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...sappointment, discomfort, danger, and disease, with responsibility almost too heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less than three months, if all went well, his Excellency the Viceroy would open the bridge in state, an archbishop would bless it, and the first trainload...

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...oo heavy for one pair of shoulders; and day by day, through that time, the great Kashi Bridge over the Ganges had grown under his charge. Now, in less... ...ish and roll-down of the dirt. The river was very low, and on the dazzling white sand be- tween the three centre piers stood squat cribs of railway-sl... ...ed and shrieked up and down the embankments, the piled trucks of brown and white stone banging behind them till the side-boards were unpinned, and wit... ...ters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subordinates to direct, under direction, the bevies of... ...lling of the contracts in En- gland; the futile correspondences hinting at great wealth of commissions if one, only one, rather doubtful consignment w... ...erted and the later consignments proved, put the fear of God into a man so great that he feared only Parliament and said so till Hitchcock wrought wit... ...! S’ long.” “Split my tubes if that’s actin’ polite to a new member o’ the Brotherhood,” said Poney. “There wasn’t any call to trample on ye like that... ...lare and pronounce No. 007 a full and accepted Brother of the Amalgamated Brotherhood of Locomotives, and as such entitled to all shop, switch, track...

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...circumstantial waves, they lever their unbalanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the ... ... Portrait of an Era" "(Goce Delcev died) cloak flung over his left shoulder, his white fez, wrapped in a bluish scarf, pulled down and his gun sl... ...he situation and even they were paranoid and anxious. The flip-flop policies of the Great Powers turned Macedonia into the focus of shattered nation... ...essure. The Turks switched sides and allied with the Serbs against the spectre of a Great Bulgaria. Again, the battleground was Macedonia and its Bu... ...re bitter foe, the Ottoman Empire on the thin pretext of an Albanian uprising. The brotherhood strained in the Treaty of London (May 1913) promptly... ...ic (Zhivkovitch). But he soon separated himself from the Black Hand and joined the White Hand, another group of officers, more moderate, though no ... ...inister, a dictator, under a king installed by its slaughterous coup. Black Hand or White Hand - the means disputed, the ends were always in consens...

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...bosom has all the softness and snugness of an eiderdown pillow. But she has no great tenderness even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later — ofte... ... might as well have been a fiddler” Such are the compliments bandied between my great grandsires and myself, across the gulf of time And yet, let them ... ... weighty responsibility as chief executive officer of the Custom House. I doubt greatly — or, rather, I do not doubt at all — whether any public func ... ...se. The greater part of my officers were Whigs. It was well for their venerable brotherhood that the new Surveyor was not a politician, and though a fa... ... have been nothing short of duty, in a politician, to bring every one of those white heads under the axe of the guillotine. It was plain enough to dis... ...which their evil stars had cast them. THE CUSTOM HOUSE 11 Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellec... ...ses, whether the letter might not have been one of those decorations which the white men used to contrive in order to take the eyes of Indians — I hap... ...ech in foreign and unknown lan guages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart’s native language. These fathers, otherwise so... ...t this very burden it was that gave him sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind; so that his heart vibrated in unison with their...

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...ip of the society, to accept or reject the lifestyles lived by our parents. ―As I have said, on my voyage I was able to read the works of the great,... ...sages have written about who and what we are, it took the beginnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just as the great ... ...new birds access to the traditional nest building materials. To his surprise they built identical nests with identical knots to those of their great-... ...r in a boxing ring I wouldn‘t know. The closest I came to violence in my psychology classes was in dissecting a flatworm or nearly drowning a white ... ... illustration. Wearing your favorite team‘s jerseys is a non-violent type of association. Or look at the power groupings in prisons, the Aryan Brothe... ...the infidels in New York and Washington, to kill people who hadn‘t harmed him, and to kill George W, Bush by flying a suicide mission into the White ... ... of power and anger. Tests have been designed to measure pleasure centers. They show that cocaine addicts get the craving when shown a pile of white ...

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... ex perience of these birds. The raven in this story is a compound of two great origi nals, of whom I was, at different times, the proud pos sessor... ...inner, he ate up all they had left behind, consisting of a pound or two of white lead; and this youth ful indiscretion terminated in death. While I w... ...ept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day. Perhaps even I never saw him at his best, for his for... ...ence into his maw— which is not improbable, seeing that he new pointed the greater part of the garden wall by digging out the mortar, broke countless ... ...d and pelting of the rain, when there was a clean floor covered with crisp white sand, a well swept hearth, a blaz ing fire, a table decorated with w... ...tors, there had sprung up no long rows of streets connecting Highgate with Whitechapel, no assemblages of palaces in the swampy levels, nor little cit... ... led by Simon Tappertit (as sisted by a few subalterns, selected from the Brotherhood of United Bulldogs), Dennis the hangman, Hugh, and some others....

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...by Sir Walter Scott Introduction to the T alisman. The “Betrothed” did not greatly please one or two friends, who thought that it did not well corresp... ...ted. “The swarte vis [Black face] when the king seeth, His black beard and white teeth, How his lippes grinned wide, ‘What devil is this?’ the king cr... ...not in their possession, and were therefore treated by the Christians with great cruelty. Daily reports of their sufferings were carried to Saladin; a... ... ThafursTHAFURS (which Guibert translates Trudentes), and were beheld with great hor- ror from the general persuasion that they fed on the dead bodies... ...her large in proportion, but filled with well-set, strong, and beautifully white teeth; his head small, and set upon the neck with much grace. His age... ...ey stood in the darksome vault, disrobed of all clothing saving a cymar of white silk, that their charms moved the hearts of those who were not mor- t... ...s, whose shoulders are signed with the blessed mark under which they swore brotherhood. Woe to him by whom it is broken!—Richard of England, recall th... ... will not think of them. Only one attempt will I make to keep this gallant brotherhood together, if it be possible; and if I fail, Lord Archbishop, we...

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... THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED. ................................................................... 44 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. ...................... 49 THE KING?S SWEETHEART ...................................................................................................... 54 THE DEVIL?S HEIR..........................................

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.................... 44 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. ...................... 49 THE KING’S SWEETHEART .............. ...Like Boccaccio, Rabelais, the Queen of Navarre, Ariosto, and Verville, the great author of The Human Comedy has painted an epoch. In the fresh and won... ...able blemishes apart, the writer ventures to hope that he has treated this great masterpiece in a reverent spirit, touched it with no sacrilegious han... ...parkled with the flame of love. What lovely thick hair hung upon her ivory white back, showing sweet white places, fair and shining between the many t... ...e places, fair and shining between the many tresses! She had upon her snow-white brow a ruby circlet, less fertile in rays of fire than her black eyes... ...inal. He taking him by the arm led him to the staircase, looked him in the white of the eye and said without any nonsense— ”Ventredieu! You are a nice... ...asure did he experience in these great sacrifices offered at the shrine of brotherhood. Nevertheless, his duty was very bitter, very ticklish, and in-...

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... an almost exaggerated tender- ness. He, at least, will become my reader: – if it were only to follow his own travels alongside of mine. R.L.S. ! ... ...nplace, that we cannot answer for ourselves before we have been tried. But it is not so common a reflection, and surely more con- soling, that we usua... ...man with her elbows on her knees, or an old gentleman with a staff and silver spectacles. But Boom and its brickyards grew smokier and shabbier with e... ...e river doubled among the hillocks, a shining strip of mirror glass; and the dip of the paddles set the flowers shaking along the brink. In the meadow... ...f the paddles set the flowers shaking along the brink. In the meadows wandered black and white cattle fantas- 22 Robert Louis Stevenson tically marke... ...n in France, that even before such judges we could not beat them at our own weapons. At last we were called to table. The two hinds (and one of them l... ... a trice, and aimed for a place where the trunk seemed high enough above the water, and the branches not too thick to let me slip below. When a man ha...

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... cloudless weather, when the day seemed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills... ...eading on to Guadalajara, he came upon one of the county watering-tanks, a great, iron-hooped tower of wood, straddling clumsily on its four uprights ... ...ertisements upon it. It was a landmark. In that reach of level fields, the white letters upon it could be read for miles. A water- ing-trough stood ne... ...nd halted there, leaning his bicycle against the fence. A couple of men in white overalls were repainting the surface of the tank, seated on swinging ... ... his seat under the wagon umbrella, and, as he started his team again with great cracks of his long whip, turned to the painters still at work upon th... ...rrick’s land, division No. I, or, as it was called, the Home ranch, of the great Los Muertos Rancho. The road was better here, the dust laid after the... ...man on the road. And more than that, more than that, I don’t belong to the Brotherhood. And when the strike came along, I stood by them—stood by the c...

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...ING RICHARD II : What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray’s charge? It must be great that can inherit us So much as of a thought of ill in him. HENRY BOLI... ...ipe on earth, Will rain hot vengeance on offenders’ heads. DUCHESS: Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? Hath love in thy old blood no living f... ...fantastic summer’s heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse: Fell sorrow’s tooth doth never rankle more Th... ...I : We will ourself in person to this war: And, for our coffers, with too great a court And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light, We are inforce... ...ing your fearful land With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel. White beards have arm’d their thin and hairless scalps Against thy majesty;...

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...ntage-ground For pleasure; but through all this tract of years Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, I... ...eathen host Swarmed overseas, and harried what was left. And so there grew great tracts of wilderness, Wherein the beast was ever more and more, But m... ...ile he lingered there, A doubt that ever smouldered in the hearts Of those great Lords and Barons of his realm Flashed forth and into war: for most o... ...at war Went swaying; but the Powers who walk the world Made lightnings and great thunders over him, And dazed all eyes, till Arthur by main might, And... ...d the Lady of the Lake, Who knows a subtler magic than his own— Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful. She gave the King his huge cross-hilted sw... ...t of her altar-shrines, the King That morn was married, while in stainless white, The fair beginners of a nobler time, And glorying in their vows and ... ...in Arthur’s hall, And prayed the King would grant me Lancelot To fight the brotherhood of Day and Night— The last a monster unsubduable Of any save of... ... he that won The circlet? wherefore hast thou so defamed 166 Tennyson Thy brotherhood in me and all the rest, As let these caitiffs on thee work thei... ...t, ‘What! slay a sleeping knight? the King hath bound And sworn me to this brotherhood;’ again, ‘Alas that ever a knight should be so false. ’ Then tu...

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...She and forest, where she skims Feathery, darken and relume: Those are her white-lightning limbs Cleaving loads of leafy gloom. Mountains hear her and... ...s root: Unread, divined; unseen, beheld; The evanescent, ever-present she, Great Nature’s stern necessity In radiance clothed, to softness quelled; Wi... ...ht, And lets our mortal eyes receive The sovereign loveliness of celestial white; Adored by them who solitarily pace, In dusk of the underworld’s perp... ... Never there her face Is planetary; reddens to shore sea-shell Around such whiteness the enamoured air Of noon that clothes her, never there. Daughter... ...ct; erratic but in heart’s excess; Being mortal and ill-matched for Love’s great force; Like green leaves caught with flames by his impress. And pray ... ...nite, The lion-haunted thickets hold apart. In love the ruddy hue declares great heart; High confidence in her whose aid is lent T o lovers lifting th... ... the egregious, his elect; And ever that imagined succour slew The soul of brotherhood whence Reverence drew. In fellowship religion has its founts: T... ...d she the personal nothing heeds, So to Divinity the spring of prayer From brotherhood the one way upward leads. Like the sustaining air Are both for ... ...full flight, Himself as mirror raised among his kind, He saw, and first of brotherhood had sight: Knew that his force to fly, his will to see, His hea...

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...ne, Whose voice seem’d faint through long disuse of speech. When him in that great desert I espied, “Have mercy on me!” cried I out aloud, “Spirit! or... ...mmortal tribes had entrance, and was there Sensible present. Yet if heaven’s great Lord, Almighty foe to ill, such favour shew’d, In contemplation of ... ... spoken, were ordain’d And ‘stablish’d for the holy place, where sits Who to great Peter’s sacred chair succeeds. He from this journey, in thy song re... ...rom speech Abstain’d. And lo! toward us in a bark Comes on an old man hoary white with eld, 10 The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell Crying, “Woe to yo... ...rsuing its career, Another I beheld, than blood more red. A goose display of whiter wing than curd. And one, who bore a fat and azure swine Pictur’d o... ...iter wing than curd. And one, who bore a fat and azure swine Pictur’d on his white scrip, addressed me thus: “What dost thou in this deep? Go now and ... ...as we came O’er the last cloister in the dismal rounds Of Malebolge, and the brotherhood Were to our view expos’d, then many a dart Of sore lament ass... ...e of the Frati Godenti, Joyons Friars who having quarrelled with some of his brotherhood, under pretence of wishing to be reconciled, invited them to ...

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...me a living German author instead of merely a translated English one is so great that I am bound to point out that he is not respon- sible for my view... ...except the things I told them to do ten years before, and that its path is white with the bones of the Socialist superstitions I and my fellow Fabians... ...e perished of despair in my youth but for the world created for me by that great German dy- nasty which began with Bach and will perhaps not end with ... ...s and sweetness. In due time the gold of Klondyke will find its way to the great cities of the world. But the old dilemma will keep con- tinually repr... ..., a large dividend, and plenty of clergymen shareholders. Or it might be a whitelead factory, or a chemical works, or a pot- tery, or a railway shunti... ...ure and simple, and that Wagner never dreamt of share- holders, tall hats, whitelead factories, and industrial and po- litical questions looked at fro... ...r shall give his sister to Siegfried in marriage. On that they swear blood-brotherhood; and at this opportunity the old operatic leaven breaks out amu... ... a wild boar. Gunther, being a fool, is remorseful about his oath of blood-brotherhood and about his sister’s bereavement, without having the strength...

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...with trepidation. Since no bones were broken, the second was launched with greater confidence. So, by insensible degrees, a young man of our generatio... ...rent results, even with a critic so warmly interested in their favour. The great contemporary master of wordmanship, and indeed of all literary arts a... .... But second, there is a certain class, professors of that low morality so greatly more distressing than the better sort of vice, to whom you must nev... ...leep overtook them as they lay; and when they awoke, “the east was already white” for their last morning in Japan. They seized a fisherman’s boat and ... ...en supper had been despatched and fairly washed down, we may suppose, with white Baigneux or red Beaune, which were favourite wines among the fellowsh... ...he was put to the question by water. He who had tossed off so many cups of white Baigneux or red Beaune, now drank water through linen folds, until hi... ... let us say better – a common heresy. For people are not most conscious of brotherhood when they continue languidly together in one creed, but when, w...