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...osing a musical score. An author mentally weaves a cast of characters and plots THE POWER IN IMAGINATION before writing. A business executive thin... ...ndane and dreary job, but during the performance of your daily chores you plot out in your mind exactly how you're going to per' form each chore an... ...oduced in your world. Let your imagination run wild, and it will act as a funnel for the power in you. THE POWER IN ENTHUSIASM Age may wrinkl...

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...en caustically) since a few dragons are interesting enough (cats can still speak but no one is interesting enough to talk to anymore). Fire and Fur?s plot concerns the dragons' terraforming the Gobi from sea to land (historically accurate) in a desire for power and amid excessive pride. In doing so, they release an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had ...

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...eak but no one is interesting enough to talk to anymore). Fire and Fur’s plot concerns the dragons' terraforming the Gobi from sea to land (histori... ... worry. We will control the Spell of Changing. They will only shape and funnel it for us." Lei-kung neglected to mention that he, not his comrade...

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... Idea-plot Hand ... ...p became an unquestioned tradition. Shaman, wise men, cunning liars, devious plotting power mongers… did not have to hunt to prove their prowess at ... ... the entire group revolted against him, and began arguing with each other… and plotted to get rid of him… And when they finally managed to find a w... ...nowledge, and Status… in one main direction. The resources of the masses are funneled and concentrated into an ever smaller, wealthier, more powerf... ...tary systems, all economic systems are designed and geared to concentrate and funnel as much human life-energy, man-hours, expertise, wealth, resourc... ...t people will ignore it as much as possible and not focus on our domesticated plots of nature. We cut grass, and tend it; with only one goal in min... ...point. In effect: mass media functions not to disseminate information, but to funnel only one piece of information and ram it down the minds of bill... ...e to rob, rape and make a profit than the English did. Except most of it was funnelled into the Royal Spanish coffers. Their centralized aristocrac... ...ets costing 35,000 dollars as status symbols. An equal profit margin would funnel all that untold secret wealth back into the masses… who could wo...

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...le level of production - about 100 million tons a year by 2020. The pipelines will funnel 70-80 million tons of crude and 30 billion cubic meters o... ...ence farming, raising cattle and poultry. Many an urbane urbanite now tend to tiny plots, trying to eke a living out of the fertile banks of the Tw...

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...es cure the stomach ache 242- 251 CHAPTER XXII. A mutiny among the crews. -- A plot to abandon Magellan -- Mendoza's impertinent threat -- Assassinat... ...bling his indignation at their refusal to remain with him, the Sultan formed a plot to seize the ships, but his scheme was discovered by the friendly ... ...XCITING RACE AFTER NATIVE SWIMMERS. On their arrival in the vicinity of Goa, a plot was contrived by the Sultan of that place for the capture of the e... ...ife of one of the Cholulan nobles, who, to save Marina, had disclosed to her a plot then in progress designed to accomplish the ruin of the Spaniards,... ...en, but he was reluctant to believe that Spanish gentlemen would condescend to plot against their commander, so he refused to listen to the warnings o... ...eady for a start. Fires were at once lighted, and smoke began to pour from the funnel. Two hours later, at 3.30 in the afternoon, the screw began to r...

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...pt his right of entrance in the old man’s time. Their ships now had yellow funnels with black tops, and a time- table of appointed routes like a confo... ...f the new Government buildings alternated with the blank fencing of vacant plots, and the view of the sky seemed to give an added spaciousness to the ... ...ned spaciousness of orderly and syl- van aspect opened before him its wide plots of rolled grass, like pieces of green carpet smoothly pegged out, its... ...wling along the newly opened sea-road. You could see across the wide grass-plots the discs of vibration made by the spokes. The bright domes of the pa... ...ip? The fel- low, of course, told me it was all nonsense; there has been a plot hatching for years against him. And now it had come. All the horrid sa... ...engers of the Sofala lay about on mats under the awnings; the smoke of her funnel seemed the only sign of her life and connected with her gliding moti... ...wall had fallen across the river, and the smoke pouring backwards from the funnel eddied down behind the ship, spread a thin dusky veil over the sombe... ... German firm—those people in Malacca—what was their name?—boats with green funnels. They would be only too glad of the opening to put one of their sma... ...he return you got for it, eh? Pretty. Write to Schnitzler—let in the green-funnel boats—get an old Hamburg Jew to ruin him. No, re- ally he could laug...

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...un-burnt city and go HOME. Y onder in the steamer was home, with its black funnel and gilt portraiture of “Lady Mary W ood” at the bows; and every sou... ...uter park, which is likewise planted with trees, and diversified by garden-plots and cottages, had more the air of the outbuildings of a homely Englis... ... yawning; It was the grey of dawning, Ere yet the sun arose; And above the funnel’s roaring, And the fitful wind’s deploring, I heard the cabin snorin... ... and the tackle Began to shriek and crackle; And the spray dashed o’er the funnels, And down the deck in runnels; And the rushing water soaks 82 Note... ... shoot an undergraduate at Cambridge even for walking over a college grass-plot. —Let me suggest to your Royal Highness that this method of ridding yo...

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...t spoken of. No ship met with it. It seemed as if this unicorn knew of the plots weaving around it. It had been so much talked of, even through the At... ...ing holes, and the clouds of smoke could hardly find way out of the narrow funnels. They heaved the log a second time. “Well?” asked the captain of th... ...ous matter, often confused with other polypi, formed then the inextricable plots called “macciota,” and on which I noticed several beautiful specimens... ...t ruin. The 5th of February we at last entered the Gulf of Aden, a perfect funnel introduced into the neck of Bab-el-mandeb, through which the Indian ... ...rd on their base, grew into a vaulted roof bearing the shape of an immense funnel turned upside down, the height being about five or six hundred yards... ..., armoured, two-decker ram. A thick black smoke was pour- ing from her two funnels. Her closely-furled sails were stopped to her yards. She hoisted no... ...ere heated to the uttermost. Sheaves of sparks and red ashes flew from the funnels, shining in the atmosphere like stars. I remained thus until six in...

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...ver their rare wines, amidst their dazzling, wick- edly dressed women, and plotted further grinding for the faces of the poor. And amidst all the squa... ... that common refuge of the unhappy ignorant, a belief in callous insensate plots— we called them “plots”—against the poor. Y ou can still see how we f... ...amed “estates.” The individualistic enterprise of that time had led to the plotting out of nearly all the country round the seaside towns into roads a... ... of nearly all the country round the seaside towns into roads and building-plots—all but a small portion of the south and east coast was in this condi... ...ation of the coast-line was done to stimulate a little foolish gambling in plots, and one saw everywhere agents’ boards in every state of freshness an... ... not four miles out, steaming fast across the dappled silver, and from its funnels sparks, in- tensely red, poured out into the night. As I turned, ca... ...t the great ironclad, a little torchlike spurt of flame wavered behind her funnels. I could hear the throb and clangor of her straining engines… . I b...

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...alatial, displaying its white, pillared pavilions surrounded by trim grass plots. I would have felt a passenger indeed in there! I gave it a hostile g... ...r and the hard, rapid puffing of the exhaust in her vaguely gleaming brass funnel amidships. The misty churning at her stern was the only sound in the... ...ke this: the bottles emptied, refilled, rewrapped, and replaced. A sort of plot, a sinister attempt to deceive, a thing resembling sly vengeance, but ...

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...ey are so much accustomed to written pages, they have gone through so many plots, they have seen so many dramas, they have written so many articles wi... ... substantial reason- ing, and Carlos Herrera cemented it by an ingeniously plot- ted complicity. He had the very genius of corruption, and undermined ... ...in the inter- ests of the State or for the ends of Justice. “If there is a plot or a crime to be followed up, then, in- 90 Scenes from a Courtesan’s ... ...o rash as to discuss a conspiracy against the Bourbons, a rather seri- ous plot then on the point of execution. There was no one to be seen in the caf... ...t at the desk. Within four-and-twenty hours Gaudissart was ar- rested, the plot was discovered. Two men perished on the scaffold. Neither Gaudissart n... ...e, there was not a crack in it. He sounded all the walls, he looked up the funnel down which a dim light came, and he said to himself, “I am safe enou... ...om the middle of the vaulted gateway. This ill-omened room is lighted by a funnel, barred by a formi- dable grating, and hardly perceptible on going i...

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...ps were open; carts and waggons clattered to and fro; the narrow, up hill, funnel like streets across the River, were so many dense perspectives of cr... ...her. I do so. She leads me out into a room adjoining—a rugged room, with a funnel shaped, contracting roof, open at the top, to the bright day. I ask... ... have little cause to sympathise with Napoleon, Heaven knows. There was no plot at all, except that a French officer, dis guised as an Englishman, ca... ...ing in his face but shining teeth and eyes) looking wistfully at a certain plot of grass, I asked him who was buried there. ‘The poor people, Signore,... ...t a giddy height, before the loftiest windows of the loftiest houses. Past plots of garden, theatres, shrines, prodigious piles of architecture—Gothic...

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...n whose ear he has but to whisper a word to set him at once about his task. 6 The Black Tulip The wretched tool who was at hand to be the agent of th... ...ne of the apartments of the town prison, the preparatory degrees of torture, by means of which his judges expected to force from him the confession of... ...plar trees, the whole habitation having for background a dark grove of gigantic elms. The mansion was situated in such a way that the sun, falling on ... ...Baerle, as being arraigned, and convicted, for having, under the innocent appearance of a tulip-fan- cier, participated in the detestable intrigues an... ...in proof of which I showed to them the black tulip. Her lover having himself made a show at Dort of cultivating tulips to hide his politi- cal intrigu... ...ory, and was furious at hav- ing been the dupe of the pretended Jacob, he destroyed the sycamore behind which the envious Isaac had spied into the gar...

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...rity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook’s nest, he is always plotting wisdom, or plotting murder; whether he will grow up, after so much... ...ften, Miss.’ ‘Very often? Yes! And I might as well have spoken to the iron funnel of the strongest sea-going steamer that passes the Fellowship Porter... ...la, I say nothing. But the craft, the se- crecy, the dark deep underhanded plotting, written in Mrs Boffin’s countenance, make me shudder.’ As an inco... ...sure, drinks at every pump, cow- ers at every grating, shudders upon every plot of grass, seeks rest in vain behind the legions of iron rails. In Pari... ...ng to do more for Wegg. It seemed to him (so skilful was Wegg) that he was plotting darkly , when he was contriving to do the very thing that W egg wa... ...otting darkly , when he was contriving to do the very thing that W egg was plotting to get him to do. And thus, while he was men- tally turning the ki... ... mashed up Thames lightermen with her paddles; she fired property with her funnels; she always was, and she always would be, wreaking destruction upon...

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...e hearts he wished to be turned from callousness. He perpetually suspected plots; and to hear him allude to some deep, long-hatched school conspiracy ... ...ance of her father, and insisted that I was the catspaw of one of Heriot’s plots to vex him. ‘Tell Heriot you have my com- mand to say you belong to m... ...ir fists. That night Boddy and Catman paced in the bedchambers, to prevent plotting and conspiracy, they said. I longed to get my arms about Heriot, a... ...cult to get up a mutiny on board this ship. Richie, I understand the whole plot: he’s in want of cabin-boys. The fellow has impressed us. We shall hav... ...nd wish that captain of the vessel you sailed in goodbye?’ I fell into her plot so far as to walk down to the quays on the river-side and reconnoitre ... ...e a pretty scene, with your princess in hip-up petticoats, stiff as bottle-funnel top down’ards, airing a whole leg, and knuckling a tambourine!’ ‘Not...

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... shall you do it; do you hear me, Cesar? Underneath all this there is some plot which you don’t perceive; you are too upright and loyal to suspect the... ...rth the same price. If necessary, my associates will help me. Where is the plot, my white doe? Look here, I must tell you your defect. On the word of ... ...caffoldings necessitated by the change of the staircase, the square wooden funnels down which the rubbish was thrown into the carts stationed in the s... ...nterprise, and allow- ing it credit. Here were hatched the specious, legal plots by which silent partnerships were taken in doubtful enterprises, that...

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...n’t already. You know best about that, Sophy!’ Though this was a concerted plot between Miss Sophy and her sister, originating in humane intenions and... ...sting (as the child heard from the staircase), that there was a league and plot against him; that he was in danger of being robbed and plundered by a ... ... tight sticking snails. To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders a... ...ing with it, applied himself to warm the same in a small tin vessel shaped funnel wise, for the convenience of sticking it far down in the fire and ge... ...w who made my bones ache t’other day, was it? It was his friend and fellow plotter, Mr Trent, that once made eyes at Mrs Quilp, and leered and looked,... ...The other was his clerk, assis tant, housekeeper, secretary, confidential plotter, ad viser, intriguer, and bill of cost increaser, Miss Brass—a kin... ... to be erected, in the same mouldy cabin, an old ship’s stove with a rusty funnel to carry the smoke through the roof; and these arrangements complete...

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... on earth; but he is suspected of being the most vindictive of all who are plotting for the re- generation of Italy. I cannot think how they can bear ... ... a given moment and leads up to the cli- max by some thread woven into the plot.” “E vero!” remarked Gambara, to whom common sense seemed to return in... ...supported the openings or bells of various wind instruments and the closed funnels of a few organ pipes. “Will you play me the prayer you say is so fi...

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...l inclined to get any- thing to drink. He seemed to be sliding down a long funnel. He felt a burning sensation in his throat, and then he per- ceived ... ...was these blessed hea- then—quite regardless of the tranquil air of things—plot- 51 H.G . Wells ting to cut off with the boat and leave me all alone ... ...sy, for instance, to have worked the scene of the death-bed into a kind of plot in which Plattner might have been involved. But, quite apart from the ... ...eamer’s wake, her sails bobbing and flapping, and the black smoke from the funnels, spark-lit ever and again, streamed over her swaying masts. Gerille...

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...em, and puts the memory away in the galleries of his mind. He has schemed, plotted, and travelled all over Europe in order to add to his collection of... ...ork quietly, almost secretly, defeating our combinations by clever counter-plotting. No arrests, no noise, no alarming of the public mind and inflamin... ... the objects I’ve had for engine-drivers couldn’t tell the boiler from the funnel. But this fel- low understands his trade, and I don’t mean him to cl... ...n to Cayenne,” he answered. He seemed to think that somebody had given the plot away. As he was keeping watch in the back street, bag in hand, he was ... ...tle farther up the path the pretty girl, as if spellbound to a small grass plot, ran a few steps this way and that, wringing her hands and muttering c... ...a end. The Villa Nazionale is a pub- lic pleasure-ground laid out in grass plots, bushes, and flower-beds between the houses of the Riviera di Chiaja ...