphere, The monsters of life’s waste had fled from thee like deer.... ... MAHOMET MAHOMET MAHOMET MAHOMET: : : : : … Haste thou and fill the waning crescent With beams as keen as those which pierced the shadow _170 Of Chr...

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...trophe which had converted into an arid and dismal wilderness the fair and fertile valley of Siddim, once well watered, even as the Gar- den of the Lo... ...y, the fanatical zeal which animated the followers of the Cross and of the Crescent against each other, was much softened by a feeling so natural 23 ... ...osed in the same spot, and, doubtless, found their way in safety to a more fertile country. Again, the scarce visible cur- rent which escaped from the... ...ear to his powerful antagonist, might have been compared to his sheeny and crescent-formed sabre, with its narrow and light but bright and keen Damasc... ...nd had not set forth to the Crusade till he was sovereign of Scotland, the Crescent might, for me, and all true-hearted Scots, glimmer for ever on the... ... 41 Sir Walter Scott cised by the soldiery, as well of the Cross as of the Crescent, had become robbers, and spared neither rank nor religion, neither... ...his own holy faith! Art thou come forth to the wilderness to fight for the Crescent against the Cross? A goodly soldier of God art thou to listen to t...

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...ites on the hill-side; the country wore, on the whole, a cheerful, active, fertile look. Steam, trade, machinery had long banished from it all romance... ...a fine night, and the streets were dry and even clean for X——; there was a crescent curve of moonlight to be seen by the parish church tower, and hund... ...nd what did I see? I will tell you faithfully. Green, reedy swamps; fields fertile but flat, culti- vated in patches that made them look like magnifie... ...bject? if one may ask.” “Mademoiselle talked about nothing, monsieur.” “ A fertile topic! and did she discourse thereon in the school- room, before th... ...hundred specimens of the genus “jeune fille” collected together, offered a fertile vari- ety of subject. A miscellaneous assortment they were, differ-... ...find her brooding still and blank over the wide fields, so drear though so fertile, spread out treeless and trackless round the capital of Brabant. Ha...

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..., scene iii 16 LAERTES: Think it no more; For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxe... ...te is the more gracious; for ’tis a vice to know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the k...

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...Malcolm, not so proud Was I of all that marshalled crowd, Though the waned crescent owned my might, And in my train trooped lord and knight, Though Bl... ...g fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between:— These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; T... ...01. My pomp. My triumphal procession; the original mean- ing of pomp. 504. Crescent. The badge of the Buccleuch family (Miss Yonge). 506. Blantyre. A ... ... Condottieri of Italy.” 53. The Fleming, etc. The soil of Flanders is very fertile and productive, in marked contrast to the greater part of Scot- lan...

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...r phase of his passion, a fury bejewelled with stars, mayhap bear- ing the crescent of the moon on its brow, shaking the last vestiges of its torn clo... ...whose estuary resembles a breach in a sand rampart may flow through a most fertile country. But all the estuaries of great rivers have their fascinati... ...of more exalted adversaries Dominic 141 Joseph Conrad turned his audacity fertile in impious stratagems against the powers of the earth, as represent...

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... what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal coun- try for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect. ... ...of her nails; and their sharpness presently ornamented the detainer’s with crescents of red. ‘There’s a tigress!’ exclaimed Mrs. Linton, setting her f...

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...our success, conveniently made a traitor of, I have so much value for that fertile and pleasant spot, that I would e’en take on with you for the campa... ...And on distant echo borne, Comes the hunter’s early horn. “The moon’s wan crescent scarcely gleams, Ghost-like she fades in morning beams; Hie henc... ...ts, with or without a victory, would give him the command of a wealthy and fertile part of the kingdom, and would enable him, by regular pay, to place... ...gainst the Duke of Bavaria, and enriched his troops by the plunder of that fertile coun- try, although menaced from the northward by the large army wh...

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...nchastity, and we shall find the Marquesas and Hawaii figuring again upon another count. Thus, Samoans are the most chaste of Polynesians, and they ar... ... of weeds; and the mosquito hummed and stung. There was no other trace that night of man, bird, or insect in the isle. The moon, now three days old, a... ...-trees, re- turned shivering to the deck. The lagoon was thick with many-tinted wavelets; a continuous roaring of the outer sea overhung the anchorage...

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...t day, the realm of France received on parchment a stupendous accession. The fertile plains of Texas; the vast Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain ... ...ol man; nothing could disturb his serenity. Once when he was captain of the ‘Crescent City,’ I was bringing the boat into port at New Orleans, and mom... ...pproached New Orleans in the steam tug. This was the curving frontage of the crescent city lit up with the white glare of five miles of electric light... ... on the Mississippi Mark T wain 328 merly was pronounced one of the most fertile in the State. The water has hitherto allowed it to go scot free i...

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...wed past him with all six legs. Sacharissa had run to what was left of the fertile brood-comb. “Down and out!” she called across the brown breadth of ... ...ettee, and at two hundred feet releases the catch. We hear the whir of the crescent-shaped arms opening as they descend. The derelict’s forehead is pu...

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...rds he was about to speak might find grace and favor, and be as seed sown in fertile ground, yielding in time a grateful harvest of good. Amen. There ... ...erennial bloom and fluttering with rags. His hat was a vast ruin with a wide crescent lopped out of its brim; his coat, when he wore one, hung nearly ...