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...n outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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...on ceremonies or reading their mandates became irrelevant. Yang Lin, parting from their movement toward the steps that led toward the Royal Museum, be... ...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...a mokotong. He locked the locker and felt "Honja" ("alone). Even among large groups of people he was alone. When he went to restaurants he was usually... ...ng at a curb with other pedestrians waiting for the light to change rocked a metal, rectangular trash container, which swung back and forth on a hinge... ...t the door. He stepped out over the crevice of a yard. A light sprinkling or heavy mist was falling upon him. Past the gate and into the street the ge... ...nection, looked like a man suffering from some neuron-entangled nervousness, heavy neurosis, or a bad prion making the holes in his head to match the ... ...'s "New House Rules for Immigrants" to the Latinos as they sat before her on metal seats. They were lectured that the food given to them should be pu... ...se, the historical origin of the bird which probably evolved from one of two groups of dinosaurs, the--oh shit, I can't remember-- during the early pa...

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... reached a second edition, and a good deal of it was used in Sketches of Hampshire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy received many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should be re-edited, but ninety years could not but make a great difference in these days of progress, so that not only had the narrative to be brought up to ...

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...shire, by John Duthy, Esq. An interleaved copy re- ceived many annotations from members of the Heathcote family. There was a proposal that it should b... ...an interest in provincial dialect, some specimens are appended, which come from personal knowledge. The lists of birds and of flowers are both from th... ... written at the end of the last century, he describes a medallion of mixed metal bearing the head of Julius Caesar, which was dug up by a labourer at ... ..., which was dug up by a labourer at Otterbourne, in the course of making a new road. He thought it one of the plates carried on the Roman stan- dards ... ...family. In taking down the old lodge of Merdon or Hursley, a large lump of metal was found, squeezed into a crevice of the wall, and was sold by Mr. H... ... now called Queen Anne, of red brick quoined with stone, with large-framed heavy sash windows and double doors to each of the princi- pal rooms, some ... ...on of Winchester. He was a 50 John Kemble’s Parishes man of great musical talent, and some of his chants are still in use. The only other fac... ... scrolls containing corn and grapes, presided over by angels, and with two groups of kneeling figures; on one side, apparently an Emperor with his cro... ... remember, I remember, The mowing of the hay; Scythes sweeping through the heavy grass At breaking of the day. The haymakers in merry ranks Tossing th...

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... of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...f a small attorney or bill-broker; they always patronise the other lion; a heavy ferocious-looking fellow, with a counte- nance expressive of savage s... ...ers of men and women (prin- cipally the latter), carrying upon their heads heavy bas- kets of fruit, toil down the park side of Piccadilly, on 51 Cha... ... present an appearance of dirt and dis- comfort on such a night, which the groups who lounge about them in no degree tend to diminish. Even the little... ...ife-clattering, and waiter-chattering, per- fectly indescribable. The more musical portion of the play-going commu- nity betake themselves to some har... ... already, to be enabled to force itself into the narrow alleys around, are groups of people, whose appear- ance and dwellings would fill any mind but ... ...nybody would, who glanced at that broad-skirted green coat, with the large metal buttons, that its wearer seldom walked forth 78 Sketches by Boz with... ...ull enjoyment of these festivities when we heard a shrill, and by no means musical voice, ex- claim, ‘Hope you’ll know me agin, imperence!’ and on loo...

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... of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...f a small attorney or bill-broker; they always patronise the other lion; a heavy ferocious-looking fellow, with a counte- nance expressive of savage s... ...ers of men and women (prin- cipally the latter), carrying upon their heads heavy bas- kets of fruit, toil down the park side of Piccadilly, on 51 Cha... ... present an appearance of dirt and dis- comfort on such a night, which the groups who lounge about them in no degree tend to diminish. Even the little... ...ife-clattering, and waiter-chattering, per- fectly indescribable. The more musical portion of the play-going commu- nity betake themselves to some har... ... already, to be enabled to force itself into the narrow alleys around, are groups of people, whose appear- ance and dwellings would fill any mind but ... ...nybody would, who glanced at that broad-skirted green coat, with the large metal buttons, that its wearer seldom walked forth 78 Sketches by Boz with... ...ull enjoyment of these festivities when we heard a shrill, and by no means musical voice, ex- claim, ‘Hope you’ll know me agin, imperence!’ and on loo... ... with silver buttons; and possessing hair of nearly the same colour as the metal. After sundry praises from his mother, and various admonitions as to ...

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...uite young girls now,” said Grace, half perplexed, half annoyed. “Exactly, from this moment we are established as the 4 The Clever Woman of the Famil... ...other white muslin.” “I have done with white muslin,” said Rachel, rousing from her reverie. “It is an affectation of girlish simplicity not be- comin... ...tly ignorant that Rachel’s toes were less insensible than her own, and her heavy three- years-old Wilfred asleep on her lap all the time. “She feeble,... ...ung.” “Fourteen. I was in a naughty fit at her refusing to go to the great musical meeting with us. We always used to go to stay at one of the canon’s... ...ice, and the prime labour of his life was to work up his choir; but he was musical by educa- tion rather than nature, and having begun his career with... ...was scarcely lightly touched enough, the irony was wormwood, the grav- ity heavy and sententious, and where there was a just thought or happy hit, it ... ... famished and weary state of expectation, the good Dean gyrating among the groups, trying to make conversation, which every one felt too fretful and t... ...to recall his attention from some new invention on the means of as- saying metals:— 343 Yo n g e “I am sorry you have stirred up Keith to the renewal... ...hing at the freaks of the scamper- 448 The Clever Woman of the Family ing groups of children, gaily exchanging pleasant talk with one friend after an...

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...ences in my life * Young people don't want to farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and... ...of the pillar house 64 * Building practices 68 Equipment of living 69 From buffalo to motor car 69 * Conveniences of living 71 * Triumph of h... ...ed the road to the corner of the Phahonlyothin road. It was midday and the heavy heat shimmered around me, the shop next to me sold dried fish. With m... ...he problems? What is light today, will really sink, to the bottom. What is heavy today, or people's opinions and what people today want, will rise to ... ...umerous side alleys and lanes criss- cross the main lanes, twisting around groups of houses and village backwaters, but always ending up re-joining th... ...eek opportunities to manage together. In the cold season, villagers sit in groups in the mornings in the sun, warming themselves. By and by, the young... ...joints in load-bearing structures were solid without the need for nails or metal fixings, for example, the ends of floor joists were slotted through ... ...s do not have the characteristic timbre of the old way of singing, and the musical scale is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same st... ...ion and Equality. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. Yupho, Dhanit 1960. Thai Musical Instruments. Transl. from Thai by David Morton. Siva Phorn Ldt., Ba...

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...ducation, fortune, or connections, did it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride, from a general wish of doing right, and a desire of seeing all that were connected with him in situations of respectability, he would have been glad to exert for the advantage of Lady Bertram?...

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...rdly have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride, from a general wish of doing right, an... ... and such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces. To save herself from useless 4 JANE AUSTEN remonstrance, Mrs. Price never wrote to her... ... as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the Metals, Semi Metals, Planets, and distinguished philosophers.” “Very tr... ... daughters he felt, while they retained the name of Bertram, must be giving it new grace, and in quitting it he trusted would extend its respectable a... ...to be friendly and sociable, gave great satis faction in the main among their new acquaintance. They had their faults, and Mrs. Norris soon found the... ...s Bertram, and being inclined to marry, soon fancied himself in love. He was a heavy young man, with not more than common sense; but as there was noth... ...house was built in Elizabeth’s time, and is a large, regular, brick building — heavy, but respectable looking, and has many good rooms. It is ill plac... ...n gave way before their popular manners and more diffused intimacies: — little groups were formed and every body grew comfortable. Fanny felt the adva... ...ng and every body. How many Miss Owens are there?” “Three grown up.” “Are they musical?” “I do not at all know. I never heard.” “That is the first ques...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...ion. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been put to bed in his own Chateau of Versailles: the ... ...tte’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musical windpipes grow- ing mute. (Campan, i. 197.) Thou unclean, yet unmal... ...ant with joy. Anon the applauses wax fainter, or threaten to cease; she is heavy of heart, the light of her face has fled. Is Sover- eignty some poor ... ...that super-sublime of modesty! Yet, on the whole, our good Saint-Pierre is musical, poetical though most morbid: we will call his Book the swan-song o... ...uzzing in eager expectancy, begins heaping and shaping itself into organic groups. Which organic groups, again, hold smaller organic grouplets: the in... ...nds, in those days. If poor famishing men shall, prior to death, gather in groups and crowds, as the poor fieldfares and plovers do in bitter weather,... ...peshot, Messeigneurs, on one condition: that the shooter also were made of metal! But unfortunately he is made of flesh; under his buffs and bandoleer... ...ill ring all another. The cry, To arms! roars tenfold; steeples with their metal storm- 115 Thomas Carlyle voice boom out, as the sun sinks; armorer’...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and thro...

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...10 OFF THE CHAIN........................................................................................................................... 15 OF THE NEW REIGN .................................................................................................................... 20 WILL THE EMPIRE LIVE? ............................................................................

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...L rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gym- nastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. ... ...out what it means.” I make a hasty promise and go out and tell my friends. From my garden I look straight upon the Channel, and there are white caps u... ...e the aeroplane routes along the line of the world’s coast- lines and lake groups and waterways. The airmen will go to and fro over water as the midge... ...of adapting itself to them has been no more than patching. Individuals and groups and trades have found themselves in imperfectly apprehended and diff... .... Trade and travel began, at first only a trade in adventitious things, in metals and rare objects and luxuries and slaves. With trade came writing an... ...y some whirling enemy or other. The burthen upon Bumble’s shoulders is too heavy to be borne, and we want the contemporary novel to give us a score of... ...o he fails to understand the magic prestige of gold, making that beautiful metal into vessels of dishonour to urge his case against it, nor had he any... ...Lon- don to a quarter or an eighth of the present number. Mostly these are heavy horse vans, and their disappearance would greatly facilitate the conv... ...ays been his dream to have a piano. The youngest girl, he is convinced, is musical. As a man who has knocked about the world and has thought, he quite...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...cious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride cake brought forth with an ... ...a low stool, unable to occupy herself except in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her spee... ...ld do for them. Every man would not ring so well as that, if you tried his metal. you would, Chettam; but not every man.” “I don’t know,” said Sir Jam... ...t spirit he wrestles against universal pressure, which will one day be too heavy for him, and bring his heart to its final pause. Doubtless his lot is ... ... that young lady for mental acquisition and propriety of speech, while her musical execution was quite exceptional. We cannot help the way in which pe... ...t bell Too large for you to stir? Let but a flute Play ’neath the fine mixed metal listen close Till the right note flows forth, a silvery rill. Then sha... ...eeting was despatched, and fringed off into eager discussion among various groups concerning this affair of Bulstrode—and Lydgate. Mr. Brooke, who had...

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............................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........................................................................................................................

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..................................................................77 A LETTER FROM “JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.” ............................................ ...ss One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Shrine draws his auguries from the bleeding hearts of men! While Love hath no end, Can the Bard ever ... ...e. “How beautiful they are!” mused Codlingsby, as he surveyed these placid groups calmly taking their pleasure in the sunset. “D’you vant to look at a... ...therefore, every word I said. “In the name of Juggernaut, why wait for the heavy artillery? Have we not swords? Have we not hearts? Mashallah! Let cra... ...st round of boiled beef. Wealth, wealth, what art thou? What is gold?—Soft metal. What are diamonds?—Shining tin- sel. The great wealth-winners, the o... ... As it was in a friend’s country, the knight did not think fit to wear his heavy destrier, or helmet, which hung at his saddlebow over his portmanteau... ...e gold.’ And I tell thee, Karl of Godesberg, that yonder Gottfried is base metal.” “By Saint Buffo, thou beliest him, dear Ludwig.” “By Saint Bugo, de... ... that there was a person by the name of Blondel, who, in fact, did all the musical part of the King’s performances; and as for the words, when a king ... ...as the evening of the 27th March, 1199, indeed—his Majesty, who was in the musical mood, treated the court with a quantity of his so-called compositio...

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...re nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour. Similar fac... ...hat supported me was smooth, polished, without scales. The blow produced a metallic sound; and, incredible though it may be, it seemed, I might say, a... ...00 Leagues Under the Sea “We shall see,” said Conseil. The dishes, of bell metal, were placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had... ..., during our sleep, had cleared the table. I breathed with difficulty. The heavy air seemed to op- press my lungs. Although the cell was large, we had... ...t the Captain’s call two of the ship’s crew came to help us dress in these heavy and impervious clothes, made of india-rubber without seam, and constr... ...This group covers an area of 370 square leagues, and it is formed of sixty groups of islands, among which the Gambier group is remarkable, over which ... ...of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent will stretch from New Zealand 94 20,000 Leag... ...e chords. Captain Nemo was there, bending over his organ, and plunged in a musical ecstasy. “Captain!” He did not hear me. “Captain!” I said, touching... ...ith every sense, scarcely breathing; plunged, like Cap- tain Nemo, in that musical ecstasy, which was drawing him in spirit to the end of life. Then a...

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... have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride—from a general wish of doing right, and a d... ... such as a very imprudent marriage almost always produces. To save herself from useless remonstrance, Mrs. Price never wrote to her family on the subj... ...w as Severus; besides a great deal of the heathen my- thology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.” “Very true i... ...hters, he felt, while they retained the name of Bertram, must be giving it new grace, and in quitting it, he trusted, would extend its respectable all... ...e friendly and so- ciable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance. They had their faults, and Mrs. Norris soon found them ou... ...am, and, being inclined to marry, soon fan- cied himself in love. He was a heavy young man, with not more than common sense; but as there was nothing ... ...Elizabeth’s time, and is a large, 49 Jane Austen regular, brick building; heavy, but respectable looking, and has many good rooms. It is ill placed. ... ...gave way before their popular manners and more diffused intimacies: little groups were formed, and everybody grew comfortable. Fanny felt the advantag... ...and everybody. How many Miss Owens are there?” “Three grown up.” “Are they musical?” “I do not at all know. I never heard.” “That is the first questio...

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...and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a ro...

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...he dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives to- morrow. From hall you go right or left into dining- room or drawing-room. Hall itse... ...he house really, but it’s all that one notices—nine windows as you look up from the front garden. “Then there’s a very big wych-elm—to the left as you... ...rs. Munt. She sat quivering while a member of the lower orders deposited a metal funnel, a sauce- pan, and a garden squirt beside the roll of oilcloth... ...cially loud part?” hazarded Mrs. Munt. “Of course I do not go in for being musical,” she added, the shot failing. “I only care for music—a very dif- f... ...a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes. Somehow he could not recover his temper, and all the time h... ...ore imagination could triumph, there were cries of “Mother! mother!” and a heavy-browed girl darted out of the cloak-room and seized Mrs. Wilcox by th... ...hrilled with the excitement of a death, and of a rapid death, and stood in groups or moved be- tween the graves, like drops of ink. The son of one of ... ...exed. The man was treating him as a fool, and if his heart had not been so heavy he would have reported him to his father. But it was not a morning fo... ...rch. “A tendency to spiritualism and those things, though nothing serious. Musical, literary, artistic, but I should say normal—a very charming girl.”...

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...ls of which a steam en gine is made? Young Man. Iron, steel, brass, white metal, and so on. O.M. Where are these found? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a ... ...nd? Y.M. In the rocks. O.M. In a pure state? Y.M. No—in ores. O.M. Are the metals suddenly deposited in the ores? Y.M. No—it is the patient work of co... ... 6 sulphur and stone and other obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which n... ... and preaches Christ and Him crucified every day and every night to little groups of half civilized foreign paupers who scoff at him. But he rejoices ... ... father. He had a young sister with a remarkable voice—he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self supporting might be grat... ...is a trifling punishment; this breaks the hearts of his family— which is a heavy one. They comfortably jail and feed a wife beater, and leave his inn... ... flashing color all What Is Man and Other Essays 116 about, but these two groups were the high notes. The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Au... ...ur Italians in peace. Today four of the ringleaders have been sentenced to heavy punishment of a public sort—and are become local heroes, by consequen... ..., and had secured lodg ings and opera seats months in advance. I am not a musical critic, and did not come here to write essays about the operas and ...

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...s—the Dutch borough of V ondervotteimittiss. Y et as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, t... ... to say, positively, that the borough of V ondervotteimittiss has existed, from its origin, in precisely the same condition which it at present preser... ...s puckered up in the shape of a cabbage. In her left hand she has a little heavy Dutch watch; in her right she wields a ladle for the sauerkraut and p... ...oats reaching down to their thighs, buckskin knee-breeches, red stockings, heavy shoes with big silver buckles, long surtout coats with large buttons ... ...alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis. Groups of excited individuals gathered at the corners of the streets. Every... ...- dications of refined taste, many books, drawings, pots of flow- ers, and musical instruments. A cheerful fire blazed upon the hearth. At a piano, si... ...en I say that it bore resemblance to the fervid, chanting, monotonous, yet musical sermonic manner of Coleridge), I perceived symp- toms of even more ... ...led as he glanced upward. From above, hung a chain of an unknown blood-red metal—its up- 108 Poe in Five V olumes per end lost, like the city of Bost... ...ating machine of Mr. Babbage? What shall we think of an engine of wood and metal which can not only compute astronomical and navigation tables to any ...