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...to make the heavens appear a little longer In the manner that the downtown buildings, From Dallas Street on, by their Stories of windows draw down the... ...the sun As if they have been greased; Falling into Houston's world of high buildings From the descending planes While hoping that the big world would ... ...feet coming to him; Would see the blue under his toe nail that looked like marble; And these would be dominant sensations Though he would be vaguely a... ... Estivation Weekends in Tranquility Park-- With the downtown buildings, hallways of giants clustered, Exhaling the coolness echoed From ...

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...framed portraits and cameos, comfortable armchairs and a roaring fire in the grate of the white, marble Adam fireplace, above which hung a beautiful... ... during his Audrey Blankenhagen 14 work with the Thuggee & Dacoity Department 1 and the black marble statue of the Goddess Kali, now in the fami... ...ch had leased it from the British Crown in 1668 for ten pounds per annum. Their grand, neo-Gothic buildings erected along the harbour front, testifi... ...sidency.’ The gates opened and there before them was the city of Mirapore with its white painted buildings, beautiful gardens and an artificial lake... ...regor in response to Helen’s gasp of admiration. The palace was built in pink sandstone and white marble with intricately pierced marble screens, co... ...ng. It seemed to come from the little mausoleum, the dancing girl’s tomb, and through the pierced marble screens of the edifice, Helen noticed a fai... ...rs except to sweep it occasionally. There is no need, as it is only a bare chamber containing the marble tomb of the dancing girl.’ ‘I would, never... ... intact, although part of the causeway had disappeared under the waters of the lake. Most of the buildings in the European quarter were unscathed, e...

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... mansion was in sight. Jacques maneuvered the limo alongside the circular marble steps and shut off the engine. “Laylah, we're home.” Laylah stirred ... ...trying to cheer her up but it was useless. She began the slow climb up the marble steps, reluctantly opened the door and entered. She stood in the fo... ... color in an attempt to offset the cold and masculine feel of the place. Marble statues and busts of deceased ancestors and other important family ... ...r chest, as the cab pulled to a stop. She paid the bill and walked up the marble steps, but hesitated at the door. Glancing around, Laylah spotted t... ...ion, but was distracted by the welcoming committee waiting outside on the marble steps. She slouched down. “Oh, God! The whole staff is outside. Thi... ...s, which is why they were with her right now. Trees gave way to abandoned buildings as they drove into downtown Old Invarnash. The once beautiful La... ... were abandoned. The yellow sections were considered possible headquarter buildings for Zina and her people.” “Very nice intelligence network you ha... ...st of the land in that area is unused and unsold. There are several empty buildings left behind from bankrupt businesses. Boris, contact Delilah and... ...t sensors so that my Betas can get a more accurate body count around those buildings.” Henry chortled. “It’s time to hunt some wolf.” Yon laughed and...

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...skies; mountains rising mighty and high; and stately palaces made of white marble and precious stones; and hidden treasures and monsters that guarded ... ...w windows, gates bound with fine metal cover, stairways carved out of cool marble, colonnades engraved with elegant traceries of stone flowers, arches... ...lean alleys were winding amid the flourishing vegetation. Benches of white marble, sculptures with fine forms, cosy little pavilions stood here and th... ...were running, firing with their guns, throwing hand grenades at the ruined buildings around them. And the walls were collapsing down and the blazes we...

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... A tangled web of avenues and squares, the foliaged daubs of green and orange, the ash-clad buildings eerily aglow. Swirling bouquets of men in wome... ...d leaf from another. We studied the inside of the box and its immediate neighbourhood, the marble counter. The snail was nowhere to be found. Nomi ... ...th blinking appliances, bisected by a massive glass table-top that rests on four perfected marble tits. The glass slab mirrors us, distorted, our r... ..., Noa and I, up there in the large screen of our TV. But really we are divided by glass and marble. Noa takes her wine and toys with it. Suddenly sh... ... his shoulders and asked me to read aloud the names on the mailboxes. We went through many buildings, him and me. He told me that he was looking fo...

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...im, “let’s keep my dream to ourselves, alright. I don’t need anyone thinking I’ve lost my marbles or anything.” “Too late!” Mitch gleefully replied.... ...ts of the sudden storm were also being felt. The storm had hit the Royal Palace and other buildings with gusting winds and sporadic flooding. Trees ... ... Alaj and his army looked around and saw that the rooftops and windows of the surrounding buildings were manned by Royal troops. Their weapons aimed ... ... with the Draxens, was actually much, much more. As far as his eyes could see, there were buildings burning, huge flames blazing against the backdro... ... numerous people who had decided to accompany them, were shocked at what they saw. Entire buildings had been razed, trees incinerated and the ground...

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... brown grass in its front yard. As I drove up, all I could see were these buildings. The neigh~ borhood was really deteriorating, on its way to be~ ... ...ecom, ing the site of another one of those impersonal, sterile apartment buildings. I say "we" because from THE POWER IN YOU 114 my first time th... ...ears. Reality starts in your mind. Just as a sculptor looks at a slab of marble and THE POWER IN YOU 156 sees a beautiful work of art inside, you...

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...me from or where it's supposed to go or, just nothing." Therese neared the marble podium upon which stood the most finely carved piece of metalwork sh... ...ut the kahin. Ifreet glances at the half-moon rising over the tops of the buildings in the distance and senses the time drawing near for a social cal... ...a candy store. Therese smiled when Kane paused in the middle of the inlaid marble first floor that exactly reproduced the design of a Mughal carpet. A...

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...ubstance. But true Christianity is of such adamantine hardness, that neither brass, nor marble, nor the diamond, may be compared with it; and teeth ... ...ated: for history informs us that Alaric commanded his soldiers not to touch the public buildings, nor the temples. Finally, it was already Rome the ...

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... long, long path to the outcrop, beyond the temple. Atthis and tall white marble col- umns, with their busy apricot-breasted swallows, have assuaged ... ...way. His arms went out to me, then dropped to his side. His eyes had the marble core of nothingness in them. Appalled, I could scarcely stand. O G... ...cypress, has the ocean below: moonlit, she stands white-robed close to marble statuary: a nude Hermes, a bust of Aphrodite, a niobe, an athlet... ...s...” P Alcaeus’ home is much older than mine, with patina walls, Parian marble floors, and a collection of rare Athenian busts. His library has a ... ...lities, to welcome the gods of trees and ocean and those long dead, whose marble shrines dot a corner of this wood. There are so many dead. How- ever... ...e with my drawings of the deluge: I go on with the terror, the falling of buildings, the erosion of life, the force of wind, the weight of torrents..... ...la was faithful; Bramante was friendly. I blame the city, its somber tufa buildings. Cities, like mistresses, betray. Fleeing Rome, I visited my vin... ... That wing measured 15' x 3' x 9'. I can visualize Milan’s pink and red buildings, its fortress Castello between moats, its drawbridges, the fumbl... ...ometimes we see destruction. VOICES FROM THE PAST 322 Flames rise. Buildings collapse. Sometimes we hear animals talk. Without mov- ing, they ...

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...ams Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass. \Viih tht. coinpJclion of the new buildings, v.hicli wtre dedicated Septcinlier 25111, if/^, tins school now ... ...ous branches of medicine probmbly unsurpassed in this country. Of the five buildings, four ate devoud entirely to lalioralory teaching and research. T... ...owing rapidly. The number of studenls is increasing and there are many now buildings. Still, with all these improvements there is as great a );roporti... ...ous branches of medicine probably unsurpassed in this country. Of the f]ve buildings, four are devcttd entirely to lattoralory teaching and research. ... ...t Lake Memfrainogog in Canada. "*^ ^ Prof. Spring expects to spend July at Marblehead Neck, Mass., and August at Mt. Desert. Me. Prof. Wahl has no def... ...st College by the construc- tion at each of the four entrances of colonial marble porches similar to those added to South College last year. The exter... ...ood sized ta- blep and six smaller ones, a lunch counter finished in white marble, and a kitchen. The property owned for many years by the Rob- erts f... ...aining table. Fourteen men uro iiuw ut the tiilile. The t'ljiir (loloniiil marble poroli- eH nt the eiitrancus iif t']aHt College huvii biioii coinplu... ...ll line of Camera supplies on hand all the lime. TRY A BLACK & WHITE CIGAR Marble Hall Restaurant Now open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. After November 1, o...

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...e superficial or uninitiated onlooker/reader; the hyperborean coldness of the marbles bricks of words, recalls that one of the high icy summits, acc... ...ache- colonizes now at leisure. “The drillings” are less, the arrangements and buildings are made much “horizontally”, and this action is developed o... ...ia; from the daily food, the cars and the roads from the States, until the big buildings of the American firms and cities. Nothing escapes to the aci...

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... of a deserted sweetheart -- The ghost of Capt. Kidd -- The screaming woman of Marblehead -- Stories about spectral crews -- A ghostly company that co... ...hter -- Musk animals of Tartary -- How the musk is obtained -- The magnificent marble palace at Ciandu -- A herd of 10,000 white horses and as many ma... ...at the people there planted corn and made beer, that they lived in pretentious buildings having walls of stone, and that many towns and villages were ... ...an intimation of her splendor by saying that she was provided with colonnades, marble stairs and hanging gardens. Hiero, king of Syracuse (307 B.C.), ... ...loors of the rooms and cabins were artistically laid in mosaic work of colored marble, and in the grand salon, which was in the after-part of the main... ...ome terrible crime from fading from the minds of mem as the screaming woman of Marblehead still cries along the beach. She was a Spaniard, the wife of... ...stoms, but whose principal ambition was to glorify themselves with magnificent buildings and rich ornamentation. The people of Camul applied themselve... ...e the arms of the garrison, which are one thousand at each gate, are kept; the buildings are squared, and the streets laid very straight by line throu... ...ds with small resistance; but while if was the custom to demolish or burn the buildings of cities thus acquired by conquest the general would not con...

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...rs. We sped along the elevated concrete freeways past tall steel and glass buildings which, I was told, were commercial enterprises and apartments. ... ...dings which, I was told, were commercial enterprises and apartments. These buildings dwarfed those that I had seen many years ago in New York and Ch... ...n knowledge and to perfect the potentials of humanhood. I walked up the marble steps of the Great Hall, not knowing what to expect from my visit. ... ...confused!) It was not long before we were ushered into the dining area--a marbled hall reminiscent of old King Louie's Hall of Mirrors at Versaille... ...Union. This was the best thing that the Russian Communists did. Their huge buildings housed innumerable activities that the child could pursue: balle...

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... “I’m forty-six.” “Oh, I am thirty-seven.” The elevator door opened onto a marble foyer. Ahead was a hallway with doors on one side and a wide archwa... ...ay and into the city of Barrie. The streets were in need of repair and the buildings non-descript. But when they rounded the corner onto 58 SUSAN BRA... ...d by the beauty of Kempenfelt Bay, stretching as far as the eye could see. Buildings nestled on hillsides rimming the bay and streets ran up from the ... ...g through the eight flight locks at Ottawa, with the Cana- dian Parliament Buildings on one side of them and the majestic Chateau Laurier Hotel on the... ...maid took their coats and welcomed Scott with a fond smile. They entered a marble foyer dominated by a magnificent crystal chandelier. A tall, elegant... ...he coast side they passed an assortment of run-down or half finished adobe buildings, and scrubland. Occasionally they got a peek at the ocean crashin...

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... felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased emperors in co... ...ding dress stood at a pond posing for a picture with her groom. Near earlier buildings Sang Huin had noticed him looking at them questioningly. He had... ...(neighborhood) to another lost, looking for distinguishable signs, shapes in buildings, and widths of streets. Everything from the thin dust-sheathed... ...e fire. He saw four whores seated around a bonfire. He recognized different buildings, and the curves of the street near a hard dirt tennis court. Th... ... golden curved roof began to reflect the sunlight in a seductive glare. The marble walls would seem steady to these followers as if prayers said with... ...cline made the firm arms of a loving god into a tenuous thing. It shook the marble walls of the church. Further, made insecure by the believability ... ... she saw a man with a bag over his face dragged up against his will onto the marble stairs leading to the temple and a third man with a huge scythe in... ...ries disgorged their content while the body fidgeted a few times on the holy marble. She suddenly knew that adults were monsters and that they ran amu... ... of the staircase. Her eyes were black and swollen and they were as dark as marble. She didn't seem real. "Who did this to you?" he demanded, althou...

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...we… uh…. Look at Michelangelo. Smashing away at a single undamaged block of marble, into a pile of left-over bits, chipping away at it… Until th... ...h we become attached. Just as we worship and preserve old furniture, old buildings, old books. Just as our ancestors could not survive without... ...akeup of human culture. This can be seen today in architecture: where modern buildings are still built with facades and pillars of a design over 2,0... ...becomes normal, it all becomes taken for granted. All the walls and roads and buildings and territorial boundaries invented because humans can imagi... ... engines. Modern architectural firms have their offices inside ancient stone buildings. Houses are built with an entire span of technologies from ... ...civilized history doesn’t turn your stomach. Then maybe your urge to worship marble palaces might be dampened. Go to a quarry and see how incredibl... ...nd grows and changes. Not the beauty of Nature. But the beauty of dead, cold marble. The dead beauty of stone. The beauty of stone statues, stone... ... subconscious whitewashing are: Building the Cheops’s Pyramid out of white marble and polishing it so smooth that it reflected the sun; it blinde... ...you looked at it. Building all the palaces of Emperors and Kings out of white marble: in order to whitewash their filthy black evil. The White ho...

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...xist at all. There would have merely been the chiseling of ideas onto hard marble brains. He told himself that when a young woman broke free from a ma... ...ar habit of sliding her glasses down her nose like his wife, and examining buildings of an uncertain destination pedantically. When she came out with ... ... to know much of anything really. This was their respite after seeing the marble stones that indicated where his brother, Kazem, and his father lay, ... ...se beauty he, the surrogate husband, would preserve on canvases, abandoned buildings and tall skeletal structures that were never quite built after th... ...with its lethal confetti of exhaust fumes which, when moving closer to the buildings, diffused and nominally enveloped pedestrians on a nearby sidewal... ...ald Buddha. Eventually, further in that direction would lead to government buildings, which were in the French colonial architecture, and then to the ...

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... capita; real growth, - 1.3% (1983) Natural resources: manganese, limestone, marble, gold, antimony, copper, nickel, bauxite, lead, phosphates Agricul... ... Natural resources: oil, timber, tin, copper, tungsten, lead, asbestos, some marble, limestone, precious stones; possibly chro- mium, gypsum Agricultu... ...(1983) Natural resources: copper, pyrites, asbes- tos, gypsum, lumber, salt, marble, clay earth pigment Agriculture: potatoes and other vegetables, gr... ...$7,800 per capita (1985 est.) Natural resources: oil, copper, asbestos, some marble, limestone, chromium, gyp- sum Agriculture: based on subsistence f... ...de oil, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum Agriculture: cotton, wheat, barley, to- bacco; sheep and g... ...tate Capital: Vatican City Administrative divisions: outside the Vatican, 13 buildings in Rome and Castel Gandolfo (the Pope's summer residence) enjoy...

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...o San Jose, I can't help but to notice the copious number of new houses and buildings all along the freeway, with huge banner signs posting FREE RENT... ...orced concrete walls, stain-glassed windows the size of truck bays, massive marble columns shouldering the mirrored ceiling of the church entrance a... ... outskirts of LA, I can see the intense barrage of graffiti on the sides of buildings along the freeway. Some of the artwork can actually merit an ex...