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...This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag of England. This is a book for young readers, but - as a good book should be - everybody can enjoy it. (Summary by Stav Nisser)...

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...and Mr. Wodehouse is enabled to lift the curtain of the musical comedy world.There is laughter and drama in _Jill the Reckless_, and the action never flags from the moment that Freddie Rooke confesses that he has had a hectic night, down to the point where Wally says briefly Let 'em, which is page 313. The heroine here, Jill Mariner, is a young woman from the lower end of ...

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... 88 A LITTLE PREP ........................................................................................................................... 106 THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY ........................................................................................... 124 THE LAST TERM ................................................................................................

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..................................................................... 106 THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY ........................................................ ... him move in the bushes, go straight across to Aves. They want to catch us flagrante delicto.” They dived into the gorse at right angles to the tunnel... ...shing. Go on, Beetle—from ‘jugurtha tamen’—and, if you can, avoid the more flagrant forms of guessing.” Prout’s house was furious because Macrea’s and... ...ils!” “It’s the olive branch,” was Stalky’s comment. “It’s the giddy white flag, by gum! Come to think of it, we have metagrobolized ‘em.” Just after... ...ed the animal. Et ego— McT urk, please—in Arcadia vixi. There’s a certain flagrant injustice about this that ought to appeal to—your tempera- ment. A... ...gan.” “But look here, why aren’t we wrathy with the Head? He said it was a flagrant injustice. So it is!” said Beetle. “Dear man,” said McT urk, and v... ...u are a funny ass! What’s that for?” said Beetle. “I’m—I’m thinking of the flagrant injustice of it!” Rudyard Kipling THE MORAL REFORMERS THERE WAS N... ...d, in a little business which we have agreed to forget, that strikes me as flagrant injustice …. What are you laughing at, you young sinners? Isn’t it... ... It’s a way we have at the Public Schools, Which nobody can deny!” THE FLAG OF THEIR COUNTRY IT WA S WINTER and bitter cold of mornings. Consequen...

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...TREES .................................................................................................................................... 6 THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG .................................................................................................... 6 JOURNEY......................................................................................................

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.................................................................. 6 THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG .............................................................. ...9 Edna St. Vincent Millay There, encompassed round by fire, Stood a blue-flag in a bog! Little flames came wading out, Straining, straining toward... ...r, Son and Holy Ghost, Reach a hand and rescue me! “There—there, my blue-flag flower; Hush—hush—go to sleep; That is only God you hear, Counting...

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...inated the valley below. On its keep fluttered the banner of the East India Company and the Union flag demonstrating, all too clearly, the real mili... ...d the Residency, large iron gates bearing the East India Company’s crest - the Royal Arms and the flag of St. George - were opened to them by red-co... ...he tinkling sound was made by these blades, which were being whirled around the heads of the self-flagellators and brought vigorously down on their ... ...ounded Highlander, who Helen was treating in the hospital. By evening, the sepoys came with white flags to collect their dead and wounded and the Br...

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... shadows of the dawn. Would God the releasing trumpet would blow and the flag flutter on the mountain side, and that I might find all well! Genera... ...n his horse, And Andr6 like a Genius at his side, Guiding the host! That flag shall fall When next we meet: up run the British colors ! England f...

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... wordless tune is what she sings to me, harmonies salute my thoughts along a flag of roses red. The wind steals my breath till whispers turn blue and ...

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... his forehead. He is wearing a uniform of his own design. In the corner, a swastika flag clings to its pole. A leather armchair. Padded walls. The ... ...they kept ignoring me Bauer was in the tortuous process of unfurling an enormous flag and Libby seemed particularly unhappy about it. It was the ...

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...look terrible, Stannard. The last time I saw a face like that it was on a pirate flag. Did we interrupt your beauty sleep?” “If I’d known you’d be h...

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...ffice with military mementos, plagues, and medals hanging on the walls, plus an American flag standing behind his desk. The General offered him a ...

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...my Captain lies,                                    Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;                     Here Captain! dear father!  ...

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...Excerpt: ?Halloa! Below there!? When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead of looking up to where I stood on the t...

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... voice thus calling to him, he was stand ing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, co... ...ming away over the landscape, I looked down again, and saw him refurling the flag he had shown while the train went by. I repeated my inquiry. After a... ... he seemed to regard me with fixed attention, he motioned with his rolled up flag towards a point on my level, some two or three hundred yards distant... ...ages, and send replies. Once he had to stand without the door, and display a flag as a train passed, and make some verbal communication to the driver....

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...iful in itself, and shows how well nature can be imitated; but it is meant for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.?...

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...for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.” “Oh, Rachel.” “Ah, ha! If Rachel be an old maid, what is Gr... ...Fanny opened her brown eyes, and awaited the words of wisdom. “Is it not a flagrant abuse,” continued Rachel, “that whether she have a vocation or not... ...’ or her velvet will be a scandal. I can’t wear out that at home like this flagrant, flowery thing, that I saw Miss Curtis looking at as rather a disr... ...this child on her hands.” “I know,” said Mr. T ouchett, “but really it was flagrant.” “Oh,” said Lady T emple, gently, “I dare say she didn’t mean it,... ...to the arched yew-tree entrance to his garden, up two stone steps, along a flagged path across the narrow grass-plat in front of the old two-storied h...

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...“Come on, Craiova; come on, students!” “Come on and score!” (They had failed to score.) The score was still close. The blue flags waved in the grandstands. The spectators made caps out of the newspapers – which they hadn’t bothered to read. (The papers, after all, had been specially printed for the match.) “Get your roasted sunflower seeds!” “...

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... melting into the morning sun. Those rags they wore were more patriotic than flags and more majestic than King Sejong the Great's crown. Once their fa... ... sickness was getting worse. Yang Kwam was wearing a shirt with the American flag on it. Dizzy and disoriented, Sang Huin had followed that American f... ...d her name and she would have needed to encounter hateful stares for being a flagrant mutineer of the American work ethic. There might have been the ... ... their pints of milk and eat their graham crackers, pledge allegiance to the flag, skip around her desk happily or not, draw the lines that were the p... ...st (if anything), and then move them up her nose. He did not understand this flagrant violation of femininity. It was as if she wanted to be as incon... ...tly sure what he was doing in there. Then came more of those ideas that self-flagellated her flaccid mental skin throughout the week: if something bad... ...to oneself to be. It was like that idiot, Alan Shepard, putting an American flag on the moon; but it was from that idiot, Shepard, that, in girlhood ... ...learnt of a place on Earth not rife in human herds, she decided to stake her flag on Camp Gabriele, Antarctica in that self-declared city of one. Now,... ...n't need my permission. You are my moon but I'm not Alan Shepherd staking my flag into your heart. I'm glad the pendulum swing to the same sex is now ...

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...es, no lifted hands, no raised shields, no plumed helmets at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If... ...homecoming. And now, now our fleet was gliding toward us, grey-hulked, no flags raised, oars shuffling like sick crabs. Was it defeat or half-victor... ..., his feet in the dust, his smiles. Exekias babbled dully about food and flagrant cheating, her basket bumping my hip. I wondered how I could wait,... ...alive, to cheat the face, the mooning eyes, the stupid mouth, the odor of flagrancy, the disbelief...chattel, cringe, lie still, perform. Copying...

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... visited some friends in San Diego and watched their nine year old playing flag football. A father- coach called the offensive plays, he had made a bo...

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...ven hotter. “Perhaps a bath? I will assist you.” “No bath. But I will have a flagon of ale.” The girl frowned. “Yes. Ale. I will see to it. This way.”... ... he whirled. The same serving maid stood in the open doorway. She clutched a flagon in her right hand. “Your ale, sir.” Her gaze slid over the room, a... ...ing her lips. He waved his hand toward the table, and the maid deposited the flagon on it. “Will there be anything else, sir?” she asked, already bac... ... was, did you say?” He sipped from the goblet again. “But not so dire that a flagon of ale could not be first downed, hey?” Hafgan’s lips spread into ... ...ody quivered as she danced around them, her tail waving like a wind- whipped flag. It landed a stinging slap across Peter’s calves, but he only laughe... ...r the wall. “It’s Kelsey and Regan. Daniel is with them. Regan is carrying a flag of truce.” Tessa slowly lowered her hand. “Stand down,” she said to ... ...e frosting away. “What is this? Another new custom?” Angus said, lift- ing a flagon of ale to his mouth. “New to Daradawn only,” Regan said, “and a mu...