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...he White Nightjar." The back cover said that it depicted the second queen consort's birth of a bird and her exile from the kingdom. The preface stat... ...bird and her exile from the kingdom. The preface stated that both Laotian queens had prayed that life be recycled in their wombs but only the younges... ... be recycled in their wombs but only the youngest became pregnant. At the consort's request, the oldest queen blindfolded her when the labor pains en... ...thsayer could then deceive the king by making him believe that the younger consort had had sexual relations with a foul bird months earlier. This was... ...pty. He drank some bottled water and fell asleep to more images of Laotian queens walking through cocoa fields with their little black birds. When Kaz... ...t. He sat on a bench and reread the earlier part of his Laotian poem: the queens' prayers; the youngest queen's pregnancy; the oldest queen's plot fo... ...he hundred women on a given day that sought to get traveler's visas at the German Embassy escorted by their boyfriends so as to begin a departure that...

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...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...rs, murderers, outlaws, robbers, and thieves. The biggest chieftains, kings, queens, and emperors; with the biggest armies, the greatest navies; wh... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ...ears. So apparently, 11,500 years of historians, and senators, and kings and queens, and priests, and leaders, and all the moral tales and stories a... ...of these royal scum. It is full of how the elite and nobility, how Kings and Queens had miscarriages, how their weak, unhealthy babies died stillbo... ...e really was. And how he really felt about himself and all the bad people he consorted with behind closed doors. Did any reporter in the pressroo... ...about a great Mogul Emperor named Akbar who purportedly so loved one paramour consort of his: that he built the most beautiful palace in the world fo... ...ving in the bottom dregs of human society, indistinguishable from the evil he consorts with. A social cripple: incapable of love, intimacy or marria...

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... English, nor Jamie to have to call them to account.’ This same old knight consorted with Sir Patrick, Dame Lilias, and Father Romuald, and kept a sha... ... the foresters, and Sir Patrick gravely silenced her. ‘Whist, lady, brawls consort not with your rank. Gang back doucely to my leddy.’ ‘But Skywing! h... ...han all these agitations about princely bridegrooms! and broken lances and queens of beauty seemed to fade into insignificance, or to be only incident... ... sister could speak ‘French of Paris,’ the others used a dialect so nearly German that Lady Suffolk could barely understand them, and the other ladies... ...enough for the old nuns, but no for kings 88 Two Penniless Princesses and queens.’ ‘I hate the horned cap, in which I feel like a cow, and methought ... ...’s, while Margaret took Eleanor’s, and said in her ear, ‘The great awkward German! He is come here to pay his court to Yolande, but she will none of h... ...ation; and they went on to King Arthur, and he did his best to narrate the German read- ing of Sir Parzival. The difficulties engrossed them till the ... ... see that there was no evil or licence in his conduct, but that he chiefly consorted with David and a few other young squires to whom this week, so de...

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...t certainly become, the tongue of the Pacific. I will instance a few examples. I met in Majuro a Marshall Island boy who spoke excellent English; this... ...n Mercator’s projection, and one of the 48 In The South Seas most agreeable verandahs in the tropics), a handful of whites of varying nationality, mo... ... the brother drily. A word in passing on the two husbands. I conceive the brother to have expressed himself loosely. It seems com- mon enough to find ... ...g, or bird, or insect; the bush is full of them, they seem to eat nothing, slay solitary wanderers apparently in spite, and at times, in human form, g... ...ation hard for us to con- ceive. Beasts of draught, and driven by the fear of death, they were yet implicitly trusted with their sovereign’s life; the... ...e well knew. ‘Tell me the man’s name, and I will spare you,’ said Nakaeia. But the girl was staunch; she held her 153 Robert Louis Stevenson peace, s... ...tei hired it out to others. In his days, for instance, Messrs. Wightman built a pier with a verandah at the north end of the town. The masonry was the...

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...goose Gobel, for example,—or Go(with an umlaut)bel, for he is of Strasburg German breed, be a Con- stitutional Archbishop? Alone of all men there, Mir... ...cases, is fellowship; soul mystically strength- ening soul! The meditative Germans, some think, have been of opinion that Enthusiasm in the general me... ...spread among them. Bouille is firm as the adamant; but what shall he do? A German Regiment, named of Salm, is thought to be of better temper: neverthe... ... which one knows, and perseveringly denounces, do Sieur Motier’s mouchards consort and colleague; battening vampyre-like on a People next-door to star... ...ugurs ill for the prospering of the enterprise. But the whims of women and queens must be humoured. Bouille, on his side, is making a fortified Camp a... ...orable; but, like Caesar in the Capitol, wrapped her mantle, as it beseems Queens and Sons of Adam to do. But thou, O Louis! of what stuff art thou at...

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... subject,) would transcend, in gorgeous display, the coro- nation robes of queens; nose-pendants would cause the masque to be immediately and unerring... ...r northern use of them, it has been satisfactorily shown by Bottiger, in a German Journal, that the Greek and Roman ladies knew nothing of that modern... ... the extent of his own igno- rance, though doubtless founded upon what the Germans call an einseitig or one-sided estimate, there was however that sor... ... as belonging to our human condition, were not in reality objective, (as a German philosopher would express himself,) or laid in the nature of things,... ...all individuals of any other. Captain Cook’s ship, the Resolution, and her consort, the Adventure, were as much independent states and objects of lawf...

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...in the play was to be taken by a certain Monsieur Poplevin, and another *A German dramatist (1761-1819) who also filled sundry posts in the service of... ...ity, and, like the average Russian, such a de- sire for accuracy as even a German could not rival. To what the reader already knows concerning the per... ...mere Collegiate Councillor—a mere person with whom Aulic Councillors might consort, but upon whom persons of the grade of full General* would probably... ... had proceeded according to the rules of his tribe— that is to say, he had consorted with and stood in with the more well-to-do serfs on the estate, a... ...e the lazy one a cut with his whip. “You know your business all right, you German pantaloon! The bay is a good fellow, and does his duty, and I will g... ...ght-coloured wood which threw into relief the darker hue of the walls, and consorted well with the flowered pitchers painted on the shutters. Ascendin... ...st as Chichikov spoke he saw a third chessman coming into view between the queens. God only knows whence that chessman had materialised. “No, no!” sho... ...e third piece come?” “What third piece?” “The one now standing between the queens?” “’Tis one of your own pieces. Surely you are forgetting?” “No, no,... ...kind of bow usually employed only by actresses who are playing the role of queens. Next, she took a seat upon the sofa, drew around her her merino gow...

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...h no friendly eyes, he yielded him an equality of precedence, which hardly consorted with Richard’s rude forest garments. The chase was the order of t... ...g- gard in this garb; but it well became Beatrix von Falkmorite, the young German girl whom Richard King of the Romans had wedded in his old age for t... ...oubles, kept together his immediate attendants; a party of boorish-looking Germans waited for Richard of Cornwall; and the slender, richly- caparisone... ...considerable elevation upon Sir Robert on his slender Arab. “These are the German monsters that our brethren bring over,” said Sir Robert. “Mark me, y... ...e close connection between the English, French, and Sicilian courts, whose queens were all sisters, she knew who every one was, and accounted for the ... ... add, my Lord, that I, as all the world, remarked that Richard de Montfort consorted much with Sir Reginald de Ferrieres, who, as we all remember, is ... ...s amazement was heard. “The purport?” continued Edward. “That, my Lord, it consorts not with my duty to tell.” “Look here, Richard,” interposed Gilber...

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... ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends... ...make a ballad or romance on The last war—much the same in Portugal; In Germany, the Pegasus he ‘d prance on Would be old Goethe’s (see what ... ...as to decide: Emperors are only husbands in wives’ eyes, And kings and consorts oft are mystified, As we may ascertain with due precision, S... ...e deem’d her least command must yield delight, Earth being only made for queens and kings. If hearts lay on the left side or the right She h... ...n’ (As Pistol calls it), but a young Livonian. Juan, to whom he spoke in German, knew As much of German as of Sanscrit, and In answer made a... ...reat discernment was the donor’s. But she was lucky, and luck ‘s all. Your queens Are generally prosperous in reigning; Which puzzles us to kn... ...A silent change dissolves the glittering mass. Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings, And dandies, all are gone on the wind’s wings.... ...er up, and this Much as old Saturn ate his progeny; For when his pious consort gave him stones In lieu of sons, of these he made no bones. B... ...rumour’d, took But small concern about the when, or where, Or what his consort did: if he could brook Her gaieties, none had a right to star...

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...ver his order-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were ... ... hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping. A bearded German and his pucker-mouthed wife tugged their enormous imitation-leather ... ...treet From them a stink of stale beer, and thick voices bellow- ing pidgin German or trolling out dirty songs—vice gone feeble and unenterprising and ... ...onations which a thousand million women, dairy wenches and mischief-making queens, had used before her, and which a million million women will know he... ...ay when on her hill by the Mississippi she had walked the battlements with queens. But the celebrated cinema jester’s conceit of dropping toads into a... ...late flung her into unwilling tittering, and the afterglow faded, the dead queens fled through darkness. VI She went to the Jolly Seventeen’s afternoo... ...Yet the next afternoon she was pouncing on Mrs. Lyman Cass, the hook-nosed consort of the owner of the flour-mill. Mrs. Cass’s parlor belonged to the ...

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...-top trou- sers and a roll-collar coat, and looking rather like the Prince Consort,—white angels almost visibly raining benedictions on their amiable ... ... and she tried in vain to interest me in them; there was Miss Strickland’s Queens of England, a book I re- member with particular animosity, and Queec... ...re at the omissions from our cur- riculum, and particularly at our want of German. More- 58 The New Machiavelli over, four classes still worked toge... ...on’t wish to innovate unduly,” he used to say. But we ought to get in some German, you know,—for those who like it. The army men will be wanting it so... ...vy, the Bank and other advan- tages) against a royalist army—reinforced by Germans—ad- vancing for reasons best known to themselves by way of Harrow a...

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...s in majesty revered, With hoary whiskers and a forky beard; And four fair Queens, whose hands sustain a flower, Th’ expressive emblem of their softer... ... royal rage. 60 Even mighty Pam, that Kings and Queens o’erthrew And mow’d down armies in the fights of Loo, Sad chance of ... ...fate inclines the field. His warlike Amazon her host invades, The imperial consort of the crown of Spades. The Club’s black tyrant first her victim di... ...tters in her pride. 4 So have I known those insects fair, (Which curious Germans hold so rare) Still vary shapes and dyes; Still gain new titl... ... See the false scale of happiness complete! In hearts of kings, or arms of queens who lay, How happy! those to ruin, these betray. ... ...rth, Venus shall give him form, and Anstis 140 birth. (Believe me, many a German prince is worse, Who, proud of pedigree, is poor of purse). His weal... ...rong, Exalt the dance, or animate the song; There, youths and nymphs, in consort gay, Shall hail the rising, close the parting day. ... ... 60 Language, which Boreas might to Auster hold More rough than forty Germans when they scold. Cursed be the wretch, so venal and so vain: Paltry... ...Nation’s sense:’ the cant of politics at that time. 190 ‘Carolina:’ Queen-consort to King George II. She died in 1737. See, for her character, ‘Heart...

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...simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom. I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn. He ... ...e not be blameworthy? It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for t... ...l oils? Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! Chapter 26 Knights and Squires T he chief ma... ...aded whale, is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottfisch of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words. He is, without doubt, the... ...t circumspection. For, like the Coronation banquet at Frankfort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these ... ...n the ermine of the Judge, and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by milk white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of t... ...ated and to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical R... ... to the question he put. For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he could c... ...an or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German emperors to their decrees. It signifies — “God: done this day by my h...

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...not the slender articu- lations of the Venus de’ Medici, Apollo’s graceful consort. “Well, my child, tell me your great or your little adven- ture, wh... ... of his manner to grisettes. They reminded him of the illustrious operatic queens of his early days, whose celeb- rity was European during a good thir... ...special catechism in the matter of womenkind. T o them the whole sex, from queens of France to milliners, are essentially depraved, licentious, intrig... ...pable of thought about anything but trifles. To them, women are evil-doing queens, who must be allowed to dance and sing and laugh as they please; the... ...on- siderable in the province. Though belonging to the middle classes, she consorted with the nobility, among whom she was more or less allied, her fa... ...auty is ever a queen,’ said the Emperor. And he, you know, was an Austrian-German,” added the chevalier. “But I can tell you that Germany, which is th... ...eductive as this Olympean viscount. She might have said to herself, as the Germans do, “This is my ideal!” instead of which she felt herself bound fro...

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...m- plicity seems a Socratic wisdom. I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn. He ... ...e not be blameworthy? It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for t... ...l oils? Think of that, ye loyal Britons! we whalemen supply your kings and queens with coronation stuff! CHAPTER 26 Knights and Squires T HE CHIEF MAT... ...circumspection. For, like the Coronation banquet at Frank- fort, where the German Emperor profoundly dines with the seven Imperial Electors, so these ... ... the Judge, 186 Moby Dick and contributes to the daily state of kings and queens drawn by milk-white steeds; though even in the higher mysteries of t... ...ated and to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical R... ...o the question he put. For, as it even- tually turned out, he cared not to consort, even for five min- utes, with any stranger captain, except he coul... ...n or animal, the mystical brow is as that great golden seal affixed by the German Emperors to their decrees. It signifies—”God: done this day by my ha... ...ed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper. It is a German conceit, that the vertebrae are absolutely undevel- oped skulls. But...

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...en very successful abroad, and was now returning to fulfil his sacred vow; he brought all his property with him in gold uninsured. We heard from him w... ...t mind me.’ Urged to new efforts by these words of resignation, Mr. Grazinglands looked in at a cold and floury baker’s shop, where utilitarian buns u... ... Millennium, while any of the uncomfortable su- perstitions I have glanced at remain in existence. CHAPTER VII TRAVELLING ABROAD I GOT INTO the trave... ...emed to be that the former were locomotive and the latter not): my back windows looking at all the other back windows in the hotel, and deep down into... ...t, send it into the dark against its will, leave it in a lonely bedroom against its will, and you had better murder it. On a bright morning I rattled ... ... more or less in the condition of those inside it, every night of our lives? Are we not nightly persuaded, as they daily are, that we associate prepos... ...e same occasion, ‘Queen Victoria frequently comes to dine with me, and her Majesty and I dine off peaches and maccaroni in our night-gowns, and his Ro... ...ed, than any other classes of young women. I noticed, among many little ornaments worn, more than one photograph-brooch of the Princess of Wales, and ... ...nt. All eyes watch the light again. At last a little toy sky-rocket is flashed up from it; and, even as that small streak in the dark- ness dies away ...

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...sed it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arminius... ...nd constrained to the ends of government, 12 Essays: Book III “Veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus; umbra e... ...us utimur;” [“We retain no solid and express portraiture of true right and germane justice; we have only the shadow and image of it.”—Cicero, De Offic... ... that Cyrus exhorted his soldiers, “Who loves himself let him follow me.”—”Consort yourself,” some one will say to me, “with women of your own conditi... ...g her hair and trick- ing up herself, forsooth, in her closet: this is for queens to do, and that’s a question, too: ’tis ridiculous and unjust that t...

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...usive of Rus sia, Norway, and Sweden. It would contain Autria four times, Germany or Spain five times, France six times, the British Is lands or I... ...ombined areas of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Aus tria, Italy, and T urkey; and almost all this wide region i... ...ound him self “quite unable to describe;” and therefore was grateful when a German tourist helped him out with the exclama tion— “By ——, they look e... ...g to an understanding with the two victims, he was to have given Backus four queens, but alas, he didn’t. Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 212 ... ...and by her parents, the old chief alleging that he was no brave, and his old consort called him a woman! The sun had again set upon the ‘sugar bush,’ ...

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...hree hundred several nations; that had fought innumerable battles with the Germans and Gauls, and always carried the victory; that had taken a million... ... that must still be fed with new tro- phies and triumphs, the Parthian and German wars would yield matter enough to satisfy the most covetous of honor... ...eat is the calamity of the Per- sians! Was it not enough that their king’s consort and sister was a prisoner in her lifetime, but she must, now she is... ...ad deserted, and the cities which they had burnt. This he did for fear the Germans should pass in and possess themselves of the land whilst it lay uni... ...er to Phila or to his other wives did not go so far as to prevent him from consorting with any number of mistresses, and bearing, in this respect, the... ...on the stores of accu- mulated wealth, while kings waited at his door, and queens were rivaling one another, who should make him the great- est presen... ... of their gross, uncleanly habits. The very Parthenon itself saw Demetrius consorting with harlots and debauching free women of Ath- ens. The vice of ...

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...member, hight Costard, ’— COSTARD: O, me! FERDINAND: [Reads] ‘sorted and consorted, contrary to thy established proclaimed edict and continent ca... ...To morrow shall we visit you again. PRINCESS: Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace! FERDINAND: Thy own wish wish I thee in every place! ... ...mbler’s hoop! What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife! A woman, that is like a German clock, Still a repairing, ever out of frame, And never going arigh... ...then thou wilt keep My tears for glasses, and still make me weep. O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel, No thought can think, nor tongue of mort...