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... Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 3 PROLOGUE Bedouin Encampment Arabian Peninsula, Rub al-Khali—18th Century "Allah has forsaken you, Kane." He hea... ...Allah has forsaken you, Kane." He heard the husky declaration as if from a great distance, glared at the sensual orifice from which his death sentence... ...e when I will understand." Kane fingered the small platinum pendant at his neck—a horse and rider—feeling his first real pangs of vulnerability since ... ...es—silver, amber, turquoise, bells, balls, and chain-mail mesh. Bracelets, necklets, anklets and head ornaments all so chunky and heavy. They feel lik... ... on the main medallion, the same scene on the back of the medal around her neck. Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 34 The scene was repeated on the... ...rs and saints, madmen and geniuses. Nothing had changed, just horrible and great people doing better and worse things on a bigger, more global scale t... ...d her along, squeezing her arm as he leaned in further. "You've suffered a great loss. Your ... paranoia, for want of a better word, is perfectly unde...

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... print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human wor... ...ith those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nou... ...der of Project Gutenberg and inventor of eBooks What millions call ―the greatest story ever told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the ... ...ped it down so fast that it stuck in his throat. So the lump in the your neck became your ―Adam’s apple.‖ Larynx is the anatomical term for that l... ...raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds of Teutonic speech. Later, these ... ...and. (―Englaland‖ had been the Angles homeland in the south of the Danish peninsula. Similarly, their ―Englisc‖ language became English.) Not impos...

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...p printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. -- 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West-One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne an...

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... print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human wor... ...ith those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nou... ...der Of Project Gutenberg And Inventor Of Ebooks What millions call ―the greatest story ever told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the ... ...d it down so fast that it stuck in his throat. So the lump in the your neck became your ―Adam’s apple.‖ Larynx is the anatomical term for that... ...raids across the North Sea from northern Germany and the Jutland (Danish) peninsula. Each wave brought more seeds of Teutonic speech. Later, th... ...and. (―Englaland‖ had been the Angles homeland in the south of the Danish peninsula. Similarly, their ―Englisc‖ language became English.) Not imp...

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...CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthage -- Venice the mistress of the sea -- Beli... ...istress of the sea -- Beliefs respecting the earth's shape -- Teachings of the great philosophers -- Fabulous islands of the Atlantic -- The Viking na... ... -- Noah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 1250 B.C. -- The monstrous ship built by Ptolemy IV,... ...nd which had wandered westward until they found a lodgment in the Scandinavian Peninsula. These Norsemen were a bold and warlike people, who set about... ...is subjects, save for the distinction of a collar of precious stones about his neck and a thread of silk on his breast with 104 pearls strung upon it,... ... awful calamity to the globe. FURTHER DISCOVERIES IN THE PACIFIC. In 1529 the Peninsula of California was discovered by Cortez, and its gulf and shor... ...of Portugal's rulers, had manifested his faith in the theory that Africa was a peninsula the point of which might be doubled, and that an open sea-rou... ... priceless value encircled his waist, a diamond-spangled collar was around his neck, two diamonds each "the bigness of a thumb" hung from his ears, he... ...the crews, cut off their ears, hands and lips, strung them on cords around the necks of the miserable victims, tied their feet together, and lest they...

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...e our own shoelaces. Men have been wearing the sign of infinity around their necks for over 200 years now: first as scholars, then as artists, and ... ...g as a mass that is individually sanctified by the urge to gather together in great numbers and focus inwards. This graveness of spirit which becam... ...wly; focusing and obsessing on one thing at a time without being aware of any greater context, without any interest in gaining any broader perspecti... ...power of destructive volcanoes for 25 fucking million years: that is where our great invention of using fire to cook with came from. What is the sou... ...upper bodies. Instead of their upper body: Arms, hands, finger, torso, chest, neck, shoulders, head; getting feedback from being in touch with their... ... heads cut off; do you think they might want some insurance to save their own necks from the executioner’s blade, eh? Like a secret dalliance with s... ...than the other Greek cities. They were situated at the very tip of the Greek Peninsula. This is one reason why they became more warlike. From cons... ...Roman refusal to give their exclusive citizenship to anyone else, the Italian Peninsula was torn by civil wars, and invasions, and political turmoil ... ... forest during the Dark Ages… Nobody went there . The entire people of that peninsula called Transylvania; withered away into madness. The descend...

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...vanced countries of the world to the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsula, tooled its philosophy from its successful island neighbor, Singa... ...e joys and challenges of business, politics, and the professions are often greater than the joys and challenges of parenthood. The liberation of wo... ...the fact that medical science has been able to extend the life spans of a great number of people. So we have far more people living, but far fewer w... ...om 82%--the state offered three months of salary or $10,000, whichever was greater. Not many people near the 110 level took advantage of this. But by... ...no longer necessary you kept the tradition of a strip of cloth around the neck. Then that tie became the only colorful piece of clothing for men. You...

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...ition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windward peninsula of Tahiti, where he lived. I have heard from end to end two versions; and as many as five different persons have helped me with details. There seems no reason why the tale should not be true....

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...tradition. It is highly popular through all the country of the eight Tevas, the clan to which Rahero belonged; and particularly in Taiarapu, the windw... ...ave!” he thought, “if I were speedy enough.” And he loosened the cloth from his loins, and swaddled the child in the stuff; And about the strength of ... ...azing feast-house clustered the eyes of the foe, Watching, hand upon weapon, lest ever a soul should flee, Shading the brow from the glare, straining ... ... of the man. And sure he was none that she knew, none of her country or clan: A stranger, mother-naked, and marred with the marks of fire, But comely ... ... and waiting ears and sight, The lads that went to forage returned not with the night. Now first the children sickened, and then the women paled, And ... ...y wore, but the tongue was dry in their mouth, And the blinking eyes in their faces skirted from north to south. Now to the sacred enclosure gathered ... ...im, Robert Louis Stevenson 62 And cast him far in the deep; And it’s I will tell the secret That I have sworn to keep.” They took the son and bound h...

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...henomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for all men lies between twenty-two and twenty-eight, is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desires. After that age, short as the seed-time, comes that of execution. There are, as it were, two youths,--the youth of belief, the youth of action; th...

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...ch for all men lies between twenty- two and twenty-eight, is the period of great thoughts, of fresh conceptions, because it is the age of immense desi... ...ure has favored and who, like Caesar, like Newton, like Bonaparte, are the greatest among great men. I was measuring how long a time it might take a t... ...water-fairies. The spot was at the farther end of Croisic, a dainty little peninsula in Brittany; it was far from the port, and so inaccessible that t... ...in him does not remember some mere mass of rock, which holds, it may be, a greater place in his memory than the celebrated landscapes of other lands, ... ...the little cur fought everybody, and amused himself with cutting the hens’ necks off and ripping up the pigs; in fact, you might say he wallowed in bl... ...ried him alone; he laid him in the bottom of the boat, tied a stone to his neck, took the oars and rowed out of the cove to the open sea, till he came...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a m...

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...ER 1. DOMBEY AND SON D OMBEY SAT IN THE CORNER of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little bask... ...hich Mr Dombey sat jingling and jingling his heavy gold watch-chain in the great arm-chair by the side of the bed, had had no issue. — T o speak of; n... ...ysicians, and a man of immense reputation for assisting at the increase of great fami- lies, was walking up and down the drawing-room with his hands b... ... and carriage, expressive of suppressed emotion, flung her arms around his neck, and said, in a choking voice, ‘My dear Paul! He’s quite a Dombey!’ ‘W... ... pistols when they were shut up; and when full-dressed, she wore round her neck the barrenest of lockets, representing a fishy old eye, with no approa... ...as my Mama!’ exclaimed the child, springing up, and clasping her round the neck. ‘ And the child’ s heart,’ said Polly , drawing her to her breast: ‘t... ... service, knew no bounds. I am told that he did all sorts of things in the Peninsula, with every description of fire-arm; and in the East and West Ind...

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...ER 1. DOMBEY AND SON D OMBEY SAT IN THE CORNER of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little bask... ...hich Mr Dombey sat jingling and jingling his heavy gold watch-chain in the great arm-chair by the side of the bed, had had no issue. — T o speak of; n... ...ysicians, and a man of immense reputation for assisting at the increase of great fami- lies, was walking up and down the drawing-room with his hands b... ... and carriage, expressive of suppressed emotion, flung her arms around his neck, and said, in a choking voice, ‘My dear Paul! He’s quite a Dombey!’ ‘W... ... pistols when they were shut up; and when full-dressed, she wore round her neck the barrenest of lockets, representing a fishy old eye, with no approa... ...as my Mama!’ exclaimed the child, springing up, and clasping her round the neck. ‘ And the child’ s heart,’ said Polly , drawing her to her breast: ‘t... ... service, knew no bounds. I am told that he did all sorts of things in the Peninsula, with every description of fire-arm; and in the East and West Ind...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, b...

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...ay in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon ... ... on this particular day had been of an unwonted sort, and he had performed great physical feats which left him less jaded than his tranquil stroll thr... ...ry James dant mustache he was clean-shaved. He had the flat jaw and sinewy neck which are frequent in the American type; but the traces of national or... ...The cultivation of the fine arts appeared to neces- sitate, to her mind, a great deal of byplay, a great stand- ing off with folded arms and head droo... ... then, you want that portrait—the golden hair, the purple satin, the pearl necklace, the two magnificent arms?” “Everything—just as it is.” “Would not... ... by the fire, talking to a very old gentleman in a wig and a profuse white neck cloth of the fashion of 1820. Madame de Cintre was bending a listening... ...gust with the brutal Sardinian rule and complete reversion, throughout the peninsula, to the sacred sway of the Holy Father), and, finally, gave a his...

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...stom can make it. 5 Rudyard Kipling You will remember that Mowgli spent a great part of his life in the Seeonee Wolf-Pack, learning the Law from Balo... ...oo weak to kill them. Chil, the Kite, stayed and grew fat, for there was a great deal of carrion, and evening after evening he brought the news to the... ...ild pig, and buffalo took up the cry hoarsely; and Chil, the Kite, flew in great circles far and wide, whistling and shrieking the warning. By the Law... ...the master and judge of the Jungle, and, leaping upon that buck, broke his neck. “Till that night never one of us had died, and the First of the Tiger... ...g we had seen in the cave, he said. ‘I will go to this Thing and break his neck.’ So he ran all the night till he came to the cave; but the trees and ... ...make the ground to open under thy feet, and the creeper to twist about thy neck, and the tree-trunks to grow together about thee higher than thou cans... ...son’s Strait, where the great tides heave the ice about, north of Melville Peninsula—north even of the nar- row Fury and Hecla Straits—on the north sh...

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...ecurring wonder of the littleness of the scientific man in the face of the greatness of his science found such an amazing exemplifica- tion. Much conc... ...d rubber substitutes,” to the Society of Arts—he had become man- ager to a great plastic-substance manufactory—and at that time, it is now known, he w... ...nothing to the discussions of that body, preferring no doubt to mature his great concep- tion without external assistance. And within two years of tha... ...as he spoke—”free.” He produced another from the back of 23 H G Wells his neck, and laid it beside its predecessor on the counter. Gip regarded his g... ...ay upon the ground. Still, by hard scanning, by leaning beside the horses’ necks and pausing ever and again, even these white men could contrive to fo... ...d canes bending in unison, and then the tails of silk that hung before his neck flapped and fell. The breeze was growing stronger. Some- how it took t... ...the flight of the peasants—for very soon a gust of fight- ing swept up the peninsula—with these things haunting our minds it still resulted only in a ...

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...esentation of sentiments. 4 The Chouans Many of the peasants, in fact the greater number, were barefooted, and wore no other garments than a large go... ... wore no other garments than a large goatskin, which covered them from the neck to the knees, and trou- sers of white and very coarse linen, the ill-w... ...ooden shoes, which the peasants of Brittany make for them- selves; but the greater number had heavy hobnailed boots, 5 Balzac and coats of coarse clo... ... their marching outfit a flask, probably full of brandy, slung round their necks by a bit of twine. A few burgesses were to be seen in the midst of th... ...time to time a few of them, noticeable for the rosaries hanging from their necks (dangerous as it was to carry that sign of a religion which was suppr... ... their insertion among the statutes. No longer restrained, as formerly, by great moral ideas, by patriotism, nor by terror, which enforced their execu... ...s, and could be reached only by a narrow causeway. That part of the little peninsula on which the house and gardens were placed was still further prot...

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...O SCO SCO SCOTL TL TL TL TLAND AND AND AND AND 1844 1844 1844 1844 1844 A GREAT REVOLUTION has taken place in Scotland. A greater has been threatened... ...r to stifle a conflagration once thoroughly kindled. That must depend in a great degree upon the favorable aspect of events yet in the rear. Meantime ... ...degree upon the favorable aspect of events yet in the rear. Meantime these great disturbances are not understood in England; and chiefly from the diff... ...s of similar sound. 2 In this stage of its progress, when extended to the neck and the shoulders, it represents pretty accurately the modern shirt, o... ...ebrew women of high rank, in the flourishing pe- riod of their state, wore NECKLACES composed of mul- tiple rows of pearls. The thread on which the pe... ...ometimes true of a Hebrew family, that its whole estate was locked up in a necklace. Tertullian complains heavily of a particular pearl necklace, whic... ... this hybrid mixture. Vast deserts, which insulate one side of the Arabian peninsula; the sea, which insulates the other sides, have, with other cause...

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...ike manner the last of the old Spanish infantry origi- nally formed by the Great Captain, Gonzalo de Cordova, were all cut off, standing fast to a man... ...nd how much more should they not abound after the words have been spoken, ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his frien... ...an than this, that he lay down his life for his friend’, and after the one Great Deed has been wrought that has consecrated all other deeds of self-sa... ... thirty-two men armed with darts and javelins, and an Indian driver on his neck; and they had 1000 foot and 500 horse attached to the spe- cial follow... ...a case. Or a lion came forth with a jeweled crown on his head, a dia- mond necklace round his neck, his mane plaited with gold, and his claws gilded, ... ... they were wel- comed like men risen from the dead; the Bishop wept on the neck of Attalus, and was ready to receive Leo as a slave no more, but a fri... ...arly times of Spanish history, before the Moors had been expelled from the peninsula, or the blight of Western gold had enervated the nation, the old ... ...t ever yet sent forth by the little kingdom, and the first that had left a Peninsular port with the banners and streamers of which the more north- ern... ...iosa; but La Valette decided on building the chief town of the isle on the Peninsula of Fort St. Elmo, and in this work he spent his latter days, till...

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... melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing an... ...had a smaller circle of admirers, has yet been carved and dressed with the greatest care by the artist; the Dobbin Figure, though apparently clumsy, y... ...s in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick M... ...wered Jemima, trembling very much, and blushing over her withered face and neck, as she turned her back on her sister. “For Becky Sharp: she’s going t... ...of her drawers; and her books, and her piano, and her dresses, and all her neck- laces, brooches, laces, and gimcracks. She insisted upon Rebecca acce... ...pt. She redoubled her caresses to Amelia; she kissed the white corne- lian necklace as she put it on; and vowed she would never, never part with it. W... ...regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the Peninsula. He had arrived with a knock so very timid and quiet that it was ... ...d for, to show their comrades in arms that they could fight as well as the Peninsular veterans, and that all the pluck and valour of the —th had not b... ...hree weeks are over, and will give the Duke such a dance as shall make the Peninsula appear mere child’s play. But you need not say that to Mrs. Osbor...

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... by William Makepeace Thackeray DEDICATION TO CAPTAIN SAMUEL LEWIS, OF THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY’S SERVICE. My Dear Lewis, ... ...onversation naturally fell upon the tour Mr. James was about to take. The Peninsular and Oriental Company had arranged an excursion in the Medi- terr... ... to crown all, said he had no doubt that his friends, the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, would make Mr. Titmarsh the present of a ... ...he sun had not yet set, but over the town and lofty rocky castle of Vigo a great ghost of a moon was faintly visible, which blazed out brighter and br... ...tle shore. And now our attention was withdrawn from the land to a sight of great splendour on board. This was Lieutenant Bundy, the guardian of Her Ma... ... small, with arcades and balconies, out of which looked women apparently a great deal too big for the chambers they inhabited; the warriors were in gi... ... than in the proces- sion of Blue Beard, with soft rolling eyes and bended necks, swaying from one side of the bazaar to the other to and fro, and tre... ... the dead-eye, And the sparks in fiery eddy, That whirled from the chimney neck: In our jovial floating prison There was sleep from fore to mizen, And... ...us old fat woman in yellow, quivering all over with strings of pearls, and necklaces of sequins, and other ornaments, the which descended from her nec...

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...idly ferocious, morose, of mean appearance, and altogether unworthy of the greatness this opportunity had thrust upon him. What was interesting was th... ...avishness with his gifts, in his manly vanity, in the obscure sense of his greatness and in his faithful devotion with some- thing despairing as well ... ...ardly knows by what or by whom, he is still of the People, their undoubted Great Man—with a private history of his own. One more figure of those stirr... ...patch of blue mist floats lightly on the glare of the horizon. This is the peninsula of Azuera, a wild chaos of sharp rocks and stony levels cut about... ...gh head of stone stretched from a green-clad coast at the end of a slender neck of sand covered with thickets of thorny scrub. Utterly waterless, for ... ...ad started to chop their way with machetes through the thorny scrub on the neck of the peninsula. On the second evening an upright spiral of smoke (it... ...o chop their way with machetes through the thorny scrub on the neck of the peninsula. On the second evening an upright spiral of smoke (it could only ... ...y them then the whole length of the jetty; it had been a des- perate dash, neck or nothing—and again it was Nostromo, a fellow in a thousand, who, at ...

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...well man” of me; not, let it be borne in mind, that the cap- tain felt any great compassion for me, he only desired to have the benefit of my services... ...e same desire to make a civilized mortal of me, flourished about my head a great pair lie imminent jeopardy of both ears, and the 5 Melville certain ... ...nd sudden had been my escape, so excited had I been through it all, and so great the contrast between the luxurious repose of the valley, and the wild... ...ked mine by tying round them little scarfs of black silk, torn from an old neck-handkerchief. Putting them in mourning this way, the doctor said, was ... ...the vilest work. Is there a heavy job at tarring to be done, he is pitched neck and shoul- ders into a tar-barrel, and set to work at it. Moreover, h... ...deal of prying and punching, the bung was forced in; and then the cooper’s neck-handkerchief, attached to the end of the hoop, was drawn in and out—th... ... miles in circuit. From the great central peaks of the 57 Melville larger peninsula—Orohena, Aorai, and Pirohitee—the land radiates on all sides to t... ...g from one station to another, it almost completely encompasses the larger peninsula; skirting for a distance of at least sixty miles along the low, f... ...ile lands bordering the sea. But on the side next T aiarboo, or the lesser peninsula, it sweeps through a narrow, secluded valley, and thus crosses th...