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...ohn Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming, on May 24. Passing through dangerous rapids, the group passed down the Green River to its confluence with the Color...

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It is a Fairy tale of Zoë on a promenade through Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Vese, Grand Canyon-du-Verdon, Zone-Saint-Cloud, and Tournon in France, 1913.

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...e Vendetti aka miketheauctioneer narrates an outstanding true account of a trip made in 1909 by Zane Grey and a plainsman, Buffalo Jones, through the Grand Canyon to lasso a cougar. That’s right lasso. Throw a rope around. That’s equivalent to catching one by the tail. As I narrated this book, I found fact to be as exciting as fiction. This part of the west was relatively ...

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... corral. Instead, he befriended his morose tendencies. Basking in the grandeur of his new stature, the back seat Nawin was dwelling on himself co... ...pon. Ajarn meant "respected teacher." "I went to the area outside of the Grand Palace in Sanam Luang. In front of the golden and pointed domes of t... ...ow, so you wanted to fly a kite near the golden pagodas and cupolas of the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaeo but you didn't do so. I assume it was more ... ...m her encasement inside the car but was still barely audible. "To see Grandmother?" "And grocery shopping. After all, it is grocery day. " ... ... its shadow onto a bridge connecting Pinklao street to the area around the Grand Palace--how palpitating was this glue and amphetamine trip. At times... ... And here he was at the Siriaj pier. There was a Dairy Queen, and a Black Canyon Restaurant near the pier and a long winding outdoor market. He wond... ... and being a brawny moron." "I have money. Do you want to eat at Black Canyon? You might not want coffee. I never drink it. Just water and cola... ... I never drink it. Just water and cola." "If we were to eat at Black Canyon or someplace less dingy-- really elegant-- I'd make sure my father p... ..."So, you will buy the coffee?" she asked; and on the second floor of Black Canyon the fumes of the molecules of coffee steam and "love" slapped his se...

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...with radio and earphones just like before in the hope of finding something grander.” “Yes.” “But there isn’t, Kenyon. There isn’t anything... ...rander.” “Yes.” “But there isn’t, Kenyon. There isn’t anything grander. The poor have to be used by the rich. Innocence needs to be denu... ... of that votive candle under the framed Navajo sand painting of her great grandmother in her mother’s vestibule—sinking in its blood as her great gra... ... give them as natural as dog barks. Arizonans sell tourist tickets to see Canyon Grande, so why can’t Loo-easy women sell canyons pococito between t... ...em as natural as dog barks. Arizonans sell tourist tickets to see Canyon Grande, so why can’t Loo-easy women sell canyons pococito between the legs ... ... And this here is lesser whoredom. I own what’s down here. Nobody owns Canyon Grande even if they sell the tickets for Canyon Grande—Canyon Pococi... ...his here is lesser whoredom. I own what’s down here. Nobody owns Canyon Grande even if they sell the tickets for Canyon Grande—Canyon Pococito too ...

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...dden thought struck her. “If I have to act as a mortal, how will I travel? On the grand scale of things, Wales may not be a large country, but it i... ...s’ quarters, the kennels, stables and chariot houses, she reached the doors of the grand Council Hall where Zeus held Court. Flinging them wide, she... ... He smiled, the crows’ feet at the corners of his eyes appearing even deeper, like canyons and valleys in a landscape. “You may find it hard to beli...

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...you're almost extinct. Look what came of your world shaping, the idiotic Grand Plan. My eyes burned for months with the flashes of dragons on the... ...ts. Stupid, tragic suicides. Glitter sand everywhere." "It wasn't the Grand Plan that doomed us all. It was the battles with those hoards of sh... ...Terrific, a great victory. All Hail. Anyway, you were never part of the Grand Plan; you couldn't stand not being heard. No wonder you were alone.... ...ime? Chapter 26 3025 words Mei-chou cut through a wide, high-walled canyon as she descended the Bogdo-ola. Her thoughts were filled with the ... ...behind a large outcropping of rock. Mei- chou looked right and left. The canyon walls were too far away to run. She couldn't out race his fire des... ...ars. Despite her fear, concern dragged Mei-chou on her belly back to the canyon. She could see nothing amid the holocaust. It was as if the fire o... ... Ao Rue had come around the Mount of God and was plunging down upon the canyon. His rushing body blew a valley in the peak's snow; white waves le...

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...o the sanctuary. The inside of the sanctuary is even more impressive, like a grand concert hall: bright lights shining from above the mile-high ceili... ...icans put them in nursing homes. Too bad Asians don't put their parents and grandparents in nursing homes, due to their austere obedience to culture ... ... friends and relatives to talk bad about them for putting their parents and grandparents in a nursing home, in order to save face. Many Americans ca... ...r to save face. Many Americans can't stand taking care of their parents and grandparents when they get old. For the younger Asian generation, we don... ...ian generation, we don't have a choice in the matter, since our parents and grandparents live with us when they're old. But on the bright side, when ... ..., right before five o'clock, not too early and not late. She lives in Shady Canyon, the most affluent part of Irvine, in a commodious two-story, Fre...

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...lien of, for example, a trust deed, which attaches only to a specific property. Grandfather Clause The clause in a law permitting the continuation ... ...ta, Denver, Dolores, Douglas, Eagle, El Paso, Elbert, Fremont, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, Kit... ...rs, Pueblo, Rio What Your Bank Doesn’t Want You to Know . . . 113 Blanco, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, San Juan, San Miguel, Sedgwick, Summit, Te... ...ke, Benewah, Bingham, Blaine, Boise, Bonner, Bonneville, Boundary, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, Clearwater, Custer, Elmore, Frankli... ...e, Clinton, Crawford, Delta, Dickinson, Eaton, Emmet, Genesee, Gladwin, Gogebic, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Hillsdale, Houghton, Huron, Ingham, Ionia,... ...igh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Divide, Dunn, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Golden Valley, Grand Forks, Grant, Griggs, Hettinger, Kidder, Lamoure, Logan, McHe...

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...hing called Nawin was indeed following the luminary whom he thought of as 'grandmother', as if she were the setting sun. He halted and waited for her ... ...ntinued to quickly walk away. He stood there watching the shrinking form. "Grandmother," he thought, "Where are you going?" He tried to get the words ... ...s the sole claimant. Still there was a fusion of a being in love and this "grandmother" who was diminishing beyond the unassisted eye to register. Amb... ...she did so passing the Temple of the Descending Sun. "How foolish you are. Grandmother. And a rich grandmother at that, living in an air conditioned h... ...es repeat the delusion of intimacy time and time again like their fathers, grandfathers, and so on--young succulent skin as a varied brunch and dinner... ...tnessed before. He and the entire capital will be a second and third Grand Canyon. But for now, as training, know me--my smells, my taste, the shape a... ...med fallible, and the world of the senses seemed like a voice echoing in a canyon, and no more real than that. It suddenly seemed to him that his own ... ...of months without having to work at all. To melt into the prodigious Grand Canyon, and to have it melt into him would be well worth any expense he inc...

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... God, have we killed him?” Cully’s words bounced back. They echoed in the canyons of Daniel’s brain until they faded to nothing. ***** Morga... ...idable first meeting. But what could be said, facing her this way with her grandson in his arms and a new wife on the doorstep, with not a word exc... ...ere. Pauline says it is a good start.” With his back turned toward his grandmother, Ronan signed to his mop horse, “Good boy. Good boy.” Dani... ...le I tend to Helene’s son.” With all his might, Ronan strained against his grandmother, finally breaking free. He ran to Daniel who picked him up,... ...dn’t have to speak. The men spent the whole trip swapping stories of their grand old times together. “Tell Morgan how you came by your nickname,... ... faces, every eye trained on her father. “Aren’t you proud to have such a grandpa, little baby?” she murmured as the applause began. “Listen to h...

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...ceptable means of behavior against people generally, or against my future grandchild? ―Look at global warming! Something must be done, but ... ...ature from the atomic level to the level of the universe. There must be a grand designer, God. As we learn more of scientific laws, this argument ha... ... beauty because of the reality of an afterlife. Look at the immensity and grandeur of the pyramids or the delicate exquisiteness of the Taj Mahal. Fr... ...the Statue of Liberty beautiful? So the incredible, the beautiful and the grand are not limited to any specific belief system.‖ —―On another... ...us, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the wolf who ate Red Riding Hood‘s grandmother, the witch of Hansel and Gretel, the trolls of Askeladen? ... ...ats include making the Statue of Liberty disappear, flying over the Grand Canyon, and walking through the Great Wall of China. We assume that it is ... ..., for the religions of the Mid-East it is the soul that creates the great canyon between humans and other animals‖ —―Wanda, theologians a...

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists between all living things on Earth; the sac...

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...yed to a time when he was very young and sat on this same ancient rock with his grandfather. "The warrior is like a hunter who waits patiently", his... ... that every member of the tribe was his child. At the age of five he asked his grandfather about the strange visions he had at night when he slept.... ...t was, then, that a special bond between them was created. From that day on his grandfather spent every spare moment with him. His grandfather becam... ...few had ever been given this gift. One day as they sat at the river's edge his grandfather told him that he, too, had been given the gift of the ni... ...e was that they were part of the same bloodline. It was years later, after his grandfather's death, when he began to truly understand the words he ... ...ver bed. Suddenly, a bright silvery beam reflected about a hundred yards up the canyon. Instinctively, he started moving toward it. It disappeared a...

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...m Design. Science tries to explain the Big Bang as an inexplicable wonder, a grand mysterious Miracle… which just happened by pure random luck to a... ...oes not happen because a certain person just happens to explore farther. The Grand Banks between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland were fished for hundre... ...st inhuman butchering armies on Earth. For example: a full 80% of Napoleon’s Grande Armee retreating from Moscow; had a host of sexual diseases tha... ...ning your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s oak table lovingly for twenty fucking years. Once you di... ...ning your life Energy. They could not care less if you polish your ‘beloved’ grandfather’s Oak table for twenty years. Once you die, that table wil... ...ord jumping, para-sailing, gliders, etc. Evel Knievil flying across the Grand Canyon in a fucking motorbike and being almost killed because the ramp...

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...ing hastily in the order books. They all seemed to know one another, these grand ladies from the fashionable avenue. Meetings took place here and ther... ...McT eague had told Marcus of his success with Trina. Marcus had taken on a grand air. “You’ve got her, have you? Well, I’m glad of it, old man. I am, ... ...huge spectacles and trying to smoke an enormous pipe. This was called “I’m Grandpa,” the title being printed in large black letters; the compan- ion p... ... printed in large black letters; the compan- ion picture was entitled “I’m Grandma,” a little girl in cap and “specs,” wearing mitts, and knitting. Th... ...curls, and coral brooch; Marcus Schouler, his arms folded, his brows bent, grand and gloomy; Heise the harness-maker, in yellow gloves, intently study... ...e silence of high noon lay close and thick between the steep slopes of the canyons like an invisible, muffling fluid. At intervals the drone of an ins... ... their blood, ex- tracting gold. Here and there at long distances upon the canyon sides rose the headgear of a mine, surrounded with its few un- paint... ... him at the exact spot. The trail zigzagged down the abrupt descent of the canyon, debouching into a grav- elly river bed. “Indian River,” muttered th... ...stinct deceive him. He recog- nized familiar points at once. Here was Cold Canyon, where invariably, winter and summer, a chilly wind was blowing; her...

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...s undisturbed. But there they bide their hour, awaiting their Columbus; and nature nurses and pre- pares them. The smack of Californian earth shall li... ...ntered on “the grade.” The road mounts the near shoul- der of Mount Saint Helena, bound northward into Lake County. In one place it skirts along the e... ... water-tank, and stables, and a gray house of two stories, with gable ends and a verandah, are jammed hard against the hillside, just where a stream h... ...erily accompany- ing us. For about a furlong we followed a good road alone, the hillside through the forest, until suddenly that road widened out and ... ...cross the parapet. It was down this that they poured the precious ore; and below here the carts stood to wait their lading, and carry it mill- ward do... ...- way opening on the air of heaven, five feet above the ground. As for the third room, which entered squarely from the ground level, but higher up the... ...6 THE ACT OF SQUATTING here were four of us squatters – myself and my wife, the King and Queen of Silverado; Sam, the Cro... ...less days; and if he had seen a flute, I am sure he could have played upon it by nature. It may seem hard to say it of a dog, but Chuchu was a tame ca... ...nly by the tinkling water in the shaft, or a stir of the royal family about the battered palace, and my mind has gone back to the epoch of the Stanley...

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...sta held the grant of Los Muertos in those days,” the centenarian said; “a grand man. He had the power of life and death over his people, and there wa... ...ppointed.” “And the girl?” demanded Presley. “She never knew. Ah, he was a grand gentleman, De La Cuesta. Always he treated her as a queen. Never was ... ...r- ing the old man a cigarette. The centenarian accepted with the air of a grandee, and extended his horn snuff- 19 Frank Norris box. Presley shook h... ...sunset; the still, gigantic moun- tains, heaving into the sky from out the canyons; the strenuous, fierce life of isolated towns, lost and forgotten, ... ... of the desert, the glory of the sunset, the blue haze of the mesa and the canyon.” “As you have done, for instance?” Vanamee nodded. “No, I could not... ...our in the afternoon, Presley reached the spring at the head of the little canyon in the northeast corner of the Quien Sabe ranch, the point toward wh... ... The place was not without its charm. Innumer- able live-oaks overhung the canyon, and Broderson Creek—there a mere rivulet, running down from the spr... ... as the leader. He him- self was proud of this distinction; he assumed the grand manner very easily and carried it well. As a public speaker he was on... ...rable specimen of pure, well- chosen English. He loved to do things upon a grand scale, to preside, to dominate. In his good humour there was somethin...

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...er to America. The Balestiers were of an aristocratic New York family; the grandfather of Mrs. Kipling was J. M. Balestier, a promi- nent lawyer in Ne... ...1888, 4 American Notes leaving a fortune of about a million. Her maternal grand- father was E. Peshine Smith of Rochester, N. Y., a noted author and ... ...ar shoes. She talks flippantly to her parents and men old enough to be her grandfather. She has a prescriptive right to the soci- ety of the man who a... ...ll, and we two marvelled as children marvel. “This evening we shall do the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,” said the maiden. “Together?” said I; and ... ...d we two marvelled as children marvel. “This evening we shall do the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone,” said the maiden. “Together?” said I; and she sa... ... I followed with the others round the corner to arrive at the brink of the canyon. We had to climb up a nearly perpendicular ascent to begin with, for... ...h the pines that shadowed us, but the full glory of the day flamed in that canyon as we went out very cautiously to a jutting piece of rock—blood-red ... ... An’ I found down below there two stones just marked with a picture of the canyon. I wouldn’t sell these rocks not for fifteen dollars.” And papa and ... ...I don’t think it was the blind hurry of the people, their argot, and their grand ignorance of things beyond their immediate interests that displeased ...

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...y morning now.” “Huh! You must be frightfully old—prob’ly too old to be my granddaughter, I guess!” Thus in the Vale of Arcady nymph and satyr beguile... ...rty cents!” “Yaaaaaah!” snarled Mr. Stowbody. “Course. She’s just like her grandad was. Never save a cent. Two dollars and twenty—thirty, was it?—two ... ...d not draw, over the slipperiness of fish in the pan. Like a child playing Grandma in a trailing skirt, Carol paraded uptown for her marketing, crying... ...e than 78 Main Street twenty-five hundred dollars a year, or possessed of grand- parents born in America. Even while they were removing their oversho... ...good, this weather! Raymond Wutherspoon says if he had my energy he’d be a grand opera singer. I always think this climate is the finest in the world,... ...APTER XXXIV They journeyed for three and a half months. They saw the Grand Canyon, the adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexic...

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... 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?atard, 136 -- All Gold Canyon, 153 -- Love of Life, 177 -- The Wit of Porportuk, 201 -- The Apostate, 230 -- To Build a Fire, 254 -- South of the Slot, 274 -- The Chinago, 295 -- A Piece of Steak, 313 -- Mauki, 336 -- Koolau the Leper, 354 -- The S...

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... Bˆ atard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 All Gold Canyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Love of Life . .... ...s daughter’s daughter, but she was too busy to waste a thought upon her broken grandfather, sitting alone there in the snow, forlorn and helpless. Cam... ...ed his grip on life by what remained. If Sit cum to ha had only remembered her grandfather, and gathered a larger armful, his hours would have been lo... ...oment, and went suddenly limp. But his teeth still held fast locked. All Gold Canyon 10 I T WAS the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerve... ...with here and there patches of color, orange and purple and golden. Below, the canyon was shut in. There was no view. The walls leaned together abrupt... ...yon was shut in. There was no view. The walls leaned together abruptly and the canyon ended in a chaos of rocks, moss covered and hidden by a green sc... ...cision. “Make it sixteen thousand, make it sixteen thousand,” Klakee Nah said grandly. “Odd numbers were ever a worry. And now — and it is for this t... ... being the best sustained char acter at the Butchers and Meat Workers’ annual grand masked ball. And Bill Totts liked the girls and the girls liked h... ...ed to cover him. Crouched around him, on their hams, were three young men, his grandsons, Deer Runner, Yellow Head, and Afraid of the Dark. In appear...

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..............492 By Broad Potomac’s Shore................493 From Far Dakota’s Canyons (June 25, 1876)............................................494 O... ..........................559 The Unexpress’d...............................559 Grand Is the Seen..............................560 Unseen Buds.............. ...himself is, and how certain the future is. I say that the real and permanent grandeur of these States must be their religion, Otherwise there is just ... ...States must be their religion, Otherwise there is just no real and permanent grandeur; (Nor character nor life worthy the name without religion, Nor l... ...as of glory incessant and branching, A new race dominating previous ones and grander far, with new contests, New politics, new literatures and religio... ...ngs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw, Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great grandsons around them, In walls of adobie, in canvas ... ...hitman 493 FROM F AR D AKOTA’S C ANYONS (J UNE 25, 1876) From far Dakota’s canyons, Lands of the wild ravine, the dusky Sioux, the lonesome stretch,... ... Were all so justified. SPIRIT T HAT F ORM’D T HIS S CENE (Written in Platte Canyon, Colorado) Spirit that form’d this scene, These tumbled rock piles... ...ld not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite—nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmi...

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...le driving home grownup lessons with style. Read them to your children and grandchildren, by all means, but read them for yourself. You won’t be disap... ...sked his permission to eat and sleep. Rushin had gone from feeling big and grand to feeling put-upon and irritated. He still tied his brother’s shoes ... ...nks that we should all pay attention to her because she is so majestic, so grand. Well, I for one can not stand the way she puts on airs.” There was a... ...rs,” she spat. “Love to have us swim behind her to make her look even more grand. Love to have us all follow adoringly and pay court.” All brown and b... ...ss, and with time all can be green again. Phoenix Rising hoenix lived in a canyon of orange rock at the end of the desert. He was a tough old bir... ...not long, however, before everyone began to clamor for the old soft- ness, grandeur and simple beauty that had gone missing. They chanted, and shouted...

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...le driving home grownup lessons with style. Read them to your children and grandchildren, by all means, but read them for yourself. You won’t be disap... ...sked his permission to eat and sleep. Rushin had gone from feeling big and grand to feeling put-upon and irritated. He still tied his brother’s shoes ... ...nks that we should all pay attention to her because she is so majestic, so grand. Well, I for one can not stand the way she puts on airs.” There was a... ...rs,” she spat. “Love to have us swim behind her to make her look even more grand. Love to have us all follow adoringly and pay court.” All brown and b... ...ss, and with time all can be green again. Phoenix Rising hoenix lived in a canyon of orange rock at the end of the desert. He was a tough old bir... ...not long, however, before everyone began to clamor for the old soft- ness, grandeur and simple beauty that had gone missing. They chanted, and shouted...

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...mme le jour prochaine est mon jour de naisance je vous ecrit ce lettre. Ma grande gatteaux est arrive il leve 12 livres et demi le prix etait 17 shill... ...is presque driven mad par une bruit terrible tous les garcons kik up comme grand un bruit qu’ll est possible. I hope you will find your house at Mento... ...uld. Try, by way of change, Byron’s Mazeppa; you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it a fire, and a passion, and a ... ...edevilled; they are sly and grotesque; they combine their sort of feverish grandeur with their sort of secretive baseness, after the manner of a Charl... ...west coast of Scotland, sloops, etc. The first scene where they make their grand schemes and get drunk is supposed to be very funny, by Henley. I real... ...e that was in my power. Most blameable. I now send (for Mrs. Gosse). Black Canyon. Also an advertisement of my new appearance as poet (bard, rather) a...