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...War ravages the lands; as humanity is busy destroying itself a hidden hand is guiding the conflagration. An old enemy, long subdued, is on the rise, hidden from the eyes of men. When humanity has been weakened sufficiently they will return and reclaim all that was lost. Imprisoned deep underground, their dark god Badur awaits release. To do so will require...

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...ow covered the peaks and passes between, magnifying the moonlight, lending the dark a gentler twilight hue. With a heavy heart, she spurred the horse on. Struggling through deep clawing drifts, an hour sped quickly by before the pass opened onto the lower reaches of the mountain from where she could see for many miles out into the flat grasslands of the Northern Plain. A...

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...s would be possible.My wonderful editor Annie Jenkinson, (@anniejenkinson) on fiverr and at Just Copyeditors, who did a fantastic job editing ... ...tastic job editing the novel. Saniya, (@saniyaslam) on fiverr who did a fantastic job recreating my story map.Le... ...stic job recreating my story map.Lesia T, (@germancreative) on fiverr who did a great job on my book cover fonts. And... ... He desperately needed E’Ben’s army and if that was theprice, so be it. Both Jarro and the Eastern Alliance armies were locked in adeath grip from ... ...erned. Midges and black fly swarmed the troops and their horses,driving both to distraction. The air was thick with them,offering simply no refuge ... ... in the line of duty.’ Brokcouldn’t hide the smirk. ‘Perhaps if you’d lost both…’ The sergeant knew his old commander was gently ribbinghim and the... ...He opened the door and entered. The room was warm, heated by a log fire licking yellowflames up a soot-blackened chimney. Food and wine were inplac... ....’ ‘I’m not s’posed to talk to you, Ladyship,’ she whispered. ‘I’dget a lickin’ if they heard me. Even if you speak to me, I mustn’tspeak to you.’ ... ...e courtyard, two additional sentries stoodsilently warming cold hands over licking flames. A third hadturned and was walking away from his companions ...

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... current just rip. Agency, banality, his own bad breath, and an overall awful sense ofbrute containment on an atmospheric planet, cut through again... ...ain toforethought, his moment of total coasting over, with a tight cresting twist ofroad, a flick of thumb on Volume knob, and his head ache’s back. N... ...nment officials in the southern cities of Basrah and Nasiriyah, practically seeing the American cavalry on the horizon already, have reportedly ... ...l our accountant’s documents are. . . ––Maybe that secretary of yours knew to. . . ––Hey, Tully. . . bothered by the phrase ‘of yours’ ––Her nam... ...ve driven past my driveway sincewe started talking. . . with some rough wrinkled vocal fluster, ––and they bothseemed like they were handling themselv... ... a brand new American war. . . a sop-swollen hunkof rye put finally way, oily saltine fingers left for the licking, ––. . . I’m tellingyou J, in the n... ...m the drought two years ago. ––Show you mine you show me yours? at least a little bit, might begood for both of us. ––There’s always a deal to d... ...c spoon, slipping it back into the cupwith another sudden chair-adjusting response to bleeping phone line, lickinglips clean letting one more shrill r... ...omorrow, ––that’scool that you can play it. ––Hey maybe I can be in your band tomorrow? with a show-off lickin a so-called blues-scale. ––Oh uh ...

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...as so goddamn pretty today and yesterday, some reason.i rolled a cigarette on the table. I quit drinking some years back; about six back if i have... ...around like himself back in the kitchen. no sense of humor this man,except on game days. something he thought hilarious about the fuckin’ Saints.! ... ...hese notes.very pretty people, they never came out looking quite as pretty on the pages i have. little pencil strokes, leanbodies against the rolling ... ...end at first that whatshe was doing was out of the ordinary. . she started licking the back of my hand. i broke away immediatelyto look at her but it ... ...ime, and my book had become invisible and hadfallen also, to the floor. we both stayed in that very same position, falling asleep until the middle of ... ...rn light. the figure looked amorphous, and he realized with the rubbing of both eyes in apuerile fashion, that he was probably developing some kind of... ...othes from the very first stitch, when he was an infant. he knew they were both dead, but he wanted to meettheir stones anyhow. melancholia visited... ...ect for me, i’m here ain’t I, and I know what mrs.H would say if you had a lickin’ of good sense, I’m sorry dear, but it’s only right I speak my mind.... ...then letting it drop openly intohis throat, some of which escaped down the sides of his cheeks and onto the magenta sweater.! “i’m sick, but health...

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...m.The dirt and sky was gray, along with other dull colors that wouldappear on a cloudy cold day.He walked over to the groups of people in the field, w... ...s the carts were hauled away by more of themen who had survived the attack on the city, most likely those few whohad not fought.But Treaf shrugged, af... ... hands would be clean, but still: maybe itwas the stench that was the most bothering.After the water had come and gone they all got back to work again... ...d there be to putit? Thinking hard for a good idea, he sat there squatting on the boards.Suddenly he came to something and a moment later he dropped t... ... Malock would probably think that Treaf was dumbenough to leave all of his sides open in a full-fledged attack. Treaf,however was now too smart for Ma... ...s high as he could, (which waspretty high,) and delivered a series of fast sidestrokes that Treaf waspleased to see that Malock was having trouble wit... .... Damn. He snuck his littleblade right at me at the last second. Treaf was both surprised andangry at the same time. Was he capable of predicting what... ...ut into the battlefield the sight wasnot pretty. There were torn bodies of both man and beast, along withcrusty weapons, spears, and who-knows-what. T... ...and energy? I mean, if this thing iseven possible the Blackwolves would be lickin’ our feet by now, Iswear! Or doing handstands, he thought fondly.Any...

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...head, sister Priscilla looked up from herwork with a smile of satisfaction on her quiet face."Who invites you, dear?""Why, Jack, of course,--dear old ... ...ddenly, as if the last all-important question had asolemnizing effect upon both mind and body."Why, your white muslin, silk sacque, and new hat, of co... ...ith an air of resignation."First, my dress," began Kitty, perching herself on the arm of the sofa,and entering into the subject with enthusiasm. "I've... ..." returned Kitty, with immense decision.Pris shook her head, and said, "Go on!" as if prepared for anyextravagance after that."We can make it ourselve... ... together, and we will see what can be done. Butremember, dear, that it is both bad taste and bad economy for poorpeople to try to ape the rich.""You'... ...she could forgive pastslights, and did so with a magnanimous smile and bow.Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took aninte... ...tlemen crushing their feet, anxious mammas sticking sharpelbows into their sides, and absent-minded tutors walking over them.They can flirt vigorously... ... easy task to oneignorant of the way, for vault after vault opened on both sides, and nopath was discernible. In vain she tried to recall some landmar... ...ir, Patsey, and let the ladyset down. You go in the corner, and take turns lickin' the dish, while Isee company," said Joe, disbanding his small troop...

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...atures--for which the world is indebted, we suppose, toShetland.Well, once on a time, one of the most innocent-looking, chubbiest, andshaggiest of She... ...was attached to a wickerwork vehicle which resembled a largeclothes-basket on small wheels. We do not mean, of course, that thepony was affectionately... ...haggy mane in all the wild exuberance of early youth and unfetteredfreedom on the heather hills of its native island.In the four-wheeled basket sat a ... ...r, who 8stood shouting defiance at it, and waving both arms till it was close onhim, when he stepped quickly out of its way--... ... sat down in a dark corner on a cold door-step, and,covering her face with both hands, wept as though her heart wouldbreak.Gradually her sobs subsided... ...tate of full health and bodily vigour. Hetty, meanwhile,ministered to them both, for she was one of those dusty diamonds ofwhat may be styled the East... ... everything, and who, while by no meansturning her eyes away from the dark sides of things, nevertheless gavepeople the impression that she saw only t... ...ngs, nevertheless gavepeople the impression that she saw only their bright sides. Hereconomy would have degenerated into nearness if it had not beenco... ...er than 'im come in to the 'all, an' they 'ad a row, an' myman got sitch a lickin' that he 'ad to go to hospital, an' 'e's been therefor a week, an' w...

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...storical references in this book are validated. However sources differ on some dates.This is a personal research project and not an official pu... ...vel smartso a class discussion or writing project can be surprising. We share on our trip throughthe world and I feel this enormous confidence that th... ... today.I am troubled though at what we can't do for kids that I'd like to. It bothers me to havelibraries with half-empty bookshelves, to have clocks ... ... efficiently.I am sad to see budgets for the province spend lower percentages on the schools than theydo on health care, lower than they used to spend... ...ng place for natives trading at the fort the traders set up,and this happened both at Fort Edmonton and at Fort Calgary. There was a grave yard ina hi... ...ol and one discovered hers always went in a circle the first day.She had tied both reins to the same side of the bridle. Since the teacher was usually... ...the road was intense and some early cars had sidecurtains that snapped on the sides and top to keep passengers dry. Many drivers lookedat the sky befo... ...a where the expectation ofsuch discipline was high. People spoke of getting a lickin, being smacked upside the head, showing the child theback of thei... ...avillion. The city's street car was a source of fascination with its mirrored sidesreflecting your image as you watched it go by. It had seats in tier...

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... knowing. Western wind and open surge T ore us from our mothers; Flung us on a naked shore (T welve bleak houses by the shore! Seven summers by the s... ...others. There we met with famous men Set in office o’er us. And they beat on us with rods— Faithfully with many rods— Daily beat us on with rods— Fo... ...school-name, derived from the size of his feet, was Hoofer, to investigate on his own account; and it was the cautious Stalky who found the track of h... ...self? Well, we can’t use the hut any more. Hoofer will be watchin’ it.” “‘Bother! Likewise blow!’” said McT urk thoughtfully, un- packing the volumes... ...d, I think,” said Stalky. “We don’t want G. M. Dabney, Col., J.P ., to be bothered about us so soon. Up the wuzzy and keep quiet! He may have followe... ...d rascal. I see yeou!” The keeper threw the gun to his shoulder, and fired both barrels in their direction. The pellets dusted the dry stems round the... ...ll swear it served us jolly well right. He’ll report us. It’ll be a public lickin’. Oh, T urkey, don’t be an ass! Think of us!” “You fool!” said McTur... ...e would be slain— once by the old gentleman and once by the Head. A public licking for the throe was the least they could expect. Yet—if their eyes an... ... evidence. Actum est with King.” “He gave me that book, too,” said Beetle, licking his lips: “There’s a great text in Galatians, Once you trip o...

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...antly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the ar... ...e comfort of his environment because he had felt that the army might start on the march at any moment. Of late, however, he had been im-pressed that t... ...o be alone with some new thoughts that had lately come to him. He lay down on a wide bank that stretched across the end of the room. In the other end,... ...things for granted, never challeng-ing his belief in ultimate success, and bothering little about means and roads. But here he was confronted with a t... .... It in-closed him. And there were iron laws of tradi-tion and law on four sides. He was in a moving box. As he perceived this fact it occurred to him... ...azed by a shot that made the blood stream widely down his face. He clapped both hands to his head. “Oh!” he said, and ran. Another grunted suddenly as... ... by a ball. Immediately he had dropped his rifle and gripped the tree with both arms. And there he remained, clinging desperately and crying for assis... ...? Make way, dickens take it all.” They sulkily parted and went to the road-sides. As he was carried past they made pert remarks to him. When he raged ... ...battle. “Oh, if a man should come up an’ ask me, I’d say we got a dum good lickin’.” “Lickin’—in yer eye! We ain’t licked, sonny. W e’re goin’ down he...

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... shall show thee treasure hid, Thy familiar fields amid, At thy threshold, on thy hearth, Or about thy daily path; And reveal (which is thy need) Ever... ...usand year. The result was that from time to time, and in different places on the farm and in the fields and in the country about, they saw and talked... ... England, another a builder and decorator of King Henry VII’s time; and so on and so forth; as I have tried to explain in a book called Puck of Pook ’... ...ng day. Bread should rise well this weather.’ He yawned, and that set them both yawning. The bracken about rustled and ticked and shook in every direc... ...ecked, he writes—see where the pen digged the innocent paper!—that he hath both the means and the intention to be revenged on her. Aha! Now we come to... .... Their lives and estates lie at her mercy whom they have doubly offended, both as Queen and woman. But la! what will not foolish young men do for a b... ...ot but what he had a fine sweep of the hand in drawing. He’d take the long sides of a cloister, trowel on his stuff, and roll out his great all-abroad... ...es staring into a horseshoe-shaped hollow a hundred feet deep, whose steep sides were laced with tangled sheep-tracks. The flock grazed on the flat at... ...r by Calais, and our ships was strawed about mend- ing ‘emselves like dogs lickin’ bites. Now and then a Spanisher would fire from a low port, and the...

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...hese warn- ings by the standard of a decade of realities. The book is weak on anti-aircraft guns, for example, and still more neg- ligent of submarine... ... been telling us this year in his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the... ...Y Y Y Y 1 1 1 1 1 “THIS HERE PROGRESS,” said Mr. T om Smallways, “it keeps on. “You’d hardly think it could keep on,” said Mr. Tom Smallways. It was a... ... T om at times, and look and talk so brilliantly that T om and Jessie, who both had a natural ten- dency to be respectful to anybody or anything, look... ...shed the engine, sometimes they smashed the aeronaut, usually they smashed both. Machines that made flights of three or four miles and came down safel... ...a- phone in his left hand. 19 H G Wells 6 6 6 6 6 T om and Bert Smallways both saw that return. They watched from the crest of Bun Hill, from which t... ...lung by ropes. From it depended the trail rope and grap- nel, and over the sides of the car were a number of canvas bags that Bert decided must be bal... ...making a grotesque shadow figure of himself and his bearers on the airship sides, fusing all three of them into a monstrous ani- mal with attenuated l... ...n China, we went and poked ‘em up until they did. They ‘ad to give us this lickin’ they’ve give us. We wouldn’t be happy until they did, and as I say,...

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...ver it, and there would be speeches. Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction line that ran along one of the main revetments—the huge s... ...e huge stone- faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river—and permitted himself to think of the end. With... ...ngth; a lattice-girder bridge, trussed with the Findlayson truss, standing on seven-and-twenty brick pies. Each one of those piers was twenty-four fee... ...me sooner, but they didn’t know what they wanted—ner haow. Fell out twice, both of ‘em. I don’t understand sech foolishness.” “You look consider’ble h... ...fer lemonade to little boys as thought they was actin’ manly, till you was both run off the track an’ jailed—you intoed, shufflin’, sway-backed, wind-... ... from Muldoon. I had no idea that the old car-horse could lift so quickly. Both blows caught the yellow horse full and fair in the ribs, and knocked t... ...’ s a pup up to the haouse ‘bout eight weeks old. He’ll yap till he gits a lickin’, an’ when he sees it comin’ he lies on his back, an’ yowls. But he ... ...erly gale, blown from under a ragged opening of green sky, narrowed on all sides by fat, grey clouds; and the wind bit like pincers as it fretted the ... ...the sign of a steamer not under control. “‘Yon’s a tow for us,’ said Bell, lickin’ his chops. ‘She’ll be worth more than the Breslau. We’ll go down to...