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...a second row of tables that constituted the Women's Lodge. In the middle of the room, three minor Chinese government officials--smartly-dressed in khaki pants, Polo shirts, and completely-ignored--drank tea and conducted their own conversation in an incomprehensible language. They were, after all, the owners of the crops these farmers were attempting--against increasing...

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...his opportunity to thank Sister Fatma Saleh for her generous contributions in editing and revising this edition. Special thanks are also due to the Khaki family of Seattle, Washington for making this book come to print. May Allah, the most Merciful, the most Compassionate reward all those who work sincerely to serve His cause....

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...ushed by his hand. Kane caressed the scabbard tucked into the front of the khakis he wore, comforted by its weight against his groin. He would be read... ...!" Therese watched Kane snatch his miniature sword from the holster in his khakis, surprised at the speed with which he moved, wondering if it would b...

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...s in Mitch’s room. She was dreading facing them dressed like this. She much preferred her khakis and ponytail and just being one of the boys. The mo...

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...oom reeked of stale excretions. The plant first shrivelled, changing its colour from dusty khaki to limpid yellow and then to screaming orange. It ... ...lled, nor was she astounded to learn that he had died all by himself, wrapped in two dusty khaki blankets, sprawled on a tattered mattress, flung o...

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...” Her cheeks grew hot as she stared at the safari shirt stretching across his broad shoulders and strong chest, his sleeves rolled up at the elbow. Khaki-colored pants finished his adventurer ensemble. His brown hair hung in shaggy waves from underneath his hat. He looked really hot, but there was no way she was going to admit it. If he’d had a bullwhip, she would have w...

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...tion nine. Brendan's wife tapped on the door before entering. In only his khaki pants, her husband leapt from the top bunk to take the large tray fr... ...han an animal. "Don't underestimate the men here boy." Brendan grasped his khaki shirt off the corner of the bunk. "They are strong in mind, body and ...

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...wo hours to pick one, since she's meticulously matching each phone with her khaki-brown Coach purse, determining the right choice in color. This suc...

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...ow and flipped open his trainer’s license. The narrow- eyed guard wore a crisp khaki uniform and was so polite Kurt guessed he was new. He scrutinize...

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... train?" "No," said Nawin. "Not a one." "What a pity," said the miniature, khaki colored lizard of the Chakri dynasty. The gecko glowered at Nawin wit...

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...he big shells they were hoisting into trucks for the front, in a couple of khaki- clad Maoris sitting upon the step of a horse-van in Amiens station. ... ... I am told, a considerable influx of visitors of a special sort; they wear khaki and lead the troglodytic life. They play cards and gossip and sleep i... ... in which the normal life threads its way through crowds of resting men in khaki and horizon blue, in which staff officers in automo- biles whisk hith... ...gh ar- cades of waiting motor vans, through suburbs still more in- tensely khaki or horizon blue, and so out upon the great straight poplar-edged road... ...lot look entirely contented, and are guarded by perhaps a couple of men in khaki. These German prisoners do not attempt to escape, they have not the s... ... Every man who is taken from mu- nition making at X to spur-worshipping in khaki, is a dead loss to the military efficiency of the country. Every man ... ... to fancy and wished to push. Now that is not at all the impression of the khaki mentality I have reluctantly ac- cepted as correct. For the most part... ...ity I have reluctantly ac- cepted as correct. For the most part the man in khaki is up against a round of tedious immediate duties that forbid con- se... ...n’s work as head of the National Mission has left upon my mind. Attired in khaki he has recently been preaching in the open air to the people of Londo...

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...y love went. But it was duty she now lived by. When he came back to her in khaki, a soldier, she submitted to him as a wife. It was her duty. But to h... ... It did not suit him to be a modern soldier. In the thick, gritty, hideous khaki his subtle physique was extinguished as if he had been killed. In the... ...ed agility. Egbert came for a week-end, in his gritty, thick, sand-pa- per khaki and puttees and the hideous cap. Nay, he looked terrible. And on his ... ...of the life he led there; even the sight of his own legs in that abhorrent khaki. He felt as if the hideous cloth went into his blood and made it grit... ...e two men from under her broad felt hat. She had seen hundreds of Alberts, khaki soldiers standing in loose attitudes, absorbed in watching nothing in... ...o see the face of Miss Stokes not very far from him. There she was, in her khaki and her felt hat, as usual; he pretended not to see her. She was laug... ...e, looked down the road this way and that, lifted his eyebrows, pushed his khaki cap on one side, and answered: ‘He is not conducting the service toni... ...thee. Tha ma’es too much o’ th’bod.’ A young man approached, wearing rough khaki and kneebreeches. He was Danish looking, broad at the loins. ‘I’s com... ... come for,’ said Emmie, churlishly. Matilda looked a long time at the neat khaki figure. It had something of the charity-boy about it still; but now i...

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...ofound depression. I have met and talked to quite a number of young men in khaki—ex-engineers, ex-lawyers, ex-schoolmasters, ex-business men of all so... ...usiness,” and our law, the latter the spirit of socialism and science and— khaki…. They are both in all of us, they fluctuate from day to day; first o... ... be everywhere in the Brit- ish system; he is young and he is uniformed in khaki, and he brings with him a new spirit into British life, the spirit of... ...and quality have gone too, or are staying up not in caps and gowns, but in khaki; all the vigorous teachers are soldiering; there are no dons left exc... ...mpty labo- ratories, empty lecture theatres, vestiges, refugees, neutrals, khaki; that is Cambridge to-day. There never was before, there never may be... ...o. Even so, she dare not do this thing alone. Some- 95 H G Wells thing in khaki is with her, to justify her. You are to under- stand that this strang... ...d time during his leave. Sometimes she is quite elderly, sometimes nothing khaki is to be got, and the pretence that this is desired of her wears thin...

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...his cheeks were pads, and the unroughened hand which lay helpless upon the khaki-colored blanket was slightly puffy. He seemed pros- perous, extremely... ...ed; he dragged his thick legs, in faded baby- blue pajamas, from under the khaki blanket; he sat on the edge of the cot, running his fingers through h... ...ocked salmon. “Salmon! Trout! Say, Paul, can you see Uncle George with his khaki pants on haulin’ ‘em in, some morning ‘bout seven? Whee!” III They we... ...” They came out; Paul in an old gray suit and soft white shirt; Babbitt in khaki shirt and vast and flapping khaki trousers. It was excessively new kh... ...was moved to it. He treasured every grease spot and fish- scale on his new khaki trousers. 133 Sinclair Lewis All morning they fished unenergetically... ... watched the winter sun slide along the taut curtains, turning their ruddy khaki to pale blood red. The shadow of the draw-rope was dense black, in an... ... Mr. Caleb Nixon, secretary of the Pullmore Tractor Company, put on a long khaki coat and stalked through crowds, a .44 automatic in hand. Even Babbit... ...pirits with “kidding.” Captain Clarence Drum came swinging by, splendid in khaki. “How’s it going, Captain?” inquired Vergil Gunch. “Oh, we got ‘em st...

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...rm at Dalhousie, and knowing what to ex- pect below, he descended in a new khaki suit—tight fitting— of a delicate olive-green; a peacock-blue tie, wh... ...roads turned into mud, and the pony mired a good deal. So did Golightly’ s khaki gaiters. But he kept on steadily and tried to think how pleasant the ... ...er Golightly in several directions—down his back and bosom for choice. The khaki color ran too—it was really shockingly bad dye—and sections of Goligh... ...rge quantities of dirt about his body. The blue tie had run as much as the khaki. So he took it off with the collar and threw it away. Then he said so... ...tini in the small of your back hurts a great deal, and rotten, rain-soaked khaki tears easily when two men are jerking at your collar. Golightly rose ...

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...vet coat, cords and yellow half boots, Belle in a white kind of suit and white cap to match mine, Lloyd in white clothes and long yellow boots and a s...

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... posters on every vacant piece of wall and the increasing number of men in khaki in the streets. But at the door he had a disappoint- ment. Dr. Bright... ...him and a little dashed his first glow of satisfaction. He passed a man in khaki who, he fancied, looked at him with an odd expression. He observed th... ... while ago, was after all a thing more mortal than himself. Another man in khaki passed him. For the first time he saw the war as something measurable... ...d was immediately greeted with joyful gestures by an approaching figure in khaki. The two young people quickened their paces as they drew nearer one a...

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...d table pouring out red wine. He was a fresh, stoutish young Englishman in khaki, Julia’s husband, Robert Cunningham, a lieutenant about to be demobil... ...e needs a change now the damned thing is all over. As soon as I get out of khaki I shall be off. Malta! Yes! I’ve been in Malta several times. I think... ...in, Oxford-looking major with a black patch over his eye—both these men in khaki: finally to a good-looking, well-nour- ished young man in a dinner-ja... ...tty round Lady Franks and the liqueur stand. He and the Major were both in khaki—belonging to the service on duty in Italy still. Coffee appeared—and ... ...imself. Whilst tall, gaunt, erect, like a murdered Ham- let resurrected in khaki, with the terrible black shutter over 175 D. H. Lawrence his eye, th... ...king round for his glass. But there was no glass. So he crossed his neatly-khakied legs, and looked rapt again. Lady Franks started with a vivace Schu...

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... of its place on the top of the package, and Dick drove his hand among the khaki coat and breeches, the blue cloth leg-bands, and the heavy flannel sh... ...There are two says of wearing well-oiled ankle-jacks, spotless blue bands, khaki coat and breeches, and a perfectly pipeclayed helmet. The right way i...

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... all Inspectors were Whips. For one reason; Farag, the kennel huntsman, in khaki and puttees, would obey nothing under the rank of an Excellency, and ... ...awake. Farag, in loose, flowing garments, quite unlike a kennel huntsman’s khaki and puttees, leaned against the wall of his uncle’s house. “Come and ...

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...ay…. That watcher among the clouds would have seen a great distribution of khaki-uniformed men and khaki-painted ma- terial over the whole of the sunk...

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...all heartiness and good-fellowship. He was dressed in a bedraggled suit of khaki, and his hands would have been all the better for a wash. “I knew Str... ... Cross.” She went to the door and called them. There entered a tall man in khaki, with the parson’s collar, handsome in a somewhat heavy fashion, but ...

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...sand. In doing so. it was lying face downward, I tore the frail and rotten khaki shooting-coat open, disclosing a hideous cavity in the back. I have a...

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...g of a tested motor; a racket which beat at the nerves. Surly young men in khaki union- overalls. The most energetic and vital places in town. A large... ... barb; he carefully freed it. Beside this man in blue flannel shirt, baggy khaki trou- sers, uneven suspenders, and vile felt hat, she was small and e... ...ons, but always in the midst of them Kennicott came out from town, drew on khaki trou- sers which were plastered with dry fish-scales, asked, “En- joy... ...sheep-shears, Bresnahan rolled up, alone. He was now in corduroy trousers, khaki shirt open at the throat, a white boating hat, and marvelous can- vas...

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... him as though his feet were too heavy to lift and then, hands in pockets, khaki-clad, an al- most invisible figure, he strolled towards the cart-trac... ...able mass of people had accumulated, and was being hustled by a handful of khaki-clad soldiers. Down the street people were looking in the direction o...

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...en spaces, the ragged hillsides, the open order attacks of helmeted men in khaki, the scarce visible smoke of the guns, the wrecked trains in great lo... ...ouching, cunning, cigarette-smoking, town-bred youngster, a small boy in a khaki hat, and with bare knees and athletic bearing, earnestly engaged in w...

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... his motor-bicycle had brought him. There smoked and meditated a person in khaki, an engi- neer, who presently took an interest in Bert’s machine. It ...

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...e day promised to be hot, and for the first time, Presley had put on a new khaki riding suit, very English-looking, though in place of the regulation ...

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...d papers gave materials for his fancy; and he saw himself on the Veldt, in khaki, sitting with other men round a fire at night. When he awoke he found...

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...[The horse is led away.] General Sir Pearce Madigan, an elderly baronet in khaki, beam- ing with enthusiasm, arrives. O’Flaherty rises and stands at a... ...’s the untidy slovenly one you always were. There! It won’t be seen on the khaki: it’s not like the old red coat that would show up everything that dr...

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... a block sig- nal. “Companee dis … missed,” he rang out. The row of men in khaki became a crowd of various indi- viduals with dusty boots and dusty fa... ...o the garbage pail. A few moments later he stood stiffly at attention in a khaki row that was one of hundreds of other khaki rows, identical, that fil... ...t the tanned faces and the close-cropped heads that rose above the mass of khaki-covered bodies about him. Here and there a pair of eyes glinted in th... ...he Yanks were coming. Everything was lost in a scene from a movie in which khaki-clad regiments marched fast, fast across the scene. The memory of the... ...t gradu- ally blank and he went to sleep. The column was like some curious khaki-colored carpet, hid- ing the road as far as you could see. In Fuselli... ...gled unlighted. Beyond were heads and bodies huddled together in a mass of khaki over- coats and life preservers. And when the roll tipped the deck he... ...t in the grandstand in the training camp and watched the jolly soldiers in khaki marching into towns, pursuing terrified Huns across po- tato fields,... ...beer. It was crowded with red-faced men, with shiny brass buttons on their khaki uniforms, among whom was a good sprinkling of lanky Americans. “T omm... ...port back to the Com- pany.” The lieutenant went out, drawing on a pair of khaki- colored gloves with a satisfied and important gesture. Fuselli walke...

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...nsburg to Potterdam. What do I know about them? STRAMMFEST. They travel in khaki. They do not travel in full dress court uniform as this man did. SCHN...

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... AUGUSTUS [impatiently]. Come in. [The clerk en- ters, clean shaven and in khaki, with an official paper and an envelope in his hand.] What is this ri...

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... the three Red cavalry prisoners going to the rear under the escort of one Khaki infantry man. Figure 6b shows exactly the same stage as figure 6a, th...

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...pay him out for it. It is impossible to estimate what proportion of us, in khaki or out of it, grasped the war and its political antecedents as a whol... ...rting, “If I had known all that in 1914, they would never have got me into khaki.” And that, of course, was precisely why it had been necessary to stu... ...ed. The Soldier at the Theatre Front In 1915, I saw in the theatres men in khaki in just the same predicament. T o everyone who had my clue to their s... ...s are at present being waged to confirm the peace, England is no longer in khaki; and a violent reaction is setting in against the crude theatrical fa...

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...e!” But little they cared for the Native Press, The worn white soldiers in Khaki dress, * Value Payable Parcels Post: in which the Government collect...

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... Lord Chancellor That slept upon the Sack? Commanding officer that tore The khaki from his back? Or am I de Valera, Or the King of Greece, Or the man t...